Provisional Programme

Please note that the programme below is provisional and may yet be subject to change.

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Wednesday 26th September

09.00 Registration and Coffee Umney Foyer
10.00 Welcome and Introduction Umney Theatre
Professor Lynn Gladden
10.30 Keynote Lecture 1: Umney Theatre
Developments in nanoparticle production from the gas phase and on-line characterisation
Professor Andreas Schmidt-Ott
(Delft University of Technology)
11.30 Young Researcher's Award: Session 1 Umney Theatre
12.30 Lunch (and key pick-up from Porters' Lodge) Garden Restaurant
14.00 Young Researcher's Award: Session 2 Umney Theatre
15.00 Elevator Pitches Umney Theatre
16.15 Tea and Poster Session 1 Umney Lounge/JCR
17.15 Les Ford Lecture Umney Theatre
A survey of particle attrition phenomena relevant to fluidised bed combustion and gasification of solid fuels
Professor Piero Salatino
(University of Naples)
19.00 Drinks Bar
19.30 Forum Dinner Garden Restaurant

Thursday 27th September

07.30 Breakfast (residents only) Garden Restaurant
09.00 Perspective Talk 1: Umney Theatre
Particle technology in Japan - a survey of trends and developments
Professor Ko Higashitani
(University of Kyoto)
09.30 Perspective Talk 2: Umney Theatre
Getting to the real meaning of physical characterisation of data
Professor David Merrifield
(GlaxoSmithKline)
10.00 Coffee and Poster Session 2 Umney Lounge/JCR
11.00 Keynote Lecture 2: Umney Theatre
Block copolymer aggregates: soft nanoparticles for novel applications
Professor Simon Biggs
(University of Leeds)
12.00 Perspective Talk 3: Umney Theatre
Silver halide particle precipitation - 'last century' or nanoscale science?
Dr Jurjen Winkel
(Kodak)
12.30 Poster Awards and Forum Closing Remarks Umney Theatre
13.00 Lunch Garden Restaurant
14.30-17.00 Departure / ad hoc meetings