Training Workshops and Short Courses

Many training workshops and short courses on XAFS and X-ray spectroscopy are held each year around the world.

Much of the content on this page links to presentation materials preserved from a sequence of courses organized throughout the 2000s and early 2010s by the folks who develop this website.

Workshop materials prepared and presented over the years by Bruce Ravel can be found at GitHub and SpeakerDeck.

More training and learning material can be found on the Tutorials page

NSLS XAFS Short Courses 2005 - 2021

This is a series of courses organized by Anatoly Frenkel, the Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium, and the NSLS/NSLS-II User Office.

In some cases, links to presentation materials are provided on the Agenda page.

See XAFS Workshops for more (and more up-to-date) information.

IIT 2013

Matt Newville

EXAFS Analysis

Matt Newville

X-ray Absorption Fine-Structure Spectroscopy

APS 2009

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Advertising poster, APS 2009

Grant Bunker

Preparation of XAFS Samples

Serena deBeer

Beyond XAS - The importance of other techniques

Shelly Kelly

Basics of EXAFS Data Processing

Bruce Ravel

Advanced Topics in EXAFS Analysis

Bruce Ravel

Obtaining General User Beamtime and Guidelines for XAFS Manuscripts

Bruce Ravel

An Artemis Example: Methyl Tin

Exercises

APS 2008

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Students and instructors, APS 2008

Matt Newville

Getting XAFS beamtime at the APS

Simon Bare

XANES Measurements and Interpretation

Scott Calvin

EXAFS is not a Black Box or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fit

Daniel Haskel

XAFS and other techniques:

Shelly Kelly

XAS Data Processing (example files)

Matt Newville

X-ray Absorption Fine-Structure Spectroscopy

Bruce Ravel

Advanced Topics in EXAFS Analysis

APS 2007

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Students and instructors, APS 2007

Simon Bare

Introduction to X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Trudy Bolin

Overview of Beamlines and Measurements

Grant Bunker

Interpreting XANES

Robert Gordon

Preparing samples for XAFS data collection

Steve Heald

Basics of Synchrotron Radiation Beamlines and Detectors

Shelly Kelly

Modeling bulk and nano WS2 (example files)

Matt Newville

Data Processing with Ifeffit, Athena, & Artemis

Matt Newville

The APS Proposal System: Getting beamtime

Scott Calvin

EXAFS demonstration

Bruce Ravel

A Practical Introduction to Multiple Scattering Theory

Bruce Ravel

An Artemis Example: Methyl Tin (example files)

APS 2006

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Students and instructors, APS 2006

APS 2005

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Students and instructors, APS 2005

Simon Bare

XANES Measurements and Interpretation

Grant Bunker

Preparation of XAFS Samples

Daniel Haskel

XAFS and other techniques:

Steve Heald

Basics of Synchrotron Radiation Beamlines and Detectors

Shelly Kelly

Basics of EXAFS data analysis

Matt Newville

Fundamentals of X-ray Absorption Fine Structure

Bruce Ravel

A Practical Introduction to Multiple Scattering Theory

Browse beamline and banquet photos

NSLS 2004

Simon Bare

XANES Measurements and Interpretation

Scott Calvin

Basics of Data Processing

Vince Harris

The role of XAFS in a Research Program: Applied Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Shelly Kelly

Introduction to EXAFS data analysis

Matt Newville

Anatomy of an XAFS Measurement

Matt Newville

Fundamentals of X-ray Absorption Fine Structure

Bruce Ravel

A Practical Introduction to Multiple Scattering Theory

Pete Siddons

Synchrotron Radiation Detectors

NSLS 2003

Simon Bare

XANES Measurements and Interpretation

Scott Calvin

Real-Life XAS Sample Preparation or What Happens If You Break the Rules

Anatoly Frenkel

First Shell EXAFS Analysis

Shelly Kelly

Basics of EXAFS data analysis

Matt Newville

XAFS: X-ray Absorption Fine-Structure

Rich Reeder

Utilizing XAFS Spectroscopy in a Research Program: Some examples in environmental geochemistry

John Rehr

Introduction to XAS Theory

NSLS 2002

Simon Bare

XANES Measurements and Interpretation

Grant Bunker

Synchrotron Radiation and XAFS Data Collection

Anatoly Frenkel

First Shell EXAFS Analysis

Shelly Kelly

Basics of EXAFS data analysis

Matt Newville

XAFS: X-ray Absorption Fine-Structure

Bruce Ravel

Introduction to XAS Theory

Rob Scarrow

Sample Preparation for EXAFS Spectroscopy

Trevor Tyson

Applying XAS to Your Research: Theory Overview and Application to YBCO

NSLS 2001

Daniel Haskel

XAFS in Anisotropic Structures: Exploiting Angular Dependence for Better Modeling

Alain Michalowicz

2π Shift and Ligand-Swapping EXAFS Modeling: Tricks in Applications to Catalysis and Biology

Matt Newville

The Use of Bond Valence Sums in EXAFS Analysis

Ralph Nuzzo

Atomic Scale Ordering in Metallic Nanoparticles

Jim Penner-Hahn

X-ray absorption spectroscopy of Zn sites in biology

Ed Stern

Avoiding Some Pitfalls in XAFS Analysis

Steve Wasserman

Principal Component Analysis: Getting an Edge on EXAFS