Opening Ceremony,   19   September 2010
Christian   Colliex,   IFSM   President

From IMC   16   in   Sapporo   to   IMC   17   in   Rio,   and   next?
Prag ?
Istanbul ?
Beijing?
Sapporo 2006
Rio 2010
Sydney ?

General Assembly of IFSM selects
Rio de Janeiro as host city for IMC 17 in 2010
Sapporo, closing ceremony GS and CC

Sapporo 2006
IFSM presidents and executive board members
Left to right :
First row E. Zeitler, A. Maunsbach, G. Thomas,H. Hashimoto, A. Howie
Second row : S. Iijima, G. Solorzano, B. Carter, G. Griffin, X, H. Lichte, D. Cockayne,
P. Ingram, C. Colliex, W. Baumeister, K. Furuya.

Selection and   visit of   the   site   (October 2006)

Rehearsal,   September 2009

From an   IFSM   summit meeting at Cusco   (2007) preparing IMC   17…
…to   the   official   opening of   IMC   17   to   night   at Rio   de   Janeiro
19   September 2010

Thanks and   congratulations   to   the   organizing committee
Chair
Secretary
Vice   Chairs
Organizing Committee
Chair
Guillermo   Solorzano
Vice   Chairs
Wanderley de   Souza (Life   Science)
Walter   J.
Botta   (Materials Science)
Daniel   Ugarte (Instrumentation)
Local   organizing committee
Luiz   Henrique   de   Almeida   (UFRJ)
Marcia   Attias   (UFRJ)
Helene   Barbosa (Fiocruz)
Claudia   Franca   Barros (JBRJ)
Ivani Bott (PUC ‐ Rio)
Marilia Garcia   Diniz (UERJ)
Marcos   Farina   (UFRJ)
Andréa   Martiny (Inmetro)
Rossana Melo   (UFJF),   secretary
André Luiz   Pinto   (CBPF)
Elisa   Saitovitch (CBPF)

Our   regional members
CAPSM       Committee of   Asia Pacific   Societies for   Microscopy http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/~capsm/Index.htm
President :   Mah ‐ Lee   Ng (Singapore)
Last   regional meeting   :   APMC   9   at Jeju (Korea),   November 2008 about   700   participants
Next regional meeting   :   APMC   10   at Perth   (Australia),    February 2012
The   President Mary   ML   Ng
CAPSM   board meeting   at Jeju

Our   regional members
EMS     European Microscopy Society http://www.eurmicsoc.org/
President :   Paul   Midgley (UK)
Last   regional meeting   :   EMC   2008   at Aachen   (Germany),   September 2008 over   1000   participants
Next regional meeting   :   EMC   2012   at London   (UK),    September 2012
The   President

Our   regional members
CIASEM    Interamerican Committee for   Societies of   Microscopy http//:www.ciasem.com/
President :   Raynald Gauvin   (Canada)
Last   regional meetings   :   9th   Interamerican Congress of   Electron
Microscopy,    September 2007,   Cusco   (Peru)
10th   Interamerican Congress of   Electron
Microscopy,   October 2009,   Rosario   (Argentina)
Next regional meeting   :   September 2011   at Merida   (Mexico)
The   President
Cusco, September 2007

Our manufacturers
A huge innovation in instrumentation to be displayed at the exhibition : correctors, guns, spectrometers, monochromators, stages…
JEOL Zeiss But they are now often hidden and shy!!

A   couple   of   new   « protected » monsters,   Nion and   TEAM   1

However,   if   you have   the   authorization and   the   right   equipment, you may peep at the   inside
(with the   permission   of   U.
Dahmen,   NCEM,   Berkeley)
For   sure,   you will learn a   lot   about   instruments,   interpretation and   applications   during the   week at the
Windsor   Barra   Convention   Centre

‐
In   Physics   9   October   2007
The   Royal   Swedish   Academy   of   Sciences has   decided   to   award   the   Nobel   Prize   in   Physics   for
2007   jointly   to
Albert   Fert
Unité Mixte   de   Physique   CNRS/THALES,   Université
Paris ‐ Sud,   Orsay,   France, and
Peter   Grünberg
Forschungszentrum Jülich,   Germany,
"for   the   discovery   of   Giant   Magnetoresistance" .
Nanotechnology   gives   sensitive   read ‐ out   heads   for   compact   hard   disks

In   chemistry,   successes   of   biochemistry   with   the   support   of   X ‐ ray   crystallography,   CryoTEM and   3D   reconstruction
October   2006
The   Royal   Swedish   Academy   of   Sciences has   decided   to   award   the
Nobel   Prize   in   Chemistry   for   2006   to
Roger   D.
Kornberg
Stanford   University,   CA,   USA
"for   his   studies   of   the   molecular   basis   of   eukaryotic   transcription".
October   2009
The   Royal   Swedish   Academy   of   Sciences has   decided   to   award   the   Nobel   Prize   in   Chemistry   for   2009   jointly   to
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
MRC   Laboratory   of   Molecular   Biology,   Cambridge,   UK
Thomas   A.
Steitz
Yale   University,   New   Haven,   CT,   USA
Ada E.
Yonath
Weizmann   Institute   of   Science,   Rehovot,   Israel
"for   studies   of   the   structure   and   function   of   the   ribosome"

In   chemistry,
8   October   2008
The   Royal   Swedish   Academy   of   Sciences has   decided   to   award   the   Nobel   Prize   in   Chemistry   for   2008   jointly   to
Osamu   Shimomura,   Marine   Biological   Laboratory   (MBL),   Woods
Hole,   MA,   USA   and   Boston   University   Medical   School,   MA,   USA,
Martin   Chalfie ,   Columbia   University,   New   York,   NY,   USA and
Roger   Y.
Tsien ,   Howard   Hughes   Medical   Institute,   University   of
California,   San   Diego,   La   Jolla,   CA,   USA
"for   the   discovery   and   development   of   the   green   fluorescent   protein,   GFP".
10   October   2007
The   Royal   Swedish   Academy   of   Sciences has   decided   to   award   the
Nobel   Prize   in   Chemistry   for   2007   to
Gerhard   Ertl
Fritz ‐ Haber ‐ Institut   der   Max ‐ Planck ‐ Gesellschaft,   Berlin,   Germany
"for   his   studies   of   chemical   processes   on   solid   surfaces".
The   brainbow
Chemistry on   surfaces

In   medicine
October 2008
The   Nobel   Assembly at Karolinska
Institutet has   today decided to   award
The   Nobel   Prize in   Physiology or   Medicine for   2008   with one   half to
Harald   zur Hausen for   his discovery of   "human papilloma viruses causing cervical   cancer« and   the   other half jointly to
Françoise   Barré ‐ Sinoussi and   Luc
Montagnier for   their discovery of   "human immunodeficiency virus"

K a v l i Priz e in   NANOSCIENCE   2008
The   Norwegian   Academy   of   Science   and   Letters   has   decided   to   award   the   Kavli Prize   in   Nanoscience for
2008   to
Louis   E.
Brus
Professor,   Columbia   U niversity,   US A and
S umio   I ijim a
Professor,   M eijo   U niversity,   J apan
“for   their   large   impact   in   the   development   of   the   nanoscience field   of   the   zero   and   one   dimensional   nanostructures   in   physics,   chemistry   and   biology”

In   2006,   during IMC   16   at Sapporo,   Sumio Iijima was the   Chairman   of   the   Congress,   he delivered a   plenary talk   and   he was awarded the   first   Cowley   Medal and   Prize from IFSM
Congratulations to Sumio !!

K   a   v   li   P   ri   z   e   in N   A   N   O   S   C   I   E   N   C   E   2   0   1   0
The   Norwegian   Academy   of   Science   and   Letters   has   decided   to   award the   Kavli Prize   in   Nanoscience for   2010   to
DONALD   M.
EIGLER
IBM   Fellow,   IBM   Almaden Research   Center,   San   Jose,   US and
NADRIAN   C.
SEEMAN
Professor,   Department   of   Chemistry,   New   York   University,   US
“for   their   development   of   unprecedented   methods to   control   matter   on   the   nanoscale”
The   laureates
The   quantum   corral

In   2006,   during IMC16   at Sapporo,
Donald   Eigler delivered a   plenary talk   on
« Excitation   Spectroscopy with the   STM »

In   Memoriam
Séverin   Amelinckx (2009)
Nicolas   Boisset   (2008) Leo   Ginsel (2009)
Tom   Mulvey (2009) Ragnvald Hoier (2009)