THE BROCKHOUSE X-RAY DIFFRACTION AND SCATTERING SECTOR (BXDS)

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CANADIAN POWDER DIFFRACTION WORKSHOP 18 (CPDW18) - SUMMER 2025

July 28, 2025

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.