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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A one-week <strong>
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Summer School on Methods and Applications of Neutron Spectroscopy"</span></strong> will be held from June 19 - June 23, 2017 at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). For information about the summer school
go to <a href="http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/summerschool/ss17/index.html">http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/summerschool/ss17/index.html</a>.
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please note that this year the school will not cover SANS or neutron reflectometry.
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This school provides participants the opportunity to learn about a wide variety of neutron scattering techniques using instruments at NIST including the disk chopper spectrometer (DCS), backscattering spectrometer
(HFBS), BT-7 double focusing triple-axis spectrometer, multi-axis crystal spectrometer (MACS), and neutron spin echo spectrometer (NSE). These powerful experimental techniques are used by researchers in a variety of scientific disciplines to probe the dynamics
of materials over time scales ranging from 1 ps to 100 ns with length scales from under 1 nm to over 100 nm. This school emphasizes hands-on experimental training for the instruments mentioned above as well as a thorough theoretical overview of these measurement
techniques. Applications of dynamical techniques will be illustrated by specific examples drawn from recent cutting-edge research on soft and hard condensed matter systems. The course will enable attendees to assess the applicability of the techniques to their
own research, and will provide the technical information needed to prepare effective experiment proposals. The Summer School is sponsored by the Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS), jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and NIST.
Limited support for graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty will be available. Attendance will be limited to 35 participants, and only applicants from North American institutions will be accepted.
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For further information, and/or to apply, please go to
<a href="http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/summerschool/ss17/index.html">http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/summerschool/ss17/index.html</a>. Early application is advised since attendance is strictly limited and typically we receive more applications than the maximum number of
participants. <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Deadline: April 11, 2017.</span></strong>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yamali Hernandez and Alex Grutter<br>
National Institute of Standards and Technology<br>
Tel: (301) 975-5295 (YH), (301) 975-4198 (AG) </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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