Small Angle Scattering Special Interest Group

2 - 3 July 2007 ILL, Grenoble

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Delegate joining instructions: All registered delegates have been sent a confirmation E-mail. Please take note of this important information for delegates a 25kb PDF file. Link for a Site Map. Meeting is in room 214 - CIBB building

Final updated information E-mailed to delegates on 29th June. View copy.

Print friendly meeting programme - a 30kb PDF file. Abstract page.

Fees: Full £180, Concessions and Speakers £90. Exceptional value - includes 2 nights accommodation and food!

Organisers: Richard Morris, Dave Taylor and Jeremy Cockcroft - contacting an organiser.

The programme will start at 9am on the Monday morning with a tour of the ILL facilities and will finish for a 12:30 lunch on Tuesday to allow delegates to travel home that day. An optional tour of ESRF on may be arranged for Tuesday afternoon.

Delegate numbers are limited and the meeting fees will include Sunday (1st July) and Monday (2nd July) nights B&B accommodation in the facility Guest House, coach transport and dinner at a restaurant on Monday, lunches on Monday and Tuesday.

Registration is now closed. All delegates have been sent a confirmation by E-mail, contact Dave Taylor if you need further information. Successful application fees cannot be refunded under any circumstances.

Extra Nights: We have a few rooms reserved for Tuesday 3rd July. To book an extra night please enter the details under special requests on the registration form. You must pay for the extra night ( approx 30 Euros ) on arrival at the on-site guest house.

Bursaries: A limited number of sponsored bursaries are available for this meeting. The bursary will cover the meeting fee but NOT travel. Bursars will be expected to give a short oral contribution on their work or interest in small angle scattering at the meeting. To apply for a bursary please complete a registration form and write "Bursary application" across the top of the form.

Travel: Link to the ILL transport page.

Programme:

Abstract page.

Print friendly meeting programme - a 30kb PDF file.

Monday 2nd July 2007

09:00 Tour of ILL with Charles Dewhurst, Isabelle Grillo and Ingeborg Te Groen

10:30 Coffee
11:00 An Introduction to SAXS and SANS.
Peter Laggner, Graz.
12:00 Smectic ordering in side-chain liquid crystal polymers (LCP's) and in LCP-silica nanocomposites.
Françoise Ehrburger-Dolle, Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, CNRS-UJF, France.
12:30 Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) with NanoSTAR - Principles & Applications.
Richard Görgl, Materials Center Leoben
13:00 Lunch

14:00 SAXS studies of powder particle deformation during compaction.
Peter Laity, Cambridge.
14:30 D33 - A third Small Angle Neutron Scattering instrument at ILL.
Charles Dewhurst, ILL.
15:00 In-situ studies of flowing samples with SAXS and SANS.
Adrian Rennie, Uppsala.
15:30 Creating 3D-Networks and Hydrogels from Self-Assembling Peptides.
Alberto Saiani, Manchester.
16:00 Tea

16:30 Use of Small-Angle Scattering for the characterisation of precipitates in metallic alloys.
Alexis Deschamps, SIMAP, (Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés), France.
17:00 Microwave heating in materials science and biology: is it all just hype and hypochondria?
Andrew Harrison, ILL.
17:30 I22 - A non-crystalline diffraction beamline for the physical and life sciences
Jennifer Hiller, Diamond Light Source.
18:00 Close

19:30 Evening Dinner: Coach transfer to Restaurant La Panse in Grenoble (return at 23:00)

Tuesday 3rd July 2007

09:00 Ultra low k Dielectrics for Microelectronics.
Jean-Paul Simon, SIMAP, (Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés), France.
09:30 SAXS with micrometer-sized synchrotron radiation beams.
Christian Riekel, ESRF.
10:00 SAXS studies of emergent properties in biomaterials.
Tim Wess, Cardiff University.
10:30 Coffee

11:00 SAXS experiments within conventional XRD instrument.
Vladimir Kogan, DANNALAB & PANalytical BV, The Netherlands.
11:30 The joys of SAXS and other toys.
Wim Bras, ESRF
12:00 SAXS of Surfactant Meso-phases (including a general Q&A session to end the meeting).
Richard Morris, Morris Analytical X-ray.
12:30 Lunch