ECNS2007 - Programme

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Sunday 24 June

15:00 – 20:00	Registration Venue: University Main Building
15:00 – 20:00	Welcome reception sponsored by SwissNeutronics Venue: University Main Building

Monday 25 June

09:30	Conference opening - Welcome at AF Stora Salen Lars Leijonborg, Minister for Education and Research Chair: Adrian Rennie
10:00 - 10:45	Plenary Lecture at AF Stora Salen Robert Thomas Complexity and structure at interfaces involving aqueous solutions: results of neutron reflectometry Chair: Regine von Klitzing
10:45 – 11:15	*Coffee*
11:15 - 12:00	Plenary Lecture at AF Stora Salen Christian Rüegg Exploring novel quantum order and dynamics: Neutron scattering under extreme conditions Chair: Kurt Clausen
12:00 – 13.30	*Lunch*
13:30 – 15:00	Parallel sessions
Venue:	AF Stora Salen	AF Lilla salen	University Main Building	Palaestra
	Soft Matter Chair: Kenneth Knudsen	Engineering Chair: Petr Lukas	Magnetism Chair: Andrew Venter	Energy Chair: Torbjörn Gustafsson
13:30 – 14:10 Keynote Lecture	Karen Edler Self-Assembly of Mesostructured Materials Using Surfactant Templating	Roger Eccleston Validation of neutron texture data on GEM at ISIS using electron backscattered diffraction.	Radu Coldea Charge order and frustrated magnetism in an orbitally-degenerate triangular antiferromagnet	Marnix Wagemaker Resolving structural issues in Li-ion battery electrode materials with neutron diffraction
14:10 – 14:35	Stefan Egelhaaf Equilibrium and non-equilibrium behaviour of mixed wormlike micelles	Heloisa N. Bordallo Water transport in concrete using inelastic neutron scattering	Elisa Wheeler Single crystal neutron diffraction study of a spin 1/2 square lattice antiferromagnet	Hilde Grove Hydrogen Storage in Metal Hydrides
14:35 – 15:00	Géraldine Carrot Nanoscale hybrid objects: a useful combination of chemistry and SANS	Erdong Wu Neutron Diffraction Study of Strain and Stress induced by Thermo-mechanical Fatigue in Single Crystal Superalloy	Denis Kozlenko Pressure Tuning of Magnetic States in La_1-xCa_xMnO₃ Manganites (x = 0.25 – 0.85)	Ingo Manke Neutron radiography and tomography on fuel cells
15:00 – 15:30	*Coffee*
15:30 – 16:20	Parallel sessions
Venue:	AF Stora Salen	AF Lilla salen	University Main Building	Palaestra
	Soft Matter Chair: Hugh Burrows	Heritage Chair: Konstantina Mergia	Magnetism Chair: Alan Tennant	Energy Chair: Magnus H. Sørby
15:30 – 15:55	Ronan Lefort Quenched disorder and low dimensional nanoconfinement effects on the structure and molecular dynamics of an anisotropic fluid	Romano Rinaldi Neutron scattering analysis of Bronze Age metal artefacts	Alexander Kurbakov A–type antiferromagnetic phase and ferromagnetic polarons in ¹⁵⁴Sm_0.5Sr_0.5MnO₃ manganite	Michel Latroche In situ study of compound LaY2Ni9 used as Ni-MH negative electrode material
15:55 – 16:20	Max Wolff Crystallisation of micelles: a grazing incident neutron scattering study	Giulia Festa Composition and corrosion phases of Etruscan Bronzes of Villanovian Age	Amir Murani Magnetic Neutron Scattering at Epithermal Energies.	Marco Sommariva IGAn: In-situ Studies of Hydrogen Storage Materials using Neutron Powder Diffraction with Gravimetric Analysis
16:30	NMI3 User Meeting at AF Stora Salen
17:30 – 19:30	Poster Session (List of posters to be presented and Author Index)
19:30	Refreshments

Tuesday 26 June

08:45 - 09:30	Plenary Lecture at AF Stora Salen Arantxa Arbe Dynamic miscibility and confinement effects in multi-component soft materials Chair:Ruep Lechner
09:30 – 10:00	*Coffee*
10:00 – 11:55	Parallel sessions
Venue:	AF Stora Salen	AF Lilla salen	University Main Building	Palaestra
	Thin Films / Soft Matter Chair: Thomas Gutberlet	Modelling Chair: Mark Johnson	Nanomagnetism Chair: Andreas Schreyer	Instrumentation Chair: Robert Robinson
10:00 – 10:40 Keynote Lecture	Michele Sferrazza Interfaces in thin polymer films studied by neutron reflectivity	Krzysztof Parlinski Ab initio phonon calculations in different systems	Thomas Brückel Magnetism in Nanostructures: The Basics of Spintronics	Ken Andersen ³He spin-filters: a comparison with other techniques for polarising neutrons
10:40 - 11:05	Anthony Higgins Interfacial structure in conjugated polymers; Characterization and control of the interface between poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) and poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-alt-benzothiadiazole)	László Pusztai Reverse Monte Carlo techniques for interpreting neutron scattering data	Alexander Grünwald Magnetic excitations in a Gadolinium-Yttrium superlattice investigated with inelastic neutron scattering	Jiri Kulda Mapping excitations with the FlatCone multianalyzer.
11:05 – 11:30	Regine v. Klitzing Kinetics of water uptake and release of polyelectrolyte multilayers	Magnus H. Sørby Reverse Monte Carlo modelling of disordered metal deuterides	Gabriella Andersson Interface structure of high anisotropy (Fe,Co)/Pt superlattices	Alexander Ioffe Neutron spin-echo (NSE) with time-gradient magnetic field: an alternative NSE technique
11:30 – 11:55	Pauline Vandoolaeghe Adsorption of cubic liquid crystalline nanoparticles on surfaces and interaction with supported model membranes	Hannu Mutka Coherent response from polycrystalline samples - more than a density of states	Albrecht Wiedenmann Microsecond dynamics in magnetic nanomaterials probed by real-time Small Angle Neutron Scattering techniques	Jeroen Plomp Development of a spin-echo neutron reflectometer on the second target station at ISIS
12:00 – 13.20	*Lunch*
13:20 – 14:05	Plenary Lecture at AF Stora Salen Klaus Yvon Materials for hydrogen storage : the role of neutron diffraction Chair: Yvonne Andersson
14:10 – 15:15	Parallel sessions + SINQ User Meeting
Venue:	AF Stora Salen	AF Lilla salen	University Main Building	Palaestra
	Structure of Materials Chair: Andrew Harrison	Modelling Chair: Juan Colmenero	Superconductors Chair: Keith McEwen	Instrumentation Chair: Laszlo Rosta
14:10 – 14:50 Keynote Lecture	Werner F. Kuhs Stability, formation and decomposition of gas hydrates – A story told by neutrons	Christos Likos Cluster formation in concentrated solutions of amphiphilic dendrimers	Yvan Sidis Inelastic neutron scattering study of spin excitations in the superconducting state of high temperature superconductors	John Ankner A Liquids Reflectometer at the Spallation Neutron Source
14:50 – 15:15	Mogens Christensen Host Structure Engineering in Potential Thermoelectric Host-Guest Clathrates	Gerald Kneller Relating the fast and the slow dynamics in proteins : computer simulation studies, neutron scattering experiments, and theoretical models	Johan Chang Magnetic-field-induced spin excitations and renormalized spin gap of the underdoped superconductor La_1.895Sr_0.105CuO₄	Giuliana Manzin Development of multi-array tube detectors at the ILL
15:15 – 15:40	*Coffee*
15:40 – 16:55	Parallel sessions + SINQ User Meeting
Venue:	AF Stora Salen	AF Lilla salen	University Main Building	Palaestra
	Structure of Materials Chair: Sten Eriksson	Modelling Chair: Juan Colmenero	Oxides Chair: Dimitri Argyriou	Instrumentation Chair: Pavol Mikula
15:40 – 16:05	Margarita Russina Semi-classical dynamics of confined molecular hydrogen in water clathrates	Andreas Wischnewski Polymer Chain Dynamics in a Random Environment	Sergey Ivanov Structural and Magnetic Properties of Perovskites AFe_2/3B_1/3O_3-delta (A = Pb, Sr, Ca, Ba; B= W, Te)	Laszlo Cser Neutron holography as a high precision tool for the study of local atomic structures
16:05 – 16:30	Mark Weller Complete Crystallography on Hydrogenous Materials by Powder Neutron Diffraction	Madhusuda Tyagi On the Q-dependence of atomic motions in the alpha-relaxation range: Polymers to Simple Glass Formers	Andrew Boothroyd Magnetic Excitations in La_1-xSr_xCoO₃ (x = 0.18)	Thomas Hauß Time-Resolved QENS Studies of a Native Photosystem
16:30 – 16:55	Pavel Strunz Study of Ni₃Si-type core-shell nanoparticles by contrast variation in SANS experiment	Miguel A. Gonzalez Understanding the structure and dynamics of disordered systems: the symbiosis between neutrons and computer simulations	Sylvain Petit Spin-phonon coupling in multiferroic YMnO₃	Mark Adams Simultaneous Neutron and Raman Scattering Measurements of Lysozyme
17:00 – 19:00	Poster Session (List of posters to be presented and Author Index)

Wednesday 27 June

08:45 - 09:30	Plenary Lecture at AF Stora Salen Björgvin Hjörvarsson The influence of extension on ordering Chair: Roger Cowley
09:30 – 10:00	*Coffee*
10:00 – 11:55	Parallel sessions
Venue:	AF Stora Salen	AF Lilla salen	University Main Building	Palaestra
	Sources Chair: Richard Wagner	Biomimetic and Biomaterials Chair: Giovanna Fragneto	Magnetism Chair: Alexander Krimmel	Fundamental Physics Chair: Aris Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann
10:00 – 10:40 Keynote Lecture	Ferenc Mezei Continuous, short pulse and long pulse sources: the numbers behind the quantum leap in beam power	Laura Cantu Biomimetic systems containing glycosphingolipids. A neutron spectroscopy insight.	Oliver Waldmann Inelastic neutron scattering on molecular nanomagnets	Oliver Zimmer Ultracold neutrons – a tool for fundamental physics
10:40 - 11:05	Reports & Discussion - ESS led by Peter Allenspach	Millicent Firestone Influence of Nonionic Polymers on the Structure and Properties of Model Biological Membranes	Javier Campo Destruction of the super-ferromagnetic order by zero-point quantum fluctuations in a crystal of nanomagnets.	Alexander Frank First Observation and Investigation of the Acceleration Matter Effect in Neutron Optics
11:05 – 11:30	Werner Wagner MEGAPIE at SINQ - the First Liquid Metal Target Driven by a Megawatt Class Proton Beam	Bert Nickel Membrane associated proteins study by combining neutron reflectivity and fluorescence microscopy	Tatiana Guidi Quantum Oscillations of the Total Spin in a Heterometallic Antiferromagnetic Ring: Evidence from Neutron Spectroscopy	Nikitas Gidopoulos Non-adiabatic electronic excitation in Neutron Compton Scattering
11:30 – 11:55	Robert Robinson Scientific Opportunities at OPAL, the New Australian Research Reactor	Frank Heinrich Neutron scattering from biophysical model systems: Optimized biomimetic membranes for biomedical research	Clara Gonzalez-Jimenez Searching for magnetic chirality in molecular magnets which exhibit structural chirality	Helmut Rauch Neutron Quantum Optics
12:00 – 13.20	*Lunch*
13:20 – 14:05	Plenary Lecture at AF Stora Salen Hanna Wacklin Reflections on Biomembranes Chair: Roland Steitz
14:10 – 15:15	Parallel sessions
Venue:	AF Stora Salen	AF Lilla salen	University Main Building	Palaestra
	Spectroscopy Chair: Michael Prager	Biomimetic & Biomaterials Chair: Debora Berti	Magnetism Chair: Andrzej Szytula	Transformations & Phase Changes Chair: Alan Hewat
14:10 – 14:50 Keynote Lecture	John Z. Larese Neutron Spectroscopy and Nanoscience: Opportunities and Challenges for Investigating Molecular Adsorption	Hitoshi Endo Study on Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials by Means of Contrast Variation SANS	Mechthild Enderle Excitations in frustrated low-dimensional antiferromagnets	Götz Eckold Time-dependent phonon damping during demixing reactions
14:50 – 15:15	Jean-Marc Zanotti Polymer dynamics: a concurrent NMR and Neutron scattering approach. The case of high molecular weight PEO.	Alessandro Triolo Morphology of homo- and block-polymers in environmentally responsible room temperature ionic liquids: a combined SANS and SAXS study	Benedikt Thielemann Continuous spin-excitation spectrum in a novel spin-ladder	Valerie Paul-Boncour Giant isotope effect on magnetic properties of RFe2H(D)4.2 compounds (R=Y, Tb)
15:15 – 15:40	*Coffee*
15:15 – 16:55	Parallel sessions
Venue:	AF Stora Salen	AF Lilla salen	University Main Building	Palaestra
	Spectroscopy Chair: Jerry Mayers	Biomimetic & Biomaterials Chair:Beate Kloesgen	Magnetism Chair: Katharina Theis-Bröhl	Transformations & Phase Changes Chair: Joel Mesot
15:40 – 16:05	Andrea Orecchini Collective dynamics of RNase hydration water	Liselott Lindh Salivary films formed on alumina surfaces	Ewa Wawrzynska Magnetic excitations in the 2D frustrated quantum magnet Cs2CuBr4	Werner Paulus A new phonon assisted diffusion model for low temperature oxygen ion conduction in solids
16:05 – 16:30	Alejandro Sanz Structure and dynamics of polymers under under fullerene nanoconfinement	Ann Falk Protein incorporation in model membranes observed by neutron reflectivity	Konrad Siemensmeyer Neutron diffraction study of a Shastry Sutherland magnet in the plateau regime	Joachim Kohlbrecher Pressure induced phase transitions of sterically stabilized colloids: A neutron and light scattering study
16:30 – 16:55	Natalie Malikova Proton environment in a perovskite: a simultaneous structural and dynamic neutron scattering study	Debora Berti Self-assembly of Nucleolipids: Insights from Neutron Scattering	Richard Mole Neutron Diffraction Studies of Cobalt Hydroxy Squarate	Jeannis Leist Kinetics of the field induced lock-in transition in Potassium Selenate
17:00 – 19:00	Poster Session (List of posters to be presented and Author Index)

Thursday 28 June

08:45 - 09:30	Plenary Lecture at AF Stora Salen Thomas Keller High resolution spectroscopy at TRISP (FRM II): technique and application to superconductivity and magnetism Chair: Phillipe Mangin
09:30 – 10:00	*Coffee*
10:00 – 11:55	Parallel sessions
Venue:	AF Stora Salen	AF Lilla salen	University Main Building	Palaestra
	Spectroscopy Chair: John Larese	Scattering - fundamentals Chair: Helmut Rauch	Biology Chair: Lise Arleth	Environment Chair: Kristina Edström
10:00 – 10:40 Keynote Lecture	Jerry Mayers Measurement of the kinetic energy and lattice constant in hcp solid helium at temperatures 0.07-0.4 K.	Albert Furrer Access to higher-order correlations in neutron scattering experiments	Frank Heinrich Amyloid beta peptide – Membrane-mediated mechanism for Alzheimer's disease?	Andreas Böhm Neutrons in mineral processing – towards an ecological solution for iron ore enrichment
10:40 - 11:05	Peter Fouquet The “Wobbly” Walk: Benzene Molecules on Graphite Display a Correlation Between Translational Diffusion and Rotational State	Wolfgang Treimer Radiography with polarised neutrons	Doreen Kessner New Insights into the Structure of the Stratum Corneum Lipid Model Matrix by Neutron Diffraction	Martin King Organic monolayer oxidation on atmospheric aerosol: cloud nucleation effect
11:05 – 11:30	Daniela Russo Hydration water dynamics and its effect on protein methyl group dynamics	Eugene Iolin Application of ultrasound to multi crystal neutron diffractometer	Moeava Tehei Neutron Scattering reveals extremely slow cell water in a Dead Sea organism: The dynamic basis of adaptation to extreme salinity.	Ahmad Moradi Neutron radiography to reveal living roots, the hitherto hidden portions of terrestrial plants
11:30 – 11:55	Martin Müller Silkworm silk under tensile strain investigated by neutron spectroscopy and synchrotron X-ray diffraction	Sergey Morozov About formation of the gyration-like excitations in solid solutions	Paschalis Alexandridis Solution Structure of Human Von Willebrand Factor	Oleg Sobolev Hydration of Hg²⁺ in aqueous solution studied by neutron diffraction with isotopic substitution
12:00 – 13.00	*Lunch*
13:00 – 14:20	Plenary: Award of Prizes at AF Stora Salen Chair: Peter Allenspach and Hartmut Fuess
13:00 – 13:40	Walter Hälg Prize winner 2007 Jeffrey Penfold Mixed surfactant adsorption: complexity and relevance
13:40 – 14:15	Lewy Bertaut Prize winner 2007 Henrik M. Rønnow Blue crystal magnetism - neutrons in the quasiparticle zoo
14:15 – 14:20	Award of poster prizes
14:20 –	Visit to the open-air museum Kulturen
17:00	Public Lecture at Kulturen Robert Thomas Neutrons unlock secrets of materials we use in daily life Chair: Allan Larsson
17:30 - 18:00	Buses leave for Conference Dinner
19:00	Conference Dinner at Luftkastellet

Friday 29 June

09:00 – 11:05	Parallel sessions
Venue:	AF Stora Salen	AF Lilla salen	University Main Building	Palaestra
	Soft Matter Chair: Kell Mortensen	Glasses and Liquids Chair: Andreas Magerl	Structure & Disorder Chair: Paul Attfield	Instrumentation Chair: Colin Carlile
09:00 – 09:25	Andrew Jackson Processing of Milk: Drying and Pressure	Ubaldo Bafile Collective acoustic excitations in fluids: a critical review of neutron spectra interpretation and a new analysis of the dispersion curve	Marisa Medarde Barragan Short-range Charge Ordering in Ho_0.1Sr_0.9CoO_3-x (0.15 = x = 0.49)	Kim Lefmann A cold neutron chopper spectrometer for the ESS long-pulse target station
09:25 – 09.50	*Coffee*
09:50 - 10:15	Reidar Lund Spontaneous Self–assembly and Equilibrium Kinetics of Polymeric Micelles as seen by Time Resolved Small Angle Scattering	Catherine Pappas A novel approach to modelling non–exponential relaxation in glasses and spin glasses	Chris Knee Supercells, structural transitions and magnetic properties of cobalt based perovskites	George Apostolopoulos TOF reflectometer utilizing a thermal neutron beam
10:15 – 10:40	Carsten Svaneborg Scattering from polymer networks under elongational strain	Jean-Pierre Gaspard The structure of liquid tellurium based alloys used in DVDs and PC-RAMs of the future	Husin Sitepu Quantitative texture analysis of deformed natural quartz vein from the Torridon area of NW Scotland with neutron diffraction data	Uwe Filges Monte Carlo Simulations for the new EIGER spectrometer at PSI
10:40 – 11:05	Tinka Spehr Dynamic and Structural Behaviour of Microemulsion Polymer Mixtures	Joerg Neuefeind Comparison of the liquid structure of carbon disulfide and carbon dioxide	Markos Skoulatos Spin correlations in frustrated square lattices	Matthew Blakeley Neutron protein crystallography at the Institut Laue Langevin
11:15 – 12:00	Plenary Lecture at AF Stora Salen Piero Baglioni Nanoscience for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Chair: Tommy Nylander
12:00 – 12:10	Closing Remarks
12:10 –	*Lunch*

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