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<span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Dear Colleagues,</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">We are pleased to announce that the <b>virtual</b>
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Polarized Neutrons for Condensed Matter Investigations</a> (PNCMI) conference is open for registration and abstract submission. Please submit your abstract(s) by <b>June 18, 2021.</b></span></span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">The
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conference</a> is organized by NIST and will be held online from <b>July 27 to 30, 2021</b>. </span><span style="color:black">The virtual PNCMI will feature 2 daily one-hour sessions for both invited and poster presentations<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">.</span>
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<span><span style="color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">PNCMI is the most comprehensive conference on the latest scientific research using polarized neutrons and on related instrumentation development.</span></span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span><span style="color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">The topics will include:</span></span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li><b><span><span style="color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Multiferroics and chirality</span></span></b><o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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<li><b><span><span style="color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Strongly correlated electron systems</span></span></b><o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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<li><b><span><span style="color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Frustrated and disordered systems</span></span></b><o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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<li><b><span><span style="color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Quantum materials</span></span></b><o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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<li><b><span><span style="color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Magnetic nanomaterials</span></span></b><o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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<li><b><span><span style="color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Thin films and multilayers</span></span></b><o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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<li><b><span><span style="color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Soft matter</span></span></b><o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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<li><b><span><span style="color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Imaging</span></span></b><o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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<li><b><span><span style="color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Polarized neutron instrumentation</span></span></b><o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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<li><b><span><span style="color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Polarized neutron techniques and methods</span></span></b><o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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<span><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">For more information, please visit the virtual PNCMI 2021 website: <a href="https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2021/07/polarized-neutrons-condensed-matter-investigations-pncmi-2021-online" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2021/07/polarized-neutrons-condensed-matter-investigations-pncmi-2021-online</a>
or email <a href="mailto:pncmi2021@nist.gov" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1">pncmi2021@nist.gov</a></span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<span><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">We look forward to meeting you in July.</span></span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Best regards, </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Wangchun Chen </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">On behalf of the PNCMI 2021 organizing committee</span></p>
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