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Scientific Programme
The following schedule is only a guideline and is subject to change.
Sunday 18 November 2012
Registration and Welcome Reception
Monday 19 November 2012
Welcome and Plenary presentation
Parallel and Poster sessions
Tuesday 20 November 2012
Plenary presentations
Parallel and Poster sessions
Wednesday 21 November 2012
Plenary presentations
Parallel and Poster sessions
Afternoon – visit to OPAL
(including Quokka, Bilby, Kookaburra and SAXS instruments)
and National Deuteration Facility
Thursday 22 November 2012
Plenary
Parallel and Poster sessions
Conference Party
Friday 23 November 2012
Plenary
Parallel and Poster sessions
Farewell/Closing
Confirmed Plenary Speakers and Topics
Clive was Chair of the Ministerial Review of Dental
Services in Victoria in 1986, the inaugural Chair of the Accreditation Committee of
Australian Dental Schools of the Australian Dental Council 1995/1996 and the Chair
of the Dental Auxiliary Accreditation Sub-committee of the Australian Dental Council
2001/2002. He has published widely in the fields of public dental health and oral
health promotion and has held a number of consultancy and advisory positions for
national and international agencies in both the public and private sectors.
Currently Clive holds appointments as Clinical Professor, University of Sydney
Concord Clinical School with the Centre for Education and Research on Ageing and
Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University and continues his collaborative research
with the Department of Oral Health Promotion at the Tokyo Medical & Dental
University, Japan.
- Lise Arleth, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Using Small-Angle Scattering in studies of membrane proteins
- Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Small Angle Scattering Measurements at High Magnetic fields - on Viruses to Superconductors
- John Tainer, Scripps Research Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
Biological Small Angle X-Ray Scattering: Genesis, Misconceptions and Major Strengths Going “Forward”
 Dr. Tainer graduated cum laude in Zoology and Anthropology from Trinity College. NC. the worked Scripps control Research Institute, a Member of the Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, and Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. At Berkeley he designed, developed, and runs the combined small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) SIBYLS (Structurally Integrated BiologY for Life Sciences) to determine accurate structures, conformations and assemblies both in solution and at high resolution (see http://bl1231.als.lbl.gov/). Dr. Tainer has seven patents for his research and publications control, metalloenzymes, DNA damage responses, and microbial complexes. As in focuses relevant reactive 2) dynamic efforts concern the combination of crystallographic and SAXS technologies for informative aims biology with applications to therapeutics and biotechnology.
- Michael Gradzielski, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
Applying SANS to the Study of Soft-Matter - Going to More Complexity
 Michael Gradzielski was born in 1962 in Bayreuth (Germany) and studied chemistry at the Universität Bayreuth (Germany) and the University of Wisconsin – Madison (USA). He did his dissertation at the Universität Bayreuth on the topic of microemulsions and micromulsion gels in 1992 in the group of Prof. H. Hoffmann. After a post-doctoral stay at the Ecole Normale Superieure,(Paris) with Prof. D. Langevin, he finished his habilitation for Physical Chemistry at the Universität Bayreuth in 2000. Since 2004 he is full professor for Physical Chemistry at the Technische Universität Berlin in the field “Physikalische Chemie/Molekulare Materialwissenschaften”. In 2010/2011 he stayed 6 months as visiting scientist at the ILL, Grenoble, France.
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He is a member of various national and international research boards, vice-dean of the faculty II (Mathematics and Natural Science) of the TU Berlin, and received in 2009 the “Raphael-Eduard-Liesegang Preis” of the German Colloid Society for his research contributions in the field of colloids. His research interests are in the field of soft-matter with a particular emphasis on self-aggregating systems – surfactants and amphiphilic copolymers – but also investigating other colloidal systems such as nanoparticles, biomacromolecules, and mesoporous systems. The focus of this research is on a detailed structural characterisation of these systems, mostly by employing scattering techniques such as SLS, DLS, SAXS, and SANS but also combining them with other complementary methods. One particular aspect are time-dependent structural investigations of morphological transitions in colloidal systems as for more complex arrangements the formed structures are often metastable and therefore dependent on the pathway of formation. This detailed structural picture then serves as basis for obtaining thorough insights into the correlation between molecular composition, mesoscopic organisation and the resulting macroscopic properties of the respective systems. The general aim is to go to increasingly complex colloidal systems, to control their functionality and thereby to obtain smart colloidal systems.
- Greg Warr, University of Sydney, Australia
Amphiphilicity and Structure in Ionic Liquid Systems
 Greg Warr has been the Head of the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney since 2007. He
completed his PhD in Physical Chemistry at the University of Melbourne in 1986, became a Fellow of
the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1998, and was chair of its Division of Colloid and Interface
Science from 1998-2000. During his career he has held visiting appointments at Princeton University,
the University of Bordeaux, the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the US National
Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research. He has served on the Editorial
Advisory Boards of the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Langmuir, and the Australian Journal of
Chemistry.
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Our research is aimed at understanding the behaviour of amphiphilic compounds in bulk phases
(solutions, lyotropic liquid crystals, complex fluids), in colloidal systems (emulsions, foams, dispersions),
and at interfaces. We are pursuing a wide range of projects examining the structure and dynamics of
bulk phases and dispersions using techniques including neutron and x-ray scattering (SANS and SAXS),
optical microscopy, rheology and calorimetry, and interfacial structure by neutron reflectometry,
atomic force microscopy, and surface force measurements. By combining these techniques we are
discovering new structures formed when surface-active molecules adsorb at the solid/liquid interface
or when complex fluids abut an interface, and use this to design new nanostructured materials. Over
130 papers and book chapters have been published on all areas of molecular self-assembly, most
recently focussing on amphiphilicity in ionic liquids and novel polymeric amphiphiles.
- Andrew Allen, NIST, United States
In situ SAXS and SANS measurements to overcome materials technology barriers
 Andrew Allen is a physicist in the Ceramics Division of the Material Measurement
Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S.A. His main research interests lie in
the development and application of advanced neutron and X-ray scattering methods to
address measurement barriers in technological materials by means of their microstructure
characterization. Dr. Allen received his Bachelor’s degree from Oxford University, U.K.,
and both his Master’s degree and Doctorate from the University of Birmingham, U.K. From
1980 to 1991, he worked at the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority’s (later AEA Technology)
Harwell Laboratory in England.
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During this time, Dr. Allen was primarily concerned
with neutron investigations of materials associated with nuclear energy, including SANS
characterization of cement, concrete and porous rock relevant to radioactive waste
containment. He was also among the first to work in the (then) nascent field of neutron
diffraction residual stress measurement. During a sabbatical from 1988 to 1989 at
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, U.S.A., working on SANS and SAXS studies of high-
strength steels, Dr. Allen became acquainted with synchrotron-based SAXS and USAXS,
and started several collaborations still thriving today. Since 1991 Dr. Allen has been based
at NIST, and has applied SANS and SAXS methods to many applied materials, including
ceramic thermal barrier coatings, nanocrystalline ceramics, modified cements, solid oxide
fuel cells, solution-mediated nanoparticle assemblies, dental composites, high-k dielectric
films, and advanced CO2 sorbent materials. Dr. Allen is the author or co-author of some 80
archival journal publications, over 50 conference proceedings and published reports, and
has presented 50 invited lectures. Currently, he is Deputy Editor of the Journal of Applied
Crystallography.
- Peter Fischer, ETH, Switzerland
Small-angle Scattering Applications in Food
 Greg Peter Fischer studied physics in Regensburg (Germany) and received his PhD from University Essen (Germany) in the group of Heinz Rehage. In 1996/1997 he worked as Postdoc with Gerry Fuller in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University and moved in 1998 to ETH Zurich (Switzerland). In 2006/2007 he stayed 4 months at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) with Justin Cooper-White. Research activities focus on soft matter and food material sciences, in particular on interfacial rheology and morphology, viscoelastic surfactant solution, and biopolymers. He is editor of Applied Rheology and main organizer of the International Symposium of Food Rheology and Structure.
- Kazuo Sakurai, University of Kitakyushu, Japan
Characterizing Self-assembled Nanopaticles Employed in Drug Delivery
 Kazuo Sakurai (KS) is a professor at the department of chemistry and biochemistry in
University of Kitakyushu. KS has spent 16 years at the central research center of Kanebo
Ltd., (synthetic fibers, functional polymers, and pharmaceutical products) and involved in the
fundamental research and business development of conductive polymers for batteries, optical
polyester resin, and drug delivering system for insulin. He spent three years (1990-1993) in
US working for Prof. MacKnight in Univ. Mass, and received PhD from Osaka University in
1996. He worked for Pro. Sinkai in JST Project at Kurume from 1999-2001 and has been a
professor of the since 2001.
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His major research interests are polysaccharides, polysaccharide/polynucleotide complexes,
synthesis of lipids for gene delivery, including their biological assays and physical
characterization with synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering. KS has wide-ranging
experience within the field of supramolecular chemistry and X-ray scattering. KS published
over 100 papers in international peer reviewed journals. He is also the named inventor on 35
international patents. KS was involved in construction of synchrotron beam BL03XU line at
SPring-8. KS is a founder of a bio-venture company. He recently obtained several research
funds from CREST/JST and National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (NIBIO), which are
well-known as the most competitive funds in Japan.
- Do Yeung Yoon, Seoul National University, South Korea
Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Solid-State NMR Study of Linear Low-Density Polyethylenes
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