HRPD Upgrade and Future Vision Workshop

The ISIS Crystallography Group invites you to a one-day workshop on the High-Resolution Powder Diffractometer's upgrade, held over two half days on the 10th - 11th November 2026, directly after the Winter Meeting of the Physical Crystallography Group at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire.
 
Registration is open now and both the abstract submission deadline and the meeting registration deadlines are Sunday 18th October.
 
Invited Speakers include:
 
Prof. Takashi Kamiyama, China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS);
Prof. Bill David, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory;
Dr Florence Porcher, European Spallation Source (ESS);
Dr Alexandra Gibbs, University of St. Andrews.
  
Please register here
 
The workshop is an opportunity to for us to update the community on the nature and progress of the work to upgrade the HRPD instrument at ISIS and to highlight the new scientific opportunities for both academic and industrial users. In addition, we will hold a session on the ‘Future Vision for high-resolution neutron powder diffraction’, including an open discussion on potential requirements for any new high-resolution instrumentation on ISIS-2. We also invite both talks and posters from the community and we encourage students and early career researchers to contribute.
 
The meeting is free to attend but attendees are expected to support their own travel costs to and from their home institution:
 
1. there will be a dinner on the evening of Tuesday November 10th and a buffet lunch will be provided on Wednesday 11th
2. accommodation is available at The Cosener's House and will be allocated to those who are not local to the RAL site. Transport between RAL and the accommodation will be provided on Tuesday evening and  Wednesday morning.
 
The meeting venue has limited space available so please register early to confirm your place.