Program

9:00 - 9:15 Reception Open

AXAA/MXP

9:15 - 9:30 🎤 VXS Opening Talk

AXAA/MXP

Acknowledge Land

I wish to acknowledge the people of the Kulin Nations, on whose land we are gathered today. I pay my respects to their Elders, past and present.

9:30 - 10:00 Keynote In-situ X-ray Analysis for Mechanistic Understanding

Dr Yuxiang Wu Chaired by Jisheng Ma

10:00 - 10:20 Invited Protein-lipid-starch self-assembly for evolving biomedical and food technology applications

Dr Leonie van 't Hag Chaired by Jisheng Ma

10:20 - 10:35 Enhancing Stability in Perovskite Solar Cells: Insights from Lead Acetate Precursors and In-Situ XRD Analysis

Dr Jie Zhao (ECR) Chaired by Jessica Hamilton

10:35 - 10:50 Investigating the carbonation kinetics of calcium silicates with the addition of amino acids via in-situ XRD

AXAA Student Prize Winner: Presenter: Ziyu Chen (HDR) Chaired by Jessica Hamilton

11:00 - 11:30 ☕ Morning Tea Break

11:30 - 11:50 Invited From Embryos to Fossils: 3D CT Imaging at the Monash X-ray CT Facilities

Professor Alistair Evans Chaired by Jisheng Ma

11:50 - 12:05 The role of FeS2 Polymorph Differentiation in Understanding Gold Mineralisation Through

Siderite Sulfidation

Dr. Maryam Abdus Salam (ECR) Chaired by Jessica Hamilton

12:05 - 12:20 Machine Learning for Rapid XRD Analysis: Advancing Space Group Classification

Presenter: Jackson Sprigg (Honours Student) Chaired by Jessica Hamilton

12:20 - 12:35 Temperature-Driven Phase Modulation in MoS₂: Correlating Microstructure with Catalytic Activity

Dr Mana Panda (ECR) Chaired by Jessica Hamilton

12:35 - 14:00 🍔 Lunch Break

12:50 - 13:30 MXP lab tour

13:15 - 14:00 AXAA AGM Meeting Room: New Horizon Building Level 4 - 407

14:00 - 14:20 Invited Reproducibility challenges facing academia: a case study of peak fitting Fe 2p.

Dr Christopher D Easton Hosted by Jisheng Ma

14:20 - 14:35 In-situ Surface Engineering of Photochromic Porous Coordination Polymer

Presenter: Tian Wen (HDR) Chaired by Jessica Hamilton

14:35 - 14:50 Coordination of plasticity amongst nearby grains in Mg-Zn

Dr Jun Wang (ECR) Chaired by Jessica Hamilton

14:50 - 15:05 MicroCT at CSIRO Clayton - Unlocking insights using in situ mechanical testing

Dr Sherman Wong Chaired by Jisheng Ma

15:05 - 15:20 In-situ investigation of void nucleation and growth during dynamic dwell cyclic loading

Dr Sitarama Kada Chaired by Jisheng Ma

15:30 - 16:30 🍵 Afternoon tea

16:30 - 16:50 Invited Enhancing Capabilities and Opportunities for Materials Research at the ADS beamline

Dr Yang Cao Chaired by Tian Zhang

16:50 - 17:00 Celebration of Rigaku SmartLab and MXP update!

The MXP team

17:00 - 17:30 🍷 Poster session & Networking

Poster Megapixel laboratory XFM on the CSIRO Maia Mapper

Dr Nicholas Phillips

Poster Resonant scattering contrast in block copolymers

AXAA prize winner Dr Matthew Gebert

Poster In-Situ XRD Capabilities and Applications in Monash X-ray Platform (MXP)

Dr Tian Zhang

Poster SAXS @ Monash X-Ray Platform

The MXP team

17:30 AXAA prize announcement & Closing remarks

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