LAD, 1981 - 1998:
The First ISIS Diffractometer

A Meeting to Celebrate
the LAD Diffractometer

Held at the Cosener’s House, Abingdon
Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th March 1999*

The LAD instrument was first used as a neutron diffractometer on the Harwell linac in 1981. Subsequently it was moved to ISIS ready for the first neutrons in 1985. On 17th December 1998 LAD was be removed to make way for a more advanced neutron diffractometer, GEM. During its lifetime LAD supported a wide range of experimental programs, resulting in over 250 scientific papers. The meeting "LAD, 1981-1998: The First ISIS Diffractometer" celebrated the scientific contribution of LAD and mark its passing.

The meeting involved a day of invited talks from some of the major users of LAD and a poster session.

The papers have been published as a special issue of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter:
issue 47, J. Phys. Cond. Matter 11(1999)9127-9302. Click here for contents.

Click here for the Group Photo.

The program for the meeting was as follows…
(Click on the speaker's name to see them in action!)

Time Speaker Title
Mon 12.00 LUNCH  
Mon 13.30 A.C.Hannon / A.K.Soper Welcome
13.40 W.S.Howells LAD - Historical
14.10 J.L.Finney Liquids - General
14.50 N.Cowlam Metallic Glasses
15.30 COFFEE and TEA  
16.10 D.A.Keen Disorder in crystals and glasses
16.50 L.Börjesson Superionic Glass Conductors
17.30 A.J.Leadbetter Glass
18.10 Poster Session  
19.30 for 20.00 DINNER  
Tue 09.00 R.L.McGreevy Applications of RMC to LAD data
09.40 S.J.Hibble Disordered Crystal Structures
10.20 COFFEE and TEA  
11.00 G.R.Mitchell Unravelling Polymer Melts and Glasses using LAD
11.40 R.J.Newport Networks and voids: the role of hydrogen in some novel materials
12.20 LUNCH  
14.00 Y.Badyal Diffraction studies of the molten state
14.40 N.T.Skipper Crystallography 10 kilometres down
15.20 COFFEE and TEA  
16.00 A.C.Hannon / A.K.Soper Closing Remarks
16.10 End of LAD Celebration/ Start of User Group Meeting  

For further information please contact Alex Hannon.

Information for preparation of manuscripts for J. Phys. Cond. Matt.

* Followed by a short meeting of the ISIS Liquids and Amorphous User Group