<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Friends and Colleagues:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This is the second announcement of the 7th School on Representational Analysis and Magnetic Structures (RAMS).  The school is targeted towards researchers interested in applying group theory to solving magnetic structures with neutron diffraction.  The school will cover both representational analysis and magnetic space group approaches.  The program will include both lectures and labs working with software such as SaraH, FULLPROF, and the ISOTROPY software suite.   We will also provide an overview of magnetic symmetry tools developed on the Bilbao crystallographic server.  Invited lecturers include Andrew Wills (U. College London), Huibo Cao (ORNL), Stuart Calder (ORNL),  V. Ovidiu Garlea (ORNL),  Clarina Dela Cruz (ORNL),  and Branton Campbell (Brigham Young University).    <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The school will be hosted at the University of Maryland College Park campus and participants can stay on campus at discounted prices.   The school will begin  Tuesday, June 20th, and end<span> </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday, June 23rd</span></span>.   Visit our site at<span> </span><a href="http://magnetism-school.org/static/2018/index.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">magnetism-school.org/static/<wbr>2018</a><span> </span>to learn more.  Registration is open and the fee for early registration is $125.   The deadline for early registration is<span> </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">May 23, 2018</span></span>.  Attendance will be limited to 30 participants, so please apply soon.  For questions regarding the school please contact us at<span> </span><a href="mailto:efrain@umd.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">efrain@umd.edu</a><span> </span>or<span> </span><a href="mailto:william.ratcliff@nist.gov" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span class="gmail-il">william.ratcliff@nist.gov</span></a><span> </span>   <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="f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