20–24 Jul 2026
Duke University
US/Eastern timezone

Agenda

***TENTATIVE AGENDA***

Monday July 20   [101 Science Dr., Fitzpatrick B 1466 ]

Time

Event

Presenter

8:30 – 9:00am

Registration and set-up

 

9:00 – 9:15am

Welcome and workshop overview

 

9:15-10:15am

Overview of ORNL neutron facilities and instruments

Clarina dela Cruz [Open]

10:15 – 10:45am

Proposal writing for neutron beamtime at ORNL

Clarina dela Cruz [Open]

10:45 – 11:00am

Break

 

11:15 – 12:30

Neutron scattering as a tool for magnetic structure determination

William Ratcliffe [Open]

12:30– 1:30 pm

Working LUNCH: Overview of software tools for magnetic diffraction

Ovi Garlea

1:30 – 2:30 pm

Overview of magnetic structures (Ireps vs MSG and spinSG) – Part 1

Andrew Wills

2:30 – 3:30pm

Overview of magnetic structures (Ireps vs MSG and spinSG) – Part 2

 Andrew Wills

3:30 – 3:45pm

Break

 

3:45 – 5:15 pm

Introduction to Fullprof / Example of Fullprof refinement of commensurate structure from CW powder diffraction data -part 1 (refining crystal structure)

Stuart Calder

Tuesday July 21   [100 Science Dr., Hudson Hall 207]

Time

Event

Presenter

8:30 – 9:00 am

Questions from previous day

Everyone

9:00 – 10:30 am

Overview of SARAh for representation analysis – part 1

Andrew Wills

10:30 – 10:45 am

Break

 

10:45 – 12:00 am

Overview of SARAh for representation analysis – part 1

Andrew Wills

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Working LUNCH (Lightning science talks)

12:00 – 1:00 pm

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Overview of Bilbao Crystallographic server: MAXMAGN, MVISUALIZE, k-SUBGROUPSMAG, MAGNDATA database etc

Stuart Calder

2:00 – 3:15 pm

Hands-on example of Fullprof refinement of commensurate structure from CW powder diffraction data [Fullprof/SARAh] -part 2

Stuart Calder

3:15 – 3:30 pm

Break

 

3:30 – 5:30 pm

Hands-on example: Example of Fullprof refinement of commensurate structures from CW powder diffraction data [Fullprof & Magnetic Space Groups] -part 3

Stuart Calder

Wednesday July 22   [100 Science Dr., Hudson Hall 207]

Time

Event

Presenter

8:30 – 9:00 am

Questions from previous day

Everyone

9:00 – 10:30 am

Hands-on example: Fullprof refinement of commensurate structure from TOF data (Fullprof/ SARAh)

Danielle Yahne

10:30 – 10:45 am

Break

 

10:45 – 12:00 pm

Hands-on example: Fullprof refinement of commensurate structure from TOF data (Fullprof/Magnetic Space groups)

Danielle Yahne

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Working LUNCH How to report magnetic structures using the guidelines in publications and how to submit mcif files to MAGNDATA

Ovi Garlea

1:00- 1:45pm

Introduction to ISOTROPY and use with Fullprof

Ovi Garlea

1:45- 2:15pm

Symmetry of incommensurate magnetic structures: magnetic superspace groups in Fullprof

Ovi Garlea

2:15 – 2:30 pm

Break

 

2:30 – 4:00

Hands-on example: Fullprof incommensurate structure from powder data (Fullprof & Super Space Groups & Rep. analysis)

Ovi Garlea

4:00 – 5:30 pm

Multi-k magnetic structures from powder data and multi-magnetic domains and multi-k in fitting single-crystal data

Ovi Garlea

5.30 – 6.00pm

Student questions from the day

EVERYONE

 

Thursday July 24   [100 Science Dr., Hudson Hall 207]

Time

Event

Presenter

8:30 – 9 am

Questions from previous day

Everyone

9:00 – 10:00 am

Fullprof refinement of single crystal data (commensurate structure with magnetic space group approach/rep analysis ).

Yiqing Hao

10:00 – 10:45 am

Fullprof refinement of single crystal data (incommensurate structure with magnetic space group approach/rep analysis ).

Yiqing Hao/Huibo Cao

10:45 – 11:00 am

Break

 

11:00 – 12:15 pm

Introduction to JANA and refinement of time of flight single crystal data

Huibo Cao

12:15 -1:15pm

Working LUNCH (Discuss and complete Jana homework)

 Huibo Cao

1:15 – 2:00 pm

Introduction to GSAS-II & new features

Keith Taddei

2:00 – 3:30 pm

Example of GSAS-II refinement of magnetic structure from CW powder data

Athena Chen

3:30 - 3:45 pm

Break

 

3:45 – 5:30pm

Example of GSAS-II refinement of magnetic structure from TOF data (maybe isodistort approach?)

Keith Taddei

5:30–6:00pm

CLOSEOUT: Questions and discussion

EVERYONE

 

Friday July 25   [100 Science Dr., Hudson Hall 207]

Time

Event

Presenter

8:30 – 9 am

Questions from previous day

Everyone

9:00 – 10:45 am

Introduction to Mag2Pol – Part 1

Navid Qureshi (Virtual)

10:45 – 11:00 am

Break

 

11:00 – 12:00 pm

Introduction to Mag2Pol– Part 2

Navid Qureshi (Virtual)

12:00 - 1:00pm

LUNCH (Discussion of strategies for using all the software)

Stuart Calder

1:00 - 3:00pm

Work on your own magnetic structures (Everyone)

 

3:00–3:30pm

CLOSEOUT: Questions and discussion

EVERYONE