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Events at HZB

Special Events

For first time the summer school “Advanced Imaging for Industrial Applications” is organized at Helmholtz- Zentrum Berlin. The school is scheduled for August 26th through the 30th and is jointly organized with the IAEA Training Workshop on Advanced Use of Neutron Imaging for Research and Applications. Lecturers from leading imaging labs worldwide will cover different more

Division Solar Energy Research

The school is now open for application until May 26, 2013. The school primarily addresses young postdocs, PhD students,and master students in their final year at university with a strong interest in photovoltaics and solar energy conversion. Please note that due to the strong interest in our school persons that have already participated cannot be accepted a second time.

Institute - Silicon Photovoltaics

Prof. Leone Spiccia
Monash University, Australien

Dr. David Starr
HZB, E-IS

Fanny Sculati-Meillaud
EPFL, Schweiz

Institute - Heterogeneous Materials Systems

Prof. Dr. Martha Ch. Lux-Steiner et. al.
Academic Director of the ISUenergy

Professor Martha Ch. Lux-Steiner is more than happy to invite students to apply for the 5th interdisciplinary International Summer University on Renewable Energies V:
the ISUenergy 2013 on Photovoltaics, Solar Thermal, and Wind Energy. The ISUenergy 2013 will take place from Aug. 25th - Sept. 6th 2013 in Falera/Switzerland.

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Department - Research with spallation neutrons

McPhase is a software suite for calculating magnetic/orbital phase diagrams and excitations, for localized moment materials using the mean-field and random phase approximations. This will be the third workshop/school on McPhase after the success of previous workshops in Gijion, Spain and Grenoble, France.

Institute - Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Diebold
TU Wien

Magnetite, Fe3O4 has fascinated condensed matter physicists ever since Verwey’s discovery of a metal-to-insulator transition at low temperatures [1].  The presence of charge and orbital ordering is undisputed, but its exact nature is still being debated [2].  The Fe3O4(001) surface is nominally polar and forms a mehr

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Abteilung - Quantenphänomene in neuen Materialien

McPhase is a software suite for calculating  magnetic/orbital phase diagrams and excitations, for localized moment materials using the mean-field and random phase approximations. This will be the third workshop/school on McPhase after the success of previous workshops in Gijion, Spain and Grenoble, France.
The school will deal with fundamental and applied aspects of d and f elements. It more

User Coordination

The first General Assembly of the second FP7 project NMI3-II will be held at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (formerly the Prussian Academy of Sciences), situated at Gendarmenmarkt in the heart of Berlin. Further information please find at the webpage of the meeting.
Prof. Dr. Masatoshi Arai
J-PARC Center, JAEA, Japan

Prof. Dr. Masatoshi Arai, the head of the Materials and Life Science Division at J-PARC, is presenting an overview on the present status of J-PARC MLF - the J-PARC Materials & Life Science Experimental Facility.

J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) consists of a series of world-class proton accelerators and the experimental facilities that make use of the high-intensity more

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External events

The objective of the workshop is to focus on wetting and evaporating droplets of all natures from pure to complex fluids: biological fluids, nanofluids, polymers and colloidal suspensions.... The scope of the workshop will be dedicated to experiments, modeling and theoretical approaches to cover all aspects from the fundamentals to the applications beyond the coffee ring effect. The workshop format will consist in plenary sessions only of keynotes lectures, oral presentations, poster presentations and brainstorming meetings. The program will be shaped to *promote* group discussions and exchanges. more
A one-week "Summer School on Methods and Applications of Neutron Spectroscopy and Small Angle Neutron Scattering” will be held June 17-June 21, 2013 at the NIST Center for Neutron Research. This school provides participants the opportunity to learn about a wide variety of neutron scattering techniques more
Advances in synchrotron instrumentation, from sources through optics to detectors, have made possible the development of novel techniques to address pressing scientific questions that impact our daily life. SRI2013 is a forum to highlight these connections between synchrotron radiation instrumentation, science, and society. The SRI2013 Conference will be held on the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology more
The next edition of JDNs (JDN21), school on "Neutrons and Materials for Energy" and the Rossat-Mignon meetings is to be held in Sete from 21 to 27 June 2013.
The workshop on Neutron Scattering Applications in Structural Biology aims at enabling structural biologist to fully exploit the latest instrumentation and software development at the SNS and HFIR facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Attendees will participate in lectures and tutorials focusing exclusively on neutron techniques applied in structural biology. The workshop is designed more
The main focus of this workshop-school will be the use of SANS/SAXS for structural studies along with that of quasielastic neutron scattering for slow dynamics, and the manner in which molecular dynamics simulations and other types of computational modeling can be utilized for the analysis and interpretation of the experimental data.
Each topic will be introduced by a motivational or tutorial more
We would like to draw your attention to the workshop 'Emerging Themes in Analysis of Grazing Incidence Small Angle Scattering Data' organised jointly by Diamond Light Source Ltd. and ISIS on 1st and 2nd July 2013. The aims of the workshop are to demonstrate the current state of the art for the analysis of GISAS data (with particular emphasis on soft matter systems), to enable experimentalists and more
International Workshop on Neutron Optics and Detectors (NOP&D-2013) will be held in Munich on the 2nd-5th of July 2013, as a satellite event to the International Conference on Neutron Scattering in Edinburgh (ICNS-2013, 8-12th July 2013). The workshop will be organized by the Juelich Centre for Neutron Science (Forschungszentrum Jülich) and will provide an opportunity for detailed discussions more
This meeting will bring together scientists and practitioners of PNR to discuss new opportunities in various areas of research ranging from spintronic materials, proximity effects between magnetism and superconductivity, to applications in soft matter.  The emphasis is on recent developments which take place around the world with new and updated neutron reflectometers.
The dynamics of molecular units that compose materials contain key information that is indispensable in order to understand and, possibly, to attempt to control atomic bonding in condensed matter. The vast majority of complex materials such as catalysts, zeolites, polymers and most biological objects are only available in polycrystalline form. Inelastic neutron scattering experiments on dedicated more
The information obtained from quasi-elastic neutron scattering, NMR and molecular dynamics is crucial for relating molecular properties to the behaviour of hierarchical structures. In the particular case of clay minerals, which are multi-scale, both in time and space domains, the results from a combination of methodsprovide unique and important insights into the structure and dynamics of intercalated more
The European Spallation Source is planning an ESS Science & Scientists meeting as a satellite event on Monday July 8, 2013 before the International Conference on Neutron Scattering (ICNS) in Edinburgh. The purpose of the event is gathering the community, to present today's project status achieved by ESS staff and its partners, the scientific possibilities offered by more
The next International Conference on Neutron Scattering will take place in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland, at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, from 8 - 12 July 2013. ICNS 2013 will bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines including biology, chemistry, earth science, engineering, materials science and physics.
An international symposium is held at PRICM-8 2013 in Waikoloa, Hawaii (USA). Neutron and synchrotron sources are among the flagships of materials characterization. The symposium aims to showcase their state-of-the-art applications, deep into the demands for advancing modern materials and their developments. The specialists from the field of instrumentation and advanced data evaluation more
We are pleased to announce the 3rd   McPhase Workshop/School to be held from 6 to 9 August, 2012. McPhase  is a software suitable for calculating magnetic/orbital phase diagrams and excitations, for localized moment materials using the mean-field and random phase approximations. This will be the third workshop/school on McPhase more
The 15th Annual National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering will be held at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Labs from August 10-24, 2013.  This school is designed to help introduce graduate students to the capabilities available at the neutron and x-ray user facilities in the United States.  Lectures, presented by researchers from academia, industry, and national more
The RACIRI summer school “Advanced Materials Design at X-ray and Neutron Facilities” is a joint initiative by Russia, Sweden and Germany in the collaborative framework of the Röntgen-Angström-Cluster (RAC) and the Ioffe-Röntgen-Institute (IRI). The novel format of the RACIRI summer school is driven by more
The PSI summer school 2013 is dedicated to some of the main topics addressed at large scale user facilities 

such as neutron, muon or synchrotron photon sources: Materials - structure and magnetism. 

International experts and PSI staff members will introduce and deepen your knowledge not only about these 

scientific topics but also about the main methods applied to understand the phenomena, 
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The LPBMS 2013 will be held in Tsukuba, Japan 29-31 August 2013. The conference is a continuation of the international series Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science (SRMS), which started in 1994. The last one SRMS-7 was held in Oxford UK 11-14 July 2010 where the International Advisory Committee (IAC) recommended
the conference be enlarged to incorporate Materials Research from Neutron and more
The 27th Annual ECIS Conference is aimed to provide a wide opportunity for exchange of new ideas, reports on current achievements in colloid and interface science and on contributions to the progress in the areas of biomedicine, pharmaceutics, cosmetics, nanoelectronics, food and petroleum industries. The scientific program includes invited plenary and keynote lectures, oral and poster more
The Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, organises in cooperation with the University of Münster (Prof. D. Richter, Dr. R. Zorn) and the RWTH Aachen (Prof. G. Heger, Prof. G. Roth, Prof. T. Brückel) a laboratory course in neutron scattering. The laboratory course will consist of lectures and an experimental section. The lectures will encompass more
The Oxford School on Neutron Scattering is intended for scientists and engineers who are new to the field of neutron scattering. Lectures and tutorials covering the theory and practice of neutron diffraction and spectroscopy are given by international experts. Students will gain a comprehensive grounding in modern techniques and applications at both continuous and pulsed neutron sources and have the more
This conference will present the latest research achievements and applications of carbon and diamond-based materials and devices, with special attention towards electronic features and phenomena. In addition, tribology, hard coatings and hetero-systems combining for example AlGaN and diamond will be discussed.
EUROMAT Conference Series is one of the most important meeting occasions in Materials World. It will take place this year at Sevilla from 8th to 13th September. The scope of the Conference covers practically the whole spectra of Materials and Applications with about 50 symposia running in parallel.
This conference is a new format, explicitely designed to make contacts with archaeologists and museum people, and to further the use of neutron methods in cultural heritage research. It addresses both neutron researches with experience in neutron methods as well as complete newcomers from the museum and archaeology side who wish to get an overview about neutron methods available for their work, but more
The conference mirrors the scientific scope of the same named Virtual Helmholtz Institute focusing on the dynamics of a broad range of materials from molecules to nanoscale structures and strongly correlated solids. Emphasizing on X-ray methods but applying as well complementary experimental more
The Paul Scherrer Institut and the PSI Users' Association JUSAP will organize the third Joint Users' Meeting at PSI - JUM@P13 - on September 18-20, 2013 at PSI, Villigen, Switzerland. The meeting will consist of a plenary session with keynote lectures, two poster sessions and three topical parallel workshops related to the methods offered at the PSI user facilities SLS, SINQ and SmuS. In addition more
On behalf of the Società Italiana di Spettroscopia Neutronica we like to draw your attention on the SISN Summer School 2013 on Inelastic Neutron Scattering. This year the School will deal with working in the fields of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences, Material Sciences, and Sciences more
The Juelich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) is organizing a workshop “Trends and Perspectives in Neutron Scattering: Magnetism and Correlated Electron Systems”, October 7 -10, 2013 in Tutzing close to Munich. 
The aim of the international workshop is to bring together experts in neutron scattering, materials synthesis, and the application of complementary methods and more
The Autumn School will provide a systematic overview of the application of neutrons and synchrotron radiation to the structural analysis of engineering materials. Students and young scientists from research and industry from all of Europe interested in this field are welcome to participate.

The school will take place from October 7 to 11, 2013 in Ammersbek (near Hamburg) and at GEMS/DESY more
An international workshop organized by the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science entitled Single Crystal Spectroscopy: Multi-TAS or TOF? will be held at the Hotel Ludwig in Murnau, Germany. The workshop will start in the afternoon of 10th October and will end on 11th October.



The workshop is a satellite workshop to the JCNS-Workshop on magnetism more


The workshop will bring together scientists working in the field of soft resonant elastic x-ray scattering. Topics to be presented concern: x-ray resonant magnetic reflectivity ( vectorial analysis of the magnetization , e xchange more

The 60th Annual AVS International Symposium and Exhibition (AVS 2013) will take place from Oct 27 to Nov 1, 2013 in Long Beach CA. For the first time, the Symposium will hold a series of sessions focused on particular synchrotron-related techniques (named Synchrotron Analysis Focus Topic). We would like you to submit a paper for a contributing talk or poster about your synchrotron-related work.

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The 2nd International Symposium of Science at J-PARC (J-PARC 2013) will be held in Tsukuba, Japan on 28th through 30th in October, 2013. This is the 2nd symposium to cover entire science program of J-PARC, including particle and nuclear physics, material and life science.
Advanced materials are the cornerstones of a secure energy future. The discovery and development of new materials hinge on our understanding of their structures and dynamics. Neutron scattering is a powerful and important tool for identifying the next generations of materials for energy applications and optimizing their properties. This symposium will bring together scientists interested in using more
Modern and upcoming neutron- and synchrotron radiation facilities bear the potential of novel characterization and analysis methods for the un-precedented understanding of materials as they have been developed very recently or will show up in the future. The Topic Symposium builts on the success at Thermec'2011 in Québec seeking contributions relevant to applied or fundamental more
The 9th Liquid Matter Conference will take place at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, 21-25 July 2014. Previous conferences in this series were held in Lyon (1990), Firenze (1993), Norwich (1996), Granada (1999), Konstanz (2002), Utrecht (2005), Lund (2008), and Vienna (2011). The conference is organized jointly by the Liquids Section of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society, more
The 10th World Conference on Radiography will be organized by the Neutron imaging and activation group at Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland. The conference will be held October 5-10, 2014 in Grindelwald in the middle of the beautiful Swiss Alps. It will discuss the latest developments and achievements in the field of neutron imaging and it targets a wide audience of instrument scientists, method more