<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,<br></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

</font></div><p style="background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Electron Microscopy Laboratory of Brazilian National Nanotechnology Laboratory 
receives applications for the 6^th TEM Summer School</span></b></p><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

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</font></div><p style="background:white;text-align:justify"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Candidates may apply until August 31^st. <span>100</span> participants are expected to attend the school.</span></i></p><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

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</font></div><p style="background:white;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Conducted every two years the already established Transmission Electron
Microscopy (TEM) Summer School will receive applications for its sixth edition
until <b>August 31^st</b>. <span>The
event will be held at the Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory
(LNNano), located in the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials
(CNPEM) campus,  Campinas - Brazil, between</span> <b>January 11 and 29,
2016</b>.</span></p><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

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</font></div><p style="background:white;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt">This school aims to contribute to the advanced training of graduate
students and researchers in the fields of engineering, materials science,
physics, chemistry and related fields from academic and industrial communities,
in Brazil and abroad, on theoretical and practical concepts of TEM techniques
for materials characterization. It is a three week course where the first two
weeks are dedicated to basic and advanced theoretical classes and the third one
will be focused on practical classes using the Electron Microscopy facilities
available at LNNano.</span></p><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

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</font></div><p style="background:white;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt">The courses will be taught by leading researchers in the field of
electron microscopy associated to important research and educational
institutions of Brazil and oversees. </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://pages.cnpem.br/temsummerschool/speakers/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font color="#0000ff">See all speakers for the 6^th edition.</font></span></a></span></p><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

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</font></div><p align="center" style="background:white;text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://pages.cnpem.br/temsummerschool/invitation/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font color="#0000ff">Official invitation from the Organizing Committee</font></span></a></span></p><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

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</font></div><p style="background:white;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Every candidate must fill out the </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://pages.cnpem.br/temsummerschool/application-form/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font color="#0000ff">application form</font></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt">,
attaching an updated CV, Graduate transcripts, a summary of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">research project justifying the use of TEM techniques, an essay
justifying why is important for you to attend the school, an abstract of
partial or complete analysis of your own scientific research (using TEM)
to present as poster, and a recommendation letter. Check </font></span><a href="http://pages.cnpem.br/temsummerschool/how-to-participate/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt">How to participate</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">.</font></span></p><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">

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</font><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt">The
6^th TEM Summer School is organized by the Electron Microscopy
Laboratory (LME/LNNano) with the FAPESP support. For further information please
visit: </span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><a href="http://pages.cnpem.br/temsummerschool/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font color="#0000ff">http://pages.cnpem.br/temsummerschool/</font></span></a></span><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Jefferson Bettini</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div>
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