program

Day 1  |  Dec 02 (Tuesday), 2025
  • 8:30 - 9:30
    Registration
  • 9:30 - 9:40
    Welcome Speech
    Dr. Christina Newcomb & Dr. Tobias Beetz |
    Stanford University | Stanford Nano Shared Facilities
  • 9:45 - 9:50
    Opening Remarks
    Dr. Stefan Kaemmer
    Park Systems, Inc. | President
  • 9:50 - 10:30
    Keynote Presentation
    Prof. David Goldhaber-Gordon
    Stanford University | Professor of Physics
  • 10:30 - 11:10
    AFM in the Early Years: From Foil and Diamond to Microcantilevers, and from Tunneling to Optical Sensing
    Dr. Thomas Albrecht
    Molecular Vista | VP of Engineering and Technology
  • 11:10 - 11:25
    Coffee Break
  • 11:25 - 12:05
    From Lab Bench to Global AFM Business Leadership: 40 Years of AFM Innovation and Business Challenges
    Dr. Sang-il Park
    Park Systems, Corp | CEO
  • 12:05 - 12:45
    Pushing the Limits of Microwave Impedance Microscopy: Toward High-Precision, Quantitative, and Multimodal Nanoscale Imaging
    Dr. Eric Ma
    UC Berkeley | Physics
  • 12:45 - 13:25
    Active AFM cantilevers and the new research they enable
    Prof. Georg Fantner
    EPFL | Associate Professor, Laboratory for Bio- and Nano-Instrumentation
  • 13:25 - 14:25
    Lunch Break
    Rooftop
  • 14:35 - 14:55
    Video Memorial & Cake
    40 Years of AFM Celebration
  • 14:55 - 15:35
    Calvin F. Quate Memorial
    Dr. John Foster
    Shiftwave, Inc. | Co-Founder
  • 15:35 - 16:15
    Merging Acoustic and Atomic Force Microscopies to Probe Physical Properties of Surfaces and Buried Layers with Nanometer and Nanosecond Resolution
    Prof. Oleg Kolosov
    Lancaster University UK | Professor of Nanoscience
  • 16:15 - 16:55
    Some History of Development of AFM’s and Scanning Probe Microscopes for Nano Science and Technology
    Prof. H. Kumar Wickramasinghe FRS
    UC Irvine | Samueli School of Engineering
  • 17:00 - 18:00
    Poster Session
    Refreshments & Coffee service