Name: Advanced computer simulations methods for neutron scattering instruments 2025
Start: 2025-07-11T08:45:00+02:00
End: 2025-07-11T18:05:00+02:00
Location: DTU building 306

Advanced computer simulations methods for neutron scattering instruments 2025

Friday, July 11, 2025 - 8:45 AM

Monday, July 7, 2025
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Friday, July 11, 2025
8:45 AM Morning Session 1
Morning Session 1
8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: R035
Contributions

8:45 AM Welcome and practical information

9:00 AM News and recent developments from the McStas team

9:20 AM Version 3.7 of the neutron instrument simulation package VITESS

9:40 AM Instrument simulations with SIMRES – advanced features and use cases
10:00 AM Morning Coffee Break
Morning Coffee Break
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: R035
10:20 AM Morning Session 2
Morning Session 2
10:20 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: R035
Contributions

10:20 AM Update on the MCPL and NCrystal projects - Thomas Kittelmann (European Spallation Source ERIC)

10:40 AM Introducing Effects of Surface Physics in McStas Union

11:00 AM Virtual Experiments on the BIFROST Spectrometer at ESS

11:20 AM Digital Twins at MLZ: combining Vitess and McStas with NICOS

11:40 AM Contingency timeslot
12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: R035
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: R035
Contributions

1:00 PM Machine learning, digital twins and atomistic simulations for t-o-f INS

1:20 PM Monte Carlo Ray Tracing Efforts at the Oak Ridge Neutron Scattering facilities

1:40 PM Neutron optic simulation of the New NRAD Facility at the SAFARI-1 Research Reactor

2:00 PM Overview of the optimization of the new cold spectrometer at the NCNR

2:20 PM Contingency timeslot
2:40 PM Afternoon Coffee Break
Afternoon Coffee Break
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: R035
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: R035
Contributions

3:00 PM Design of an Inelastic Neutron Spectrometer for the French ICONE project

3:20 PM Simulating diffractive optics for neutron techniques

3:40 PM Simulating neutron diffraction from deformed mosaic crystals in McStas

4:00 PM Tally Components in McStas

4:20 PM Sampling neutrons with artificial intelligence models
4:40 PM Poster session
Poster session
4:40 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: R035
Contributions

4:40 PM Novel quasi-elastic backscattering instrument concept at ESS – KVASIR

4:40 PM Vitess-Python: A Python API for VITESS Instruments

4:40 PM Advancing Neutron Optics: Simulation and Material Design for High-Performance Focusing Units

4:40 PM Benchmarking FLUKA to Optimise Moderator Design for High-Power Neutron Sources

4:40 PM Using CAD-geometry in particle transport.

4:40 PM Verification of the McStas Code Using the Neutron Diffractometer Aurora - IPEN/Brazil

4:40 PM McStas simulation of a beam characterization experiment of the PF1B cold neutron beamline for an improved instrument simulation model.

4:40 PM Simulation of transmission polarising supermirror device – results from incorporating missing physical processes

4:40 PM Optimizing Scattered Beam Collimators with C3DP for Challenging Sample Environments

4:40 PM Improving Monte Carlo simulations of neutron scattering experiments through combining the OpenMC neutron transport code with the NCrystal toolkit

4:40 PM Predicting neutron experiments from first principles: a workflow powered by machine learning

4:40 PM Vitess-AI: Leveraging Machine Learning and LLMs to Accelerate Neutron Instrument Design and Experiment Planning

4:40 PM Heliumscope: A Geant4-Based Simulation for the ESS Test Beamline

4:40 PM NeuMATIX: Integrating NEUtron & MATerials Expertise for Advanced Scattering Simulations

4:40 PM CANS for neutron scattering: a comparative assessment of capabilities and potential

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