New electrical fusion system for x-ray fluorescence analysis, Rainer Schramm, FLUXANA GmbH & Co. KG

New applications in XRF analysis including small samples, layers and small spots by WDXRF, Didier Bonvin, Thermofisher.

From R&D to Manufacture: The Challenges of XRF Analysis in Industrial Catalyst Production, David Maclachlan, Johnson Matthey.

Report on DOT-2 and introduction of DOT-3, David Beveridge & Heather Harrison.

The Symposium is to be held at Levin Hall on the University of Texas Medical Branch Campus on Galveston Island

Speakers:

A. Keith Dunker, Indiana Univ. School of Med.Â

Lewis Kay, University of Toronto

Junji Iwahara, Univ. Texas Medical Branch

George Rose, Johns Hopkins University

Robert D. Wells, Texas A&M Health Science Center

With the increased demand for APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients) to reach the marketplace, chemists in early stage development are expected to have a greater understanding of solid form and crystallisation. This single day event, presented by a selection of industrialists and academics in their field of expertise, will provide an introduction to this area, specifically initial crystallisation experiments, solid form selection and formulation and how these matters are handled using real industrial examples.

Lectures

• Crystallisation: why, what, how and when? Dr Simon Black, AstraZeneca
• Title to be advised, Prof Alistair Florence, University of Strathclyde
• Understanding the crystal morphology of molecular crystals from a solid-state and interfacial chemistry perspective, Prof Kevin Roberts, University of Leeds
• Cocrystals; synthesis, properties and medicinal chemistry, Prof Kim James, Peakdale
• Caffeine and Paracetamol: small molecules for big headaches, Dr Kreso Bucar, UCL
• Polymorphism studies of a preclinical candidate in a CRO environment. Lessons learnt (again), Dr David Pearson, Charles River Laboratories

The research focus of the 1st CSSB International Symposium will be on state-of-the-art systems biology approaches, embedded into complementary research directions such as structural biology and infection biology. It will feature top-class international research talks in five related scientific sessions and will end with a concluding session on future perspectives of the field. The symposium will be supported by the Joachim Herz Foundation.

Preliminary Programme

• Session 1: Areas in infection biology requiring system biology approaches
• Session 2: “Omics” in infection biology
• Session 3: Protein-Ligand interactions “at all levels”
• Session 4: Structural biology as a “high end” method in systems biology
• Session 5a: Modeling of experimental Omics data
• Session 5b: Biotechnical Applications of Systems Biology
• Session 6: Panel Discussion: What's next? Functional follow-up questions

Organised by the IOP BRSG: Magnetic Resonance Group

This one-day meeting will discuss the complementarity of muon techniques with well established magnetic resonance methods. Presentations will cover many aspects of condensed matter physics and chemistry, highlighting the novel information muon measurements can provide.

10:30

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11:00

Semiconductor and Oxide Muonics
Steve Cox, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

11:30

Towards Green and Safe Rechargeable Batteries
Martin Mansson, PSI and EPFL, Switzerland

12:00

Unconventional Superconductivity in Alkali Fullerides
Kosmas Prassides, University of Durham, UK

12:30

14:00

Opportunities for µSR
Adrian Hillier, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

Local Probe Investigations of Highly Frustrated Kagome Antiferromagnets
Fabrice Bert, University Paris Sud, France

14:45

Spin Dynamics and Onset of Correlations in Dilute LiY_1-xHo_xF₄
Mike Graf, Boston College, USA

15:15

Spin Diffusion in the Low-Dimensional Molecular Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnet Cu(pyz) (NO₃)₂ Detected with Implanted Muons
Fan Xiao, University of Durham, UK

15:45

16:15

Interfacial transfer in Microemulsions by Muon Spectroscopy
Nigel Clayden, University of East Anglia, UK

16:45

Spin Probes in Soft Matter
Iain McKenzie, TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University, Canada

17:15

Key dates

• Early registration deadline:

  18 November 2014

• Registration deadline:

  9 December 2014

Organised by the IOP Superconductivity Group The annual scientific meeting of the IOP Superconductivity Group brings together researchers in fundamental and applied aspects of superconductivity. The day will include invited and contributed talks and the Brian Pippard prize lecture. There will also be a poster session.

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Session A - Applications

Session B - Unconventional superconductors

Session C - Novel correlated states

2014 International Year of Crystallography Celebration Meeting at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London

Contributions are sought in the fields of metallurgy and materials forming; energy materials in realistic conditions; response of functional materials under parametric load; materials under extreme or exotic conditions. Particularly contributions using an innovative approach in their application or from the novel upcoming facilities with unprecedented possibilities are desired.
The methods shall cover time and lengths scales from sub-picoseconds to days and sub-angstrom to meters, respectively.

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Topics will include:

In-Situ Processes Â

• Time resolved
• Complex environments
• Extreme conditions

Single Grain Resolved Studies Â

• Embedded grain characterization
• Grain statistics
• Orientation relationships
• Subgrains

Strain Scanning Â

• Strains and residual stresses
• Multiple length scales
• Grain resolved strain

Texture Â

• Three-dimensional reciprocal space mapping
• Texture evolution
• Local texture

Liquid, Amorphous, Nanocrystalline and Distorted Materials Â

• Pair distribution function
• Diffuse scattering
• Phase transformations
• Local structure

Materials Imaging / Tomography Â

• Real time imaging
• High resolution tomography
• Combined diffraction tomography

Exotic and Novel Experimental Developments Â

• Coherent beam diffraction
• Fourier reconstruction
• X-ray photo-correlation spectroscopy
• Ultrafast processes
• The future arrived: X-ray free electron lasers

• Charles Fadley, UC, Davis, "Looking Into Buried Interfaces with Soft/hard X-Ray Photoemission and Standing-Wave Excitation"
• Franz Himpsel, University of Wisconsin, "Synchrotron-Based Spectroscopy Shedding Light on Solar Cells"
• Gregory Hughes, Dublin City University, Ireland, "Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Metal Oxide Semiconductor Structures"

• Benedetto Bozzini, University Lecce, Italy, "In-situ Characterization of PEMFC, SOFC, and Supercapacitor Components"
• Wanli Yang, ALS-LBNL, "Soft X-ray Spectroscopy of Battery Materials"

• Oliver Gessner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Ultrafast X-ray Studies of Interfacial Charge-Transfer Dynamics"
• Sujoy Roy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Unraveling Topological Properties of Spintronic Materials Using Coherent X-rays"

• Philippe Wernet, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Germany, "Valence Electron Rearrangements During Chemical Reactions in Real Time"
• Wilfried Wurth, Universität Hamburg, Germany, "FEL-Based Techniques to Explore Photochemistry and Transient States of Molecules on Surfaces"

• Burkhard Beckhoff, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany, "Analysis and Speciation of Nanoscaled Materials by Means of Grazing-Incidence and High-Resolution X-ray Spectrometry"
• Andrea Goldoni, Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy, "Growth and Characterization of LD Materials for Applications in Energy and Sensor Devices"
• Petra Rudolf, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Netherlands, "Effect of Interfacial Interactions: Graphene Growth on Metallic and Insulating Surfaces"

• Andres Santander, Centre de Sciences Nucleaires et de Sciences de la Matiere, France, "Novel 2D Electron Gases at the Surface of Transition-Metal Oxides"
• Claus Schneider, FZJ-Germany, Germany, "XPEEM: Recent Achievements and Future"

The New User Symposium offers an introduction to the services offered across the facilities under the operation of ANSTO, including synchrotron, accelerator and neutron based techniques. The annual one-day event is tailored to novice potential users of these techniques, and is to be held this year at the Australian Synchrotron’s National Centre for Synchrotron Science (NCSS). Aspects of the event include access arrangements, including available support, and some of the typical applications of techniques across biomedical research, materials and physical sciences and environmental fields.

For the first time in 2014, the New User Symposium will be held immediately before the Australian Synchrotron's annual User Meeting, 20-21 November, also at the NCSS.  Prospective users can take advantage of this co-location to learn more about the leading research being undertaken at the Australian Synchrotron, and latest advances in the fields of synchrotron science and techniques. Separate registration is required for the User Meeting.

Confirmed Speakers include:

Dr Serin Dabb (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Dr Peter Hoare (University of Newcastle)

Dr Guy Jones (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Brian McMahon (International Union of Crystallography)

David Sait (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Dr Anna Warren (Diamond Light Source)

Prof Chick Wilson (University of Bath)

The 2014 edition will continue the tradition established by these biennial symposia and will cover drug discovery advances in the major therapeutic areas, including neglected diseases, CNS disorders, inflammation, metabolic disorders, and oncology. EFMC-ISMC 2014 will present the most recent advances in lead identification and optimization strategies, drug design and profiling technologies, and illustrate the impact of biomarkers and imaging at the interfaces between chemistry, biology and experimental medicine. Particular emphasis will be put on first time disclosures, recent highlights in medicinal chemistry, and organic synthesis which had a strong impact on medicinal chemistry.

This symposium is recognised worldwide as one of the leading Medicinal Chemistry meetings, as proven by its large international attendance.

You are warmly invited to attend a one-day symposium that aims to recognise Dorothy Hodgkin’s legacy and mark the award of her Nobel Â
 Prize. Her field, crystallography, underpins all of the sciences today and has an extensive range of applications within the agro-food, Â
 aeronautic, computer, electro-mechanical, pharmaceutical and mining industries and more. 45 scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize Â
 over the past century for work that is either directly or indirectly related to crystallography, and yet it remains a field relatively unknown to Â
 the general public. This year UNESCO has joined forces with the International Union of Crystallography to promote education and public Â
 awareness, and we are delighted to contribute to this effort with the Dorothy Hodgkin Symposium. Â
 PROGRAMME
 2:45 pm Tea & Coffee, Somerville College, Flora Anderson Hall
 3:00 pm Hidden Glory, Dorothy Hodgkin in her own words, Somerville College, Flora Anderson Hall
 A filmed performance of a short, one-woman play about the life and work of Dorothy Hodgkin, Â
 followed by Q&A with the playwright Georgina Ferry
 4:00 pm Registration, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 4:10 pm Welcome, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 Dr Alice Prochaska, Principal of Somerville College
 Dr Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director General and Â
 Executive Secretary of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
 4:30 pm Keynote Talk: A Hundred Years of Visualising Molecules, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 Professor (Sir) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel laureate; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
 5:30 pm Tea & Coffee, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 5:45 pm Panel Discussion, Using crystallography to help solve the world’s great medical problems: from Dorothy Hodgkin into the 21st century, Â
 Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 Biographies of panel participants may be found overleaf
 7:15 pm Drinks Reception, Somerville College, The Old College Bar
 8:00 pm Supper, Somerville College, Dining HallÂ

The Symposium welcomes academics, students, Somerville and Oxford alumni, representatives of scientific bodies and institutions, the Â
 media and members of the general public. The majority of the programme is free to attend. Tickets for supper including wine will be Â
 £35 per person and students are offered a reduced rate of £15 per person.

To register, please visit https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/somerville/dorothy-hodgkin-symposium or ring the Somerville Development Office on 01865 280 626. Space is limited, so prompt Â
 booking is recommended, and places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.Â

On Friday October 10th, the University of Illinois at Chicago is hosting a symposium and poster session to celebrate the 100th year of crystallography. (Location: Herman Auditorium, MBRB 900 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago)
The schedule of the symposium will be as follows, with lunch provided for those who register:
9:30am Registration
10:00-10:15Â Welcome and IYCR Overview (C. Jeffery, University of Illinois at Chicago)
10:15-11:00Â Prof. Phoebe Rice (University of Chicago)
11:00-11:45Â Prof. Andrejz Joachimiak (Argonne National Labs)
12noon-1:00Â Lunch
1:15 - 2:00Â Â Â Prof. Bernie Santarsiero (University of Illinois at Chicago)
2:00 - 2:45Â Â Prof. Heather Pinkett (Northwestern University)
2:45 - 4:30pm Poster session

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The goal of Asia-Pacific Symposium on Solid Surfaces is to present new concepts, techniques and applications of atomically controlled processes at surfaces, interfaces and nanostructures. The Symposium covers:

• Surface/Interface Structures and Properties
• Thin Film Growth and Application
• Electronic Transport and Nano-Electronics
• Surface and Interface for Electronic Devices
• Nano-Magnetism and superconductors
• Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes, and Related Nanomaterials
• Molecular Assembly and Molecular-Based Devices
• Atomic and Molecular Manipulation

Language

The conference official language is English.

Presentation

Presentation style is oral

Various methods for structural studies, such as X-ray crystallography (PX), X-ray small angle scattering (SAXS), cryoEM and molecular simulation, have been evolved very rapidly in the last decade. Combinations of these techniques reveal dynamic aspect of the molecular mechanism of biological macromolecular complexes based on the atomic structures.

This symposium celebrates the International Year of Crystallography (IYCr) in 2014 and will highlight several recent results on structural studies on membrane proteins and huge protein complexes by X-ray crystallography together with recent advance of important techniques for structural life sciences.

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