May 1 – 5, 2023
Spallation Neutron Source
US/Eastern timezone

Agenda

5th US School on Total Scattering Analysis

May 1-5, 2022
Spallation Neutron Source, Building 8600

Agenda as of April 9, 2023, It will very likely change but it gives you an idea of what to expect. 

Monday, May 1, 2023 - Iran Thomas Auditorium

8:30 am – Registration, Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Bldg, 8600, Lobby

9:00 am – Welcome, Matt Tucker, ORNL

9:15 am – Introduction to Total Scattering, Thomas Proffen, ORNL

10:00 am – Small box modelling - Katharine Page, UTK & ORNL

10:30 am – Coffee Break

11:00 am – RMCProfile as a data-fusion framework for determining nanoscale atomic order – Igor Levin, NIST

11:30 am – Building complex and decorated nanoparticles with DISCUS - Reinhard Neder, University Erlangen-Germany

12:00 pm – Working Lunch -Topic: Discussion, Q&A and Software Setup help

1:00 pm – Fourier Transforms are Not Magic: How We Make Your PDF, Daniel Olds, BNL

1:45 pm – X-ray Total Scattering Instrumentation, Milinda Abeykoon, BNL

2:15 pm – PDFgetX3 Demonstration, NSLS-II Staff

2:45 pm – Neutron Total Scattering Instrumentation, Jue Liu, ORNL 

3:15 pm – ADDIE Demonstration, Yuanpeng Zhang, ORNL

3:45 pm –  Coffee Break

4:15 pm – Students: 1-Minute Poster Introductions

5:30-6:15 pm – Poster Set-up

6:15 pm –Topic: 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, May 2, 2023 - C-156, AG-06, AG-07 

9:00 - 5:00 pm – Parallel hands-on sessions: PDFGui/RMCProfile/DISCUS

10:00 - 10:30 am – Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 pm – Hands-on Part 1

12:00 - 1:00 pm – Working Lunch -Topic:  Discussion and Q&A with instructors 

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, Topic: "Meet the Postdocs and Students", SNS, C150-C156 

7:00 pm – Adjourn

 

Wednesday, May 3, 2023 - C-156, AG-06, AG-07

9:00 - 5:00 pm – Parallel hands-on sessions: PDFGui/RMCProfile/DISCUS

10:00 - 10:30 am – Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 pm – Hands-on Part 1

12:00 - 1:00 pm – Working Lunch -Topic: Discussion and Q&A with instructors 

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

6:15 pm - 8:30 pm – Games night dinner Topic: "Discuss the posters and have prize ceremony"

 

Thursday, May 4, 2023 - C-156, AG-06, AG-07

9:00 - 5:00 pm – Parallel hands-on sessions: PDFGui/RMCProfile/DISCUS

10:00 - 10:30 am – Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 pm – Hands-on Part 1

12:00 - 1:00 pm –Topic: Working Lunch - Discussion and  Q&A with instructors 

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, Topic: "How to write a Proposal", SNS, C150-C156 -Kate Page

7:00 pm – Adjourn

 

Friday, May 5, 2023 - C-156, AG-06, AG-07

Studying Magnetic materials with total Scattering 

9:00 - 9:30 am     Spinvert and Scatty, Joe Paddison, ORNL

9:30 - 10:00 am    rmc-discord, Zach Morgan, ORNL

10:00 - 10:30 am – Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 am – RMCProfile and magnetic materials, Yuanpeng Zhang, ORNL

11:00 - 12:00 pm – mPDF, Ben Frandsen (Virtual), BYU

12:00 - 1:00 pm – Working Lunch - Topic: Discussion and Q&A with instructors 

1:00 - 3:00 pm – Time with instructors and work on own data part 1

3:00 - 3:30 pm – Coffee Break

3:30 - 5:00 pm – Time with instructors and work on own data part 2

5:00 pm – School Ends

 

We plan to prepare workshop materials in the format of Dropbox folder for distribution to each registered participant and forming the starting point of online tutorials for diffuse scattering and PDF analysis.