Title:
 Seventh Canadian Powder Diffraction Workshop - 21st to 23rd of June 2010, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada


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                Seventh Canadian Powder Diffraction Workshop
Pavillon Ringuet, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
                Monday 21st to Wednesday 23rd of June 2010
 
                      http://www.cins.ca/cpdw/
 
 The third day of workshop is PDF (Pair Distribution Function) and 
  Total Scattering Analysis presented by Dr Thomas Proffen of Los 
  Alamos National Laboratory, USA


The main theme of the workshop is in the fundamentals of using powder
diffraction, and assisting participants in using the Rietveld method.
Lectures on a variety of topics are planned for the morning, with the
afternoon practical sessions concentrating on using GSAS for performing
Rietveld analysis for structure refinement and quantitative phase
analysis.

The first two days of this workshop concentrates on powder diffractoin
and Rietveld Analysis. The third day focusses on PDF (Pair Distribution
Function)/Total Scattering analysis of amorphous, disordered, poorly
crystalline or nano-crystalline materials.

Trois-Rivières is located roughly mid way between Montréal and Québec
City. The most convenient airport is Dorval International Airport (now
called Montréal-Trudeau Airport) in Montréal; and is a 75 minute drive from 
Montréal and from Québec City.
 
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Directions and travel hints are given at:
  http://www.cins.ca/cpdw/travel.html
  
Venue information and accommodation options (which includes option of 2
nights on campus package at Cdn $90) at:
 http://www.cins.ca/cpdw/venue.html
and
 http://www.cins.ca/cpdw/accomm.html

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Registration Costs (includes three breakfasts, three lunches, two dinners and taxes):
   University based (Student/Staff/Postdoc/Academic): Cdn $300
   Regular : 450 $ CAN 
 
Campus Accommodation:
   For duration of the workshop, total campus accommodation cost is 100 $ CAN

Registration form is downloadable from the following webpage. Payment
options include bill, credit card and cheque.

  http://www.cins.ca/cpdw/registration.html

Registration deadline of 1st June, 2010.

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Chair: Professor Jacques Huot (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
 
Speakers/Tutors:
     Dr Robert Von Dreele   (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
     Dr Angus Wilkinson     (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
     Dr Thomas Proffen      (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
     Dr Ian Swainson        (National Research Council of Canada)
     Dr Michael Gharghouri  (National Research Council of Canada)
     Lachlan Cranswick      (National Research Council of Canada)
 
Talks include:
   http://www.cins.ca/cpdw/program.html
 
  Introduction to Powder Diffraction and Powder Diffraction Hardware  

  Introduction to the basics of crystallography

  Sample preparation, data collection considerations and phase
  identification using powder X-ray diffraction
 
  Introduction to Powder Profile Refinement
 
  Profile Refinement with GSAS
 
  Synchrotron and Neutron Experiments 
 
  Freely available powder diffraction Software 

  Beyond the Bragg peaks or why do we care about total scattering? 
 
  Measuring total scattering X-ray and neutron data: where and how?
 
  What to do with your PDF: Modeling of disordered structures

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Brief Pictorial History of the Rietveld Method

On the logo webpage, a brief pictorial history of the Rietveld method is
included:

       http://www.cins.ca/cpdw/logo.html

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A poster for the workshop is downloadable at:
 
  http://www.cins.ca/cpdw/images/cpdw_poster_2010.pdf
 
If there are students and/or XRD users in your institute who might
benefit from attending such a workshop, we would be appreciate it if this
were brought to their attention. Please download the poster and post on
departmental notice boards if appropriate.
 
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