NSLS-II Seminar

"Ready or not: the transition to the mail-in synchrotron powder diffraction"

Presented by Brian Toby, Argonne National Laboratory

Friday, November 30, 2007, 11:00 am — NSLS-II Seminar Room, Bldg. 817

A mail-in facility for powder diffraction has significant implications for how structural sciences are taught and conducted. Support for a high-throughput instrument also affects the synchrotron operations paradigm, since staffing levels cannot scale with numbers of samples. Design of instrument automation and metadata tracking determines staffing requirements and user effectiveness. This talk will describe key concepts for implementation of mail-in support at 11-BM, the high resolution and high-throughput powder diffractometer at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source. Also to be discussed are educational programs being developed for novice and experienced users at the APS and our goals for a new generation of data analysis software. Selected examples of how synchrotron powder diffraction studies are impacting research fields will be presented. Finally, the current commissioning status of 11-BM will be reviewed.

Hosted by: John Hill

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