13th International Workshop on Sample Environment at Scattering Facilities (ISSE)

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13th International Workshop on Sample Environment
at Scattering Facilities (ISSE)

Monday, September 28, 2026
Time (ET)	Topic	Presenter/Lead	Place
All Day	Facility & Community Update Posters		Imperial Room
8:00 – 8:30 AM	Check-in and Registration		Lobby
8:30 – 9:00 AM	Welcome Remarks & Workshop Overview	Mark Lumsden -- ORNL Bekki Mills – ORNL	SEC Room
9:00 – 10:55 AM	Session I: Standardization Efforts at and Across Facilities	Chair: Tim D’Adam – ANSTO	SEC Room
9:00 – 9:20 AM	Sample Environment Operational Challenges at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source	Chris Goodway – ISIS/STFC	SEC Room
9:20 – 9:40 AM	A Standardised Approach to Automation and Digitalisation of Complex Operando Experiments	Klaus Kiefer – HZB (Remote)	SEC Room
9:40 – 9:55 AM	Coffee/Tea Break		Pre-Function
9:55 – 10:15 AM	Update on ILL Sample Environment Team Activities	Eddy Lelièvre-Berna – ILL (Remote)	SEC Room
10:15 – 10:35 AM	What’s New Around SECoP	Georg Brandl – FZ Jülich/HZB/ESS (Remote)	SEC Room
10:35 – 10:55 AM	News of Sample Environment at CSNS	Haitao Hu – CSNS (Remote)	SEC Room
10:55 AM – 12:10 PM	Open Discussion I: User Support and Operational Best Practices	Chris Goodway – ISIS/STFC Josh Pierce – ORNL	SEC Room
12:10 – 1:20 PM	Working Lunch & Open Discussion II: Challenges and Opportunities for SE Programs	Luke Heroux – ORNL Alexander Holmes – ESS	SEC Room
1:20 – 2:40 PM	Session II: Soft Matter Sample Environments	Chair: Alice Corani – ESS	SEC Room
1:20 – 1:40 PM	Illumination Cell for SANS and Neutron Spin Echo	Luke Heroux – ORNL	SEC Room
1:40 – 2:00 PM	Soft Matter Sample Environment at ISIS: Operations, Development and Innovation	James Dalton – ISIS/STFC	SEC Room
2:00 – 2:20 PM	Modular Grazing-Incidence SANS Sample Environment for BL-6 EQ-SANS	Chris Neal – ORNL	SEC Room
2:20 – 2:40 PM	Development of Sample Environments for Relative Humidity Control at SNS and HFIR	Shuo Qian – ORNL	SEC Room
2:40 – 2:55 PM	Coffee/Tea Break		Pre-Function
2:55 – 5:00 PM	Open Discussion III: Soft Matter Techniques and Best Practices	Yamali Hernandez – NIST Chris Neal – ORNL	SEC Room
Evening	Independent Dinner

 

13th International Workshop on Sample Environment
at Scattering Facilities (ISSE)

Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Time (ET)	Topic	Presenter/Lead	Place
All Day	Facility & Community Update Posters		Imperial Room
9:00 – 10:20 AM	Session III: Novel Sample Environment Developments and Techniques	Chair: Dante Quirinale – ORNL	SEC Room
9:00 – 9:20 AM	Advancing Liquid Handling Capabilities at Bio-SANS	Kevin Weiss – ORNL	SEC Room
9:20 – 9:40 AM	Systematic Studies of Large-Area Polyimide X-ray Windows Used for Synchrotron Beamline Instrumentation	Adam Laszlo Gera – BNL/NSLS-II	SEC Room
9:40 – 10:00 AM	The Imagine-X DNP Cryostat	Josh Pierce – ORNL	SEC Room
10:00 – 10:20 AM	The High-Pressure Program on SNAP: Where We Are and What Comes Next	Chris Ridley – ORNL	SEC Room
10:20 – 10:35 AM	Coffee/Tea Break		Pre-Function
10:35 AM – 12:10 PM	Open Discussion IV: Operating and Supporting 24/7 Facilities	Victor Fanelli – ORNL Christopher Lawson – ISIS/STFC	SEC Room
12:10 – 1:30 PM	Lunch (on your own)
1:30 – 2:50 PM	Session IV: High Pressure, Stress and Strain	Chair: Chris Ridley – ORNL	SEC Room
1:30 – 1:50 PM	High Precision Uniaxial and Hydrostatic Pressure Cells for Quantum Material Neutron Experiments	Dilip Bhoi – ORNL	SEC Room
1:50 – 2:10 PM	Cranking Up the Pressure – The High Pressure Program at SINQ	Gediminas Simutis – PSI/SINQ	SEC Room
2:10 – 2:30 PM	Beam Heating Effects During High Pressure Diffraction Experiments at Ultra-Low Temperature	Todd Sherline – ORNL	SEC Room
2:30 – 2:50 PM	Hazardous Gas Handling Experiments at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source	Chris Goodway – ISIS/STFC	SEC Room
2:50 – 3:05 PM	Coffee/Tea Break		Pre-Function
3:05 – 5:00 PM	Topical Conversations / Informal Cross-Facility Discussions	General Attendees	SEC Room
3:05 – 5:00 PM	ISSE Board Meeting	ISSE Board	Boardroom
5:00 – 7:00 PM	Conference Banquet & Plenary Speaker Neutron Scattering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Jon Taylor -- ORNL	530 Lounge Hyatt Place Rooftop

 

BANQUET ACCESS: Take the Hyatt Place elevator and press “R” (Rooftop) to access the 530 Lounge for Tuesday evening’s banquet and plenary presentation.

 

13th International Workshop on Sample Environment
at Scattering Facilities (ISSE)

Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Time (ET)	Topic	Presenter/Lead	Place
9:00 – 10:35 AM	Session V: Cryogenics and Magnet Systems	Chair: Valentyn Rubanskyi – ORNL	SEC Room
9:00 – 9:20 AM	Status of the ESS Sample Environment Magnet Suite	Alexander Holmes – ESS	SEC Room
9:20 – 9:40 AM	Ultra-high field pulsed magnet program at the SNS	Todd Sherline – ORNL	SEC Room
9:40 – 9:55 AM	Coffee/Tea Break		Pre-Function
9:55 – 10:15 AM	Enhancing Dilution Refrigerator Control Using Programmable Logic Controller	Guang Yue – ORNL	SEC Room
10:15 – 10:35 AM	Development of a Multi-Axis Cryogenic Goniometer for HFIR Sample Environment	Mikhail Yurov – ORNL	SEC Room
10:35 AM – 11:55 AM	Open Discussion V: Engineering Process and Document Control	Jamie Molaison – ORNL Gene Davidson – ANSTO	SEC Room
11:55 – 12:05 PM	Poster Lightning Session I – 1-minute poster previews	Poster Presenters	SEC Room
12:05 – 1:20 PM	Lunch & Poster Session I		Imperial Room
1:20 – 2:40 PM	Session VI: Novel Sample Environment Developments and Techniques	Chair: Mikhail Yurov – ORNL	SEC Room
1:20 – 1:40 PM	Sample Probe with Embedded Two-Phase Cooling for Cryostats	An Zou – Advanced Cooling Technologies	SEC Room
1:40 – 2:00 PM	In-situ Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy Probe for Neutron Scattering	Victor Fanelli – ORNL	SEC Room
2:00 – 2:20 PM	Development of X-ray Transparent Flexible Microfluidics for Automation of Serial Crystallography and Time-Resolved Studies	Peter Docker – Diamond Light Source	SEC Room
2:20 – 2:40 PM	In-House 3D Printing Hub for Rapid Microfluidic Device Fabrication	Artur Domingues – MAX IV	SEC Room
2:40 – 2:55 PM	Coffee/Tea Break		Pre-Function
2:55 – 5:00 PM	Open Discussion VI: Experimental Safety Analysis Process	Dilip Bhoi – ORNL & Yoshifumi Sakaguchi – CROSS/J-PARC	SEC Room
Evening	Independent Dinner

 

13th International Workshop on Sample Environment
at Scattering Facilities (ISSE)

Thursday, October 1, 2026
Time (ET)	Topic	Presenter/Lead	Place
9:00 – 10:20 AM	Session VII: Automation, Sample Changers and Remote Operations	Chair: Yegor Vekhov – NIST	SEC Room
9:00 – 9:20 AM	PAC 2.0 – The Next Generation of the POWGEN Autochanger	Elijah Stevens – ORNL	SEC Room
9:20 – 9:40 AM	Machine Learning Automation of Sample Alignment in Neutron Beamlines	Jonathan Edelen / Stephen Coleman – RadiaSoft	SEC Room
9:40 – 10:00 AM	EPICS-Based Sample Environment Controls and Automation	Mariano Ruiz-Rodriguez – ORNL	SEC Room
10:00 – 10:20 AM	ISIS Electrical and Electronics Support Group Update	Maksim Schastny – ISIS/STFC	SEC Room
10:20 – 10:35 AM	Coffee/Tea Break		Pre-Function
10:35 – 10:50 AM	Group Photo		TBD/Outside
10:50 AM – 11:50 AM	Session VIII: High Temperature Sample Environments	Chair: Marek Bartkowiak – PSI	SEC Room
10:50 – 11:10 AM	Development Efforts in ORNL’s High Temperature Sample Environment Group	Dante Quirinale – ORNL	SEC Room
11:10 – 11:30 AM	Development of versatile sample cans for high temperature neutron studies	Melanie Kirkham – ORNL	SEC Room
11:30 AM – 11:50 AM	Rapid Cooling and Autonomous Sample Changing for Vacuum Neutron Furnaces	Patryk Radyjowski – Advanced Cooling Technologies	SEC Room
11:50 AM – 12:05 PM	Poster Lightning Session II – 1-minute poster previews	Poster Presenters	SEC Room
12:05 – 1:35 PM	Lunch & Poster Session II		Imperial Room
1:35 – 3:00 PM	Open Discussion VII: Key Takeaways and Future Needs	Newly Elected ISSE Chair & TBD	SEC Room
3:00 – 3:15 PM	Coffee/Tea Break		Pre-Function
3:15 – 5:00 PM	ISSE General Assembly – election/business items, ISSE 2028 location, discussion outcomes, community priorities and action items	Newly Elected ISSE Chair	SEC Room
Evening	Independent Dinner

 

13th International Workshop on Sample Environment
at Scattering Facilities (ISSE)

Friday, October 2, 2026
Time (ET)	Topic	Presenter/Lead	Place
8:30 – 9:00 AM	Closing Remarks	TBD	SEC Room
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM	Facility Tours		ORNL
12:00 PM	Workshop Adjourns

 

Poster presentations

Poster Sessions
Date/Time	Topic	Presenter/Lead	Place
Facility Update Posters Monday – Tuesday All Day Display			Imperial Room
Poster Position: 1	SE@MLZ: What’s the News?	Manuel Suarez – MLZ
Poster Position: 2	Sample Environment at J-PARC	Yoshifumi Sakaguchi – CROSS/J-PARC
Poster Position: 3	ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Facility Update	Christopher Lawson – ISIS/STFC
Poster Position: 4	High Temperature Sample Environment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Bekki Mills – ORNL
Poster Position: 5	ACNS Facility Update & Sample Environment Improvements	Gene Davidson – ANSTO
Poster Position: 6	Soft Matter Sample Environments at ORNL	Luke Heroux – ORNL
Poster Position: 7	Attocube Nanopositioning and Low-Background Sample Environment for CORELLI at SNS	Duminda Liurukara – ORNL
Poster Position: 8	Facility News from PSI	Marek Bartkowiak – PSI
Poster Position: 9	SNS Low Temperature and Magnets Current Capabilities and Developments	Victor Fanelli – ORNL
Poster Position: 10	Overview of High Pressure Sample Environment at HFIR and SNS	Jamie Molaison – ORNL
Poster Position: 11	ESS Facility Update	Lauritz Saxtrup – ESS
Poster Position: 12	New Developments in Low Temperature Sample Environments at HFIR	Kostyantyn Nasyedkin – ORNL
Poster Position: 13	The Sample Environment Development Lab at Diamond	Paul Wady – Diamond
Poster Session I Wednesday 9/30/2026 12:05 – 1:20 PM			Imperial Room
Poster Position: 1	Development of an Automated Control System for Wet Cryostats	Yegor Vekhov – NIST
Poster Position: 2	Automated Helium-4 Gas Handling and Dry Cold Trap Development for Cryogenic Sample Environments at TUM SE@MLZ	Lukas Vogl – MLZ
Poster Position: 3	Sample Temperature Measurement in ILL-Type Vacuum Furnace During In-Situ Experiments	Austin DePottey – LANL
Poster Position: 4	Integrating Nanocenters into Neutron Sample-Environment Workflows	Zac Ward – ORNL
Poster Position: 5	Create, Characterize, Innovate & Investigate with Quantum Design	Charles Strehlow – Quantum Design Oxford
Poster Position: 6	Recent Developments and Concepts in High-Temperature Sample Environment at TUM SE@MLZ	Andreas Buchner, Svenja Jäger  – MLZ
Poster Position: 7	High-Field Magnets for Beam-Line Measurements and Ultra-Low-Temperature Applications	Shashwata Moitra -- Cryogenic US LLC
Poster Session II Thursday 10/01/2026 12:05 – 1:35 PM			Imperial Room
Poster Position: 1	Collaborative Robotics as a Scalable and Reconfigurable Automation Platform for Sample Environment Operations at SNS and HFIR	Sunho Lee – ORNL
Poster Position: 2	Tubular Atmosphere Thermomechanical Experimental Rig (TATER)	Austin DePottey – LANL
Poster Position: 3	Development of High-Capacity Thermalized Static and Tumbling (U)SANS Sample Changers at ACNS	Chris Baldwin – ANSTO
Poster Position: 4	Automated Sample Environments for Soft Matter and Chemistry for Neutron Reflectometry	Alice Corani – ESS
Poster Position: 5	ORCA – Oak Ridge Cryostat Automation and ULTRA – Ultra Low Temperature Refrigeration Automation	Cory Fletcher – ORNL
Poster Position: 6	Helium Recovery System for the Spallation Neutron Source ORNL	Tyler White – ORNL
Poster Position: 7	Automated Liquid Handling at Bio-SANS	Kevin Weiss – ORNL
Poster Position: 8	Prototype Sample Holders at NCNR	Tanya Dax -- NIST

 

 

 

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