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SUMMARY:ARC Seminar Series: Analysis of Disorder in Materials with Pair Dis
 tribution Functions 
LOCATION:Walnut 109 or Teams
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20260430T110000
UID:2026-09-27-21-51-44@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260927T215144
Description:Please register to attend: https://www.research.colostate.edu/
 arc/seminars-workshops/\n\nAs part of our seminar series highlighting the 
 new Anton Paar XRDynamic 500\, we’re excited to invite you to our next s
 ession focused on Pair Distribution Function (PDF) analysis.\nThis seminar
  will be presented by visiting UCSB Prof. Simon Billinge\, a leading exper
 t in the field who has played a key role in advancing and adapting this te
 chnique on the new Anton Paar XRD.\nSeminar Abstract:\nNanoparticles\, nan
 oporous materials and nanostructured bulk materials are at the heart of ne
 xt generation technological solutions in sustainable energy\, effective ne
 w pharmac euticals and environmental remediation.  A key to making progre
 ss is to be able to understand the nanoparticle structure\, the arrangemen
 ts of atoms in the nanoparticles and nanoscale structures. Also critical i
 s understanding the distribution of the nanoparticles and how they change 
 in time as devices run and reactions take place.  We use advanced x-ray\,
  neutron and electron scattering methods to get at this problem.  I will 
 talk about these methods and show some recent success-stories in the field
 s of sustainable energy\, environmental remediation and cultural heritage 
 preservation.  However\, I will also discuss the fundamental limitations 
 on our ability to extract information from the data and how we are now tur
 ning to machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to give mo
 re insights.\nSpeaker Bio:\nProf. Billinge has more than 25 years of exper
 ience developing and applying techniques to study local structure in mater
 ials using x-ray\, neutron and electron diffraction including the developm
 ent of novel data analysis methods including graph theoretic\, artificial 
 intelligence and machine learning approaches. He earned his Ph.D in Materi
 als Science and Engineering from University of Pennsylvania in 1992. After
  13 years as a faculty member at Michigan State University\, and 18 years 
 at Columbia University he took up his current position as Professor of Mat
 erials Science and Director of the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI)
  at UC Santa Barbara. He also held a joint position of Physicist at Brookh
 aven National Laboratory between 2008 and 2022.\nProf. Billinge has publis
 hed more than 350 papers in scholarly journals. He is a fellow of the Amer
 ican Physical Society and the Neutron Scattering Society of America\, a fo
 rmer Fulbright and Sloan fellow and has earned a number of awards includin
 g\, in 2025\, the Gregori Aminoff prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of sc
 iences\, and the Innovation in Materials Characterization Award of the Mat
 erials Research Society. He was honored in 2011 for contributions to the n
 ation as an immigrant by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.  He is Sec
 tion Editor of Acta Crystallographica Section A: Advances and Foundations.
  He regularly chairs and participates in reviews of major facilities and f
 ederally funded programs.11:00 am
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