This symposium has been organised to celebrate the achievements and lifetime of the NIST Center for Neutron Research, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

The symposium will span across the 7th and 8th December 2017, with a reception dinner on the evening of the 7th at the Gaithersburg Marriott-Washingtonian Center.

For more information, please visit:Â Â https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2017/12/ncnr-50-year-symposium

Registration ends on 30th November 2017 at 12:00PM EDT.Â

Topics

• Plenary & Prize Sessions
• Advances in Neutron Methods
• Hard Condensed Matter
• Soft Matter
• Biological Structures and Dynamics
• Neutrons for Energy and Sustainability
• Materials Chemistry and Synthesis
• Structural Materials and Engineering
• Neutron Physics

The International Society for Sample Environment (ISSE) is pleased to announce the second biennial training course for hands-on and classroom instruction. Sessions will include topics on soft matter sample environments and associated scattering instruments.

• Biomolecular, soft condensed matter structure & dynamics
• Physics and chemistry of condensed matter

• to learn new techniques using neutron and synchrotron radiation
• to expand your theoretical and practical knowledge, not only for your present research but for your scientific career
• to experiment these techniques on world-class instruments & beamlines
• to build a network of relations with fellow young researchers and experienced teachers from all around the World

The series of SMARTER meetings aims to bring together scientists in the areas of computation, diffraction, and NMR spectroscopy to promote combining various techniques and develop smarter approaches for structure determination of complex inorganic, organic and biological materials.

Registration and more information about the meeting can be found here:Â Â https://smarter6.ki.si/index.php/smarter6/

Registration opens in Spring 2018.Â

The school aims to provide advanced training of neutron, X-ray, and light scattering experiments for young post-graduates and post-doctors in the field of soft matter science. A primary focus will be on the methodology of static and dynamic scattering techniques and provide information on data interpretation and recent applications and developments.

Registration for the school is now open, with a deadline of 21st February 2018.

https://indico.ill.fr/indico/event/86/page/5

The school is limited to 35 students. There is an estimated participation fee of 850 euros, which includes the cost of accommodation with full board and additional recreational activities.

The school program consists of three days of lectures giving a theoretical introduction to the fundamentals of neutron scattering and the principles of various neutron scattering techniques. After the lectures, there will be three and a half days of hands-on experiments on seven different neutron scattering instruments. The students will be divided into groups of four to five people from similar subject areas and will do triple-axis spectroscopy, powder diffraction, small angle scattering, reflectometry, time-of-flight spectroscopy, tomography and residual stress analysis under the guidance of experienced scientists.

The meeting will be held in the heart of Darling Harbour which forms part of our larger Sydney Harbour, recognised as one of the world's most beautiful waterways. Darling Harbour is Sydney's most exciting entertainment precinct and only moments from the heart of Sydney's city centre. It offers multiple accommodation, entertainment and transport options including fine restaurants, museums, a retail marketplace and outdoor entertainment venues.

With neutron scattering remaining at its core, we also wish to extend and showcase nuclear-based techniques more broadly and how they are increasingly being employed. Such examples include neutron activation analysis and isotopic fingerprinting techniques for authenticity and traceability to combat food fraud. It is recognised that neutron methods are often applied in concert with other complementary measurement methods, including X-ray and light scattering, and such contributions where food materials are the focus are warmly invited.

The conference welcomes participants and contributions from the wide community of food science and product development, food packaging, and nutrition, as well as exponents of nuclear-based methods including scattering. In particular we intend to have a mixture of talks from food scientists and technologists with problems where scattering methods may be applicable, as well as talks from those already using scattering and other nuclear-based methods. We also anticipate the opportunity for one-on-one discussions to provide advice on specific problems as well as pre-conference presentations on what some of the techniques have to offer the food science community

With neutron scattering remaining at its core, we also wish to extend and showcase nuclear-based techniques more broadly and how they are increasingly being employed. Such examples include neutron activation analysis and isotopic fingerprinting techniques for authenticity and traceability to combat food fraud. It is recognised that neutron methods are often applied in concert with other complementary measurement methods, including X-ray and light scattering, and such contributions where food materials are the focus are warmly invited.

The school provides neutron and muon beam research training for newcomers to the technique from a variety of backgrounds. In addition to lectures, the course provides practical sessions of hands-on experiments and data analysis. The school has a registration fee of JPY 30,000 - this fee includes a room charge and full board throughout the entirety of the school course. Financial support is available for participants travelling from developing countries.

For more information, and registration links, please visit:

http://www.cross-tokai.jp/9thAONSAschool/about.html

Registration deadline: 30th July 2017Â

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The school aims to contribute to the training of scientists in treatment of X-ray and neutron diffraction data. The lectures at the school will be dedicated to general applications (2 days) and analysis of different problems on condensed matter science (2.5 days).Â

The maximum number of participants is limited to 30 - candidates will be selected based on their motivation letter and CV (including a letter of recommendation from the thesis supervisor for applications from PhD students).

For more information and registration, please visit:

https://indico.ill.fr/indico/event/84/

Registration deadline: 8th September 2017

Both engineering and scientific aspects of residual stress are considered, including topics such as:

• Stress evaluation using neutrons, synchrotron radiation and X-rays
• Development of measurement methods and instrumentation
• Material processing with relation to residual stresses
• The influence of residual stresses on physical and mechanical properties of materials and components
• Measurement and assessment of residual microstresses and intergranular stresses
• Residual strains and stresses in complex materials, e.g. multiphase materials and biomaterials
• Residual stresses in thin films and microcomponents
• Industrial applications of residual stress analyses using neutrons, synchrotron radiation and X-rays
• Complementary techniques for residual stress measurements, e.g. mechanical methods versus diffraction.
• Others
  

Microsymposia during MECA SENS 8 covered the topics:

• Techniques & Instruments
• Surface Modification and Coating
• Microstructure characterisation
• Deformation & Modelling
• Fatigue/Creep Plasticity
• Processing & Welding
• 3D/4D characterisation
• Others

Content

• Interaction of photons, neutrons and muons with matter
• Production of photons, neutrons and muons
• Experimental setups: optics and detectors
• Crystal symmetry, Bragg's law, reciprocal lattice, structure factors
• Elastic and inelastic scattering with neutrons and photons
• X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray magnetic circular dichroism
• Polarized neutron scattering for the study of magnetic materials
• Imaging techniques using X-rays and neutrons
• Introduction to muon spin rotation
• Applications of muon spin rotation

The 2017 Joint Nanoscience and Neutron Scattering User Meeting is to be held August 1-2 with the topical workshops to be held July 31 and August 3-4.

Monday, July 31

• Workshop 1: Synthesis and Collective Phenomena in 2D and Layered Materials
• Workshop 2: Active Matter at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
• Workshop 3: Sample Environment and You: How to prepare for your experiment
• Workshop 4: High Performance Computing Resources for Neutron and Nano Users
• Tutorial 1: Single Crystal Tutorial: Slicing single crystal inelastic and diffuse data w/Mantid
• Tutorial 2: SaSView Tutorial

Thursday, August 3

• Workshop 5: Materials Informatics â€" Accelerating atomistic design and discovery of new materials and concepts via big-data analytics
• Workshop 6: Live Lab Demo and Tutorial on Atom Probe Tomography and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
• Workshop 7: Polarized Neutron Capabilities at ORNL
• Workshop 8: Liquids Reflectometry and Large Scale Structures
• Workshop 9: Upcoming New Tools for Structure and Dynamics
• Tutorial 1: Single Crystal Tutorial: Slicing single crystal inelastic and diffuse data w/Mantid
• Tutorial 2: SaSView Tutorial

The Röntgen-Ã...ngström Cluster RAC is a Swedish-German research collaboration in the fields of materials science and structural biology that aims to strengthen research at synchrotron and neutron radiation sources.

NanoSPD7 will provide a platform for the NanoSPD community to present new results and exchange research ideas. Your participation in NanoSPD7 and your scientific contributions are essential for its success. We look forward to welcoming you to the beautiful city of Sydney that will be hosting NanoSPD7.

Trends and Perspectives in Neutron Instrumentation: Probing Structure and Dynamics at Interfaces and Surface

This workshop will aim to highlight the recent approaches and developing ideas on the adaption of neutron reflectometry, small angle neutron scattering, neutron imaging and depth profiling and neutron spin echo spectroscopy, in the context of using such techniques to probe the interfacial kinetics and dynamics of materials. Â

Participants are welcome to contribute to the meeting in the form of an oral or poster presentation - the abstracts must be submitted by 15th June 2017.

Successful applicants will be notified by 15th July 2017.