Provisional Programme

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Programme
Wednesday 6th September
Thursday 7th September
Friday 8th September
Posters
09:00-09:30
Workshop Registration (James Weir Building)
09:30-12:30
Morning Workshop
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-16:30
Afternoon Workshop
08:00-09:00
Registration, Tea and Coffee
09:00-09:15
Welcome Address
Session 1
09:15-09:45
Keynote Talk:

Ed Stanley, University of Florida, USA
09:45-10:00
Bridging the gap between academia and police casework

Sofia Goia, University of Warwick, UK
10:00-10:15
EGGxciting tomography at the NHM, London

Taylor West, Natural History Museum, UK
10:15-10:30
Sponsor talk:

Thermofisher Scientific
10:30-11:00
Coffee and Posters
Session 2
11:00-11:15
X-ray CT characterisation of dune sands to inform geomorphological models

Ahmed Tawfik, University of Huddersfield, UK
11:15-11:30
Correlated imaging and diffraction of the Winchcombe carbonaceous meteorite

Ashley King, Natural History Museum, UK
11:30-11:45
A time-resolved multimodal approach to studying fertiliser dynamics in soil with growing plants

Katherine Williams, University of Portsmouth, UK
11:45-12:15
Keynote speaker: Imaging the rhizosphere: the key to healthy soils and furture crop production

Sacha Mooney, University of Nottingham, UK
12:15-13:15
Lunch
Session 3
13:15-13:30
Using lab-based X-ray diffraction contrast tomography to non-destructively analyze quartz crystallography in 3D

Olivia Barbee, Whitman College, USA
13:30-13:45
Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomography investigation of sodium sulfate-activated slag cements under accelerate carbonation

Zengliang Yue, University of Leeds, UK
13:45-14:00
A novel approach to quantify 3D strain using digital volume correlation during in-situ uniaxial loading

Debanjan Chandra, TU Delft, Netherlands
14:00-14:15
Numerical Flow Modelling to Understand Transport & Mixing in Porous Media

James Minto, University of Strathclyde, UK
14:15-14:45
Coffee and Posters
Session 4
14:45-15:00
A year of synchrotron X-ray micro-computed tomography on the new BM18 beamline at ESRF

Vincent Fernandez, ESRF, France
15:00-15:15
Using XCT simulation to assist in scan optimisation

Jamie McGregor, University of Manchester, UK
15:15-15:45
Platinum sponsor talk: Materials characterisation using machine learning based reconstruction and 3D quantitative mineralogy via X-ray Microscopy

Ria Mitchell, ZEISS Microscopy
15:45-16:15
Lightning Talks
16:15-17:45
Drinks reception and posters
18:30
Conference Banquet at Barony Hall
Session 5
09:00-09:30
Keynote talk: Virtual histology of biological tissue samples with quantitative data extraction

Martin Bech, Lund University, Sweden
09:30-09:45
Scaling a pipeline for segmentation of synchrotron micro-CT volumetric images of villi and vasculature in human placenta

Avery Pennington, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
09:45-10:00
Using Micro-CT imaging to study early human embryos within its surrounding tissues

Jaco Hagoort, Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands
10:00-10:15
Entomology meets engineering: Deciphering the workings of the bee stinger

Fiorella Esquivel, University of New South Wales, Australia
10:15-11:00
Coffee break
Session 6
11:00-11:15
Gold sponsor talk: Enhancing Resolution with Zoom CT Trajectories on a Marten Skull and Deep Learning-Based Segmentation on its CT Data

Comet Yxlon Gmbh
11:15-11:30
Tracking gap junction proteins during inflammation with soft X-rays and fluorescence microscopy

Chidinma Okolo, Diamond Light Source, UK
11:30-11:45
Concurrent imaging and diffraction of trabecular bone constructs with in situ scanning and compression

Elis Newham, Queen Mary University London, UK
11:45-12:00
Exciscope Polaris: lab-based phase-contrast CT for low contrast samples

Chris Celania, Exciscope
12:00-12:15
Gold sponsor talk: Original Image Processing approach to handle complex datasets and overpass memory limitation

Joseph Baptista, Reactiv'IP
12:15-13:30
Lunch and posters
Session 7
13:30-13:45
X-ray phase-contrast micro tomography with a 2D structured beam

Carlos Navarrete-León, UCL, UK
13:45-14:00
Designs Towards Optimizing Correlative X-ray and Neutron Computed Tomography of Solid-State Lithium-ion Batteries

Robert Young, UCL, UK
14:00-14:15
Exploiting limited data for quality assurance of batteries

Evelien Zwanenburg, University of Warwick, UK
14:15-14:45
Using correlative tomography to understand the failure of engineering metals

Tim Burnett, University of Manchester, UK
14:45-15:15
Prize presentation and closing remarks
1
In situ study of strains in 3D-printed complex architectural composites on DIAD

Sharif Ahmed, Diamond Light Source, UK
3
3D visualisation of the interfacial transition zone between recycled aggregate and different cementitious materials

Bruno Fernandesa, University of Leeds, UK
4
Grain Structure Evolution during Heat Treatment of a Semisolid Al-Cu Alloy

Jun Sun, Xnovo
5
Exploiting induced carbonate precipitation to improve reservoir storage integrity and geothermal system efficiency

Philip Salter, University of Strathclyde, UK
6
Optimising the Scanning of High-Aspect Ratio Palaeontological Samples

Paul Wilson, University of Warwick, UK
7
The Effect of Training Dataset Size on Single Micro-CT Volume Segmentation using Machine Learning

Victoria Hann, University of Nottingham, UK
8
“She blinded me with science!”: what I’ve learnt by communicating and teaching X-ray CT

Elizabeth Evans, University of Manchester, UK
9
Deep-Learning Fusion of Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry (EDS) and X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT): Applications in PGE Enriched Rocks of the Eastern Layered Intrusion, Isle of Rúm.

Matthew Divers, University of Strathclyde, UK
10
“When is a square a circle?”: initial conditions for iterative reconstruction

Nishitha Ravichandran, University of Warwick, UK
11
A Beginner’s Guide to 3D Modelling: a ‘Fantastic Voyage’ through Cambrian organ systems

Emma Long, Natural History Museum, UK
12
Coupled X-ray CT and diffraction to quantify soil biomechanics by use of cone penetrometer root analogues

Siul Ruiz, University of Southampton, UK
13
PANAMA: Plasma Accelerators for Nuclear Applications and Materials Analysis

Joanna Renshaw, University of Strathclyde, UK
14
Root structures and their impact on drought tolerance in key food crops

Gordon Clark, University of Strathclyde, UK
15
Characterising MICP in anhydrite fractures via a combination of X-CT imaging analysis and micro-continuum approach

Guijie Sang, University of Strathclyde, UK
16
Assessing formation damaging in-situ using X-ray computed tomography

Rory Brittain, University of Strathclyde, UK
18
3D pollination biology of cacao using micro - CT and geometric morphometrics

Katherine Wolcott, University of Miami, USA
19
Validation of the X-ray microtomography in the small intestine biopsy analysis

Markus Hannula, Tampere University, Finland
20
Reaction porosity in black smoker systems: potential for enhanced hydrothermal circulation and the subsurface biosphere

Alice Macente, University of Leeds, UK