The workshop was organized by the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS).

It came at exactly the right time: with new spallation sources being brought into operation in the USA and Japan, as well as the decision to build the long-pulse spallation source in Europe, the focus of neutron instrumentation development has shifted more and more from continuous to spallation sources. The workshop brought together experts in neutron instrumentation at both continuous and spallation sources to make the most effective use of the knowledge accumulated so far concerning the instruments for construction at the new European spallation source ESS.

Around 50 oral presentations, including five lectures giving an overview of current instrumentation from a selected panel of leading experts worldwide along with a total of 20 posters, covered all aspects of state-of-the-art and advanced neutron instrumentation.

The next JCNS workshop focusing on soft matter will be held in Tutzing from 8-11 October, 2012.