BCA Spring Meeting 2005.

Loughborough University, 12-14 April 2005

• XRF Programme NEW for 2005 (link to separate page)
• First Announcement from the Programme Chair (link to separate page)
• IG Highlights and Programme schedule
• Individual Session Details:
• In-situ: Processing in Industry 10:30 - 12:00 13^th April 2005
• Crystallography in Industry 1 & 2. 13:00 - 16:00 13^th April 2005
• Non-ambient Pharmaceutical Studies 1 & 2. 08:30 -12:00 14^th April 2005
• Combined XRF/XRD Applications. 13:00 - 15:00 14^th April 2005
• Industrial Group Posters
• Industrial Group AGM 13^th April 2005 at 16:00

There is considerable overlap with the Groups at this meeting and it important that you review the full programme on the BCA meeting pages. We concentrate here on items of particular interest to the Industrial Group.

NOTE: Day registration is only £65 if you book early and 3 days fully inclusive of registration, meals, two nights basic accommodation and conference dinner is less than £ 240. Fully inclusive rates are available for less than £155 for students and £200 other concessions.

Industrial Group Highlights

There is something to keep you occupied over the full three days including a comprehensive exhibition featuring all the major suppliers, a real chance to update your product knowledge in a fast changing market place.
There will be a BCA Prize Lecture, Posters and Exhibition Open Evening with buffet & wine (18:30 - 22:00) on Tuesday 12th April see BCA Web pages for details.

Individual Session Details Follow

In Situ: Processing in Industry

Chair: Steve Norval (ICI plc)
Wednesday 08:30 - 10:00

08:30 Prof. Gordon Tiddy (Chem.Eng., Manchester)
Title TBA (Theme: surfactant formulation)

09:05 Dr. Geoff Moggridge (Chem.Eng., Cambridge)
"Processing block co-polymers for nano-pores"

09:40 Dr Simon Jacques (Chemistry, UCL)
"In Situ Crystallisation Studies of Pharmaceutical Materials"

Crystallography in Industry 1: 13:00 - 14:30 13^th April 2005

Chair: Judith Shackleton (Manchester Material Science Centre)

13:00 Michael Preus, (School of Materials, Material Science Centre, University of Manchester.)
"Residual Stresses in Friction Welded Aeroengine Components"

13:30 Tony Fry, (NPL)
"Residual Stress Measurement at NPL, Increasing Confidence and Developing Best Practice"

14:00 Martijn Fransen , (PANalytical)
"To be advised"

Crystallography in Industry 2: 15:00 - 16:00 13^th April 2005

Chair: Richard Morris (Huntsman Surface Sciences)

15:00 Peter Laggner, Institute of Biophysics and X-Ray Structure Research Austrian Academy of Sciences.
"Bridging the Nano-Gap: Simultaneous SAXS and XPD on Nanomaterials"

15:40 Ian Cope, Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London.
"Using XRD to Support the Study of an Iron Oxide Deposit"

Non-ambient Pharmaceutical Studies 1: 08:30 - 10:00 14^th April 2005

Chair Anne Kavanagh (AstraZeneca)

08:30 Dr Jonathan Burley (University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge)
"Crystal Structure and Intermolecular Forces from Variable Temperature XRPD"

09:00 Jeremy Cockcroft (Birkbeck College, London)
"Obtaining accurate non-ambient laboratory PXRD data for pharmaceutical studies"

09:30 Steve Cosgrove (AstraZeneca R & D, Charnwood)
"Probing (de)hydration behaviour by high resolution X-ray powder diffraction"

Non-ambient Pharmaceutical Studies 2: 10:30 - 12:00 14^th April 2005

Chair: Roy Copley (GlaxoSmithKline)

10:30 Francesca Fabbiani (University of Edinburgh)
"Probing polymorphism with high pressure"

11:00 Angus Forster (GlaxoSmithKline R & D, Stevenage)
"The use of X-ray diffraction in the pharmaceutical development of a dihydrate API"

11:30 Peter Laggner (Institute of Biophysics and X-Ray Structure Research Austrian Academy of Sciences)
"Monitoring Non-Ambient Nanophase Processes by TR-SWAXS"

Combined XRF/XRD Applications : 13:00 - 15:00 14^th April 2005

Details are on another page. click here to view.

Industrial Group and XRF Posters

Posters are invited for display at the Spring Meeting. As an extra incentive to your participation, in addition to the acclaim that your poster will no doubt bring, the Industrial Group are offering a magnificent prize of £50 and a bottle of Champagne for best poster.

Some guidelines follow for what we would prefer to see in our posters and our adjudicators will work from these.

Posters are encouraged that:

• are relevant to industry (including some background and value of the work to industry)
• have clear aims, results and conclusions
• concentrate on telling the story, rather than fine detail
• are not an advertisement for a commercial product

For more information, contact:

Industrial Group AGM

The 22^nd ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Industrial Group will be held at Loughborough at 16:00 on 13^thApril 2005

Nominations are sought to fill a vacancy for one committee member to serve for three years from April 2005.

Nominations, which shall be proposed by not less than two members of the Group and shall be accompanied by the written consent of the nominee, shall be sent to reach the Honorary Secretary of the Group not later than seven days before the Annual General Meeting.

Proposed changes to BCA Industrial Group Constitution for the 2005 AGM

See the full Industrial Group Constitution.

Introduction:
There is an ever increasing trend for Industrial Crystallography to be carried out in collaboration with Academic Institutions. In recognition of this fact, and as suggested by the membership at the last AGM, the committee of the Industrial Group proposes to change the wording of rules 11 and 15 of the BCA Industrial Group Constitution as follows:

Note the proposed changes are identified by: deletion and addition

11 COMMITTEE. The affairs of the Group shall be managed by a Committee consisting of the Officers of the Group together with no more than six Ordinary Members of Committee. Not more than three Officers or Members of the Committee shall be from Academic Institutions. The BCA representative to the ICDD shall be a member of the committee ex officio. Additional members may be co-opted from time to time under Rule 13. The Committee shall be broadly based, with no one field or discipline unduly favoured. Only members of the Group shall be eligible for Membership of the committee.

15 NOMINATIONS FOR OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE. Vacancies for Officers and Ordinary Members of the Committee shall be filled by election at the Annual General Meeting of the Group. Nominations, which shall be proposed by not less than two members of the Group and shall be accompanied by (a) a brief statement demonstrating the nominee's experience in the application of crystallography to industrial research; and (b) the written consent of the nominee, shall be sent to reach the Honorary Secretary of the Group not later than seven days before the Annual General Meeting.

These proposed changes will be put to the membership for discussion and approval at the next AGM to be held at the BCA 2005 Spring Meeting in Loughborough.

Contact the Secretary/Treasurer