PCDP – Scientific training
For a sake of convenience, the present list includes the most important school and labcourse on neutron scattering, and shall not be considered as an exhaustive list for the PCDP. The candidate is welcome to consider any other school and labcourse that fits with the research programme, regardless of whether the core business of the conference is focussed to neutrons. Schools and course organized by the national neutron scattering society can also be considered.
This list will be continuously update.
All Training and events https://www.embo.org/conferences-training/#/
The next HERCULES session will take place from February 22nd to March 29th, 2026
Further information here
The 28th course has not yet been announced
The last event was held between 25 August and 10 September 2025 in Jülich/Garching, Germany& Grenoble, France
This is an annual event. For the upcoming appointments, please visit the event website: JCNS Lap-course
Last event was in Lüneburg, Germany 20–27 August 2023
Last event was in Gauthersburg, Maryland, USA, 25-29 July 2022
https://pncmi2022.umd.edu/school/
The National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering (NXS) was held July 28 – August 9, 2024.
The Oxford School on Neutron Scattering runs every two years. It takes around 60 students for 12 days, and aims to provide an in-depth grounding to theory , techniques, applications, facilities (pulsed and steady) and beamtime proposal.
18th Oxford School on Neutron Scattering was held between 03 – 13 September 2024. The School is an ideal introduction to the theory, techniques and applications of neutron scattering. Please find more information here
biannual meeting
https://www.oxfordneutronschool.org/
MATRAC 1 School - Application of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation in Engineering Materials Science
The last school took place from 23 to 28 March 2025 in Hamburg and in Lund, Sweden.
https://ms.hereon.de/summerschool/058651/index.php.en
MATRAC 2 School - Application of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation in Engineering Materials Science
The next school will take place from 1 to 6 March 2026 in Garching, Germany.
Website: MATRAC2
Workshop and hands-on Tutorial on Tools and Shells at Bilbao Crystallographic Server
held by Gemma de la Flor and Mois Aroyo.
The workshop took place in UYG 02.22 (Glaspalast) from June 28th, 14:00h to June 30th 2023, 13:15h.
Further details of the program you will find at: https://indico.frm2.tum.de/event/420/
In forthcoming schools and workshops can be found here
PenteQost-25 is the first interdisciplinary and international undergraduate spring school on the Fundamentals of Quantum Science. It has been hosted by the University of Siegen, Germany.
The last event took place between 6–10 June 2025 in Germany
The aim of the training course is to provide a broad overview of neutron scattering theory and applications to demonstrate the utility of the technique to a wide range of sciences. The course was held from 27. October to 01. November 2024.
More information can be found here
Next year’s RÅC International Summer School 2026 will be held in Sweden. Stay tuned
When: Last event was held between 9 – 10 January 2025
Where: Fernströmsalen @BioMedicalCentre, Sölvegatan 19, Lund, Sweden
Further information: https://indico.maxiv.lu.se/event/5371/
When: 10 January 2025, 13:00–17:00 CET
Where: at LINXS, Scheelevägen 19, Lund (physical participation only)
Who can benefit: Scientists at any level, such as PhD students, postdocs, and new SAS-users.
Further information: Visit the website
New Frontiers in Quantum Materials in Equilibrium and Beyond
Where: Saas-Fee, Switzerland
When: January 12-17, 2025
Further information: https://saasfee25.manep.ch/
- 60th Course: Electron Crystallography
Erice 30 May – 7 June 2025
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61st Course: Quantum Crystallography
Erice 30 May – 7 June 2025
The school is organized by University of Florence, Italy. Please get informed here
The ISSRNS is organized by members of the Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society. The XVI ISSRNS conference was held on 25-30 May 2025 in the mountain holiday resort in the south of Poland. For further information, please visit the event’s website
The School took place from September 28 to October 03, 2025 at Les Houches (France). For further information, please visit the event’s website
The Italian Society of Neutron Sciences (SISN) organizes a three-year program of Advanced School called Training on Neutron Techniques (TNT).
For further information and registrations, please visit the event’s website
The school aims to highlight recent significant progress on the mathematical analysis of complex quantum systems, and to indicate interesting open questions for the future. The lectures will emphasize interacting and correlated systems as well as random systems, with methods drawn from analysis and probability to algebra and topology.
Date: August 03–28, 2026
Place: Les Houches, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Website: https://structures.uni-heidelberg.de/events/les_houches_2026/index.php
The Cal-Bay Quantum School is an initiative aimed at fostering collaboration and strengthening academic and research ties between the quantum science communities across California and Bavaria. The joint school focuses on the cutting-edge fields of quantum computing and quantum simulation.
Date: 23 March 2026 – 27 March 2026
Place: Stanford University, USA
Website: https://www.calbay-quantumschool.org/
The school will provide an in-depth introduction to quantum simulation, followed by deep tutorials on key applications in quantum chemistry, many-body physics, and quantum field theories, and will include a survey of recent experimental implementations on quantum hardware.
Date: January 21 – 23, 2026
Place: Los Angeles, USA
Website: here
The event serves the professional education of young scientists belonging to the ErUM Community. The workshop is aimed at deep-learning starters from all ErUM communities (Research on Universe and Matter) who have a basic knowledge of physics.
Date: Apr 13 – 17, 2026
Place: Wasem Kloster Engelthal, Germany
Website: https://indico.desy.de/event/50245/
This school aims to give an introduction to high pressure research at synchrotron radiation facilities and to present the unique opportunities in this field with the ESRF-EBS (Extremely Brilliant Source) upgrade. It comprises lectures covering the basic principles of HP and SR techniques used to explore matter at extreme conditions.
Date: 23 – 27 March 2026
Location: ESRF auditorium, France
Website: here
The ADD2026 School and Conference aim to deepen the understanding and to further the training of the various communities working with real-space data analysis methods in neutron and x-ray diffraction.
Date: 11 to 16 January 2026
Location: Grenoble, France
Website: here
The 17th European Summer School on “Scattering Methods Applied to Soft Condensed Matter” is devoted to the practical «state-of-art» approach to scattering methods, using neutrons, as well as X-ray and light sources – today’s key techniques to study structure and dynamics in systems containing colloids, polymers, surfactants and biological macromolecules.
Date: Jun 9 – 16, 2026
Location: At the vacation centre “LES BRUYÈRES” in Bombannes, Carcans-Maubuisson, Gironde, France
Website: here
The School will give the participants a forum to broaden their scientific horizons, attend expert lectures by internationally renowned scientists, and to engage with these experts in an informal way during the school.
Date: March 22 – 27, 2026
Location: Bad Honnef Physics School
Website: here
The purpose of the school is to provide the newer generation of scientists working in this field with the basic knowledge necessary to carry out research in this field. Students and early postdocs are particularly welcome to register.
Date: 06 Jul – 31 Jul 2026
Location: Ecole de Physique – Les Houches, France
Website: here
Dark matter and dark energy dominate the mass and energy density in the universe but their composition is still unknown. There are various experimental efforts to solve this “elephant-in-the-room” problem. Some of the promising techniques involve areas of physics that are not widely known to workers in the field and are rarely discussed in “dark-sector” conferences and schools.
Date: 02 Aug – 07 Aug 2026
Location: Bad Honnef Physics School
Website: here
Controlling transport of fluids and charged particles in nanoscale confinement is a key challenge in many areas of science and engineering. In extreme confinement, the conventional macroscopic description of transport breaks down and fundamentally new approaches connecting atomistic description with experimental observations are required. The proposed summer school is timely and will provide valuable training for young nano scientists.
Date: 14 Sep – 25 Sep 2026
Location: Ecole de Physique – Les Houches, France
Website: here