Events involving the SNSS or related to neutron science.

The SNSS organized its first ‘Thematic Day’, with the goal to showcase a topical field of studies to the whole Swiss neutron science community while celebrating the Young Scientist Prize of the year. Presentations are intended to be accessible to non-experts, while keeping enough in-depth insights/results for the specialists in the audience.

The Thematic Day is organized by the SNSS board together with the ‘nominator’ of the YSP winner of the year. This year's Thematic Day celebrated the Young Scientist Prize of Shieren Sumarli for her work on ‘in-situ/operando laser powder bed fusion system for advanced neutron characterization’ performed at EPFL and PSI.  Congratulations Shieren!

‘Additive manufacturing (AM) and neutrons’

13:00 Markus Strobl, PSI – AM research at the Applied Materials Group

13:30 Markus Bambach, ETHZ – Challenges in AM – and How Neutrons Can Help

14:00 Christian Leinenbach, EMPA/EPFL – A Peek Inside the Build: Neutron Insights into Microstructures of Additively Manufactured Alloys

14:30 Malgorzata Makowska, SLS – Multidimensional imaging for AM

15:00 break / visit of AM lab

15:45 Roland Logé, EPFL – Tuning dislocation density and residual stresses in AM

16:15 Alessandro Tengattini – Neutron (and X-ray) Imaging at ILL and its potential for AM

16:45 Shieren Sumarli – An in-situ/operando laser powder bed fusion system for advanced neutron characterization - YSP handover

17:15 Apéro at the OASE restaurant

The General Assembly of the Swiss Neutron Science Society will take place on May 5th at 15:00 in the Auditorium of PSI. The meeting will be held in a hybrid form (see link below). 

This year we have invited Giovanna Fragneto (ESS science director) to give a talk about ESS instrumentation, and we will elect the new SNSS president (see Agenda under Society > General Assemblies). We also offer tours of the SINQ facility!

Please sign up for the General Assembly.

Link for online participation:  Jetzt an der Besprechung teilnehmen

Besprechungs-ID: 323 998 375 634    Kennung: Hi3uo62B

A workshop on neutron instrumentation (SINQ++ workshop) will take place from 25th – 26th November in Baden.

The goal of the workshop is to present and discuss the SINQ++ project.

The International Conference on Neutron Scattering (ICNS 2025) will be hosted in Copenhagen  6-10 July.

The next European Conference on Neutron Scattering  (ECNS 2027) will be held in Grenoble.