QENS/WINS 2022
Preface
QENS/WINS 2022 took place during May 23-27, 2022, in hybrid format (San Sebastian, Spain and online).
The origin of the QENS (‘Quasielastic Neutron Scattering’) Conferences Series dates back to 1992. Its first Edition was celebrated in Windsor, UK. The idea behind that workshop was ‘to bring together three different aspects (progress on theories, developments in instrumentation and identification of changing interests in the materials investigated), to reflect on the achievements of the previous two decades and to speculate on the future of quasielastic scattering’. Since then, the QENS Series has been regularly celebrated every 2 – 3 years (see list below), with increasing number of participants. At the Nikko (Japan) Meeting in 2012, QENS and WINS (Workshops on Inelastic Neutron Scattering) Conferences merged. WINS Series had been started in 2004 in Tokai (Japan). The subject of that first WINS workshop was ‘the New Age of Neutron-Spectrometers and Data Analysis at New Spallation Sources’. This means, the focus of WINS was on technical aspects (designing and data analysis issues) of neutron spectrometers.
The added value of the joint celebration of QENS and WINS has been put forward since 2012, because it clearly enhances their scope and impact on the scientific community related with the world of quasielastic and inelastic neutron scattering techniques. On the one hand, the vision offered by QENS participants of the current scientific achievements driven by QENS and possible needs of instrument improvements to widen its horizons to new classes of materials or phenomena can be an inspiration source for new projects for scientists developing instrumentation. On the other hand, the latter provide updated information about the current and foreseen capabilities of neutron spectrometers, such that users can optimize their choices for future experiments and fully exploit the new technical developments.
Due to the pandemic, the foreseen QENS/WINS Edition in 2020 had to be cancelled. A ‘bridge’ online Edition was celebrated in 2021, with the purpose of keeping the community motivated and cohesive during Covid times. Finally, QENS/WINS 2022 took place during May 23-27, 2022, in San Sebastian, and online. This delay allowed to celebrate during the 2022 meeting (i) the 10th anniversary of the dual QENS/WINS event since Nikko, (ii) the 30th anniversary of the QENS series since Windsor and (iii) the 50th anniversary of the conception of the NSE technique.
The event gathered 120 in-person participants (Miramar Palace in San Sebastian) and 52 on-line attendants, from 26 different countries. Along QENS/WINS 2022, 45 invited talks were given, including 4 plenaries and 11 keynotes. In addition, 58 oral talks and 36 posters were presented.
Committees
Chairs
| Arantxa Arbe (Chair) | CFM-MPC, Spain |
| Juan Colmenero (co-Chair) | CFM-MPC, Spain |
Local Organizing Committee
| Karmela Alonso | DIPC, Spain |
| Ane Iturriza | MPC, Spain |
| Amaia Iturrospe | CFM, Spain |
| Marta López | MPC, Spain |
| Jon Maiz | MPC, Spain |
| Paula Malo de Molina | MPC, Spain |
| Carmen Martin | DIPC, Spain |
International Advisory Committee
| QENS | |
|---|---|
| Christiane Alba-Simionesco | CEA-CNRS, France |
| Angel Alegría | CFM, Spain |
| Heloisa Bordallo | University of Copenhagen and ESS, Sweden |
| Livia Bove | CNRS-France & Univ. Roma La Sapienza, Italy |
| Nicolas de Souza | ANSTO, Australia |
| Jan Peter Embs | LNS, PSI, Switzerland |
| Felix Fernandez-Alonso | MPC, Spain & UCL, United Kingdom |
| Bernhard Frick | ILL, France |
| Victoria Garcia-Sakai | RAL, United Kingdom |
| Mark R. Johnson | ILL, France |
| Yukinobu Kawakita | J-PARC, Japan |
| Robert L. Leheny | Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA |
| Yun Liu | NIST Center for Neutron Research, USA |
| Wiebke Lohstroh | Technical University Munich, Germany |
| Eugene Mamontov | ORNL, USA |
| Michael Monkenbusch | JCNS, Germany |
| Kristine Niss | Roskilde University, Denmark |
| Timmy Ramirez-Questa | ORNL, USA |
| Dieter Richter | JCNS, Germany |
| Margarita Russina | HZB, Germany |
| Kay Saalwächter | University of Halle, Germany |
| Peter Schurtemberger | Lund University, Sweden |
| Veerendra K. Sharma | BARC, India |
| Alexei Sokolov | ORNL, USA |
| Xun-Li Wang | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Osamu Yamamuro | ISSP, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Emanuela Zaccarelli | CNR Institute of Complex Systems, Italy |
| Jean-Marc Zanotti | LLB (CEA-CNRS), Saclay, France |
| WINS | |
|---|---|
| Estefania Abad | ESS-Bilbao, Spain |
| Doug Abernathy | SNS, USA |
| Ken Andersen | ESS, Sweden |
| Masatoshi Arai | ESS, Sweden |
| Robert Bewley | ISIS, UK |
| Craig Browm | NIST, USA |
| Thomas Brückel | JCNS, Germany |
| Bela Farago | ILL, France |
| Jian Gong | Mianyang Reactor, China |
| Lijie Hao | China Institute of Atomic Energy, China |
| Ken Herwig | ORNL, USA |
| Fanni Juranyi | PSI, Switzerland |
| Oliver Kirstein | ESS, Schweden |
| Feri Mezei | ESS, Sweden |
| Kenji Nakajima | J-PARC, Japan |
| Goran Nilsen | ISIS, UK |
| Katia Pappas | TU Delft, Netherlands |
| Mario Perez | ESS-Bilbao, Spain |
| Henrik Ronnow | EPFL, Switzerland |
| Christian Rüegg | PSI and University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| Astrid Schneidewind | MLZ/JCNS, Germany |
| Ross Stewart | ISIS, UK |
| Fangwei Wang | China SNS, China |
| Dehong Yu | ANSTO, Australia |
Program Committee
| Doug Abernathy | SNS, USA |
| Christiane Alba-Simionesco | CEA-CNRS, France |
| Bernhard Frick | ILL, France |
| Victoria Garcia-Sakai | RAL, United Kingdom |
| Eugene Mamontov | ORNL, USA |
| Katia Pappas | TU Delft, Netherlands |
| Dieter Richter | JCNS, Germany |
Proceeding Reviewers
In addition to the program committee members, we are very grateful to many members of the QENS/WINS community who helped reviewing the papers that were submitted to these proceedings.
The full list of reviewers is: Alexander Kolesnikov, Alexei Sokolov, Andreas Schönhals, Antonio Faraone, Armando Maestro, Aurora Nogales, Bernhard Frick, Carmen Mijangos, Dehong Yu, Doug Abernaty, Erkan Senses, Ernst Rössler, Eugene Mamontov, Felix J. Villacorta, Felix Roosen-Runge, Fernando Alvarez, Francesca Natali, Gabriele Sala, Gordon Kearley, Hideki Seto, Hitoshi Endo, Ingo Hoffmann, Jan Peter Embs, Joachim Wuttke, Jörg Voigt, Judith Peters, Lazslo Pusztai, Luis Carlos Pardo, Macell Wolf, Madhusudan Tyagi, Marcela Berg, Marek Koza, Margarita Russina, Michael Monkenbusch, Michihiro Nagao, Nicolas de Souza, Niels Geerits, Pascale Deen, Ralph Biehl, Robert Bewley, Silvia Arrese-Igor, Stephane Longeville, Stewart Parker, Thomas Hellweg, Tiberio Ezquerra, Tilo Seydel, Toshi Kanaya, Victoria García-Sakai, Wangchun Chen, Xiangquiang Chu and Yang Zhang
Sponsors
Organizing Institutions:
Centro de Física de Materiales (CFM) / Materials Physics Center (MPC)
San Sebastián, Spain
Sponsors:
Eusko Jaurlaritza – Gobierno Vasco
Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), San Sebastián (Spain)
European Soft Matter Infrastructure (EUSMI)
European Network ‘SoftComp’ (Soft Matter Composites)
European Spallation Source Eric (ESS), Lund (Sweden)
Institut Max von Laue – Paul Langevin (ILL), Grenoble (France)
Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (JPARC), Tokai (Japan)
ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Oxford (UK)
Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS), Jülich (Germany)
Heinz Maier Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Garching (Germany)
Consorcio ESS-Bilbao (Spain)
Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB), Saclay (France)
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) (Australia)
School of Neutron Scattering (SoNS) "Francesco Paolo Ricci", Roma (Italy)
Swiss Neutronics, Klingnau (Switzerland)
Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)
Support from:
European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA)
Sociedad Española de Técnicas Neutrónicas (SETN)