[Neutron] 2009 NCNR Summer School Announcement

[William Kamitakahara]

The NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) Summer School on Neutron
Scattering is one of the oldest such schools in the nation and is in
its 15th year. The one-week long "Summer School on Methods and
Applications of Neutron Spectroscopy" will be held June 22nd - 26th,
2009.  Detailed information about the NCNR Summer School can be found
at http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/summerschool/ss09 .

Using lectures and hands-on demonstrations NCNR staff will introduce
attendees to a variety of scattering methods that employ long
wavelength neutrons to achieve high energy resolution.  These methods
enable researchers to study dynamical processes that occur over a wide
range of time scales spanning ~100 ns to ~1 ps.  The demonstrations
will be based on data acquired using five different neutron
instruments:  a disk chopper spectrometer, a backscattering
spectrometer, a spin-echo spectrometer, a cold triple-axis
spectrometer, and a thermal double-focusing triple-axis spectrometer.
The NCNR summer school is targeted to those with little or no previous
experience with neutron inelastic scattering methods. (Note:
small-angle neutron scattering and neutron reflectometry techniques
will not be covered.)

The NCNR summer school is sponsored in part by the National Science
Foundation. Limited support for graduate students, postdocs, and
junior faculty will be available.  Attendance will be limited to 35
participants, and preference will be accorded to applicants from North
American institutions.

To apply, please go to
http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/summerschool/ss09/application.php . Early
application is recommended as attendance is limited and typically this
school is significantly over-subscribed.

Organizers:  Yamali Hernandez and David Mildner
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 6102
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-6102
Tel: (301) 975-5295 (YH), (301) 975-6366 (DM)
FAX: (301) 921-9847