The Crystal36-AXAA 2026 Conference bridges together the SCANZ & AXAA for an exciting joint conference from 29th Nov to 2nd Dec 2026, with satellite workshops to cover basic and advanced analysis skills.
crystal36axaa2026.org
Abstract Submissions are Open!😀
Crystal36–AXAA2026 Conference (29 November – 2 December 2026) at Adelaide Hills Convention Centre.
A dedicated conference website is currently under development, and the link will be shared in due course.
2025 AXAA Annual General Meeting
11th Nov 2025, at 1:15pm – 2:00pm AEST.
monash.zoom.us/j/81231430244…
If you are in Melbourne, you can join in person as this meeting will take place during the Victoria X-ray Symposium 2025 (AGM is free to all, ticket required for Symposium talks)
The 2020 @AXAA_org Award recipients were all women, all the first women to recieve the award in each category. Proud to be part of this cohort of deserving awardees. Congrats to Sally Birch & @briganly. #womeninstem @WomenSciAUST
Today is the last day to register for the AXAA Networking Day on 9 June at the Australian Synchrotron! Don't forget to register, we'll have keynote talks from Dr Niloofar Karimian and Dr Justin Kimpton, student talks and a tour of the synchrotron!
eventbrite.com.au/e/axaa-net…
Applications for @AINSE_Ltd’s online Winter School are NOW OPEN to final-year #undergrad students from AINSE-member universities!
Discover how your future Honours/PhD #research can connect to the world-class facilities and expertise at @ANSTO.
Apply now! ainse.edu.au/winter-school/
ALT 8 students wearing white AINSE jumpers and 2 AINSE & ANSTO staff members standing in line in front of the AINSE building and smiling. In the background, painted on the side of the building Dharawal mural depicting local Aboriginal rock art in the surrounding region. Overlaid is the AINSE logo and the text "27th Winter School: Apply now! Applications close 15th May 2023".
PPXRD-17 IS ALMOST HERE! If you havn't already, make sure to register online for PPXRD-17. Please note that registrations will not be conducted onsite. All attendees must pre-register for the symposium by 12 May 2023. icdd.com/ppxrd
A reminder that applications for the SAAFE Research Internship Program 🇫🇷🇦🇺🇳🇿 are still open for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers until 1 July... x.com/AINSE_Ltd/status/16408…
APPLICATIONS OPEN: SAAFE Research Internship Program 🇫🇷🇦🇺🇳🇿
Calling all PhD students & Postdocs at @AINSE_Ltd-member universities! If you are interested in travelling to France for your research, apply by 1st July at ainse.edu.au/saafe/.
@ANSTO@FranceAustralia@AmbafranceNZ
ALT The OPAL Multipurpose Reactor pool, with the blue light of Cherenkov radiation, in the background. Overlaid on a cyan circle is the text "SAAFE Research Internship - Exchange Program: Aus/N.Z. to France / France to Australia. Applications close 1 July 2023"
9th June AXAA is holding a networking event at the Australian Synchrotron! Talks, prizes, and tea sponsored by DECTRIS. More info and register here: axaa.org/events.html
Melbourne students, send your talk abstracts (<300 words) to ausxray@gmail.com by 23 May. See you there!
Publication alert - resonant diffraction can be used to determine the location of counterions in doped semiconducting polymers. This work was led by Lee Richter from @NIST - glad to be involved!
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021…
Don't miss May's InSession "Get Things Done with JADE: Part 2", with Steffen Weber of MDI. Learn how to identify your phases with Search/Match, and further analyze your pattern with Whole Pattern Fitting or Rietveld. Register now! icdd.com/in-session
Applications are NOW OPEN for AINSE Early Career Researcher Grants (ECRG): a one-time grant of up to A$10,000 available to #postdoc ECRs, from @AINSE_Ltd’s Australian and New Zealand Member Institutions, collaborating with @ANSTO.
Apply by July 31 at ainse.edu.au/ecrg/
ALT Photograph of an AINSE-supported researcher holding a large sampling net and standing in shallow waters in a Victorian wetland, looking away from the camera at a nearby black swan. Tall grass and large trees are visible in the background. Overlaid on a green rectangle is the text: "Early Career Researcher Grant (ECRG) 2023: Apply now! Applications close 31 July 2023". Photo credit: Kathryn Hassell
You have 37 days to get your applications in for Denver X-ray Conference. There are two awards (multiple awardees), and there are also discounted student hotel rooms available.
See all the details here: dxcicdd.com/students/
Summer school for synchrotron diffraction experiments at Swiss Norwegian Beamlines🇨🇭🇳🇴
📅June 5-9, 2023
BM01 beamline- SNBL, at @ESRF
Grenoble, France
@lfim_epfl@PaulaabdalaE
Do you use grazing incidence diffraction? Then you will be interested in a new review article online 'Indexing of grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction patterns' tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…#crystallography
Have you registered for #IUCr2023 yet? Early bird registration closes on 31st March - as explained by @DanielJEricssonvimeo.com/811166760 (plus a sneak peak at the new @ANSTO synchrotron MX3 instrument)