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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear Colleagues,</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">We are pleased to announce that the 13<sup>th</sup> biennial Polarized Neutrons for Condensed Matter Investigations (PNCMI) conference is open for registration and abstract submission. Please submit your abstract(s) by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>April
24, 2020.</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">The conference will be held from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>July 27 to 31, 2020</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at the Graduate Annapolis Hotel in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, and is organized by the
National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research in concert with the University of Maryland. The meeting will feature invited and contributed talks, poster sessions, and a tour of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Center for Neutron Research.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#262626">PNCMI is the most comprehensive conference on the latest scientific research using polarized neutrons and on related instrumentation development.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#262626">The topics will include:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Multiferroics and chirality</b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#262626;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b>Strongly correlated electron systems</b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#262626;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b>Frustrated and disordered systems</b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#262626;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b>Quantum materials</b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#262626;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b>Magnetic nanomaterials</b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#262626;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b>Thin films and multilayers</b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#262626;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b>Soft matter</b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#262626;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b>Imaging</b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#262626;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b>Polarized neutron instrumentation</b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="color:#262626">Polarized neutron techniques and methods</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="color:black">For more information, please visit the PNCMI 2020 website: <a href="https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpncmi2020.umd.edu%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cwangchun.chen%40nist.gov%7C49293157fc344d47b81108d784d36e18%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C1%7C637123915937062667&sdata=jX2V6ZCBTWWrVJaazA48AgToBWVQIvH8AOZyNecQHwk%3D&reserved=0" title="https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpncmi2020.umd.edu%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cwangchun.chen%40nist.gov%7C49293157fc344d47b81108d784d36e18%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C1%7C637123915937062667&sdata=jX2V6ZCBTWWrVJaazA48AgT"><span style="color:#954F72">https://pncmi2020.umd.edu/</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or
email<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:pncmi2020@nist.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">pncmi2020@nist.gov</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">We look forward to seeing you in Annapolis in July.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">PNCMI 2020 local organizing committee</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Wangchun Chen, Julie Borchers, Hannah Burrall, Alexander Grutter, Kathryn Krycka, Williams Ratcliff, Shannon Watson, Robert Briber, Lisa Press</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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