African Neutron Diffraction Meeting

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Wednesday evening (20 Aug): Welcome function: Dinner at the restaurant of Amanzingwe
Thursday morning (21 Aug): Registration, Scientific Programme.
Thursday afternoon (21 Aug): Visit to Pelindaba: Safari-1 Research Reactor (NECSA).
Thursday evening (21 Aug): Visit to Lesedi Cultural Village, including dinner
Friday (22 Aug): Scientific Programme
Friday evening (22 Aug): Bush braai at Amanzingwe


Full Scientific and Social Programme

Wednesday 20 August 2003

16:00 Registration
19:00 Welcoming function - dinner

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Thursday 21 August 2003

07:30 Registration and light breakfast at the Conference Centre
08:30 Welcoming
- Andrew Venter
08:40 Introduction: Modern neutron diffraction methods and applications
- Chick Wilson

Session 1: Materials, Solid State Chemistry and Environmental Science
09:00 Lynne McCusker (keynote speaker)
Complementarity of X-ray and neutron Diffraction in Zeolite Structure Analysis
09:35 Alex Lappas
Relations of stoichiometry to structure and structure to properties by neutron diffraction in low-dimensional electronic materials
10:00 Michael Catti
Powder neutron diffraction studies at high resolution on NASICON Li+ and H+ ionic materials
10:25 Kevin Knight
Low Temperature Structural and Thermoelastic Properties of Clinopyroxenes
10:50 Winfried Kockelmann
Non-destructive Analysis and Testing of Archaeological Artifacts and Museum Objects Using Neutron Diffraction

11:15

Tea/coffee

Session 2: Biological Structure
11:35 Dean Myles (keynote speaker)
Title to be confirmed
12:10 Peter Timmins
Neutron "Small-Angle" Crystallography. Contrast variation in single crystals of biological macromolecules
12:35 Jayne Lawrence
Structural studies of gene delivery vehicles using neutron scattering

13:00

Lunch

13:45

Visit to Pelindaba: Safari-1 Research Reactor (NECSA)

16:30

Visit to Lesedi Cultural Village, including dinner

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Friday 22 August 2003

07:30 Light breakfast at the Conference Centre

Session 3: Physics and Magnetism
08:30 Juan Rodriguez-Carvajal (keynote speaker)
Magnetic structure determination: symmetry analysis and simulated annealing using Fullprof
09:05 Clemens Ritter
Recent results on magnetism and magneto-structural phenomena studies by neutron powder diffraction
09:30 Steve Bramwell
Magnetic Analogues of Molecular Disorder

09:55

Tea/coffee

Session 4: Chemical Structure
10:15 Tom Knoetzle (keynote speaker)
Single-Crystal Neutron Diffraction and the Structures of Metal Hydrides
10:50 Alberto Albinati
The study of the structure and dynamics of Metal Hydrides by Elastic and Inelastic Neutron Scattering
11:15 Jacqui Cole
New chemical trends with VIVALDI
11:40 Krzysztof Wozniak
The application of neutron data in structural and charge density studies

10:20

Session 5: Poster session & Demos

13:00

Lunch

Session 6: Instrumentation & Techniques
14:00 Trevor Forsyth
New instrumentation for single crystal and fibre diffraction at the Institut Laue Langevin
14:20 Ralph Gilles
Features and first measurements of single components from the new Structure Powder Diffractometer (SPODI)
14:40 Wim Klooster
The new quasi-Laue diffractometer at the replacement research reactor
15:00 Chick Wilson
Advanced diffraction instrumentation at ISIS and new opportunities at ISIS Second Target Station
15:20 Bruno Guerard
Manufacturing of the Very Large Area Detector for the D19 Single Crystal Diffractometer

15:40

Tea/coffee

Session 7: Forward Look & Future Prospects
16:10 To be announced

16:45 Robert McGreevy
Neutron diffraction: to be or not to be?

17:20

General discussion and close

19:00

Closing function (Bush Braai)

Saturday 23 August 2003

Delegates leave after breakfast

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