AINSE Winter School 2008 at ANSTO / AINSE 5th - 9th July, 2008
What is the AINSE Winter School?
The Winter School is a scholarship to each of its member universities to enable a nominated student to attend the Winter School on Applications of Nuclear Techniques. The School will be held at the Lucas Heights Science and Technology Centre (ANSTO), about 30km south of Sydney.
Who is the Winter School open to?
The scholarship is open to all senior undergraduate students in which knowledge of nuclear techniques of analysis would be of interest. Such techniques have applications in areas ranging from agriculture to zoology and include physics, chemistry, biology, environmental science, geography, geology, and archaeology.
What does the Winter School involve?
The Winter School involves a mixture of lectures, experimental sessions and demonstrations  including hands-on experience in experiments in neutron scattering (instruments on the OPAL nuclear research reactor), ion beam accelerators and secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) (techniques of ion beam analysis of materials and applications to environmental analysis) , gamma irradiation (chemical and biological effects of ionizing radiation and radiation processing), the use of nuclear techniques in environmental studies in soil and ground water (nuclear probes for metals in soils, radioactive tracers in flow studies, pollution) and radiation safety (dose measurement, principles of radiation protection and decontamination).
Tours to inspect other major facilities at ANSTO will be included.
A social program including dinners and speakers, encourages students to discuss important current social issues involving science and technology.
ANSTO provides for the costs of the experiments and ANSTO staff involvement, and AINSE pays for travel, accommodation, all meals and social activities during the program 

The inaugural Australasian Crystallography School is to be held in Melbourne 6 - 12 July, 2008. The School is open to postgraduate students and early career postdocs working in the areas of both chemical and physical crystallography and protein crystallography. Participants affiliated with AINSE member institutions may be assisted with financial support for travel and accommodation. Call for Applications     Program

4th Australian Aerosol Workshop to be held at AINSE and ANSTO 16th - 18th July, 2008 

Convenors: Michael Prior & Ed Stelcer
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ANSTO - AINSE Neutron School in 2008 at ANSTO (Bragg Institute) / AINSE at Lucas Heights will be held 21 - 26 July 2008
This school provides training for newcomers to neutron scattering focussing on important classes of structural and functional materials, e.g. concrete and geopolymers, magnetic materials, soft matter and biomaterials, and metals. We will not only have lectures but also practical sessions with hands-on experiments and data analysis. All neutron techniques (available at ANSTO) will be covered in the school, i.e. powder diffraction, single-crystal diffraction, strain scanning, small-angle scattering, reflectometry, and inelastic scattering using three-axis spectrometers.
This school is aimed at PhD students and post docs - novice users and will be limited to 30 people. Participants will be selected based on an abstract outlining an aspect of their scientific project to be presented as a poster at the school. Deadline for applications will be April 2008.
Participants affiliated with AINSE member institutions will be assisted with financial support for travel and accommodation.
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