Workshop on Scattering and Complementary Techniques

ILL Chadwick Amphitheatre
16 -18 December 2009

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), in consultation with their respective user communities and their governing bodies, are setting up a Partnership for Soft Condensed Matter (PSCM). The PSCM will be established in a step-by-step process, initially as a support facility for the better exploitation of neutron and synchrotron scattering instruments in Soft Matter Research. The PSCM, in the medium term, will provide a platform for promoting the complementary aspects of neutron and synchrotron techniques.  The long-term mission of the PSCM is to streamline neutron and synchrotron based Soft Matter Research to address 21st century challenges in nanomaterials, biotechnology, environmental and energy sciences. New laboratories equipped for sample preparation and characterization will be hosted in the new Science Building to be soon implemented on-site.

The aim of this workshop was to gather potential Associate Partners and discuss the scientific agenda of the partnership as well as possibilities for external fundings.

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International Advisory Board:

Jean Daillant (Saclay,F), Michael Grunze (Heidelberg, D), Adrian Rennie (Uppsala, SE), Giancarlo Ruocco (Roma, I), Frank Schreiber (Tübingen, D)

Local organizers:

B. Farago, G. Fragneto, I. Grillo, A. Harrison, O. Konovalov, A. Madsen, T. Narayanan, S. Perez

Secretary: Karine Sultan (ILL) sultan@ill.eu

This workshop has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement No 212057 ILL 20/20