<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Participation - UGIM '16</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hosted by the University of Utah Nanofab in Salt Lake City,
UT:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; ">June 12-14, 2016 (optional workshops on 15th, 16th)</span></font></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://ugim.nanofab.utah.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://ugim.nanofab.utah.edu</span></a></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; ">Dear Colleagues,</div><br>This note marks the one year start of countdown to UGIM, 2016 in Salt Lake City.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>The <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff1f17">first part</font> of this note briefly describes the draft conference plan. <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff1f17"> Please let us know at our website if you think you may be attending. Registration will come later. This just helps us with pre-planning.</font><br> <br>The <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1c39f6">second part</font> of the note covers <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1c39f6">Help Wanted!</font> Also see the <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1c39f6">Call for Participation tab at our website!</font><br><br>looking forward to seeing all of you in Utah! <br><br>Thanks, <br><br>Ian Harvey, Amy Vanroosendaal <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>and the Utah crew</div><div dir="ltr"><br><a href="http://ugim.nanofab.utah.edu">http://ugim.nanofab.utah.edu</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Quick </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(255,31,23)">Conference
Overview:</span></b></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Thanks to terrific organizing by the Harvard crew collecting feedback from UGIM'14 attendees, we kept the basic format and experiment with some tweaks</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">• Registrants will be able to download the presentations as voluntarily provided by the speakers</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">• There is a great opportunity for active participation and interaction in this conference, versus passive attendance, via panel discussions, topical and role-based working lunches, and institutional poster sessions</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">• Working sessions will be documented with summaries distributed to UGIM participants</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Quick</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(255, 31, 23); "> Site Overview:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; ">• </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; ">SLC is a major Delta Airlines hub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; ">• EZ 30 min access from Salt Lake
International Airport by car</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">• Light rail: door-to-door from airport to guest house,
conference venue and Utah Nanofab</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (also downtown area and shopping, including
Trader Joe's)</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff1f17">Sunday</font> June 12th (not Father's day)</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Bootie Camp <i>concurrent
with</i> NNCI coordination meeting</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Evening reception at Utah Nanofab (UGIM Steering Committee meets separately)</span></p><div><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Station-based tours of Utah Nanofab: gowned, nether
spaces, integrated surface analysis and nano-scale imaging (experts at each of
16 locations to provide specific information, Q&A)</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(255, 31, 23); ">Integrated symposium and exhibition</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> in a single location for two days</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(255,31,23)">Vendor Exhibition</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Integrated with break food tables. Four
half-hour breaks plus two working lunches (same room)</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">UGIM'18 announced
prior to first break so vendor/host coordination can begin early</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff1f17">Monday </font>June 13th:</span></b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff1f17"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Keynotes from the Semiconductor
Industry, NNIN/NNCI Reboot</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Cutting edge fabrication
techniques (invited)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-Working lunch, hot topics by table</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• After lunch de-briefing session by
facilitators from each table</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Panel Session: Safety / Panelists to briefly talk about
specific issues (24/7, buddy system, HF protocols, user discipline, PI
involvement, other?), followed by open questions</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal; "><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-Evening: sponsored tour/dinner: buses, dinner, tour
of Intel-Micron Flash Technologies (IMFT) 12" wafer fab, 45 minutes away</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff1f17">Tuesday</font> June 14th:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Tool Selection: submitted papers
on topics ranging through budgeting, evaluating, comparing, acquiring,
accepting tools, managing import and customs issues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Outreach and educational role of User Facilities: Submitted papers describing role in teaching scaling engineering, participation in or availability of MEMS competitions, survey of peer best practices and bibliography of shared media for micro/nano outreach, education and safety training</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- <i>Working lunch: Roles by table</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Fab efficiency and continuous
improvement: submitted papers describing best practices. Looking for
at least one paper describing issues unique to international facilities. Looking
for at least one paper describing the nature of integrated facilities
(integrating "bio" function inside cleanrooms, and/or integrating
analytical microscopy with cleanroom administration). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Panel Session: Financial
management - the forbidden "S" word (subsidy), monitoring, success
metrics, appeasing stakeholders, ROI, more-so than billing models and cost
management, covered in previous symposia.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Closing Banquet in the
mountains, 30-45 minutes away</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wednesday and TBD Thursday
June 15th, 16th: Optional workshops on specific topics TBD. (Added fee)</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></span></p><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">
</span><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Additional guided
tours of Utah Nanofab Cleanroom</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></span></p><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Two hours per
workshop for sufficient detail, including demonstrations</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></span></p><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• Expert presenters
(propose topics)</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></span></p><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">• May extend to two
days if interest dictates</span></b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(28,57,246)"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(28,57,246)">Help Wanted: <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><br><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(28,57,246)"></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(28,57,246)">Program Committee
members</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Set questions that establish the scope of the presentation
sessions. Select session chairs, accept papers, and serve as session
chair</span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(28,57,246)">Panel Coordination
Committee members </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Participate in preparing and administering a formal survey
on the topic, and present results in the panel pre-discussion. Formulate
questions for speakers to answer, and manage brief introductions to each
panelist and their question(s). Facilitate discussion among the panel and
questions to the panel from the audience. Collect notes from the
discussion for distribution to attendees. Possible panelist.
Possible Panel Moderator.</span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(28,57,246)">Sponsorship committee
members</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Set sponsorship levels and recruit exhibitors and post-UGIM
workshop instructors, per the sponsor/exhibitor page</span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(28,57,246)">Working
lunch (topical - M, role - Tu) committee members</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Prioritize
topics, organize tables and topics with facilitators, manage topical debriefing
discussion in session following Monday lunch, correlate and distribute
summary results to all attendees, coordinate any follow-up, serve as topical
facilitators</span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(28,57,246)">Working lunch (topical
- M, role - Tu) discussion facilitators</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Research lab network related topics in advance and prepare
a bibliographic summary of key points related to that topic. Frame
relevant questions on the topic for review by the committee and for copying by
UGIM staff prior to the lunch. Summarize key discussion points and any
action items verbally during debriefing session, and then include any feed-back
from debrief in written summary for distribution to attendees.</span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(28,57,246)">Institutional
Cleanroom Poster Session Committee Members</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prepare a PowerPoint or other template containing basic
information to be solicited from all attending institutions (e.g., basic
metrics, basic facts, how the institution manages basic issues like tool
pricing, 24/7, safety buddy, etc.). Invite the institution to provide
this info plus 3-4 other slides of their own choosing to be printed by UGIM staff
in advance of the exhibition. Posters will be displayed along with the
vendor exhibition both days.</span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(28,57,246)">Organizing Committee
Members </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Assist with logistics and
organization</span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(28,57,246)">Weds/Thurs post-UGIM
Workshop Instructor or co-Panelist</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For vendors or topical experts to provide orientation-style
information and detailed expert information on one of the topics listed on the
website workshop survey page. The intent is to be informational without
being a commercial sales pitch. The shared knowledge should be generalized,
and not specific to a product or product line. (See sponsorship tab on
this website)</span></p>
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