PROGRAM
FOR
THE 15th NORWEGIAN X-RAY CONFERENCE
8 – 10 SEPTEMBER 2008
Quality Hotel & Resort Kristiansand
Monday 8 September
1000 REGISTRATION
1200 LUNCH
Chair: John T. Håkedal
1300 OPENING Åge Storm
1310 Prof. Phil Potts (invited speaker), The Open University, Department of Earth Sciences, UK.
“Portable X-ray fluorescence analysis: Challenges in the analysis of archaeological and environmental samples”
1355 Arne Eriksson, Bruker AXS Nordic, Sweden.
“Fast High Quality Analysis with Hand held XRF”
1415 Göran Säwemark, B.Sc. ESAB AB, Sweden
“Analysis of coppering baths by ED-XRF”
1435 Coffee and exhibition
1520 Leonid Skatkov, PCB "Argo", Israel
“ Study of sintered niobium powder surface structural inhomogeneities by SAXS technique”
1540 Didier Bonvin, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Switzerland.
“An integrated X-ray system allowing full XRD and full XRF and its applications”
1600 End
1630 Tour to the Setesdal Railway Museum . Buss outside Hotel entrance.
2000 Dinner, Quality Hotel.
Tuesday 9 September
Chair: Lorentz Petter Lossius
0900 Dr. Colleen Frazer (invited speaker), Philips Lumileds Lighting Company, San Jose, California., USA.
“Theory and Application of the Rietveld Method”
0945 Dr. Lorentz Petter Lossius. Hydro Aluminium Technology Centre, Årdal , Norway.
“Aluminium Electrolyte - Complex CRMs Quantified by Rietveld XRD”
1015 Jakob Noreland, PANalytical, Sweden
“Selecting the strategy for quantitative XRD analysis”
1035 Coffee and exhibition
1100 Geert Vanhoyland, Bruker AXS GmbH, Germany
”Quantitative Rietveld Industrial Applications”
1130 Takao Akai, Akihiko Iwata, Kubo Tomikatsu, Rigaku Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.
“A history of rotating anode X-ray generators and the benefits of new high brilliance X-ray generators in
laboratories”
1215 Lunch
Chair: Helene Trøyte
1315 Dr. Bertil Magnusson (invited speaker), SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.
“XRF analysis of solid and liquids with borate fusion sample preparation and matrix correction using loss on
ignition eliminated alphas”
1400 Hisashi Homma, Kohei Kansai, Yoshiyuki Kataoka, Hisayuki Kohno.
Rigaku Industrial Corporation, Japan.
“Rigaku Analysis for Ores and Cement Using a New Benchtop WDXRF-Spectrometer”
1445 Bengt Svensson, Ametek Nordic AB, Sweden.
“The use of EDXRF instrumentation in the cement industry”
1505 Coffee and exhibition
1600 Michel Davidts, Socachim-sprl. Bruxells, Belgium.
“Preparation of fusion beads for XRF analysis”
1620 Dr. Rainer Schramm.Fluxana GmbH & Co. KG. Germany.
“FLUXANA Applications for XRF”
1650 Charles-Olivier Arsenault, Claisse, Canada.
"New Development in Lithium Borate Fusion for Ferroalloys"
1710 End
1930 Banquet
Wednesday 10 September
Chair: Torkild Eivindson
0900 Didier Bonvin, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Switzerland.
“Optimization of the famous UniQuant package for use in Energy Dispersive XRF”
0920 Ingvar Bernhardsson, Degerfors Laboratorium AB, Sweden.
“Användning av Multiscat för kalibrering av oxidiska material och titanlegeringar med få referensmaterial”
0940 Coffee and exhibition
1040 Svenerik Bäckman, Degerfors Laboratorium AB, Sweden.
“Jämförelse kalibrering traditionellt/multiscat”
1100 Arman Junkers, PANalytical, Netherlands
“'Modern counting electronics paving the way to unmatched detector linearity”
1145 Conference closing.
1200 Lunch