Spring 2005 Conference on EPSRC-ILL Millennium Projects

Spring 2005 Conference
on EPSRC-ILL
Millennium Projects

May 25-27 at ILL Grenoble France

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Sponsors

We are grateful to the following organisations for supporting this conference.

Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) The European High Flux Neutron Source
With its international funding and expertise, the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) offers scientists and industry the world's leading facility in neutron science and technology. From its Grenoble site in the South-East of France, the Institute operates the most intense neutron source on Earth. Our scientists and engineers, working with 1500 visiting scientists from 30 countries, carry out 800 experimental investigations per year on the microscopic structure and dynamics of materials. ILL provided free accommodation for conference participants in the ILL-ESRF guesthouse.

EPSRC The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
EPSRC is the UK Government's leading funding agency for research and training in engineering and the physical sciences, and the former UK funding Associate for ILL Grenoble. EPSRC provided large grants for the five projects that are the subject of the conference to teams of scientists from five UK universities, and these grants were also used to pay travel and subscription costs for many of the participants. EPSRC made a further substantial monetary contribution to participant costs.

CSEC The Center for Science at Extreme Conditions
CSEC is a multi-disciplinary Centre at The University of Edinburgh designed to promote the study of materials at extremes of pressure and temperature, and in electromagnetic fields, using both in-house and synchrotron and neutron techniques. Professor Paul Attfield at CSEC lead a team that successfully applied to EPSRC for the grant for Super-D2B.

Durham University The Department of Chemistry
The Department has strong research activities in polymer and materials chemistry and has young, enthusiastic staff who are committed to the interdisciplinary approach that underpins the research strategy of the Department. This spread of research and level of activity resulted in the Department being awarded grade 5*A in the in the national Research Assessment exercise in 2001. Professor Judith Howard, FRS, lead a team that successfully applied to EPSRC for the grant for the D19 detector project.

University of Manchester School of Materials
This School is the largest single Materials grouping in any European University having around 750 students and more than 60 academic staff, as well as a further 80 administrative and technical staff. It comprises three main activities: the Materials Science Centre, Textiles & Paper, and the Corrosion & Protection Centre - all of which have an excellent reputation both for their teaching and research. Professor Philip Withers, Professor of Materials Science at UMIST, lead a team that successfully applied to EPSRC for the grant for the SALSA strain scanner project.

Salford University Institute of Materials Research
The Institute was established in 1999 to provide a focus for research on materials at the University. Its members, both scientists and engineers, are active in the development, characterisation and exploitation of new materials, both structural and functional. Professor Peter Webster lead a team that successfully applied to EPSRC for the grant for the FaME38 engineering laboratory at ILL-ESRF.

Keele University School of Chemistry and Physics
The Biophysics and Polymers group has two main areas of interest. The first is the determination of the structure of various conformations of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) double helix and its interactions with solvent and molecules important for biological function such as anticancer drugs and proteins which control transcription of the genetic information. The second which is conducted largely in collaboration with ICI is the study of the relationship between structure and properties in polymer materials and in particular changes in polymer orientation and crystallinity during industrial processing conditions. Dr Trevor Forsyth, lead a team that successfully applied to EPSRC for a grant for the DLAB deuteration laboratory. In support of this effort a major EU grant has been obtained by EMBL Grenoble, ILL, the University of Oxford, EMBL Heidelberg and the Institut de Biologie Structurale in Grenoble to develop different protocols and procedures of deuteration both for neutron scattering and NMR studies.
Prelude - DIF-Group - LSS-Group - Detector-Group To print, set margins to 5mm for A4 paper & enable "Print linked documents".
Super-D2B - D19-PSD - SALSA - FaME38 - D-LAB - DRACULA - BRITTAX
Sponsors - Registration - Participants - Posters - Speakers - Wednesday 25 May - Thursday 26 May - Friday 27 May - Saturday 28 May
Committees - Travel - Accommodation - Grenoble Town - Advice - Excursions - WWW links - Contacts - Photos & Video
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