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Aims and scope
The EMAS 2024 Regional Workshop stands in a line of biennial events held by EMAS, designed to provide postgraduate-level and research workers in materials science, material engineering and related subjects, with basic knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of electron probe-based analytical techniques. The 14th workshop aims to provide an overview of current and new electron microscope and dual-beam technology, together with the analytical possibilities they offer. The workshop is organised as low-budget meeting with lectures on practical and theoretical aspects of electron microscopy given by experts in their fields. The format and content of the meeting is tailored to the needs of research workers, as well as practical microscopists, keen to obtain a broader overview of analytical techniques currently available on the platform of an electron microscope or dual-beam system.
Past EMAS Regional Workshops were held in Finland (1994), Hungary (1996), Spain (1998), the Czech Republic (2000), Poland (2002), Slovenia (2004), Germany (2006), Italy (2008), the Netherlands (2010), Italy (2012), Austria (2014), France (2016), and Great Britain (2018).
The core topics of the 14th EMAS Regional Workshop are:
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Scientific programme
The programme will consist of invited lectures delivered by renowned experts, and two poster sessions. The invited lectures and poster abstracts will be published in the workshop’s Book of Tutorials and Abstracts. The official language of the workshop will be English.
Download the announcement for the scientific programme.
Poster presentations
All participants to the workshop are invited to make a poster presentation. Abstracts of poster contributions to be presented during the workshop should fit two A4 pages; the Word-template is available on the EMAS website (www.microbeamanalysis.eu/abstract-submission). Detailed guidelines are mentioned on the template. Online submission details are given on the workshop webpage.
The abstract has to be submitted by 29 March 2024. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their poster by 5 April 2024.
EMAS Bursaries
A number of EMAS Bursaries are available to:i) Early Career Scientist (ECS): They include a free student registration and free accommodation package for the duration of the EMAS Workshop (in a shared twin room) in a hotel assigned by the Workshop. The conditions for the award of an EMAS ECS Bursary are as follows: ‐ the applicant must submit an abstract for a poster contribution; ‐ the applicant must be an ECS and a member of EMAS; ‐ a letter from the applicant's project supervisor or principal investigator supporting the application must accompany the abstract.ii) Early Career Technician (ECT): They include a free student registration and free accommodation package for the duration of the EMAS Workshop (in a shared twin room) in a hotel assigned by the Workshop. The conditions for the award of an EMAS ECT Bursary are as follows: ‐ the applicant must submit an abstract for a poster contribution; ‐ the applicant must be an ECT and a member of EMAS; ‐ a letter from the applicant's line manager supporting the application must accompany the abstract.(Eligibility criteria for ECS and ECT status can be found on the ‘EMAS Bursaries and Grants’ subpage of the EMAS website).
The quality and relevance of the work presented in the abstract are the main criteria on which successful applications will be judged. A maximum of two bursaries per person can be awarded.
Bursary applications must be sent to the Workshop Secretariat referring to the relevant poster contribution abstract, reaching it before 29 March 2024. Applicants will be notified of the allocation of an EMAS Bursary by 5 April 2024.
Registration
Online registration is available on the EMAS website (www.microbeamanalysis.eu/workshop-registration). Participants are encouraged to complete registration and arrange for their payment, preferably by 31 March 2024 to qualify for reduced rates.
Workshop registration fees
The registration fee for respectively EMAS members, non members, students and EMAS Bursary recipients, includes a PDF copy of the workshop’s Book of Tutorials and Abstracts (invited lectures manuscripts and poster abstracts), three lunches, and refreshment breaks during the workshop, the welcome get-together (Sunday 12 May) and the workshop dinner (Monday 13 May).
The 1-day ticket (Monday) includes a PDF copy of the workshop’s Book of Tutorials and Abstracts, attendance of the Sunday welcome get-together, and on Monday the lunch, the refreshment breaks and the workshop dinner.
Payment
Payment of the registration fee should be preferentially made through the EMAS website using the online PayPal system (no account necessary); no credit card information will be stored on the EMAS website; various payment options are available (e.g., credit cards) depending on your country. An invoice/receipt will be generated by the system.
Alternatively, if you prefer to pay by bank transfer or any other offline payment method, please choose the "pay offline" button and follow the instructions; this will generate your invoice, which includes bank transfer and contact details.
Cancellation policy
A refund of the registration fee (less € 50 administration costs) will be granted only if notification of cancellation is given to the workshop secretariat by 1 May 2024. After this date no refund will be made. Refunds will be processed after the Workshop.
Social events
These include the Sunday informal get-together at the workshop venue and the Monday evening workshop dinner at the “Hotel Passage” (Lidická 23, Brno).
Insurance
The organisers cannot be held responsible for any personal accident or damage to the property of the participants.
Personal data
Personal information supplied to EMAS will be held on computer and will be used only for purposes connected with the activities of the European Microbeam Analysis Society.
Hotel accommodation
A limited number of rooms have been blocked for EMAS 2024 attendees in two hotels in Brno:
a) Hotel Continental Brno, Kounicova 6, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic (http://www.continentalbrno.cz/en) – room rates of CZK 1,600 per night in single room and CZK 2,150 per night in double room (breakfast included) + CZK 19 per person/day of local tax. 40 rooms have been set aside, until April 30th, after which date bookings will depend upon availability. Bookings, mentioning EMAS 2024, can be done by e-mail to: .
b) Hotel Palacký (http://www.hotel-palacky.cz/en), which is the closest to the conference venue, offering double rooms only (twin beds) at rates of CZK 908 per night (single occupancy) and CZK 1,166 per night (double occupancy) (breakfast included) + CZK 15 per person/day of local tax. 20 rooms have been sent aside, until April 17th after which date bookings will depend upon availability. Bookings, mentioning EMAS 2024, can be done by e-mail to: recepce@hotel‑palacky.cz.
For an overview map, please download the announcement.
Location
The workshop will be held at the Faculty of Business and Management of the Brno University of Technology, Kolejni 2906/4, Brno.
Brno is the second largest town in the Czech Republic with over 400,000 inhabitants and the capital of the South Moravian Region.
The city of Brno has a long-year tradition in science and technology; it is connected to prominent scientists and thinkers such as Johann Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian friar and the founder of modern genetics, who conducted his pea plant experiments here. For a few decades, Brno has been a place of research institutes and companies involved in development and production of electron microscopes. At present, it hosts companies such as Thermo Fisher Scientific (FEI), TESCAN, and Delong Instruments, all of them engaged in the business of electron microscopy and relevant nanotechnology tools and methods. Brno is also known as a student town hosting more than 80,000 students of 13 universities.
Sightseeing
You can find tips for your individual exploration of Brno – not only from the sightseeing perspective – on the Brno tourist office’s website (www.gotobrno.cz/en/).
How to get to Brno
- By air
There are regular bus connections between Prague as well as Vienna airport and Brno operated by Student Agency (www.studentagency.eu/en/), Flixbus (www.flixbus.cz), and other carriers.
- By train
Trains departing from the Brno Main Station (Hlavní nádraží) connect to Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Berlin and Ostrava.
- By car
Brno can be reached by the D1, D2 and D52 motorways. Current traffic information inside Brno can be accessed at www.doprava-brno.cz/, while traffic information for the whole of the Czech Republic can be accessed at www.dopravniinfo.cz/en/.
About the Brno University of Technology and CEITEC
Brno University of Technology (BUT) is the largest technical university in the Czech Republic, founded in 1899. It provides education, spanning from technology and science to economics and arts, to more than 10,000 students. BUT runs five research centres on its own and has a major share in two more.
CEITEC (Central European Institute of Technology) is a joint project of five universities and institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences residing in Brno to create environment for excellence in research. Part of the project under the Brno University of Technology (CEITEC BUT) deals with advanced nano- and microtechnologies and advanced materials and hosts a unique scientific infrastructure CEITEC Nano providing access to the state of the art scientific instruments for nanotechnology and materials research in cleanroom environment.
Key dates
29 March 2024
05 April 2024
31 March 2024
12-15 May 2024
deadline for submission of abstracts for poster presentations.
deadline for applications for EMAS Bursaries.
notification of acceptance of poster contributions.
notification of decisions on EMAS Bursary applications.
early registration deadline.
EMAS 2024 Workshop, Brno, Czech Republic.
International Organizing Committee
Lucie Brnková
Hans Dijkstra
Ondřej Man
Michal Urbánek
Luc Van ’t dack
Petr Wandrol
TESCAN Group, a.s., Brno
EMAS
CEITEC, Brno
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Brno
Workshop Secretariat
European Microbeam Analysis Society (EMAS)c/o University of AntwerpDepartment of Chemistry, Research group PLASMANTMr Luc Van’t dackCampus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein 12610 Antwerpen-Wilrijk, Belgiumtel: +32-3-265.23.43e-mail: URL: http://www.microbeamanalysis.eu/
