10th Canadian Neutron Summer School
The Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering (<http://www.cins.ca>) 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 (<http://neutron.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/>) at the Chalk River Laboratories,
Chalk River, Ontario. There are about 15 places remaining for the summer school.
FORMAT
The aim of the school is to give an introduction to a wide range of topics
associated with thermal neutron scattering, including powder diffraction,
stress analysis, texture, reflectometry, magnetism and neutron scattering,
SANS, and inelastic scattering together with the underlying theory associated
with neutron scattering.
Lectures will be held in the mornings, which will be followed by a variety of
demonstration practical experiments on the neutron instruments at the NRU
reactor (<http://www.nrureactor.ca/php/mainFlash.php>) in the afternoons.
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.
The theory will be presented in a way that should be understood by people in
any of these fields. Therefore, graduate students, postdocs, faculty and
industrial scientists should profit from attending the school.
APPLICATION
We have capped the number of students to 30 in order to be able to give
personal experience of the practical demonstrations to every student. The
early-bird fee is CAD 300. Very affordable accommodation has been arranged.
Places will be allotted on a first come-first served basis, provided the
applicants can meet minimum security clearance to enter the Chalk River site.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information, visit <http://www.cins.ca/ss2009.html> or
<http://www.cins.ca/ssreg.html> to register.
Contact: Ian Swainson (ian.swain...@nrc.gc.ca <mailto:ian.swain...@nrc.gc.ca>;
Tel: 613 584 8811 x 43995) for further details.
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