Data Processing Workshops#
Satellite Workshop at SHUG 2025#
Date: August 14th, 2025
Organizers: Yuanpeng Zhang and Matthew Tucker
SHUG = SNS-HFIR User Group
Workshop website: Click Me
Schedule
| Time | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Welcome, Introductions, Opening Remarks, & Working Breakfast | Yuanpeng Zhang | 
| 09:15 - 09:50 | General Introduction to Total Scattering | Thomas Proffen | 
| 09:50 - 10:30 | Data Analysis for Total Scattering | Matt Tucker | 
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Data Reduction for Neutron Total Scattering – Part-1 | Yuanpeng | 
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Lunch Break & Machine learning and phase transition | Dayton Kizzire | 
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Data Reduction for Neutron Total Scattering – Part-2 | Yuanpeng | 
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Computer Setup & Break | Matt & Yuanpeng | 
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Data Processing Hands-on – Part-1 | Matt | 
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Data Processing Hands-on – Part-2 | All | 
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Poll, Summary, and Close-out | Yuanpeng | 
Workshop materials
- Opening remarks Jupyter notebook: Click Me - The paper by D. Keen summarizing the different forms of total scattering functions, Click Me - The paper by P. Peterson, et al. summarizing total scattering formulations, Clicke Me - An interesting review paper about the PDF method, by M. Dove and G. Li, Click Me - A nice reading material about quantum scattering theory, Click Me 
- Presentation slides: Click Me 
- Introduction & Demonstration to the total scattering data auto-reduction: Click Me 
- Introduction & Demonstration to the total scattering data manual reduction: Click Me 
- Introduction & Demonstration to the total scattering data post-processing: Click Me 
- RMCProfile package (for the workshop, please download the version of 6.7.9): Click Me 
- Demo data can be downloaded here. 
- Poll about the workshop: Click Me 
Workshop at DXC 2025: Data Processing of Total Scattering and How to Avoid Pitfalls Along the Way#
Date: August 04th, 2025
Organizers: Yuanpeng Zhang and Matthew Tucker
DXC = Denver X-ray Conference
Workshop website: Click Me
Schedule
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Opening Remarks | Yuanpeng Zhang | 
| 09:10 - 09:45 | Introduction to Neutron Total Scattering and Data Analysis Tools | Matthew Tucker | 
| 09:45 - 10:20 | Data Processing for Total Scattering - Part-1 | Yuanpeng Zhang | 
| 10:20 - 10:35 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:35 - 11:10 | Data Processing for Total Scattering - Part-2 | Matthew Tucker | 
| 11:10 - 11:55 | Data Processing Hands-on | Yuanpeng & Matt | 
| 11:55 - 12:00 | Closing out | Yuanpeng & Matt | 
Workshop materials
- Opening remarks Jupyter notebook: Click Me - The paper by D. Keen summarizing the different forms of total scattering functions, Click Me - The paper by P. Peterson, et al. summarizing total scattering formulations, Clicke Me - An interesting review paper about the PDF method, by M. Dove and G. Li, Click Me 
- Presentation slides: Click Me 
- Introduction & Demonstration to the total scattering data auto-reduction: Click Me 
- Introduction & Demonstration to the total scattering data manual reduction: Click Me 
- Introduction & Demonstration to the total scattering data post-processing: Click Me 
- RMCProfile package (for the workshop, please download the version of 6.7.9): Click Me 
- Demo data can be downloaded here. 
Satellite workshop with ACNS meeting 2024 at Knoxville#
Date: June 22nd, 2024
Organizers: Yuanpeng Zhang, Matthew Tucker, and Thomas Proffen
ACNS = American Conference on Neutron Scattering
Workshop website: Click Me
Workshop materials
- Opening remarks Jupyter notebook: Click Me - The paper by D. Keen summarizing the different forms of total scattering functions, Click Me - The paper by P. Peterson, et al. summarizing total scattering formulations, Clicke Me - An interesting review paper about the PDF method, by M. Dove and G. Li, Click Me 
- Presentation slides: Click Me 
- Introduction & Demonstration to the total scattering data auto-reduction: Click Me 
- Introduction & Demonstration to the total scattering data manual reduction: Click Me 
- Introduction & Demonstration to the total scattering data post-processing: Click Me 
- RMCProfile package (for the workshop, please download the version of 6.7.9): Click Me 
- Post-workshop poll: Click Me 
Satellite workshop with SHUG meeting 2023#
Date: June 5th, 2023
Organizers: Yuanpeng Zhang, Matthew Tucker, and Thomas Proffen
SHUG = SNS-HFIR User Group
Workshop website: Click Me
Workshop materials
- Opening remarks Jupyter notebook: Click Me - The paper by D. Keen summarizing the different forms of total scattering functions, Click Me - The paper by P. Peterson, et al. summarizing total scattering formulations, Clicke Me - An interesting review paper about the PDF method, by M. Dove and G. Li, Click Me 
- Presentation slides: Click Me 
- Introduction & Demonstration to the total scattering data auto-reduction: Click Me 
- Introduction & Demonstration to the total scattering data manual reduction: Click Me 
- Introduction & Demonstration to the total scattering data post-processing: Click Me 
- Post-workshop poll: Click Me 
