SASView Workshop

23 Oct 2025, 13:20 → 24 Oct 2025, 17:45 Europe/Berlin

MLZ's Data Evaluation Group,  Neutron Methods Group and the SasView developers team invite you to register here for an online workshop on the SasView software. This is a follow-up of our DEVA-SANS beginner's workshop and a primer for the upcoming SasView Contributor Camp in Garching. It explores deeper into the existing and new capabilities of software with lectures and demonstrations from SASView experts. As this is an interactive Workshop, places are limited, thus early registration is recommended.

SasView is software for the analysis of Small-Angle Scattering (SAS) data, including Spin-Echo SANS (SESANS) data. It fits analytic functions describing different types of material microstructure to experimental data in order to determine the shape, size and degree of ordering. SasView also includes tools for calculating scattering length densities, slit sizes, resolution, fringe thicknesses/d-spacings, the (Porod) invariant (‘total scattering’), distance distribution functions, and correlation functions.

The latest version can be downloaded here : https://www.sasview.org/download/

 

Thursday 23 October

13:20 → 17:30 Day 1: session

13:20 Welcome

Speakers: Neelima Paul (TUM), Sebastian Muehlbauer (TUM)

13:30 SASView Introduction

Basic Introduction to SASView, FAQs, SAXS-SANS co-refinement, Batch fitting

Speaker: Paul Butler (NIST)

14:20 Break

14:30 PR and Invariant

Speaker: Paul Butler (NIST)

15:20 Break

15:30 Magnetism and 2D SAS

Speakers: Annika Stellhorn (ESS), Dirk Honecker (ISIS)

16:20 Break

16:30 Overview of new & lesser used features

Shape2SAS, Size Distribution, PDB, plugin and S(Q), create models, category manager, linear plots, scripting

Speaker: Jeffery Krzywon (NIST)

17:20 Assignments

Friday 24 October

13:30 → 17:45 Day 2: session

13:30 Discussion on Assignments

Speakers: Annika Stellhorn (ESS), Paul Butler (NIST)

14:20 Break

14:30 Correlation function

Speaker: Dirk Honecker (ISIS)

15:20 Break

15:30 Reparameterize model

• Core shell sphere to micelle
• Vesicle with molecular constraints
• Bicelle with molecular restraints

Speaker: Paul Butler (NIST)

16:20 Break

16:30 Slicers and batch slicing

Speaker: Annika Stellhorn (ESS)

17:20 Discussion: contribution camp projects

Speaker: Paul Butler (NIST)