The 23^rd National School on Neutron & X-Ray Scattering 2021—Virtual School with Remote Experiments

Abstract

The National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering (NXS) has been a yearly “institution” for North American graduate students interested in neutron and X-ray scattering since its inception 23 years ago. For the second year in a row, it was forced to go virtual. Nevertheless, the aim was to include user experiments and maximize interactions in this second virtual iteration rather than simply repeat the lecture series of the first virtual iteration. Here, we share our newly adopted methods and experiences.

Acknowledgments

The organizers thank all the lecturers for their engagement and excellent presentations. The organizers also acknowledge the great support from all the staff in the facilities. In total more than 100 staff members were involved organizing the school, shooting videos, giving lectures and participating in the panel discussion and Gather.town meetings.

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Funding

The NXS is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division and utilized resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. M. F. and B. H. were supported by resources at the High Flux Isotope Reactor and the Spallation Neutron Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. M. E. M. and S.R. were supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division under contract number DE-AC05-00OR22725 and DE-AC02-06CH11357, respectively. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-ublic-access-plan).