Neutron Scattering Society of America

NSSA Travel Grants for ICNS

Mark Lumsden — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:07:24 +0000

The Neutron Scattering Society of America is pleased to offer member travel grants to help support the cost of attending the International Conference on Neutron Scattering, Edinburgh, UK. (July 8-12, 2013). These grants are available to any graduate student, postdoc, or junior faculty who is a member in good standing of the NSSA as of the time of application, and whose faculty advisor, if applicable, is also a member as of that date. In addition, you must be presenting (oral presentation or poster) at the meeting. The online application form can be found at: https://www.che.udel.edu/forms/nssa-tg.html. Deadline is May 31, 2013.

Advancing Materials Characterization with Neutrons

Mark Lumsden — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:29:33 +0000

Call for Papers: Advancing Materials Characterization with Neutrons
This symposium (Symposium 5B), to be held Aug. 11-15, 2013 in Cancun, Mexico, is within the International Materials Research Congress, an annual joint meeting between the Materials Research Society (MRS) and the Sociedad Mexicana de Materiales. Abstract Deadline: April 26, 2013; Submit Abstract: http://www.mrs-mexico.org.mx/imrc2013.
See flyer for details

JCNS Workshop 2013

Mark Lumsden — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:26:02 +0000

The Juelich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) is organizing a workshop “Trends and Perspectives in Neutron Scattering: Magnetism and Correlated Electron Systems”, Oct. 7 -10, 2013 in Tutzing close to Munich. The link to the workshop website is: http://www.fz-juelich.de/jcns/JCNS-Workshop2013 and

Letter in support of JRR-3 research reactor

Mark Lumsden — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:18:21 +0000

The following letter from NSSA has been sent in support of resumed research operations for the JRR-3 research reactor in Tokai, Japan.

ICNS 2013

Thomas Proffen — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:25:12 +0000

The next International Conference on Neutron Scattering (ICNS2013) will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 8 – 12 July 2013, at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The conference is now open for registration and the submission of abstracts.

Please see http://www.icns2013.org for details.

NSSA Election Results

Thomas Proffen — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:21:16 +0000

The NSSA Executive Committee Member elections ended in January 8, 2013. Stefan Rosenkranz is the new president with 52.7% of the votes. Mark Lumsden is the new communication secretary (63.6%), Ron Jones takes over as membership secretary (66.7%) and Mike Crawford is the new treasurer (69.7%). Congratulations.

NSSA Elections 2012

Thomas Proffen — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:31:06 +0000

The election of the NSSA President and three executive committee members is coming up. Emails with voting instructions will be sent to all NSSA members by December 14th and voting has been extended until January 8, 2013. Details about the candidates can be found on the Election 2012 Page.

Letter to the NSF Materials 2022 Committee

Thomas Proffen — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:39:03 +0000

Read the letter here ..

Congratulations 2012 NSSA Prize Winners and NSSA Fellows

Thomas Proffen — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:57:40 +0000

The NSSA is pleased to announce the 2012 NSSA prize winners: Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau is the recipient of the Clifford G. Shull Prize, Dr. Gian Piero Felcher is the recipient Sustained Research Prize, Dr. Guangyong Xu is the recipient of the Science Prize and Dr. Claire White is the recipient of the newly established Prize for Outstanding Student Research. Read the full press release ..

The NSSA is also pleased to announce the selection of its 2012 NSSA Fellows. Congratulations !

2012 ACNS conference a great success

Thomas Proffen — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:01:19 +0000

The 2012 ACNS meeting was held from June 24-28, 2012 in Washington, DC. Checkout this article in Neutron News, visit the picture gallery on our Facebook site or read the ACNS 2012 Program.