OPENING LECTURE

16:00-17:00 D.C. Engelbart (Stanford U., USA)
"Future directions in computing and the Bootstrap Project, or 'Bootstrapping organizations into the 21st century'"

14:00-16:30 INSTRUMENTATION AND EELS IMAGING
chair: J. Silcox

14:00 C. Colliex (U. of Paris, France)
"Spatially resolved EELS"

14:40 M. Haider (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)
"A new fast parallel detection system for EELS and elemental mapping"

15:20 O.L. Krivanek (Gatan R&D, USA)
"EELS instrumentation and detection limits"

16:00 D.J.H. Cockayne (U. of Sydney, Australia)
"Collection of energy-selected diffraction patterns for RDF analysis"

16:20 end of session

17:00-18:00 POSTERS
chair: J.C.H. Spence

C.B. Boothroyd (U. of Cambridge, UK)
"Spectrometer design for high resolution energy filtering"

W.C. de Bruijn (Erasmus U. Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
"Comparison of the simplex method with the 2-area method for EELS quantification of biological materials"

S. Csillag (Stockholm U., Sweden)
"An investigation of systematic errors in interactive EXELFS analysis"

P. Schattschneider (TU of Wien, Austria)
"Bragg-Compton channel coupling in electron Compton scattering"

H. Lakner (U. Duisburg, Germany)
"Parallel EELS in a dedicated field-emission STEM as applied to the detection of aluminum in GaAlAs/GaAs heterostructures"

H. Seiler (Hohenheim U. Stuttgart, Germany)
"Investigation of homogeneous Ag layers and of Ag cluster layers by EELS"

H. Kurata (U. Kyoto, Japan)
"EELS of nm-sized y-iron crystallites in MgO films and their magnetic state"

M. Terauchi (Tohoku U., Japan)
"Performance of a Wien-filter energy analyzer installed in a TEM for EELS"

O.T. Woo (Atomic Energy of Canada, Canada)
"Parallel EELS 'fingerprinting' of zirconium hydrides"

18:00 end of session

9:00-12:30 ELNES EXPERIMENT AND THEORY
chair: D. Krahl

9:00 P.E. Batson (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
"Spatially resolved scattering physics for local electronic structure determination"

9:40 R. Brydson (Imperial College, UK)
"EELS as a fingerprint of the chemical coordination of light elements"

10:20 break

10:50 G.A. Sawatzky (U. of Groningen, The Netherlands)
"Theoretical description of inner-shell near-threshold EELS and XAS spectra"

11:30 P. Rez (Arizona State U., USA)
"Interpretation of near edge fine structures"

12:10 G. Hug (ONERA-CNRS, France)
"Detection of oxygen and light elements in titanium aluminium and H-phase precipitates"

12:30 end of session

20:00-21:40 RELATED SPECTROSCOPIES
chair: L. Reimer

20:00 R.M. Feenstra (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
"Spectroscopy of semiconductor surfaces with the scanning tunneling microscope"

20:40 J. Stöhr (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
"X-ray absorption studies of free, chemisorbed and polymeric molecules"

21:20 K.J. Nygaard (Flinders U., Australia)
"Electron energy and momentum spectroscopy in solids"

21:40 end of session

9:00-12:30 EELS QUANTIFICATION 1
chair: P.R. Swann

9:00 A. Howie (U. of Cambridge, UK)
"Interpretation of valence loss spectra from inhomogeneous media"

9:40 R.F. Egerton (SUNY, USA)
"Accuracy of elemental analysis by EELS"

10:20 break

10:50 R.D. Leapman (NIH, USA)
"A comparison of PEELS and EDXS detection limits"

11:30 F. Hofer (TU. of Graz, Austria)
"Determination of inner-shell cross-sections for EELS quantification"

12:10 A.R. Wilson (Aeronautical Research Lab, Australia)
"Detection and quantification of low energy, low level edges"

12:30 end of session

14:00-15:40 EELS QUANTIFICATION 2
chair: J. Sevely

14:00 M.K. Kundmann (Gatan R&D, USA)
"Automated processing of parallel-detection EELS data"

14:40 C.B. Boothroyd (NKK Steel Research Center, Japan)
"A method for eliminating channel gain noise from parallel energy loss spectra"

15:00 L. Reimer (U. of Münster, Germany)
"Computation of multiple scattering effects in EELS"

15:20 P. Schattschneider (TU. of Wien, Austria)
"Electron Compton scattering in solids - a feasibility experiment with a PEELS system"

15:40 end of session

16:10-17:20 REFLECTION EELS
chair: K. Ishizuka

16:10 A.P. Hitchcock (McMaster U., Canada)
"Core electronic excitation of chemisorbed molecules by reflection EELS"

16:40 P.A. Crozier (Arizona State U., USA)
"Reflection EELS on (100) and (111) Surfaces of MgO"

17:00 Z.L. Wang (Oak Ridge National Lab, USA)
"Core shell excitations in the reflection mode"

17:20 end of session

9:00-11:00 FUTURE OF EELS
chairs: W.C. de Bruijn, A. Howie, G.A. Sawatzky, E. Zeitler

9:00 R.D. Leapman (NIH, USA)
"Future of EELS in biology"

9:20 P.E. Batson (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
"Future of EELS in Physics"

9:40 C. Colliex (U. of Paris, France)
"Future of EELS in material science"

10:00 end of session

10:00 - 11:00 Final discussion on the current state of affairs and future directions.