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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Dear Colleagues and Friends,</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Please join us, in the sunshine,
at the in-person PNCMI, the first in two years.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">We are pleased to announce
that the 14<sup>th</sup> biennial Polarized Neutrons for Condensed Matter Investigations (PNCMI) conference is open for abstract submission. Please submit your abstract(s) by<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><b>April 29, 2022.</b></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">The conference is intended
to be held in-person from<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><b>July 25 to 29, 2022</b><span class="xapple-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:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in;background:white"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;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 style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E"></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">The
topics will include:</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626">Multiferroics and chirality</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626">Strongly correlated electron systems</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626">Frustrated and disordered systems</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626">Quantum materials</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626">Magnetic nanomaterials</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626">Thin films and multilayers</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626">Soft matter</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626">Imaging</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626">Polarized neutron instrumentation</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#262626;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Polarized neutron
techniques and methods</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li style="display:block"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"><br>
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<div><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">For more information,
please visit the PNCMI 2022 website: </span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://pncmi2022.umd.edu/"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">https://pncmi2022.umd.edu/</span></a></span><span class="xapple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">or
email<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="mailto:pncmi2022@nist.gov"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">pncmi2022@nist.gov</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span><br>
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you in Annapolis in the sunny summer.<o:p> </o:p></span><br>
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