Frontiers of Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering

Frontiers of Synchrotron X-ray Scattering McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

Friday, December 3, 2004

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM Lunch - University Club, West Room

Symposium and Workshop - Council Chambers, Gilmour Hall 111

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Welcome and Charge to the Participants- Bruce Gaulin McMaster Univ.

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM: "Progress and Scientific Opportunities at the Canadian Light Source" William Thomlinson, Executive Director, CLS

2:15 PM - 3:00 PM: "Inelastic Scattering Under High Pressure With Synchrotron Radiation" John Tse, U of Saskatchewan 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Coffee break

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM: "X-ray Scattering From Materials of Biological Relevance" John Katsaras, NRC

4:15 PM - 5:00 PM: "Inelastic X-ray Scattering Study of Cuprates" Young-June Kim, U of Toronto

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM: "Possibilities and Constraints for Scattering Infrastructure at CLS" Detong Jiang, CLS

Dinner 6:30 PM - University Club Dining Room – on the lower level Frontiers of Synchrotron X-ray Scattering McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

Saturday, December 4 - Council Chambers, Gilmour Hall 111

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Coffee and Greeting

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM: “Recent Progress in Inelastic X-Ray Scattering" Ercan Alp, APS

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM: "Intensity Fluctuation Spectroscopy Using Coherent X-rays" Mark Sutton, McGill

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM: "Resonant X-Ray Scattering - A New Method to Study Charge, Spin, and Orbital Density Distributions in Solids" George Sawatzky, UBC

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM: "Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Studies of Superstructures in High Temperature Superconductors" Zahirul Islam, APS

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch (in Council Chambers)

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM: Contributed Presentations from the Canadian Community (~10 minute presentations)

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Discussion on the Canadian community's need for X-ray scattering infrastructure. Bruce Gaulin

4:00 PM Wrap up