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NCNR Seminar Schedule

Seminars are currently hosted in either fully virtual or hybrid format: see the table entry below for specific details.

Requests for sign language interpretation or other accommodations should be directed to the NCNR User Office at 301-975-8200 or ncnraccess [at] nist.gov (ncnraccess[at]nist[dot]gov). If you are interested in inviting a speaker or  schedule a seminar,  please contact David Hoogerheide

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2024 NCNR Seminars - Upcoming

Date/time (EST)

Speaker 

Title, abstract and link to Meeting

april 5
10.45 AM

Hybrid, K04B

Rachel Maizel

Virginia Tech

Low-Damping and Sizeable Spin-Orbit Torques in Vertically Graded Fe-Ni Alloys

Contact: Daniel Gopman

april 25
2 PM

Hybrid, U. Maryland

Robert McQueeney

Iowa State University

Magnetism of the RMn6Sn6 kagome metals

Contact: Jeff Lynn

June 7
10.45 AM

Hybrid, K04B

Viviane Lütz Bueno

Paul Scherrer Institut

TBD

Contact: Ryan Murphy

June 17
10.45 AM

Hybrid, K04B

Elliot Gilbert

ANSTO

TBD

Contact: Susana Teixeira

2023 NCNR Seminars - Past 

Date/time (EST)

Speaker 

Title (abstracts available upon request)

Jan. 19

John Ankner

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Design of and prospects for the Quite Intense Kinetics Reflectometer (QIKR) at the Spallation Neutron Source Second Target Station

Contact: Susana Teixeira

Jan. 19

Frank Gabel

Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS) - Grenoble, France

SANS as a unique tool for integrative structural biology approaches: recent examples of time-resolved studies and combinations with NMR

Contact: Susana Teixeira

Feb. 9

Adrian Losko

Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRMII) 

New perspectives for neutron imaging and diffraction through advanced event-mode data acquisition

Contact: Dan Hussey

Feb. 14

Evan Smith

Dep. Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University

Quantum Spin Ice Ground State in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore Ce2Zr2O7 

Contact: Jeff Lynn

Feb. 17

Yaniv Shaposhnik

NRCN, Israel/NCNR

The Three Mile Island Accident

Contact: Susana Teixeira

Feb. 21

Wolfgang Simeth

PSI, Switzerland

Magnetic interactions and topological magnetism in f-electron materials

Contact: Jeff Lynn

Feb. 27

Sho Tokunaga

Japan Res. Reactor 3 (JRR3)

Modification of the JAEA JRR-3 Cold Neutron Source Cryogenic Moderator

Contact: John Jurns

Mar. 2

Sharon S. Philip

Dept. Physics, University of Virginia

Disorder and structural hysteresis in the charge density wave transition of 1T-TaS2

Contact: Jeff Lynn

Mar. 2

Adrian Brügger

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Safeguarding Civil Infrastructure using Neutron Diffraction/Imaging and a Preview of Future Instrument Capabilities

Contact: Rebecca Dally

Apr. 20

Susana Isabel Cardoso de Freitas

INESC Microsistems and Nanotecnologias

Magnetic Sensors: From Ultrathin Film Growth to Sensor Integration in Unexpected Systems

Contact: Dan Gopman

Apr. 25

Yi Luo

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University

Magnetism in topological materials with strong correlations

Contact: Jeff Lynn

Apr. 27

Seung Wook Lee

School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea

An overview of the neutron phase imaging collaboration between NIST and KAERI/PNU

Contact: Dan Hussey

June 23

Masahiro Hino1 & Masaji Arai2

1Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Kyoto University; 2Japan Atomic Energy Agency

Current status of Kyoto University Reactor (KUR), Japan Research Reactor-3 (JRR-3) and new research reactor plan at Monju site

Contact: Abdullah Weiss

July 6

Yaniv Shaposhnik

NRCN, Israel/NCNR

The Fukushima accident

Contact: David Hoogerheide

July 28

V. Balasubramaniam

The Ohio State University

Ultrashear Technology for Clean Label Protein Dairy-Plant Beverages, Dispersions and Emulsions

Contact: Susana Teixeira

July 28

Tomce Runcevski

Southern Methodist University

Thermodynamic and Kinetic Control of Molecular Materials

Contact: Craig Brown

Aug. 2

Rama Vasudevan

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Machine learning and reinforcement learning for materials synthesis, characterization, design and discovery in the ‘smart’ labs age: challenges, lessons and opportunities

Contact: William Ratcliff

Aug. 4

Zach Bogorad

Stanford Institute of Theoretical Physics

Detecting Nanometer-Scale New Forces with Coherent Neutron Scattering

Contact: Dan Hussey

Sep. 20

Manjula Senanayake

ORNL

Neutron Reflectivity and Small Angle Neutron Scattering Reveal the Structure and Stability of Complex Polymer Blends

Contact: David Hoogerheide

Sep. 21

Nancy Jaiswal

Indiana University School of Medicine

Interaction between DNA polymerase ι and Rad23 provides a link between DNA damage tolerance and DNA repair pathways

Contact: David Hoogerheide

Oct. 16

Chris Stock

University of Edinburgh

Spin-orbit excitons in transition metal oxides

Contact: Peter Gehring

Oct. 17

Zsolt Révay

Technical University Munich

Nuclear Analytical Chemistry at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Center (MLZ), Garching

Contact: Heather Chen-Mayer

Nov. 2

Rebecca Flint

Iowa State University

Spinorial hybridization and Majorana physics in two-channel Kondo lattices

Contact: Jeff Lynn

Nov. 13

Miela J. Gross

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Static and dynamic magnetics in rare-earth iron garnets

Contact: Daniel Gopman

Seminar archives

Created October 22, 2018, Updated March 22, 2024