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, 11 May 2026 (09:00) to Tuesday, 12 May 2026 (19:00)

Monday, 11 May 2026

09:00 Registration and Coffee
Registration and Coffee
09:00 - 09:45
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
09:45 Opening remarks - Gediminas Simutis (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
Opening remarks
- Gediminas Simutis (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
09:45 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
10:00 High Pressure and Quantum Materials 1
10:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Contributions

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

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

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

11:10 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 Lunch
Lunch
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
13:00 High-Pressure in Complex Systems: From Soft-Matter to Planetary Science
13:00 - 14:50
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Contributions

13:00 The life of biosystems coping with high hydrostatic pressure conditions - Peters

13:30 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)

14:00 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)

14:20 High-pressure research at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (ETHZ) - Christian Liebske (ETH Zurich)
14:50 Group Photo
Group Photo
14:50 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)

15:00 Coffee break and Poster hanging
Coffee break and Poster hanging
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
15:30 High-pressure techniques
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Contributions

15:30 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)

16:00 High-pressure total scattering using neutrons - Nick Funnell (UKRI - ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility)

16:20 In situ mechanical uniaxial pressure devices for SINQ and SμS facilities at PSI - Tina Arh (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

16:40 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)

17:00 Recent advances on the SNAP diffractometer - Christopher Ridley (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
17:30 Posters and Dinner

17:30 - 19:30
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Tuesday, 12 May 2026

08:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
08:45 - 09:15
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)

09:15 Update on PSI High-Pressure Capabilities

09:15 - 09:30
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
09:30 High Pressure and Quantum Materials 2
09:30 - 11:20
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Contributions

09:30 Exploring Quantum Magnets under Large Strain - Elena Gati (Goethe University)

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

10:30 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 Pressure- and strain-enhanced superconducting and normal-state electronic response of kagome LaRu$_{3}$Si$_{2}$ - Zurab Guguchia (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
11:20 Lunch
Lunch
11:20 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
12:30 High Pressure and Quantum Materials 3
12:30 - 14:10
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Contributions

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

13:00 Neutron and x-rays scattering on quantum magnets at high pressures and low temperatures - Björn Wehinger (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)

13:30 Pressure induced spin liquid state in the anisotropic kagome Y-kapellasite Y3Cu9(OH)19Cl8 - Dipranjan Chatterjee (University Of Oxford)

13:50 Competing Quantum Orders in the Bulk Layered Heterostructure 6R-TaS2 - Petr Král (PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences)
14:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
14:10 - 14:30
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
14:30 High-Pressure, New Materials, New Phases
14:30 - 16:50
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)
Contributions

14:30 Pushing electrons uphill: High-pressure routes to transition metal anions - Douglas Henry Fabini (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

15:00 The role of neutrons in understanding the behaviour of metal oxides at extreme conditions - Craig Bull (ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility)

15:30 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)

15:50 Comparative High-Pressure Study on Rare-Earth Fluorite-Type Oxides with Increasing Configurational Entropy - Pablo Botella Vives (University of Valencia)

16:10 Towards neutron diffraction of high-pressure hydrides - Mads Hansen (University of Cambridge)

16:30 When Chirality Decides the Phase: α- and β-Pinene under Pressure - Ariel Francis Perez Mellor (University of Geneva)
16:50 Round-table discussion

16:50 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)

17:30 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
17:30 - 17:40
Room: Auditorium (WHGA)

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