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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Register now for the SNS Second Target Station Workshop</b></div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The proposed Second Target Station (STS) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) will provide the neutron user community with transformative capabilities, utilizing recent dramatic
advances in neutron instrumentation and technologies.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The STS workshop (October 27-29, 2015) will follow the SNS/HFIR User Meeting (October 26-27, 2015). The forum will be used to update the user community on the planning for the STS, to engage the users in the
process of moving the STS forward, and to seek the community’s input on all aspects of the project.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The workshop will focus on:</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">* Discussion and development of the scientific case for the STS.</div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">* Formation of steering committees organized by instrument class to represent their respective science communities.</div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">* Discussion and prioritization of the proposed instrument concepts and a decision of an initial suite of roughly eight to ten instruments.</div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">* Identification of the necessary performance parameters for the initial suite of instruments and how to achieve these “must reach” specifications.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Learn more about the STS Workshop:
<a href="https://public.ornl.gov/conferences/neutrons/STS2015/index.shtml">https://public.ornl.gov/conferences/neutrons/STS2015/index.shtml</a> and register to attend:
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https://public.ornl.gov/conferences/neutrons/STS2015/registration/index.cfm</a>. </div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SNS/HFIR User Meeting attendees are encouraged to participate in the STS workshop events, but please note that a separate registration <<a href="https://public.ornl.gov/conferences/neutrons/STS2015/">https://public.ornl.gov/conferences/neutrons/STS2015/</a>>
for the STS workshop is required. </div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Workshop Co-Chairs:</b></div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Morten Eskildsen (<a href="mailto:eskildsen@nd.edu">eskildsen@nd.edu</a>), University of Notre Dame
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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Boris Khaykovich (<a href="mailto:bkh@mit.edu">bkh@mit.edu</a>), Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>ORNL Workshop Contact: </b>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ken Herwig (<a href="mailto:herwigkw@ornl.gov">herwigkw@ornl.gov</a>), Oak Ridge National Laboratory</div>
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<div><b><font color="#007f00" style="font-size: 18px;">Katie Bethea</font></b></div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Neutron Sciences Directorate</div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Oak Ridge National Laboratory</div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">865-576-8039</div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="mailto:betheakl@ornl.gov">betheakl@ornl.gov</a></div>
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