Organized by the Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Bialystok and the Institute of Atomic Energy, Swierk under the auspices of the European Crystallographic Association; Committee of Crystallography, the Polish Academy of Sciences; and the Polish Neutron Scattering Society The School is financially supported in part by the International Union of Crystallography; the European Crystallographic Association; the European Office of Aerospace Research & Development; the Ministry of Science and Information Society Technologies; the Warsaw University of Technology; and the University of Bialystok.
		Neutron scattering for materials science A. Szytula Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Reymonta 4, 30-059 Kraków, Poland Topics Neutron scattering is the important method for investigations of different problems in physics and chemistry. Neutron scattering encompasses a wide variety of techniques for exploring the structural and dynamic properties of materials so the selection will be limited to the specific interests of the author and will include the determination of some structures. In the first part of the lecture the problem of stability of the crystal structure of some compounds will be discussed in the function of temperature and pressure. The second part of the lecture gives a complete review of the magnetic properties of different types of rare earth compounds. The lecture will focus on some examples chosen to illustrate the large variety of magnetic structures encountered among rare earth intermetallics. The data obtained from neutron diffraction experiments will be compared with the results obtained from macroscopic measurements (magnetic susceptibility, specific heat).