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2007 Spring Meeting.17 - 19th April 2007
University of Kent, Canterbury.
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XRF Programme.
We plan a comprehensive XRF programme over the three days and also encourage dedicated XRF posters at this meeting. There is a £50 cash prize and champagne for the best poster! Now is the time to start planning your poster! More details...
Student Bursaries may be available for the me eting to BCA members of 6 months standing who present a poster at the meeting.
There will be a Commercial Exhibition and XRF vendors are
encouraged to attend and give an Exhibitor talk.
Exhibitors include: Analysco Ltd,
Bruker AXS,
Niton Analyzers,
PANalytical,
Rigaku,
Sci-Lab Analytical,
Socachim-XRF Scientific,
SpecAC,
Spectro Analytical,
Spex C
ertiprep,
Thermo Fisher Scientific.
2007 Spring Meeting XRF Overview
| ���� | Tuesday 17 April |
Wednesday 18 April |
Thursday 19 April |
| AM | Registration XRF: Where are we now?� Bruno Vrebos. |
XRD Keynote or Exhibition Prof. Bob Snyder. |
XRF Keynote Prof. Rene Van Grieken. |
| Coffee & Exhibition | |||
| AM | XRF: What can we do with it? Margaret West & Mike Dobby. |
XRF / XRD Joint session on thin films. Bragg Lecture Prof. Sir Roger Penrose. |
Environmental Issues. |
| Lunch & Exhibition | |||
| PM | Semi-quantitative | 13:00 IG AGM XRF Applications - including Cultural Heritage |
A Standardless Future for Quantitative XRPD? |
| Tea & Exhibition | |||
| PM | Calibration Samples Exhibitors talks |
XRF App
lications - including Cultural Heritage (Continued). 17:00 BCA AGM |
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| � | . | 17:45 Hodgkin Lecture Prof. Judith Howard. |
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| Evening | 18:30 Posters & Exhibition Buffet & Wine Reception |
19:45 Conference Dinner | |
XRF Session Details
Tuesday 17th April 2007
Morning:
Tutorial / Workshop Session "XRF: where are we now?"
Mark Ingham is organi
ser and chair.
Note: Prof. Rene Van Grieken has had to withdraw his contribution from this workshop.
10:00 XRF: What instruments have we got, or are likely to get
soon. 1 hour + 15 minutes for questions.
Bruno Vrebos, PANalytical.
11:15 Coffee
11:45 XRF: What can we do with them? 1 hour + 15 minutes
for questions.
Margaret West, West X-ray Solutions.
Mike Dobby, Bruker A
XS.
13:00 Lunch
Afternoon:
14:00 Semi-quantitative
Ros Schwarz is organiser and chair.
14:00 What on earth is this?
Heather Harrison, British Geological Survey, Keyworth.
14:30 When to use XRF-Semi-quantitative analysis. Case Studies.
Belen Morales (Paul Hurditch), London and Scandinavian Metallurgical Co. Ltd.
15:00 Tea
15:30 Calibration Samples
Ros Schwarz is organiser and chair.
15:30 No standards? No blanks? No standardless software? No problem!
David Beveridge, HARMAN Technology Ltd. (ILFORD Photo)
15:55 Normative Committees.
Phil Russell, PANalytical.
16:20 Wide Range Oxide fused bead standards,
Neil Eath
erington, British Geological Survey, Keyworth.
17:00 -18:30 XRF Exhibitors' Forum.
Dave Taylor is organiser and chair.
Exhibitors will be allowed to give commercial talks aimed at
encouraging delegates to visit their exhibition stand for further
information. Exhibitors will be required to register in advance
to give a presentation and the available time of 90 minutes will
be divided equally to fit in all the talks.
Evening: Posters and Exhibition with buffet and wine.
Wednesday 18th April 2007
Morning:
10:15 - 12:00 XRF / XRD Joint session on thin films.
Dave Taylor & Chris Staddon are the organisers.
10:15 Thin Films and Coatings by XRF and XRD: an Overview.
Tom Ryan, Nanometrics, Oregon, USA.
11:00 Advanced solid-state X-ray
detector for the analysis of thin layered structures.
Joachim Woitok, PANalytical.
11:20 Up-To-Date XRD-Techniques for investigating ultra-thin films and ultra-small features.
Hugues Guerault, BrukerAXS.
11:40 X-ray probes of the layer and interface structure of nano-scale films for opto-electronics and spintronics,
Brian Tanner, Bede.
Afternoon
13:
30 - 15:00 and 15:30 - 17:00 XRF Applications - including Cultural Heritage
David Beveridge is organiser and chair.
13:30 X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis on paper characterization,
Luisa Carvalho, University of Lisbon.
14:00 Volatiles management in XRF analysis.
Jean-Philippe Gagnon, Corporation Scientifique Claisse Inc.350, Canada.
14:30 Analysis of Geological Samples using a Polarised-
Beam Benchtop XRF Spectrometer,
Malcolm Haigh, Spectro.
15:00 Tea
15:30 Mobile XRF and MCERTS analysis of soils.
Charles Gowing, British Geological Survey, Keyworth.
15:55 Analysis of archaeological artefacts by handheld XRF,
Clair Collins, Oxford Instruments.
16:20 Conservation and Restoration - XRF brings the past into our future.
M West, West
X-ray Solutions & D Jefferson, Jefferson Consulting.
16:40 XRS in Preventive Conservation
Rene Van Grieken (Antwerp)
Evening:19:30 Conference Dinner.
Thursday 19th April 2007
Morning
10:00 XRF Foundation Lecture "Environmental Issues"
Prof. Rene Van Grieken. Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp.
11:00 - 12:30 presentations on Environmental issues.
Margaret West is organiser and chair.
11:00 Climate records - lurking in the small print? What's at the bottom of your lake?
Nick Marsh, University of Leicester, Geology
11:25 Development and validation results of a new European Standard prEN 15309 for the determination of the elemental composition of waste and soil by XRF.
Chris Vanhoof, VITO, Belgium.
11:50 Screening of electronic products with a "small-spot" hand-held XRF analyser for compliance with RoHS Directive.
Stan Piorek, Niton
12:10 Micro-spot XRF in RoHS compliance testing : performance and pitfalls.
Ros Schwarz, Oxford Instruments
XRF sessions close at lunch to allow delegates to attend an afternoon XRD session.
Offer a Poster.
The programme is almost complete, but w
e are particularly keen to get a couple more talks in the cultural heritage session. If you've missed the chance to give a talk this time, then please consider presenting an XRF poster at the 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.
The poster abstract deadline is 16th February 200
7 and they should be submitted by E-mail to: abstractbca@glasconf.demon.co.uk
Abstracts should fit on a si
ngle side of A4 and be in a font no smaller than 12 point Times Roman or 10 point Arial or equivalent. The preference is Microsoft Word Format.
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 s tory, rather than fine detail
- are not an advertisement for a commercial product
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