The European High Pressure Research Group (EHPRG) was established in the sixties of the last century to support a development of both the basic as well as the applied high pressure research by the annual meetings. To create a close contact of all the workers in scientific and technological high pressure disciplines, the wide scope of the EHPRG conferences is traditional and characteristic feature of these meetings. A relatively rapid increase of high pressure activities in almost all areas of Physics, Geosciences, Material Research, Chemistry and namely in Biosciences during the last decades demands a similarly rapid exchange of knowledge in high pressure research and technology.

This workshop, which will be held at the University of the Basque Country, will contain lectures, tutorials and round tables for industry and scientific users. In addition, there will be a visit to the ESS Bilbao facility and also a neutron beam-time proposal writing exercise.

Registration deadline: 31st May 2019

This workshop aims at enabling structural biologists to fully exploit the latest instrumentation and software development at the SNS and HFIR facilities at ORNL. Participants of the workshop will become familiar with neutron techniques with hands-on experiments in sample preparation, crystallography, small-angle scattering, reflectometry and neutron spin echo. The workshop is hence designed for graduate scientists, post-doctoral fellows and faculty with limited to no experience with neutron sciences.Â

Application deadline: 29th April 2019

There is no registration fee.Â

You’re invited to the 77th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (near Knoxville). The conference will take place over three days and feature sessions focused on all areas of diffraction, from powders to protein crystals. Topics will include emerging technologies/techniques, Total scattering, Magnetic scattering, and Integrative Structural Biology. The Chung Soo Yoo Award, established by the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society to honor Dr. Yoo’s memory, and a $400 cash prize will be given to the graduate student having the best poster presentation at the conference.

The 2019 Advanced School of the Italian Society of Neutron Scattering (SISN), will be held at the campus of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy. The School, co-organized by SISN and JRC, is addressed at PhD students, post-doctoral research associates and early-career scientists interested in the study of magnetic correlations in condensed matter systems.

The school is intended primarily for scientists, student and postdoctoral researchers, who are new to the field of neutron scattering. It provides an excellent introduction to the field, which is developed through to its application in contemporary research. Lectures and tutorials covering all aspects of the theory and practice of a variety of neutron scattering techniques will be given by international experts. Students will gain a comprehensive grounding in modern techniques and applications at both steady state and pulsed neutron sources and have the opportunity to hear about the latest research being carried out with the technique.

The school has its origins in 1966,as the first one of its kind, and many famous neutron practitioners have attended the schools of the past 50 years.

The course will consist of one week of lectures and exercises and one week of practical training at the neutron scattering facilities at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum MLZ. The course aims to give a realistic insight into the experimental technique and its scientific power.

Students of physics, chemistry, material science and biosciences are invited to apply for participation. There is no tuition fee. Accommodation and meals during the course will be provided by JCNS. Travel expenses will be reimbursed within reasonable limits. Deadline for application is 12th May 2019.

The goal of the conference is to inform the scientific community about the current status of these techniques, to share expertise and address questions of common interest for a wide variety of uses of neutron scattering. Engineers, technicians, students or scientists interested in developing these methods for academic or industrial research are encouraged to apply and participate.

Three major aspects of UCANS will be discussed in the workshop:

• AcceleratorsÂ
• Targets and Moderators
• Instruments and Scientific Applications

Abstract submission opens: 1st March

Abstract submission deadline: 1st April

Registration deadline: 1st JuneÂ

The workshop will include a visit to the neutron centre at Saclay on 11th July.Â

Registration for the conference is now; deadline for early registration and abstract submission is 25th March 2019.

The conference will be held at the Arabella Brauneck Hotel in Lenggries, near Munich. It will address a wide range of emerging topics in magnetism, that are expected to bear high relevance to the advances of future information and quantum technologies, but are not being explored much by neutron techniques so far. This conference also intends to cover the relevant theories and simulation methods for quantum spin systems as well as new perspectives directly from the information technology industry. The main aim is to reach out the new user community and the new scientific directions, where neutrons would potentially play an important role.

For further information, please visit:Â https://indico.frm2.tum.de/event/157/

The deadline for applications is March 11, 2019.

The school is designed to introduce students to the capabilities available at US neutron and x-ray user facilities. The school will consist of a range of lectures, seminars and short experiments to provide the principles of neutron and x-ray scattering theory, the characteristics of neutron and synchrotron sources, and hands-on experience using the appropriate instruments at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source and Oak Ridge's Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor facilities.Â

Travel, meal and lodging costs will be covered by the school. Â

The workshop aims at enabling structural biologists to fully exploit the latest instrumentation and software development at the SNS and HFIR facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Participants of HANDS 2019 will become familiar with neutron techniques with hands-on experiments in sample preparation, crystallography, small-angle scattering, reflectometry and neutron spin echo. The workshop is designed for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty with limited to no experience with neutron sciences. Fellowships to support travel and accommodation are available. There is no registration fee.

For more information, please visit:Â https://conference.sns.gov/hands2019/

Application Deadline: 29th April 2019

This school is primarily aimed at participants who have completed their Bachelor degree in physical, engineering and life sciences, and early stage researchers e.g. PhD students and postdocs. Â It aims to provide an introduction to neutron scattering techniques, hands-on experimental experience and inspiration for the application of neutrons to future research.

The training will cover many aspects of "Combined Analysis" by X-ray and neutron scattering, ranging from fundamental requirements to technically relevant industrial and academic applications : Diffraction technique - an overview, crystallography Texture Analysis, Residual Stress Analysis, Rietveld analysis, Reflectivity analysis, Phase analysis, Phase and line broadening analysis, The combined solution, XRD and XRF combined analysis, Electron Microscopy, Using MAUD software.