the 7th Open Reflectometry Standards Organisation ORSO annual meeting

The Annual General Meeting of ORSO will take place online over the 23th-27th June 2025. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss topics of interest to the ORSO community. The program will consist of scientific and technical talks together with discussion forums for each of the working groups

In advance of the meeting please complete the ORSO Survey

Registration will open soon

Agenda:

Monday 23rd June: Plenary Sessions

The plenary sessions will introduce ORSO and summarise our activities since the last meeting. There will also be some scientific talks on subjects of interest to the ORSO community (speakers to be confirmed). Since the agenda is scheduled to try to cover all time zones, we acknowledge that it may be difficult to attend all these sessions. We will therefore record the plenary sessions and post the videos here after the meeting. Where feasible we will repeat the breakout discussion sessions in different time zones or attempt to schedule at a time accessible to all. Please bear with us for unsociable meeting times!

Plenary Session 1

08:00-11:00 (UK), 09:00-12:00 (Europe), 04:00-07:00 (US East coast), 17:00-20:00 (Australia East coast):

Recordings of all talks will be uploaded to the orso youtube channel.

Session Schedule

  • Tom Arnold Introduction and discussion on how to better promote/publicise ORSO
  • Scientific talk 1 (to be confirmed)
  • Scientific talk 2 (to be confirmed)
  • The ORSO Chairs. Summary of progress since the last meeting
    • Data Formats Working group
    • Education and Outreach Working group
    • Sample Environment Working group

Plenary Session 2

18:00-21:00 (UK), 19:00-22:00 (Europe), 13:00-16:00 (US East coast), 03:00-06:00 (Australia East coast):

Session Schedule

  • Tom Arnold Introduction and discussion on how to better promote/publicise ORSO
  • Scientific talk 3: Frank Heinrich, ‘Composition-space modeling in neutron reflectometry from biological and soft matter interfaces.’
  • Scientific talk 4 (to be confirmed)
  • The ORSO Chairs. Summary of progress since the last meeting
    • Data Analysis Working group
    • Reproducibility Working group

Tuesday to Thursday: Breakout discussion sessions

For the discussion sessions we would like to ask one of the attendees to act as a scribe to keep some notes on the discussion. This person should be able to attend the final plenary session on Friday and give a report about what happened in the discussion. For further details on the breakout sessions, please see the separate pages for each day:

Tuesday 24th June

Wednesday 25th June

Thursday 26th June

Friday 27th June: Concluding Plenary Session

In the final session of the workshop we will summarise the working group discussions and look to the future with some further science talks

12:00-14:30 (UK), 13:00-15:30 (Europe), 07:00-09:30 (US East coast), 21:00-23:30 (Australia East coast):

Session Schedule

  • Annual General Meeting.
    • Recruitment of a temporary stand-in chair for the Reproducibility working group (to replace Andrew McCluskey)
  • Summary of the working group sessions.
  • Scientific talk 5 (to be confirmed)