PhD course. Lecco, 8 – 12 July, 2024
CHAIRS: Prof. Piero Macchi; Prof. Marco Moretti
PERIOD: 8 July -12 July 2024
VENUE: The workshop will take place in room M2 in first floor of building 12 (via Via Previati, 1C Lecco; best way to
access is however from via Ghislanzoni, 20).
Coffee breaks and lunches will take place at Bistrot PolEATecnico in building 10 in the same campus.
MISSION AND GOALS
This course introduces PhD students to advanced research based on X-rays at large scale facilities. The goals are a) educating PhD students to the techniques that use Synchrotron X-ray sources and b) offering students the possibility to establish contacts with those facilities. The workshop is organized within the scope of PhD courses in Materials Engineering and Physics. It is also open for PhD students of other PhD Programs, for example Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology and Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
SUBJECT AND PROGRAMME OF THE COURSE
The course will cover the main aspects of the application of hard and soft X-rays generated from synchrotron sources or free electron lasers, for the structural and spectroscopic characterization of materials.
The following areas will be covered: a) elastic X-ray scattering (single crystal or powder diffraction); b) imaging methods (tomography, ptychography and coherent diffraction imaging); c) time resolved free electron laser diffraction for the determination of excited states; d) inelastic x-ray scattering and spectroscopy.
The program will consist of 30 lectures (45 minutes each) given by the invited external lecturers and the internal lecturers, covering the topics outlined above.
ASSESSMENT – YOUR DUTIES
Preparation and presentation of a poster (see program for details) You are supposed to present a poster (max size A0) based on your current research activity, possibly related to the subject of the course. The poster clip presentation is a two minutes presentation of your poster, for which you should prepare 2 power point slides (plus one for the title /authors and affiliation).
It is possible to print posters directly at the campus.
At the end of each lecture day (Monday to Thursday) there will be a short assessment with a 15-20 question multi-choice quiz on the arguments presented on that day and based on the lectures. On the last day of the course, you are supposed to present (in groups of three) one poster selected among one of your three posters. Your 15 minute-presentation should report the motivations, the methods, and the results and based on the knowledge gained during the week, you should tentatively suggest new experiments and investigations, based on the X-ray techniques learnt during the course. In particular you should explain how you would prepare an application to obtain beamtime at one of the synchrotron stations presented during the course.
The final assessment will be based on the three activities (your poster presentation, the daily questionnaires and the final presentation).
