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Dear Colleagues,</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(68, 114, 196);"> We are excited to announce a workshop entitled "<b>Getting the most from your POWGEN data"
</b>which will be held on<b> </b>Jul 23-24, 2026 (spanning 2 days), in person at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The workshop aims to bring existing and potential POWGEN users together and train them on comprehensive data analysis of time-of-flight neutron powder
diffraction data.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(68, 114, 196);"> The workshop’s primary objective is to equip attendees with essential skills to get the most from POWGEN data. The tutorials will cover the basics of neutron
diffraction techniques, Rietveld refinement of long-range crystal and magnetic structures. Advanced data processing methods to deal with event-based data and pixel-by-pixel neutron absorption corrections on POWGEN data will also be covered. The tutorials will
include software packages GSAS-II and FullProf. The workshop will also offer an opportunity for existing POWGEN users to get help from the POWGEN team to work through any obstacles they may have encountered and move forward with their data analysis. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);"> This 2-day workshop is free and the DEADLINE to register is Friday, May 15th, 2026. For more details and to apply, please go to
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https://conference.sns.gov/event/548/</a>. Attendance will be limited to 40 participants to ensure the effectiveness of the hands-on learning. Preference will be given to active and future ORNL users engaged in neutron powder diffraction.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 114, 196);"> We kindly encourage you to share this announcement with colleagues whom you believe would benefit from this workshop. If you have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to reach
out to us. Thanks.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 114, 196);">Workshop Organizers (cc’d):</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 114, 196);">Qiang Zhang, Alicia Manjón Sanz, Cheng Li, Yuanpeng Zhang, Melanie Kirkham and Thomas Proffen</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Dr. Qiang Zhang</span></p>
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Instrument scientist at POWGEN </div>
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& Senior Staff Scientist</div>
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in Oak Ridge National Laboratory </div>
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Room B457, Building 8600</div>
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1 Bethel Valley Rd</div>
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Oak Ridge, TN, 37831-6477, USA</div>
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Homepage: <a href="https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/qiang-zhang" id="OWAbeab4639-e69f-da7d-4114-899e348787d1" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">
https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/qiang-zhang</a> </div>
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Google scholar: <a href="https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__scholar.google.com_citations-3Fuser-3DHj33eQgAAAAJ-26hl-3Den&d=DwMF-g&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=rwtlS8StTv8kJ_NTmwzIY5oNzdlYFh17RpttPHZBbbY&m=jHHvWoisN0yWdB-uEqxG_jAk4JXl7a6i0iCGmfaaO0JBqnbcuoRaLPkGzP7c28_7&s=e4uDXVml75fcCQnz8GTLq2AqRR6X-p8fKeJSA9ZMLFQ&e=" id="OWAab247265-8d7c-a3cf-7ae9-09b1fdc87089" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Hj33eQgAAAAJ&hl=en</a> </div>
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ORCiD: <a href="https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__orcid.org_0000-2D0003-2D0389-2D7039&d=DwMF-g&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=rwtlS8StTv8kJ_NTmwzIY5oNzdlYFh17RpttPHZBbbY&m=jHHvWoisN0yWdB-uEqxG_jAk4JXl7a6i0iCGmfaaO0JBqnbcuoRaLPkGzP7c28_7&s=283Grk0IbwJR-ZZ0YP_HzdnmtDe7cBQppGP5lYoEgA0&e=" id="OWA4879f160-1f3d-5fb4-09c8-43dd5b4b90ad" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0389-7039</a></div>
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