Distance Learning Course on "Small-Angle Neutron Scattering"

The University of Maryland will be offering a distance learning course on various aspects of Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) during the Spring Semester (January to May) 2010. This will be a graduate level course of 3 credit hours. Audiovisual as well as pdf files will be sent to participants on a weekly basis. Homeworks will be corrected on a weekly basis. Some of the material covered follows:

• Neutron Sources and Neutron Flux
• Neutron Scattering
• SANS Technique and Instrumentation
• Simple SANS Data Interpretation
• SANS Data Modeling
• SANS from Polymers
• SANS from Complex Fluids
• SANS in Biology
• SANS in Materials Science
• Even Lower SANS Scales

Registration information will be available in November 2009. If interested, please contact Boualem Hammouda (hammouda@nist.gov).