Dear GSECARS Users,

On October 29 and 30, Dr. Mark Rivers at GSECARS will host virtual hands-on tutorial sessions on synchrotron computed microtomography. Two identical tutorial sessions will be offered. We will use Zoom, and each session will last 4 hours (1-5pm CDT).

Title: Virtual Hands-On Tutorial on Synchrotron Computed Microtomography

Teacher: Mark Rivers rivers@cars.uchicago.edu

Dates: October 29 and 30

Time: 1-5 PM CDT

Number of participants: 12 each day, 24 total

Background reading: Introduction to Computed Microtomography & Applications in Earth Science (https://cars.uchicago.edu/data/rivers/ClayMineralSociety/05-Rivers.pdf)

Schedule
1:00	Introduction to beamline
1:20	Introduction to computed microtomography
1:40	Overview of data collection process
2:00	Break
2:10	Collect absorption and phase contrast tomography data on Doug Schmitt’s Chicxulub samples
3:10	Break
3:20	Overview of tomography data reconstruction
3:40	Reconstruct the Chicxulub data
4:30	Discussion
5:00	End

If you are interested, please contact Mark Rivers at rivers@cars.uchicago.edu with your preferred date. If the number of applicants exceeds 12 for one session, we will follow a “first come first serve” selection process.