Bragg speaks 2008

30-January-08 at 11:00 am
Prof. John Evans, University of Durham
Getting the most from neutron diffraction - New methods for analysing powder data

7th February 08 at 11:00am
Maxim Avdeev, Bragg Institute
Phase transitions in stuffed tridymite SrAl2O4 studied from 1977 to 2007: in situ neutron diffraction and group theoretical analysis tell the full story"

11th February 08 at 11:00am
Dr. Brian Toby, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, USA
The Tribulations and Benefits of High-Resolution High-Throughput Powder Diffraction: Commissioning the 11-BM at the Advanced Photon Source

14th February 08 at 11:00am
Graham Durant, QUESTACON, Canberra
Developing Partnerships for Learning

21st February 08 at 11:00am
Peter Murray-Rust, Cambridge University, UK
The Semantic Web in the Physical Sciences

28th February 08 at 11:00am
Damian Martin-Rodriguez, Bragg Institute
Review of proposals for the upgrade of cold neutron beam transport system at OPAL

6th March 08 at 11:00am
Michael Loewenhaupt, TU Dresden, Germany
Magnetic properties of R₂PdSi₃ compounds studied by laboratory methods and neutron scattering

12th March 08 at 11:00am
Bob Thomas, University of Oxford
The behaviour of the biosurfactant, surfactin, at interfaces and membranes: a neutron scattering study

13th March 08 at 11:00am
Jill Trewhella, University of Sydney
Modeling Protein Complexes by Combining High-Resolution Structure with Small-Angle X-ray and Neutron Contrast Variation Data

28th March 2008 at 11:00 am
Michael James, Bragg Institute
"Education and Neutron Scattering"

3rd April 08 at 11:00am
Anton Stampfl, Bragg Institute
"Photoemission, Imaging and Science"

10th April 08 at 11:00am
Jen O'Donell,  University of Sydney
"Monomer and Chain Transfer Agent Partitioning in Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer Microemulsion Polymerizations"

17th April 2008,  11am
Ulf Garbe, Bragg Institute
"Texture Measurements with Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation"

24th April 2008, 11am 
Joshua McKinnon, University of Western Australia
"Visualising and quantifying intermolecular interactions in molecular crystals with Hirshfeld surfaces and CrystalExplorer"

Ist May 2008, 11am
Duncan McGillivray, University of Auckland
"Neutron Reflectometry to Probe Biological Membranes"

8th May 2008,  11am
Kevin Prince, Sincrotrone Trieste
"Soft x-ray spectroscopy of biomolecules in the gas phase and on Cu(110)"

22nd May 2008, 11am  
Moeava Tehei, University of Wollongong
"Neutron scattering reveals adaptation to extreme environments"

26th May 2008, 2pm (Monday), 
Clemens Ulrich, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
"Spin, Charge, and Orbital Correlations in Transition Metal Oxides (Titanates, Vanadates, Ferrates)"

29th May 2008, 11am
Speaker and title to be announced

30th May 2008, 2pm (Friday) 
Chris Wiebe, Florida State University & National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, USA
"Freezing spins in Florida: neutron scattering studies of geometrically frustrated materials"

5th June 2008 11am
Frank Klose, Bragg Institute, ANSTO
"Nanomagnetism, Spintronics and Polarized Neutrons"

12th June 2008, 11am
Victor Luca, Institute of Materials Engineering, ANSTO
"Micro, Meso and Macroporous Materials Machinations"

18th June 2008, 11am
Kirrily Rule, Hahn Meitner Institute, Germany
"What high magnetic fields and low temperatures have revealed to me..."

19th June 2008, 11am,
Andre Heinemann, Bragg Institute, ANSTO
"A Journey through small-angle scattering data analysis"

26th June 2008, 11am 
Hanna Wacklin, Institute for Environmental Research, ANSTO
"Reflections on biomembranes -  lipids and proteins in cell membrane mimics"

10th July 2008, 11am
Alice Klapproth, Bragg Institute, ANSTO
"Structural Studies of Methane and Carbon Dioxide Clathrate Hydrates"

31st July 2008, 11am
Dr Matthias Weber, Austrian Research Centres
"What role for public research centres in the national innovation system?"

7th August 2008, 11am
Professor Ben Eggleton, University of Sydney
"Ultrafast nonlinear optics on a chip"

14th August 2008, 11am
Andreas Michels, Universitat des Saarlandes
"Magnetic interactions in nanocrystalline bulk ferromagnets: a neutron-scattering study"

21st August 2008, 11am
Stephanie Cole, ANSTO Counsel
"Copyrights - and wrongs"

28th August 2008, 11am
Peter Robinson, University of Sydney
"Brain Dynamics"

4th September 2008, 11am
Dr David Gell, University of Sydney
"A chaperone for haemoglobin: from molecular properties to biological function"

11th September 2008, 11am
Professor Klaus-Peter Bohnen, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
"Lattice dynamics and electron-phonon coupling in carbon nanotubes"

18th September 2008, 11am
Valeska Ting, University of Southampton
"Rapid and routine determination of hydrogen positions in inorganic and organometallic compounds"

24th September 2008, 11am (Wednesday)
Osamu Shimomura, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
"The Neutron Scattering Plan for J-PARC, the new spallation source in Japan"

25th September 2008, 11am
Cormac Corr, Australian National University
"Low-temperature plasma processing techniques applied to fuel cell technology"

2nd October 2008, 11am
Alan Hewat, NeutronOptics, Grenoble
"Neutron CCD Detectors"

2nd October 2008, 2pm
Leo Cussen, Cussen Consulting, Melbourne
"Optimising Neutron Powder Diffractometers"

16th October 2008, 11am
Stephen Collocott, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering
"Bulk Amorphous Alloys with Hard Magnetic Properties"

23rd October 2008, 11am
Richard Banati, ANSTO
"The 18 kDa Translocator Protein (TSPO) and Neuro-Glial Disconnection"

29th October 2008, 2pm
Dr Simon Harrisson
"Surface Modification of Reverse Osmosis Membranes"

30th October 2008, 11 till 11:15am
Professor T Sakuma
"Progress at J-PARC"

30th October 2008, 11:15 till noon
Professor H Takahashi
"Medium Range Order in Agl-doped Superionic Conducting Glasses"

6th November 2008, 11am
Frans Trouw, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title to be announced

13th November 2008, 11am
Professor Bruce Law, Kansas State University
"Adsorption At Liquid Interfaces: A Comparison of Multiple Experimental Techniques"