ANSTO's research capabilities, led by the OPAL nuclear research reactor and associated instruments provide access to users investigating areas as diverse as materials, life sciences, climate change and mining/engineering.
Invited Talks 2012
"Magnetism in Technetium Compounds", Maxim Avdeev, at 20th Australian Institute of Physics Congress, Sydney, 9-13 December 2012
"The Magnetic Velcro Effect: Improved Model of Ferromagnet /Antiferromagnet Interfaces", David Cortie, at 20th Australian Institute of Physics Congress, Sydney, 9-13 December 2012
"Opportunites for Materials Research Using Opal, Australia's New Neutron Source", Shane Kennedy, at 20th Australian Institute of Physics Congress, Sydney, 9-13 December 2012
"On the Non-affine Structural Behavior of Bulk Metalic Glass upon Thermal Expansion and under Plastic Flow", Klaus-Dieter Liss, at 2012 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, USA, 25-30 November 2012
"The elegance of small-angle scattering for protein solution investigations", Cy Jeffries, at International Small-Angle Scattering Conference (SAS2012), Sydney, 18-23 November 2012
"Vibrational Spectroscopy with Neutrons – What Have we Learnt?", Don Kearley, at Advances in Chemical Spectroscopy with Neutrons, Didcot, UK, 14-16 November 2012
"Nanomagnetic StructuresInvestigated with Polarised Neutrons", Frank Klose, at Bilateral Italian-Australian Workshop on Nanostructered Materials for Magnetic and Spintronic Devices, Canberra, 31 October - 1 November 2012
"Neutron Studies of Colbalt-Based Molecular Magnets", Richard Mole, at Bilateral Italian-Australian Workshop on Nanostructered Materials for Magnetic and Spintronic Devices, Canberra, 31 October - 1 November 2012
"Application of small-angle neutron and x-ray scattering to the characterisation of starch structure", Elliot Gilbert, at Third International Conference on Natural Polymers and Biomaterials (ICNP 2012), Kottayam, India, 26-28 October 2012
"Polarized neutron studies of hybrid metal/metal-oxide thin film systems: Ni80Fe20/α-Fe2O3 and Ni80Fe20/CoO/Co", David Cortie, at IUPAC 8th International Symposium on Novel Materials and their Synthesis (NMS-VIII) and 22nd
International Symposium on Fine Chemistry and Functional Polymers(FCFP-XXII), Xi'an, China , 14-19 October 2012
"Antisite defects of YAG nanoparticles with neutron and X-ray diffraction", Dehong Yu, at IUPAC 8th International Symposium on Novel Materials and their Synthesis (NMS-VIII) and 22nd International Symposium on Fine Chemistry and Functional Polymers(FCFP-XXII), Xi'an, China , 14-19 October 2012
"Meaningful scientific data frameworks: does the format matter?", James Hester, at 12th International Symposium on Radiation Physics (ISRP12), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7-12 October 2012
"Structure investigation on KBBF crystals with Neutron and X-ray diffraction", Dehong Yu, at 16th Chinese National Conference on Crystal Growth, Hefei, China , 1 October 2012
"Pelican - a Versatile Time-of-Flight Neutron Spectrometer", Dehong Yu, at 10th International Conference on Quasielastic Neutron Scattering and 5th Workshop on Inelastic Neutron Spectrometers (QENS & WINS 2012), Nikko, Japan, 30 September - 4 October 2012
"Dynamics of Globular Proteins in Crowded Solutions", Marcus Hennig, at 10th International Conference on Quasielastic Neutron Scattering and 5th Workshop on Inelastic Neutron Spectrometers (QENS & WINS 2012), Nikko, Japan, 30 September - 4 October 2012
"Morphological Studies of Nanoscale Thin-Film Optoelectronic Devices Using Neutron Reflectometry", Michael James, at 15th International Conference on Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies, Wollongong, 23-26 September 2012
“Neutron powder diffraction studies of sustainable-energy materials”, Vanessa Peterson, at 18th NSRRC Users' Meeting & Workshop on Energy Materials, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 29-30 August 2012
"Neutron and Synchrotron X-Ray Analysis", Klaus-Dieter Liss, at 11th National Conference on X-ray Diffraction and ICDD Workshop, Changchun, China, 27-31 July 2012
"Membrane Proteins Localised to Interfaces: Biosensing and Protein Complex Characterisation", Stephen Holt, at 1st International Conference on BioNano Innovation (ICBNI), Brisbane, 18-20 July 2012
"Ultra-small-angle neutron scattering in polymer science advanced through the new USANS instrument Kookaburra at ANSTO's OPAL reactor", Christine Rehm, at International Symposium on Advanced Polymeric Materials 2012 (ISAPM 2012), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 10-11 July 2012
"Use of neutron diffraction for residual stress mapping in industrial applications", Vladimir Luzin, at 57th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics, Pretoria, South Africa, 9-13 July 2012
"Modern diffraction methods for the investigation of thermo-mechanical processes", Klaus-Dieter Liss, at 2nd International Conference on Advanced Engineering Materials and Technology (AEMT'12), Zhuhai, China, 6-8 July 2012
"Magnetic Nanostructures Investigated With Neutron Beams", Frank Klose, at 24th Annual conference on Magnetics , Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 27-29 June 2012
"Magnetic Order in Thin Film Multilayer Systems", Frank Klose, at Advanced Materials 2012, Beijing, China, 6-8 June 2012
To be announced, Klaus-Dieter Liss, at Gamma TiAl Alloy Technology 2012, Beijing, China, 5-9 June 2012
"Rattling Dynamics of Alkali Metal Atoms in Defect Pyrochlore Tungstates", Elvis Shoko, at 2nd African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA-2012), Eldoret, Kenya, 28 May - 8 June 2012
"Protein crystallography: What can nuclear polarisation do for us?", Garry McIntyre, at Advanced Seminar on Perspectives for Neutron Science in Novel & Extreme conditions, Zaragoza, Spain, 27-31 May 2012
"Physical and Chemical Origin of Colossal Dielectric Constant Material CaCu3Ti4O12", Guochu Deng, at China-Russian Forum on Ferroelectric/Optical Materials and Applications (CRFFOMA-2012), Shanghai, China, 23-28 April 2012
"Depth-Resolved Magnetic Order in Exchange-Coupled Thin-Film Structures", Thomas Saerbeck, at Workshop on New Opportunities for Research on Hard and Soft Matter Nanostructures using Neutron Reflectometry, Berlin, Germany, 17-18 April 2012
"Investigating Materials For Lithium-ion Batteries Using Neutron Diffraction", Neeraj Sharma, at 10th Spring Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Perth, 15-18 April 2012
"Soft X-ray Resonant Magnetic Reflectometry of Ferromagnet/Antiferromagnet Interfaces - Probing the Origin of Exchange Bias", Sebastian Brück, at Geman Physical Society Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 25-30 March 2012
"Diffraction from Vibrating Crystals: From Ultrasound to Phonons", Klaus-Dieter Liss, at 141st Annual TMS Meeting and Exhibition (TMS2012), Orlando, USA, 11-15 March 2012
"Investigation of Residual Stress in Key-Hole Laser Formed Weldments Measured by Neutron and Synchrotron Diffraction", Anna Paradowska, at 141st Annual TMS Meeting and Exhibition (TMS2012), Orlando, USA, 11-15 March 2012
"How neutrons support modern materials engineering and helps unravel historical engineering puzzles?", Anna Paradowska, at 36th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga-Wagga, 31 January - 3 February 2012
"Plasticity Probed with Neutron and X-ray Scattering Techniques", Klaus-Dieter Liss, at Plasticity 2012, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 3-8 January 2012