Re: [Ifeffit] Athena- Demeter 0.9.14 importing data

2013-05-06 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Atul, On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:10 PM, wrote: > Hi Matt, > Thanks for your reply ! > > > Sorry, and I don't mean to pick on you in particular, but just to > emphasize Bruce's response. Did you really think your question could > be answered with the data files? > > Well, I suppose the data fil

Re: [Ifeffit] Athena- Demeter 0.9.14 importing data

2013-05-04 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Atul, On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:21 AM, wrote: > Hi Bruce, > Thanks for the reply. > Well I wasn’t aware of that actually ! Sorry, and I don't mean to pick on you in particular, but just to emphasize Bruce's response. Did you really think your question could be answered with the data files?

Re: [Ifeffit] Problem with running Demeter

2013-05-02 Thread Matt Newville
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Alexander Riskin wrote: > Dear Amativa, > > Bruce is right, Ccleaner messed up your system and, unfortunately, beyond > repair. Ccleaner promises indeed to remove unused DLL's from your system but > is very bad at guessing which DLL's are really obsolete and has a t

Re: [Ifeffit] Problem with running Demeter

2013-05-01 Thread Matt Newville
> * * > > *Amitava Roy* > > *J. Bennett Johnston, Sr., Center for Advanced Microstructures and > Devices (CAMD)* > > *Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70806* > > ** ** > > ___ > Ifeffit mailing list > If

Re: [Ifeffit] ATOMS: Partial occupancies -how to edit .cif File

2013-04-23 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Kai, On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Sanwald, Kai wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to fit the NiFe2O4 spinel structure to EXAFS data of mixed > Ni/Fe-(hydro)xide films. > However, ATOMS cannot deal with structures exhibiting crystal sites with > partial occupancies. > I know that this problem ha

Re: [Ifeffit] background removal - spline range kmin

2013-04-22 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Zhipeng Regen Lan, On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Reagen Lan wrote: > Dear all, > > For removing the background from a spec with sharp white-line, I understand > it is often to put larger value for kmin of Spline range in Athena. > However, in my current case, there is a intensive XANES peak

Re: [Ifeffit] Calculation of the doping level

2013-04-17 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Kicaj, Just, to follow up on Bruce's comment: A single cluster with 1 Al absorber and no Al scatterers does not really describe "1%" or even "0.5%" doping. It is "0%" doping. By "1% Al doping", you (probably) really mean that each Zn site has a 1% chance of being occupied by Al. I think tha

Re: [Ifeffit] ifeffit R-factor

2013-04-07 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Sandra, On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Sandra Luber wrote: > Dear Matt Newville, > > I do some fitting with ifeffit using EXAFS data generated by feff. > I wonder how the R-factor is calculated. Unfortunately, > I have not found any definition yet. Would it be possible >

Re: [Ifeffit] ifeffit on Mac OS X

2013-04-04 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Frank, On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Frank Schima wrote: > Hello list, > > > I have created a port of ifeffit [1] on Macports [2] so that you can easily > install ifeffit on Mac OS X. I have only run this myself on Mountain Lion > (10.8), but I believe it built successfully on the Lion and S

Re: [Ifeffit] Possible bug in atoms files generation by Artemis

2013-03-28 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Matthew, On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Matthew Marcus wrote: > Many years back, when FEFF stopped being free, I was told that the decision > was not Rehr's but forced by the university. Blame them. > It's always easier and more pleasant for us to blame faceless university > beauraucrats t

Re: [Ifeffit] Possible bug in atoms files generation by Artemis

2013-03-27 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Matthew, Bruce, On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Matthew Marcus wrote: > Some users do have FEFFx (x>6l) on their own, so it would be useful to > prepare Artemis/Demeter/Larch... for them and provide > methods for using higher versions if an executable is present. I completely agree that th

Re: [Ifeffit] Possible bug in atoms files generation by Artemis

2013-03-26 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Matthew, On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, Matthew Marcus wrote: Just to put my bit in, I believe that the most significant advantage of higher FEFF versions for EXAFS analysis is that it results in more reasonable values for E0 for high-Z elements. I forget whether the issue is high-Z scatterer or abs

Re: [Ifeffit] plotting

2013-03-26 Thread Matt Newville
Hi, Sorry for coming in late in this conversation. I won't disagree that Origin or Igor Pro can be used to make lovely publication-quality graphics -- those are fine choices. The poor quality of the graphics in the older versions of Ifeffit / Horae was always been a disappointment to me. It's

Re: [Ifeffit] Building ifeffit Mac Mountain Lion

2013-03-21 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Jeff, On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:32 PM, IIT wrote: > Hi Matt, > > No problem. I have succeeded in building and running ifeffit and pgplot on > Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2. I thought this was the first step in building > Demeter? > > Should I be using Larch instead for this? > I'd say Yes.

Re: [Ifeffit] Building ifeffit Mac Mountain Lion

2013-03-21 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Jeff, Hope it's OK, but I'm CCing this to the ifeffit mailing list. I've officially abandoned support for the Fortran version of Ifeffit, but I know many people are still using it, so I'll try to give some pointers. I haven't tried building on 10.8 (but Larch works fine for me on it). On

Re: [Ifeffit] Peakfit tool - determination of width

2013-02-22 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Lisa, On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Gudrun Lisa Bovenkamp wrote: > Hey Bruce, > > I was wondering how the width in the peak fitting tool of Athena is > connected to the real data. What I mean is: > A gaussian peak with a width of 1 (eV ?) seems to have a FWHM of 2 eV. > > Is it possible tha

Re: [Ifeffit] Importing Multiple Data Sets into Athena

2013-02-20 Thread Matt Newville
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Jeremy Thorbahn wrote: > > I can't help but wonder how much of this message chain is set forth by a > missed Star Wars reference. Oh, I think if the reference had been missed, neither Bruce nor I would have responded.The implication was that John, perhaps in

Re: [Ifeffit] Importing Multiple Data Sets into Athena

2013-02-20 Thread Matt Newville
> On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 11:56:25 AM John Hayes wrote: >> Thank you for your reply. I find your lack of faith...disturbing, I'd like to take this opportunity to emphasize two points I've made several times before. John, I apologize if it sounds like I'm picking on you. I don't mean to

Re: [Ifeffit] Athena doesn't start - Larch server not running

2013-02-15 Thread Matt Newville
On Feb 15, 2013 5:36 PM, wrote: > > Hi Bruce, > how to transform a mol2 format file into a cif fomat file to obtain the crystal structure. please see the attachment. > > Shaofeng > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mol2+to+cif ___ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millen

Re: [Ifeffit] Different R-factor values

2013-01-25 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Jason, Chris, On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Jason Gaudet wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Might be helpful also to link to the archived thread you're talking about. > > http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/pipermail/ifeffit/2006-June/007048.html > > Bruce might have to correct me on this, but if I remem

Re: [Ifeffit] references

2013-01-22 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Soma, On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Soma Chattopadhyay wrote: > > Hello: > > 1) Is there any reference which states what the error bars for Eo, Delr , SS > and CN should be so that the fit with its parameters is regarded to be of > publishable quality? I don't think one can set a general

Re: [Ifeffit] [EXTERNAL] Ifeffit Digest, Vol 119, Issue 15

2013-01-09 Thread Matt Newville
Todd, Bruce, On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Bruce Ravel wrote: > On Wednesday, January 09, 2013 07:43:34 PM Monson, Todd wrote: >> When making my own feff input file, how should the data be delimited. When >> looking at existing feff input files I see a mixture of different spaces >> and tabs a

Re: [Ifeffit] Larch 0.9.17 available for download and testing

2013-01-08 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Bruce, Again, sorry (ever so slightly -- the skiing was great!!) for the delay. I think (not 100% sure) I understand have solved the trouble with wxmplot on ubuntu. On an ubuntu 12.04 system (that had been upgraded a few times, and is begging to be updated to 12.10), I saw that importing wxm

Re: [Ifeffit] Larch 0.9.17 available for download and testing

2013-01-03 Thread Matt Newville
/xafs.org/BruceRavel > Software:https://github.com/bruceravel > ___ > Ifeffit mailing list > Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov > http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit > -- --Matt Newville 630-252-0431 ___ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit

Re: [Ifeffit] The degeneracy and the coordination number

2012-12-28 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Zhaomo, On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Zhaomo Tian wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am confused about the degeneracy and the coordination number used in the > Artemis program. > I want to get the coordination number of 1st shell of my copper sample, so I > set a guess number N1=12(initial guess)

Re: [Ifeffit] How to refine the float

2012-12-20 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Zhaomo, On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Zhaomo Tian wrote: > > Dear XAFS community, > > I think I need explain my 1st question in a more specific way for your better > understanding. > > If in one fitting round, we get the value of N*S02, E0, R, and sigma2 which > is generated automaticall

Re: [Ifeffit] How to refine the float

2012-12-20 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Zhaomo, On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Zhaomo Tian wrote: > > Dear XAFS community, > > I start my first EXAFS data analysis practice with Cu first shell fitting. > I have 3 questions: > > 1.Usually what are the stratages I can use to refine the fitting?The > floated parameters for each path

[Ifeffit] Larch 0.9.17 available for download and testing

2012-12-18 Thread Matt Newville
but there will be no more releases or bug fixes for the Ifeffit 1.2 series. The code is available if someone else wants to maintain it. Thanks, --Matt Newville ___ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit

Re: [Ifeffit] Beryllium and EXAFS

2012-12-18 Thread Matt Newville
ht be the best chance for measuring Be in a protein.I'm not sure I know any beamlines that do X-ray Raman on proteins, but I'd suggest APS beamline 20-ID or ESRF beamline as places to start. The next questions would be "how many Be atoms are in your protein?", and

Re: [Ifeffit] How to do with diffraction peak

2012-12-15 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Matthew, On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Matthew Marcus wrote: On 12/14/2012 4:10 PM, Matt Newville wrote: Hi Matthew, On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Matthew Marcus wrote: Oh, I meant that for each energy point measured you could use the different fluorescence channels to compute a mean value

Re: [Ifeffit] How to do with diffraction peak

2012-12-14 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Matthew, On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Matthew Marcus wrote: > >> You might argue (I would agree) that with multiple measures of >> fluorescence you can determine outliers more rigorously. But I would >> also say that then the best thing to do then is to not simply remove >> outliers but

Re: [Ifeffit] How to do with diffraction peak

2012-12-13 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Matthew, On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Matthew Marcus wrote: > > On 12/12/2012 8:03 PM, Matt Newville wrote: >> Hi Matthew, Bruce, All, >> >> Sorry for not being able to join this discussion earlier. I agree >> that having glitch-free data is preferred. But I also thi

Re: [Ifeffit] How to do with diffraction peak

2012-12-12 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Matthew, Bruce, All, Sorry for not being able to join this discussion earlier. I agree that having glitch-free data is preferred. But I also think it's OK to simply remove diffraction peaks from XAFS data -- you're just asserting that you know those values are not good measurements of mu(E).

Re: [Ifeffit] S02 and k_min

2012-12-02 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Mike, On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Michael Morrill wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am currently performing a simple curve fit on bulk MoS2 using an atoms file > for crystalline MoS2. I've found that increasing k_min on my fit (e.g. from 2 > to 4) improves the quality of the fit (R-factor

Re: [Ifeffit] Help to run Demeter on Windows XP (So. Muru)

2012-11-30 Thread Matt Newville
in C:\strawberry\bin (etc) the Demeter applications should make sure these are the ones it will find. --Matt -- --Matt Newville 630-252-0431 ___ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit

Re: [Ifeffit] Question on Glitch in FEFF for Ru EXAFS measurements

2012-11-26 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Dooshaye, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Dooshaye Moonshiram wrote: > Regarding my first query, basically if you upload an experimental file on > Artemis and run a Feff calculation page from the exact same XRD coordinates, > a different fit is sometimes obtained from trial to trial when summ

Re: [Ifeffit] Determining errors in R_fit

2012-11-17 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Jatin, Jason, All, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Jason Gaudet wrote: > Since R_eff is constant, surely all you need to do is multiply R_eff by the > uncertainty in alpha? That will be the uncertainty in delta_R and R_fit. > > The program is only giving you statistically-derived uncertaint

Re: [Ifeffit] About Launching Athena on Mountain Lion (Mac OS 10.8)

2012-11-12 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Yohei, All, Thanks for the tip! Is anyone able to work on support for Mac support for Ifeffit + Horae + Demeter codes? I have very little time to work on this these days. .I've tried to a couple times to get wxPerl installed on a Mac well enough to run Demeter, but haven't been able to get

Re: [Ifeffit] feff user mailing list

2012-11-02 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Enyuan, On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Enyuan Hu wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to join the mailing list for FEFF users. A search in Google led > me to the the address listp...@u.washington.edu. But my attempt to join > always failed as my mail keeps being rejected. I noticed the most rec

Re: [Ifeffit] GDS parameters

2012-10-01 Thread Matt Newville
John, On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:13 AM, John Farell wrote: > > Dear friends, > > We are doing an experiment of temperature based phase transition. I need to > get the values of all four GDS > parameters with errors. I know the theoretical model (i. e., atoms page). But > to get all the four para

Re: [Ifeffit] Why different installations of Atoms generate different results?

2012-09-24 Thread Matt Newville
Dear Ku-Ding, On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Tsuei, Ku-Ding wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > Thanks a lot for your reply and comments particularly on how to change > k-weight in (D)Artemis-Atoms. Sorry for not being able to provide clear > results stating exactly where my confusion came from. I was not s

Re: [Ifeffit] Demeter will not start without admin permissions

2012-09-17 Thread Matt Newville
Weird but good. On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Jason Gaudet wrote: > Thanks Matt, this was helpful in directing my troubleshooting. > > Somehow, the problem seemed to resolve itself today without my intervention. > So I'm again stumped, but I'm stumped with a perfectly functional version of >

Re: [Ifeffit] Importing Multiple Data Sets into Athena

2012-09-07 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Dan, On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Daniel Whittaker wrote: > Hi all, > > I think that the issue that Bruce is referring to is due to a difference of > operating system and programs. The data i receive, as Kathy points out, is > absolutely fine and i have had no issue whatsoever with the beam

Re: [Ifeffit] Ratio of peak amplitudes in R-space

2012-09-05 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Jatin, Scott, Chris, Just to add to Chris's and Scott's response: analyzing the peak height of the magnitude of the Fourier transform of an EXAFS spectra would be collapsing an entire spectra to a single value. We know that EXAFS is a complicated function of k and R, and such a simplistic ana

Re: [Ifeffit] Demeter will not start without admin permissions

2012-08-31 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Jason, On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Jason Gaudet wrote: > Hi all, > > I came across another Demeter startup issue that seems different from the > mingw and perl conflicts previously discussed, and I'm pretty stumped. > > System: Demeter 0.9.10 on Windows 7 32bit > > Issue: All Demeter apps

Re: [Ifeffit] Launching Problem (D)Athena and Co.

2012-08-22 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Bruce, On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Bruce Ravel wrote: > > Hi Alfred, > > I am thrilled that you discovered the problem, because I was stumped! > > Actually, you have uncovered a problem I have been worrying about for > some time. I have been procrastinating on addressing the problem > be

Re: [Ifeffit] CFAVERAGE card in FEFF9

2012-08-13 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Matthew, On Aug 13, 2012 10:53 AM, "Matthew Marcus" wrote: > > I'm trying to simulate EXAFS on a nanoparticle of hydrogen-terminated TiO2, whose atomic coordinates were given to me by a theorist. For that, I need to average over all Ti atoms, which seems to me is what the CFAVERAGE card is for

Re: [Ifeffit] Importing data to Athena crashes on WinXP

2012-08-13 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Bradley, On Aug 13, 2012 8:24 AM, "BradleyW Miller" wrote: > > Hi, > > I've looked through the FAQ and help pages but don't see any comments about my issue. When importing new data into Athena it crashes on my Window XP computer. The column selection window opens and it freezes. I've attached

Re: [Ifeffit] [IFEFFIT] question about chemically unordered systems

2012-08-07 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Falk, On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Meutzner, Falk wrote: > Dear IFEFFIT Community, > > is there a way to calculate the spectrum for chemically disordered systems? > We have a simple binary bcc structure. It crystallises either in > superstructure (CsCl) or chemically disordered (W type) wit

Re: [Ifeffit] "RE: Contents of Ifeffit digest..."

2012-07-14 Thread Matt Newville
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:19 PM, johnny huertas wrote: > Hi Matt: > > Thanks for your response. First of all I am beginner in this issue. Because > of my little experience I don't know exactly how to specify my problem but I > think you write an interesting phrase in your response: "are you asking

Re: [Ifeffit] problems

2012-07-13 Thread Matt Newville
Hi, On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:21 PM, johnny huertas wrote: > Members of list: > I have some problems to resolve a question. I have been working a lot in fit > the AgBr(1-x)Clx example of FEFFIT site. My fits were good in my opinion, > but I don't know how to identify the Br and Cl atomic distrib

Re: [Ifeffit] Fwd: Re: Use of feff8 with D-artemis?

2012-07-13 Thread Matt Newville
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Bruce Ravel wrote: > On Thursday, July 12, 2012 05:00:00 PM Matt Newville wrote: >> > I would challenge a reviewer to come up with a reliable study >> > demonstrating that Feff8 or Feff9 provides a statistically significant >> >

Re: [Ifeffit] Manganese oxide EXAFS modelin

2012-07-12 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Ebrahim, On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Ebrahim Rezaei wrote: Hi everyone, I am working with bulk and nano-particles manganese oxides. Basically I have collected EXAFS of Mn K-edge for my reference material (Mn2O3, bixibyite) and also the catalyst (Mn supported on alumina). The catalyst shows formatio

Re: [Ifeffit] Fwd: Re: Use of feff8 with D-artemis?

2012-07-12 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Bruce, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Bruce Ravel wrote: > > On Thursday, July 12, 2012 05:31:19 PM you wrote: >> >> I wonder why the new Artemis (from Demeter) is limited to feff6 or feff7 as >> the old ifeffit can deals with feff8 and feff9. >> >> Is it a wish? When you published data usin

Re: [Ifeffit] Problems with fit in pyrite structure with Se substitution

2012-07-03 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Adriana, On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Adriana Matamoros Veloza wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > In both projects the data corresponds to Se edge (no sulphur). Selenium data > was collected on natural pyrite grains. When Se associates to pyrite, it is > normally inferred that Se substituted sulphu

Re: [Ifeffit] Larch / Ifeffit2 development status

2012-06-28 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Scott, On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Scott Calvin wrote: > This is great to hear, Matt! While I'm going to be too busy to give it a real > look in the next few months, > after that I'll be very interested. Writing it in Python will make it > possible for me to compile the code > myself,

[Ifeffit] Larch / Ifeffit2 development status

2012-06-27 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Folks, I wanted to give an update on progress of my Ifeffit 2 project, which I've been developing under the code name Larch, a name which I think might stick. This has been a long, slow (and sometimes nearly stopped) process over several years, but a few events have conspired so that I've focu

Re: [Ifeffit] Unsuccessful launching of (D)Athena, (D)Artmis and (D)Hephaestus

2012-06-27 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Prof. Guo, Bruce, On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Bruce Ravel wrote: > On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 10:04:22 PM Huaming Guo wrote: >> > Hello Bravel, >> > >> > Attached please find the log reports. These may be the issues leading to >> > the unsuccessful launching of (D)Athena, (D)Artmis and (

Re: [Ifeffit] Problem with Ifeffit 1.2.11 on Windows XP

2012-05-08 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Sunny, On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:19 AM, 최선희(Sun Hee Choi) wrote: > Dear XAFS colleagues, > > > > I use Ifeffit 1.2.11 on Windows 7 machine with no difficulty, but that > version bothers me when applied to Windows XP. > > One of useful tips is to select a value from the plot, that is the use of

Re: [Ifeffit] third cumulant

2012-05-07 Thread Matt Newville
On May 6, 2012 11:01 PM, "JeongEunSuk" wrote: > > Hello > I measured temperature-dependent EXAFS at Pt L3 edge with Pt nanoparticles in room and high temperature(400 C). I have some questions about thermal vibration in EXAFS fit. I read that third and fourth culmulants related with phase and ampli

Re: [Ifeffit] Large XAFS data sets

2012-04-26 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Dean, On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Dean Hesterberg wrote: > Hi Matt, > > Regarding ifeffit2, another application that would benefit from > linear combination fitting on thousands or tens of thousands of > spectra is in micro/nano-XANES (micro/nano-EXAFS) spatial > imaging. In the case of

[Ifeffit] APS / IIT XAFS Summer School

2012-04-26 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Folks, Several people have asked, so I'd like to announce here that there will be an XAFS Summer School in Chicago this summer, July 9 - 13, on the IIT Campus and at APS. Grant Bunker is organizing, and more details are at http://xafs.org/Workshops/IIT2012 Cheers, --Matt _

Re: [Ifeffit] first "official" relezse of my new software

2012-04-21 Thread Matt Newville
Hi, On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Stefano Luciano Ciurli wrote: > thanks Bruce! I hope to be able to use the OS X version soon! Congratulations! > Stefano Yes -- Thanks Bruce! It looks great. For OS X : I'm not sure if anyone else has tried to get Demeter working on OS X. It's been a fe

Re: [Ifeffit] Large XAFS data sets

2012-04-16 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Edmund, Jan, Matthew, On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Jan Stötzel wrote: > Hi Edmund, > > in my opinion evaluating 3000 spectra is neither a heroic attempt nor brute > force. The LCF of 3000 spectra yields one beautiful plot with 3000 * > components points, where the information of an enormou

Re: [Ifeffit] Theoretical value of S02 for different absorber

2012-04-05 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Jatin, On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Rana, Jatinkumar Kantilal wrote: > Dear Dr. Ravel, > > Thank you very much for your prompt reply. I followed the instruction on > (http://leonardo.phys.washington.edu/feff/wiki/index.php?title=EXAFS_calculation) > and activated S02 card by making S02 0.

Re: [Ifeffit] Prestopronto links

2012-04-01 Thread Matt Newville
Santago, Carmelo, 2012/4/1 Santiago José Alejandro Figueroa : > Hi > > I can add my two cent...(of REAIS) > > The web page of PRESTOPRONTO pointed out by Carmelo is: > > http://www.esrf.eu/computing/scientific/PRESTOPRONTO/Prestopronto.htm > > or > > http://code.google.com/p/prestopronto/ > > We s

Re: [Ifeffit] Ifeffit Digest, Vol 109, Issue 21

2012-03-30 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Qingyu, On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:32 PM, KONG Quingyu wrote: > Thank you for all your helpful suggestions. > > Actually, our beamline has recently installed a fast detector with a > repetation of 20KHz, which could collected data in a time resolution > of few tens of microsecond and could easi

Re: [Ifeffit] program

2012-03-30 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Qingyu, On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:46 AM, KONG Quingyu wrote: > We recently collected 3000 EXAFS spectra to follow a chemical reaction > process, we would like to fit the experimental data with reference spectra > using linear combination fitting. Does anyone know there are available or > co

Re: [Ifeffit] Decrease LCF Fitting Computational Time in Athena

2012-03-21 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Bradley, Bruce, On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Bruce Ravel wrote: > > Hi Bradley, > > Athena cannot use multiple CPUs.  No threads, no message passing. > Sorry. > > As for why Athena uses only 25% of the CPU in your VM is a mystery to > me.  Thatis not a restriction I put on the code and it

Re: [Ifeffit] administrator privileges

2012-03-19 Thread Matt Newville
en that sets all the path information anyway, so that using C:\Program Files\ is not required. Hope that helps --- let us know how that works out. And good luck with the course! --Matt Newville ___ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit

Re: [Ifeffit] running ifeffit under 64-bit windows7

2012-03-10 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Kicaj, OK, sorry I misunderstood then. And, despite my laziness, I think that Sameh is right that it's probably time for a more complete update Such a thing should probably feature Bruce's newer codes of course. --Matt On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Matt Newville wrote:

Re: [Ifeffit] running ifeffit under 64-bit windows7

2012-03-10 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Kicaj, 2012/3/10 "Dr. Dariusz A. Zając" : > Hi, > maybe these below clarify a little bit the problem, but the problem sounds > very intriguing > http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/pipermail/ifeffit/2004-July/005729.html > http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/pipermail/ifeffit/2005-October/006613.html

Re: [Ifeffit] running ifeffit under 64-bit windows7

2012-03-10 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Sameh, On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Sameh Ibrahim Ahmed wrote: > > Hi, > > I have used ARTEMIS to fit the EXAFS of a simple Cu foil with the two > diffrent machines, a 32 bit and 64 bit ones, both running widows7, 32 ans 64 > bit respectively. > The results obtained are slightly different,

Re: [Ifeffit] linear combination fitting and Artemis?

2012-03-10 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Winejar, On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:05 AM, winejar8324 wrote: > Hello, everyone > > Here I got the spectra of components in a mixture with linear combination > fitting. > > Can i fit directly the component spectra (i.e. chi(k) of specific species) > using Artemis to get the structure informati

Re: [Ifeffit] CLnorm Background - Possible Bug?

2012-02-10 Thread Matt Newville
to why I am wrong about this. > > -- > --- > Ashley Norris > Experimental Petrology > Department of Earth Sciences > Oxford University, UK > --- > ashley.nor...@earth.ox.ac.uk > --- > +44 1865 272 051 > --- > > > _____

Re: [Ifeffit] ifeffit on Mac OSX 10.7 (Lion)?

2012-01-08 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Peggy, Happy New Year! Sorry to hear about the trouble -- I don't have Lion, but I'd be surprised if there was anything specific to Lion that caused the trouble. It sounds like you might have tried these, but just to be sure (and because they are the things I can think of), here are some thi

Re: [Ifeffit] Find R-factor for linear combination sums?

2012-01-08 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Scott, On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Scott Calvin wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to get Athena (or Ifeffit) to report an R-factor for a linear > combination sum, as opposed to a fit? Artemis does that for FEFF fitting, and > Athena will do a linear combination sum ("plot data + sum"

Re: [Ifeffit] SRS data

2011-11-17 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Michael, On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Michael Stockenhuber wrote: > Dear all, > Thank you very much to the developers for this great software. I have a > problem with some old SRS station 3.4 data. I cannot read in original data > with athena. I enclose a data file  r48683.dat )( Al K- e

Re: [Ifeffit] feff6l licence

2011-11-16 Thread Matt Newville
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Re: [Ifeffit] problems with athena after installing windows update

2011-10-31 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Regina, Sorry for the trouble. Do I understand correctly that you do see a plot window and some plots from athena, but that once you do "Plot Components" from the Linear Combination window that the plot window no longer listens to what athena might be sending? I'm usually reluctant to specula

Re: [Ifeffit] XANES fitting

2011-10-12 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Riti, On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Bruce Ravel wrote: > On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 04:47:28 pm Ritimukta Sarangi wrote: >> Hi Matt, >> Thank you. I am looking forward to comments from members from the forum. >> Yes, I have found some of Corwin's references. Perhaps it might help >> curr

Re: [Ifeffit] XANES fitting

2011-10-12 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Riti, I hope it's OK that I'm sending this to the ifeffit mailing list, as there might be other interesting perspectives on your questions. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Ritimukta Sarangi wrote: > Hi Matt, > This is Riti again. This time I have a question about EXAFS, which you are an > e

Re: [Ifeffit] beamline for Al EXAFS

2011-10-11 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Alex, You might find the list of beamlines at http://www.iucr.org/resources/commissions/xafs/, compiled by Federico Boscherini, a useful way to find a beamline that can acces at the Al K-edge. --Matt On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Kompch, Alexander wrote: > Dear all, > > for the analysi

Re: [Ifeffit] number of independent points

2011-10-10 Thread Matt Newville
Of course. I do agree with both Jeremy and Bruce. -Matt On Oct 10, 2011 10:07 AM, "Bruce Ravel" wrote: > On Monday, October 10, 2011 10:48:25 am Kropf, Arthur Jeremy wrote: > > Perhaps there is a more subtle analysis of the data range, but I doubt > > it, since Matt is on record as suggesting tha

Re: [Ifeffit] number of independent points

2011-10-10 Thread Matt Newville
Hi George. It should be 2*(Delta k)*(Delta R), without the +2, but as a floating point number. That is, it is deliberately conservative. I believe the subtle difference you see (that is why the value is 27.06 instead of 27.5) must be due to rounding of the R values on to a discrete grid. -Matt

Re: [Ifeffit] lifetime broadening of pre-edge peaks?

2011-10-10 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Matthew, On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Matthew Marcus wrote: > Is the core-hole lifetime broadening of pre-edge XANES peaks the same as at > the main edge? I'm looking into issues of de-noising of XANES epsctra, so > need to figure out how narrow real features can be. >mam I'm sure

Re: [Ifeffit] Preparation help with fly ash sample with diluted Tl

2011-09-29 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Mengling, 2011/9/29 Mengling Yi Stuckman : > Thanks for all the response! They are all very helpful! > Just want to make sure that I get the information right and a few follow-up > questions: > 1. I'd better contact the beamline engineer to ask for the sensitivity for > Tl. Yes! > 2. Fe fluor

Re: [Ifeffit] Preparation help with fly ash sample with diluted Tl

2011-09-29 Thread Matt Newville
is > needed to focus on xanes, than I suggest to use non-energy dispersive > detector, e.g. PIPS diode. It is very often more sensitive than regular > fluorescence detectors, and can take higher count-rate. > please correct me if I am wrong... > kicaj > > > W dniu 11-09-29 17

Re: [Ifeffit] Preparation help with fly ash sample with diluted Tl

2011-09-29 Thread Matt Newville
Dear Mengling, The basic issues are: will there be enough Tl fluorescence counts in the detector, and will you be able to see a decent edge.From you spreadsheet of concentrations, the elements that stand out are: Fe and to a lesser extent Zn, and Pb. The Fe and Zn will dominate the fluoresc

Re: [Ifeffit] Spline range?

2011-09-19 Thread Matt Newville
Wei, On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Wei Li wrote: > Dear all, > > I am wondering about what range should be chosen in Athena? Some literature > says from 1 to the end; some says from 0.5 to the end. What literature says this? Do you mean to imply that someone is saying it should be 0.5 or 1.0,

Re: [Ifeffit] XAFS of poly-metals contaminated soil samples

2011-09-09 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Xia, --Matt Newville 630-252-0431 On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Xia Bing wrote: > > Dear members of the mailing list: > This year we have applied the synchrotron radiation and get the chance to > Beijing  Synchrotron Radiation Facility at beamline 1W1B-XAFS. It is the >

Re: [Ifeffit] Fitting on Athena

2011-09-08 Thread Matt Newville
Niken, Have you compared MBACK to using the 'CLnorm' normalization in Athena (found under "Background Removal Additional Parameters")? The algorithms are not identical, but have a lot in common, and would probably make it easier to compare with other data in Athena. If I understand correctly,

Re: [Ifeffit] Ifeffit Digest, Vol 103, Issue 7

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Newville
Rajesh, I suspect you might be trying solve problems you don't have, and not looking at the problems you do have. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Rajesh Kumar wrote: > Dear Matt, > Thanks for your mail. I moved with your advice with PGPLOT a couple of weeks > back. After that I could install PGP

Re: [Ifeffit] Question on GaN Artemis fit (esp. So2 factor)

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Alejandro, On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Alejandro X Levander wrote: > Dear ifeffit community; > I am working on modeling the local structure of amorphous GaN(1-x)As(x) > alloys. After helpful learning experiences at the SSRL XAS Summer School and > reading Scott Calvin's doped material hel

Re: [Ifeffit] Regarding the execution of Demos in PGPLOT

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Newville
Rajesh, On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Rajesh Kumar wrote: > I recently installed > 1. PGPLOT 5 (ver: 5.2.2-15) through Synaptic Package Manager from ubuntu - > MOTU-Developers (Mathematics, Multiverse) > 2. IFEFFIT from Carlo Segre < se...@debian.org>, (version > 2:1.2.11d-6~lucid0 ) and >

Re: [Ifeffit] settings tab in Artemis

2011-09-05 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Morgan, Sorry, somehow your legitimate message got lost in the spam box. > From: Morgan Scott > To: ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov > Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:04:45 +1200 > Subject: settings tab in Artemis > Hello; > > I have changed some settings in my plot display (legend position, gridli

Re: [Ifeffit] Athena: problems with LCF

2011-08-15 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Nina, As others have said, normalization is critical for getting reasonable answers from LCF.One of the drawbacks of a linear analysis is that it always gives an answer, even when the assumptions going into the question are poor. > Even though the results of the LCF of the mathematical mix

Re: [Ifeffit] how to consider Jahn-Teller distortion?

2011-08-09 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Matthew, Enyuan, You're absolutely right that the JT distortion is better described as moving the ligand atoms. I was too focused on "edit feff.inp to move the atoms" and on trying to wrap my mind around R -3 m to do the correct distortion. Enyuan, you'll want to edit the atomic list with a

Re: [Ifeffit] how to consider Jahn-Teller distortion?

2011-08-08 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Enyuan, On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Enyuan Hu wrote: > Dear all, > I'm trying to fit the Fe K-edge EXAFS data and I appreciate that Fe in my > sample mainly exists as Fe4+, which is associated with Jahn-Teller > distortion. The one shell model that considers Fe residing in the standard > o

Re: [Ifeffit] Has anyone got this technical problem during the fit?

2011-08-04 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Nirawat, I think it would be really helpful to see the trapped errors. I can't promise that I could figure it out, but if you send the project file Bruce or I might have a chance. -Matt On Aug 4, 2011 9:18 AM, "NIRAWAT THAMMAJAK" wrote: > Dear All, > > I was just wondering if some of you may h

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