Programme
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17 June — 21 June 2024
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Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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HK$4,000 (Includes accommodation)
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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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