Date

Thursday 5th June 2014

This friendly one day event will give you the opportunity to see how XMaS operates as a mid-range facility, the new
technical developments that are planned and to discuss how the beamline can help users and their science. If you haven't used XMaS yet or if you are just curious in knowing what kind of science can be done on the beamline, just come along!
The on-site team will be there to tell you all about the beamline.

10.30: Coffee

10.55: Welcoming Remarks (Chris Lucas/Tom Hase/Malcolm Cooper)

11.00: Latest development at XMaS – Paul Thompson (XMaS)

11.15: Nanostrain, a European Metrology Research project – Markys Cain (National Physical Laboratory)

11.40: Which way up? Orientation of hard and soft 3D nanomaterial films using small-angle x-ray scattering – Adam Squires (University of Reading)

12.05: Crystal structure of conjugated polymers: a combined scattering and atomistic simulation approach – Anne Guilbert (Imperial College London)

12.30: Lunch and Poster session

13.15: Opportunities at the Soft X-ray absorption edges in catalytic science – Gopinathan Sankar (University College London)

13.40: Electron Density Distributions in Ionic Liquids: a NEXAFS Approach – Kevin Lovelock (Imperial College London)

14.05: Elucidating oil field sweet corrosion scale – Robert Lindsay (University of Manchester)

14.30: Strain relaxation and polymorphism in the epitaxial growth of ferromagnetic MnSb on semiconductor substrates – Gavin Bell (University of Warwick)

14.55: Coffee and Poster Prize

15.10: Investigating the proximity polarization in Pt using XRMS and the modification through the addition of Au interlayers – Richard Rowan-Robinson (University of Durham)

15.35: The malleability of uranium: manipulating the charge-density wave in epitaxial films – Ross Springell (University of Bristol)

16.00: Where are we in the understanding of the Verwey transition in magnetite by resonant x-ray scattering – Emilio Lorenzo (CNRS, Grenoble)

16.25: User Forum and Drinks Reception

17.00: Close

For further information on the workshop please contact Tom Hase T.P.A.Hase@warwick.ac.uk 

For further information regarding travel, accommodation or expenses, please contact Kayleigh Lampard Kayleigh.lampard@warwick.ac.uk