Introduction to neutron techniques for condensed matter studies, with applications to Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Earth sciences

The Learning Days organized by the Italian Society of Neutron Spectroscopy are addressed to degree and specializing students, PhD students, post-doc and young researchers interested in acquiring the basic principles of neutron spectroscopy, in understanding the advantages and potentialities of this technique, and in exploiting it for their research.

The eighth edition of the SISN Learning Days will take place from 13 to 22 September 2014, with subject "Introduction to neutron techniques for condensed matter studies, with applications to Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Earth sciences".

Two sessions

The Learning Days are characterized by two sessions. The first session provides the students with the fundamentals of neutron spectroscopy and the basic principles of data analysis. The lectures on the basic theoretical and experimental tools will be paralleled by tutorials about data analysis. During the second experimental session the students will carry out real neutron scattering measurements at the most important facility for neutron research: the high flux reactor of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France.

The first part of the school, from 13 to 17 September will be held at Hotel Steinpent in S. Giovanni Valle Aurina (in the province of Bolzano, Italy). With favourable weather conditions, a pause day is foreseen (on Monday 15 September) during which students can take part to an excursion in the mountains organized by the school. Monday evening will instead be devoted to the presentation of the experiments foreseen in Grenoble. On Thursday 18 September students will leave S. Giovanni to reach Grenoble in the evening. The school organizes the travel to Grenoble.

The second session will take place from 19 to 22 September, with two full days of measurements. At the end of the experiments the students will present a short report, in the form of a seminar, certifying their activity during the school. A committee composed by the school directors and experimental tutors will assign a prize for the best presentation.

The Learning Days organized by the Italian Society of Neutron Spectroscopy are addressed to degree and specializing students, PhD students, post-doc and young researchers interested in acquiring the basic principles of neutron spectroscopy, in understanding the advantages and potentialities of this technique, and in exploiting it for their research. The eighth edition of the SISN Learning Days will take place from 13 to 22 September 2014, with subject “Introduction to neutron techniques for condensed matter studies, with applications to Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Earth sciences”.

Two sessions

The Learning Days are characterized by two sessions. The first session provides the students with the fundamentals of neutron spectroscopy and the basic principles of data analysis. The lectures on the basic theoretical and experimental tools will be paralleled by tutorials about data analysis. During the second experimental session the students will carry out real neutron scattering measurements at the most important facility for neutron research: the high flux reactor of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France. The first part of the school, from 13 to 17 September will be held at Hotel Steinpent in S. Giovanni Valle Aurina (in the province of Bolzano, Italy). With favourable weather conditions, a pause day is foreseen (on Monday 15 September) during which students can take part to an excursion in the mountains organized by the school. Monday evening will instead be devoted to the presentation of the experiments foreseen in Grenoble. On Thursday 18 September students will leave S. Giovanni to reach Grenoble in the evening. The school organizes the travel to Grenoble. The second session will take place from 19 to 22 September, with two full days of measurements. At the end of the experiments the students will present a short report, in the form of a seminar, certifying their activity during the school. A committee composed by the school directors and experimental tutors will assign a prize for the best presentation.Â

Mission

Modern crystallography is entering its 2nd century of life, being as vital and challenging as a young discipline. In the last decades, crystallography has experienced a rapid advance concerning not only the fundamental knowledge but also the instrumentation and the automation of software and tools for structure solution, refinement and analysis. Such innovations have produced an enormous impact towards a deeper understanding of the properties of matter and of the functionality of materials and molecular entities of all dimensions, as witnessed by well-recognized novel findings.

On the other hand, automated techniques typically discourage critical thinking and constitute a serious risk for young crystallographers, who may lose the capability of evaluating the accuracy and goodness of data and critically analysing the results. This risk has been increased by the reduction of fundamental Academic courses in crystallography all over Europe.

The ECS1 is directed to young researchers and Ph.D. students involved in different fields of structural sciences, including physics, biology, chemistry, mineralogy, materials science, cultural heritage. It aims at diffusing and sharing the idea of crystallography as a unique discipline: "crystallography is an excellent example of the universality of science", to cite the Proclamation of 2014 as International Year of Crystallography. The School will provide the students with instruments for acquiring a deep know-how and a strong background on the fundamentals of crystallography. Students will also gain consciousness of progresses, limitations and perspectives of the crystallographic theories and methods, and of how they can be adapted to the different "flavours" of structural science, ranging from small molecule to large macromolecular assemblies. The fil-rouge of the multi-faceted methods to be delivered in this School is to provide students with fundamental interpretative and predictive information and ideas for further scientific developments.

Different facets of crystallography will be explored, and expectations for research in the next century discussed and analysed through a series of reviews from renowned teachers. Such contributions will be collected in the Educational Book associated to the School, with the aim of inspiring and suggesting ideas for novel research projects in crystallography.

Main activities

The school is focused on recent advances in our understanding of the origin and evolution of the solar system, as revealed by the surfaces and interiors of planets, satellites, asteroids and comets, and analysis of meteorites. The official language of the school will be English.

Topics and teachers

• Planetary interiors (Wim van Westrenen, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Lunar geology (Mahesh Anand, Open University, UK)
• Meteorite parent bodies (Josep Trigo-Rodríguez, Institute of Space Sciences, Barcelona, Spain)
• Early solar system solids (Ian Saunders, Trinity College, Dublin)
• Noble gas chemistry of planetary materials (Julia Cartwright, Max Plank Institute, Germany)
• Isotopic analysis of primitive materials (Jutta Zipfel, Natural History Museum, Frankfurt, Germany)
• Terrestrial impacts (Alex Deutsch, Institut für Planetologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany)
• Shock metamorphism (Mark Burchell, Department of Physics, University of Kent, U.K.)
• Organics in primitive meteorites & NanoSIMS techniques (Laurent Remusat, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris)
• Micrometeorites (Luigi Folco, Università di Pisa, Italy)

International Union of Crystallography

Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography

Second South African School on Fundamental Crystallography

Satellite meeting of the 21st Meeting of the International Mineralogical Union

Bloemfontein, South Africa, 25-29 August 2014
To celebrate the International Year of Crystallography, the 21st Meeting of the International Mineralogical Union (IMA-2014) will put special emphasis and on the crystallographic sessions. To facilitate the participation to these sessions the Second South-African School of Fundamental Crystallography will be run as a Satellite meeting of IMA-2104.

Pre-requisites

The participants are expected to know basic matrix algebra (how to multiply matrices and vectors, how calculate determinant and trace of a matrix), fundamental electromagnetism (waves, diffraction) and basic chemistry.

Program

• Introduction to group theory
• Crystallographic point groups
• Stereographic projection and the morphology of crystals
• Space groups
• Exercises on the space group diagrams from Volume A of the International Tables
• Fourier transforms and convolutions
• Scattering from an electron, an atom, a unit cell, a crystal
• Diffraction symmetry: Laue classes, Friedel's law, resonant scattering
• General, zonal and serial reflection conditions and their use to determine the space-group type
• Group-subgroup relations and their application to phase transitions
• Twins and modular structures
• Use of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server in the study of the structure and properties of crystals

Language

The official language of the Schools is English. No simultaneous interpretation has been provided.

Venue

The School will be held at Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences of the University of the Free State.

The main goal of this school is to give an introduction to this whole new area that we call Topological Crystal Chemistry and to show how the topological methods and tools can be used for creating expert systems in materials science. There will be large time dedicated to hands-on session on the use of the novel and still not so widespread computer methods/software/databases so the student at the end of the course should be able to analyse any kind of extended structure through the eye of the topology and describe it in term of nets, entanglements, catenation etc. A special attention will be paid to the analysis of various classes of crystalline materials, in particular, MOFs, supramolecular crystals, zeolites, fast-ion conductors, minerals. All participants will have an ability to analyze their own crystal structures with the help of tutors that will be available also in the evening time. A special session will be devoted to summarize the results of such personal/free works. The tutorial will start with a theoretical introduction where the background of the topological methods will be briefly, but rigorously, considered. No special mathematical skills are required, but the participants have to be aware of crystal chemistry and crystallography basics. The main abilities, problems, and perspectives of topological analysis of crystalline networks will be outlined.
The main part of the tutorial will be devoted to practical works with the computer programs TOPOS ( http://www.topos.samsu.ru/ ), Systre, and 3dt ( http://www.gavrog.org/ ) with a special attention to TOPOS.

2014 PSI Summer School on Condensed Matter Research (13th edition)

Exploring time, energy and length scales in condensed matter

Institut Montana, Zug, Switzerland  The PSI summer school 2014 is dedicated to the topic: Exploring time, energy and length scales in condensed matter. International experts and PSI staff members will introduce and deepen your knowledge of these scientific topics. Additionally, you will learn about the experimental methods applied at the large-scale facilities of PSI in order to understand the phenomena, presently at the forefront of modern solid state physics and chemistry.
Synchrotron radiation, neutron, and muon sources are used to investigate the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter. Using these facilities, the focus of the school is the study of dynamic processes in nature and technology, over the full range of time and length scales at which they actually occur. The principles of the underlying experimental methods will be explained. Evening lectures will address the importance of time, energy and length scales in other scientific fields. Â Following the school a practical training at PSI is offered to a limited number of participants. The training allows a hands-on experience at the beamlines of the facilities.

Summer School on the Fundamentals of Neutron Scattering

NIST Center for Neutron Research National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899
July 14, 2014 to July 18, 2014
The twentieth annual Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS) "Summer School on Methods and Applications of Small Angle Neutorn Scattering and Neutron Reflectometry " will be held from Monday, July 14 to Friday, July 18, 2014 at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). This year's summer school is devoted to methods and applications of small angle neutron scattering and neutron reflectometry. Neutron spectroscopy will not be covered.
The course is targeted at those with little or no previous experience with elastic neutron scattering methods. The combination of introductory lectures and training in scattering techniques will provide participants with a unique opportunity to become familiar with neutron scattering methods and their application to current research topics.
Attendance for the summer school is limited to 35 students and to people affiliated with US universities and US industry.
The Summer School is sponsored by the NCNR and by the National Science Foundation under the Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS) cooperative agreement DMR-0944772. Support for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty may be requested on the summer school application form.
Six instruments will be featured in this years summer school, 3 SANS instruments and 3 NR instruments. The SANS instruments featured will be NG3 30 meter SANS, NG7 30 meter SANS and BT5 USANS. The NR instruments featured will be the NGD Off-Specular Reflectometer(MAGIK), NGD Polarized Beam Reflectometer/Diffractometer (PBR) and NG7 Horizontal Sample NR.

In a joint effort of the Colombian and Venezuelan Societies of Crystallography, two courses on X Ray Diffraction Techniques are being organized: a course on X ray Powder Diffraction which will take place in Mérida, Venezuela, from June 23 to 27 of 2014, and a course on Single Crystal X Ray Diffraction which will take place in Bucaramanga, Colombia, in September. The participation is open to undergraduate and graduate students and young scientists from academic institutions, as well as professionals from the industrial sector. Students, young researchers, and professionals from other Latin-American countries are most welcome.
The Course on Powder Diffraction integrates the basic principles, common practices, and applications of X ray diffraction techniques for the analysis of polycrystalline samples. Particular attention will be paid at obtaining good experimental data for their appropriate use in different applications.
Three fundamental aspects constitute the core of the powder diffraction course: (1) use of X ray diffraction techniques for qualitative and quantitative analysis of polycrystalline materials; (2) use of the program GSAS-II (Structure refinement using the Rietveld Method); (3) Microstructure characterization (Use of the program PM2K2). These topics will be presented in the context of conventional X ray diffractometers and of synchrotron radiation.
The Invited Speakers are: Dr. Robert Von Dreele (Argonne National Laboratory, USA), Prof. James A. Kaduk (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA), Prof. Matteo Leoni (Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy), and Prof. José Antonio Henao (Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia). Professors Asiloé J. Mora, Graciela Díaz de Delgado, Belkis Ramírez, Gerzon Delgado, and Miguel Delgado (ULA, Venezuela) and Dr. Alexander Briceño (IVIC, Venezuela) will also be instructors.

This event is being supported by Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela), FONACIT (Venezuelan Science Funding Office) and the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD).

Click here to download the poster of the event

12th International School and Symposium on Synchrotron Radiation in Natural Science

ISSRNS is a series of meetings, organised every two years, devoted to recent advances and new techniques employing synchrotron radiation in physics, chemistry, materials science, biology and medicine.

The 12th International School and Symposium on Synchrotron Radiation in Natural Science (ISSRNS 2014) will be organized by Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society (PTPS) in cooperation with two Polish institutions, the Institute of Physics, of the Polish Academy of Sciences, (Warsaw) and National Centre for Nuclear Physics, (Otwock/Świerk) from 15th to  20th of June 2014 in Warsaw (Poland).  ISSRNS is a traditional forum for discussing fundamental issues of application of the synchrotron radiation and related methods in natural sciences. The aim of this interdisciplinary meeting is to bring together scientists working with synchrotron radiation. The Symposium will focus on novel applications of synchrotron radiation in physics, chemistry, material science, biology and medicine.

THE TOPICS OF ISSRNS 2014 INCLUDE:

• X-ray diffraction: methods and applications,
• Macromolecular crystallography,
• Structure solution in nano- and micro-scales
• Elastic scattering of X-rays,
• Synchrotron radiation in nanoscience,
• Imaging, holography, spectroscopic mapping,
• X-ray absorption, fluorescence and photoelectron spectroscopies,
• X-ray magnetic dichroism,
• Synchrotron radiation at long wavelengths (THz, IR and VUV),
• Synchrotron radiation in life sciences and medicine,
• Novel applications of Free Electron Lasers,
• Synchrotron and alternative radiation sources â€" new developments and instrumentation,
• Advanced optics, irradiation damage and metrology of intense beams

International School on Fundamental Crystallography

Fourth MaThCryst school in Latin America

La Plata, Argentina, 27 April - 10 May 2014
The Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography is strongly committed to promote education in all the fundamental aspects of crystallography that nowadays are overlooked in common University courses. This mission is accomplished through a series of meetings in a wide range of regions. In spring 2014 we organize a school in Argentina, in continuation of our activity in the region after the previous shools in Havana, in Montevideo and in in Uberlândia.

Pre-requisites

The participants are expected to know basic matrix algebra (how to multiply matrices and vectors, how to calculate determinant and trace of a matrix), fundamental electromagnetism (waves, diffraction) and basic chemistry.
Note: There will be an introductory a one day preparatory session for students that need some help to comply with the prerequisites on Sunday April 27.

Ile d'Oléron: First National School RéNaFoBIS

RéNaFoBIS (National Training Network in Integrative Structural Biology) will hold its first national school from 1st to June 6th, 2014 at Oléron.Â

School goals:

This first school will provide theoretical and applied approaches to training  used in structural biology (diffraction and X-ray scattering, NMR, cryo-microscopy, molecular and cellular imaging, macromolecular interactions). The school will focus on the integration of many of these methods to answer the great questions of the functional biology at the cellular level. To an audience of graduate students or young researchers, this training will show the contributions and limitations of each method and their complementarity. It will include theoretical sessions in the morning and practical work in groups in the afternoon.

Diseases, from bacterial and viral infections to cancer to chronic maladies, are still among the greatest problems for mankind, in spite of tremendous progress in genetics, biology, and chemistry. Â Approaches to developing new treatments have changed over time, and so have the methodologies used, in order to solve the varied, new, challenging problems that may happen on the path to drug discovery. Â Together with ever-evolving experimental techniques, a variety of computational approaches have been applied at the various stages of the drug design process, and in the past two decades structure-based drug design has become one of the mainstream approaches. Â This method can be used to target protein-ligand and protein-protein interactions and nowadays is applicable to all aspects of drug discovery, including lead identification, lead optimization, ADMET prediction, and drug repurposing.Â

The purpose of the course is dual:
1) It will provide a review of the fundamentals and the application of crystallography to drug design, and an evaluation of the technology at the present state.
2) It will review the progress in this field and summarize the application and results to current fields of interest. Â
In addition to lectures, there will be hands-on workshops providing training in using modern computer programs.
The topics that will be covered are:
- Targeting Resistance in Design of Anti AIDS Drugs - Molecular Modeling and Drug Design - Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions - Drug Design Targeting Bromodomains - Targeting GPCRs for Drug Design - Targeting Influenza Virus Polymerase - The Small Molecule Universe - Molecular Obesity and Other Addictions in Drug Discovery - Energetics of Protein-Ligand Interactions - Docking Experiences and Expectations - Structure of Human G-Protein Coupled Receptor - Using ARP/WARP for Structure-Based Drug Design - Antibody Technologies to Stabilize Targets for NCE Screening - Drug Design Tales from AstraZeneca - High Resolution Protein-Ligand Interactions by X-rays and Neutrons - Virus Structure and Antiviral Drug Design - Structure-Based Design of Drugs Against Diabetes - Membrane Protein Structure - Structural Bioinformatics - Protein Aggregation and Drug Design - Turning on Enzymes with Small Molecules

ISC2014 will be of interest to postgraduate, postdoctoral and research scientists from industry and academy that deal everyday with crystallization but need further knowledge on the behaviour of crystallization from solutions. ISC2014 will provide five days of lectures and practical demonstrations related to the crystallization of drugs, food, agrochemicals, minerals and materials of new synthesis, from fundamental aspects to large scale techniques. As in previous years the program will cover subjects such as the crystallization of polymorphs, chiral compounds, hydrates, solvates and co-crystals as well as legal aspects related to the practice of crystallization. This year we will also focus on the mineral pattern formation and biomineralization. We expect an attendance of 90 students and 30 lecturers and exhibitors. The students have been invited to submit an abstract and to present their results in 3 dedicated poster sessions. The practical sessions consist of a Demonstration Fair, where a number of stands will simultaneously offer the students the opportunity of attending short (30 minutes) practical sessions carried by the teachers at scheduled times. This year we have extended the number of demonstrations and the time scheduled, namely May 28th afternoon and May 29th the whole day.

We are pleased to announce the first International Summer School of Crystallography at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at DESY, Hamburg (D). As part of the International Year of Crystallography 2014, Prof. Carmelo Giacovazzo will lecture on the basics of crystallography, as well as, the basics of modern phasing methods in protein crystallography covering basic mathematical understanding of crystallographic point and space groups, diffraction experiments, structure factor calculations, systematic absences, determination of space groups and many additional topics. Participants will also learn modern applications of protein crystallography using advanced light sources, such as 3rd generation synchrotron and XFELs.
The summer school program is geared for PhD students working in the field of crystallography, but exceptions for motivated PostDocs and MSc students can be made. The course will mostly cover mathematical background of crystallography, hence we are looking for students, having a (bio)physics background. This will NOT be a workshop covering protein crystallographic programs but rather will be theory oriented.

The workshop Hot Topics in Contemporary Crystallography will take place in Hotel Jakov, in the Solaris beach resort, near Šibenik, Croatia, from May, 10th to May, 15th, 2014. The official language of the workshop is English.

The Croatian Association of Crystallographers organizes this workshop to mark the 2014 - UN proclamed international year of crystallography in Croatia. Six "hot topics" will be addressed during the intense four working days of the workshop:

1. Hot topics in macromolecular crystallography (by prof. dr. Elspeth Garman, University of Oxford, UK),
2. The whole is more than the sum of its parts (by prof. dr. Hans-Beat Buergi, University of Bern, Switzerland),
3. Charge density (by prof. dr. Dietmar Stalke, University of Goettingen, Germany),
4. Absolute structure and absolute configuration (by prof. dr. Howard Flack, University of Geneve, Switzerland),
5. Twinning in crystallography (by dr. Regine Herbst-Irmer, University of Goettingen, Germany), and
6. Advanced solutions from the Cambridge Structural Database (by Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, UK).

The workshop aims at:

• Promotion of excellence and innovation in crystallography,
• Transfer of state-of-the-art knowledge and know-how to the most talented and motivated PhD students and postdocs in crystallography and related disciplines,
• Popularization of crystallography, and
• Celebration of the International Year of Crystallography (2014) in Croatia.

Participants, who will be chosen among the highly motivated applilcants - young scientists working in crystallography and related fields, will be invited to present their own research via short (10 to 15 mins) talks or on posters. A small number of participants invited to the workshop (27) will give a chance to young crystallographers to share their ideas and experience among them, as well as to discuss their work and problems they encounter with the experienced senior scientists who will be attending the workshop as lecturers or tutors.

MDANSE school 2014: Molecular Dynamics to Analyse Neutron Scattering Experiments

This school aims to train the participants in the use of modern simulation tools in the context of analyzing and interpreting experimental, neutron scattering data. It will be focused mainly on practical training, so the number of participants is limited to 30. Taking into account the QENS2014 and WINS 2014 conferences in the nearby location of Autrans from May 11 to May 16 (http://www.ill.eu/news-events/events/qens-2014-wins-2014/), the school will be a satellite event. Therefore the school will be focused on the use of Molecular Dynamics simulations to explore diffusive processes on the time scales covered by quasielastic neutron scattering spectrometers and Lattice Dynamics to study phonon dispersion curves and vibrational densities of states that are typically measured with inelastic neutron scattering spectrometers. Â The goal of this school is therefore to show how widely-available simulation tools can be applied to the analysis and interpretation of neutron scattering data. The school will last 2 days and will concern mainly the practical aspects of running and analyzing simulations so that, firstly, numerical and experimental data can be directly compared and, secondly, simulations can then be investigated in atomic detail. A range of simulation codes allowing electronically complex materials, molecular and polymer systems, porous media and bio-molecules to be handled, will be made available to participants on the cluster at ILL. Simulation analysis will focus on using the nMoldyn code. McStas will be used to incorporate the instrument response in a virtual experiment. Model analysis and fitting tools applicable both to simulated and experimental data will also be presented. Lectures on the fundamental aspects of running and analyzing simulations will be complemented by hands-on tutorials.

The Baltic Neutron School 2014 will be organized by University of Tartu and held in Estonia during May 4 â€" 8, 2014.

Invited speakers include

• Dimitri Argyriou (ESS Lund, Sweden)
• Robert Cubitt (ILL Grenoble, France)
• Thomas Hauss (HZB Berlin, Germany)
• Beate Klösgen (SDU Odense, Denmark)
• D. Kozlenko (JINR, Dubna, Russia)
• Jiri Kulda (ILL Grenoble, France)
• Judith Peters (ILL Grenoble, France)
• Helmut Schober (ILL Grenoble, France)
• Joe Zaccai (ILL and IBS Grenoble, France)

SoNS School Edition 2014

Course within the International School of Solid State Physics, EMCSC, Erice, Italy

XII School on Neutron Scattering (SoNS) Â "Francesco Paolo Ricci"Â

30 April â€" 9 May 2014

Introduction to the theory and techniques of neutron scattering and applications to Cultural Heritage

Course within the International School of Solid State Physics (Director: Giorgio Benedek).

ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE, ERICE (I)

The school will be held at the ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE, Erice (Sicily, I) as a specialized course within the International School of Solid State Physics (Director: Giorgio Benedek), between the 30th April and the 9th of May 2014.

About

The School Francesco Paolo Ricci is an international school, established in 1994, providing a comprehensive training in the fundamental concepts of neutron scattering.

The school provides an excellent introduction to neutron scattering which is developed through to its application in contemporary research. It consists mainly of lectures and tutorials covering both the theory and technical aspects of neutron scattering with a particular emphasis on applications to Cultural Heritage. In addition to lectures on theory, sources, and neutron instrumentation, students will be tutored by world leading experts in the various scattering techniques including diffraction, quasi-elastic and inelastic scattering, imaging, small-angle scattering, reflectometry, and neutron-spin-echo.

The XII edition of the School will be held at the ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE (EMCSC) Â as a Course within the International School of Solid State Physics (Director: Giorgio Benedek).

• School Director: Ian Anderson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
• School Vice-Directors: Gabriele Salvato (CNR, IT), Antonella Scherillo (ISIS, UK)Â

School Objectives: Educate graduate students on the utilization of major neutron facilities, in neutron scattering techniques, instrumentation and data collection, analysis and interpretation. Expose participants to cutting-edge research in neutron application to Cultural Heritage. Build interactions between graduate students, their research centres and university groups, Lectures will include basic and simulation tutorials on the principles of scattering theory and the characteristics of the sources, as well as seminars on the application of scattering methods.

Target Audience: The School is ideally suited to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Students attending universities majoring in chemistry, physics, materials science, or related fields.

Download IUCr presentation on Union activities, the International Year of Crystallography 2014, and neutron scattering