The recently started NMI3 project, supported by the new Seventh Frame programme of the European Commission (FP7), was present at the International Neutron Scattering Conference in Knoxville. The Integrated Infrastructure Initiative for Neutron Scattering and Muon Spectroscopy was Bronze Sponsor of the Conference and one of the 30 exhibitors of this 2009 edition of ICNS.


Information was provided on NMI3 activities during the latest period (under FP6) and a ‘Quest Map’ representing the 10 neutron facilities taking part in the NMI3 project was presented. The quest consisted in matching the right logo with each of the 10 European neutron facilits in the map. In collaboration with ORNL-SNS, NMI3 offered the possibility to win a copy of the recently published book: Neutron Applications in Earth, Energy, And Environmental Sciences (Springer) to the successful map quest participants. This publication stems from a series of foresight workshops jointly organized by European, American and Japanese scientific institutions with a strong affiliation to Neutron Scattering.

Romano Rinaldi, from the University of Perugia, Italy, is one of the Editors of the book, together with Liyuan Liang from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Helmut Schober from the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France. Romano was invited to present the book at the NMI3 booth, and went even further... taking the contest under his own responsibility and dedicating some of his precious time to the visitors of the booth. ORNL-SNS supported the Book Raffle providing three copies of the volume..


These are the Winners of the NMI3-ORNL Map Quest - Book Raffle Contest at ICNS'09, Knoxville:




Premysl Beran
Department of Neutron Physics, Nuclear Physics Institute,
Řež Czech Republic


Elinor Spencer
Dept. Geosciences, Crystallography Laboratory
Virginia Tech, USA


Natkaniec Ireneusz
Frank Laboratory Neutron Physics, Joint Institute Nuclear Research
Dubna, Moscow reg. Russia

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