[Neutron] 10th Canadian Neutron Summer School: First Announcement

[Swainson, Ian - NRC]

	10th Canadian Neutron Summer School
		First Announcement
 
The Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering (<http://www.cins.ca>) will be holding the tenth Neutron Summer School at Chalk River on June 15-19, 2009. The talks and demonstration experiments will be organized by the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre (<http://neutron.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/>) at the Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River, Ontario.
 

	FORMAT
 
The aim of the school is to give an introduction to a wide range of topics associated with thermal neutron scattering, including powder diffraction, stress analysis, texture, reflectometry, magnetism and neutron scattering, SANS, and inelastic scattering together with the underlying theory associated with neutron scattering. 

Lectures will be held in the mornings, which will be followed by a variety of demonstration practical experiments on the neutron instruments at the NRU reactor (<http://www.nrureactor.ca/php/mainFlash.php>) in the afternoons.

Attendees will be able to select four hands-on practicals at the reactor with the neutron instruments. The aim of the school is to give a broad overview of neutron methods and applications, concentrating on those techniques available at a thermal neutron source.
 
	TARGET AUDIENCE
 
The lectures are aimed at beginning graduate students who have a wide variety of backgrounds in the sciences, such as:

* physics 
* chemistry 
* materials science
* structural biology 
* mineralogy. 

The theory will be presented in a way that should be understood by people in any of these fields. Therefore, graduate students, postdocs, faculty and industrial scientists should profit from attending the school. 
 
	APPLICATION
 
We have capped the number of students to 30 in order to be able to give personal experience of the practical demonstrations to every student. The early-bird fee is CAD 300. Very affordable accommodation has been arranged. Places will be allotted on a first come-first served basis, provided the applicants can meet minimum security clearance to enter the Chalk River site.

	FURTHER INFORMATION
	 
For more information, visit <http://www.cins.ca/ss2009.html> or <http://www.cins.ca/ssreg.html> to register.
 
Contact: Ian Swainson (Ian.Swainson at nrc.gc.ca <mailto:Ian.Swainson at nrc.gc.ca>; Tel: 613 584 8811 x 43995) for further details.
 
 



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