NCNR 50 Year Symposium

December 7-8, 2017

NCNR Conference Room K04

December 7, 2017

8:30 - 9:00 AM Registration

9:00 - 9:05 AM Robert Dimeo, NCNR Director

Welcoming Remarks

9:05 – 9:10 AM Walt Copan, NIST Director

9:10 – 9:40 AM Dan Neumann, NCNR

Neutrons at NIST

9:40 – 9:50 AM G.X. Tessema, National Science Foundation 

The Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering: A Successful Model of 

Interagency Partnership

9:50 – 10:10 AM James Rhyne, Department of Energy 

The NCNR Years: A Career-Launching Opportunity

10:10 – 10:30 AM Andreas Magerl, Universität Erlangen-Nurnberg

Learning Neutron Scattering at NIST

10:30 – 11:00 AM Break

11:00 – 11:20 AM Collin Broholm, Johns Hopkins University

Exploring Quantum Materials Through High Efficiency Cold Neutron Instrumentation 

at the NCNR

11:20 – 11:40 AM Lilo Pozzo, University of Washington

Tickling Soft Matter: Manipulating Materials with External Fields

11:40 – 12:00 PM Mike Hore, Case Western Reserve University

Small-Angle Neutron Scattering from Cyclic and Mechanically-Interlocked Polymers

12:00 – 12:20 PM Tom Newton, NCNR

The Future of the NCNR Neutron Source: An Exploration of Options

12:20 – 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 – 1:50 PM Megan Robertson, University of Houston 

SANS Investigations of the Thermodynamics of Polymer Mixtures

1:50 – 2:10 PM Mas Subramanian, Oregon State University 

 The Role of Neutrons in Colorful Materials World: Heat Reflecting Blue Pigments and 

Beyond

2:10 – 2:30 PM Mathias Loesche, Carnegie Mellon University

Neutron Scattering in Structural Biology: The Best is Yet to Come!

2:30 – 2:50 PM Carlos Lopez-Barron, ExxonMobil 

Neutron Science at ExxonMobil

2:50 – 3:10 PM Frank Bates, University of Minnesota

Neutrons and Polymers: A Marriage made in Gaithersburg

3:10 – 3:40 PM Break
3:40 – 4:00 PM Kai Liu, University of California, Davis

Polarized Neutron Reflectometry Investigations of Artificially Structured 

Nanomagnets

4:00 – 4:20 PM Ron Jones, nSoft

nSoft: How We Learned to Love, and Advance, Industrial Research

4:20 – 4:40 PM Dick Lindstrom, NIST

Radioanalytical Chemistry @ NBSR

4:40 – 5:00 PM Ron Bishop, Smithsonian

The NIST-Smithsonian Partnership: Four Decades of Archaeological Neutron 

Activation

5:00 – 5:20 PM Leslie Ruppert, U.S. Geological Survey

Using Neutron Scattering to Answer a Fundamental Question in Petroleum Geology - 

How Do Fluids Move Through Tight Rocks?

5:20 – 6:30 PM Break

6:30 PM

7:15 PM

Reception

Dinner 

Gaithersburg Marriott, Washingtonian Center

December 8, 2017

9:00 - 9:20 AM Rob Briber, University of Maryland

NCNR/UMD Research Interactions - Soft Matter and Beyond

9:20 - 9:40 AM Norm Wagner, University of Delaware

Making Complex Fluids Less Complex to Understand Using Rheo-SANS

9:40 – 10:00 AM Tom Trabold, Rochester Institute of Technology

“Neutrons Don’t Lie!”: The Transformational Role of Neutron Imaging in Fuel Cell 

Science and Technology

10:00 – 10:20 AM Fred Wietfeldt, Tulane University

Neutron Decay Experiments at the NCNR

10:20 – 10:50 AM Break

10:50 – 11:10 AM Matt Helgeson, University of California, Santa Barbara

Reflections on Pushing the Limits of SANS for Soft Matter - Past, Present and Future

11:10 – 11:30 AM Jeff Long, University of California, Berkeley 

Neutron Diffraction Studies of Gas Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks

11:30 – 11:50 AM Stephen Wilson, University of California Santa Barbara

Catalyzing Discovery in Quantum Magnets: The Power of Partnering with the NCNR 

and its Scientists

11:50 – 12:10 PM Young Lee, Stanford University

A Journey into the Science of Quantum Magnets at the NCNR

12:10 – 12:40 PM Mike Rowe, NCNR

Final Remarks

NCNR Facility Tour (Optional)