Prof. Allain will be giving an invited talk at the American Vacuum Society 61st International Symposium and Exhibition in Baltimore, Maryland, November 11, 2014.  The talk will head off the Plasma-Material Interactions I session and is titled: “Directed Irradiation Synthesis: Manipulating Matter in Nanoscale Self-Organized Systems”. During the symposium Zak Koyn will be presenting his work on: “Oxidation and nanopatterning of thin metal films on flexible substrates via oxygen directed irradiation synthesis”.