Day 1: Thursday, July 23, 2026
C-156 at Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) (building 8600)
|
Schedule (EST) |
Activity |
Moderator |
|
7:30am - 8:30am |
Registration at SNS Chestnut Ridge Visitor Center (Tiffany Payne) |
Qiang Zhang
|
|
8:30am - 9:00am |
Welcome (Mark Lumsden and workshop team) |
|
|
9:00am - 10:00am |
Introduction to TOF Neutron Powder Diffraction (Cheng Li) |
|
|
10:00am - 10:15am |
AM Break |
|
|
10:15am - 10:30am |
Group Photo |
|
|
10:30am - 11:30am |
POWGEN Instrument, Sample Environments, Science Cases (Alicia Manjón Sanz and Melanie Kirkham) |
|
|
11:30am - 12:30pm |
Data reduction: what happens before Rietveld (Malcolm Guthrie) |
|
|
12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Working Lunch - How to write a successful proposal (Thomas Proffen) |
|
|
1:30pm - 2:00pm |
Introduction to Rietveld Analysis and GSAS-ll (Thomas Proffen) |
|
|
2:00pm - 3:00pm |
Tutorial: Refinements in GSAS-ll (Alicia Manjón Sanz) |
Thomas Proffen |
|
3:00pm - 3:15pm |
PM Break |
|
|
3:15pm - 4:30pm |
POWGEN Tour (Melanie Kirkham) |
|
|
4:30pm - 5:00pm |
Poster Setup Session |
|
|
5:00pm - 6:00pm |
Poster Session |
|
|
6:00pm - 8:00pm |
Reception Dinner - AI in Diffraction (Thomas Proffen) |
Day 2: Friday, July 24, 2026
C-156 at Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) (building 8600)
|
Schedule (EST) |
Activity |
Moderator |
|
|
8:30am - 9:00am |
Bus Recap Day 1 - Students share what they learned |
Melanie Kirkham
|
|
|
9:00am - 10:00am |
Advanced Sample Environment - gas dosing, AGES, magnet, etc. (Cheng Li) |
||
|
10:00am - 10:15am |
AM Break |
||
| 10:15sm - 11:30am |
Advanced Techniques - event filter, neutron absorption correction (Qiang Zhang) |
||
|
11:30am - 12:30pm |
Introduction to Magnetic Symmetry (Stuart Calder) |
||
|
12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Working Lunch - Powder Diffractometers at ORNL (Clarina Dela Cruz) | ||
|
1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Tutorial: Crystal and Commensurate Magnetic Structure Refinement Using GSAS-ll (Qiang Zhang) |
||
|
2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Introduction to FULLPROF and Incommensurate Structures |
|
|
|
3:00pm - 3:15pm |
PM Break |
Thomas Proffen |
|
|
3:15pm - 4:30pm |
Tutorial: Incommensurate Spin Density Waves Refinement Using FULLPROF (Qiang Zhang) |
||
|
4:30pm - 5:00pm |
Participant Feedback and Ask an Instrument Scientist Closing Session |
||
|
5:00 |
Adjourn |
|
|