Meetings/Winter2013

PCG-SCMP Winter Meeting "New Developments in UK Materials Crystallography"

Our 2013 Winter Meeting at Cosener’s House will be held in Abingdon on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th November. The meeting will again be held jointly with the ISIS Crystallography User Group meeting and follow the popular format of previous years (see for example Winter 2012). There will be a poster session and the opportunity for a small number of junior researchers to give short oral presentations.

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Please register using the link below (when it appears):

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Confirmed Speakers

Duncan Gregory (University of Glasgow) "Ultra-fast microwave processing of nanoceramics: sub-minute synthesis of refractory carbides."

Phil Lightfoot (University of St. Andrews) "Unusual structural behaviour in multiferroic perovskites"

Jeppe Christensen (University of Bath) "Time resolved structural science"

Serena Corr (University of Glasgow) "Local structure investigations of (nano)materials for energy applications"

Mark Senn (Diamond Light Source) PANalytical Thesis Prize Talk: How much can we learn about a multiferroic mechanism in a material from its crystal structure(s)?

Howard Stone (University of Cambridge) Superlattices in superalloys

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The programme

Monday 11th November 2013

12:15 – 13:00 Buffet Lunch

13:00 – 13:10 ISIS Crystallography User Group Chair’s Welcome, Anthony Powell (Heriot-Watt)

13:10 – 13:40 ISIS Facility Update, Robert McGreevy (ISIS)

13:40 – 14:00 ISIS Crystallography Update, Steve Hull (ISIS)

14:00 – 14:15 Advances in high pressure diffraction techniques at the ISIS facility, Craig Bull (ISIS)

14:15 – 14:30 The first 18 months of new Polaris. Ron Smith (ISIS)

14:30 – 14:50 Discussion

14:50 – 15:30 Ultra-fast microwave processing of nanoceramics: sub-minute synthesis of refractory carbides, Duncan Gregory (University of Glasgow)

15:30 – 16:00 Tea (PCG-SCMP EGM)

16:00 – 16:15 Short talk 1

16:15 – 16:30 Short talk 2

16:30 – 16:45 Short talk 3

16:45 – 17:25 Unusual structural behaviour in multiferroic perovskites, Phil Lightfoot (University of St. Andrews)

18:00 – 19:30 Posters followed by Dinner

Tuesday 12th November 2013

9:10 – 9:45 Time resolved structural science, Jeppe Christensen (University of Bath)

9:45 – 10:00 Short talk 4

10:00 – 10:15 Short talk 5

10:15 – 10:30 Short talk 6

10:30 – 10:45 Short talk 7

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee

11:15 – 11:50 2013 PANalytical Thesis Prize Talk: How much can we learn about a multiferroic mechanism in a material from its crystal structure(s)?, Mark Senn (Diamond Light Source)

11:50 – 12:25 Superlattices in superalloys, Howard Stone (University of Cambridge)

12:25 – 13:00 Local structure investigations of (nano)materials for energy applications, Serena Corr (University of Glasgow)