School and Conference on Analysis of Diffraction Data in Real Space

Session

Tutorial introductions

S5

12 Jan 2026, 14:00

Auditorium (ESRF main building)

Conveners

Tutorial introductions: School third session

• Gabriel Julio Cuello (Institut Laue Langevin)

119. PDFgui – a small box modelling platform for nanoscale structure analysis (S04)

Emil Bozin (Institute of Physics Belgrade)

12/01/2026, 14:00

Invited

120. DiffPy-CMI - a software toolbox for real-space structure analysis and Complex Modeling (S05)

Prof. Simon Billinge (Columbia University)

12/01/2026, 14:30

Invited

121. diffpy.mpdf - Investigating short-range magnetic correlations in real space with magnetic pair distribution function analysis (S06)

Benjamin Frandsen (Brigham Young University)

12/01/2026, 15:00

Invited

6. Investigating short-range magnetic correlations in real space with magnetic pair distribution function analysis (S06)

Invited

Short-range magnetic correlations play a key role in a wide variety of material systems, ranging from quantum materials, such as geometrically frustrated magnets, to technologically applied materials, such as magnetocalorics. Quantitatively characterizing these correlations is necessary to gain a complete understanding of these types of materials, but conventional techniques based on magnetic...

156. TOPAS for small box Pair Distribution Function refinements

Invited

TOPAS is a fast and flexible program for non-linear least squares refinement with a focus on crystallographic analysis of diffraction data. Alongside powder and single crystal diffraction data, TOPAS also allows the refinement of pair distribution function (PDF) data. Helpful tools like restraints, constraints, and rigid bodies can be used within PDF refinements to model local structure of...