Hi Folks, I thought I'd mention a couple of summer schools and XAFS courses that are happening this summer. I know many of you have attended summer schools or XAFS workshops in the past, and there are many people on this list who are fairly new to XAFS and synchrotron work in general. First, there will be a four-day XAFS school at Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, IL from July 26 to 30. More Information is at http://cars.uchicago.edu/xafs_school/ (Both Bruce and I will be involved with this). The application deadline for this is June 10, 2005. I believe there will also be an EXAFS Course at NSLS, Brookhaven Lab, NY in October, 2005: http://www.nsls.bnl.gov/newsroom/events/workshops/exafs/ In addition, there are also annual synchrotron based summer schools covering a range of techniques at Argonne National Lab, and a joint summer school between SSRL (Stanford) and ALS (Berkeley). I think the deadline for these may have passed. But there are quite a few other workshops, courses, and summer schools, including outside the US. A more complete list is at http://lightsources.org/cms/?pid=1000510 Cheers, --Matt PS: If you know of other courses, etc feel free to advertise them here.