BCA Spring Meeting 2008.

University of York, 8-10^th April 2008
Industrial Group Contributions - More information and details of other sessions is available on the BCA meeting page.

Plenary

Rob Delhez (Delft)
Wednesday 9^th April 2008, 17:15-18:00 (Chair: Anne Kavanagh)
X-ray Diffraction on Mars?

Sessions

“Jekyll and Hydrate”
Tuesday 8^th April 2008, 15:30-17:00 (Chair: Anne Kavanagh)

Hydrated solid-state forms are commonly found in the pharmaceutical industry and their discovery can be both a benefit and a hindrance. This session will concentrate on the characterisation, properties and behaviour of hydrates.

15:30 Gérard Coquerel (Rouen)
The different roles of water molecules in chiral discrimination in the solid state

16:00 Alan Kennedy (Strathclyde)
Mony a Mieikel Maks a Muckel: Systematic Investigationss of Crystal Structures of Organic Salt Hydrates.

16:30 Roy Copley (GSK)
The Complex Solid-State Structure of Carvedilol Phosphate: a Case Study of a Pharmaceutical Hydrate.

“Applied Crystallography Showcase” - including the IG YC prize talk
Wednesday 9^th April 2008, 10:15-11:45 (Chair: Chris Staddon)

10:15 2008 Industrial Group Young Crystallographer prize talk.
To be announced at the meeting

10:30 Judith Shackleton (University of Manchester)
Direct Correlation Between Ferrite Microstructure And Electrical Resistivity

10:45 Judit Debreczeni (AstraZeneca)
Protein Structures in Drug Discovery

11:00 Mark Farnworth (Pilkington Group Ltd)
Application of XRD within the Glass Industry including 2D mapping

11:15 Suzanne Harte (Pharmorphix)
Application of X-ray Diffraction and other Analytical Techniques to Pharmaceuticals

11:30 David Rendle (ICDD)
Application of XRD within Forensic Science

“Small is Smart”
Wednesday 9^th April 2008, 13:30-15:00 (Chair: David Beveridge)

13:30 Steve Norval (Intertek MSG)
Powder Diffraction of Nanomaterials.

14:00 Chris Staddon (University of Nottingham)
In Plane Scattering from GaN Nanorods.

14:30 Chris Gilmore, University of Glasgow.
Solving Crystal Structures of Zeolites using Powder Diffraction and Electron Crystallography.

“Big is Beautiful”
Wednesday 9^th April 2008, 15:30-17:00 (Chair: Judith Shackleton)

15:30 Supriyo Ganguly, Materials Engineering, The Open University.
Measurement of weld residual stresses in design geometry engineering components and structures using pulsed neutron diffraction

16:00 George Bibby, Rolls-Royce plc.
Residual Stress Measurement Of Gas Turbine Components By X-Ray Diffraction.

16:30 Michael Drakopoulos, JEEP, Diamond Light Source Ltd.
JEEP: The Joint Engineering, Environmental and Processing Beamline at Diamond Light Source.

Industrial Group AGM

The 25^th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Industrial Group will be held at York on 9^thApril 2008 at 11:45

Nominations are sought to fill vacancies for two committee members to serve for three years from April 2008.

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.

Contact the Secretary/Treasurer

View a PDF copy of the Agenda.
View the proposed changes to the Constitution.