The school will be targeted at those with little or no previous experience with neutron inelastic scattering methods.

Most of the time will be spent conducting hands-on experiments using the following instruments:
the disk chopper time-of-flight spectrometer (DCS),
the filter analyzer spectrometer (FANS),
the high flux backscattering spectrometer (HFBS),
the neutron spin echo spectrometer (NSE) and
the spin polarized inelastic neutron scattering spectrometer (SPINS).

The school will take place at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), which is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD.

The Summer School will be sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation, and limited support for graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty from North American institutions will be available. Attendance will be limited to 32 participants. Early application is encouraged.

For further information about the program, application procedures, housing and transportation, and financial assistance, please consult the appropriate Summer School web pages (see below).

For further scientific information contact one of the organizers, John Copley and Peter Gehring.

For further information about other matters please contact Linda Clutter:
by email at linda.clutter@nist.gov, by phone at (301)975-6240, or by fax: (301)921-9847.