Below is a list of international conferences, workshops, and schools relevant to the methods and scientific topics explored at the PSI user facilities. While the calendar is not exhaustive, it offers a curated selection of events.
If you consider a missing conference worthwile to be listed here please let us know.
October 2025
- REXS 2025 International Conference on Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering
October 6-10, 2025, Roses, Spain - 49th MPA Conference
October 6-10, 2025, Stuttgart, Germany - JCNS workshop 2025: Quantum Materials, Theory and Experiments
October 7-9, 2025, Tutzing, Germany - Materialographie 2025
October 8-10, 2025, Bochum, Germany - LINXS Heritage Science Workshop
October 9, 2025, online - PDC2025: 82nd Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference
October 9-12, 2025, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY, USA - Opportunities and Challenges of FAIR Data at Photon and Neutron Facilities
October 12-15, 2025, Bad Honnef, Germany - Porous Materials for a Sustainable Energy Future through Neutron Scattering
October 13-14, 2025, Oak Ridge, USA - LINXS Young Researchers' Symposium III - Hard Matter
October 13-15, 2025, Lund, Sweden - First Nordic Sub-Micron IR Microscopy Conference
October 15-17, 2025, Lund, Sweden - NANOP 2025: 7th Nanophotonics and Micro/Nano Optics Conference
October 20-22, 2025, Paris, France - DENIM 2025 - Design and Engineering of Neutron Instruments Meeting
October 20-24, 2025, Grenoble, France - KFN Webinar lecture by Markus Strobl (PSI)
October 24, 2025, 11:00 (CET), online - Munich Quantum Matter Days
October 27-31, 2025, Garching, Germany - SAMCE 2025: Swiss Advanced Manufacturing Community Events
October 30, 2025, Biel, Switzerland
November 2025
- NRS 2025: ANSTO Neutron Reflectometry School
November 4-5, 2025, Lucas Heights, Australia - QUASAR workshop for Spectral Data Analysis
November 4-6, 2025, Lund, Schweden - 8th LEAPS Plenary Meeting
November 12-14, 2025, Krakow, Poland - AI MSE 2025: Artificial Intelligence in Materials Science and Engineering
November 18-19, 2025, Bochum, Germany - ESPP workshop Phosphate as a Critical Raw Material for food security
November 19, 2025, Brussels & Online, Belgien - ESPP workshop P4 (White Phosphorus) in ‘Strategic’ industries
November 20, 2025, Brussels & Online, Belgien - SNSS Thematic Day: Additive manufacturing and neutrons
November 24, 2025, PSI Villigen, Switzerland - Industry CCUS 2024 Conference
November 26-27, 2025, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Materials Testing 2025: Lecture and Discussion Conference
November 27-28, 2025, Dresden, Germany - KFN Webinar lecture by Judith Peters (ILL)
November 28, 2025, 11:00 (CET), online
December 2025
- MLZ User Meeting 2025
December 3-4, 2025, Bogenhausen (Munich), Germany - ErUM-Data Community: DIG-UM Annual Meeting 2025
December 4, 2025, 14:30 - online - Advancing Materials Science Through Synchrotron Radiation and X-ray Free Electron Lasers
December 8-13, 2025, Yokohama, Japan
January 2026
- ADD2026 School and Conference on Real-Space Diffraction Data Analysis
January 11-16, 2026, Grenoble, France - Muon Spectroscopy School 2026
January 14-21, 2026, Rigi-Kaltbad, Switzerland - S3IC 2026: Single-Molecule Sensors and NanoSystems International Conference
January 19-21, 2026, Rome, Italy - KFN Webinar lecture by Ross Stewart (ISIS)
January 30, 2026, 11:00 (CET), online
February 2026
- BVR57: PSI users meeting for particle physics 2026
February 3-5, 2026, Villigen, Switzerland - HERCULES European School 2026
February 22 - March 29, 2026, Grenoble, France - 34th Annual Meeting of the German Crystallographic Society
February 25-28, 2026, Lübeck, Germany - KFN Webinar lecture by Pascale Deen (ESS)
February 27, 2026, 11:00 (CET), online
March 2026
- MATRAC 2 School: Application of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science with Special Focus on Fundamental Aspects of Materials
March 1-6, 2026, Munich and Garching, Germany - Magnettage 2026
March 3-5, 2026, Aalen, Germany & Online - BioINSP2026: 8th International School and Conference on Biological Materials Science
March 4-6, 2026, Siegburg/Bonn, Germany and online
April 2026
- Deep Learning School ‘Basic Concepts’ including career workshop and visit to Boehringer Ingelheim
April 13-17, 2026, Ingelheim, Germany - Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Neutron Scattering
April 26 - May 1, 2026, Barcelona, Spain - SINQ ++ Workshop
April 29-30, 2026, Baden, Switzerland
May 2026
- International Conference on Neutrons in Heritage Science
May 19-22, 2026, Munich, Germany
June 2026
- 17th Bombannes summer school on scattering applied to soft condensed matter
June 9-16, 2026, Bombannes, France - Neutrons and Food 8
June 15-19, 2026, Garching, Germany - XAFS 2026: 19th International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure
June 21-26, 2026, Chiang Mai, Thailand
August 2026
- IUCr 2026: General Assembly and Congress of the International Union of Crystallography
August 11-18, 2026, Calgary, Canada
September 2026
- Deep Learning School ‘Advanced Concepts’
September 1-4, 2026, Kiel, Germany - SNI 2026: Deutsche Tagung für Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung, Neutronen und Ionenstrahlen an Großgeräten
September 8-10, 2026, Hamburg, Germany - IXS 2026: 14th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering
September 13-18, 2026, Argonne, IL, USA - 16th XTOP Biennial Conference on High-Resolution X-Ray Diffraction and Imaginging
- September 21-25, 2026, Karlsruhe, Germany
June 2027
- ECNS 2027: European Conference on Neutron Scattering
June 28 - July 3, 2027, Grenoble, France
September 2027
- SAS 2027: 20th International Conference on Small Angle Scattering
September 12-17, 2027, Lund, Sweden
August 2029
- IUCr 2029: General Assembly and Congress of the International Union of Crystallography
August 18-25, 2029, Berlin, Germany
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