Alberta Powder Diffraction Workshop on Powder Diffraction, Rietveld and Clay Analysis Central Academic Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
WWW: http://www.cins.ca/apdw/ Organisers: Dr Dipo Omotoso (Natural Resources Canada) Professor Doug Ivey (University of Alberta) Speakers: Dr Robert Von Dreele (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) Dr Reinhard Kleeberg (Technische Universitat Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany) Dr Ian Swainson (National Research Council of Canada, Chalk River) Lachlan Cranswick (National Research Council of Canada, Chalk River) The first two days have the main theme of 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 third day is on quantitative clay analysis using the Rietveld method via the BGMN software program. Registration Costs : Students: Cdn $200 (includes all taxes) Other: Cdn $400 (includes all taxes) This cost includes hard-copies of notes, GSAS manual, workshop tutorial manual. University dorm style accommodation is available starting at Cdn $49 per night and university Conference Centre Guest Rooms starting at Cdn $95 per night are available. http://www.cins.ca/apdw/accomm.html Closing Date for Registration is Friday, April 18th 2008. Payment by cheque or by credit card information. http://www.cins.ca/apdw/registration.html ---------- Travel information web-links: http://www.cins.ca/apdw/travel.html ---------- Talks include : 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 Clay mineral quantification using the Rietveld method ---------- If there are students and/or XRD users in your institute who might benefit from attending such a workshop, it would be appreciate it this were brought to their attention. There is a PDF poster for the workshop at: http://www.cins.ca/apdw/files/alberta_workshop_poster.pdf ---------- ----------------------- Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Contact outside working hours / Coordonnees en dehors des heures de travail: NEW E-mail / courriel: lc *at* bluehaze.com.au Home Tel: (613) 584-4226 ; Cell/mobile: (613) 401-6254 WWW: http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/ P.O. Box 2057, Deep River, Ontario, Canada, K0J 1P0 (please use clear titles in any Email - otherwise messages might accidentally get put in the SPAM list due to large amount of junk Email being received. If you don't get an expected reply to any messages, please try again.) (Essayez d'utiliser des titres explicites - sans quoi vos messages pourraient aboutir dans un dossier de rebuts, du fait de la quantite tres importante de pourriels recue. Si vous n'obtenez pas la reponse attendue, merci de bien vouloir renvoyer un message.)