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10th Canadian Neutron Summer School

The Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering will be holding the tenth Neutron Summer School at Chalk River on June 15-19, 2009. The talks and demonstration experiments will be organized by the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre.

Description

Format

The aim of the school is to cover a wide range of topics associated with thermal neutron scattering, including powder diffraction, stress analysis, texture, reflectometry, magnetism and neutron scattering, SANS, inelastic scattering together with the underlying theory associated with neutron scattering. Lectures will be held in the mornings. A variety of demonstration practical experiments on the neutron instruments will be held in the afternoons, from which the attendees will be able to select four hands-on practicals at the reactor with the neutron instruments. The aim of the school is to give a broad overview of neutron methods and applications, concentrating on those techniques available at a thermal neutron source.

Target Audience

The lectures are aimed at beginning graduate students who have a wide variety of backgrounds in the sciences, such as physics, chemistry, materials science, structural biology, mineralogy. Therefore, graduate students, postdocs, faculty and industrial scientists should profit from attending the school. The theory will be presented in a way that should be understood by people in any of these fields.

Program

The agenda for the week will cover the general concepts of neutron scattering and introduce several specific techniques and areas of application. There will be a strong emphasis on demonstration neutron scattering experiments, conducted at the NRU research reactor at Chalk River.

Lectures

Topics covered during the lectures include:

• Properties of neutrons
• Basic theory of neutron scattering
• Bragg peaks and phonons
• Polarized neutrons for magnetic structures,spin waves and more
• Nuclear and magnetic structures
• Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS)
• Neutron reflectometry
• Stress, strain and texture
• Biological and soft materials
• Magnetic and quantum materials

Experiments

The summer school aims to cover the breadth of neutron scattering techniques using thermal neutrons. Each afternoon, Monday-Thursday, demonstration experiments will be available to summer school particpants at the NRU reactor. Experiments planned include:

• magnetic neutron scattering and inelastic scattering
• powder diffraction
• stress measurement of engineering materials
• reflectometry
• measurements on biologically-relevant material.

On Sunday evening there will be a free barbecue at the registration at Ogilvies Cottages for all the attendees of the summer school.

The detailed program will be published shortly.

Registration and Accomodations

• Accomodations
• Registration: Registration is now closed.

The registration fee for the summer school will be $300 for money received prior to May 15th, and $350 for money received after this date.

Cheques to cover the registration costs should be made payable to "Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering", and sent to:-

Enquiries about the summer school program can be directed to Ian Swainson (613 584 8811 ext 43995) Ian.Swainson@nrc.gc.ca. Enquiries about accommodation and security requirements Niki Schrie (613 584 8811 ext 48293) to Niki.Schrie@nrc.gc.ca.

Pictures from the 2006 Summer School

2006 Summer School at Chalk River.