<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; "><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">Dear colleagues,<br><br>
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">We are very pleased to invite you to participate in the
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">ESS Science Symposium
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic">Neutrons for Future Energy Strategies
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%)">May 27–29, 2013
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">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></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">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).
Emphasis will be put on sample environment, in particular for in-situ and 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></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">For more information, registration and abstract submission, please see
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'; color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%)"><a href="http://indico.psi.ch//event/scisymp">http://indico.psi.ch//event/scisymp</a>
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">Invited Speakers (alphabetic order):
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">Masatoshi ARAI (J-PARC, Japan)<br>
Pierre BOILLAT (PSI, Switzerland)<br>
Stuart HOLDSWORTH (Empa, Switzerland)
Maths KARLSSON (U Chalmers, Sweden)<br>
Holger KOHLMANN (U Leipzig, Germany<br>
Gabor LAURENCZY (EPFL, Switzerland)<br>
Eberhard LEHMANN (PSI, Switzerland)<br>
Alfons MOLENBROEK (Haldor Topsøe, Denmark)
Jörg Pieper, (U Tartu, Estonia)<br>
Timmy RAMIREZ-CUESTA (ISIS, United Kingdom)
Markus STROBL (ESS Lund, Sweden)<br>
Stenbjörn STYRING (U Uppsala, Sweden)<br>
Dirk WALLACHER (HZB, Germany)<br>
Alexander WOKAUN (PSI, Switzerland) </span></p>
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