20 October 2021 to 12 November 2021
US/Eastern timezone

Agenda

4th US School on Total Scattering Analysis

Videos of the lectures can be found here 

October 20 - November 12, 2021
Virtual on Zoom (All times at EST)

Wednesday, Oct 20, 2021

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 –  Break

3:45 pm to 6:00 pm– Poster session (poster session 1 - 4 to 5, poster session 2 - 5 to 6)

 

Friday, Oct 22, 2021  

1:00 pm – Welcome/Get setup

1:15 pm – Fourier Transforms are Not Magic: How We Make Your PDF, Daniel Olds, BNL

2:00 pm – X-ray Total Scattering Instrumentation, Milinda Abeykoon, BNL

2:40 pm – X-ray Total Scattering Data Reduction , NSLS-II Staff

3:20 pm – Break

3:40 pm – Neutron Total Scattering Instrumentation, Katharine Page, UTK & ORNL 

4:20 pm – ADDIE Demonstration, Yuanpeng Zhang, ORNL

5:00 pm – Adjourn

 

Wednesday, Oct 27, 2021 

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – " Recent and upcoming developments in {PDF} analysis" (Simon Billinge), Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University and Condensed Matter and Materials Science Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory. 

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Parallel hands-on sessions: PDFGui/RMCProfile/DISCUS

5:00 pm – Adjourn

 

Friday, Oct 29, 2021 

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – "Pair distribution function analysis of battery materials" (Phoebe Allan), University of Birmingham, UK

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Parallel hands-on sessions: PDFGui/RMCProfile/DISCUS

5:00 pm – Adjourn

 

 

Wednesday, Nov 3, 2021 

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – "Disorder and diffuse scattering in materials chemistry", (Andrew Goodwin), University of Oxford 

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Parallel hands-on sessions: PDFGui/RMCProfile/DISCUS

5:00 pm – Adjourn

 

Friday, Nov 5, 2021 

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – "Of Spins and Pseudospins: Magnetic PDF as a powerful probe of short-range magnetic correlations" (Ben Frandsen), Brigham Young University, Department of Physics and Astronomy

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Parallel hands-on sessions: PDFGui/RMCProfile/DISCUS

5:00 pm – Adjourn

 

Wednesday, Nov 10, 2021 

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – "Pushing insight from laboratory PDF data and why we still need synchrotrons",(Mirijam Zobel), Institute of Crystallography, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Parallel hands-on sessions: PDFGui/RMCProfile/DISCUS

5:00 pm – Adjourn

 

Friday, Nov 12, 2021 

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – "X-Ray Absorption Fine-Structure:  Detailed Background and Applications", (Trevor Tyson), NJIT

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Parallel hands-on sessions: PDFGui/RMCProfile/DISCUS

5:00 pm – Adjourn