This course is primarily aimed at young researchers, instrument and development scientists at international and national neutron facilities who have a basic understanding of neutron scattering but have less background in polarized neutron instrumentation. Lectures on theory, sources, and neutron instrumentation, and tutoring on various scattering techniques will be provided. Graduate students or postdocs at universities with an interest in neutron instrumentation projects are also highly welcome.

Registration is now open via the form at the link below. and closes on 10th May 2017.

The workshop will take place at the MLZ in Garching.

There are no workshop fees and lunch and coffee will be served. The participants have to cover the costs for accommodation and travel.

For registration and the detailed program please use the following link: https://webapps.frm2.tum.de/indico/e/tripres

There are only places available for 20 participants - registration closes on 28th February 2017.

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The school is aimed at graduate students and post-docs with backgrounds in physics, chemistry, or materials science who may have no prior knowledge of how to use neutron beams to study materials. Undergraduate students, professors and other researchers are welcome as well. The curriculum covers a wide range of scientific areas, such as magnetism, industrial alloys, and thin films, and will incorporate both lectures and experimental training.

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Early registration deadline is Feb 28, 2017.

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For more information, including the list of topics included in the program, Â please visit the school webpage:Â http://cins.ca/ss2017/

Taking advantage of the facilities at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and Institut Laue Langevin, this one week theoretical and practical course will cover both basics and applications of small-angle X-ray scattering and small-angle neutron scattering on biomacromolecular solutions.

More information, including the application requirements, can be found at: http://meetings.embo.org/event/17-small-angle-scattering

Application deadline is 15th June 2017.

ISBC2017 will provide five days of lectures and practical demonstrations related to the crystallization of biological macromolecules, biominerals and biomimetic materials, with one full day devoted to case studies on the crystallization of membrane proteins, viruses and large macromolecular complexes.

ISBC Granada 2017 will focus on the fundamentals of crystallization from solution and its applications for the crystallization of biological materials.

• Nucleation: Classical and non-classical approaches
• Crystal growth kinetics and mechanisms
• Properties of macromolecular solutions (DLS/SAXS)
• Screening: The search for crystallization conditions
• Crystallization techniques: Batch, Vapour and Counter Diffusion, How do they work?
• Crystallization and diffusion transport: gels, microfluidics and microgravity
• Crystallization of large crystals for Neutron diffraction
• In vivo crystallization of tiny crystals for XFEL
• Polymorphism in protein crystals
• Robotics and crystallization
• Case studies in Membrane Protein Crystallization
  
• Lipid cubic phase, bicelles and detergents
• Case studies in crystallization of Large Macromolecular Complexes
• In vitro and in vivo studies of Biomineralization processes

The LAHN Project (Laboratorio Argentino de Haces de Neutrones) is pleased to announce the 1st Argentinean Conference on Neutron Scattering (TN2017) which will be held in Buenos Aires on the 15th and 16th March, 2017. In addition, on Friday 17th March , a joint workshop will be organised with the Argentinean Ministry of Science and Technology (MinCyT) to discuss the second phase of instrumentation of the LAHN Project.

Another training course on how to get the most out of the Horace software package will be held, and this time it will be a joint workshop with the SpinW team. The course will be split into two parts, with 2 days spent on Horace and 2.5 days spent on SpinW. Participants may attend either or both of the two workshops.

The workshop will be held at the ISIS neutron source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK. Accommodation is available (and already booked) for all participants on-site. Participants must cover their own transportation and accommodation costs - rooms are £60 per night (including all meals).

The school will be held in Utting/Ammersee and Garching/Munich, Germany, in cooperation with the Röntgen-Ã...ngström-Cluster (http://www.rontgen-angstrom.eu) and the BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany).

The Winter School will provide a systematic overview of the application of neutrons and synchrotron radiation to the structural analysis of materials. The school starts with the fundamentals of synchrotron radiation and neutron scattering. The focus is subsequently shifted towards neutron techniques and their application to specific problems in materials science. Different classes of modern functional materials are presented and it will be shown how neutron scattering, on the one hand, and synchrotron radiation, on the other hand, can be used to explore the microscopic mechanisms that are responsible for their properties. While fundamental aspects are dominating, application related phenomena will be covered as well.
After a two-day theoretical course in Utting/Ammersee the participants will spend two days at the FRM II in Garching (near Munich) doing practicals. The fifth day of the school offers further talks and a final discussion. All relevant experimental methods will be covered.

Registration deadline has been extended to December 8th, 2016

This biannual conference of IntACT (International Association of Computed Tomography) will focus on the use of 3D tomographic methods for (non-clinical) studies of the internal structures of materials and their evolution.

ICTMS 2017 will bring together an international group of scientists, from universities, research organisations and industry, to discuss a broad range of issues related to 3D/4D tomographic imaging of materials and structures.

The call for abstracts will remain open until 28 January 2017.

The main focus of this conference will be recent advances in the following areas:

• Tomography acquisition hardware, software and associated experimental set-ups.
• In situ and in-operandi experiments
• "Standard" and novel modalities of tomographic imaging for material analysis (using diffraction, refraction, absorption... of X-rays, neutrons, electrons...)
• Tomographic reconstruction techniques
• 3D and 4D image analysis to extract pertinent information on internal structures and their evolution
• Case studies including applications to further the understanding of materials, structures and processes.

The 22nd meeting of the International Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Sources (ICANS XXII) will be held on the 27th -31st March 2017 in Oxford, England.

For more details, visit: Â http://icansxxii.iopconfs.org/home

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together the best scientists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and synchrotron experts and see how the most strategic fields for the UAEÂ can be addressed through synchrotron science. UAE scientists will include both national and non-national speakers. International top synchrotron experts will give a talk at the event.

One of the main points will be to understand what the requirements of the UAE scientists are in terms of synchrotron research (what types of beamlines, techniques, etc.). Once these are defined, we will try to understand what would be the best option in terms of costs and benefits for the UAE.

Topics of the conference include but not limited to

• Compact Neutron Sources (laser fusion, cluster explosion, laser-driven ion beams, photonuclear reactions, LINAC, cyclotron, electrostatic accelerators, nuclear reactors, RI, et al.)
• Physics / Control Technologies (particle acceleration, radiation generation, energy and angular distribution, moderators, control system, et al.)
• Neutron Diagnostics (high resolution measurements in space, timeÂ
• Applications (nuclear transmutations, nuclear waste processing, biomedical applications, fusion reactor material investigations, fusion-fission hybrid-reactors, et al.)
• Facilities (laser facility and technology, accelerator facility and technology, target technology, et al.)

The goal of this school is to show how widely-available simulation tools can be applied to the analysis and interpretation of neutron scattering data. The school will last for three days and will concern mainly the practical aspects of running and analysing simulations so that, numerical and experimental data can be directly compared and simulations can then be investigated in atomic detail.

The focus will be on the use of Molecular Dynamics and lattice dynamics simulations to explore diffusive processes on the time scales covered by low energy neutron scattering spectrometers, phonon dispersion curves and vibrational densities of states that are typically measured with low energy and inelastic neutron scattering spectrometers.

The school is designed for providing practical training, so the number of participants is limited to 40. In order to select candidates, we ask applicants to state briefly their scientific fields of interest, why they would like to attend the school and previous experience with computer simulations.

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This year’s workshop will focus on the following areas:

• Molecular Dynamics
• Lattice Dynamics
• First-Principles Simulations
• Hands on Tutorials

Invited speakers include:

• Gerald Kneller, CNRS, France
• Matt Probert, University of York, UK
• Nicholas Hine, University of Warwick, UK

Fees: £100
This fee will cover the accommodation and meal expenses.