16-21 August 2010, Smögen, Sweden. Organized by Chalmers Soft Matter Graduate School.

Scope

Chalmers Soft Matter Graduate School is organizing a summer school on new x-ray and neutron scattering techniques for soft matter. The aim is to bring together students working on different issues in soft matter with instrument scientists and researchers developing new x-ray and neutron techniques and methods. This is of particular interest with the new possibilities offered by the planned MAX IV and ESS facilities in Sweden as well as other leading neutron and x-ray centres around the world, such as ILL, ISIS, PETRA III and XFEL.

General information

The summer school starts in the evening on the 16/8 and ends with breakfast 21/8 (see the preliminary program below). The location of the school is Sea Lodge in Smögen, located right by the sea, see attached map. Besides lectures and stimulating scientific discussions there are good opportunities for swimming and other types of water sports.

Program

       Monday 16/8

• 16-22 Get together and dinner 19.00

       Tuesday 17/8

• 9-12 Lecture block I
• 12-15 Lunch
• 14-17 Lecture block II
• 18.30 Dinner
• 20.30-22 Evening session I

       Wednesday 18/8

• 9-12 Lecture block III
• 12-14 Lunch
• 14-17 Lecture block IV
• 18.30 Dinner
• 20-22. Evening session II

       Thursday 19/8

• 9-12 Lecture block V
• 12-13 Lunch
• 15-... Excursion and school dinner

       Friday 20/8

• 9-12 Lecture block VI
• 12-14 Lunch
• 14-17 Lecture block VII
• 18.30 Dinner
• 20.30-22 Evening session III

       Saturday 21/8

• Breakfast and departure

Lecturers

• Anders Madsen, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France “X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS)”
• Claudio Masciovecchio, Sincrotrone Elettra, Trieste, Italy “VUV inelastic scattering: from synchrotron to FEL”
• Guilio Monaco, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France “Inelastic x-ray scattering”
• Wim Bouwman, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands “Spin-Echo Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SESANS) and its applications”
• Jacob Andreasson, Uppsala University, Sweden “The High Intensity Revolution in X-ray Science, Research Opportunities with X-ray Free-Electron Lasers ”
• Peter Falus, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France “Neutron-Spin Echo and XPCS in Flow”

Registration

To apply to the summer school send an email to Aleksandar Matic not later than 28/5. The number of participants is limited to 30 and there is a priority to those students enrolled in the "Soft Matter Graduate School", other students are accepted on first come first serve principle. It is free of charge for all students doing their PhD at a Swedish university. For students from abroad the fee is 350 Euros (including accommodation and all meals).

Contact information

If you have any questions or queries please contact: Aleksandar Matic, +46-730-346294 (also during the school).

How to reach Smögen and Sea Lodge

Smögen is most easily reached by bus, or by a train-bus combination, from Göteborg Central Station and the trip takes around 2.5 h. For online timetables visit www.vasttrafik.se, for destination choose “Smögen busstation”

In Smögen you get off at the stop “Smögen busstation”, and then it is just a few hundred meters to Sea Lodge (see also at www.sealodge.se). Just continue along the road and there are signs towards Sea Lodge.

For those driving take E6 highway north from Göteborg. After Munkedal take the exit towards “Lyskil, Kungshamn, Hunnebostrand, Smögen, Nordens Ark” (road 162). After some 5 km turn on to road 174 and after another 17 km onto road 171 and follow signs towards Smögen (some 10 km). For detailed guidance and maps visit www.hitta.se.