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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I thought I should let you know this year is the 90<sup>th</sup>
Anniversary of Measurement Science and Technology. Celebrations include a
special Frontiers of Measurement Meeting to be held at the <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Institute</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Physics</st1:PlaceName>
in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City> on
March 21<sup>st</sup> . There are a number of distinguished speakers, with whom
we have a lot of common interests. These include: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Bruce Tromberg of the Beckman Laser Institute in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>. Bruce is one
of the founding editors of the Journal of Biomedical Optics and of the early pioneers
of biophotonics. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Patrick Gill of NPL. Winner of the </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial'>I</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>oP Young
Medal in 2008, Patrick is well known for his work on </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial'>cold
trapped ion systems as optical frequency standards, quantum information
processors and entanglement-based metrology. </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mervyn Miles FRS, Head of Nanophysics at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Bristol</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
Mervyn’s work on atomic force microscopy and optical manipulation includes
many seminal contributions. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Further details are attached</span></font> and at <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0957-0233/">http://iopscience.iop.org/0957-0233/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Registration is at the IoP website <a
href="https://www.eventsforce.net/iop/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=143992&eventID=341&eventID=341">https://www.eventsforce.net/iop/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=143992&eventID=341&eventID=341</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>David<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>David J S Birch PhD FInstP FRSC FRSE </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Professor of Photophysics</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Department of Physics</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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w:st="on">Strathclyde</st1:PlaceName></span></font></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Editor-in-Chief of <a
href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0957-0233/">Measurement Science &
Technology</a> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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