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Magnetic Structure Determination
from Neutron Diffraction Data

September 17 - 20, 2012


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Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

 

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Program

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Sept 17,  Monday

9:00AM – 9:30AM

Welcome Remarks
Thom Mason, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director

9:30 AM- 10:30AM

Experimental aspects of neutron diffraction
Ovi Garlea or William Ratcliff

10:30AM-10:45AM

BREAK

10:45AM-12NN

Introduction to the Fullprof Suite 
Juan Rodríguez-Carvajal

12NN-1:30PM

LUNCH

1:30PM-2:30PM

Strategies for determining magnetic structures using Fullprof  
Juan Rodríguez-Carvajal

2:30pm-4:00pm

Hands-on in a simple magnetic structure using
Fullprof Suite [example 1]  
Clarina de la Cruz

4:00pm-4:15pm

BREAK

4:15pm-5:30pm

Hands-on in a simple magnetic structure using
Fullprof Suite [example 1, cont’d] 
Clarina de la Cruz

5:30pm-6:00pm

GROUP DISCUSSION  

Sept 18,  Tuesday

9:00 AM- 10:30AM

Representation Theory
Andrew Wills

10:30AM-10:45AM

BREAK

10:45AM-12NN

Introduction to SaraH/BasIrreps
Andrew Wills

12NN-1:30PM

LUNCH

1:30PM-3:30PM

Hands-on in Commensurate magnetic structure (Constant wavelength data) [example 2]
Ovi Garlea/ Andrew Wills

3:30pm-3:45pm

BREAK

3:45pm-5:00pm

Hands-on in Commensurate magnetic structure (Constant wavelength data) [example 2, cont’d]
Ovi Garlea

5:00pm-6:00pm

GROUP DISCUSSION  
Andrew Wills

Sept 19,  Wednesday

8:30AM – 9:00AM

DISCUSSION  (continued from above if necessary)
Andrew Wills

9:00 AM- 10:30AM

Hands-on in  Commensurate magnetic structure from
TOF data [example 3]
 Ovi Garlea

10:30AM-10:45AM

BREAK

10:45AM-12NN

Hands-on in  Commensurate magnetic structure from
TOF data [example 3, cont’d]
 Ovi Garlea

12NN-1:30PM

LUNCH

1:30PM-3:30PM

Hands-on in Incommensurate magnetic structure  (Constant wavelength) [example 4]
Ovi Garlea

3:30pm-3:45pm

BREAK

3:45pm-6:00pm

Hands-on in Incommensurate magnetic structure  (Constant wavelength) [example 4 cont’d, or example 5]
 Ovi Garlea

Sept 19,  Thursday

8:30AM – 10:30AM

Hands-on in Simulated Annealing [example 6]    
Juan Rodríguez-Carvajal

10:30AM-10:45AM

BREAK

10:45AM-12NN

Hands-on in Simulated Annealing [example 6 cont’d or example 7] Juan Rodríguez-Carvajal

12NN-1:30PM

LUNCH

1:30PM-3:30PM

Hands-on in Commensurate and Incommensurate magnetic structures from Single Crystal data  [example 8]
Huibo Cao

3:30pm-3:45pm

BREAK

3:45pm-5:00pm

Hands-on in Commensurate and Incommensurate magnetic structures from Single Crystal data  [example 8, cont’d]
Huibo Cao

5:00 pm-6:00pm

Additional remarks on magnetic structures from Single Crystal data
DISCUSSION/CLOSING