Notice attached. "This XAFS summer school is a continuation of the week-long summer school offered annually at the Advanced Photon Source, and again the venue will be at IIT in Chicago. Course material will cover fundamental and practical aspects of X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy: sample preparation, experiment, theory, data analysis. One day of hands-on experiments will be carried out by participants at several APS beamlines, followed by a guided data analysis laboratory using Athena/iFEFFIT and other programs. Computers will be available for those participants attending without their own laptops. The target audience is graduate students, postdocs, and other scientists who are new to XAFS and want to use it in their own research. Space is available for up to 40 students. Instructors include: Dr. Steve Heald (ANL), Dr. Matt Newville (UChicago), Prof. Bruce Bunker (U Notre Dame), Prof. Carlo Segre (IIT), Prof. Grant Bunker (IIT), and a number of other experienced XAFS researchers also will participate. The cost of the course is $500 USD, which covers most meals. Students will be responsible for their own housing (available on and off IIT campus) and travel to/from their home institutions. IIT is readily accessible by car, cab, and CTA train from O’Hare and Midway airports. Free time will be available most evenings for participants to visit Chicago attractions such as Grant Park, the Loop, Millennium Park, Lake Michigan; music, architecture, art, theater; Chinatown, White Sox, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium, and Navy Pier, restaurants, and pubs. Please email bunker@iit.edu with subject line “2013 XAFS School” -- Dr. Robert Gordon Staff Scientist, PNCSRF APS Sector 20 (PNC/XSD) 9700 S Cass Ave. 435E Argonne, IL, USA 60439 630-252-0581 630-252-0580 fax