PDS - V 2012: POWDER DIFFRACTION SCHOOL VILLIGEN Structure and Microstructure

27 Nov 2012, 08:30 → 29 Nov 2012, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

WBGB/019 (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Please help us promote the Powder Diffraction School Villigen by downloading the A4 poster here

Please help us promote the Powder Diffraction School Villigen by downloading the A4 poster here The purpose of the 2012 PSI Powder School is to explore during 3 days the world of powder diffraction with the help and the guide of recognized experts in the field. Participants are supposed to be already familiar with both the fundamentals of crystallography and X-ray powder diffraction. The powder school is NOT especially suitable for students specifically interested in working with single crystal data. A very successful hands-on school on single crystal X-ray crystallography is regularly organized at the nearby University of Zurich. Please refer to the June 2013 Zurich School webpage for further information and application.

The powder school is NOT especially suitable for students specifically interested in working with single crystal data. A very successful hands-on school on single crystal X-ray crystallography is regularly organized at the nearby University of Zurich. Please refer to the June 2013 Zurich School webpage for further information and application.

Lecture

• A. Cervellino - The MS-Powder station
• A. Cervellino - Total Scattering
• A. Guagliardi, R. Frison - DEBUSSY Demo
• L. McCusker - Texture
• N. Casati - Extreme Conditions
• N. Masciocchi - Coordination polymers
• P. Macchi - PD for Organic Chemistry
• P. Pattison - Combined methods
• S. Leake - The MS Upgrade

Slides

• Baden_to_PSI_West.pdf
• Powder_Diffraction_School_2012_Finale_Version.pdf
• Power_supply.pdf
• PSI West_to_Baden.pdf
• Swiss_Society_of_Cristallography.bmp
• Swiss_Society_of_Cristallography.gif
• Training.jpg
• Travel_information.pdf

Tuesday, 27 November

1 Registration

Session I / Crystal structure and related problematics: Structural studies by powder diffraction

Finding the atomic structure

2 Welcome

3 Synchrotron radiation - the MS upgrade

Speaker: Dr Steven Leake (Paul Scherrer Insitut)

4 Powder diffraction at the upgraded MS beamline

Speaker: Dr Antonio Cervellino (Paul Scherrer Institut)

5 Powder diffraction for organic chemistry

Speaker: Prof. Piero Macchi (University of Bern)

10:50 Coffee break

6 The texture method

Speaker: Dr Lynne McCusker (ETH Zurich)

13:00 Lunch break

Session II / Microstructure and related problematics: Bragg and Total Scattering methods

Small-angle and Total Scattrering methods

7 Small-Angle X-ray scattering as a complementary tool to XRPD for microstructure analysis

Speaker: Dr Andreas Menzel (Paul Scherrer Institut)

8 Total Scattering principles and methods

Speaker: Dr Antonio Cervellino (Paul Scherrer Institut)

16:10 Coffee break

9 Total Scattering for biomedical and technological applications

Speaker: Dr Antonella Guagliardi (CNR, Italy)

10 Order and microstructure of metal-organic coordination polymers

Speaker: Prof. Norberto Masciocchi (University of Insubria, Como, Italy)

Wednesday, 28 November

Session III / Special and advanced topics: Neutron powder diffraction, time-resolved, extreme conditions, combinned methods, FEL

11 Neutron powder diffraction for structure studies

Speaker: Dr Denis SHEPTYAKOV (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12 Extreme conditions studies

Speaker: Dr Nicola Casati (Paul Scherrer Institut)

13 Time-resolved powder diffraction studies

Speaker: Dr Sebastian Vaucher (EMPA Thun)

10:50 Coffee break

14 Combined spectroscopy and powder diffraction

Speaker: Dr Philip Pattison (SNBL@ESRF, Grenoble & EPFL, Lausanne)

15 Diffraction at the SwissFEL

Speaker: Prof. Bruce Patterson (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:30 Lunch break

Experimental session: Test experiments at MS beamline

16 Crystal structure characterization for non-molecular crystals

17 Experimental session @ MS beamline

Walk to the conference dinner venue

19:00 Conference dinner

Thursday, 29 November

Hands-on session: Guided session on data analysis + coffee

18 Parallel sessions - data analysis

10:30 Coffee break

19 Parallel sessions - data analysis

12:30 Lunch break

Coffee and general discussion