17–21 Jun 2024
Spallation Neutron Source
US/Eastern timezone

Agenda

6th US School on Total Scattering Analysis

June 17-21, 2024
Spallation Neutron Source, Building 8600

Monday, June 17, 2024 - 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 Lui, 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, June 18, 2024 - 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, June 19, 2024 - 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, June 20, 2024 - 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, June 21, 2024 - C-156, AG-06, AG-07

Studying Magnetic materials with total Scattering 

9:00 - 10:00 am – Spinvert, Spinteract, Scatty and more, Joe Paddison, ORNL

10:00 - 10:30 am – Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 am – rmc-discord, Zach Morgan, ORNL

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

11:30 to 12:00 pm – Exploring local magnetism in 2D layered materials through magnetic pair distribution function analysis, Raju Baral, ORNL 

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.