2010 Bragg speaks
Venue: Building 83 Conference Room (OPAL Visitor Centre) unless otherwise advised, Usually Thursday 11am
2010 Bragg Speaks past seminars
January
14 January (Thursday), 11:00 am
Dr Charles Dewhurst
"D33 - > a third small angle scattering instrument at ILL"
February
4 February (Thursday), 11:00 am
Les Bennett, Royal Military College of Canada. (Host: Ulf Garbe)
"Neutron Radiography on the SLOWPOKE-2 Reactor at Royal Military College of Canada - Application to Aircraft Components"
18 February (Thursday), 11:00 am
Anton Le Brun
"Structural Analysis of the Bacterial Outer Membrane using Magnetic Contrast Neutron Reflection"
25 February (Thursday), 3:00 pm
Dr Damian Martin-Rodriguez, Bragg Institute, ANSTO
"Neutron Optics for OPAL: A review of old and novel useful conceptual designs."
March
4 March (Thursday), 11:00 am
Kun Yan, Bragg Institute
"Time-resolved High-energy X-ray Diffraction Study of Plastic Deformation on Copper"
9 March (Tuesday), 11:00 am
Professor Giniyat Khaliullin, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
"Electronic reconstruction at the interface between correlated oxides"
18 March (Thursday), 11:00 am
Paramjit Bansal, National Deuteration Facility
"Probing the Structure of the Cell Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel, hERG" (recent paper)
24 March (Wednesday), 11:00 am
Stefan Adams National University of Singapore
"Structure – conductivity correlations in disordered solid electrolytes"
25 March (Thursday), 11:00 am
Professor Andreas Magerl, University of Erlangen - Nurnberg
"Structure and dynamics of liquids near interfaces"
April
1 April (Thursday), 11:00 am
Dr James Taylor, Bragg Institute
“Biophysical, Functional and Structural Characterisation of Type I Restriction-Modification Systems”
8 April (Thursday), 11:00 am
Dr Wojciech Miiller, Department of Chemistry, University of Sydney
"Evolution of electronic properties of URhGe ferromagnet with doping and pressure"
29 April (Thursday), 11am
Dr Saurabh Kabra,
Bragg Institute, ANSTYO
“Advanced Techniques in Engineering Diffraction”
May
13 May (Thursday), 11:00 am
Maciej Bartkowiak, Bragg Institute, ANSTO
"Stabilizing ferroelectricity with isotopic ballast: a DFT study of SrTi18O3"
18 May (Tuesday), 11:00 am
Professor Allan Pring, South Australian Museum
The Physics and Chemistry of Ore Deposit Formation; the development of in situ cells to study processes in real time
20 May (Thursday), 11:00 am
Dr Richard Mole, FRMII
“Inelastic Neutron Scattering Of Complex Materials: Utilising Triple Axis Spectroscopy, Neutron Optics and Time of Flight Techniques”
27 May (Thursday), 11:00 am
Professor Bryan Gaensler,
Sydney Institute for Astronomy,
School of Physics,
University of Sydney
"The Square Kilometre Array: An International Radio Telescope for the 21st Century"
June
9 June (Wednesday), 11:00 am
Professor Tim White
Australian National University
"Combined Synchrotron and Neutron Diffraction for the Analysis of Microstructure in Photocatalytic Titania."
17 June (Thursday), 11:00 am
Professor Chenwei Liu
National Dong-Hua University, Taiwan
24 June (Thursday), 11:00 am
Dr Yixi Su
Juelich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS)
"Neutron scattering on iron-based superconductors"
July
15 July (Thursday), 11:00 am
Dr Gerd Schroeder-Turk
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
"Ordered network phases in soft-matter systems: origin and physical properties"
22 July (Thursday), 11:00 am
Richard Clements
Bragg Institute and School of Chemistry, Sydney University
"The crystal and electronic structure of lanthanide zirconates"
August
5 August (Thursday), 11:00 am
Dr H. Mutka
Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble
"Spin fluctuations and freezing in Y0.5Ca0.5BaCo4O"
16 August (Monday), 2:30 pm
Thomas Proffen
Lujan Neutron Scattering Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
"Structural Characterization of Complex Materials using Pair Distribution Function Analysis"
September
2 September (Thursday),11:00 am
Michael Gardiner
University of Tasmania
"Steric effects in solvent mediated reversible Sm(III)/Sm(II) processes and ligand-based reduction chemistry"
6 September (Monday), 11:00 am
Stewart McIntyre
University of Western Ontario, Canada
"Science Studio: a Possible Route to Improved Access to the World’s Synchrotrons?"
9 September (Thursday), 11:00 am
Prof. Jiyang Wang,
Shandong University, China
"Growth, Characterization and Application of some important functional crystals"
1:30 pm
Kevin O'Grady
The University of York
"A New Paradigm for Exchange Bias in Polycrystalline Films"
16 September (Thursday), 11:00 am
Movie Screening, Documentary film:
"Driven to Diffraction"
20 September (Monday), 11.00 am
Prof. Hong Liu, Shandong University, China
"Nano-structured native organic-inorganic bone tissue engineering scaffold and differentiation behaviour of Rat Bone Marrow Stem Cells"
21 September (Tuesday), 2.00 pm; Hosted by Richard Garrett
Daniel Hausermann
Imaging and Medical Beamline, Australian Synchrotron
"The Australian Synchrotron Imaging and Medical Beamline Materials, animals and patients"
23 September (Thursday), 11.00 am
David Keavney; Hosted by Anton Stampfl
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
"Imaging of magnetization dynamics in artificial ferromagnetic nanoscale structures"
30 September (Thursday), 11:00 am
Mike Weir
CRC for Polymers and Bragg Institute, ANSTO
"Voltage-induced swelling and de-swelling of weak polyelectrolyte brushes"
October
8 October (Friday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Rob Robinson
Bella Lake
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany
"Neutron Scattering Studies of Spin Ladders"
12 October (Tuesday), 11:00 am, Hosted by
Paul Freeman
Institut Laue-Langevin
"Searching for the Universality in the Magnetism of Charged Ordered Materials"
21 October (Thursday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Mike Weir
Jamie Noel
Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario, Canada
"Neutron Reflectometry and Electrochemistry: Excellent Complements"
28 October (Thursday), 11:00 am
David Jacques
School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney
"Small-angle scattering for structural biology—Expanding the frontier while avoiding the pitfalls"
28 October (Thursday), 2:00 pm
Guochu Deng
Laboratory of Developments and Methods, Paul Scherrer Instiitute, Switzerland
"Structural and Spin Dynamics Evolution of Quasi-1D Magnet Sr14-x Ca x Cu24O41 with Chemical Pressure"
November
4 November (Thursday), 11:00 am
Carl Holt
University of Glasgow, UK
"Equilibrium complexes of proteins and minerals and their role in biomineralisation"
5 November (Friday), 2pm, Hosted by Richard Banati
John Katsaras
Oakridge National Laboratory
"Roadmap for Biomembranes at ORNL"
9 November (Tuesday), 11:30 am, Hosted by Robert Knott
Otto Glatter
"Small-Angle Scattering and its Application to Soft Matter Science"
11 November (Thursday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Stephen Holt
Luke Clifton
ISIS, UK
"Indolines and thionins: Understanding the relationship between plant defensin structure and function"
18 November (Thursday), 11:00 am
Pnina Ari-Gur
Western Michigan University
"Smart Materials: Magnetic Shape Memory and the Giant Magneto Caloric Effect"
25 November (Thursday), 11:00 am
The Bragg Institute Year In Industry Student Seminars
Cheryl Wheeler
"The Origin of Stretched Exponential Dynamics in Hydrated Proline"
Matthew Sale
"Bond Valence Sum (BVS) Energy Maps as an efficient tool for high-throughput analysis of materials for discovery of new Li-ion conductors"
December
6 December (Monday), 10:15 am, Hosted by Nick Hauser
Brian Matthews
Science and Techonology Facilities Council, UK
"eScience at SFTC"
16 December (Thursday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Klaus-Dieter Liss
Kun Yan
The Bragg Institute & University of Wollongong, Australia
"Deformation mechanisms of twinning-induced plasticity steels: In situ synchrotron characterization and modeling"
Last updated 10 January 2011