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Autumn Meeting- 5th November 2009
Impact of Crystallography in an Industrial Environment.

WORLD OF GLASS - St Helens WA10 1BX

ONLINE MEETING Just a few places remaining - registration closes as soon as they are filled. Fees: £80 full, £40 concessions, STUDENTS FREE. Register here...

Venue: MAP & TRAVEL from the venue web site.

Accomodation: Visit St Helens The Park Inn is within walking distance of the venue.

Download a printer friendly PDF version of the PROGRAMME and ABSTRACTS.

10:00 Coffee and Registration

10:30 - 12:30 Young Crystallographers' Presentations

10:30 Welcome

10:35 Introduction to Pilkington.
John Kaniuka, Off Line Coatings and Science Support Group, Pilkington Group Limited

10:50 Growth of functional pharmaceutical co-crystals via phase space manipulation
David Berry, AstraZeneca

11:10 Formulation and characterization of a fully amorphous solid dispersion for a low Tg (Glass Transition Temperature) drug
Min Zhao, School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia

11:30 Comparative Quantitative Characterisation of Alloy Microstructures using X-ray Diffraction and Electron Microscopy Techniques.
Moataz Attallah, Materials Science Centre, University of Manchester

11:50 Use of Cocrystals in the Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical Industry
Suzanne Buttar , Pharmorphix® Solid State Services.

12:10 Chiral resolution at the solid state, Pharmophix's approach
Ludovic Renou , Pharmorphix® Solid State Services.

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and visit to World of Glass

14:00 - 16:30 Crystallography in Industry

14:00 Applications of Crystallography in the Glass Industry.
Mark Farnworth, Off Line Coatings and Science Support Group, Pilkington Group Limited

14:20 Preparation, Characterisation and Prediction of Physical Stability of Amorphous Materials during Pharmaceutical Development: Pair-Wise Distribution Function.
Helen Blade, AstraZeneca.

14:40 Applications of Crystallography in the Aerospace Industry
Judith Shackleton, Materials Science Centre, University of Manchester.

15:00 XRD N' Chips - What Makes Good Semiconductor Devices.
Chris Staddon Senior Experimental Officer, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham.

15:20 Powder X-ray Diffraction for Process and Product Support in Shell Global Solutions.
Graham C. Smith, Shell Global Solutions UK.

15:40 XRD in the Imaging Industry.
David Beveridge, Harman Technology.

16:00 Tea and Discussion

16:30 Close

Organiser:
Mark Farnworth
Tel: 01695 54639
Email: Mark.Farnworth@pilkington.com


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