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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 BSG 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.

Programme:

09:30 Registration & Coffee

10:00 From water-mills to wind-turbines
Margaret West, West X-Ray Solutions
How spectroscopy has changed in the last 25 years, highlighting what XRF can do nowadays

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 Title to be advised
Mark Ingham et al; British Geological Survey
Wide range fused beads with difficult elements e.g. F, Cl & S

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

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

14:30 Scintillation Counter Linearity - Essential for Blanket Coverage of Elements Heavier than Copper
Steve Davies, PANalytical

15:00 Tea

15:30 Overview of the use of fundamental parameters (FP) "calibrations" in XRF
Ros Schwarz

16:00 Question & Answer Session.
Your chance to 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!

16:30 Close

CALL FOR PAPERS: To offer a talk at this meeting please contact Ros Schwarz (Use the contacts link at the top of the page for details)

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