Dates for the diary

Public and schools

Open Days at Harwell
8th – 11th July 2015
A week of open days across the Harwell campus, including Diamond and the
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Inside Diamond open days
26th August 2015
7th & 8th November 2015
An opportunity for the public to tour the facility and meet the scientists who work at Diamond.

Schools Inside Diamond open days
6th & 12th November
A-Level visits: Opportunity to tour the facility and meet the scientists who work at
Diamond.

Please contact Laura Holland for further information and booking for the above events.

Scientific & technical interest

FerroX
11th – 12th June 2015
Workshop for researchers interested in using beamline I06 to image ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials using the PEEM or other X-ray imaging techniques available at Diamond.

Advances in Modern Magnetic Materials
17th – 19th June 2015
Workshop bringing together world leading experts in magnetism, including an introduction to the BLADE instrument, which is a polarised soft X-ray source capable of performing scattering and absorption measurements.

MX Bag Training
15th – 16th July 2015
Training for MX users to operate any of the Diamond MX beamlines efficiently and to get the most benefit from their beamtime.

Diamond Synchrotron Radiation Users Meeting
2nd – 3rd September 2015
Featuring 5 topic-specific workshops and a student day (Tuesday 1st September 2015), the SRUM brings together around 250 Diamond users and staff in one forum.

7th Size-Strain Conference
21st – 24th September 2015
‘Diffraction Analysis of the Microstructure of Materials’ - materials microstructure and properties, as they can be studied by diffraction methods.

XAS 2015
9th – 11th November 2015
7th XAS analysis workshop for new and nearly new users of the spectroscopy beamlines.

Viral Pathogens Symposium
24th – 25th November 2015
Featuring presentations and discussions on the global fight against viruses and planning for strategic solutions.

For more details on these and future events, please visit the events pages of the website or e-mail [email protected]