10–12 Feb 2016
Spallation Neutron Source
US/Eastern timezone

Agenda

RMCProfile Workshop

February 10-12, 2016

Iran Thomas Auditorium, Spallation Neutron Source

 

Event Contact: Melissa Richards, 865-705-3119 (mobile); 865-241-5176 (office); richardsmk@ornl.gov

Agenda as of January 26, 2016

 

Wednesday, February 10, 2012

12:00-1:00pm

Registration

(Lunch on your own)

1:00-1:20pm

Welcome and Introductions

Katharine Page, Igor Levin, and Matthew Tucker

Basic Techniques and Tutorials

1:20-1:50pm

General Introduction to Local Structure and Modeling Methods

 TBD

1:50-3:20pm

RMCProfile Tutorial Part A

Dr. Matthew Tucker

Coffee Break (20 Minutes)

3:40-5:10pm

RMCProfile Tutorial Part B

Dr. Matthew Tucker

Travel To Dinner

6:00-8:00pm

Dinner

Prof. Takeshi Egami will present a dinner talk titled, “Past, present and future of total scattering research.”

 

Thursday, February 11, 2012

Scientific Session A

9:00-9:30am

Reverse Monte Carlo of Polar Materials and Solid Solutions

Prof. Daniel Shoemaker

9:30-9:50am

Average and local structure of the Pb-free ferroelectric perovskites (Sr,Sn)TiO3 and (Ba,Ca,Sn)TiO3

Dr. Geneva Laurita (Seshadri Group)

9:50-10:10am

Local and mesoscale electric-field induced structural changes in ferroelectrics and dielectrics

Prof. Jacob Jones

10:10-10:30am

Peizoelectric Materials at Morphotropic Phase Boundaries

Prof. Michelle Dolgos

Coffee Break (20 minutes)

Scientific Session B

10:50-11:20am

RMC With Molecular Crystals

Prof. Martin Dove

11:20-11:40am

Quantifying stacking defaults in honeycomb-ordered layered oxides

Dr. Jue Liu (former Khalifah Group)

11:40-12:00am

RMC Techniques for Next Generation Battery Materials

Mr. He Huang (Nazar Group)

12:00am-12:20pm

Defects and disorder for the control of negative thermal expansion

Prof. Angus Wilkinson

Lunch Break (60 minutes)

Advanced RMC Techniques and Tutorials

1:20-1:50pm

Insight into Magnetic Nanostructure with RMC

Prof. Andrew Goodwin

1:50-2:20pm

Data Fusion in RMCProfile

Dr. Igor Levin

2:20-2:50pm

Representational Analysis of Extended Disorder in Atomistic Ensembles Derived from Total Scattering Data

Prof. James Neilson

Coffee Break (20 Minutes)

3:10-3:50pm

RMC Refinement for Frustrated Magnets: Revealing Spin Correlations using the Spinvert Software

Dr. Joseph Paddison

3:50-4:30pm

Data Fusion Example in RMCProfile

Dr. Victor Krayzman and Dr. Igor Levin

4:30-5:30pm

Open Tutorial: Your Science and Data

 

Poster Session with Dinner (5:30 – 7:30 PM)

 

Friday, February 12, 2012

Future Directions in RMC Modeling

9:00-9:30am

Advancing RMC Modelling

Prof. Tyrel McQueen

9:30-10:00am

FullRMC, Rigid Body RMC Modelling Enabled by Machine Learning

Dr. Bachir Aoun

10:00-10:30am

Examples of Unique Computational Approaches to The Modeling of PDF data: Can We Utilize All Computational Capabilities?

Dr. Hsiu-Wen Wang and Dr. Lukas Vlcek

Coffee Break (20 minutes)

 

10:50-11:00am

Discussion Starters for Breakout Sessions

Igor Levin, Matthew Tucker, and Katharine Page

11:00am-12:00pm

Future Instrumentation Developments

 

Future Software Developments

 

 

Richard Ibberson / Tyrel McQueen Lead?

 

Thomas Proffen / Andrew Goodwin Lead?

 

Lunch and Workshop Debrief (90 Minutes)

 

Poster Session

Participant

Affiliation

Poster Title

Allen Scheie

 

Johns Hopkins University

Magnetic Order in Honeycomb Lattice NaNi2BiO6

Tedi Marie-Usher

North Carolina State University

Electric-field-induced structural changes at the local scale in dielectrics and ferroelectrics

Leo Lamontagne

University of California, Santa Barbara

Local Structure Effects on the Insulator-Metal Transition in Complex Palladium Oxides

Erica Howard

University of Southern California

Determining Site Distribution in Complex Phyllosilicates

Alexandria Hoeher

Virginia Tech

Examining the Structure and Evolution of Amorphous Calcium Phosphate

Anup Pandey

Ohio University

Force Enhanced Atomic Refiment (FEAR) : A structural refinement using RMC and Force

Honore Djieutedjeu

University of Kentucky

Complex layered heterostructures: Efficient and low-cost energy materials for the next generation of mulifunctional devices

Daniel Olds

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Resolving local and long range order in nanostructured functional oxides

Abney Carter

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

XAFS Investigation of Uranyl Binding by Amidoxime-Functionalized Polymers

Peter Peterson

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Mantid

Hsiu-Wen Wang

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Resolving the Structure of Ti3C2Tx MXenes through Multi-Level Structural Modeling of the Atomic Pair Distribution Function

Dong Hou

North Carolina State University

Temperature-induced Average and Local Structural Changes of BaTiO3−Bi(Zn0.5Ti0.5)O3

Jessica Panella

Johns Hopkins University

The tentative title will be "Probing the Structure of Quasi One-Dimensional Analogues of Bismuth Sulfide Superconductors

Xiqian Yu

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Effect of metal-metal bonding on lithium-ion battery performance revealed by local structure investigation

Adam Vogt

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scattering studies of metallic liquids using the Neutron ElectroStatic Levitator (NESL)

Dylan Fast

 

Atomic and electronic structural characterization of amorphous InGaZnO4

Arnold Paecklar

Colorado State University

Simultaneous detection of kinetics and structure through a combination of isotope contrasted total scattering and steady-state isotopic transient kinetic analysis

Jennifer Morey

Johns Hopkins University

Doped oxypnictide series begs the question: local disorder on the pnictide site

Joe Paddison Georgia Tech Spin Dynamics and Disorder of the Frustrated Antiferromagnet MgCr2O4