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.)

• Biological soft matter
  
• Colloids and interface
  
• Dynamics of complex fluids
  
• Functional materials
  
• Gels and hydrogels
• Liquid crystals
• Membranes
• Nano and microfluidics
• Nanomaterials
• Polymers
• Self-Assembly
• Self propelled particles
• Silk and silk-inspired materials
• Soft magnetic materials
• Soft materials
• Soft nanofabrication
• Surfactants & lipids

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Confirmed speakers includes:

Speaker Name     Institute
Dave Stuart      Instruct/University of Oxford
Albert Heck      Utrecht University
Leemor Joshua-Tor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Helen Saibil     Birkbeck College London
Masahide Kikkawa University of Tokyo
Juli Feigon      UCLA
Michael Sattler  TU Munich
Kristina Djinovic-Carugo       University of Vienna
Babis Kalodimos  University of Minnesota
Richard Stefl    Masaryk University
Janusz Brujnicki International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
Andrew Carter    MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Thijn Brummelkamp Netherland Cancer Institute
James Naismith   The University St Andrews
Raymond Stevens  USC Dornsife
Petr Leiman      University of Texas Medical Branch

User-dedicated Microsymposia 8th February

UDM1. Advances and new science with resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (udm1-um17@esrf.fr)

UDM 2. Quantitative coherent X-ray diffraction imaging (udm2-um2017@esrf.fr)

UDM 3. Operando structural studies in Materials Science (udm3-um17@esrf.fr)

Tutorials 6th February

• T1. Social Media: a new challege for communication science?
• T2. MX-BAG meeting
• T3. XRF Analysis with PyMca
• T4. X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy: tutorials, data analysis and hands-on-practicals
  
• T5. Coherence reconstruction Software including hands-on practicals
• T6. Volume image analysis of tomographic data
• T7. Overview of SAXS/WAXS Data reduction and analysis using WiSAXS
• T8. Nuclear resonance application including hands-on-practicals

Organized in a joint partnership between four leading materials science-related societies â€" ACerS, AIST, ASM International, and TMS.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

• Additive Manufacturing
• Biomaterials
• Ceramic and Glass Materials
• Electronic and Magnetic Materials
• Energy
• Fundamentals, Characterization, and Computational Modeling
• Iron and Steel (Ferrous Alloys)
• Materials-Environment Interactions
• Nanomaterials
• Processing and Manufacturing
• Special Topics

Symposia

• S1: Advanced electronic materials: processing, structures, properties, and applications
• S2: Advanced processing for electronic and electrochemical systems: crystals, films, and devices
• S3: Ceramic photonic materials and applications
• S4: Computational design of electronic materials
• S5: Energy sustainable optoelectronics and magnetoelectronics
• S6: Fundamentals to applications for the use of thermal energy for power generation and refrigeration
• S7: In situ experiments of microstructure evolution and properties
• S8: Interfaces and surfaces in energy-related ceramic materials
• S9: Interfaces in microstructural evolution: structure, properties, anisotropy, and motion
• S10: Interfacial phenomena in multifunctional heterostructures: from theory to transport processes
• S11: Ion conducting ceramics
• S12: 5G materials for the millimeter wave revolution
• S13: Mesoscale phenomena in ceramic materials, nano- and microstructures
• S14: Multifunctional nanocomposites
• S15: Superconducting materials and applications
• S16: Failure: the greatest teacher

Seeing the Wood for the Trees in Structural Biology

Speakers include:

Prof Tom Blundell FRS, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. "Increasing complexity to obtain selectivity in cell regulation: structural studies of multiprotein signalling systems."

Prof Liz Carpenter, Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford.

Prof Jonas Emsley, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham. "A PhD student's quest for the crystalline entity, touch wood."

Dr Simon Kolstoe, School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth. "Determining the molecular interactions of serum amyloid P component."

Prof Laurence Pearl FRS, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex.

Prof Helen Saibil FRS, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck.

Prof Garry Taylor, School of Biology, University of St Andrews.

Prof Martin Warren, School of Biosciences, University of Kent

Topics of interest include:

• Organic spintronics
• New methods of generating spin currents, including spin Hall effects and spin pumping
• Magnetic field effects in organic materials
• Organic magnets
• Spin chemistry
• Spin statistics in organic semiconductor materials and devices
• Spin dynamics and transport in carbon-based materials
• and other spin-related phenomena in organic and carbon-based materials