Tentative Outline - Fall 2004

What can be studied with SAXS?
Examples of a variety of investigations from the literature

Theory of X-ray scattering at small angles
Both crystalline and non-crystalline effects

Instrumentation
Emphasis on the new Penn State instrument

Data acquisition
Including specimen preparation

Data conditioning

Methods for the recovery of rho(r) from intensity data

Interpretation of the results

Further detailed examples of SAXS studies