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.
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
- LINXS Webinar by Robert McGreevy (STFC): From the Big Bang to ESS BOT – a history of neutron scattering
 November 5, 2025, 15:00 (CET), Lund, Sweden and online
- CCP4/CCP-EM School Santiago, Chile: Structural Biology at the Foot of the Andes
 November 10-20, 2025, Santiago, Chile
- 8th Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium 2025
 November 11-12, 2025, Klosterneuburg, Austria
- 8th LEAPS Plenary Meeting
 November 12-14, 2025, Krakow, Poland
- LINXS Guest Seminar: Multi-modal and multi-scale imaging at NIST: Developments, Applications, Opportunities 
 November 14, 2025, 10:00, Lund, Sweden and online
- LINXS Guest Seminar: Synchrotron radiation X-ray computed microtomography (SR-μCT) as a technique for studying ancient carbonized foods
 November 17, 2025, 15:00, online
- Soft X-ray Science at PETRA
 November 17-18, 2025, Hamburg, Germany
- 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
- EMBO Practical Course: Volume electron microscopy by automated serial SEM
 November 23-28, 2025, Heidelberg, Germany
- 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
- YCM2 - Second Young Crystallographer Meeting
 December 2-5, 2025, Rennes, France
- MLZ User Meeting 2025
 December 3-4, 2025, Bogenhausen (Munich), Germany
- 17th BESSY@HZB User meeting
 December 3-4, 2025, Berlin, Germany
- BESSY User Meeting One-off event "Energy Day"
 December 5, 2025, Berlin, 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
- LINXS Young Researchers Soft Matter Meeting
 December 9, 2025, Lund, Sweden
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- PSI Master School 2026
 June 22-26, 2026, PSI Villigen, Switzerland
- EPDIC19: 19th European Powder Diffraction Conference
 June 23-26, 2026, Crans Montana, Switzerland
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 Imaging
- 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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