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| 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). |
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| Click Lunch/Dinner to see restaurant and cafeteria hours |
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Sunday 11 January 2026
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School Reception Desk |
Ground Floor, Common restaurant |
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Welcome buffet dinner |
Upper Floor, Common restaurant |
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Monday 12 January 2026
(School)
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School Reception Desk |
Ground Floor, ESRF central building |
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Chair: Henry Fischer |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
| 8:30 |
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Ken Andersen, ILL director |
Welcome (School) |
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Introduction and Information |
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S01 |
Phil Salmon |
Plenary: Structure of Liquid and Amorphous Materials using Pair-Distribution Function Analysis |
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| 10:00 |
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Coffee break |
Ground Floor, ESRF central building |
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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 |
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Lunch |
Common restaurant/cafeteria |
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Chair: Gabriel Cuello |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
| 14:00 |
S04 |
Emil Bozin |
PDFgui – a small box modelling platform for nanoscale structure analysis |
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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 |
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Coffee break |
Ground Floor, ESRF central building |
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Chair: Stefano Checchia |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
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S07 |
Philip Chater |
TOPAS for small box Pair Distribution Function refinements |
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S08 |
Tucker/Slawinski |
RMCProfile: Local structure of crystalline to amorphous materials |
| 17:00 |
S09 |
Joseph Paddison |
(by video-conference) Spinvert and Spinteract: Magnetic structure refinement for paramagnets |
| 17:30 |
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Information on tutorials, Q&A |
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Dinner |
Common restaurant |
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Tuesday 13 January 2026
(School)
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School Reception Desk |
Ground Floor, ESRF central building |
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Chair: Henry Fischer |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
| 9:00 |
S10 |
Tristan Youngs |
EPSR & Dissolve - Data-driven structural modelling of total scattering data |
| 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 |
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Coffee break |
ILL19 |
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Chair: Daniel Chaney |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
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S13 |
Georgina Robertson |
Challenges in XPDF Analysis of High Pressure-Temperature Metal-Organic Frameworks |
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S14 |
Gabriel Cuello |
ND experimental procedure and data reduction |
| 12:00 |
S15 |
Reinhard Neder |
SCD experimental procedure and data reduction |
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Lunch |
Common restaurant/cafeteria |
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Parallel hands-on tutorials |
ESRF and ILL seminar rooms |
| 16:00 |
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Coffee break |
ILL19 |
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Parallel hands-on tutorials |
ESRF and ILL seminar rooms |
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Dinner |
Common restaurant |
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Wednesday 14 January 2026
(School in the morning, Conference in the afternoon)
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Parallel hands-on tutorials |
Meeting at Ground Floor, ESRF central building, then moving to ESRF and ILL seminar rooms |
| 10:30 |
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Coffee break |
Ground Floor, ESRF central building |
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Conference Reception Desk |
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Parallel hands-on tutorials |
ESRF and ILL seminar rooms |
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Lunch |
Common restaurant/cafeteria |
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Group photo |
Mezzanine and Ground Floor, ESRF central building |
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Chair: Stefano Checchia |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
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Introduction and Information |
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I01 |
Chris Benmore |
Amorphous Pharmaceuticals |
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Coffee break
Conference Reception Desk
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Ground Floor, ESRF central building |
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Chair: Gabriel Cuello |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
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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 |
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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 |
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O03 |
Capucine Sassoye |
Structural evolution of Tungsten Oxide Network during WO3.H2O formation |
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Poster session |
Mezzanine and Ground Floor, ESRF central building |
| 19:00 |
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Wine and Cheese buffet |
Ground Floor, ESRF central building |
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Thursday 15 January 2026
(Conference)
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Chair: Daniel Chaney |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
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I03 |
Karena Chapman |
X-ray PDF-analysis applied to energy materials, including in operando studies |
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O04 |
Lewis Owen |
Assessing Short-range order using total scattering and RMC - methods, challenges and strategies |
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O05 |
Nrusimha Yanamandram |
In situ/operando studies for understanding the metal-support interaction of Ni-based catalysts for ammonia decomposition |
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O06 |
Fabio Manzoni |
Phase Sensitive Detection Analysis on Modulation-Excitation PDF Data of Ni Based Catalysts |
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Coffee break |
Ground Floor, ESRF central building |
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Chair: Henry Fischer |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
| 10:55 |
I04 |
Yuanpeng Zhang |
Technical Aspects and Practices in Using Neutron Total Scattering for Local Magnetic Ordering Studies |
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O07 |
Andrew Wildes |
Magnetism in metallic glasses - a clear need for PDF |
| 12:05 |
O08 |
Edison Carlisle |
Using mPDF to probe magnetic exchange interactions |
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Lunch |
Common restaurant/cafeteria |
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Chair: Stefano Checchia |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
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I05 |
David Keen |
Total scattering and PDFs using X-ray free-electron lasers: quality data in 30 femtoseconds |
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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 |
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Coffee break |
Ground Floor, ESRF central building |
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Chair: Gabriel Cuello |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
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I06 |
Karl Juul |
3D-DeltaPDF: From synchrotron to in-house sources |
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O11 |
Zheyi An |
Short-range atomic ordering in PbZrxTi1-xO3 single crystal revealed by diffuse scattering and 3D-△PDF modeling |
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O12 |
Marta Falkowska |
Investigating preferential adsorption of N2 from the air in Zeolite 13X using total neutron scattering |
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Poster session |
Mezzanine and Ground Floor, ESRF central building |
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Tram/walk to restaurant |
Oxford Tram stop, tram line B |
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Conference dinner |
Restaurant Boullion-A |
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Friday 16 January 2026
(Conference)
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Chair: Daniel Chaney |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
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O13 |
Victor Secco Lemos |
Isolating TEM instrumental function to the ePDF |
| 8:55 |
I07 |
Shin-ichi Shamoto |
(by video-conference) Dynamic magnetic pair-density function analysis (DymPDF) |
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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 |
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Coffee break |
Ground Floor, ESRF central building |
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Chair: Henry Fischer |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
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I08 |
Oleg Petrenko |
Exploring magnetic correlation lengths in frustrated systems via single-crystal neutron diffraction |
| 11:45 |
O16 |
Arkadiy Simonov |
Fast Simulation of Disordered Crystals Using Gaussian Copulas |
| 12:10 |
O17 |
Wojciech Slawinski |
Hidden complexity in D2O Ice VII |
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Lunch |
Common restaurant/cafeteria |
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Chair: Stefano Checchia |
Auditorium, ESRF central building |
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Final discussion and closing |
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Visit of ESRF and ILL experimental facilities (as adapted to safety regulations) |
ILL50 and ESRF central building |
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Last updated: Monday 05 Jan 2026 |
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