Science Symposium on Advances in Sample Environment and Experimental Control

10 Sept 2015, 09:00 → 11 Sept 2015, 16:00 UTC

Room 206 (Universitetshuset, Lund, Sweden)

 

 

 

 

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Science Symposium on Advances in Sample Environment and Experimental Control

Advances in the brightness of x-ray and neutron sources, and detector technologies are leading to an increasing use of small-angle scattering methods to study nanostructure under non-equilibrium conditions and to study structural change on ever shorter time scales.

In order to take advantage of these new opportunities with scattering instrumentation, there must be associated advances in the sample environment equipment, the interface of that equipment with the instrument and experimental control.

The goal is to bring together sample environment experts, instrument & beamline scientists, users to present and discuss recent advances in the state of the art of sample environment and experimental control for small angle scattering along with associated data analysis methods. This will feed discussion of future opportunities and requirements for upcoming instruments and beamlines.

Some of the topics for discussion are

• Non-equilibrium conditions 
• High magnetic fields 
• Low temperatures 
• Simultaneous measurement techniques 
• Control software and experimental integration 
• Data Analysis methods 

The symposium will produce a report that can be used by ESS and MAX IV as a source of information for planning R&D and investment relevant to sample enviroments in small angle scattering techniques.

Bring your experience and expectations!!

 

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The meeting is jointly funded by ESS and MaxIV and is an ESS Science Symposium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This symposium is organised by ESS, MAX IV and Lund University as a satellite meeting of the 16th International Conference on Small-Angle Scattering, 13 - 18 September, 2015, Berlin. The subject of sample environment for SAS is a topic of common interest for the organisers and for neutron and x-ray facilities and facility users. This joint effort hopes to start a cluster of SE development in Lund to fits in with on-going initiatives across Europe and globally to build a community of SE expertise.

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Andrew Jackson (ESS), Ana Labrador (MAX IV), Marc Obiols-Rabasa (Lund University), Tomás Plivelic (MAX IV)

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Thursday 10 September

Registration and Coffee

Welcome and Introduction: Overview of SAS Instruments at ESS and MaxIV

1 Welcome

Speaker: Andrew Jackson (European Spallation Source)

Slides Welcome.pdf

2 LoKI - A SANS Instrument for Soft Matter, Materials and Bioscience at the ESS

Speaker: Andrew Jackson (European Spallation Source)

Slides ESS-LoKI.pdf

3 SKADI Overview and Description

Speaker: Sebastian Jaksch

Slides SKADI-Description.pdf

4 The CoSAXS Beamline at MaxIV

Speaker: Tomas Plivelic (MAX IV Laboratory)

Slides SASworkshop_TPf.pdf

Session 1

5 SANS sample environment at NIST past, present and future: from lessons learned to new opportunities

Speaker: Paul Butler (NIST)

Slides NIST_SANS_SE_LundPresentation2015Final.pdf

6 Soft Matter Sample Environments at ISIS - continuous challenges and how collaborative efforts are proving to be effective

Speaker: Andy Church

Slides Soft_Matter_SE_Lund_Science_Symposium_on_Advances_on_Sample_Environment_and_Experimental_Control.pdf

7 Understanding Complex Materials with X-rays and Neutrons - realistic conditions and samples

Speaker: Adrian Rennie (Uppsala University)

Slides Rennie_SampleEnvironment.pdf

8 Development of microfluidic sample environments for BioSAXS applications

Speaker: Bente Vestergaard (University of Copenhagen)

Stand-up Lunch

Session 2

9 Design and Implementation of a Differential Scanning Calorimeter for the Simultaneous Measurement of Small Angle Neutron Scattering

Speaker: Elliot Gilbert (ANSTO)

Slides EPGilbert_SEW_Lund.pdf

10 Sample environments and GiSAXS at ALS

Speaker: Chenhui Zhu (ALS)

11 SANS under high pressure: an overview and recent developments of pressure cells at the ILL

Speaker: Ralf Schweins (ILL)

Slides Lund_hp-SANS_RS_final.pdf

12 Small, low-cost SAXS sample environments to fit your hand luggage – and your wallet

Speaker: Adam Squires (Reading University)

Slides Squires_Sample_Environment_Lund_2015_v3.pdf

Coffee Break

ESS and MAX IV Tours: Crossing through the Future Science Village Scandinavia

Experimental Control at MaxIV and ESS

13 Experimental Control at MaxIV

14 Experimental Control at ESS

Speaker: Jonathan Taylor

15 Sample Environment at ESS

Brainstorming 1: Future Sample Environment Needs for SANS and SAXS

Dinner

Friday 11 September

Review of Brainstorming

Session 3

16 Sample environments for X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (XPCS)

Speaker: Michael Sprung

Slides P10_SampleEnvironments_MS.pdf

17 Combining light and neutron scattering: review of a first assembly

Speaker: Andreas Charles Völker

18 New lights on multimeric enzymes – A combination of chromatography, SAXS and spectroscopy

Speaker: Dr Cedric Dicko (Lund University)

Coffee break

Session 4

19 Travels with an itinerant magnet: Bringing specialised equipment to facilities

Speaker: Alex Holmes (ESS)

Slides Holmes_presentation.pdf

20 The partnership for Soft Condensed Matter in Grenoble: enhanced user support and development for SAS experiments

Speaker: Yuri Gerelli

21 Spice up your beamtime experience with exciting sample environments

Speaker: Wim Bras

Slides Lund_Wim_Bras.pdf

Brainstorming 2: Perspectives, challenges, synergies

Stand-up Lunch

Meeting Summary and wrap up

Discussion and Report writting