8th INTERNATIONAL  BOLOGNA  CONFERENCE ON

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN POROUS MEDIA

 

Bologna MRPM8

 

Ampere Event

organized under the auspices of Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna

September 10-14, 2006 – Bologna, Italy

Engineering Faculty, Viale del Risorgimento, 2 Bologna

 

Scientific Programme

 

and

 

Abstracts

 

http://www.mrpm.org

 

Welcome to the 8th International Bologna Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media, Bologna MRPM8, Ampere  Event organized under the auspices of Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. The Conference takes place at the prestigious Engineering Faculty of the University of Bologna, which has put its facilities at our disposal free of charge for the smooth and fruitful conduct of the meeting.

This conference series was founded at the University of Bologna, where the first meeting was held in 1990. MRPM2 was held in 1993 at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK , MRPM3  in 1995 at the Université Catolique of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, MRPM4 in 1997 in Trondheim, Norway. The conference returned to Bologna for MRPM5 in 2000. MRPM6 was organized in 2002 at the University of Ulm, Germany, and MRPM7 in Palaiseau, France. The Proceedings of all the previous MRPM Conferences have been published as Special Issues of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Since the vitality and interest of these Conferences and the consideration that the community which the conference series serves had grown considerably over the years in such a way that it now extends to cover all continents of the globe, after MRPM7 the community has joined the Groupement Ampere as the MRPM Division, and the Conferences, which now are explicitly called the “Bologna MRPM Conferences,” are Ampere Events. The next Conference (Bologna MRPM9) is expected to be organized in 2008 by the Research Center of Schlumberger (Boston).

The conference is devoted to the progress in Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media and in our understanding of Porous Media themselves, and to stimulate the contact among people from various parts of Academia and Industry. Researchers in Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Sciences, and in Industrial Applications will benefit from exchange of ideas, experiences, and new approaches. Topics will include innovative techniques to study structure, behavior of fluids, and their interactions in every kind of natural and artificial materials, including rocks, cements, biological tissues, foodstuffs, wood, particle packs, sediments, pharmaceuticals, zeolites, and bioconstructs. New data acquisition and processing techniques are also expected to be strong features.

The Giulio Cesare Borgia Prize for Young Researchers will be awarded at the end of the Conference. The Prize (three thousand EURO, courtesy of Department DICMA, U. Bologna, to which he belonged) has been established in memory of the contribution made by Giulio Cesare Borgia to the development of Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media and for the particular attention he always paid to the enthusiasm, passion, and courage of young people who undertook the difficult and adventurous path of scientific investigation in this fascinating area of research. The award will be presented to the emerging scientist (normally under the age of 35) who, based on a presentation to the community at the Conference, shows greatest promise for future scientific leadership.

            Contributions to the Conference are: Invited (25 minute + 5 minute discussion), Oral (15 minute + 5 minute discussion), Selected Poster (10 minute oral presentation without discussion + discussion at the Poster during Poster Sessions), and Poster presentation at the Poster Session. Posters have  numbers, to be found in the Scientific Programme. Each Poster should be put up on the easel with the corresponding Poster number, starting the afternoon of Sunday, 10 September. The Posters will be exhibited for the duration of the Conference

            The Organizing Committee gives thanks for the support given to the Conference by all of the sponsors and donors: Università di Bologna (I); Elsevier Inc. (New York, NY, USA); Dipartimento di Fisica (U. Bologna, I); Dipartimento DICMA (U. Bologna, I); Facoltà di Scienze (U. Bologna, I); Facoltà di Ingegneria (U. Bologna, I); UniboCultura (I); Schlumberger-Doll Research (Ridgefield, CT, USA); Stelar s.r.l. (Mede, PV, I); Chevron (USA); Varian (I); Enitecnologie (I); ACT (D); Magnitek (NZ); Bruker Biospin GmbH (D, I); Esaote S.p.A. (I); Spectra Stable Isotopes (USA); Zürich Insurance Co. – E.Z. Assicurazioni (Bologna, I).

            On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I wish you and enjoyable and fruitful time in Bologna.

 

 

August 21th 2006

Paola Fantazzini, Chair, Bologna MRPM8

Physics Department, U. Bologna

paola.fantazzini@unibo.it

 

 

International Scientific Advisory Committee

Paola Fantazzini (I, Chair)

Ioan Ardelean (RO)

Jerzy Blicharski (PL)

Bernhard Blümich (D)

Peter Blümler (D)

Robert J.S. Brown (USA)

Paul Callaghan (NZ)

Keh-Jim Dunn (USA)

Eiichi Fukushima (USA)

Lynn Gladden (UK)

John Gore (USA)

Laurie Hall (UK)

Martin Hürlimann (USA)

Jörg Kärger (D)

Rainer Kimmich (D)

Igor Koptyug (RU)

Jean-Pierre Korb (F)

Peter McDonald (UK)

Bruno Maraviglia (I)

Nikolaus Nestle (D)

Ken Packer (UK)

Pabitra Sen (USA)

Siegfried Stapf (D)

John Strange (UK)

Hans Thomann (USA)

Rustem Valiullin (RU)

Sergey Vasenkov (D)

Marija Vilfan (SI).

 

Organizing Committee

Paola Fantazzini, Chair (Dep. of Physics, U. Bologna)

Robert J. S. Brown (U. Bologna)

Villiam Bortolotti (U. Bologna)

Giovanni Brighenti (U. Bologna)

Fiorenzo Filippetti (U. Bologna)

Carla Garavaglia (U. Bologna)

Mirko Gombia (U. Bologna)

Giuseppe Maddinelli (Eni, Milano)

Paolo Schembri (U. Bologna)

Simona Nardini (U. Bologna).

 

SPONSORSHIPS and DONATIONS (The Organizing Committee thanks:)

Università di Bologna (I)

Dipartimento di Fisica (U. Bologna, I)

Dipartimento DICMA (U. Bologna, I)

Facoltà di Ingegneria (U. Bologna, I)

Facoltà di Scienze (U. Bologna, I)

UniboCultura (U. Bologna, I)

Elsevier Inc. (New York, NY)

Schlumberger-Doll Research (Ridgefield, CT)

Zürich Insurance Co. - E. Z. Assicurazioni (Bologna, I)

Spectra Stable Isotopes (USA)

  EniTecnologie (I)

  ACT (D)

  Chevron (USA)

  Magnitek (NZ)

  Esaote S.p.A. (I)

  Bruker Biospin GmbH (D, I)

 Stelar s.r.l. (Mede, PV, I)

  Varian (I)

 

8th INTERNATIONAL  BOLOGNA  CONFERENCE ON

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN POROUS MEDIA

 

Bologna MRPM8

 

Scientific Programme

 

from

14.00  SUNDAY 10th SEPTEMBER

to

13.00  THURSDAY 14th SEPTEMBER

 

Conference Room 6.1 – 6.2

Engineering Faculty

 

Viale del Risorgimento 2, Bologna

 

 

SUNDAY 10th SEPTEMBER

 

14.00

R E G I S T R A T I O N

 

 

 

OPENING SESSION

Chairpersons: Paul T. Callaghan and Paola Fantazzini

 

 

16.00

 

WELCOME

 

 

16.30

INVITED

Random walk around porous media magnetic resonance – A personal view

E. Fukushima

 

 

17.10

INVITED

Magnetic resonance force microscopy – the quest for a molecular structure microscope

H. J. Mamin, R. Budakian, M. Poggio. C. Degen, D. Rugar

 

 

17.40

 

 

 

19.00

W E L C O M E    P A R T Y    C O U R T E S Y    O F

S C I E N C E    F A C U L T Y

U N I V E R S I T Y    O F    B O L O G N A

 

 

 

MONDAY 11th SEPTEMBER

 

 

SESSION I

Chairpersons: Farida Grinberg and Sergey Vasenkov

 

 

 

9.00

INVITED

Time dependence of the effective diffusion coefficient of fluids in partially filled mesoscopic pores from hundred microseconds to hundred milliseconds

I. Ardelean, G. Farrher, R. Kimmich

 

 

 

9.30

ORAL

Dynamical aspects of the adsorption hysteresis phenomenon

R. Valiullin, S. Naumov, P. Galvosas, J. Kärger, P. A. Monson

 

 

 

9.50

ORAL

Quantitative Studies of Newtonian and non-Newtonian Dispersion in flow through porous media

U. M. Scheven, R. Harris, M. L. Johns, L. F. Gladden

 

 

 

10.10

SELECTED POSTER

Transport properties of supercritical fluids in mesoporous materials probed by pulsed field gradient NMR

M. Dvoyashkin, R. Valiullin, J. Kärger, W.-D. Einicke, R. Gläser

 

 

 

10.20

SELECTED POSTER

Measurement and simulation of the Non-Local dispersion tensor in porous media

M. W. Hunter, A. N. Jackson, P. T. Callaghan  

 

 

 

10.30

Coffee Break

 

 

 

 

SESSION II

Chairpersons: Eiichi Fukushima and Siegfried Stapf

 

 

 

11.00

INVITED

Nondestructive Testing by NMR: From Polymer Pipes to Mummies

B. Blümich, F. Casanova, J. Perlo, A. Adams-Buda, V. Anferov, S. Anverova, S. Appelt, D. Demco, K. Münnemann, G. D. Rata, N. Goga, M. Krüger, J. Kolz, K. Kremer, J. Mauler, M. Adams, K. Kupferschläger

 

 

 

11.30

INVITED

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Cultural Heritage

C. Casieri, M. Brai, M. Camaiti, F. De Luca, P. Fantazzini

 

 

 

12.00

SELECTED POSTER

Single-sided NMR sensor with a highly uniform static gradient: applications to profiling and diffusion measurements

F. Casanova, J. Perlo, B. Blümich

 

 

 

12.10

SELECTED POSTER

Determination of porosity and novel 2D relaxation and diffusion experiments with mobile NMR Halbach scanner

S. Anferova, E. Talnishnikh, V. Anferov, B. Blümich, J. Arnold, H. Pape, C. Clauser

 

 

 

12.20

SELECTED POSTER

A NMR study of the moisture and ion transport in two- and three-layer porous building materials

J. Petkovic, L. Pel, H. P. Huinink, K. Kopinga

 

 

 

12.30

Lunch

 

 

 

 

SESSION III

Chairpersons: Jean-Pier Korb and Rustem Valiullin

 

 

 

14.00

INVITED

Hydrodynamic dispersion at interfaces in porous media investigated by field-cycling NMR relaxometry

C. Mattea, H. Tiraboschi, R. Kimmich

 

 

 

14.30

ORAL

What Can NMR Tell Us About Ordering, Molecular Reorientations and Self-Diffusion of Fluids Constrained in Nano-Scaled Pores?

F. Grinberg

 

 

 

14.50

ORAL

Polymer dynamics in mesoscopic porous media: NMR signatures of transition from bulk to reptation dynamics due to the Corset Effect

R. Kausik, C. Mattea, N. Fatkullin, R. Kimmich

 

 

 

15.10

SELECTED POSTER

Multi-Scale Proton Dynamics in Acid Colloids

L. Pautrot-d’Alençon, D. Petit, P. Barboux   

 

 

 

15.20

SELECTED POSTER

Influence of the surface of zeolite crystals on molecular transport: PFG NMR measurements and computer simulations

M. Krutyeva, S. Vasenkov, J. Kärger

 

 

 

15.30

SELECTED POSTER

NMR of diffusion in porous media: branched or disordered structure?

D. S. Grebenkov, G. Guillot

 

 

 

15.40

SELECTED POSTER

Multiple correlation function approach to study the restricted diffusion under arbitrary magnetic field

D. S. Grebenkov

 

 

 

15.50

SELECTED POSTER

Probing a model pulmonary acinus by NMR gas diffusion

D. Habib,  D. Grebenkov, G. Guillot 

 

 

 

16.00

SELECTED POSTER

Diffusion Weighted MGSE Imaging Sequence for Probing Molecular Dynamics in Porous Systems

I. Serša, A. Mohorič, J. Stepišnik

 

 

 

16.10

SELECTED POSTER

Improved characterization of 1.5 inch brine saturated rock cores using a newly designed 12.8 MHz rock core analyzer

G. H. Sørland, H. C. Widerøe

 

 

 

16.20

Coffee Break courtesy of Chevron

 

 

 

17.00