[Neutron] Call for contributed papers to symposium on "Preparing for the bright future of neutron scattering in the U.S."

[Lee Magid]

Save late August for neutrons!

Call for contributed papers for a symposium of the Analytical Chemistry
Division [ANYL] at the American Chemical Society Fall 2005 National
Meeting in Washington, DC (check www.acs.org for general information):

"Preparing for the bright future of neutron scattering in the U.S.:
state of the art in neutron-based analysis"

Papers are sought in two general areas:

1) Novel Solid-State Chemical Systems
2) Polymers, Colloids, Solutions and Biomembranes

Please submit an abstract to us (not through the ACS website) in ACS
format by Wednesday, April 20.  We will notify you of its acceptance
and ask you to submit it through ACS before their deadline of April 29.

The world's premier neutron scattering facility - the Spallation
Neutron Source - will begin producing neutron beams in 2006.  In
addition, existing U.S. neutron facilities are undergoing upgrades.
Because of this, the U.S. neutron scattering community is poised for
strong growth, and chemists in particular, who are traditionally
underrepresented in the U.S. neutron community relative to European
chemists' participation in their neutron community, are presented with
a golden opportunity.

Our symposium's goal is to build scientific excitement and broad
participation among chemists.  We seek in our speakers a focus on
unanswered important scientific questions about structure and dynamics
of chemical systems, broadly defined and how many of these questions
are complementarily or uniquely answered with neutron scattering
techniques. The objective is to feature the most exciting problems and
the role of neutron techniques in their solution. The chemical
sciences, biology, chemical engineering, materials science, and
geosciences will all be represented.


Confirm invited speakers include:

Julia Chan - Chemistry, LSU
John Parise - Chemistry and Geosciences - SUNY-Stonybrook
Nancy Ross - Geological Sciences and Chemistry - Virginia Tech
Wayne Goodman - Chemistry, Texas A&M
Nitash Balsara - Chemical Engineering, UC-Berkeley
Janna Maranas - Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State
Nancy Levinger - Chemistry, Colorado State
Sylvia McLain - Chemistry; NSF International Research Fellow, ISIS
Camille Jones - Chemistry, NIST and Hope College
Huey Huang - Physics, Rice

	We are also planning a half-day session at the start of the
symposium, a brief Neutrons 101, focusing on a mapping of neutron
scattering techniques onto scientific opportunities.

Best regards,

Lee Magid				Shenda Baker
Dept. of Chemistry		Dept. of Chemistry
University of Tennessee		Harvey Mudd College
lmagid at utk.edu			shenda_baker at hmc.edu
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