<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dear Colleagues</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">, </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">On </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">behalf of the
organizing committee</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">, we would
like to bring your attention to the upcoming registration deadline for the<span class=""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">III International Conference on Small Angle Neutron
Scattering dedicated to the 80^-thanniversary of Yu.M. Ostanevich,
which will take place at Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> on </span>June 6-9, 2016.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Scientific Topics</span></b></p>

<ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="1">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">SANS method
     and instrumentation</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">SANS in
     condensed matter studies</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Complex
     system investigations by means of SANS</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Soft matter
     investigations by means of SANS</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">SANS
     studies of biomembranes</span></li>
</ol>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Deadline
for registration and abstract submission:25 April 2016</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">At the
site: <a href="http://yumo.jinr.ru/2016">http://yumo.jinr.ru/2016</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The first meeting was held in October 2006. The second event
was organized in June 2011 at the start-up of the scientific experiments, after
the IBR-2 refurbishment and accomplishment of modernization works.<span class=""> </span>These meetings were dedicated to the 70-th, 75-th anniversary of Yu M Ostanevich, who had a determinative
contribution to the construction of spectrometers at the high-pulsed reactor
IBR-2. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The first SANS instrument on a steady-state reactor was
constructed at the Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble, while the first SANS
instrument on a ‘white’ neutron pulsed beam was accomplished at the Joint
Institute for Nuclear Research at the IBR-30 reactor, beamline N5. Nowadays the
SANS technique is applied to a wide range of scientific problems in condensed
matter, soft matter, biology and nanotechnology. Despite the fact that there are
currently over 30 SANS instruments in operation worldwide, at both reactor and
spallation sources, the demand for beam-time is considerably higher than the
time available.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">We look forward to
welcoming you in Dubna!</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br>
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">With best regards,</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Maria
Balasoiu</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Frank
Laboratory of Neutron Physics</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Joint
Institute of Nuclear Research</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Dubna,
Moscow Region, Russian Federation/</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Horia
Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Department
of Nuclear Physics,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Bucharest-Magurele,
Romania</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></p></div>