[Neutron] Flipper2010 - First announcement

[Garry McIntyre]

Dear Colleague,

We would like to draw your attention to the International Workshop on 
Single-Crystal Diffraction with Polarised Neutrons (Flipper2010), 
which will be held in Grenoble, France, January 27 - 29, 2010.

Scope of the workshop

The enhanced contrast between the magnetic and nuclear signals in 
polarised neutron diffraction was first demonstrated in the milestone 
experiment by Shull, Nathans and colleagues in the late 1950s. The 
following decades saw steady development of the flipping-ratio 
technique by small groups of devoted experts who were interested 
primarily in the experimental determination of magnetic form factors 
and mapping out of spin density in metals and intermetallics. More 
recently improvements in instrumentation and analysis techniques have 
seen application of polarised-neutron diffraction to an increasingly 
wider range of scientific questions from solution of difficult 
antiferromagnetic structures, through exploration of spin density in 
smart materials, such as giant-magnetoresistant oxides and 
multiferroics, to magnetism in molecules. Chemists, materials 
scientists and biologists have now joined with physicists to discover 
the unique capabilities of polarised-neutron diffraction.

To continue to spread the interest in polarised-neutron diffraction 
amongst the different scientific communities a three-day 
International Workshop on Single-Crystal Diffraction with Polarised 
Neutrons will be held at the ILL in Grenoble in January 2010. With 
emphasis on scientific applications, exotic magnetism, and the 
promise of new applications at both reactor and spallation sources, 
this workshop aims to bridge the gap between the excellent 
technique-oriented biennial PNCMI conferences and the broader 
triennial Sagamore Conference on Spin, Charge and Momentum Density. 
One session will be in honour of the long and fruitful career of 
Francis Tasset.

For more information and regular updates, please visit our website:

http://www.ill.eu/news-events/workshops-events/flipper-2010

To ensure that you are on our mailing list for the second circular, 
and to gauge interest in published proceedings, we would appreciate 
pre-registration at your earliest convenience via the website.  We 
would also greatly appreciate if you could spread this information 
amongst colleagues and friends.

We hope to see you in Grenoble next January.

The Flipper2010 local organising committee

Anne Stunault, ILL
Garry McIntyre, ILL
Eric Ressouche, CEA
Brigitte Dubouloz, ILL (conference secretary)

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Flipper2010
"International Workshop on Single-Crystal Diffraction with Polarised Neutrons"

27-29 January 2007
Grenoble, France.

Email: flipper at ill.eu
URL: http://www.ill.eu/news-events/workshops-events/flipper-2010

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Garry J. McIntyre
ILL Senior Fellow, Institut Laue-Langevin
Visiting Professor in Chemistry, Durham University, UK

Mail address: Institut Laue-Langevin, B.P.156, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9,France
Tel: 33/0 4.76.20.70.90;  Fax: 33/0 4.76.48.39.06; 
email: mcintyre at ill.fr;  home page: http://www.ill.fr/dif/GarryMcIntyre.htm
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