Click here for XRD meeting details 13^th May 2010 same venue.

XRF Meeting - "Blanket cover"

12^th May 2010, British Geological Survey (BGS), Keyworth, Nottingham.

This meeting will precede a BCA IG minerals meeting Between the Sheets! at the same venue.

Accomodation: Link to local accomodation BGS web page.
Several local Travelodges eg Thrussington are currently showing £29 rooms.

Registration: is now open. Please note that you can register for just XRF or both days on the form and some FREE student places are available.
REGISTRATION CLOSES on Friday 7th May 2010 (after close of business)

Joining and Travel instructions - Link to PDF file

Programme:

Download printer friendly (PDF file) programme covering both XRF & XRD days.
ABSTRACT page now available.

09:30 Registration & Coffee

10:00 From water-mills to wind-turbines
Margaret West, West X-Ray Solutions

10:30 Analysis of airborne particulate matter on filter samples by XRF techniques - where we have come from and where we are going
Owen Butler, Health and Safety Laboratory

11:00 X-Ray Spectroscopy of Amorphous Bioceramics - A User Friendly Technique for Analysing Challenging Materials
Colin Slater, University of Birmingham

11:30 Urban Mining and Bench-top XRF, A Preliminary Investigation
Richard Morris, Morris Analytical X-ray
Platinum Group Metals in road dust

12:00 Lunch & Exhibition

13:30 Presentation of Industrial Group Award to David Taylor
Followed by his talk - My 40 years in X-ray Analysis

14:00 Scintillation Counter Linearity - Essential for Blanket Coverage of Elements Heavier than Copper
Steve Davies, PANalytical

14:30 Rapid Scanning for Elemental Distribution Using a High Intensity Capillary X-Ray Source
Mike Dobby, Bruker AXS.

15:00 Tea

15:30 Is the Euro really as good as they claim?
A semi-quantitative analysis of 2-Euro coins from different countries
Bruno Vrebos, PANalytical

16:00 Question & Answer Session.
Introduced by an overview of the use of fundamental parameters (FP) calibrations in XRF
Ros Schwarz, University of Sheffield.
Your chance to discuss one of the more controversial areas of practical XRF, ask a question there wasn't time for earlier in the day or come prepared to ask a specific question to help you in your day to day work. There will be a wealth of expertise in the audience just waiting to be tapped!

17:00 Close

Organiser: Ros Schwarz (Use the contacts link at the top of the page for contact details)

Our previous one day meeting (14th May 2008):
Programme.
Report.