School and Conference on Analysis of Diffraction Data in Real Space

(preliminary) Programme

Conference poster now available here.
Available soon: Book of Abstracts in .pdf format here
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Sunday 11 January 2026
18:00		School Reception Desk	Ground Floor, Common restaurant
19:00		Welcome buffet dinner	Upper Floor, Common restaurant
Monday 12 January 2026 (School)
8:00		School Reception Desk	Ground Floor, ESRF central building
		Chair: Henry Fischer	Auditorium, ESRF central building
8:30		Ken Andersen, ILL director	Welcome (School)
8:45		Introduction and Information
9:00	S01	Phil Salmon	Plenary: Structure of Liquid and Amorphous Materials using Pair-Distribution Function Analysis
10:00		Coffee break	Ground Floor, ESRF central building
		Chair: Daniel Chaney	Auditorium, ESRF central building
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	Common restaurant/cafeteria
		Chair: Gabriel Cuello	Auditorium, ESRF central building
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	Ground Floor, ESRF central building
		Chair: Stefano Checchia	Auditorium, ESRF central building
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		Information on tutorials, Q&A
19:00		Dinner	Common restaurant
Tuesday 13 January 2026 (School)
8:30		School Reception Desk	Ground Floor, ESRF central building
		Chair: Henry Fischer	Auditorium, ESRF central building
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	Ground Floor, ESRF central building
		Chair: Daniel Chaney	Auditorium, ESRF central building
11:00	S13	Georgina Robertson	Challenges in XPDF Analysis of High Pressure-Temperature Metal-Organic Frameworks
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	Common restaurant/cafeteria
14:00		Parallel hands-on tutorials	ESRF and ILL seminar rooms
16:00		Coffee break	Visitor Centre
16:30		Parallel hands-on tutorials	ESRF and ILL seminar rooms
19:00		Dinner	Common restaurant
Wednesday 14 January 2026 (School in the morning, Conference in the afternoon)
8:30		Parallel hands-on tutorials	ESRF and ILL seminar rooms
10:30		Coffee break	Ground Floor, ESRF central building
		Conference Reception Desk
11:00		Parallel hands-on tutorials	ESRF and ILL seminar rooms
12:30		Lunch	Common restaurant/cafeteria
14:00		Group photo	Mezzanine and Ground Floor, ESRF central building
		Chair: Stefano Checchia	Auditorium, ESRF central building
14:15		ESRF/ILL director	Welcome (conference)
14:30		Introduction and Information
14:45	I01	Chris Benmore	Amorphous Pharmaceuticals
15:30		Coffee break Conference Reception Desk	Ground Floor, ESRF central building
		Chair: Gabriel Cuello	Auditorium, ESRF central building
16:00	I02	Yohei Onodera	Intermediate-range order in glassy oxide materials revealed by topological analysis
16:45	O01	Valeria Lemkova	Structural Fingerprints of Plasticity: Linking the Shear Transformation Zone Size to Pair Distribution Functions in Metallic Glasses
17:10	O02	Tobias Mølgaard Nielsen	Whole-nanoparticle-ensemble refinements of compositionally complex systems from X-ray pair distribution function data via the Reverse Monte Carlo method
17:35	O03	Capucine Sassoye	Structural evolution of Tungsten Oxide Network during WO3.H2O formation
18:00		Poster session	Mezzanine and Ground Floor, ESRF central building
19:00		Wine and Cheese buffet	Ground Floor, ESRF central building
Thursday 15 January 2026 (Conference)
		Chair: Henry Fischer	Auditorium, ESRF central building
8:30	I03	Karena Chapman	X-ray PDF-analysis applied to energy materials, including in operando studies
9:15	O04	Laura Graversen	Mechanistic Insights into Solvent-Guided Growth of MoO2 Nanoparticles from in situ Total Scattering Studies
9:40	O05	Nrusimha Yanamandram	In situ/operando studies for understanding the metal-support interaction of Ni-based catalysts for ammonia decomposition
10:05	O06	Fabio Manzoni	Phase Sensitive Detection Analysis on Modulation Excitation PDF Data of Ni Based Catalysts
10:30		Coffee break	Ground Floor, ESRF central building
		Chair: Daniel Chaney	Auditorium, ESRF central building
10:55	I04	Yuanpeng Zhang	Technical Aspects and Practices in Using Neutron Total Scattering for Local Magnetic Ordering Studies
11:40	O07	Andrew Wildes	Magnetism in metallic glasses - a clear need for PDF
12:05	O08	Lewis Owen	Assessing Short-range order using total scattering and RMC - methods, challenges and strategies
12:30		Lunch	Common restaurant/cafeteria
		Chair: Gabriel Cuello	Auditorium, ESRF central building
13:55	I05	David Keen	Total scattering and PDFs using X-ray free-electron lasers: quality data in 30 femtoseconds
14:40	O09	Riku Fukada	Real-time observation of rapid densification and degradation in flash sintered multilayer systems for battery materials
15:05	O10	Daniele Bonavia	CO-induced dynamic behaviour of Al2O3-supported Pd nanoparticles at room temperature
15:30		Coffee break	Ground Floor, ESRF central building
		Chair: Stefano Checchia	Auditorium, ESRF central building
16:00	I06	Karl Juul	3D-DeltaPDF: From synchrotron to in-house sources
16:45	O11	Zheyi An	Short-range atomic ordering in PbZrxTi1-xO3 single crystal revealed by diffuse scattering and 3D-△PDF modeling
17:10	O12	Marta Falkowska	Investigating preferential adsorption of N2 from the air in Zeolite 13X using total neutron scattering
17:35		Poster session	Mezzanine and Ground Floor, ESRF central building
18:45		Tram/walk to restaurant	Tram stop "Oxford", tram line B
19:30		Conference dinner	Restaurant Boullion-A
Friday 16 January 2026 (Conference)
		Chair: Daniel Chaney	Auditorium, ESRF central building
8:30	O13	Victor Secco Lemos	Isolating TEM instrumental function to the ePDF
8:55	I07	Shin-ichi Shamoto	Dynamic magnetic pair-density function analysis (DymPDF)
9:40	O14	Elodie Harbourne	Understanding local structure and dynamics in Prussian blue analogues
10:05	O15	Fernando Igoa	Grazing Incidence Total Scattering at PETRA III: Extending Local Structure Analysis to Ultrathin Films on Single-Crystal Substrates
10:30		Coffee break	Ground Floor, ESRF central building
		Chair: Henry Fischer	Auditorium, ESRF central building
11:00	I08	Oleg Petrenko	Single-Crystal Diffuse scattering of neutrons, including magnetic diffuse scattering
11:45	O16	Arkadiy Simonov	Fast Simulation of Disordered Crystals Using Gaussian Copulas
12:10	O17	Wojciech Slawinski	Hidden complexity in D2O Ice VII
12:35		Lunch	Common restaurant/cafeteria
		Chair: Stefano Checchia	Auditorium, ESRF central building
14:00		Final discussion and closing
14:20		Visit of ESRF and ILL experimental facilities (as adapted to safety regulations)	ILL50 and ESRF central building
				Last updated: Thursday 04 Dec 2025