program:thursday
Thursday 12th February
| Time | Presentation | Presenters / authors |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Student Breakfast | Proudly sponsored by Technoorg Linda and Emgrid Australia |
| Session 5 | Chair: Aaron Torpy | |
| 8:30 Invited | Early American photographs viewed through the lens of microscopy & microanalysis | Edward P. Vicenzi, Thomas Lam, Rachel Wetzel and Shannon T. Perich (Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, MD, USA) |
| 8:55 Invited | Ground truth: understanding Rembrandt's paint materials and practice | Caitlin Breare, Aaron Torpy, Nicholas Wilson, Cameron Davidson, Colin MacRae (National Gallery of Victoria) |
| 9:20 | Heavy metal predators: diverse elemental enrichment across the weapons of scorpions | Sam I.D. Campbell, Edward P. Vicenzi, Thomas Lam, Bryan G. Fry, Hannah M. Wood |
| 9:35 | Experimental analysis of reducing mineral damage using the EPMA cooling system | Rie Wakimoto, Koki Kato, Yasuteru Nawafune and Takanori Murano |
| 9:50 | Bones and Beyond – Characterization of mineralized tissues in biological samples | Jayanti Mendhi, Yuqing Mu, Ashley Locke, Goncalo Valentim Andre Da Costa, Agathe Bessot, Flavia Savi |
| 10.05 | A cryogenic-hyperspectral cathodoluminescence investigation of xenotimequartz-rocks from Wolverine heavy-rare-earth deposit (Browns Ranges, Western Australia) | Zsanett Pintér, Colin MacRae, Aaron Torpy and Nick Wilson |
| 10:20 | Morning Tea | Proudly sponsored by Coherent Scientific |
| Session 6 | Chair: Shenlan Yang | |
| 10:50 Invited | Experimental variation of microanalytical sensitivity using x-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy in the Analytical Electron Microscope | Nestor J. Zaluzec (ZNL-MMC, Bolingbrook, Illinois USA) |
| 11:15 | The pair-angle distribution function: a sensitive probe of medium-range order in amorphous materials | Alan Salek, Ryan Hogg, Krysta-Leigh Douglass, and Andrew V. Martin |
| 11:30 | Bulk purity versus nanoscale reality: correlative microscopy and mass spectrometry characterization of high-purity alumina | Tommaso Tacchetto, Allan Costine, Martijn Woltering, Callum McCauley, Louise Schoneveld, Mark Pearce, Zakaria Quadir, Denis Fougerouse, Steven Reddy, David Saxey, Xiao Sun |
| 11:45 | The investigation of shear on the transformation of dc-Si using a rotational diamond anvil cell | Sean L. Butler, Hendrik Heimes, Jodie E. Bradby, Dougal G. McCulloch |
| 12:00 | Using shear to unlock high-density carbon phases during compression of glassy carbon at room temperature | Inês F. Vaz, Alan G. Salek, Hendrik Heimes, Xingshuo Huang, David. R. McKenzie, Jodie E. Bradby, Dougal G. McCulloch |
| 12.15 | Lunch | Proudly sponsored by Oxford Instruments |
| 12:50 | AMAS AGM (State Ballroom) | Attendance is mandatory! |
| Session 7 | Chair: Heather Lowers | |
| 1:30 Invited | Electron probe microanalysis of volcanic silicate glass | Ery Hughes (University College London, UK) |
| 1:55 | Rare Earth ionic clays - an EPMA study | Colin M. MacRae, Nick C. Wilson, Aaron Torpy, Zsanett Pintér, Cameron Davidson, Mark Cooksey and Daniel Jewel |
| 2:10 | Well-done or rare earth elements: automated mineralogical characterisation for optimisation of rare earth mineral processing | Alexander T Walker, Laurence Dyer |
| 2:25 | Holistic materials and mineral characterisation with quantitative data and neural networks | Bernd Schulz, Kashmira Raghu, Feng Lin Ng, Richard Taylor, Eddy Hill |
| 2:40 | Unravelling the complexity of phosphorus deportment in goethite-rich iron ores using electron probe microanalysis | Anne J. Whitworth, Miao Chen, Mark I. Pownceby, Nicholas C. Wilson, Michael J. Peterson, Steve Peacock, and Rong Fan |
| 2:55 | Afternoon tea | Proudly sponsored by ZEISS |
| Session 8 | Chair: Nestor Zaluzec | |
| 3:30 Invited | EDS and EELS of lithium in a 0.5 to 30 keV Electron Microscope | Raynald Gauvin, Nicolas Brodusch and Stéphanie Bessette (McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada) |
| 3:55 | Advancing sustainable extraction of critical minerals: EELS analysis of nickel and cobalt in mine tailings | Edwin LH Mayes and Jang Mee Lee |
| 4:10 | Determining amorphous carbon’s nanostructure via the emerging PADF technique | Krysta-Leigh Douglass, Alan Salek and Andrew V. Martin |
| 4:25 | Absorption effects on the Pair-Angle Distribution Function | Ryan Hogg, Alan Salek, Dougal McCulloch and Andrew V. Martin |
| 4:40 | Shear driven phase transitions in highly orientated pyrolytic graphite | Brock M. Nicholas, Alan G. Salek, Hendrik Heimes, Xingshuo Huang, Jodie E. Bradby, Dougal G. McCulloch |
| 4:55 | Close | |
| 7:00 — 10.30 | Symposium dinner, Grand Ballroom of the Pullman Albert Park Hotel | Proudly supported by ThermoFisher Scientific |
Thursday Symposium Dinner - Grand Ballroom, Pullman Albert Park Hotel
The Symposium Dinner on Thursday night will be held at the Grand Ballroom of the Pullman Albert Park Hotel (i.e. the symposium venue), starting at 7pm.
The Thursday Symposium Dinner is kindly sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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