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| Peter Matthews opposes thesis at Karlstad University - December 2004 |
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Peter Matthews was the opposer for the successful defence of a PhD thesis by Pär Wedin entitled: Drying of granular films: stress evolution and structural characteristics. His work was part of the Surface Treatment Research Programme at Karlstad University, and he was largely based at YKI (the Swedish Surface Chemistry Institute) in Stockholm. His work included experimental studies of the properties of dual porosity coatings, which are the next main challenge for modelling by Pore-Cor Research Suite.
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1st Pore-Cor international short course - October 2004 |
The first 3-day course has been held at the University of Plymouth to teach the fundamental theories behind the software, and to train people how to use it reliably up to research standard, without producing artefacts. The course attracted 11 research staff and PhD students from 6 countries - the US, Italy, Sweden, France, England and Scotland. The interests of the attendees, many of whom were already using the software, varied from the restoration of Greek temples in Sicily, through oil exploration, soil, refractory glass, paper coating and tantalum capacitors. All were enthusiastic about the scientific content of the course, its organisation by the university's Short Course Unit, and its friendliness. Indeed one, from the oil industry, said that it was the best short course he had ever attended. For full details of their comments, see the course appraisal.
Click on the photo on the left for a larger version. See also photos of the course dinner ( 1 , 2, 3 ), of the prize-giving for those who attained the best fit to a very difficult mercury intrusion file, and general views of the teaching (1, 2, 3 ). |
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| Micromeritics sales agent training in Moenchengladbach - March/April 2004 |
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A very successful half-day course was held at Micromeritics GMBH in Moenchengladbach, to tell sales agents about the latest developments in Pore-Cor Research Suite, to give them technical background about the software, and to talk about sales strategy.
Please click on the photo for an enlarged version of everyone attending. You may also view their appraisal of the course.
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Anthony Johnson PhD viva celebration - April 2004 |
Anthony Johnson, sporting a scouser wig, celebrates after his PhD viva, in which he was granted a PhD subject to minor thesis corrections. Anthony was responsible for incorporating the soil database and pedo-transfer function into Pore-Ped, and applying the new Boltzmann-annealed simplex to soils. His thesis also contains a study of the behaviour of non-aqueous pollutant migration in soil using an automated precision lysimeter, working on intact half-metre soil blocks.
Click on the photo, shown on the left, if you wish to download a larger version. |
| | | User
training at SCA Sundsvall - February 2004 |  |
| A course was
held by Peter Matthews in Sundsvall, Sweden, for Dr John Kettle and members of
his SCA Graphic Research team. It was also attended in the morning with great
interest by Prof. Tetsu Uesaka, newly arrived at mid-Sweden University after working
with David Vidal at Paprican. Please
click on the photo for an enlarged version. You may also view the course programme,
and their appraisal
of the course. If you
would like to arrange a course such as this, please Contact
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 | Praise
for poster displayed in House of Commons - November 2003 |
| As part of the Royal Society
of Chemistry’s National Chemistry Week, 100 younger scientists, engineers and
technologists displayed their work in the House of Commons on 10th November 2003.
The poster by Debbie Holtham was one of those judged to be in the top ten of leading
edge research. Click on
the poster, shown on the left, to download it. |
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| Single
pore model developed - October 2003 |  |
| At
the request of a consultancy client, the wetting equations from Pore-Cor Research
Suite have been formed into a new single pore wetting model (click on the picture
to enlarge it). The pore
can either be closed or open-ended, and can be subjected to external overpressure,
and internal residual gases. If you wish to use this model to find out how fluids
are behaving in your system, then please Contact Us.
The client's comment on
receiving the report was "Excellent ! ". |
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of Pore-Cor RS begins at SCA, Pau - September 2003 |
| A casino in the
fashionable Pyrenean resort of Pau was the setting for the Society of Core Analysts
International Symposium this year. The refereed poster-paper presented there is
shown on the right - click it if you would like to view a full-size version. The
paper has now been turned into an Application Note
on the calculation of Formation Damage. The
conference was the venue for the first distribution of demonstration copies of
Pore-Cor Research Suite (version 4.19) to eager recipients. The
pore can either be closed or open-ended, and can be subjected to external overpressure,
and internal residual gases. If you wish to use this model to find out how fluids
are behaving in your system, then please Contact Us.
The client's comment on
receiving the report was "Excellent ! ". |
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coverage on local TV - June 2003 |  |
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project which is producing interesting soil data is based jointly at the University
of Plymouth, and the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, North
Wyke, Devon, UK. Clover roots cause a structuring of soil, and this can be picked
up by use of Pore-Ped and Pore-Cor. For a local television film about the project,
please click on the image on the right. | |
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 | Prize
for best presentation - May 2003 | | Maurizio
Laudone receiving the $1000 prize for the best research student presentation at
the TAPPI conference in Chicago in May 2003 (TAPPI is the Technical Association
of the Pulp and Paper Industries). He is the third group member to have won a
prize for the best presentation at an international conference. He has developed
a new method for studying the porous structure of high performance paper coatings
for glossy magazines and ink-jet printers, by observing the curl of coated strips
and modelling the effects with Pore-Cor Research Suite. The research programme
in collaboration with Omya AG has also produced the first Pore-Cor-designed mineral
pigment for paper coatings, which not only is miraculously effective, but also
looks set to be an environmentally benign, super-efficient catalyst. |
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| Sales
agent training begins - March 2003 |  |
| The contract
being drawn up with Micromeritics addresses some problems with Pore-Cor v1.32,
one of which was that sales agents had little idea about what they were selling.
So at the PittCon analytical chemistry conference in Orlando in March 2003, Peter
Matthews gave the first sales agent training session. A further session will take
place at Micromeritics HQ Europe in the next few months. Other training sessions
will then be arranged for current and potential users of the new Pore-Cor Research
Suite software. Peter
Matthews was accompanied by Dr Susan Boulton. She was there to continue the contract
negotiations, which will see the new software shipped to Micromeritics in June
2003 ready for release in September. | Sales
agent training begins - March 2003 | | |
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