Workshop Programme

Schedule

Presentations are scheduled for the afternoon European time to allow potential participation from both the East-coast USA and parts of Asia (all times in Eastern European Time-EET; CET+1, GMT+2, EST+6, PST+9).

Day 1 (25th March 2024)

14:00-14:15 Welcome

14:15-15:00 Background, strengths, and limitations of EPMA (AH)

15:00-15:15 Break

15:15-16:00 Sample preparation (flat surfaces, mounting media, carbon coating etc.) (AH)

16:00-16:15 Break

16:15-17:00 Use of standards – quantitative analysis – Statistics (AH)

17:00-17:15 Break

17:15-18:00 How to make the most of an EPMA sulfide sessions (AG)

18:00-18:15 Time for Discussion

Day 2 (26th March 2024)

14:00-14:45 Analysis strategies for glassy materials (CH)

14:45-15:00 Break

15:00-15:45 Halogens in natural and experimental samples, what do we actually measure? (SF)

15:45-16:00 Break

16:00-16:45 How to test and correct for systematic errors in EPMA (JDo)

16:45-17:00 Time for Discussion

Day 3 (27th March 2024)

14:00-14:45 Live demonstration of the Cameca SX100 instrument (CH)

14:45-15:00 Break

15:00-15:45 Optimizing analytical conditions using modelling (EH)

15:45-16:00 Break

16:00-16:45 EPMA of volcanic rocks to estimate magma storage and ascent conditions (EH)

16:45-17:00 Break

17:00-17:45 Quantitative light element analysis using EPMA (JDo)

17:45-18:00 Time for Discussion

Day 4 (28th March 2024)

14:00-14:45 Mapping Mars at the microscale: EPMA methods applied to meteorites (AO)

14:45-15:00 Break

15:00-15:45 SXES LR (Li) and application to battery research (SM)

15:45-16:00 Break

16:00-16:45 Achondrite Meteorites and planetary Formation (JDa)

16:45-17:00 Time for Discussion

17:00-17:45 New solution for analysis of geological samples using Unity BEX imaging detector and AZtec Wave WDS (LS)

17:45-18:00 Time for Discussion

18:00-18:15 Closing remarks (IB)

Instructors (in alphabetical order of the last name)

Ioannis Baziotis (IB) Agricultural University of Athens

James Day (JDa) University of California San Diego

John Donovan (JDo) University of Oregon

Stamatios Flemetakis (SF) Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH

Ariadni Georgatou-AG National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Anette Von der Handt (AH) University of British Columbia

Chris Hayward (CH) University of Edinburgh

Ery Hughes (EH) Te Pū Ao | GNS Science

Serguei Matveev (SM) JEOL Germany

Amanda Ostwald (AO) Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History

Lucia Spasevski (LS) WDS Product Manager at Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis

Coordinator-Organizer

Ioannis Baziotis (IB) Agricultural University of Athens