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Sunderland 2006 – Structural Techniques

14 September 2006

Workshop "Structural Techniques" 14 September 2006 With funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the SGT was able to introduce for the first time tutorial workshops at one of our conferences. These workshops, on the first and last days of the 8th ESG conference at Sunderland, were aimed at postgraduate students and other researchers getting involved in a field of work new to them. The Structural Techniques Workshop was intended to provide background to the experimental techniques used by researchers presenting work at the main conference. We have asked speakers who are experts in a particular structural technique and have an interest in glass science from across Europe to contribute a tutorialArticle content continued

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