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<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 19pt; text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.ccsem.infn.it/"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #008000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #008000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, ERICE (IT)</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><a href="http://sons.uniroma2.it/ericeneutronschool/iv-course/"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MASTER CLASS ON</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-caps: small-caps; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “NEUTRON PRECESSION TECHNIQUES”</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: small-caps; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><a href="http://sons.uniroma2.it/ericeneutronschool/iv-course/"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The IV</span><span style="font-size: 8.799999999999999px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://sons.uniroma2.it/ericeneutronschool/iv-course/"> Course</a> is primarily aimed at young researchers, </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #4534a3; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">instrument and development scientists</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #4534a3; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at international and national neutron facilities</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> who have a basic understanding of neutron scattering but have less background in polarized neutron instrumentation. </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #4534a3; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Graduate students or postdocs at universities with an interest in neutron instrumentation projects are also highly welcome.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://sons.uniroma2.it/ericeneutronschool/iv-course/registration-and-fees/"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> via the form at the link below and closes on 10</span><span style="font-size: 8.799999999999999px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May 2017 </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Course on <a href="http://sons.uniroma2.it/ericeneutronschool/iv-course/">“</a></span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://sons.uniroma2.it/ericeneutronschool/iv-course/">Neutron Precession Techniques</a></span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://sons.uniroma2.it/ericeneutronschool/iv-course/">”</a> aims to provide students with the fundamental concepts and the theoretical framework of neutron precession methods. It is organized as a master class and offers both, a coherent set of introductory lectures for PhD students or young researchers at the postdoctoral level as well as expert discussions led by senior scientists with the aim to exchange experience and develop novel instrumentation ideas. The specialized topic focusses on neutron instrumentation techniques which are based on the Larmor precession of the neutron magnetic moment in dedicated magnetic field arrangements. a It comprises neutron spin-echo techniques as well as novel Larmor labelling methods such as SESANS, SEMSANS and MIEZE. </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The number of applications usually exceeds the number of places available on the course, thus there is a selection procedure for allocating the places. To apply send a ‘personal statement’ and a ‘statement from your supervisor’. The criteria used in making the selection are as follows:</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We encourage applicants to submit a strong ‘personal statement’ emphasising the significance of neutron scattering and especially precession techniques in their research. </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The course includes accommodation at the </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.ccsem.infn.it"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ettore Majorana Foundation</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (EMFCSC)</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Click </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://sons.uniroma2.it/ericeneutronschool/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/FLYER-4th-Course_International-School-of-Neutron-Science-and-Instrumentation_final.pdf"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000080; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to download the neutron course flyer in PDF format. For further details please visit the course </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://sons.uniroma2.it/ericeneutronschool/iv-course/"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000080; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">website</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or contact the organisers:</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="mailto:falus@ill.eu"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peter Falus</span></a></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="mailto:habicht@helmholtz-berlin.de"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Klaus Habicht</span></a></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: #000090; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="mailto:school_fpricci@its.me.cnr.it">school secretariat</a></span></p>
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