Inelastic Scattering Probes of Condensed Matter


May 13-15, 1998




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The University of Chicago MRSEC cosponsored a workshop on "Inelastic Scattering Probes of Condensed Matter," held at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory May thirteenth through the fifteenth. Argonne National Laborato ry, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory also sponsored the event. This meetin g brought together experts who use light, X-rays, atomic beams, electrons, and neutrons to probe the dynamical structure factors of solids and liquids. The talks covered the range of scattering techniques in a general fashion so as to be interesting to participants specializing in the other techniques. Special emphasis was given to the interaction of current (and future) developments in techniques and new problems in condensed matter physics. The conference aimed to familiarize people with new oppor tunities afforded by other techniques, enabling them to broaden their range of collaborations and understanding when working on common physics problems. The recent commissioning of the APS at Argonne, the projected capital investments to revitalize US neutron scattering, and advances in the technology of small laboratory scattering experiments make such a meeting a very timely event.

Meeting Schedule
(*=confirmed)

The following lectures are online:


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Wednesday, May 13

Overview

Chair- D Eastman* (Argonne/Chicago)
09:00 R. Zimmer* (Chicago)
welcome
09:15 P. Littlewood* (Cambridge)
overview of role of inelastic scattering techniques
in condensed matter physcs
10:00 S Sibener* (Chicago)
overview: elastic, inelastic, and reactive scattering
of neutral particles from surfaces
10:45 break

Liquids and Glasses

Chair- M Altarelli* (ESRF)
11:00 F Sette* (ESRF)
inelastic x-ray scattering
11:45 D Price* (Argonne)
inelastic neutron scattering


12:30 lunch

Chair- GB Stephenson* (Argonne)
14:00 S Mochrie* (MIT)
x-ray photon correlation
14:45 F Mezei* (Los Alamos)
neutron spin-echo
15:30 break


Light Scattering and Biology

Chair- SK Sinha* (Argonne)
15:45 D Rousseau* (Albert Einstein)
light scattering and biology
16:30 K Moffat* (Chicago)
nanosecond time-resolved scattering:
applications to biological crystallography
17:45 J. Trewhella* (Los Alamos) prospects for inelastic
and time-resolved neutron scattering in biology

19:30 dinner at Papagus (Greek),

Embassy Suites Hotel
620 North State Street
Chicago, IL 60610
(M. Blume* (BNL and APS), after-dinner speaker)

Thursday, May 14

Chair- R Pynn* (Los Alamos)

Raman Scattering

9:00 A Pinczuk* (Bell-Lucent)
2D electron gases
9:45 J Menendez* (Arizona State)
micro-raman

10:30 break

Electron scattering

11:00 D. Muller* (Bell Labs)
atomic-scale spectroscopy
11:45 J. Fink
(Inst. Festkorper, Dresden)
electron dynamics

12:30 lunch

Hard Condensed Matter

Chair- T Mason* (Toronto)
14:30 T Perring* (ISIS)
neutron scattering from x-tals
15:15 C. Broholm* (Johns Hopkins)
high-throughput reactor

16:00 break

Compton Scattering

Chair- PM Platzman* (Bell Labs)
16:30 Y. Sakurai* (SPring-8)
Compton scattering
17:15 A. Shukla* (ESRF)
Compton scattering in Ice and YBCO

19:30 Student-hosted dinner in downtown Chicago

Friday, May 15 Argonne National Laboratory

Resonant x-rays - hard and soft

Chair- B Kincaid* (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
10:00 J Rubensson* (Uppsala)
soft x-rays
10:45 C C Kao* (Brookhaven)
hard x-rays - electronic
11:30 E Alp* (Argonne)
hard x-rays - nuclear

12:15 tour of APS and IPNS and lunch

Future prospects for inelastic scattering

Chair- H Mook* (Oak Ridge)
14:00 M Klein* (UIUC)
Experimental viewpoint
14:45 C Varma* (Bell Labs) Theoretical viewpoint

15:30 break

16:00 panel discussion (D Bishop, D Moncton, R Pynn,
C Shank; chair: P Platzman)
Topic: The next half-century of scattering

18:00 reception at the APS
19:00 Conference banquet (A. Bienenstock, after dinner speaker)

Wednesday, May 13 and Thursday, May 14 session location:

Research Institutes Building, Room 480
University of Chicago
5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL

Friday, May 15 session location:

Advanced Photon Source
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, IL




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