2011 Bragg speaks
Venue: Building 83 Conference Room (OPAL Visitor Centre) unless otherwise advised; usually on Thursdays at 11am.
2011 Bragg Speaks: past seminars
January
20 January (Thursday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Stephen Holt
Jeremy Lakey
University of Newcastle, UK
"How do big antibacterial proteins penetrate their target cells"
28 January (Friday), 11.00 am, Hosted by Anton Stampfl
Nicholas Loh
University of Western Australian & Bragg Institute
"Probing magnetic exchange interactions in compressed CrO2 and Co/CuMn multilayers with polarised X-rays and neutrons"
February
7 February (Monday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Frank Klose
Peter Metaxas
University of Western Australia, Australia
"Magnetic domain wall dynamics: inkblots, spin torque and interlayer coupling"
10 February (Thursday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Rob Robinson
Rachel Popelka-Filcoff
Flinders University, Australia
"Evaluation of Relative Comparator and k0-NAA for Characterization of Aboriginal Australian Ochre"
10 February (Thursday), 2:00 pm, Hosted by Jamie Schulz
Thomas Zemb
Marcoule Institute for Separative Chemistry, France
"Can SAXS/SANS/USAXS/WAXS and WANS of catanionic gigamolecules data be reconciled in a consistent way?"
11 February (Friday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Frank Klose
David Venus
McMaster University, Canada
"Magnetic defects in a 2D magnetic film, observed in the paramagnetic susceptibility"
March
1 March (Monday), 2:00 pm, Hosted by Chris Garvey
Francois Boue
LLB, France
"Chain Response to Deformation, Filler Displacement, and Mechanical Reinforcement in Polymer Nanocomposites"
3 March (Thursday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Ulf Garbe
Zhiyang Wang
University of Wollongong, Australia
"Delayed Hydride Cracking (DHC) in Zircaloy Welds"
17 March (Thursday), 11:00 am
Nathan Webster
CSIRO & The Bragg Institute, Australia
24 March (Thursday), 11:00 am
James Doutch
The Bragg Institute, Australia
"Scattering and imaging studies of biological systems to determine clinically and industrially relevant structure-function relationships"
28 March (Monday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Dehong Yu
Markus Donath
Munster University, Germany
"Putting a new spin on electronic structure"
April
7 April (Thursday), 2:00 pm
Sebastian Bruck
University of Wurzburg, Germany (currently UNSW & ANSTO)
"Soft X-ray Resonant Magnetic Reflectometry - a complementary technique to polarized neutron reflectometry"
18 April (Monday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Garry McIntyre
Anna Paradowska
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
"Investigation of Residual Stress with Neutron Diffraction in Modern Industrially Important Materials"
21 April (Thursday), 11:00 am
John Bennett
Neutron Activation Group, ANSTO, Australia
"Neutron activation analysis using OPAL - current success and beam-line opportunities"
28 April (Thursday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Richard Kulak (Reactor Operations)
Jerome Estrada
Jules Horowitz Reactor, France
"The Jules Horowitz Reactor"
May
3 May (Tuesday), 2:00 pm, Hosted by Garry McIntyre
Saurabh Kabra
The Bragg Institute, Australia
"In-situ neutron diffraction study of FeCo alloys under compressive loading"
9 May (Monday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Garry McIntyre
Olivier Zanellato
France
"Diffraction and Zirconium Alloys"
16 May (Monday), 11:00 am
Boniface Fokwa
RWTH-Aachen
"Rational design of new itinerant magnets"
26 May (Thursday), 11:00 am, Hosted by Katy Wood
Leonard Pattenden
RMIT, Australia
"Towards the early detection of diabetic kidney disease - the significance of albumin in health and disease"
June
30 June (Thursday), 11:00 am
Craig Brown
NIST, USA
"Probing adsorption in microporous materials using neutrons"
July
Last updated 1 July 2011