Name: NECSA-Wits workshop on Radiation, Material Sciences and High Energy Physics
Start: 2015-09-10T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2015-09-11T18:00:00+02:00
Location: NECSA

NECSA-Wits workshop on Radiation, Material Sciences and High Energy Physics

from Thursday 10 September 2015 (09:30) to Friday 11 September 2015 (18:00)

Monday 7 September 2015
Tuesday 8 September 2015
Wednesday 9 September 2015
Thursday 10 September 2015
09:30
09:30 - 10:45
Room: Visitors Centre
Contributions

09:30 Welcome and overview of R&D activities at NECSA - Motodi Maserumule (NECSA)

09:50 Overview of activities at Wits: MPRI & HEP - Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand) Elias Sideras-Haddad (University of the Witwatersrand)

10:10 Overview of activities in Nuclear Education - James Larkin (University of the Witwatersrand)
10:45 Tea/coffee break
Tea/coffee break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Visitors Centre
11:15
11:15 - 13:00
Room: Visitors Centre
Contributions

11:15 An overview of Radiation and Reactor Theory Section - Djordje Tomasevic (NECSA)

11:30 An overview of the OSCAR-4 code system as industry support and research platform - Francois van Heerden (NECSA) Pavel Bokov (NECSA) Rian Prinsloo (NECSA)

12:00 An overview of the focus and activities of the Necsa Reactor Analysis - Carmen Jacobs (NECSA) Khalid Elsakhawy (NECSA)

12:30 The Radiation and Reactor Theory SQEP Training Programme - Johann van Rooyen (NECSA)

12:45 Nuclear Waste Research at Necsa - Willie Meyer (NECSA)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Visitors Centre
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Visitors Centre
Contributions

14:00 The use of EPICS as a control and instrumentation tool for the RFQ accelerator facility at NECSA - Mpho Matabane (NECSA)

14:15 Upgrade of the readout electronics of the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector - Matthew Spoor (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

14:30 The ATCA system for advanced electronics - Robert Graham Reed (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

14:45 Radiation damage of plastic scintillators for the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector - Harshna Jivan (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

15:15 Transmission of damaged plastic scintillators for the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector - Humphry Tlou
15:30 Tea/coffee break
Tea/coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Visitors Centre
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Visitors Centre
Contributions

16:00 MPRI Centralised Research Laboratories - Gerrard Peter (University of the Witwatersrand)

16:15 Observation of impedance oscillations in single walled carbon nanotube bundles excited by high frequency signals - Siphepile Ncube (University of the Witwatersrand)

16:30 Synthesis, device fabrication and Quantum transport features of Graphene - Christopher Coleman (University of the Witwatersrand)

16:45 The superconductor-insulator transition in boron doped nanodiamond - Ross McIntosh (University of the Witwatersrand)

17:00 Electrical Transport properties of Nitrogen Doped Carbon Microspheres - Vincent Marsicano (University of the Witwatersrand)

17:15 Nuclear Structure, Safety and Applications - Iyabo Usman (University of the Witwatersrand)
Friday 11 September 2015
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Visitors Centre
Contributions

09:30 Non-destructive characterisation of materials and components with neutron diffraction methods - Andrew Venter (NECSA)

09:45 X-ray and neutron radiography and tomography at NECSA - Gabriel Nothnagel (NECSA)

10:00 Small-angle Scattering Study of Wool and Mohair Fibres - Tjatji Tjebane (NECSA)

10:15 Near-surface diffraction capabilities at NECSA - Tshepo Ntsoane (NECSA)

10:30 Charged particle irradiation effects on Zircaloy-4 - Tshepo Mahafa (NECSA)

10:45 Applications of Mössbauer spectroscopy - Deena Naidoo (University of the Witwatersrand)
11:00 Tea/coffee break
Tea/coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Visitors Centre
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Visitors Centre
Contributions

11:30 Surface Brillouin scattering of thin supported films: case studies Transition metal nitrides and oxides - Daniel Wamwangi (University of the Witwatersrand)

11:45 Optoelectronic characterization of organic solar cells to enhance efficiency - Francis Otieno (University of the Witwatersrand)

12:00 Fabrication and characterisation of high efficiency carbon nanotube based organic solar cells - Lesias Kotane (University of the Witwatersrand)

12:15 Co-Implantation of N-O complex in Diamond - Tresor Matindi (University of the Witwatersrand)

12:30 Measurement of the near-surface elastic properties of solids and thin supported films using Surface Brillouin spectroscopy - Bhekumusa Mathe (University of the Witwatersrand)

12:45 Diamond/Carbon Physics with Accelerated Charged Ions - Elias Sideras-Haddas (University of the Witwatersrand)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Visitors Centre

14:00

14:00 - 15:30
Room: Visitors Centre

14:00 - 15:30
Room: Visitors Centre

14:00 - 15:30
Room: Visitors Centre

15:30 Tea/coffee break
Tea/coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Visitors Centre
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Visitors Centre
Contributions

16:00 Report from Radiation and Education - James Larkin (University of the Witwatersrand) Johann Van Rooyen (NECSA)

16:20 Report from Material Sciences - Deena Naidoo (University of the Witwatersrand) Gabriel Nothnagel (NECSA)

16:40 Report from Electronics - Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand) Motodi Maserumule (NECSA)

17:00 Concluding remarks

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