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BRSG: 50th Jubilee Meeting

5 - 6 September 2006
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, UK
Jointly sponsored by Spectra Gases Inc., Varian and Oxford Instruments

Programme

Tuesday 5 September 2006

11:00

Multi-dimensional approaches to Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo and Relaxation NMR

P Callaghan (INVITED)
MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

11:40

2D Correlation Relaxation Studies of Cement Pastes

P McDonald (INVITED)
Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

12:20

New opportunities for 17O NMR spectroscopy of biomaterials

A Wong
University of Warwick

12:40

Solid state NMR of molecular hydrogen trapped inside open-cage fullerenes

M Carravetta
University of Southampton

13:00Lunch 
14:10

Structure Determination in Non-Crystalline Bio-solids by NMR

Beat H Meier (INVITED)
Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich , 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
14:50

High-Resolution NMR of Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solids

S Wimperis (INVITED)
University of Glasgow

15:30

Solid-state NMR: a tool for studying interfaces and structures in biomaterials

Nicholas S Groom1
Robin M Orr1
Erica R Wise1
Christian Jaeger2
Sergey Malsev2
M Elisabeth Davies3
Rachel C Murray4
Nigel Loveridge5
Melinda J Duer1(INVITED)

1Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
2Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing, Project Group I.3903, Richard Willstaetter Str. 11, D-12489, Berlin, Germany
3Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ES, UK
4Centre for Equine Studies, Animal Health Trust, Lanwades Park, Kentford, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 7UU, UK
5Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Level 5, Addenbrookes Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QQ, UK

16:10

Tea and Posters

 
17:15

AGM

 
19:30Conference Dinner 


Wednesday 6 September 2006

09:00

Functional magnetic resonance imaging in humans: methodological challenges and solutions

David G Norris (INVITED)
FC Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen
09:40

Functional magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy at high and ultra-high fields

Peter Morris (INVITED)
Richard Bowtell
Ron Coxon
Susan Francis
Paul Glover
Penny Gowland
Andrew Peters
Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK

10:00

Muon detection of NMR or NMR enhanced µSR: Polarisation transfer between muons and nuclear spins

N Clayden
University of East Anglia

10:20

Can we understand multi-pulse decoupling in solid-state NMR?

Vadim E Zorin1
Steven P Brown2
Paul Hodgkinson1
1Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
2Department of Physics, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
10:40Tea and Refreshments 
11:00

Noise and functional protein dynamics: a proton field cycling relaxometry approach

J-P Korb1(INVITED) and R G Bryant2
1Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, CNRS UMR 7643, Ecole Polytechnique
91128 Palaiseau, France
2Chemistry Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4319, USA
11:40

Recent Examples of Applications of Solid State NMR of Quadrupole Nuclei for Characterisation of Materials from Industrial Catalysts to Biomolecules

Mark E Smith (INVITED)
Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL
12:20

Chemical Shift Anisotropy Amplification: Improvements and Applications

J Titman
University of Nottingham
12:40

Pitfalls and Progress in Dosy Data Processing

G Morris
University of Manchester

13:00Lunch 
14:00

Solid-State DOR NMR Methods for Half-Integer Quadrupolar Nuclei

I Hung
University of Warwick
14:20

A 23Na and 133Cs MAS NMR Study of the Structural Transformations of Microcrystalline MxWO3+x/2.ZH2O Hexagonal Tungsten Bronze and NaW2O6.2H2O Cubic Tungsten Pyrochlore Systems

John V Hanna1 (INVITED)
Victor Luca1
Christopher S Griffith1
Kevin J Pike1
Andrew P Howes2
Mark E Smith2
Thibault Charpentier3
1Institute of Material and Engineering Sciences, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights Research Laboratories, Private Mail Bag 1, NSW 2234, Australia. (jvh@ansto.gov.au, vlu@ansto.gov.au, cgz@ansto.gov.au, kpi@ansto.gov.au)
2Deptartment of Physics, University of Warwick, Gibbett Hill RoadCoventry CV4 7AL UK. (M.E.Smith.1@warwick.ac.uk, A.P.Howes@warwick.ac.uk)
3Laboratoire de Structure et Dynamique par Résonance Magnétique, DSM/DRECAM/SCM-CEA/CNRS URA 331, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique Saclay 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France. (tcharpentier@cea.fr)
15:00

Electromagnetic field calculations for MRI

Richard Bowtell (INVITED)
University of Nottingham
15:40Refreshments and Close of Meeting 
16:00Optional Tour of Sir Peter Mansfield MR Centre 

 

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