[Neutron] Joint NSBP/NSHP annual meeting - Nashville, TN, Feb 10-15, 2009

[Souleymane Diallo]

Following the successful workshop on “*Building a Network for Neutron 
Scattering Education*” held in March 27-28, 2008 in Chantilly, VA, 
organized by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Indiana 
in Bloomington, which was aimed at designing a road-map for a 
comprehensive neutron scattering education program in the US, the 
National Society of Black of Physicists (NSBP) and the National Society 
of Hispanic Physicists (NSHP), are pleased to announce a thematic 
scientific session on neutron scattering at their joint annual meeting** 
in *Nashville, TN, from Feb 10-15, 2009*. The session, sponsored by Oak 
Ridge National Laboratory, is scheduled for *Friday, 13, 2009* with the 
theme "*Neutron scattering is a valuable technique that has relevance 
across the science spectrum*". The aim is to increase awareness within 
the diverse science community of physicists in the United States of the 
potential applications of neutron scattering. Please join us in this 
exciting scientific gathering. Full conference and registration details 
can be found at: http://www.nsbp.org/conference/.

The list of confirmed speakers for the neutron scattering session are:
- Jaime Fernandez-Baca (ORNL)
- Jason Hodges (ORNL)
- Matthew Stone (ORNL)
- Christopher Stanley (ORNL)
- Haile Ambaye (ORNL)
- Claudia Rawn (ORNL)


**The NSBP/NSHP annual conference is the largest gathering of African 
American and Hispanic American physicists and physics students in the 
world, with a 50+ participants comprised approximately of 50% graduate 
students, 30% undergraduates, and 20% postdocs and faculty . The 
conference thus offers recruiters unparalleled opportunities to interact 
with and recruit talented students, internship/fellowship candidates, 
researcher collaborators and program participants.

Questions about the event should be directed to Allen Ekkebus, 
ekkebusae at ornl.gov or Souleymane Diallo sdiallo at ameslab.gov