Day 1
State of the art and applications for HiCANS

08:15

Registration

09:00

Opening Session

SESSION 1. Chair: Juan Colmenero (CFM-MPC)

09:30

Plenary Session 1:

Mario Pérez. European Low Energy accelerator-based Neutron facilities Association – ELENA
ESS Bilbao
”The European Low Energy accelerator-based Neutron facilities Association (ELENA) – Current Status and Perspectives”

10:10

Invited Talk 1:

Yoshie Otake. RANS (RIKEN Accelerator-driven compact neutron sources)
Riken Center for Advanced Photonics
“Latest status of the RIKEN RANS project and social implementation initiatives”

10:35

Oral Presentation 1

Ibon Bustinduy. ESS Bilbao
“The ARGITU project”

10:50

Oral Presentation 2

Geonhee Oh. Institute for Basic Science (IBS). South Korea
“First beam test of NDPS at RAON”

11:00

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 2. Chair: Estefanía Abad (ESS Bilbao)

11:40

Plenary Session 2:

Thomas Gutberlet. Head of High Brilliance Source Project HBS
Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS-2)
“Options for next generation neutron facilities: The HBS HiCANS project”

12:20

Oral Presentation 3

Klaus Lieutenant. Forschungszentrum Jülich
“The Instrument Suite for the HBS Science Demonstrator”

12:35

Oral Presentation 4

Félix Jiménez Villacorta. ESS Bilbao
“ARGITU: recent progress of the scientific instrument suite”

12:50

Oral Presentation 5

Bela Farago. Institute Laue Langevin
“Is there place for high resolution neutron spectroscopy at HiCANS”

13:05

LUNCH

SESSION 3. Chair: Félix Jiménez Villacorta (ESS Bilbao)

14:30

Invited Talk 2:

Arnaud Desmedt. ICONE Project
Laboratoire Léon Brillouin – LLB
“ICONE: an Innovative COmpact NEutron facility”

14:55

Oral Presentation 6

Norberto Schmindt. Forschungszentrum Jülich
“Neutron Imaging Instruments for the High Brilliance Neutron Source”

15:10

Oral Presentation 7

Richard Wagner. Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA-CNRS
“Towards an optimized low dimensional cold neutron moderator for the ICONE project”

15:25

Oral Presentation 8

Daniel Blanco López. Centro de Física de Materiales- Materials Physics Center (CFM-MPC)
“Assessing last-generation, low-flux neutron sources – progress to date within the IKUR strategy”

15:40

Closed Session. Industry Neutron Sources

15:40

FLASH SESSION. Chair: Viktor Petrenko (BCMaterials)

16:10

COFFEE BREAK + POSTER SESSION

16:45

Departure for the visit to ESS Bilbao R&D facility (Bizkaia Science & Technology Park in Zamudio)

17:10 – 18:30

Visit to ESS Bilbao R&D facility 

Day 2
Neutron Science and Technology

SESSION 4. Chair: José María Porro (BCMaterials)

09:00

Plenary Session 3

Astrid Schneidewind. Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS)
“Neutron Science for society – the view of ENSA as the user representation”

09:40

Invited Talk 3

María Teresa Fernández Díaz. President of the Spanish Society of Neutron Techniques (SETN), Institut Laue-Langevin ILL
“SETN: Facts and future of the Spanish neutron community”

10:05

Oral Presentation 9

Ellen Fogh. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
“Pulsed-field neutron diffraction studies of magnetism and magnetoelectricity in the lithium orthophosphates”

10:20

Oral Presentation 10

Natalia A. Río-López (BCMaterials)
“Ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic coupling crossover upon Fe-doping in NiMnGaCoIn alloys”

10:35

Oral Presentation 11

Ricardo López Antón. UCLM
“GdCo/Co multilayers: a well-suited system for Polarized Neutron Reflectometry”

10:50

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 5. Chair: Marité Cárdenas (Instituto Biofisika)

11:20

Plenary Session 4

Giovanna Fragneto.
European Spallation Source ESS Science Director
“Possibilities for soft matter science at the European Spallation Source”

12:00

Oral Presentation 12

Margarita Kruteva. Forschungszentrum Jülich
“Blends of polymer rings and linear chains: neutron scattering study”

12:15

Oral Presentation 13

Luis Carlos Pardo. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
“Minimally disordered crystals: the case of PCNB and TCMX”

12:30

Oral Presentation 14

Silvia Arrese-Igor. Centro de Física de Materiales-Materials Physics Center (CFM-MPC) – UPV/EHU
“‘Structural relaxation’ in some liquids with non-covalent intermolecular interactions as seen by different experimental techniques”

12:45

Oral Presentation 15

Olena Kyzyma (Instituto Biofisika-CSIC-UPV/EHU)
“Phase separation characteristics in lipid bilayers membranes affected by curvature according to neutron reflectometry”

13:00

LUNCH

SESSION 6. Chair: Armando Maestro (CFM-MPC)

14:15

Invited Talk 4

Juan José Gómez Cadenas.
DIPC- Donostia International Physics Center
“Neutrino physics: Opportunities at high-intensity neutron sources”

14:40

Oral Presentation 16

Luis Fernández Barquín. Universidad de Cantabria
“SANS of Griffiths-like Magnetic Clusters in Tb-based magnetocalorics and of Fe-oxide magnetosomes”

14:55

Oral Presentation 17

Oleksandr Tomchuck. ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, STFC, UKRI
“Si/metal/Si blocks for high signal-to-noise solid-liquid NR experiments”

15:10

FLASH SESSION. Chair: Paula Malo de Molina (CFM-MPC)

15:45

COFFEE BREAK + POSTER SESSION

SESSION 7. Chair: Jon Maiz (CFM-MPC)

16:15

Invited Talk 5

Ivana Radosavljević Evans.
Professor of Structural and Materials Chemistry at Durham University (UK)
“Structure-property relationships in oxide ion conductors for energy applications: Insight from neutron diffraction, total scattering and spectroscopy”

16:40

Oral Presentation 18

Ivan Bobrikov. CICenergiGUNE
“Neutron Diffraction Applications for Investigating Structural Properties of Functional Materials for Energy”

16:55

Oral Presentation 19

Matthias Gutmann. ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, STFC, UKRI
“Recent single crystal diffuse scattering studies combined with advanced materials modelling”

17:15

Visit to BCMaterials Facilities (Bizkaia Science & Technology Park in Leioa)

21:30

Conference Dinner
San Mamés Jatetxea (San Mamés Stadium, Bilbao)

Day 3
Opportunities and Challenges

SESSION 8. Chair: Erik Fernández (Ineustar)

09:00

Plenary Session 5:

Erik Fernández. Ineustar (Spanish Science Industry Association)
“The role of the industry in the HiCANS”

09:15

ROUND TABLE

“The potential of industry-academia collaboration in the development of technologies for HiCANS”

Erik Fernández (INEUSTAR) – Moderator
Fiamma García-Toriello (ESS Bilbao), Peter Boeni (Swiss Neutronics), Pedro Noguera (AVS), Marité Cárdenas (Instituto Biofisika)

10:30

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 9. Chair: Patricia Lázpita (UPV/EHU)

11:15

Plenary Session 6

Ferenc Mezei. European Spallation Source, ESS Lund / Mirrotron

11:55

Invited Talk 6

Markus Strobl.
Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging (LNS) at Paul Scherrer Institut
“Advanced neutron imaging and its potential at HiCANS”

12:20

Oral Presentation 20

Martin Wissink. Phoenix LLC
“Commercial neutron services with accelerator-based sources”

12:35

Oral Presentation 21

Gustavo Sarmiento. Suprasys SL
“In-situ isothermal calorimeter for neutron studies”

12:50

Oral Presentation 22

Jennifer Huidobro. UPV/EHU
“Neutron activation techniques for cultural-heritage diagnostics”

13:20

Closing session

13:30

FAREWELL LUNCH