2nd ENURS & ESRF Day
14th FEBRUARY
10:30 - 11:00 Registration / Welcome Coffee
11:00 - 11:15 Opening Session
Miguel Seabra, President of the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Maria João Romão & Francisco Braz Fernandes
Delegate to ESRF Council & Organizers
11:15 - 11:30 Introduction to the ESRF
Francesco Sette, Director General of the ESRF
11:30 - 11:45 How to Prepare a Good Proposal
Joanne McCarthy, ESRF User Office
11:45 - 12:30 Current and Future Upgrade Program of the ESRF
Harald Reichert, ESRF Research Director
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break & Networking
14:00 - 14:40 A flavor of some imaging capabilities at the ESRF
Marine Cotte, Head of the ESRF X-ray imaging group (ID21, ID22 , ID19)
14:40 - 15:20 Electronic Structure and Magnetism
Sakura Pascarelli, ESRF Beamline Scientist (ID24, BM23)
15:20 - 16:00 Synchrotron Radiation and Neutron-scattering studies of Exotic f-electron Compounds. José António Paixão, CEMDRX - U. Coimbra
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:15 Oral Communications I
Rhenium incorporation in molybdenite:first results of a XANES study.Teresa Pena de Pereira da Silva, LNEG
NiTi endodontic files under flexion - in situ X-ray diffraction study. João Pedro Oliveira, CENIMAT, FCT-UNL
The XUV team at GoLP: Short-pulse coherent X-ray sources and their applications. Marta Fajardo, IPFN-IST
VUV electronic state spectroscopy of plasma processing molecules. Paulo Limão-Vieira, FCT-UNL
Tomography applied to the study of a new early synapsid /dicynodontia) from the Permian of Mozambique. Rui Castanhinha, IGC, Museu da Lourinhã
17:15 - 19:00 Poster Session I
15th FEBRUARY
09:30 - 10:10 Structure of Matter Research
Gavin Vaughan, ESRF Beamline Scientist (ID11)
10:10 - 10:40 Synchotron Light in Material Discovery
Filipe Paz, CICECO, U.Aveiro
10:40 - 11:10 Clearing up the Solid State.
Synchrotron Radiation and the Structural Materials Group at CENIMAT/I3N. João Pedro Veiga, CENIMAT, FCT-UNL
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:10 Macromolecular Crystallography
Bauke Dijkstra, ESRF Research Director
12:10 - 12:50 The Portuguese Block Allocation Group at the ESRF:
A 14-year success story (1999 - 2013). Pedro Matias, PT BAG Coordinator, ITQB-UNL
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch Break & Networking
14:00 - 15:00 Poster Session II
15:00 - 16:00 Oral Communications II
Why do we need Synchrotron Radiation for the characterization of nalidixic acid coordination networks? Marta Martins, IST
X-ray scattering studies on biodegradable scaffolds for bone tissue engineering: effect of nanoparticles in the microscopic properties. Ana Tojeira, CDRSP - IPL
Clostridium thermocellum novel Type II Cohesin-Dockerin complexes: Marital fidelity or Poligamy? Victor Alves, FMV - UTL
Desulfovibrio gigas Aldehyde Oxidoreductase activation and inactivation: characterization of inactive, activated and H2O2 - inhibited forms. Hugo Correia, REQUIMTE, FCT - UNL
A visit to ESRF: a view from a User with a case study in Deinococcus radiodurans. Célia Romão, ITQB - UNL
16:00 - 16:15 Closing Session
Maria João Romão & Francisco Braz Fernandes