This meeting covers a wide range of topics associated with Scanning Probe Microscopy including main techniques such as atomic force microscopy and scanning tunnelling microscopy as well as more specialised versions.

The SPM Meeting is held annually and provides an excellent forum for the community to meet and discuss the latest advances in the field. With an exhibition alongside and social activities organised, it is one of the best events for 2016 for scanning probe microscopy users, for PhD students and well-seasoned microscopists alike!

Abstracts will be accepted to this meeting for oral and poster presentations.

Topics

MASS TRANSFER

• Basics of diffusion
• Carburisation and Nitridation
• Internal precipitation
• Alloy heat treatment
• Particle growth and coarsening
• Microstructural and crystallographic texture evolution
• Reactive diffusion
• Phase transformations
• Multiphase diffusion systems
• Microelectronic and nanoscale systems
• Interfaces
• Diffusion in crystalline and amorphous materials
• Diffusion in porous media
• Surface oxidation and corrosion
• Phase diagrams
• Ad- and ab-sorption
• Diffusion coefficients
• Solute trapping at solid liquid interfaces
• Mathematical modelling
• Numerical methods
  
• Experimental methods
• Industrial applications

HEAT TRANSFER

• Mathematical modelling
• Numerical methods
• Experimental methods
• Industrial applications

MICROSTRUCTURE & PROPERTIES

• Mathematical modelling
• Numerical methods
• Experimental methods
• Industrial applications

NANODIFFUSION & NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS

• Nanomaterials
  
• Nanocomposites
• Biomaterials
  
• Industrial applications

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

• Solar
  
• Bio
  
• Hybrid
  
• Hydro
  
• Hydrogen
  
• Geothermal
  
• Wind

The SENS-2016 conference aims at highlighting topical scientific activities in the investigation of energy relevant systems using neutron scattering and to generate new applications. What could neutron bring to sustainable energy? What is the place of neutron scattering in the context of complementary techniques? What are the nowadays and future issues in the area of energy? The conference will address such questions and will give the opportunity for reinforcing the bridges existing between the neutron experts and the energy communities. Neutron users will benefit from an ideal showcase for their research and newcomers will get a good overview over the scientific potential via contact with experts in the neutron field.

The main topics discussed will be:

• Fuel cell and electrolysers
• Gas storage
• Bioenergy
• Solar energy
• Batteries
• Energy-related materials (magneto-caloric, thermoelectric, etc…)

IBIC is dedicated to exploring the physics and engineering challenges of beam diagnostic and measurement techniques for particle accelerators worldwide. The conference program will include tutorials on selected topics, invited and selected talks, as well as poster sessions that will cover the following topics.

Overview and Commissioning
Beam instrumentation at new facilities, commissioning results

BPMs and Beam Stability
Beam Position Monitors (for electron/hadron/photon beam, both electronics and pickups), orbit/trajectory feedback systems, bunch-by-bunch or intra train feedback systems

Time Resolved Diagnostics and Synchronization
Streak camera, transverse deflecting cavity, cavity based arrival time, fibre based timing distribution

Beam Loss Detection
Scintillator (both bulk or fibre) and PMT, ion chambers, electronics detectors (PIN, FET etc)

Transverse Profile Monitors
Screens (fluorescent and OTR), wire scanners (physical or laser), synchrotron radiation monitors (visible and X-rays, imaging and interference techniques), Ionization Profile Monitors (IPMs for hadron colliders)

Charge Monitors and Other Instruments
Current Transformers, Faraday cups, wall current monitors; also all other instruments and measurement procedures not part of other categories

Machine Parameter Measurements
Procedures and systems like betatron tune measurement, chromaticity measurement, luminosity monitors, beam-beam diagnostics, precise measurement of optics

This conference covers major topics of neutron analytics for energy research like energy storage and energy transformation (including batteries, fuel cells, electrolysis, H2-storage, thermoelectrics, and magnetocalorics), solar energy applications, catalysis, as well as engineering and industrial applications. In addition methodological instrument developments are an important contribution to enhance energy research with neutrons.

Topics

• Energy storage & transformation
  
• Solar Energy
  
• Catalysis
  
• Nuclear Energy
  
• Engineering & Industrial applications
• Advanced and Complementary methods

The conference will be directly followed by the HGF Programme "From Matter to Materials and Life": Workshop of In-house Research Theme: "Materials and Processes for Energy and Transport Technologies" (21st-22^nd July 2016).

VUVX2016 is the third conference following a merger of two long standing conference series â€" the International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation Physics (last meeting was the 15th in that series, VUV-15 in Berlin, Germany in July 2007) and the International Conference on X-ray and Inner-shell Processes (last meeting was the 21st in that series, X-08 held in Paris in June 2008).Â

This international conference will bring together scientists from all over the world, working in fields involving electromagnetic radiation in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV), soft X-ray and hard X-ray spectral regions generated by synchrotron, laser, or plasma based sources. Topics to be covered range from instrumentation and methods development to applications in a variety of fields.

Topics

• New Sources: diffraction limited storage rings, free electron lasers, ultrashort pulse XUV lasers and X-ray tabletop sources
• Resonant elastic and inelastic X-ray scattering
• X-ray absorption spectroscopy incl. linear, circular and magnetic dichroism spectroscopy
• Photoemission (angle/spin/time resolved, soft X-ray, hard X-ray, resonant, etc.)
• Imaging with nanoscale resolution: X-ray microscopy, coherent diffraction imaging, scanning small-angle X-ray scattering etc.
• Coincidence spectroscopy
• Theory of X-ray spectroscopy and diffraction
• Advanced data analysis methods
• Time-resolved spectroscopy
• In situ and operando applications

REXS2016 conference on resonant elastic x-ray scattering is the 3rd in a row after the very successful events in Aussois 2011 and the subsequent conference in Oxford 2013.

The REXS conference series re-started again almost 20 years after the conference on Resonant Anomalous X-ray Scattering 1992 in Malente and the first conference on Resonant X-ray Scattering 1974 in Madrid. The conference is aimed at stimulating interaction and discussion of scientists working in the field of hard condensed matter research with synchrotron radiation and using spectroscopy and scattering methods, that base upon resonance effects occurring close to the X-ray absorption edges.

• Basic concepts/theory
  
• Electronic correlations
  
• Extreme conditions (pressure, electric/magnetic fields …)
  
• Nanostructures
  
• Chemistry
  
• Time resolved diffraction /XFEL
  
• Soft condensed matter/Life sciences
  
• Ultra-fast scattering studies (XFEL)
  
• Coherent scattering studies (at XFEL and storage rings)
  
• Combined XMCD / REXS studies

Alfonso Franciosi: President & CEO, Elettra, Italy.

Caterina Biscari: Director, ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Spain

Ã-mer YavaÅŸeneral Director, Turkish Accelerator Center

Miguel A. G. ArandaScientific Director, ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Spain

Giuliana Aquilantiead of EXAFS Beamline, Elettra Light Source, Italy

Marco Marazzi: Industrial Liaison Office, Elettra Light Source, Italy

Majid Kazemian: Beamline Scientist, Diamond Light Source, UK

Aliakbar Ghafari: Beamline Scientist, Helmholtz-Zentrun, Germany

Mehran Taherkhani: Beamline Scientist, DESY Synchrotron, Germany

The 4th International Soft Matter Conference will be held at the Alpexpo Alpes Congrès in Grenoble, France from 12-16th September 2016. Three previous conferences were held in Aachen (2007), Granada (2010) and Rome (2013), and brought together up to 800 experimentalists and theorists working in the Soft Matter field.

The conference covers both the fundamental and applied aspects of Soft Matter and Complex Systems.

Local organisers of ISMC2016 include scientists from the large-scale facilities ILL and ESRF as well as from the Grenoble University and other research organisations such as CEA, CNRS, and INPG in Grenoble.

Topics

• Active Matter
• Biomaterials
• Cellular Biophysics
• Colloids and Polymers (including Biopolymers)
• Organisation and Dynamical Processes in Complex Fluids
• Functional Soft Materials and Soft Matter Technology
• Self Assembly
• Microfluidics and Interfacial Phenomena
• Soft Glasses, Gels and Foam

Fundamental Research on Defects: Enabling Technological Advances in Semiconductor-Based Devices

Molecular Materials: Frontiers in Functional Design