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<font color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; ">We are writing to request your suggestions for invited speakers for the Focus Topic <u><b style="font-size: 16px;">“</b></u></span></font><i><font color="black"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-size: 16px;"><u><b>Discovering
emergent phenomena and magnetism with neutron and x-ray powder diffraction</b></u></span></font></i><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><u><b>”</b></u> </span>at the <a href="http://www.amercrystalassn.org/content/pages/main-annual-meetings" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">2014
American Crystallographic Association Meeting in Albuquerque</a> (NM). [Reminder: Abstract deadlines 01/31/2014!]</span></font></p>
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<font color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; ">A description of the Focus Topic is attached below.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; ">Your suggestions for invited speakers, including a brief justification for your recommendations, can be sent to the <a href="mailto:allobet@lanl.gov,%20branton@byu.edu?subject=ACA%20proposal%20for%20invited%20speakers-Discovering%20emergent%20phenomena%20and%20magnetism%20with%20neutron%20and%20x-ray%20powder%20diffraction" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">session
chairs</a> (Dr. Anna Llobet or Prof. Branton Campbell). Please fill out the Invited Speaker Nomination Form attached below and send a plain email.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; ">In order to meet the ACA deadline for invited speaker nominations, we ask that your suggestions reach us by 10/09/2013. Nominations sent after the deadline will not be considered.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; ">We apologize if you receive more than one email from us seeking your nominations. We look forward to hearing from you!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; ">Anna Llobet and Branton Campbell<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; "><b>Session:</b> </span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><b>“<i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Discovering emergent phenomena and magnetism with neutron and x-ray
powder diffraction”</span></i></b></span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<font color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; "><b>Co-organizers:
</b>Anna Llobet (Lujan Neutron Scattering Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory) </span></font><u><font color="#000cec"><span style="color: rgb(0, 12, 236); "><a href="mailto:allobet@lan.lgov" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">allobet@lan.lgov</a></span></font></u><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Branton Campbell (Department of Physics & Astronomy Brigham Young University) </span><a href="mailto:branton@byu.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">branton@byu.edu</span></a></span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; "><b>Session description:</b></span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font color="black" face="Times"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The interplay of spin, lattice, charge, and orbital degrees of freedom in strongly correlated electron systems leads to the development of novel emergent phenomena
like superconductivity, magneto-electric coupling, multiferroicity to name a few.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "> The complex nature of the competing interactions and nearly degenerate multipleground states often leads to symmetry
breaking to form ordered patterns, such as the formation of stripes, ladders, checkerboards, frustrated magnetism or phase separation, and an enhanced response to external influences.</span></font><font color="black" face="Times"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">
This session will focus on how neutron and x-ray powder diffraction has impacted this field by discovering and elucidating magnetic and structural short- and long-range correlations in such systems.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; ">ACA Meeting 2014, Albuquerque (NM)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b style="font-size: 18px;"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black; ">“</span></font><i><font color="black"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; ">Discovering emergent phenomena and magnetism with neutron and x-ray powder
diffraction”</span></font></i><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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