Welcome!

The Canadian Light Source will host its third in-person X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering School for materials science this summer, from June 18-20, 2024.

The school will focus in the techniques more popular among our Brockhouse beamline users: X-Ray Diffraction / Rietveld Refinement, Pair Distribution Function and Small Angle X-Ray Scattering. We will have both lectures and hands on data analysis sessions. Please, bring a laptop for the data analysis sessions.

We will also include a visit to the Canadian Light Source and XRD demonstrations at the Saskatchewan Structural Sciences Centre (SSSC) at USASK.

During the last afternoon, we will present an overview of advanced hard x-ray characterization techniques also available and their applications.

We look to equip our present and future users with the knowledge and tools that they will use during their research. This school is primarily aimed at students and early career researchers from academia and industry, with an interest in XRD, SAXS, and PDF.

Important dates:

Submit your application from March 20 to April 30. Registrations are closed now.

Successful applicants will be contacted from May 1^st on, to proceed to pay the school fees.

School Fees:

Academic participants: 300 CAD
Industry participants: 600 CAD

The students can apply for the Larry Calvert Fund to offset travel expenses: https://xtallography.ca/index.php/student-funding/63-2/

Please, bring your laptops for the hands-on data analysis sessions, with these programs installed:

GSAS II https://advancedphotonsource.github.io/GSAS-II-tutorials/
PDFgui https://www.diffpy.org/products/pdfgui.html
BioXTAS RAW https://bioxtas-raw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

You can download the tutorials from this cloud: XRD School 2024