Schedule for 2008 APS XAFS School
All talks and tutorials will be in APS E1100. Coffee will be just outside E1100, and on the outside balcony (weather permitting). Lunches will be in the APS gallery, just downstairs from E1100. For off-site dinners, an ANL bus will take all students and lecturers.
Schedule
Tuesday August 5 |
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8:00 am |
APS User Training, as needed |
APS User Office |
9:00 am |
Welcome |
TBD |
9:15 am |
Lecture 1 (Overview) |
Matt Newville |
10:30 am |
Coffee Break |
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10:45 am |
Lecture 2 (Analysis 1) |
Scott Calvin |
12:00 pm |
Group Photo (402 Main Entrance) followed by Lunch (402 Atrium) |
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1:00 pm |
Demo 1 (Analysis 1) |
Scott Calvin |
2:15 pm |
Lecture 3 (XANES) |
Simon Bare |
3:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
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3:45 pm |
Open |
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6:00 pm |
Dinner (Argonne Guest House) |
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Wednesday August 6 |
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9:15 am |
Lecture 4 (Processing) |
Shelly Kelly |
10:30 am |
Coffee Break |
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10:45 am |
Demo 2 (Processing) |
Shelly Kelly |
12:00 pm |
Lunch (402 Atrium) |
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1:00 pm |
Demo 3 (XANES) |
Bruce Ravel |
2:15 pm |
Open |
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3:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
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3:45 pm |
Open |
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6:00 pm |
Dinner (Giordano's: Chicago's World Famous Stuffed Pizza) |
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Thursday August 7 |
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9:15 am |
Lecture 5 (Other Techniques) |
Daniel Haskel |
10:30 am |
Coffee Break |
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10:45 am |
Lecture 6 (Analysis 2) |
Bruce Ravel |
12:00 pm |
Lunch (402 Atrium) |
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1:00 pm |
Demo 4 (Analysis) |
Adam Webb/ Matt Newville |
2:15 pm |
Open |
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3:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
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3:45 pm |
Open |
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6:00 pm |
Dinner (Aodake Sushi & Steak House) |
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Friday August 8 |
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9:15 am |
Demo 5 (Analysis) |
Bruce Ravel |
10:30 am |
Coffee Break |
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10:45 am |
Open |
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12:00 pm |
School Ends |
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Schedule Gestalt
- there are 4 morning sessions, with 2 blocks of 1 1/4 hour each and with 1 coffee break
- there is lunch
- there are 3 afternoon sessions with 3 blocks of 1 1/4 hour each and with 1 coffee break
- there is dinner on the first three days.
We want to leave some of the afternoon blocks of time open for students to work on their own data analysis with help from instructors:
- Day 1: 4 filled blocks, 1 open block
- Day 2: 3 filled blocks, 2 open blocks
- Day 3: 3 filled blocks, 2 open blocks
- Day 4: 1 filled block, 1 open block
The 11 structured blocks will include some lectures and some "demos" / "hands-on" analysis, with an instructor working through analysis or demonstrating program features,
Lectures |
Name |
Description |
1 |
Overview/Theory |
an overview of XAFS, with fundamentals of theory |
2 |
EXAFS Analysis 1 |
general EXAFS analysis, featuring a simple real problem |
3 |
XANES |
general description of XANES, with lots of example spectra on different edges and some molecular orbital descriptions |
4 |
Data processing |
merging, corrections, normalization, background subtraction, Fourier transforms. |
5 |
Other Techniques |
XAFS and other techniques: compare / contrast |
6 |
EXAFS Analysis 2 |
more advanced topics in analysis |
Demos |
Name |
Description |
1 |
Data analysis #1 |
to follow lecture 2 closely, using Artemis on a simple example |
2 |
Data processing |
to follow lecture 4 closely, using Athena. |
3 |
XANES linear combination |
XANES analysis with linear algebra, Athena. |
4 |
Data analysis #2 |
something a bit more complicated |
5 |
Data analysis #3 |
something else a bit more complicated (multiple data sets??) |