Image: Diffuse scattering from cubic stabilized zirconia
courtesy of R.C. Welberry, ribbons are alpha
helices courtesy of Micheal Thorpe.

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together people from various areas of materials science, physics, chemistry and biochemistry who have an interest in determining the structure of substances beyond their average crystal structure. The range of materials where this is important is enormous, from semiconductor alloys to proteins in solution. This meeting will bring together people from wide ranging fields who nonetheless have a common interest in elucidating the structure of materials and molecules beyond their average structure. This workshop will feature pedagogical talks on the analysis of diffuse scattering from single crystals and powders, XAFS, NMR, small angle scattering and other techniques which reveal additional information about materials beyond that obtained by Bragg analysis. Theory plays a special role in such studies because of the difficulty of extracting and interpreting information from these techniques and will also be discussed.

Contents:		Topics to be covered
		Organizing Contacts
		Accommodation
		Schedule
		Invited Speakers
		Registration
		Travel Information
		Sightseeing
		Proceedings

Topics to be Covered:

A number of approaches are used to obtain structural information beyond the average structure. Topics for discussion will include the following:  Analysis of diffuse scattering from single crystal data Diffuse scattering from powders and the atomic pair distribution function analysis  XAFS applied to imperfectly ordered inorganic and biological systems  Small angle x-ray and neutron scattering on inorganic and biological systems Indirect methods of measuring structure and atomic correlations Applications of theory to aperiodic structures Fiber diffraction Synthesis and characterization of functional disordered materials Structure of molecules in solution

Proceedings:

The Proceedings will be published as a book in the Fundamental Materials Science series, edited by M. F. Thorpe and S.J.L. Billinge. This series is published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum and the general series editor is M. F. Thorpe. This volume will be ready early in the following year. Manuscripts in camera ready format should be brought to the meeting. Instructions for authors can be found here.