Bruce Ravel's homepage

Figure 1 Bruce with his niece and nephew, Gabe and Naomi

My main field of research involves X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and related techniques as applied to environmental science and materials physics. I am the author of several programs for EXAFS analysis as well as a few other tidbits. I am a member of the Synchrotron Methods Group of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Ceramics Division and I am stationed at Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Synchrotron Light Source. I am a graduate of the Physics program at the University of Washington.

This link explains my fascination with Greek mythology.

Questions about my software

Questions about IFEFFIT should be posted to the IFEFFIT mailing list and questions about FEFF should be posted to the FEFF mailing list.

Please refer to the bug reports page for hints on how best to report problems with Athena, Artemis, Hephaestus, or Atoms.

If you are contacting me for the first time, please use email rather than telephone.

Links ahoy!

Other pages about me!

• My home page: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/

• My Ifeffit wiki page: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/iffwiki/BruceRavel

• My PhD thesis as a 1.3MB PDF file

EXAFS pages

• My EXAFS software page: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/

• Talks I've given

• I am available for EXAFS training courses.

• NSLS-II EXAFS discussion page: http://xafs.org/NSLSII/DampingWigglerXasStation

• PeriodicTableTemplate

Personal stuff

• research topics: </CrystalPlanesAndDirections> </Deinococcus> </DNAzyme>

• pages: </AnlToDo> </NslsGup> </ApsGup> </Moving> </ContactList> </FIP>

• home: <Port Jeff house, exterior> <Port Jeff house, interior> <Apartment renovation>

• A Few Memories of My Friend Joel Hathhorne

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I believe in the essential decency and fairness of the American people. This does 
not mean, however, that I believe our leaders and our voters always to be of sound 
judgment.  Democracy does not guarantee wisdom or virtue; it guarantees only the
principles of majority rule and freedom of choice. And freedom of choice includes, 
whether we like it or not, the right to be wrong. We can only hope that from time 
to time our leaders will be right.

Now is not such a time.

                    George McGovern writing in the December 2002 Harper's Magazine 

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