Agenda

Overview:

Workshop will be 1pm - 4pm EST on both days.

The first day will focus more on science talks, while the second day will focus more on tutorials.

All science talks are 20+5 minutes.

 

This is a virtual workshop and will not be recorded.

 

May 3, 2022
  • Introduction & Welcome (1:00 – 1:10 pm)
  • Tutorial 1 (1:10 – 1:55 pm): Introduction to crystal fields (45 minutes) --- speaker: Mitchell Bordelon

--- 5 minute break ---

  • Science Talk 1 (2:00 – 2:20 pm): 4f physics and crystal fields --- speaker: Gabriele Sala
  • Science Talk 2 (2:25 – 2:45 pm): "Effective point charge fit to crystal field excitations" --- speaker: Zhiling Dun

--- 10 minute break ---

  • Science Talk 3 (3:00 – 3:20 pm): "Spin Hamiltonians: applications to transition metal ion clusters" --- speaker: Daniel Pajerowski
  • Science Talk 4 (3:25 – 3:45 pm): "Measuring crystal field excitations at ORNL" --- speaker: Allen Scheie
May 4, 2022
  • Science Talk 5 (1:00 – 1:20 pm): "Systematic characterization of crystal electric field effects and Spin-phonon hybridization in a magnetic insulator CsYbSe2" --- speaker: Chris Pocs
  • Science Talk 6 (1:25 – 1:45 pm): "Local magnetic anisotropy by polarized neutron powder diffraction" --- speaker: Xiaojian Bai

--- 10 minute break ---

  • Tutorial 2 (2:00 – 3:30 pm): PyCrystalField tutorial (1.5 hours) --- speaker: Allen Scheie
  • Tutorial 3 (3:30 – 4:00 pm): CrysPy tutorial: diffraction polarization analysis (30 minutes) --- speaker: Madalynn Marshall