Name: School and Conference on Analysis of Diffraction Data in Real Space
Start: 2026-01-11T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-17T18:00:00+01:00
Location: The EPN Campus

School and Conference on Analysis of Diffraction Data in Real Space

from Sunday, 11 January 2026 (18:00) to Saturday, 17 January 2026 (18:00)

Monday, 5 January 2026
Tuesday, 6 January 2026
Wednesday, 7 January 2026
Thursday, 8 January 2026
Friday, 9 January 2026
Saturday, 10 January 2026
Sunday, 11 January 2026

18:00 School registration
School registration
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Ground floor

19:00 Buffet dinner
Buffet dinner
19:00 - 20:00
Room: Upper floor

Monday, 12 January 2026

08:00 School Registration
School Registration
08:00 - 08:30
Room: Auditorium
08:30 School first session
School first session
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 School welcome and opening - Ken Andersen (ILL)

08:45 Introduction and information - Henry Fischer (Institut Laue-Langevin)

09:00 Structure of Liquid and Amorphous Materials using Pair-Distribution Function Analysis - Philip Stephen Salmon (University of Bath)
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Ground floor
10:30 School second session
School second session
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

10:30 Recent and future developments in PDF-land - Simon Billinge (Columbia University)

11:30 Single-Crystal Diffuse scattering - Reinhard Neder (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Ground floor
14:00 School third session
School third session
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 PDFgui – a small box modelling platform for nanoscale structure analysis - Emil Bozin (Institute of Physics Belgrade)

14:30 DiffPy-CMI - a software toolbox for real-space structure analysis and Complex Modeling - Simon Billinge (Columbia University)

15:00 diffpy.mpdf - Investigating short-range magnetic correlations in real space with magnetic pair distribution function analysis - Benjamin Frandsen (Brigham Young University)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Ground floor
16:00 School fourth session
School fourth session
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 Topas - Philip Chater (Diamond Light Source)

16:30 RMCProfile: Local structure of crystalline to amorphous materials - Matt Tucker (ORNL) Wojciech Slawinski (Univeristy of Warsaw, Faculty of Chemistry)

17:00 Spinvert and Spinteract: Magnetic structure refinement for paramagnets - Joe Paddison (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

17:30 Information on tutorials - Henry Fischer (Institut Laue-Langevin) Stefano Checchia (ESRF)
19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:30
Room: Upper floor
Tuesday, 13 January 2026

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Ground floor
09:00 School fifth session
School fifth session
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 EPSR & Dissolve - Data-driven structural modelling of total scattering data - Tristan YOUNGS (ISIS Neutron and Muon Source)

09:30 DISCUS: Simulation and refinement of disordered crystal structures - Reinhard Neder (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

10:00 3D-ΔPDF: Pair distribution function analysis for single crystals - Arkadiy Simonov (ETH Zurich)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Ground floor

11:00 School sixth session
School sixth session
11:00 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Ground floor

14:00

14:00 - 16:00
Room: Tutorial rooms

16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Visitor centre

16:30

16:30 - 18:30
Room: Tutorial rooms

19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:30
Room: Ground floor
Wednesday, 14 January 2026

08:30

08:30 - 10:30
Room: Tutorial rooms

10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Ground floor

10:30 - 12:30
Room: Ground floor

11:00

11:00 - 12:30
Room: Tutorial rooms

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Ground floor

14:00

14:00 - 14:15
Room: Ground floor
14:15
14:15 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:15 Conference welcome

14:30 Introduction and information - Stefano Checchia (ESRF)

14:45 Amorphous Pharmaceuticals - Chris Benmore (Argonne National Laboratory)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Ground floor

15:30 - 16:00
Room: Ground floor
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 Intermediate-range order in glassy oxide materials revealed by topological analysis - Yohei Onodera (National Institute for Materials Science)

16:45 Structural Fingerprints of Plasticity: Linking the Shear Transformation Zone Size to Pair Distribution Functions in Metallic Glasses - Valeria Lemkova (Saarland University)

17:10 Whole-nanoparticle-ensemble refinements of compositionally complex systems from X-ray pair distribution function data via the Reverse Monte Carlo method - Tobias Molgaard NIELSEN (University of Copenhagen)

17:35 Structural evolution of Tungsten Oxide Network during WO3.H2O formation - Capucine Sassoye (Sorbonne Université)
18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Room: Ground floor & Mezzanine

19:00 Wine & Cheese
Wine & Cheese
19:00 - 21:00
Room: Ground floor
Thursday, 15 January 2026
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 X-ray PDF-analysis applied to energy materials, including in operando studies - Karena Chapman (Stony Brook University)

09:15 Mechanistic Insights into Solvent-Guided Growth of MoO2 Nanoparticles from in situ Total Scattering Studies - Laura Graversen (University of Copenhagen)

09:40 In situ/operando studies for understanding the metal-support interaction of Ni-based catalysts for ammonia decomposition - Nrusimha Teja Yanamandram (PhD student, Max Planck Institute for Kohlenforschung)

10:05 Phase Sensitive Detection Analysis on Modulation Excitation PDF Data of Ni Based Catalysts - Fabio Manzoni
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 10:55
Room: Ground floor
10:55
10:55 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

10:55 Technical Aspects and Practices in Using Neutron Total Scattering for Local Magnetic Ordering Studies - Yuanpeng Zhang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:40 Magnetism in metallic glasses - a clear need for PDF - Andrew Wildes (Institut Laue Langevin)

12:05 Assessing Short-range order using total scattering and RMC - methods, challenges and strategies - Lewis OWEN (University of Sheffield)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:55
Room: Ground floor
13:55
13:55 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:55 Total scattering and PDFs using X-ray free-electron lasers: quality data in 30 femtoseconds - David A. Keen (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

14:40 Real-time observation of rapid densification and degradation in flash sintered multilayer systems for battery materials - Riku FUKADA (Institut Néel)

15:05 CO-induced dynamic behaviour of Al2O3-supported Pd nanoparticles at room temperature - Daniele Bonavia (ESRF)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Ground floor
16:00
16:00 - 17:35
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 3D-DeltaPDF: From synchrotron to in-house sources - Karl Juul (Aarhus University)

16:45 Short-range atomic ordering in PbZrxTi1-xO3 single crystal revealed by diffuse scattering and 3D-△PDF modeling - Zheyi An (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

17:10 Investigating preferential adsorption of N2 from the air in Zeolite 13X using total neutron scattering - Marta Falkowska (University of Manchester / ISIS Neutron and Muon Source)
17:35

17:35 - 18:35
Room: Ground floor & Mezzanine

19:00 Conference dinner
Conference dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Friday, 16 January 2026
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Isolating TEM instrumental function to the ePDF - Victor Secco Lemos (JGU Mainz | UNICAMP)

08:55 Dynamic magnetic pair-density function analysis (DymPDF) - Shinichi SHAMOTO (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

09:40 Understanding local structure and dynamics in Prussian blue analogues - Elodie Harbourne (University of Oxford)

10:05 Grazing Incidence Total Scattering at PETRA III: Extending Local Structure Analysis to Ultrathin Films on Single-Crystal Substrates - Fernando Igoa (DESY)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Ground floor
11:00
11:00 - 12:35
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Exploring magnetic correlation lengths in frustrated systems via single-crystal neutron diffraction - Oleg Petrenko (University of Warwick)

11:45 Fast Simulation of Disordered Crystals Using Gaussian Copulas - Arkadiy Simonov (ETH Zurich)

12:10 Hidden complexity in D2O Ice VII - Wojciech Slawinski (Univeristy of Warsaw, Faculty of Chemistry)
12:35 Lunch
Lunch
12:35 - 14:00
Room: Ground floor

14:00

14:00 - 14:20
Room: Auditorium

14:20

14:20 - 16:20
Room: Main building/ILL50

16:20

16:20 - 16:30
Room: Main ESRF Building
Saturday, 17 January 2026