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Programme

  • 17 June — 21 June 2024

  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • HK$4,000 (Includes accommodation)

  • Apply by 29 February 2024

Past

1st Day
Introduction, synchrotron science and SR techniques

Z409, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

10:00 — 10:30
Registration and refreshment
10:30 — 10:50
Opening remarks

(Benedict Lo)

10:50 — 11:50
Synchrotron radiation (SR) and 4th generation SR machine

(Yitao Cui)

11:50 — 13:30
Lunch
13:30 — 14:30
SR instrumentation and beamline designs

(Chiu Tang)

14:30 — 15:30
Advanced materials research I (MOFs)

(Sihai Yang)

15:30 — 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 — 17:00
Synchrotron powder and single crystal X-ray diffraction

(Sarah Day)

17:00 — 18:00
Tutorial 1: Data treatments for the rietveld refinement method and Monte-Carlo simulation

(Sarah Day)

18:00 — 20:30
Buffet dinner

(Metropolis Hotel)

2nd Day
SR techniques

Z409

09:30 — 10:30
Introduction of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS)

(Yitao Cui)

10:30 — 10:50
Coffee break
10:50 — 11:50
Tutorial 2: Data processing, analysis, and presentation for X-ray absorption spectroscopy

(M-J Li)

11:50 — 13:30
Lunch
13:30 — 14:30
Crystallography, and fundamentals of X-ray scattering and diffraction I

(Cong Lin)

14:30 — 15:30
Soft X-ray and photoelectron spectroscopy

(Edman Tsang)

15:30 — 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 — 17:00
Hard X-Ray nanoprobe - Synchrotron nanoscale microscopy

(Yitao Cui and Lei Li)

17:00 — 18:00
Poster session
18:00 — 20:30
Dinner and night tour in Hong Kong
3rd Day
SR techniques
09:30 — 10:30
Crystallography, and fundamentals of X-ray scattering and diffraction II

(Junliang Sun)

10:30 — 10:50
Coffee break
10:50 — 11:50
PXRD and electron crystallography for structure determination

(Junliang Sun)

11:50 — 13:30
Lunch
13:30 — 14:30
X-ray imaging

(C.Z. Yang)

14:30 — 15:30
Tutorial 3: How to access SR facilities; choice of beamlines and do’s and don’ts in beamtime application

(Chiu Tang, Molly Li and Benedict Lo)

15:30 — 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 — 16:40
Introduction to X-ray pair distribution function

(Anna Herlihy)

16:40 — 17:20
X-ray PDF measurements at synchrotrons

(Dan Irving)

17:20 — 18:00
Tutorial 4: Analysis methods for XPDF data

(Phil Chater)

4th Day
Applications, science and discoveries and travelling
09:00 — 10:00
Introduction to neutron scattering

(Xin Tong)

10:00 — 11:00
Advanced materials research II (General catalysis)

(Guangchao Li)

11:00 — 12:00
Light lunch or no lunch
12:00 — 17:00
Travelling together to synchrotron
17:00 — 18:30
Dinner in Shanghai
5th Day
SR facility visit
09:00 — 12:00
Sharing by Sinopec scientists

(Sinopec scientists)

12:00 — 13:15
Working lunch
13:15 — 15:00
Introduction of SR facility

Guided tour of the SR site and Sinopec beamlines

15:00 — 15:10
Closing remarks, end of school
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