ISIS Large Scale Structures User Meeting
01 Nov 2018
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The Large Scale Structures User Meeting is due to take place on the 1st and 2nd of November 2018 at Cosener’s House and the Crown and Thistle in Abingdon.

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​​​​​​Attendees of ​the Large Scale Structures User Group Meeting ​

 
Program

​Day 1: Science Day 1st November

 

Registration:  10:00 – 11:30 (The Barn at the Crown and Thistle)

Welcome: 11:30 Sean Langridge (ISIS)

Plenary 1: 11:40 Stuart Clarke (Cambridge): “Commercially relevant surfaces and interfaces - neutrons and other techniques"

General Invited Talks: 12:10

                Invited 1: 12:10 Alison Paul (Cardiff): “Soft Matter Scattering: compare and contrast"

                Invited 2: 12:30 Aiden Hindmarch (Durham): “Proximity induced magnetism in spintronics: an example of the complementarity of neutrons and resonant x-rays"


Lunch: 12:50 – 14:00 (Cosener's House)

​​Parallel​ Sessions 1

Hard-Condensed Matter Session 1: (Garden Room at Cosener's House)

Talk 1: 14:00 Yiqiang Wang (UKAEA): “Investigating precipitation kinetics in microalloyed HSLA steels by small angle neutron scattering"

Talk 2: 14:20 Oscar Cespedes (Leeds): “Tuneable Magnetic Properties of Molecular Interfaces"

Talk 3: 14:40 Nina-Juliane Steinke (ISIS): “Magnetic order in doped 3D topological insulators"

Coffee Break: 15:00 – 15:30 (Cosener's House)


Soft Matter Session 1: (The Barn at the Crown and Thistle)

Talk 1: 14:00 Joao Cabral (Imperial): “Microfluidic SANS of complex fluids: opportunities and challenges"

Talk 2: 14:20 Peter Dowding (Infineum): “Surfactant adsorption at the solid-liquid interface: for application in oil additives"

Talk 3: 14:40 Arwen Tyler (Leeds): “Structure and dynamics of lipid assemblies"

Coffee Break: 15:00 – 15:30 (The Barn)

​​Parallel​ Sessions 2

Hard-Condensed Matter Session 2 (Garden Room at Cosener's House):

Talk 4: 15:30 Sean Langridge (ISIS): “Unusual interfacial behaviour of an insulating ferrimagnet"

Talk 5: 15:50 Kelly Morrison (Loughborough): “Development of In-Situ Thermal Cell for PNR Measurements of the Spin Seebeck Effect"

Talk 6: 16:10 Dan Allwood (Sheffield): “Emergent domain wall populations in interacting magnetic nanowire ring arrays"

Talk 7: 16:30 Tom Thomson (Manchester): “Depth-resolved magnetic properties of FeRh/MgO and FeRh/FePt using polarised neutron reflectometry (PNR)"

Flash Presentations: 16:50 (1 min per slide) – (Garden Room)


Soft Matter Session 2: (The Barn at the Crown and Thistle)

Talk 4: 15:30 - Rachel Evans (Cambridge): “Dynamic Self-Assembly and Structure-Function Relationships of Photoswitchable Surfactants"

Talk 5: 15:50 – Dave Barlow (Kings College): “Neutrons and Cream"

Talk 6: 16:10 - Christian Pfrang (Birmingham): “Atmospheric fate of surfactants: multi-component films oxidised by ozone & nitrate radicals"

Talk 7: 16:30 Mike Weir (Sheffield): “Scattering studies of polymer nanocomposites"

Flash Presentations: 16:50 (1 min per slide) – (The Barn)


Poster Session and Conference Dinner


Poster Setup: 17:00 – (Garden Room at Cosener's House)

Poster Session Start: 17:20

Dinner: 19:00 – (Cosener's House)


Day 2: User Meeting 2nd November – At Cosener's House​

Registration:  8:30 – 9:00 (Cosener's House)

Plenary 2: 9:00 Katia Pappas (TU Delft): “LARMOR with a twist"

9:30 CCP-SAS – Stephen Perkins (UCL): “Atomistic modelling of SAXS and SANS curves by CCP-SAS – applications to date and a vision for the future"

LSS Staff Talks: 9:50 – 10:35

  1. Reflectometer Upgrades
    1. Guides
    2. 2d Detectors
    3. Moderator upgrade
    4. High field magnet for PNR and PA
  2. SANS
    1. Zoom + Magnetism
    2. Focusing on Zoom
    3. Larmor – recent techniques/development

       

Coffee Break: 10:35 – 11:05

Endeavour/TS1/TS2 Upgrades: 11:05 – μQ and CRISP upgrade – Rob Dalgliesh (ISIS)

11:20 Andy Church (ISIS): “Soft Matter Sample Environment at ISIS, from inception to fruition and beyond, with continuous evaluation and improvement"

11:40 Gavin Stenning (ISIS): “Offline Characterisation facilities at ISIS"

Survey Results/Discussion/Closing remarks: 12:00 – 13:00

Lunch: 13:00

End of Meeting

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Registration:​

Registration for this event is now closed.​


Contact:

For further information please contact the event organiser ​​Andrew Caruana.​

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