Takin Workshop

Friday 4 Dec 2026, 09:00 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

UYG 02 22 - Pforte (MLZ campus Garching)

Neelima Paul

As a satellite to this year's MLZ User meeting, the Data Evaluation Group is pleased to announce a Takin Workshop for the MLZ User community and MLZ partner institutes on December 4th 2026 in Garching. 

This workshop provides a tutorial on the triple-axis software suite Takin [1, 2] and its associated magnon calculation software Magpie [3].

Takin is a tool for planning and visualising inelastic neutron scattering experiments and for data analysis. Its main focus is resolution calculation, convolution of the instrumental resolution with dynamical structure factors and convolution fitting. As an example for an entire workflow, we will model a magnetic system using Magpie, calculate and visualise its dispersion and spin-spin correlation function and convolute it using Takin to reproduce a measured spectrum.

Registration is free of cost, but mandatory. Please bring laptops with preinstalled Takin software (https://wiki.mlz-garching.de/takin:help:install). Alternatively, the software can be used in the browser on the ILL's Visa system: https://visa.ill.fr To use the second option, an account in the ILL user club needs to be created: https://userclub.ill.eu/userclub/user/new

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2023.101471
[2] https://github.com/ILLGrenoble/takin
[3] https://github.com/ILLGrenoble/magpie

09:00 → 12:00 Introduction to Takin and Magpie

Speaker: Dr Tobias Weber (Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL))

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 17:00 Advanced features with hands-on experience

Speaker: Dr Tobias Weber (Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL))