US School on Total Scattering Analysis
August 6-10, 2018
Spallation Neutron Source, Building 8600
Event Contact: Lisa Bain, 865-405-1914 (mobile); 865-241-5176 (office); bainla@ornl.gov
Agenda as of Jul 23, 2018
Monday, Aug 6, 2018 - Iran Thomas Auditorium |
11:00 am - Registration, Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Bldg, 8600, Lobby 1:00 pm – Welcome, Matt Tucker, ORNL 1:15 pm - Introduction to Total Scattering, Thomas Proffen, ORNL 2:00 pm – Big surprises from the small box: PDF endeavors in nanostructured materials - Emil Bozin, Brookhaven National Lab 2:30 pm – RMCProfile as a data-fusion framework for determining nanoscale atomic order – Igor Levin, NIST 3:00 pm – Building complex and decorated nanoparticles with DISCUS - Reinhard Neder, University Erlangen-Germany 3:30 pm - Coffee Break 4:00 pm – Science with neutron total scattering – Kate Page, ORNL 4:30 pm – A local view of strongly correlated electron systems – Simon Kimber, ORNL 5:00 pm - Students: 1-Minute Poster Introductions 5:30-6:15 pm – Poster Set-up 6:15 pm - Poster Session & Dinner, SNS, Atrium & C150-C156 8:30 pm- Adjourn (7:00-7:30 pm -Even numbered posters presented/7:30-8:00 pm Odd numbered posters presented) |
Tuesday, Aug 7, 2018 - Conference Room C-156 |
9:00-10:00 am - Introductory lecture and hands on: Small box modelling using PDFGui 10:00-10:30 am - Group Photo & Coffee Break 10:30-12:00 pm - Hands-on Part 1 12:00-1:00 pm – Working Lunch- Data Correction - Speaker: Marshall McDonnell 1:00-3:00 pm - Hands-on Part 2 3:00-3:30 pm - Coffee Break 3:30-5:00 pm - Hands-on Part 3 5:00-7:00 pm – Science and Dinner w/Postdocs & students of ORNL, SNS, C150-C156 7:00 pm- Adjourn |
Wednesday, Aug 8, 2018 - Conference Room C-156 |
9:00-10:00 am - Introductory lecture and hands on: Large box modelling using RMCProfile – Matt Tucker 10:00-10:30 am - Coffee Break 10:30-12:00 pm - Hands-on Part 1 12:00-1:00 pm – Working Lunch- Local Structure Analysis with TOPAS: Speaker: Jue Lui 1:00-3:00 pm - Hands-on Part 2 3:00-3:30 pm - Coffee Break 3:30-5:00 pm - Hands-on Part 3 5:30 pm - Depart ORNL Guest House for Museum of Appalachia 6:15 pm-8:30 pm - Off-site Dinner @ Museum of Appalachia, Clinton, TN Sponsored by Shull Wollan |
Thursday, Aug 9, 2018 - Conference Room C-156 |
9:00-10:00 am - Introductory lecture and hands on: DISCUS and nanoparticle refinements 10:00-10:30 am - Coffee Break 10:30-12:00 pm - Hands-on Part 1 12:00-1:00 pm – Working Lunch- Glasses & Liquids – Speaker Joerg Neuefeind 1:00-3:00 pm - Hands-on Part 2 3:00-3:30 pm - Coffee Break 3:30-5:00 pm - Hands-on Part 3 5:00-7:00 pm - Dinner, "How to write a Proposal", SNS, C150-C156 -Kate Page 7:00 pm- Adjourn |
Friday, Aug 10, 2018 - Conference Room C-156 |
9:00-10:00 am – A day to spend time looking at your data 10:00-10:30 am - Coffee Break 10:30-12:00 pm - Hands-on Part 1 12:00-1:00 pm- Working Lunch- Discover Instrument & Dynamic PDF talk -Speaker: Kate Page & Simon Kimber 1:00-3:00 pm - Hands-on Part 2 3:00-3:30 pm - Coffee Break 3:30-5:00 pm - Hands-on Part 3 5:00 pm- Adjourn |
We plan to prepare workshop materials in the format of USB sticks for distribution to each registered participant and forming the starting point of online tutorials for diffuse scattering and PDF analysis. |