The Canadian Light Source will host its 18th in-person Canadian Powder Diffraction Workshop for materials science this summer, from July 28-31, 2025.The school will focus in the techniques more popular among our Brockhouse beamline users: X-Ray Diffraction / Rietveld Refinement, Pair Distribution Function and Small Angle X-ray Scattering. We will have both lectures and hands on data analysis sessions. Please, bring a laptop for the data analysis sessions.During the last afternoon, we will present an overview of advanced hard X-ray characterization techniques and their applications.Important dates:Please, submit your application before April 30.Successful applicants will be contacted from May 1st on, to proceed to pay the school fees.

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The Brockhouse low energy wiggler beamline (SOE1) has completed an upgrade to its high resolution powder diffraction station. The Huber end-station now uses 8 Mythen detectors instead of 1, reducing data collection time to a few minutes. We have also installed a robot to automatically change through samples, greatly increasing our throughput.