23 May 2012

This meeting has now taken place and this page is now for information only.

one day XRD meeting will take place at the same venue on the following day.

Fees: One day £80 (£40 concessions) or Two days £120 (£60 concessions)

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ROGRAMME: All of our sponsors plan to exhibit on the XRF day.

The format of the meeting will follow that of previous successful one day meetings.

View ALL Abstracts.. or follow the links to each talk below.

09:30 Arrival, Registration & Coffee

10:00 Plenary – The future of XRF in geochemical analysis lies in the field, not the laboratory: Thoughts on the capabilities and limitations of hand-held instrumentation.

Philip Potts, The Open University. Abstract....

10:45 XRF Fusion: Development and Application of Internal Standard Method for High Accuracy Analysis.

Frederic Davidts, Socachim Abstract....

11:15 – 11: 45 Exhibition & Coffee - SPONSORED BY RIGAKU

11:45 The use of XRF in the Earth Sciences: Understanding Volcanic Super-Eruptions.

Prof. A.D. Saunders and Dr. M. Riechow, University of Leicester. Abstract....

12:15 Practical Use of New Version of ISO 12677:2011 - Chemical Analysis of Refractory Products by XRF.

Dr. Rainer Schramm, Fluxana Abstract....

12:45 -14:00 Lunch & Exhibition

14:00 So we’ve got some numbers from the XRF – what can we do with them to understand rocks.

Dr. M. Norry, University of Leicester. Abstract....

14:30 Development of Laboratory Reference Materials at the Health and Safety Laboratory.

Owen Butler, Health and Safety Laboratory, Buxton. Abstract....

15:00 – 15:30 Exhibition & Tea - SPONSORED BY SPEX CertiPrep

15:30 X-Ray Computer Aided Tomographic scanning – the newest X-Ray toy on the block,

Dr. Simon Lawes. University of Leicester. Abstract....

16:00 Validation of Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry for the Quantification of Lead Dust on Workplace Surfaces.

Jean-Philippe Gorce , Health and Safety Laboratory, Buxton. Abstract....

16:30 Close

Local Organisers: Nick Marsh & Cheryl Haidon.

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