Day 1: Wednesday November 15, 2023
Iran Thomas Auditorium at Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) (building 8600)
Schedule (EST) | Activity | Moderator |
8:00 | Registration at SNS lobby (Keosha Anderson) |
Qiang Zhang
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8:30 | Welcome remarks (Jon Taylor) | |
8:45 | Introduction to TOF neutron powder diffraction (1.25 h) (Cheng Li) | |
10:00 | Powgen instrument, sample environments, science cases (1h) (Alicia Manjón Sanz and Melanie Kirkham) | |
11:00 | Coffee break (0.5h) | |
11:30 | Advanced sample environment – gas dosing, AGES, magnet, etc (1h) (Cheng Li) | |
12:30 | Working Lunch (1h) How to write a successful proposal (Thomas Proffen) | |
1:30 | Group photo (15min) | |
1:45 | Powgen tour (1h) (Melanie Kirkham) |
Alicia Manjón Sanz |
2:45 | Introduction to total scattering (1h) (Thomas Proffen) | |
3:45 | Coffee break (0.5h) | |
4:15 | Introduction to magnetic symmetry (1.25 h) (Stuart Calder) | |
5:30 | Break | |
6:00 | Reception dinner-Welcome participants and provide instructions on neutron beam time applications and further collaboration |
Day 2: Thursday November 16, 2023
Morning session from 9:00 to 2:00pm will take place in the conference room 302B in building 7995 at High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR).
Afternoon session after 2:30pm will take place in conference rooms 302B in building 7995 (FullProf), and 29A and 29B in building 7964 (TOPAS) at HFIR.
Schedule (EST) | Activity | Moderator | |
8:30 | Bus leaves from SNS, meet at the lobby |
Melanie Kirkham
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9:00 | Introduction to Rietveld analysis and example refinement in GSAS-II (1.25h) (Alicia Manjón Sanz) | ||
10:15 | Coffee break (0.5h) | ||
10:45 | GSAS-II tutorial on crystal and commensurate magnetic structure (1.25h) (Qiang Zhang) | ||
12:00 | Working lunch (1h) Powder diffractometers at ORNL (Clarina dela Cruz) | ||
1:00 | Combined synchrotron X-ray and neutron powder diffraction Rietveld refinement in GSAS-II (1h) (Alicia Manjón Sanz) | ||
2:00 | Coffee break (0.5h) | ||
2:30 | FullProf tutorial on crystal structure and commensurate magnetic structure (1h) (Qiang Zhang) FullProf tutorial on crystal structure and incommensurate spin density waves (1h) (Qiang Zhang) | TOPAS tutorials on POWGEN data: from indexing to Rietveld refinements (2h) (Cheng Li and Alicia Manjón Sanz)
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Yuanpeng Zhang & Thomas Proffen |
4:30 | Coffee break (0.25 h) |
Thomas Proffen | |
4:45 | Bring your own questions (1.25h) /Tour at HFIR (Matthias Frontzek and Stuart Calder) | ||
6:00 | Bus leaves HFIR back to SNS | ||
Day 3: Friday November 17, 2023
Conference rooms C-156 and C-152 at SNS
Schedule (EST) | Activity | Moderator |
9:00 | Advanced techniques –event filter, neutron absorption correction (1 h) (Qiang Zhang) |
Cheng Li |
10:00 | Coffee break (0.5h) | |
10:30 | Get your PDF data ready for a small-box modeling and PDFGui tutorial (1.25h) (Yuanpeng Zhang) | |
11:45 | Working lunch (1h) How to help your career development and introduction of further workshops in ORNL (Qiang Zhang) | |
12:45 | Bring your own questions for discussion and closing remarks (Qiang Zhang) |
