Day 1
Recent developments and remaining challenges on HiCANS

08:15

Registration

09:15

Opening Session

SESSION 1
Chair: Estefanía Abad (ESS Bilbao)

09:30

Plenary Session 1:

Mario Pérez. European Low Energy accelerator-based Neutron facilities Association – ELENA
ESS Bilbao

10:10

Invited Talk 1:

Arnaud Desmedt. Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (France)
“The ICONE project”

10:35

Oral Presentation 1

Max Wolff. Uppsala University (Sweden)
“Compact accelerator driven neutron source for Sweden”

10:50

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 2
Arantxa Arbe (CFM-MPC)

11:40

Plenary Session 2:

Michel Kenzelman. LENS Initiative. Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)

12:20

Invited Talk 2

Paul Zakalek. Head of Department for High Brilliance Neutron Source Project (HBS) – Forschungszentrum Jülich.
“The High Brilliance Neutron Source – Phase I: Towards a Healthy Neutron Landscape in Europe”

12:45

Oral Presentation 2

Jorg Voigt. JCNS, Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany)
“Indirect geometry spectrometers at pulsed sources”

13:00

Oral Presentation 3

Ibon Bustinduy. ESS Bilbao (Basque Country-Spain)
“High Current Accelerator-Driven Neutron Source Platform Overview”

13:15

LUNCH

SESSION 3
Félix Jiménez-Villacorta (ESS BIlbao)

14:30

Invited Talk 3:

Drew Marquardt. University of Windsor (Canada)
“Advancing Compact Accelerator-Driven Neutron Sources in Canada”

14:55

Oral Presentation 4

Ulrich Rücker. JCNS-HBS, Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany)
“Target Moderator Reflector configuration for HBS-I”

15:10

Oral Presentation 5

Dmitrii Shapiro. Budapest Neutron Center (Hungary)
“Instrument-tailored optimization of the cold source at the Budapest Research Reactor”

15:25

Oral Presentation 6

Jan-Niklas Siekmann. RWTH Aachen (Germany)
“Beam dynamics studies for the high energy beam transport of the high brilliance neutron source (HBS-1)”

15:40

Oral Presentation 7

Juan Luis Muñoz. ESS Bilbao (Basque Country-Spain)
“Power Couplers Conditioning, Tuning and Thermal Characterization of the ARGITU RFQ at ESS-Bilbao”

15:55

COFFEE BREAK + POSTER SESSION

16:15

ROUND TABLE

“HiCANS vs Conventional Neutron Sources: Cooperation, Complement, or Competition?”

17:15

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

17:30 – 18:45

Visit to ESS Bilbao R&D facility 

18:30

Closed Session. Industry Neutron Sources.

Day 2
Neutron Science in the context of the current scientific challenges

SESSION 4
José María Porro (BCMaterials)

09:00

Plenary Session 3

Javier Campo. Aragón Nanoscience and Materials Institute. Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
“A new magnetic state, “B-Phase”, found in MnSi at Low Temperatures”

09:40

Invited Talk 4

Laura Cañadillas. Institut Laue- Langevin (ILL)
“Insights into Modulated Nuclear and Magnetic Structures in Metal-organic Coordination Polymers”

10:05

Oral Presentation 8

Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez. BCMaterials (Basque Country – Spain)
“Multiscale structure and dynamics of ionic liquid-polymer composites with electro- and magnetoactive response”

10:20

Oral Presentation 9

Maite Perfecto. University of the Basque Country (Basque Country – Spain)
“Development and optimization of a ball-mill set-up for in-situ monitoring of mechanochemical reactions using neutron diffraction”

10:35

Oral Presentation 10

Patricia Lázpita. EHU – BCMaterials (Basque Country – Spain)
“Tailoring Anisotropic Magnetocaloric Performance in Ni–Co–Mn–Ti Melt-Spun Ribbons via Fe/Ti Substitution”

10:50

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 5
Jon Maiz (CFM-MPC)

11:20

Plenary Session 4

Robert Dalgliesh. ISIS Neutron and Muon Source.
“Soft Matter Studies at a HiCANS Source”

12:00

Invited Talk 5

Fanni Juranyi. Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
“Challenges and Opportunities for sof matter research at HiCANS”

12:25

Oral Presentation 11

Marité Cárdenas. Instituto Biofisika (Basque Country – Spain)
“Simple coacervation of an intrinsically disordered peptide from beak proteins: oligomeric precursors, phase stability and cargo encapsulation”

12:40

Oral Presentation 12

Armando Maestro. CFM-MPC (Basque Country – Spain)
“Can HiCANS deliver neutron reflectometry for soft-matter interfaces? A realistic assessment using experimental data”

12:55

LUNCH

SESSION 6
Patricia Lázpita (EHU – BCMaterials)

14:15

Invited Talk 6

Ignacio Porras. Professor. Dept. Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics at the University of Granada (Spain)
“Boron Neutron Capture Therapy with HiCANS: accelerating a new hope for cancers of poor prognosis”

14:40

Invited Talk 7

Luis Fernández Barquín. University of Cantabria (Spain)
“RedNEUMAT (Spanish Network of Neutron Techniques)”

15:05

Oral Presentation 13

Félix Jiménez-Villacorta. ESS Bilbao (Basque Country – Spain)
“ARGITU, the Spanish High-Current Accelerator-driven Neutron Source: Science Case and Instrument Suite”

15:25

Oral Presentation 14

Manuel Salado. BCMaterials (Basque Country – Spain)
“Unravelling Buried Interfaces: Using Neutron Reflectometry to Optimize Interphase Design and Mitigate Device Degradation”

15:40

COFFEE BREAK + POSTER SESSION

16:30

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

21:00

Conference Dinner

Day 3
Neutron science in the context of the current industrial and technological challenges

SESSION 7
Iñigo Arranz (Ineustar)

09:00

Plenary Session 5:

Isidro E. Zarraga. Senior Director and Head of Genomic Medicines drug product development. SANOFI
“Applications of neutron techniques to Biopharmaceuticals”

09:40

Invited Talk 9

Thilo Pirling. SALSA – Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL)
“Neutron Stress Determination: Standards and Industrial Application”

10:05

Oral Presentation 15

Martón Markó. BNC, Centre for Energy Research (Hungary)
“Validation Challenges for Advanced Neutron Optical Component”

10:20

Oral Presentation 16

Aritz Marañón. Aernnova (Spain)
“CFRP Disk Choppers as Enabling Technology for Tailored, Multimodal HiCANS Instruments“

10:35

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 8
Armando Maestro (CFM-MPC)

11:00

Plenary Session 6

Marta Martínez Sanz. Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Alimentación (CIAL, UAM-CSIC).
“Unravelling the multiscale architecture of food biopolymers using neutron scattering”

11:40

Invited Talk 9

Ralph Gilles. Central Scientific Institute FRM II of the Technical University of Munich
“Industrial applications with neutrons at MLZ (FRM II)”

 

12:05

Oral Presentation 17

Andoni Egurrola. Tekniker
“Mechanical Design, Virtual Assembly and Manufacturing of an Ultra Compact 750 MHz IH DTL Accelerating Cavity”

12:20

Oral Presentation 18

Francisco Crespo López-Urrutia. CDT Cascade Detector Technologies (Germany)
“Boron-10-Based Neutron Detectors: The Jalousie Concept and Detector Systems developed at CDT”

12:35

Closing session

12:45

FAREWELL LUNCH