8–12 May 2017
Spallation Neutron Source
US/Eastern timezone

Agenda

US School on Total Scattering Analysis

May 8-12, 2017
Spallation Neutron Source, Building 8600

Event Contact: Lisa Bain, 865-405-1914 (mobile); 865-241-5176 (office); bainla@ornl.gov

Agenda as of May 2, 2017

Monday, May 8, 2017 - Iran Thomas Auditorium

11:00 am - Check-in & Poster setup

1:00 pm - Welcome

1:15 pm - Introduction to Total Scattering, Thomas Proffen, ORNL

2:00 pm - PDFGUI -Simon Billinge, Columbia University

3:00 pm - RMCProfile - Matt Tucker, ORNL

3:30 pm - Coffee Break

4:00 pm - DISCUS - Reinhard Neder, University Erlangen-Germany

4:30 pm - Diffuse Single Crystal Data, Stephan Rosenkranz, Argonne National Laboratory

5:00 pm - Students: 1-Minute Poster Introductions

5:30 pm - BREAK (Set up posters if needed)

6:30 pm - Poster Session & Dinner, SNS,  Atrium & C150-C156

(7:00-7:30 pm -Even numbered posters presented/7:30-8:00 pm Odd numbered posters presented)

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 - Conference Room C-156

9:00-10:00 am - Introductory lecture and hands on: Small box modelling using PDFGui

10:00-10:30 am - Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 pm - Hands-on Part 1

12:00-1:00 pm - Lunch- Data Correction talk

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 w/Postdocs of ORNL, SNS, C150-C156

Wednesday, May 10, 2017 - Conference Room C-156

9:00-10:00 am - Introductory lecture and hands on: Large box modelling using RMCProfile

10:00-10:30 am - Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 pm - Hands-on Part 1

12:00-1:00 pm - Lunch- Instruments around the World talk

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

5:30 pm - Depart ORNL Guest House for Museum of Appalachia

6:15 pm-8:30 pm - Off-site Dinner @ Museum of Appalachia, Clinton, TN

Thursday, May 11, 2017 - Conference Room C-156

9:00-10:00 am - Introductory lecture and hands on: DISCUS and nanoparticle refinements

10:00-10:30 am - Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 pm - Hands-on Part 1

12:00-1:00 pm - Lunch- Glass & Liquids talk

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 pm - Dinner, "How to write a Proposal", SNS, C150-C156

Friday, May 12, 2017 - Conference Room C-156

9:00-10:00 am - Single crystal diffuse scattering data obtained from the CORELLI and TOPAZ instruments

10:00-10:30 am - Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 pm - Hands-on Part 1

12:00-1:00 pm- Lunch-The Future of Total Scattering talk

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 pm-  Adjourn

We plan to prepare workshop materials in the format of USB sticks for distribution to each registered participant and forming the starting point of online tutorials for diffuse scattering and PDF analysis.