CITEAM Workshop 2026

📍 University of Maryland · College Park, MD
📅 Wednesday, May 20 from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm

Overview

The CITEAM workshop is geared toward cyberinfrastructure (CI) training for the community of scientists and researchers using the new generation of Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) instruments at UMD. The training materials presented during the workshop and the associated training activities will help reduce barriers to the use of the instruments, data, software tools, and computing to help users in key steps critical to their scientific inquiry — from data collection, data analysis, to storing and publishing data — encompassing end-to-end TEM Data Management.

This edition of the workshop will include a keynote talk from Professor Ichiro Takeuchi, and cover foundational materials relevant to the instrument users.

This day-long workshop will be structured around a mix of lectures introducing the materials customized for the instrument users, hands-on sessions where participants will have the opportunity to go through end-to-end examples with the workshop instructors, site visit to the actual instrument, followed by office hours from the instructors to address specific questions and concerns.

Although this workshop is geared towards new users, intermediate and advanced users are also invited to attend, participate in the advanced hands-on sessions, and provide feedback on the materials presented.

Post-Workshop Survey

We’d love to hear your feedback! Please take a moment to fill out our post-workshop survey.

Register

Registration is free for workshop participants. Registration is now closed.

Location

University of Maryland
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Room 2111
8228 Paint Branch Dr
College Park, MD 20742

* Parking information is available here.

Agenda

Time	Session	Speaker(s)	Slide	Code
8:00 – 8:30 AM	Breakfast (provided)
8:30 – 8:40 AM	Arrival & environment check
8:40 – 8:50 AM	Workshop Welcome	Anirban Mandal
8:50 – 9:15 AM	Keynote	Ichiro Takeuchi
9:15 – 9:35 AM	The UMD TEM facility	John Cumings
9:35 – 9:55 AM	Introduction to TEM	Lourdes Salamanca-Riba	PDF
9:55 – 10:20 AM	First Steps	Erik Scott		Code
10:20 – 10:35 AM	Coffee Break
10:35 – 10:50 AM	Histograms & contrast	Lourdes Salamanca-Riba & Erik Scott	PDF	Code
10:50 – 10:55 AM	Noise correction	Lourdes Salamanca-Riba	PDF	Code
10:55 – 11:05 AM	Gaussian blur & HyperSpy denoising	Erik Scott		Code
11:05 – 11:35 AM	Drift correction	Lourdes Salamanca-Riba & Erik Scott	PDF	Code
11:35 AM – 12:30 PM	Lunch (provided)
12:30 – 1:30 PM	Microscopy suite visit	John Cumings
1:30 – 2:00 PM	Open science & data management	Eva Campo	PDF
2:00 – 2:20 PM	Measuring distances	Lourdes Salamanca-Riba & Erik Scott	PDF	Code
2:20 – 2:35 PM	Coffee Break
2:35 – 3:45 PM	FFT analysis	Lourdes Salamanca-Riba & Alex Hall & John Cumings	PDF	Code
3:45 – 4:15 PM	Software setup on personal laptops	John Cumings & Karan Vahi
4:15 – 4:30 PM	Final Q&A & close
4:30 PM	End of workshop