Current Meeting

NOTE: The July 2020 online meeting is FREE - Resigtration is still required however, see link below for to register

Registration can be made online - Click here

Payment should be in GBP Sterling in advance. There is a deadline of 31th May 2020 for receipt of the reduced meeting fee of £80. From 1st – 30th June 2020 the fee will be increased to £90, with the fee for delegates paying on 1st July 2020 or later increasing to £100.

The meeting fee for students who are not presenting and unemployed/retired members is £40. Delegates who are not existing members of UKSAF will be charged an additional one-off joining fee of £10, which can be selected from the appropriate option during on-line registration. VAT receipts cannot be provided as there is NO VAT content in the costs of the meeting.

There are various accomodation options around the venue, more details will follow soon.

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More details on the venue will follow soon

A pre-meeting social event for early arrivals will be annouced when registration opens

Meeting Schedule

Time Speaker / Event
9.30 – 10.00 Registration (Login)
10.00 – 10.10 Welcome – David Scurr, UKSAF Chair
10.10 – 10.45 Critical review of high-resolution MS instruments for biological SIMS imaging – Ian Gilmore (NPL, UK)
10.45 – 11.00 Quantification of virus like particle interactions with polymers using micro arrays – a high-throughput strategy to identify materials which will bind viral pathogens – Andrew Blok (University of Nottingham, UK)
11.00 – 11.15 BREAK
11.15 – 11.30 SIMS depth profiling of ultra-thin dopant delta-layers in silicon – Procopius Constantiou (UCL, UK)
11.30 – 11.45 XPS group analysis of ternary alloy systems – Jonathan Counsell (Kratos Analytical, UK)
11.45 – 12.00 Annual General Meeting
12.00 – 13.00 LUNCH BREAK
13.00 – 13.45 Influence of Polymorphism on the Electronic Structure of Ga2O3 – Anna Regoutz (UCL, UK)
13.45 – 14.00 ToF-SIMS imaging in the design and evaluation of novel therapies for skin cancer – Akmal Bin Sabri (University of Nottingham, UK)
14.00 – 14.15 From Grafting Density to Medical Diagnostics – XPS Applications in Synthetic Chemistry – Alex Baker (University of Warwick, UK)
14.15 – 14.45 BREAK
14.45 – 15.00 Ballistic sequencing – analysis of intact proteins in the 3D OrbiSIMS – Anna Kotowska (University of Nottingham, UK)
15.00 – 15.15 Thermal and moisture-induced degradation of mixed cation perovskites investigated with in-situ photoelectron spectroscopy – Suresh Maniyarasu (University of Manchester, UK)
15.15 – 15.30 Electronic structure and band gaps of industrially relevant materials investigated by photoelectron spectroscopy and REELS – Paul Mack (Thermo Fisher Scientific)
15.30 – 15.45 Cryo-OrbiSIMS for 3D molecular imaging of a bacterial biofilm in its native state – Junting Zhao  (NPL, UK)
15.45 – 16.00 Close of Day