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Pre-Conference Workshops

Pre-Conference workshops will take place on the afternoon of Monday 30 June

They are a great way to learn the most up-to-date tips and techniques to help with your research. Three workshops will be taking place from 1330 - 1630 on Monday 30 June, the cost to attend any one of them will be £67.50 and they can be added during the booking process.

The confirmed workshops are:

ImageJ

ImageJ is a powerful public domain image processing and analysis program written in Java, freely available for download from the internet. Fiji is an ImageJ distribution focussed on the visualisation and analysis of microscope images in 2D, 3D, 4D and 5D. 

This workshop gives a brief introduction on the use of ImageJ/Fiji and will account for all learning styles as a mix of lectures, demonstrations and hands-on sessions.

EMAG - Introduction to Python for Electron Microscopists

This workshop is aimed at researchers in electron microscopy who have no or little experience in coding, but would like to learn how to use the python programming language to  acquire and analyse their data. We will guide participants through the basics off python, including loading and displaying images from the electron microscope. We will cover basic image analysis, including segmenting images and making measurements, with the aim to cover analysis of TEM and STEM images. Participants will be introduced to the large ecosystem of packages with python, with packages available to acquire data, analyse images and spectra, in addition to specific data such as atomic resolution images and 4DSTEM.

Quantitative Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) interpretation: what do we do with all those acronyms?

EBSD now routinely provides huge datasets of high quality and precision, and this highlights the need to understand how to analyse these quantitatively. This course will explain relevant methods and demystify the numerous acronyms we encounter.

  • Topic 1: Crystal orientation data. How do we display and interpret these, mindful of crystal symmetry?
  • Topic 2: Misorientation between measurement points. How do we calculate, display and interpret this information, again mindful of crystal symmetry?
  • Topic 3: Intracrystalline distortion characterisation. There are several different ways to undertake this – how do the methods link back to the dislocations and/or elastic strains we aim to understand?
  • Topic 4: Grain characterisation. How do we define grains and summarise their microstructural properties in useful ways?