Name: NIUS2012 - ESS Neutron Imaging User Symposium
Start: 2012-04-15T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2012-04-18T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Hotel zur Therme, Bad Zurzach

NIUS2012 - ESS Neutron Imaging User Symposium

from Sunday, 15 April 2012 (08:00) to Wednesday, 18 April 2012 (18:30)
Hotel zur Therme, Bad Zurzach ("Himmelrych")

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

15 Apr 2012

16 Apr 2012

17 Apr 2012

18 Apr 2012

08:30	Introduction -Dr Nikolay Kardjilov (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) (until 10:10) ("Himmelrych")
08:30	Introduction to the ESS-NIUS Symposium - Dr Eberhard Lehmann (Paul Scherrer Instiut) ("Himmelrych") Slides
08:50	Prospects for neutron imaging at the ESS long pulse source - Dr Markus Strobl (ESS-AB, Science Division, Lund, Sweden) ("Himmelrych") Slides
09:10	IAEA Activities Related to Neutron Imaging - Dr Danas Ridikas (IAEA) ("Himmelrych") Slides
09:30	Neutron Imaging Facilities at PSI - Dr Christian Grünzweig (Paul Scherrer Institut) ("Himmelrych") Slides
09:50	Non-imaging instruments at SINQ – The future may include hybrids - Dr Christian Rüegg (Paul Scherrer Institut) ("Himmelrych")
10:10	coffee break (until 10:30) (in front of "Himmelrych")
10:30	Plant / Soil interaction -Dr Nikolay Kardjilov (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) (until 12:00) ("Himmelrych")
10:30	Imaging water flow in soils and roots - Prof. Andrea Carminati (Georg-August-University Goettingen) ("Himmelrych") Slides
11:00	Contribution of neutron imaging to assess key processes at the root-soil interface - Prof. Sascha Oswald (University of Potsdam) ("Himmelrych") Slides
11:30	The influence of heterogeneous water and phosphorus supply on root growth in soil - Mr Bernd Felderer (ETHZ) ("Himmelrych") Slides

08:30	Material research / Metallurgy -Dr Burkhard Schillinger (TU München FRM II) (until 10:30) ("Himmelrych")
08:30	Chemical diffusion in liquid metallic alloys - Dr Florian Kargl (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)) ("Himmelrych") Slides
09:00	Combining diffraction and imaging for the study of structural phase transitions - Dr Marisa Medarde (Laboratory for Developments and Methods, Paul Scherrer Institut) ("Himmelrych") Slides
09:30	Studies of hydrogen diffusion in steels with neutron radiography - Dr Thomas Kannengiesser (BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing) ("Himmelrych") Slides
10:00	Neutron Depolarisation Imaging Of The Kondo Cluster Glass Formation In CePd(1-x)Rh(x) - Philipp Schmakat (Physik-Department E21, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany) ("Himmelrych") Slides
10:30	coffee break (until 11:00) (in front of "Himmelrych")
11:00	Cultural heritage -Dr Burkhard Schillinger (TU München FRM II) (until 12:30) ("Himmelrych")
11:00	Neutron imaging, a non destructive method for the study of mobile cultural heritage objects. Survey on 10 years of close collaboration with the NIAG team at PSI - Dr Marie Wörle (Swiss National Museum, Laboratory for Conservation Research, Collection Centre Affoltern a. A.) ("Himmelrych") Slides
11:30	An example of the application of combined use of Neutron Imaging and Time of Flight Neutron Diffraction: characterization of Japanese ancient swords - Dr Francesco Grazzi (CNR-ISC) ("Himmelrych") Slides
12:00	Non-destructive investigation of "The violinist", a lead sculpture by the Spanish artist Pablo Gargallo, using the neutron imaging facilities of the Paul Scherrer Institute. - Mr ALEX MASALLES (MNAC Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain)) ("Himmelrych") Slides

08:30	Water transport I -Dr Eberhard Lehmann (Paul Scherrer Instiut) (until 10:00) ("Himmelrych")
08:30	ANTARES Upgrade - The New Imaging Beam Line at FRM II - Michael Schulz (FRM II) ("Himmelrych") Slides
09:00	Quantitative in-situ neutron imaging of non-equilibrium soft and complex matter systems using cold neutrons - Dr Helen Hermes (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) ("Himmelrych") Slides
09:30	Influence of pore size and fluid-wall interactions on the imbibition of a fluid in silica mesoporous materials - Dr Claudia Pantalei (Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France) ("Himmelrych")
10:00	coffee break (until 10:30) (in front of "Himmelrych")
10:30	Water transport II -Dr Eberhard Lehmann (Paul Scherrer Instiut) (until 12:00) ("Himmelrych")
10:30	Imaging Chemistry (and Physics) in Space and Time: New Opportunities by Dynamic Neutron and X-ray micro-Imaging - Dr Daniel Grolimund (Paul Scherrer Institute, Swiss Light Source) ("Himmelrych") Slides
11:00	Neutron imaging of recurrent ponded infiltration into heterogeneous soil - Dr Michal Snehota (Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical Univ. in Prague, Czech Republic) ("Himmelrych") Slides
11:30	High resolution neutron radiography and microtomography with fast MCP-Timepix detector operating at >1Khz frame rates - Dr Anton Tremsin (University of California at Berkeley) ("Himmelrych") Slides

18:00	Registration (until 19:15) ("Himmelrych")
19:30	Dinner (until 21:30) ("Himmelrych")

12:00	Lunch (until 13:30) ()
13:30	Building materials -Dr Markus Strobl (ESS-AB) (until 15:00) ("Himmelrych")
13:30	Moisture movement and durability of cement-based composite materials - Prof. Folker Wittmann (Aedificat Institute Freiburg (AIF) and Qingdao Tech) ("Himmelrych") Slides
14:00	PATCHY MICROSTRUCTURE OF CEMENT PASTE INVESTIGATED BY NEUTRON AND SYNCHROTRON X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY - Dr Pavel Trtik (EMPA Dubendorf) ("Himmelrych")
14:30	Neutron imaging of transport in porous materials: rocks, gypsum, asphalt, clay brick, wood, and fruits - Dr Dominique Derome (Empa) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:00	Short presentations (Poster session) -Dr Markus Strobl (ESS-AB) (until 15:48) ("Himmelrych")
15:00	TIPSI hybrid spectrometer at the planned European Spallations Neutron Source ESS: Probing different length scales simultaneously - Dr Nadir ALIOUANE (Paul scherrer Institut, Laboratory for neutron scattering) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:03	Neutron Imaging at IBR-2 Pulsed Reactor: First Results and Neutron Imaging Instrument Project - Gizo Bokuchava (FLNP JINR, Dubna, Russia) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:06	Neutron imaging options for the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) - Dr Alexander Evans (Institut Laue Langevin) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:09	Energy-selective neutron imaging on IMAT - Winfried Kockelmann (ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:12	Characterization of Japanese Helmets through Neutron Imaging Techniques - Ms Filomena Salvemini (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:15	Neutron imaging and the destroyed nuclear fuels from Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant accidents - Dr Masayoshi Tamaki (TAMAKI Memorial Institute) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:18	From the ANCIENT CHARM Project to the future combined PGAI-NT station at FRM II - Dr Kudejova Petra (Technische Universität München, Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:21	Magnetic resonance and neutron imaging of infiltration into heterogeneous soil - Ms Vladimira Jelinkova (Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical Univ. in Prague, Czech Republic) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:24	The New Beamline for Neutron Optics and other Approaches BOA - Dr Tobias Panzner (Paul Scherrer Institut , LDM) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:27	Combined in-situ neutron diffraction and imaging for strain investigations - Mr Robin Woracek (University of Tennessee & Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:30	High Resolution Dual Modality (Neutron and X-ray) Imaging of Partially Saturated Sand and Direct Numerical Simulation Technique Application of Flow through Porous Media - Mr Felix Kim (University of Tennessee) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:33	Energy-selective neutron imaging: methods and applications - Mr Steven Peetermans (Paul Scherrer Institut) ("Himmelrych")
15:36	Quantified neutron and x-ray imaging in geomechanics - Dr Stephen Hall (Division of Solid Mechanics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden and European Spallation Source AB, Lund, Sweden) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:39	Close future plans for radiography driven PGAA at FRM II in Munich - Mr Stefan Söllradl (Paul Scherrer Institute & University of Bern) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:42	A new software protocol for high-throughput tomography using attenuation-contrast and phase-contrast - Dr Felix Beckmann (Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:30	Poster session/ Coffee break (until 16:00) ("Himmelrych")
16:00	Fuel cells / Battery electro-chemistry -Dr Markus Strobl (ESS-AB) (until 17:30) ("Himmelrych")
16:00	Neutron Imaging of Water in Fuel cells – State of the Art and Future Opportunities - Dr Pierre Boillat (Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)) ("Himmelrych") Slides
16:30	Modeling of Li-Ion-batteries to optimize the results gained by neutron imaging - Mr Martin Muehlbauer (TU-Darmstadt) ("Himmelrych") Slides
17:00	Neutron imaging into an operating lithium-ion battery - Dr Heino Sommer (BASF SE) ("Himmelrych") Slides
17:30	Summary & Discussion ("Himmelrych")
20:00	Dinner (until 21:30) ()

12:30	Lunch (until 14:00) ()
14:00	Archeology / Paleontology -Dr Winfried Kockelmann (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) (until 15:30) ("Himmelrych")
14:00	The IMAT imaging system at ISIS - Dr Francesco Aliotta (Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) ("Himmelrych") Slides
14:30	Natural Science meets the Humanities - The study of Roman bronzes found in Switzerland by the combination of different methods - Dr Eckhard Deschler-Erb (University of Zurich, CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland) ("Himmelrych") Slides
15:00	New insights into hearing of early synapsids - Mr Michael Laaß (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe) ("Himmelrych")
15:30	coffee break (until 16:00) (in front of "Himmelrych")
16:00	Nuclear engineering -Dr Winfried Kockelmann (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) (until 17:30) ("Himmelrych")
16:00	Investigating the thermalhydraulics of nuclear fuel bundles and functional spacers using cold-neutron tomography at the ICON beamline - Dr Robert Zboray (Paul Scherrer Institute) ("Himmelrych") Slides
16:30	What happens during nuclear accidents? – Contributions of neutron imaging to nuclear safety - Mr Mirco Grosse (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) ("Himmelrych") Slides
17:00	Recent developments at the CONRAD instrument at the Helmholtz Centre Berlin - Dr Nikolay Kardjilov (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) ("Himmelrych") Slides
17:30	Summary & Discussion ("Himmelrych")
20:00	Dinner (until 21:30) ()

12:00	Summary & Discussion ("Himmelrych")
12:30	Transportation to PSI (until 13:00) ()
12:30	test - Dr Anders Kaestner () Slides
13:00	Lunch (until 14:00) (OASE)
14:00	Excursion to PSI -Dr David Mannes (Paul Scherrer Institut) (until 17:00) (Area PSI-West)
17:00	Departure (until 17:30) (Bus stop PSI-West)