Hello all, There will be a PUSPM seminar held this Friday, April 6th in the Birck Nanotechology center room 1001. Pizza will be provided at 11:30 a.m., the talk will begin at noon, and end before 1:00 p.m.. Prof. Scott Crittenden from the University of South Carolina will be giving a talk entitled "Noncontact AFM Capacitive Measurements" please see the attached abstract for more information. *Semester Schedule* All talks will be held in the Birck Nanotechology center Room 1001. January 20th - Daniel Kiracofe - Modeling of Dynamic AFM interacting with Polymer surfaces February 3rd - Ron Reifenberger- A Look Back at Scanning Probe Microscopy February 17th - Canceled March 2nd - Leyla Yamin - Connecting cell structure to local mechanical properties by combining multi-harmonic afm methods with fluorescence microscopy March 23rd - Nurul Shaik - Microcantilevers With Rotational Paddle Accelerometers for Measurement of Time-resolved Tip-sample Forces in Atomic Force Microscopy April 6th - Prof. Scot Crittenden - Noncontact AFM capacitive measurements April 20th - Fengyuan (Thomas) Li - MEMS AFM calibration Please feel free to forward this email to anyone who may be interested but is not on this email list. Cheers, Ryan Wagner rbwagner@purdue.edu<mailto:rbwagner@purdue.edu> Graduate student coordinator, PUSPM