About 65 scientists from 12 different countries met on September 10th and llth, 1992 at the Institut Laue-Langevin at the first common scientific workshop of the ESRF and the ILL to discuss different methods used in neutron and X-ray diffraction in order to obtain information about partial structure factors. This third satellite meeting of the international conference on Liquid and Amorphous Metals (Vienna, August 31–September 4,1992) was organized in collaboration with the CNRS-Grenoble by P. Chieux, J.-B. Suck(ILL), A. Kvick, C. Riekel (ESRF) and D. Raoux (CNRS).