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Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium (SCC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory offers a three-day training course to those interested in learning about advanced experiments and data analysis methods in catalysis and electrocatalysis research. This year, the course will be offered on site November 6–8, 2024.

This short course will be useful for those scientists interested in learning the foundations of in-situ and operando experimentation with heterogeneous catalysts. The emphasis will be on the methodologies for combining characterization techniques (such as infrared and X-ray absorption spectroscopies, electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction) under in-situ and operando conditions. The lectures, taught by the PIs of the SCC, their partners from NSLS-II beamlines and their colleagues from other synchrotrons (such as SLS in Switzerland and ESRF in France), will focus on specific research problems solved by different combined methods.

The course will include training in structural analysis of catalysts by X-ray absorption spectroscopy. During the last day of the workshop, as has been our tradition since the inception of Brookhaven XAFS short courses, the instructors will divide participants in groups for in-depth problem solving, data analysis and modeling, to best match participants and their research interests. There will be Q&A sessions about the material taught on the first and second days of the course.

Course participants will be limited and selected based on their application materials.

  • Wednesday, November 6 and Thursday, November 7 will be devoted to lectures and demonstrations of the data analysis methods.
  • Friday, November 8 will be devoted to the practical session, in which participants will practice problem solving methods discussed in the previous days, with emphasis on XANES and EXAFS analysis and modeling. Registered participants will have an option to analyze their own data, in addition to the projects chosen for training purpose.

Course Instructors

  • Jingguang G. Chen (Columbia/BNL)
  • Anatoly Frenkel (SBU/BNL)
  • Sanjit Ghose (NSLS-II/BNL)
  • Kirill Lomachenko (ESRF)
  • Nebojsa Marinkovic (Columbia)
  • Lisa Miller (NSLS-II/BNL)
  • Maarten Nachtegaal (SLS/Paul Scherrer Institute)
  • Jose Rodriguez (BNL)
  • Shuting Xiang (SBU)
  • Zhenhua Xie (Columbia)
  • Judith Yang (CFN/BNL)
  • Kaifeng Zheng (SBU)

Course Sponsors

  • Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium (BNL)

Accommodations

This event does not have a hotel room block. Participants should make their hotel reservation. When booking your reservation, you may need to guarantee your room with a credit card.

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Important Dates

August 8, 2024 Course enrollment opens
August 31, 2024 Course enrollment closes
September 2, 2024 Notification of enrollment acceptance (by e-mail)
September 3, 2024 Registration (for accepted participants and auditors) opens
October 7, 2024 Registration deadline for all accepted participants and auditors including non-U.S. citizens registration deadline for all participants who do not have an active appointment with Brookhaven Lab. You will be directed to the appropriate form once you have completed the event registration.
November 5, 2024 Registration (for accepted participants and auditors) closes at 6:00 pm

Course Information

Note: This event falls under Exemption D (Formal classroom training held at Federal facilities, which does not exhibit indicia of a formal conference as outlined in the Conference/Event Exemption Request Form.) Participation is contingent on application acceptance.