24 – 26 November 2020
9:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m. CET
Three day Program
Day 1: The sample
Morning session: The Nature of the Solid State
9:00 Welcome and introduction round
9:30 Webinar 1 (René de Gelder) : Crystalline materials
10:10 Group exercises 1
10: 40 Coffee break
10:50 Webinar 2 (René de Gelder) : Crystallographic symmetry
11:30 Group exercises 2
12:00 Lunch break
Afternoon session: Relation between sample and PXRD pattern
13:30 Webinar 3 (Huub Kooijman) : Peak positions
14:10 Group exercises 3
14: 50 Coffee break
15:00 Webinar 4 (Huub Kooijman ) : Peak intensities and peak shape
15:40 Group exercises 4
16:30 Q&A session
Day 2: The experiment
Morning session: From research question to experiment (Part 1)
9.00 Webinar 1 (Amarante Böttger): Applications of diffraction experiments
9.40 Group exercises 1
10: 20 Coffee break
10.30 Webinar 2 (Céleste Reiss): Selecting the proper instrument/experiment
11:10 Group exercises 2
12:00 Lunch break
Afternoon session: From research question to experiment (Part 2)
13.30 Webinar 3 (Lambert van Eijck): Large scale facilities
14:10 Group exercises 3
14: 50 Coffee break
15:00 Webinar 4 (Huub Kooijman ) : Handling the data
15:40 Group exercises 4
16:30 Q&A session
Day 3: The data
Morning session: Interpretation of the data (Part 1)
9.00 Webinar 1 (René de Gelder) : Crystallographic databases and identification
9.40 Group exercises 1
10: 20 Coffee break
10.30 Webinar 2 (Céleste Reiss): Indexing, structure solution and Rietveld refinement
11:10 Demo
12:00 Lunch break
Afternoon session: Interpretation of the data (Part 2)
13.30 Webinar 3 (Amarante Böttger): Stress and strain analysis
14:10 Group exercises 3
14: 50 Coffee break
15:00 Webinar 4 (Bram Schierbeek) : Possible pitfalls in data analysis
15:40 Course Evaluation
16:00 Q&A session
16:45 Closure of the course