3–7 Aug 2026
Spallation Neutron Source
US/Eastern timezone

Agenda

7th US School on Total Scattering Analysis

August 3 - 7, 2026
Spallation Neutron Source, Building 8600

Draft, things may change a little but it is fairly close. 

Monday, August 3, 2026 - 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, TBD

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, TBD

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 – Neutron Total Scattering Data Processing, 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, August 4, 2026 - C-156, C-152, AG-06 

 

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, August 5, 2026 - C-156, C-152, AG-06 

 

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, August 6, 2026 - C-156, C-152, AG-06 

 

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, August 7, 2024 - C-156, C-152, AG-06

 

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 –The single crystal suite and diffuse scattering tools, 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, TBD 

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