2nd Announcement
The
72nd Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference
October 26 - 28, 2014
Georgia Center for Continuing Education
Athens, GA,
Organized by
John Rose and B.C. Wang
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Scientific
Sessions
Oct 27 AM Session: 100 years of X-ray Diffraction
Chair John Rose, University of Georgia
Brian Matthews (University of Oregon)
Bi-Cheng Wang (University of Georgia)
Charles Campana (Bruker-AXS)
Aina Cohen (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation
Laboratory)
Larry DeLucas (University of Alabama,
Birmingham)
TBA
Oct 27 PM Session: Structure Elucidation, Refinement and Interpretation
through Powder Diffraction Crystallography
Chair Charles Lake, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania
Brian Toby (APS, Argonne National Laboratory)
Bob von Dreele (APS, Argonne National
Laboratory)
Ashfia Huq (SNS, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory)
Angus Wilkinson (Georgia Institute of
Technology)
Clarina dela Cruz (Oak Ridge National
Laboratory)
Scott Spearman (PANanalytical)
Oct 28 AM Session: Crystallographic Education
Chair Joe Ng (University of Alabama,
Huntsville)
Cora Lind-Kovacs (University of Toledo)
Joe NG (University of Alabama, Huntsville)
Leighton Coates (Oak Ridge National
Laboratory)
Larry DeLucas (University of Alabama,
Birmingham)
Bill Duax (Hauptman-Woodward Institute)
Claudia Rawn (University of Tennessee)
Oct 28 PM Session:
Advances in Neutron Crystallography
Chair Paul Langan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Irene Weber (Georgia State University)
Don Ronning (University of Toledo)
Andrey Kovalevsky (Oak Ridge National
Laboratory)
TBA
TBA
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Conference
Workshop
Sunday
October 26
9:00 - 5:00
Georgia
Center for Continuing Education
Powder
Diffraction Structure Solution with GSAS-II
Robert B. Von
Dreele and Brian Toby
X-ray Science
Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
The new GSAS-II package is believed to be the only
general-purpose crystallographic analysis package to be started in the current
century. It is also the only package written in a modern scientist-friendly
language, such as Python. GSAS-II performs structural analysis from x-ray and
neutron diffraction data, which may be single-crystal and/or powder diffraction
data. It is hoped that by the time of the PDC, work will have begun on
extending GSAS-II to include TOF data from the neutron spallation source.
Beyond structural analysis, GSAS-II can be used for powder diffraction
data reduction, texture and stress analysis as well as pattern indexing and
structure solution.
This workshop will highlight these latter capabilities of
GSAS-II: indexing and structure solution from powder diffraction, although all
features of the package will be introduced. Participants should bring a laptop
(Windows, Mac or Linux) with the GSAS-II
software installed. To download GSAS-II see subversion.xray.aps.anl.gov/trac/pyGSAS.
Contact the authors in advance for help with software
installation. Limited assistance will also be available before the workshop
start time.
Workshop Registration
$65.00 (includes lunch)
Space
is limited to 30 participants so register soon!
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Deadlines
Conference Registrations – Deadline
October 15, 2014
Everyone must
register for the meeting including invited speakers.
$150 Conference registration for
professionals (non students)
$ 50 Conference registration for students
$ 65 GSAS-II Workshop registration
Reservations
can be made via the conference web page
pdc14.bmb.uga.edu
(REGISTRATIONS)
Hotel reservations – Deadline September
29, 2014
The PDS has
reserved a block of 40 rooms at the UGA Hotel & Conference Center at the
conference rate of $104.00 per night.
Hotel
reservations may be made via HOUSING link on the PDC web page or by
telephone (800-884-1381). Please reference the hotel block code 83280 when
making your reservations.
Abstracts – Deadline September 29, 2014 (See the ABSTRACTS link on the PDC web page).
Sidhu Award – Deadline September
15, 2014 (See the SIDHU AWARD link on the PDC web page).
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For
more information please see the PDC Web Site: PDC14.bmb.uga.edu