Diffraction of radiation is used to determine the atomic structure of materials. The technique developed more than 100 years ago, using single crystals, which are hard to get or to make.

Exactly 100 years ago, Peter Debye alleviated this limitation with the invention of powder diffraction, making sample preparation a piece of cake.

Then 50 years later, Hugo Rietveld introduced a data analysis method that enabled accurate determination of the 3D crystal structure from the obtained powder data.

These two major steps forward make powder diffraction a standard tool in academia and industry today.

We want to celebrate the centennial + golden jubilee with you on 22 September 2016.

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The SENS-2016 conference aims at highlighting topical scientific activities in the investigation of energy relevant systems using neutron scattering and to generate new applications. What could neutron bring to sustainable energy? What is the place of neutron scattering in the context of complementary techniques? What are the nowadays and future issues in the area of energy? The conference will address such questions and will give the opportunity for reinforcing the bridges existing between the neutron experts and the energy communities. Neutron users will benefit from an ideal showcase for their research and newcomers will get a good overview over the scientific potential via contact with experts in the neutron field.

The main topics discussed will be:

• Fuel cell and electrolysers
• Gas storage
• Bioenergy
• Solar energy
• Batteries
• Energy-related materials (magneto-caloric, thermoelectric, etc…)

This conference covers major topics of neutron analytics for energy research like energy storage and energy transformation (including batteries, fuel cells, electrolysis, H2-storage, thermoelectrics, and magnetocalorics), solar energy applications, catalysis, as well as engineering and industrial applications. In addition methodological instrument developments are an important contribution to enhance energy research with neutrons.

Topics

• Energy storage & transformation
  
• Solar Energy
  
• Catalysis
  
• Nuclear Energy
  
• Engineering & Industrial applications
• Advanced and Complementary methods

The conference will be directly followed by the HGF Programme "From Matter to Materials and Life": Workshop of In-house Research Theme: "Materials and Processes for Energy and Transport Technologies" (21st-22^nd July 2016).

FPSchool aims to contribute to the training of scientists in treatment of X-ray and neutron diffraction data.

The school is based on intensive hands-on sessions using the computer programs of the FullProf Suite.

DESIGNING AND BUILDING A NEUTRON INSTRUMENT Â Â

Topics

• Origin of neutron sources,
  
• Prospects for future neutron facilities
• Neutron moderators
• Neutron shielding
• Instrument engineering
• Sample environment
• Neutron detectors
• Small-angle neutron scattering instrument
• Monochromatic powder diffractometer
• Time-of-flight powder diffractometer
• High-resolution backscattering spectrometer
• Chopper spectrometer
• Instrumentation for Deep Inelastic Neutron Scattering
• Spin-echo spectrometer
• Neutron energy selection
• Imaging instrument
• The Chinese Spallation Neutron Source
• Compact accelerator-driven neutron sources

Neutron scattering applications to hydrogen storage materials

High sensitivity to hydrogen makes neutron scattering techniques ideally suitable to study the process in hydrogen storage systems. The goal of this school is to introduce participants to basics of neutron scattering techniques and show how these techniques can be applied for exploration of hydrogen storage materials.The lectures and practical exercises will give basics to:Â Â Â

• Hydrogen economy and hydrogen storage technologies  Â
• Fundamentals of the gas storage Â
• Basics of neutron scattering and in particular in situ neutron diffraction  Â
• Characterizing sorption behavior of porous materials by ab initio and crystal structure refinements

We are happy to announce VI-th National Crystallographic Symposium (NCS2016) that will be held on October 05-07, 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria.

As you may have already recognized this is will be the sixth "NCS" of the series started in 2009.

We have already started the preparation of the next issue of the conference (submitted manuscripts will be published in the journal “Bulgarian Chemical Communications”, a special issues due April 2017).NCS16 papers will also be online available in full text via the present platform.  You are warmly invited to come and join us!

NCS2016 is held under the auspices of BCS and is the major event on Crystallography, crystal growth, structure analyses and related techniques in Bulgaria. The Symposium aims at the applications of different crystallographic techniques in combination with other methods in the fields of materials sciences, mineralogy, biology, environmental engineering, computational methods etc. Bringing together researchers from different areas NCS16 will provide them with a high-qualified platform for them to share their latest studies and to assist further findings and collaboration.

With passionate participants from the world, NCS2016 Â would be perfect for you to present your research and find collaboration for your future work.

The conference will include invited talks and contributed poster presentations covering the following topics:Â

• High temperature thermal analysis and calorimetry
• In situ high temperature X-ray and neutron diffraction
• High temperature thermodynamic properties from mass spectrometry and other equilibrium experiments
• Radiation thermometry
• Experimental determination of phase diagrams
• First principles computations of structural and thermodynamic properties at high temperatures

The aims of the conference are to disseminate information on experimental and computational methods suitable for structural and thermodynamic studies of oxides at temperatures above 1500°C, to promote collaboration between research groups in the field, and to delineate bottleneck experimental and computational issues to focus on in future research.

Technical Workshops: October 20, 2016

• Brian Toby GSAS-II Workshop
• Netzsch Workshop
• Setaram Workshop

STOHT Conference: October 21-22, 2016

The German Conference on Neutron Scattering 2016 - Deutsche Neutronenstreutagung DN2016 - offers a forum for the presentation and critical discussion of recent results obtained with neutron scattering and complementary techniques. The meeting will be held in Kiel from 20th to 22nd September 2016. It is organized on behalf of the German Committee for Research with Neutrons - Komitee Forschung mit Neutronen KFN - by the HZG and University of Kiel.

The course consists of two parts: a series of lectures, combined with the opportunity to take part in neutron scattering experiments. The lectures encompass an introduction to neutron sources, along with scattering theory and instrumentation. Furthermore, selected topics of condensed matter research are be presented.

The aim of the course to give a realistic insight into the experimental technique of neutron scattering and its scientific potential. Forschungszentrum Jülich supports students from outside the area with free accommodation and half-board. Travel expenses will be reimbursed within reasonable limits.

This biennial series of meetings aims to bring together scientists and technologists from the food science community with those expert in the application of scattering methods. Since the first meeting in Sydney, the subject matter has expanded beyond neutron scattering to include other scattering and radiographic methods. This year we will be incorporating a session dedicated to the final meeting of the project "New X-ray Imaging Modalities for High Quality and Safe Food" lead by Robert Karup Feidenhans'l from Copenhagen University.

We are organizing, for the fifth consecutive year, a science summer school to attract more undergraduate students in science especially in subjects related to large scale facilities.

This school will take place in Grenoble-France within the Université Grenoble Alpes (previously Université Joseph Fourier)

The program is six weeks long, with a 45 hours French course including cultural visits and a 60 hours scientific course taught in English.

Three scientific courses are available among which ''Introduction to large scale facilities: probing matter with synchrotron and neutron radiation''.Â

This course will consist of lectures, tutorials and practicals, as well as visits of ILL and ESRF. Students are welcome to participate.

For partner universities, the tuition fees are only 500 €.

Grants associated with a research institute in Grenoble may also be available for the best students willing to spend a couple of weeks until the end of July in a research environment.

Application deadline: 16th of March

Location: Budapest KFKI Campus of Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Application deadline: 20th March

We are welcoming PhD and master students, post-doc scientists as well as newcomers to the neutron research from the field of structural research in physics, chemistry, biology, material science etc.

The training consists of 5 days of lectures and experimental works.

• Small Angle Neutron Scattering (YS)Â
  
• Reflectometer (GINA)
  
• Triple Axis Spectrometer (TAS)
  
• Neutron Diffractometer (ND)Â
  
• Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis and Neutron Induced Prompt Gamma-ray Spectroscopy Station (PGAA/NIPS-NORMA)

Grants are available.