Presentations

Please note: these are the 2010 notes that are currently uploaded. These will be replaced with the 2012 notes nearer the workshop.

Monday

• Introduction to the basics of crystallography - Michael Ghargouri
• An Introduction to the Powder Diffraction Experiment - Angus Wilkinson
• Sample Preparation, Data Collection and Phase-ID using Powder XRD - Pamela Whitfield
• Introduction to the Rietveld method - Angus Wilkinson

Tuesday

• Profile Refinement with GSAS (two part talk) - Bob Von Dreele
• Neutrons 101: Introduction to neutron diffraction - Ian Swainson
• Synchrotron and Neutron Experiments - Angus Wilkinson

Wednesday

• Bragg’s World: The Key to Understanding the Average Structure of Materials - Thomas Proffen
• Total Scattering: The Key to Understanding disordered, nano-crystalline and amorphous materials - Thomas Proffen
• Total Scattering: Data reduction and modelling - Thomas Proffen

Notes for Practicals

GSAS tutorial materials

• Practical tutorial notes
• Example files for GSAS practicals
• GSAS+EXPGUI install as used at the workshop WARNING: there may be more modern versions out now

PDF tutorial materials

• PDFGetN manual
• PDFGui manual
• diffpy install as used at the workshop WARNING: there may be more modern versions out now
• Tutorial materials can be found on this link to LANSCE