BCA Spring Meeting 2006.

Lancaster University, 4-6 April 2006

Sessions with Industrial Group interest are listed here, please view the full details on the BCA main pages.
Download the PDF registration form - Note Early registration deadline is 6th March.

SPRING MEETING - INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVE OVERVIEW
	Tuesday 4th April	Wednesday 5th April	Thursday 6th April
AM	Phase Identification Workshop	Neutron & Synchrotron Opportunities IG AGM	Nanocrystallography
PM	Phase Identification Workshop Exhibitors Forum	Alun Bowen Lecture Crystallisation & Polymorphism	Powder Diffraction in Industry
EVENING	Posters & Exhibition	Lonsdale Lecture Conference Dinner

Session Details:

Tuesday 4^th April

Phase Identification Modular Workshop - 09:00 - 17:30 4th April 2006

E-mail Note to workshop delegates sent 27.3.06

Tutors: John Faber - Principal Scientist ICDD, David Rendle - consultant & Dave Taylor - consultant.

A full day XRPD workshop on Phase Identification. This modular workshop is based on 4 distinct sessions which build to give a complete understanding of phase identification and its progression into quantitative analysis, culminating in a flexible hands on computer session to gain practical experience with real examples. The modular structure will allow delegates, on the basis of their experience, to dip in an out of sessions through the day giving the package something to offer everyone with an interest in phase identification.

Module 1: 09:00 – 10:30 History & Structure of the Powder Diffraction File (PDF)

This module will cover important background information on the Powder Diffraction File with the emphasis on gaining an understanding of the various databases and how to interpret the data from an individual entry and select the best entry to use from multiple entries of the same compound.

Module 2: 11:00 – 12:00 Phase Identification

This module will cover collecting data for phase identification (PID). An understanding of the various manual search methods, alphabetical, Hanawalt, Fink and long 8 will under pin the knowledge required for automated search match techniques. It will cover selecting the database to use and subfile selection for particular applications.

Module 3: 13:00 – 15:00 Advanced Phase Identification and Quantitative Analysis

Here we will cover data mining, total pattern analysis and the methods of quantifying the phases detected, covering reference intensity ratio, spiking and Rietveld analysis.

Module 4: 15:30 – 17:30 Hands on computer session

This module will allow you to put into practice the techniques covered in the workshop by using practical examples of both qualitative and quantitative problems for you to solve in a dedicated computer suite.

This course offers exceptional value. One day registration is �70 a packed lunch is �6 and an evening buffet with wine is included in the registration!
Can you or someone in your organisation afford to miss this training opportunity?

Also today: Exhibitors Forum followed by Posters and Exhibition.

Wednesday 5^th April

10:15 - 12:00 Neutron & Synchrotron Opportunities for Industrial Users

Session Chair: Jeremy Cockcroft

10:15 Alan Hewat, ILL - High Flux Neutron Diffractometers at ILL Grenoble .
11:00 Andrew Jupe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - In-Situ Synchrotron Diffraction for Studying Oil Well Cement Hydration at Elevated Temperature and Pressure in Real Time .
11:45 t.b.c, - Update on Powder Diffraction at DIAMOND .

12:00 23rd AGM of the Industrial Group. following on from the above session.

13:00 – 16:30 Crystallisation and Polymorphism of Pharmaceuticals

13:00 Alun Bowen Lecture given by Ulrich Griesser, University of Innsbruck - Relevance and Analysis of Polymorphism in Drug Development (Chair - Jeremy Cockcroft)

Session Chairs: Roy Copley & Anne Kavanagh
13:50 Roger Davey, University of Manchester - Controlling nucleation of enantiomers from solutions - the chiral enrichment of mandellic acid.
14:30 Sally Price (UCL) - Progress and problems in computational prediction of crystallisation and polymorphism.
15:40 Terry Threlfall, University of Southampton Growing Crystals: Growing Polymorphs (and Some Thoughts on Crystal Growth)
16:05 Caroline Day, GSK - Polymorph Screening by Automated Techniques.

Thursday 6^th April

10:15 - 12:30 Nanocrystallography.

A joint session with British Association for Crystal Growth.
Sessions Chairs: Kevin Roberts (BACG) and Richard Morris(BCA)

Speakers:
10:15 Peter Laggner (University of Gratz) - How crystals are born: novel insight from small-angle X-ray scattering.

11:00 Kevin Roberts (University of Leeds) - Solution phase nucleation: cluster size & shape and its correlation with crystallisation kinetics and polymorph selection.

11:45 M Lal (Liverpool University), M Plummer and W Smith (CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory) - Metal nanocrystallites in supercritical fluids -- the solvation process and its impact on the nanostructure.

Powder Diffraction in Industry

Session Chair: Judith Shackleton

13:30 Presentation of an Industrial Group Award to Professor Paul Fewster and his award lecture: "It's All in the Detail".

14:10 David Beveridge, Ilford PHOTO The Precipitation of Pigment Red 57:1 from Homogeneous Solution for X-Ray Powder Diffraction.

14:35 Mary Vickers, Department of Materials, University of Cambridge X-Ray Diffraction at Materials Science, Cambridge.

14:50 Short Break

Session Chair: David Beveridge

15:00 Chris Staddon, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, X-Ray Studies of Semiconductors Using The Panalytical X'pert Mrd.

15:20 Andrew Hodge, BP, Rocks and Catalysts - XRD in BP.

15:40 Martin Gill, Museum of Natural History, CLAY STORY …. A Cautionary Tale.

16:00 Close

Industrial Group and XRF Posters

Posters are invited for display at the Spring Meeting. As an extra incentive to your participation, in addition to the acclaim that your poster will no doubt bring, the Industrial Group are offering a magnificent prize of £50 and a bottle of Champagne for best poster.

Some guidelines follow for what we would prefer to see in our posters and our adjudicators will work from these.

Posters are encouraged that:

• are relevant to industry (including some background and value of the work to industry)
• have clear aims, results and conclusions
• concentrate on telling the story, rather than fine detail
• are not an advertisement for a commercial product

Poster abstracts should be submitted on-line before 24th February 2006

For more information, contact:

Industrial Group AGM

The 23^rd ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Industrial Group will be held at Lancaster University at 12:00 on Wednesday the 5th April 2006 .

Nominations are sought to fill the following vacancies to serve for three years from April 2006.

   -Vice Chair
   -Secretary Treasurer
   -THREE Committee Members

Nominations, which shall be proposed by not less than two members of the Group and shall be accompanied by the written consent of the nominee, shall be sent to reach the Honorary Secretary of the Group not later than seven days before the Annual General Meeting.

The 2006 AGM agenda and draft minutes of the 2005 AGM can be viewed in PDF format from a link at admin index.

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