Thirty PhD students and postdocs attended the 2nd ANSTO/AINSE Neutron School, focussed on the topic of "Materials". While the majority came from Australia, there were 4 attendees from Taiwan, 2 from New Zealand and 1 from Argentina.
The first day entailed an overview of the instrumentation and techniques, and also gave the attendees an opportunity to become acquainted with each other.
A "clip session" in which each participant had 2 minutes (sharp) to present their project was also an ice-breaker. The following days were a mixture of lectures and instrument sessions including data analysis.
On the last day each instrument group presented and discussed their results, and we were all impressed with what was achieved.
The neutron-school participants on ECHIDNA and WOMBAT performed the first real user experiments on these two powder diffractometers, following the issue of operating licences 2 weeks previously.
Published: 20/07/2008