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AINSE Winter School at ANSTO
The AINSE Winter School at ANSTO was held from 30 June to 4 July 2007. Forty undergraduate students from Australian and New Zealand AINSE member universities converged at Lucas Heights for a five day period of concentrated study and practical exercises. More information ...
Another AINSE Postgraduate Success
AINSE and ANSTO were visited on Wednesday 4 July by the new Science Advisor to Minister Julie Bishop. Dr Jennifer Lowe was appointed to the position only three weeks ago and the visit today is part of her orientation.
Dr Lowe was an AINSE postgraduate scholar; her research involved the investigation of crystallisation of scale in the Bayer process, under Professor Gordon Parkinson from Curtin University and Dr Margaret Elcombe from ANSTO. She gained her doctorate earlier this year.
AINSE congratulates Dr Lowe on her new appointment to this very interesting and demanding job.
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Left to right Dr Dennis Mather AINSE, Dr Jennifer Lowe Ministry of Science, Dr Margaret Elcombe (ANSTO)
Queen's Birthday Honours 2007
AINSE is pleased to acknowledge the award of an AM to Professor Patrick De Deckker More 'For service to science through research and teaching in the areas of palaeoclimate studies, salination and climate change, and through the initiation and support of international scientific collaboration.'
(Professor De Deckker is convenor of AINSE's Archaeology and Geosciences Specialist Committee)
Professor Graeme George was also awarded an AM for service to science, particularly as a researcher in the area of polymer chemistry, through contributions to the development of new applications for biomedical and degradable plastics, and to the administration and promotion of science education. Graeme who recently became Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology has been a consistent supporter of AINSE.
Vale Dr Ken Doolan
Ken was a member of staff at the University of Western Sydney and has been a supporter of AINSE for many years. He has participated in conferences as well as applications for AINSE Research Awards. He has over the years supervised a number of students who have used the research facilities at Lucas Heights.
His most significant contribution to AINSE, however, is the Winter School. In the early 1990s Ken would bring his third year class to Lucas Heights for a series of experiments and as news got around that this was happening Councillors from other universities asked why students from other universities could not participate in similar experiences. After an extended discussion by the AINSE Council it was agreed that in the common week in July of 1997 one student from each of the member universities would be invited to attend a Winter School at Lucas Heights where ANSTO staff would supervise designed experiments and university and ANSTO staff would deliver lectures on relevant topics. The Winter School program has developed each year and now represents one of the strongest promotional tools to attract potential research students to ANSTO?s facilities at Lucas Heights. For this we are deeply grateful to Ken Doolan.
Ken will be missed by all his colleagues at the Winter School as well as those at ANSTO.
The Juelich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS)
In this first round proposals are accepted for the following instruments:
- KWS-2 Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (7m configuration)
- KWS-3 Ultra-Small-Angle Neutron Scattering
- NSE-J Neutron Spin Echo
- SPHERES Neutron Backscattering
General information about the instruments can be obtained from
http://www.jcns.info/jcns_instruments
Proposers are advised to contact the instrument responsible before they submit a proposal in order to ensure feasibility. proposals of new user groups will receive preferential treatment.The user groups selected under this programme benefit from compensation of travel expenses to Munich and daily allowances for accommodation. Please download the proposal form at
http://www.jcns.info/jcns_proposals and submit it by e-mail to neutron@fz-juelich.de
If you are applying for EU travel support do not submit your proposal through the FRM-II web site.