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.

The meeting is dedicated to microscopy of materials comprised of both organic and inorganic constituents (in close proximity) and is aimed at bringing together experts from both the life science and materials science communities to address this challenging and increasingly important topic.

The conference will focus on current topics of research and development in the field of crystal growth and epitaxy.Â

The topics of the conference include:

• Silicon and Germanium
• Compound semiconductor materials
• Oxides and intermetallics
• Novel materials
• Bioinspired materials
• Nucleation of nanoparticles
• Mesocrystals and Protein Crystallization

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Topics

• Nano materials and nano composites.
• Nanobiomaterials/ Drug delivery.
• Thin films and surface science.
  
• Amorphous and liquid crystalline materials.
• Semiconductor & electronic materials and devices.
• Sensor technology.
• Crystal growth and its application.
• Advance materials.
• Energy materials.
• Polymers, polymer composites and their applications.
• Natural products.
• Modelling & simulation of material phenomenon.
• Other emerging areas of material science.

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.

Major research areas covered at the conference include:

• THz spectroscopy applications in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Medicine
• THz imaging
• THz near-field microscopy
  
• Ultrafast dynamics and Time-resolved spectroscopy
  
• Ultrafast measurement techniques
  
• THz sources and detectors
  
• Advances in THz quantum cascade lasers
  
• Nanoscale THz devices
  
• THz communications
  
• THz industrial applications
  
• Novel THz devices, instruments and techniques
  
• THz waveguides
  
• THz metamaterials and plasmonic devices

Topics

• Quantum Optics
• Spectroscopy
• Spin physics
• Transport
• Devices and applications
• Synthesis and growth

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 7thInternational FEZA Conference is organized by Bulgarian Zeolite Association under the auspices of the Federation of European Zeolite Associations â€" FEZA.

Topics of the FEZA Conference

• Synthesis and modification of zeolites and related materials
• Advanced characterization of porous solids
• Host-guest systems
• Adsorption, separation & diffusion
• Porous films and membranes
• Catalytic applications
• Advanced environmental and technological applications
• Theory and computational modeling
• Natural zeolites

The FEZA school will be organized immediately after the conference.

A special session chaired by one of the BZA founders, Prof Alan Dyer, will reflect on the past 40 years of the association.

Keynote Speakers:

• Dr Julien Haines, Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, France
• Prof Raul Lobo, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, USA
• Dr Alvaro Mayoral, Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
• Final plenary speaker TBC

66th Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis

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.

"ICG â€" Italian Crystal Growth" will be held next year, on November, 20-21st 2017, at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB) in Milan (Italy). For some years now, this Conference has represented a key landmark of outstanding scientific quality for the Italian community of crystal growers and, in general, for scientists involved in the development of novel crystalline materials with advanced functionalities.

Topics

• Fundamentals of Crystal Growth
• Low Dimensional Structures: films, wires, dots
• Organic-based Materials
• Crystalline Materials for Energy
• Industrial Crystallization
• Crystallization of Biomolecules

Michael Zachmann, Cornell University: New applications in material science enabled by Cryo-FIB lift-out and cryo STEM

Morgan Beeby, Imperial College London: High-throughput cryo-tomography using a side-entry cryoholder: insights into molecular evolution and function

Tecnobyte 1 - LOT - Recent Developments in Direct Detection Cameras for
Cryo-EM
Tecnobyte 2 - Linkam - A novel approach to plunge freezing and automated
sample handling
Tecnobyte 3 - JEOL Title TBC

Dan Claire, eBIC- Diamond Light: Data collection at the electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC)

Freeze Frame Competition
Lunch
CMG AGM meeting

Deryck Mills, MPI for Biophysic: Cryo-EM: My journey to the final Frontier

Martha Briceno de Gutierez, Johnson Matthey: Practical applications of
Cryo Microscopy in Industry

Topics

• Electronic and Photonic Materials
  1. Silicon Germanium
  2. Oxide Electronics
  3. III-V and II-VI
  4. Graphene and Analogues
  5. Organic Electronics
  6. Photonic Materials
  7. Nanomaterials Synthesis & Solutions Route
  8. Nanomaterials Devices & Applications
  9. Nitride Electronics
• Advanced Functional Materials
  1. Magnetic & Spintronics
  2. Hybrids & Composites
  3. Ferroics
  4. Superconductors
  5. Glasses
  6. Electro Ceramics
  7. Microwave Materials
• Energy and Green Materials
  1. Photovoltaics
  2. Hybrids including Biomass-Based Material
  3. Batteries, Fuel Cells & Supercapacitors
  4. Thermoelectrics
• Advanced Structural Materials
  1. Composites
  2. Light Metals & Alloys
• Materials Modelling and Simulation
  1. Computational Materials Science
  2. Simulation & Modelling
• Materials Characterization
  1. Electron Microscopy
  2. Scanning Probe Microscopy
  3. Spectroscopy
• Materials for Bio / Medical Applications
  1. Bio-sensors and probes
  2. Nanomedicine - Tissue Engineering
  3. Cell-Material Interaction