Annoucements
Welcoming all returning, new, and future facility users!
The CNMS and the User Executive Committee (UEC) are pleased to announce the 2026 CNMS User Meeting will be held in person from August 11-12, 2026. Please join us in person at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Knoxville for the opportunity to highlight research areas and exchange ideas -- bringing together leading researchers, junior scientists, postdocs, and students.
Meeting Agenda: COMING SOON
The User Meeting will feature a student poster slam, poster reception and a town hall and panel discussion meeting with the UEC Chair Jon Camden and the CNMS Group Leaders.
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The User Meeting will also feature:
Topical Workshops
Wednesday, August 12th at the Crowne Plaza
- Introduction to Neutrons in Materials Science (Agenda-coming soon)
Organizer: Michelle Dolgos, ORNL/Spallation Neutron Source
- Lesker Tool Talks (Agenda-coming soon)
Organizers: Kevin Lester and Bernadeta Srijanto
Speaker: Jeff Becker, Lesker Company
- Autonomous Synthesis and Assembly of Thin Films and 2D Materials (Agenda-coming soon)
Organizers: Sumner Harris, Rama Vasudevan, Kai Xiao
- Autonomous Self-Driving Labs: Flow Chemistry, Arrays, and Characterization (Agenda-coming soon)
Organizers: Rigoberto Advincula, Ilia Ivanov, Panagiotis Christakopoulos, Rama Vasudevan
- Theory-in-the-loop of Autonomous Experiments (Agenda-coming soon)
Organizers: P. Ganesh, Eva Zarkadoula, Rama Vasudevan
User Group Town-Hall Meeting with the CNMS UEC provides opportunities for the user community at large to provide additional input on facility operations that affect users.
- Poster Session: students, postdocs, and users are encouraged to participate and present the results of their research and share their experiences at the user facilities. Poster presented by graduate and undergraduate students will also be eligible to compete for the Best Student Presentation award given at the town hall meetings.
The CNMS user facility is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science to provide specialized instrumentation and expertise to researchers from universities, national laboratories, and industry that enables them to conduct forefront research that would otherwise not be possible with resources at their home institutions.