USAXS design progress (and issue)
The BAM workshop came back to me with the 18 requested workpieces. Assembly went smooth until it hit a snag..
ISO meeting
[ed: my smartphone broke, so I didn’t have a camera with me to take pictures…] As part of the German delegation, I was nominated by […]
Round Robin: an initial look at the results
The second Round Robin experiment is coming along very well (and almost completed). So far, about fifteen labs have returned data, to a total of […]
Scattering from arbitrary objects, part 1: proof of concept
“How would [X] scatter” is a question asked by many, and already answered by a few. To calculate the scattering of arbitrary objects, there are […]
Running late…
Dear Readers, The post for Tuesday the 12th will arrive a little late (hopefully Tuesday night, but probably Wednesday). This is because the German “Strahlenschutzkursus” […]
Coming up in the next months…
We are already 25% through 2016, a realization which is guaranteed to increase stress levels in many of us. To my own feeling, I haven’t […]
2 items: A missed correction? and Bug in SAXSQuant
Two tiny things this week. Firstly, the round-robin results are trickling in, and when reviewing Steven Weigand’s data, I noticed a correction I have not […]
Bonse Hart v3: progress report.
As noted at the end of last year, interested parties at ESRF and Diamond agreed to fund the next iteration of the Bonse Hart-style USAXS […]
A fix for your “SAXSess” instrument. Part 1: the Mechanics.
Together with Dr. Petzold from the HZB, we have devised a solution for measuring the transmission factor in the Anton Paar SAXSess system (the problem […]
A few tips for scientific writing
Many of us also have not been able to enjoy a course on academic writing, yet are being asked in our line of work to […]