Program

Agenda

Monday, May 23, 2016

8:00-8:30am:  Breakfast

8:30-8:45am:  Welcome remarks –W. R. Ellington (Associate Vice President for Research, FSU)

8:45-9:00am:  Agenda overview – O. Garlea (ORNL)

9:00-10:15am:  Introduction to magnetic structure/ Types of magnetic structures/ The formalism of propagation vector – A. Wills (UCL)

10:15-10:30am: Break

10:30-11:00am:  Alternative approaches to describe the magnetic order (brief overview of Repr. Analysis & Magnetic Symmetry) – J. Rodriguez-Carvajal (ILL)

11:00-12:00am:  Representation Theory in Magnetic Structure Analysis – A. Wills (UCL)

12:00-1:30pm: Working Lunch: Important software tools for magnetic structure determination – O. Garlea (ORNL)

1:30-2:00pm: Representation Theory in Magnetic Structure Analysis (cont’d)

2:00-3:00pm: Magnetic Space Groups – J. Rodriguez-Carvajal (ILL)

3:00-3:45pm Introduction to the Fullprof Suite – J. Rodriguez-Carvajal (ILL)

3:45-4:00pm Break

4:00-5:00pm Magnetic Structure Factor calculation & Ways to define the magnetic phase using Fullprof & Steps in magnetic structures determination – J. Rodriguez-Carvajal (ILL)

5:00-6:00pm Experimental aspects of magnetic structure determination (diffraction techniques, overview of instrumentation, polarized neutrons) – W. Ratcliff (NCNR)

 

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

8:00-8:30am: Breakfast

8:30-10:30am:  Introduction to SARAh Representational Analysis & Refine programs - Hands-on example – A. Wills (UCL)

10:30-10:45am: Break

10:45-11:15pm: Introduction to BasIrreps software – J. Rodriguez-Carvajal (ILL)

11:15-12:00pm: Overview of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server (magnetic symmetry tools & mCif file) – J. Rodriguez-Carvajal (ILL) or O. Garlea (ORNL)

12:00-1:30pm: Working Lunch: Where to run your neutron diffraction experiments – overview of facilities across the world – W. Ratcliff (NCNR)

1:30-3:30pm Hands-on in Commensurate Magnetic Structure from constant wavelength (CW) data [Example 1] – Clarina de la Cruz  (ORNL)

3:30-3:45pm Break

3:45-6:00pm Hands-on in Commensurate Magnetic Structure from CW data – [Example 1 cont’d] – Clarina de la Cruz (ORNL)

 

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

8:00-8:30am Breakfast

8:30-10:30am Hands-on in Incommensurate Magnetic Structure [Example 2] – S. Calder (ORNL)

10:30-10:45am Break

10:45-12:00pm Hands-on in Incommensurate Magnetic Structure [Example 2 cont’d] – S. Calder (ORNL)

12:00-1:30pm: Working Lunch: Neutron Diffractometers at HFIR and SNS (ORNL) – S. Calder (ORNL)

1:30-3:30pm: Hands-on in Commensurate Magnetic Structure from Time-Of-Flight (TOF) data [Example 3] – O. Garlea (ORNL)

3:30-3:45pm Break

3:45-6:00pm Hands-on in Commensurate Magnetic Structure from Time-Of-Flight (TOF) data [Example 3- cont’d] – O. Garlea  (ORNL)

 

Thursday, May 26, 2016

8:00-8:30am Breakfast

8:30-10:30am Magnetic structure determination using the Simulated Annealing algorithm [Example 4] – J. Rodriguez-Carvajal (ILL)

10:30-10:45am Break

10:45-12:00pm Magnetic structure determination using the Simulated Annealing algorithm [Example 4 –cont’d] – J. Rodriguez-Carvajal (ILL)

12:00-1:30pm Working Lunch: How to write successful neutron diffraction proposals – Clarina de la Cruz (ORNL)

1:30-3:30pm Hands-on in solving magnetic structures from Single Crystal data [Example 5] – Huibo Cao (ORNL)

3:30-3:45pm Break

3:45-6:00pm - Hands-on in solving magnetic structures from Single Crystal data [Example 6] – Huibo Cao (ORNL)

 

Friday, May 26, 2016

8:00-8:30am Breakfast

8:30 -11:30am  Tour of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory – M. Shatruk  (FSU)

11:30 -11:45am Closing