Conference program

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Thursday 23 May, 2013
Welcome!
11:00 - 13:30Registration
12:30 - 13:00Lunch
13:30 - 13:40Opening and welcome address
Oral Presentation - Session 1
Chair: Robert Bryant
13:40 - 14:10Pierre Levitz
PECSA, Université Pierre et Marie Curie -CNRS, Paris, France. Proton R1 and R2 NMRD induced by magnetic nanoparticles with high magnetocrystalline anisotropy
14:10 - 14:40Luce Vander Elst
University of Mons, Belgium. Characterization of paramagnetic and superparamagnetic nanoparticular MRI contrast agents by FFC relaxometry
14:40 - 15:10Eliana Gianolio
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy. Paramagnetic liposomes as responsive relaxometric agents
15:10 - 15:40Yves Gossuin
University of Mons, Belgium. Fundamental and practical applications of NMRD profiles in the study of particulate MRI contrast agents
15:40 - 16:10Dermot Brougham
Dublin City University, Ireland. Fast field cycling NMR relaxometry studies on magnetic nanoparticles suspensions; insights into MRI properties and approaches to design
16:10 - 16:20Coffee break
Oral Presentation - Session 2
Chair: Jean-Pierre Korb
16:20 - 16:50Bertil Halle
Lund University, Sweden. Transient access to the protein interior: Magnetic relaxation dispersion versus simulation
16:50 - 17:20Fabien Ferrage
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. Sub-tc motions in proteins revealed by high-resolution NMR relaxometry
17:20 - 17:50Giacomo Parigi
CERM, University of Florence, Italy. Relaxometry for solution DNP and protein dynamics
17:50 - 18:20Siegfried Stapf
Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany. Low-field NMR and relaxometry investigations of cartilage and its constituents
18:20 - 18:50Robert Bryant
University of Virginia,Charlottesville VA, USA. Spin-relaxation efficiency
19:00Welcome reception and dinner
 
Friday 24 May, 2013
Oral Presentation - Session 3
Chair: Silvio Aime
8:00 - 9:00David Lurie
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Field-cycling magnetic resonance imaging
9:00 - 9:30Christopher Bidinosti
University of Winnipeg, Canada. Phase-gradient coil designs for 3D TRASE MRI at low field
9:30 - 10:00Lionel Broche
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Medical applications of fast field-cycling MRI
10:00 - 10:30Ludovic de Rochefort
Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France. Initial characterization of a ±0.5T insertable dreMR magnet on a 1.5T clinical system
10:30 - 10:50Coffee break
Oral Presentation - Session 4
Chair: Siegfried Stapf
10:50 - 11:20Anthony Horsewill
University of Nottingham, UK. Dynamic tunneling polarization: A quantum rotor analogue of dynamic nuclear polarization and the NMR solid effect
11:20 - 11:50Pär Håkansson
University of Southampton, UK. The interplay of MD and QM calculations to elucidate singlet state relaxation
11:50 - 12:20Tomaz Apih
Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Broadband excitation with frequency swept pulses
12:20 - 12:50Pellegrino Conte
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy. Water dynamics at the liquid-solid interface of biochar systems
12:50 - 13:50Lunch
Oral Presentation - Session 5
Chair: Pierre Levitz
13:50 - 14:20Daniel Canet
Université de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France. Complete proton dispersion curves from 0 Hz up to some hundreds of MHz and some relaxometry stories
14:20 - 14:50Ioan Ardelean
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. NMR relaxation of fluids confined inside porous media with magnetic impurities
14:50 - 15:20Dominique Petit
Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS, Palaiseau, France. How to separate hydric state, wettability and geometric confinement on moisture transport using FFC relaxometry
15:20 - 16:40Coffee Break and Poster Session
Oral Presentation - Session 6
Chair: Esteban Anoardo
16:40 - 17:10Pascal Fries
CEA, INAC, SCIB, Grenoble, France. Theory and applications of the fast electronic relaxation of complexed paramagnetic lanthanide Ln3+ ions, but Gd3+, in solution
17:10 - 17:40Gabriele Rolla
Università del Piemonte Orientale 'Amedeo Avogadro', Alessandria, Italy. 1H and 17O NMR relaxometric study of a series of macrocyclic Mn(II) complexes in aqueous solution and of their lipophilic derivatives
17:40 - 18:10Mark Woods
Portland State University, USA. Using relaxometry to probe the traditional SBM paradigm
20:30Conference dinner to be held at 'GOLDEN PALACE HOTEL', Via dell’Arcivescovado 18, Turin. www.goldenpalace.it
 
Saturday 25 May, 2013
Oral Presentation - Session 7
Chair: David Lurie
9:00 - 9:30Jean-Pierre Korb
Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS, Palaiseau, France. Dynamics of bulk and confined crude oils
9:30 - 10:00Danuta Kruk
Universität Bayreuth, Germany - University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland. NMR relaxometry and translation diffusion in condensed matter
10:00 - 10:30Ralf Ludwig
University of Rostock, Germany. Transport properties and molecular motion of triglyme-lithium salt mixtures - Experiments and simulations
10:30 - 11:00Marco Geppi
Università di Pisa, Italy. Dynamics of P3HT in homopolymers and blends by 1H and 13C relaxation
11:00 - 11:20Coffee break
Oral Presentation - Session 8
Chair: Bertil Halle
11:20 - 11:50Esteban Anoardo
Famaf - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Proton field cycling NMR relaxometry of lipid bilayer membranes containing cholesterol. FFC membrane elastometry
11:50 - 12:20Janez Seliger
Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana / University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Field-cycling double-resonance spectroscopy of quadrupole nuclei in hydrogen bonded cocrystals, salts and crystal polymorphs
12:20 - 12:50Stanislav Sykora
Extra Byte, Castano Primo, Italy. Seven conjectures of NMR relaxometry
12:50 - 13:00Concluding remarks