The Institute has a strong presence this week at the First Asia-Oceania Conference on Neutron Scattering in Tsukuba, Japan. Our staff are giving two of the keynote lectures:
"Morphological Studies of Thin-Film Optoelectronic Devices Using Neutron Reflectometry" by Michael James and "Loose Spin and Chemical Order Induced Couplings in Magnetic Thin Films: A Neutron Scattering Study"
by Frank Klose.
Additional keynote lectures are being given by four of our users, from Renmin University (Beijing), the Australian National University, University of Auckland and Sydney University.
Our staff are also giving four additional invited talks at the meeting, as are four more of our users, from National Tsing-Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan), University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, the Pipeline Cooperative Research Centre and University of Adelaide.
One of our students, Sean McTrustry, won one of the "best poster awards" at the conference for his poster on "Rapid Sample Quencher for Neutron Scattering Experiments".
Finally, at the meeting, Australia was successful in its bid to host the second Asia-Oceania Conference on Neutron Scattering in Sydney, in 2015. Chris Ling (Sydney U., and President of the Australian Neutron Beam Users Group) presented the bid on behalf of the Australian Neutron Beam Users Group, with support from AINSE, ANSTO and Business Events Sydney