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 think a worthwhile conference is missing from this list, please let us know.
January 2026
- KFN Webinar lecture by Ross Stewart (ISIS)
January 30, 2026, 11:00 (CET), online - Sustainability in Digital Transformation
January 30, 2026, 11:00 (CET), online
February 2026
- ESRF User Meeting 2026
February 2-4, 2026, Grenoble, France - BVR57: PSI users meeting for particle physics 2026
February 3-5, 2026, Villigen, Switzerland - RheoMAXESS: Where Users Meet Techniques
February 4-6, 2026, Lund, Sweden - 3rd CECAM Discussion Meeting on Quantum Crystallography
February 11-13, 2026, Lund, Sweden - Experimental signatures of quantum correlations and topology in neutron and X-ray techniques
February 11-13, 2026, Lausanne, 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 - Sustainability in Digital Transformation
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 - WiSe-Cryst 2026: Winter School on Electron Crystallography
March 2-6, 2026, Jülich, 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 - HIRES 2026: Synergies in High Resolution Spectroscopy workshop
March 10-13, 2026, Grenoble, France - FASEM 2026: Advanced School on Energy Applications: from Experiments to Data Analysis
March 16-20, 2026, Grenoble, France - PAERI26: Navigating Science Communication in a Shifting Landscape
March 18-20, 2026, Hamburg, Germany - HZB Photon School 2026
March 23 - April 2, 2026, Berlin, Germany - Additive2026: 5th Symposium on Materials and Additive Manufacturing
March 24-26, 2026, Kassel, Germany and online
April 2026
- Deep Learning School ‘Basic Concepts’ including career workshop and visit to Boehringer Ingelheim
April 13-17, 2026, Ingelheim, Germany - ICANS XXV: International Collaboration on Advances Neutron Sources
April 13-17, 2026, Malmö, Sweden - ISIS Virtual Reflectometry Training Course
April 23-28, 2026, London, Great Britain - Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Neutron Scattering
April 26 - May 1, 2026, Barcelona, Spain - SINQ ++ Workshop
April 29-30, 2026, Baden, Switzerland
May 2026
- SICT2026: International Conference on Surfaces, Interfaces and Coatings Technologies
May 6-8, 2026, Prague, Czech Republic - HIRES2026: Synergies in High Resolution Spectroscopy
May 10-13, 2026, Grenoble, France - HPW2026: 2nd High Pressure Workshop
May 11-12, 2026, Villigen, Switzerland - International Conference on Neutrons in Heritage Science
May 19-22, 2026, Munich, Germany - 7th Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference
May 27-29, 2026, Brussels, Belgium - Erice International School of Crystallography 2026
May 29 - June 6, 2026, Erice, Italy
June 2026
- 7th European Conference Hydrogen & P2X 2026
June 9-10, 2026, Copenhagen, Denmark - 17th Bombannes summer school on scattering applied to soft condensed matter
June 9-16, 2026, Bombannes, France - LINXS Science Day 2026
June 11, 2026, Lund, Sweden - EPT Summer Camp for PhD Students and Postdocs
June 14-17, 2026, Morschach, Switzerland - Neutrons and Food 8
June 15-19, 2026, Garching, Germany - ECNDT2026: European Conference on Non-Destructive Testing
June 15-19, 2026, Verona, Italy - Special Session of ECNDT2026: Neutron and other non-destructive nuclear techniques for Heritage Science
June 15-19, 2026, Verona, Italy - 2nd Transfer Workshop: ErUM-Scientists & Industry in Dialogue
June 18-19, 2026, Hamburg, Germany - XAFS 2026: 19th International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure
June 21-26, 2026, Chiang Mai, Thailand - PSI Master School 2026
June 22-26, 2026, PSI Villigen, Switzerland - RSME2026: Residual Stress in Materials Science and Engineering
June 23-25, 2026, Kassel, Germany and online - EPDIC19: 19th European Powder Diffraction Conference
June 23-26, 2026, Crans Montana, Switzerland
July 2026
- ACNS 2026: American Conference on Neutron Scattering 2026
July 12-16, 2026, Detroit, MI, USA - SXNS18: 18th International Conference on Surface X-ray and Neutron Scattering
July 20-23, 2026, Argonne, IL, USA - ORSO - Open Reflectometry Standards Organisation Annual Meeting - Satellite to SXNS18
July 24, 2026, Argonne, IL, USA - APS Webinar: Materials science and socioeconomic challenges in Africa
July 31, 2026, 16:00 (CET), online
August 2026
- IUCr 2026: General Assembly and Congress of the International Union of Crystallography
August 11-18, 2026, Calgary, Canada - RÅC Summer School 2026 in Sweden
August 16-23, 2026, Varberg, Schweden - ICFSMA 2026: 8th International Conference on Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys
August 31 - September 3, 2026, Kassel, Germany and online
September 2026
- Deep Learning School ‘Advanced Concepts’
September 1-4, 2026, Kiel, Germany - SNIB 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 Imaging
September 21-25, 2026, Karlsruhe, Germany
October 2026
- Polysolvat-16
October 6-9, 2026, Tutzing, Germany - IMoH 2026: 3rd International Meeting on Challenges and Opportunities for HiCANS (High Current Accelerator Driven Neutron Sources
October 13-15, 2026, Leioa, Spain
November 2026
- ESS–ILL User Meeting 2026
November 18-20, 2026, Lund, Sweden
December 2026
- MLZ User Meeting 2026
December 2-3, 2026, Bogenhausen near Munich, Germany
March 2027
- MATRAC 1 School: Application of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation in Engineering Materials Science
March 7-12, 2027, Hamburg/Lund, Deutschland/Schweden
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
November 2027
- AOCNS 2027 — 5th Asia-Oceania Conference on Neutron Scattering
November 24-28, 2027, Mumbai, Indien
August 2029
- IUCr 2029: General Assembly and Congress of the International Union of Crystallography
August 18-25, 2029, Berlin, Germany
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