School and Conference on Analysis of Diffraction Data in Real Space

(preliminary) Programme

Programme

for the ADD2026 School and Conference

Conference poster now available here.
Available soon:
Book of Abstracts in *.pdf format here.
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Click on the talk title to get the presentation (if it is made available by the author).
Sunday 11 January 2026
18:00	Beginning of Reception for the School		Ground floor entrance of on-site restaurant
19:00	Welcome buffet dinner		Upper floor of on-site restaurant
Monday 12 January 2026 (School)
8:00	Reception continues for the School		Welcome desk, ground floor, ESRF main building
	Session Chair: Henry Fischer		ESRF amphitheatre
8:30			ESRF/ILL director	Welcome (school)
8:45			ADD organizers	Introduction and Information
9:00	S01		Phil Salmon	Plenary: Structure of Liquid and Amorphous Materials using Pair-Distribution Function Analysis
10:00	Coffee break		ESRF main building
	Session Chair: Daniel Chaney		ESRF amphitheatre
10:30	S02		Simon Billinge	Plenary: Recent and future developments in PDF-land
11:30	S03		Reinhard Neder	Plenary: Single-Crystal Diffuse scattering
12:30	Lunch		ESRF/ILL canteen
	Session Chair: Gabriel Cuello		ESRF amphitheatre
14:00	S04		Emil Bozin	PDFgui – a small box modelling platform for nanoscale structure analysis
14:30	S05		Simon Billinge	DiffPy-CMI - a software toolbox for real-space structure analysis and Complex Modeling
15:00	S06		Ben Frandsen	diffpy.mpdf - Investigating short-range magnetic correlations in real space with magnetic pair distribution function analysis
15:30	Coffee break		ESRF main building
	Session Chair: Stefano Checchia		ESRF amphitheatre
16:00	S07		Philip Chater	Topas
16:30	S08		Tucker/Slawinski	RMCProfile: Local structure of crystalline to amorphous materials
17:00	S09		Tristan Youngs	EPSR & Dissolve - Data-driven structural modelling of total scattering data
17:30			ADD organizers	Organizational information (tutorials, etc), Q&A
19:00	Dinner		ESRF/ILL canteen
Tuesday 13 January 2026 (School)
8:30	School Reception still possible during the morning		Welcome desk, ground floor, ESRF main building
	Session Chair: Henry Fischer		ESRF amphitheatre
9:00	S10		Joseph Paddison	Spinvert and Spinteract: Magnetic structure refinement for paramagnets
9:30	S11		Reinhard Neder	DISCUS: Simulation and refinement of disordered crystal structures
10:00	S12		Arkadiy Simonov	3D-ΔPDF: Pair distribution function analysis for single crystals
10:30	Coffee break		ESRF main building
	Session Chair: Daniel Chaney		ESRF amphitheatre
11:00	S13		Stefano Checchia	XRD experimental procedure and data reduction
11:30	S14		Gabriel Cuello	ND experimental procedure and data reduction
12:00	S15		Reinhard Neder	SCD experimental procedure and data reduction
12:30	Lunch		ESRF/ILL canteen
14:00			ESRF and ILL tutorial rooms	Parallel hands-on tutorials
16:00	Coffee break		ESRF main building
16:30			ESRF and ILL tutorial rooms	Parallel hands-on tutorials
19:00	Dinner		ESRF/ILL canteen
Wednesday 14 January 2026 (School in the morning, Conference in the afternoon)
8:30			ESRF and ILL tutorial rooms	Parallel hands-on tutorials
10:30	Coffee break and beginning of Reception for the Conference		Ground floor and mezzanine of main ESRF building
11:00			ESRF and ILL tutorial rooms	Parallel hands-on tutorials
12:30	Lunch		ESRF/ILL canteen
14:00	Group photo		ESRF main building
	Session Chair: Stefano Checchia		ESRF amphitheatre
14:15			ESRF/ILL director	Welcome (conference)
14:30			ADD organizers	Introduction and Information
14:45	I01		Chris Benmore	Amorphous Pharmaceuticals
15:30	Coffee break and continuing Reception for the Conference		Ground floor and mezzanine of ESRF main building
	Session Chair: Gabriel Cuello		ESRF amphitheatre
16:00	I02		Yohei Onodera	Intermediate-range order in glassy oxide materials revealed by topological analysis
16:45	O01		NN	Title of contributed talk
17:10	O02		NN	Title of contributed talk
17:35	O03		NN	Title of contributed talk
18:00	Poster session		Mezzanine of main ESRF building
19:00	Wine and Cheese buffet		Entrance foyer of main ESRF building
Thursday 15 January 2026 (Conference)
	Session Chair: Henry Fischer		ESRF amphitheatre
8:30	I03		Karena Chapman	Title of INVITED talk
9:15	O04		NN	Title of contributed talk
9:40	O05		NN	Title of contributed talk
10:05	O06		NN	Title of contributed talk
10:30	Coffee break		ESRF main building
	Session Chair: Daniel Chaney		ESRF amphitheatre
10:55	I04		Yuanpeng Zhang	Technical Aspects and Practices in Using Neutron Total Scattering for Local Magnetic Ordering Studies
11:40	O07		NN	Title of contributed talk
12:05	O08		NN	Title of contributed talk
12:30	Lunch		ESRF/ILL canteen
	Session Chair: Gabriel Cuello		ESRF amphitheatre
13:55	I05		David Keen	Total scattering and PDFs using X-ray free-electron lasers: quality data in 30 femtoseconds
14:40	O09		NN	Title of contributed talk
15:05	O10		NN	Title of contributed talk
15:30	Coffee break		ESRF main building
	Session Chair: Stefano Checchia		ESRF amphitheatre
16:00	I06		Karl Juul	3D-DeltaPDF: From synchrotron to in-house sources
16:45	O11		NN	Title of contributed talk
17:10	O12		NN	Title of contributed talk
17:35	Poster session		Mezzanine of ESRF main building
18:45	Bus to restaurant		Bus stop "Oxford", bus line C6
19:30	Conference dinner		Restaurant "Château de la Baume"
Friday 16 January 2026 (Conference)
	Session Chair: Daniel Chaney		ESRF amphitheatre
8:55	I07		Shin-ichi Shamoto	Dynamic magnetic pair-density function analysis (DymPDF)
9:40	O13		NN	Title of contributed talk
10:05	O14		NN	Title of contributed talk
10:30	Coffee break		ESRF main building
	Session Chair: Henry Fischer		ESRF amphitheatre
11:00	I08		Oleg Petrenko	Title of INVITED talk
11:45	O15		NN	Title of contributed talk
12:10	O16		NN	Title of contributed talk
12:35	Lunch		ESRF/ILL canteen
	Session Chair: Stefano Checchia		ESRF amphitheatre
14:00	O17		NN	Title of contributed talk
14:25			Everyone	Final discussion and closing
15:00	Visit of ESRF and ILL experimental facilities (as adapted to prevailing safety regulations)		ESRF main building, ILL security building (ILL50)
				Last updated: Monday 17 Aug 2025