<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Dear colleagues, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; ">we are very pleased to invite you to participate in the</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19pt; ">ESS Science Symposium</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); "> </span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: red; ">Neutrons for Future Energy Strategies</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); "> </span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">PSI, Villigen, Switzerland</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">May 27–29, 2013</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); "> </span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Please register here <a href="http://indico.psi.ch//event/scisymp"><span style="color: blue; ">http://indico.psi.ch//event/scisymp</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); "> </span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Finite fossil fuel reserves and growing environmental concerns have lead to an increase of interest in so-called renewable energy sources such as wind, solar or water energy. Consequently, the conversion and storage of energy and the supply of synthetic fuels will become more and more important in the near future.</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">This symposium will bring together experts from the fields energy research and scientists from the neutron scattering community. In the context of this symposium energy research will refer to synthetic fuels, solar cells, fuel cells and batteries and materials for turbines (wind and/or water).</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Emphasis will be put on sample environment, in particular for in-situ and in-operando experiments; on correlations between structure and transport processes, on interactions of materials with their ambient environment; and on synergies with synchrotron radiation and muon spin spectroscopy. The symposium will cover all topics from diffraction to spectroscopy and imaging.</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); "> </span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">We will have contributions from:</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); "> </span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Masatoshi Arai (J-PARC, Japan)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">David Bourillot (PSI, Switzerland)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Stuart Holdsworth (Empa, Switzerland)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Maths Karlsson (U Lund, Sweden)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Holger Kohlmann (U Leipzig, Germany)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Gabor Laurenczy (EPFL, Switzerland)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Eberhard Lehmann (PSI, Switzerland)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Alfons Molenbroek (Haldor Topsøe, Denmark)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Jörg Pieper (U Tartu, Estonia)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Timmy Ramirez-Cuesta (ISIS, United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Markus Strobl (ESS, Lund, Sweden)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Stenbjörn Styring (U Uppsala, Sweden)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Dirk Wallacher (HZB, Germany)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Alexander Wokaun (PSI, Switzerland)</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); "> </span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">For more information please visit <a href="http://indico.psi.ch//event/scisymp"><span style="color: blue; ">http://indico.psi.ch/event/scisymp</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">Abstract submission deadline, May 1<sup>st</sup> 20</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">13</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); "><br></span></div></body></html>