Name: High Pressure Workshop
Start: 2026-05-11T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-12T19:00:00+02:00
Location: PSI Villigen

High Pressure Workshop

from Monday, May 11, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Tuesday, May 12, 2026 (7:00 PM)

Monday, May 11, 2026

9:00 AM Registration and Coffee
Registration and Coffee
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
9:45 AM Opening remarks - Gediminas Simutis (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
Opening remarks
- Gediminas Simutis (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
10:00 AM High Pressure and Quantum Materials 1
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Contributions

10:00 AM Pressure-induced ordering in the model quantum magnet DTN - Kirill Povarov (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

10:30 AM Frustrated pyrochlore lattice in FeV$_{2}$O$_{4}$ under uniaxial pressure - Jana Pásztorová (Forschungszentrum Jülich, JCNS)

10:50 AM Two Plaquette-Singlet Phases and Emergent SO(5) Deconfined Quantum Criticality in SrCu$_2$(BO$_3$)$_2$ - Bruce Normand

11:10 AM Lifting the Degeneracy of the Quantum Spin Liquid Phase by Uniaxial Pressure in PbCuTe₂O₆ - Shams Sohel Islam (PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences CNM, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland)
11:30 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
1:00 PM High-Pressure in Complex Systems: From Soft-Matter to Planetary Science
1:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Contributions

1:00 PM The life of biosystems coping with high hydrostatic pressure conditions - Peters

1:30 PM New structures and exotic properties of simple molecular systems under extreme conditions: using neutrons to explore planetary interiors - Livia E. Bove (1)IMPMC, CNRS-UMR 7590, Université P&M Curie, 75252 Paris, France 2) Physics Department, Università di Roma La Sapienza, piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00196, Roma, Italy 3)LQM, Physics Department, Ecole Politecnique Federale Lausanne, Lausanne, Suisse)

2:00 PM Gas/liquid interfaces at high pressure: Neutron Imaging, Molecular Dynamics - Ondrej Vopicka (Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czechia)

2:20 PM High-pressure research at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (ETHZ) - Christian Liebske (ETH Zurich)
2:50 PM Group Photo
Group Photo
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)

3:00 PM Coffee break and Poster hanging
Coffee break and Poster hanging
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
3:30 PM High-pressure techniques
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Contributions

3:30 PM Innovations in high pressure neutron scattering at the Spallation Neutron Source - Bianca Haberl (Department of Materials Physics, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia)

4:00 PM High-pressure total scattering using neutrons - Nick Funnell (UKRI - ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility)

4:20 PM In situ mechanical uniaxial pressure devices for SINQ and SμS facilities at PSI - Tina Arh (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

4:40 PM Time-domain Brillouin scattering for 3D-imaging of texture, phase transitions, elastic and plastic properties of solids compressed in a diamond anvil cell - Andreas Zerr (LSPM-CNRS)

5:00 PM Recent advances on the SNAP diffractometer - Christopher Ridley (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
5:30 PM Posters and Dinner

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

8:45 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)

9:15 AM Update on PSI High-Pressure Capabilities

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
9:30 AM High Pressure and Quantum Materials 2
9:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Contributions

9:30 AM Exploring Quantum Magnets under Large Strain - Elena Gati (Goethe University)

10:00 AM Decoupling of static and dynamic charge correlations revealed by uniaxial strain in a cuprate superconductor - Leonardo Martinelli (University of Zurich)

10:30 AM Development of Muon Spin Relaxation Measurement under High Pressure at J-PARC and Application to Study of Organic Magnets - Wataru Higemoto (Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

11:00 AM Pressure- and strain-enhanced superconducting and normal-state electronic response of kagome LaRu$_{3}$Si$_{2}$ - Zurab Guguchia (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
11:20 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:20 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
12:30 PM High Pressure and Quantum Materials 3
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Contributions

12:30 PM THz control of Mott insulators under pressure - Elsa Abreu (ETH Zürich)

1:00 PM Neutron and x-rays scattering on quantum magnets at high pressures and low temperatures - Björn Wehinger (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)

1:30 PM Pressure induced spin liquid state in the anisotropic kagome Y-kapellasite Y3Cu9(OH)19Cl8 - Dipranjan Chatterjee (University Of Oxford)

1:50 PM Competing Quantum Orders in the Bulk Layered Heterostructure 6R-TaS2 - Petr Král (PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences)
2:10 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
2:30 PM High-Pressure, New Materials, New Phases
2:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Contributions

2:30 PM Pushing electrons uphill: High-pressure routes to transition metal anions - Douglas Henry Fabini (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

3:00 PM The role of neutrons in understanding the behaviour of metal oxides at extreme conditions - Craig Bull (ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility)

3:30 PM High-Pressure Synthesis of Multifunctional Spinels in the Element System Ge-Ga-Cr-O-N - Marcus Schwarz (Freiberg High Pressure Research Centre / Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, TU Bergakademie Freiberg)

3:50 PM Comparative High-Pressure Study on Rare-Earth Fluorite-Type Oxides with Increasing Configurational Entropy - Pablo Botella Vives (University of Valencia)

4:10 PM Towards neutron diffraction of high-pressure hydrides - Mads Hansen (University of Cambridge)

4:30 PM When Chirality Decides the Phase: α- and β-Pinene under Pressure - Ariel Francis Perez Mellor (University of Geneva)
4:50 PM Round-table discussion

4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)

5:30 PM Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
5:30 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)

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