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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please can I ask all members of the UKNC community to consider nominating the following speakers for the upcoming
<a href="https://iop.eventsair.com/uknc2025/">UKNC Winter Meeting 2025</a>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">An invited speaker based in Europe<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">An invited speaker based outside Europe<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">The Foxon Lecturer
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<p class="MsoNormal">The European and non-European speakers should be accomplished researchers in nitrides or other wide bandgap materials.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Foxon Lecturer should be a member of the UK Nitrides/ wide bandgap community and the Foxon Lecture is intended to highlight a particularly interesting aspect of current UK research in wide bandgap materials, and potentially to also
give the spotlight to one of our earlier career researchers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nominations for each of the above should consist of the nominee's name and email address and a very brief text explaining the motivation for the nomination. A list of recent speakers is given below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please send me your nomination by 9th September 2024.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Prof David Binks<br>
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy<br>
University of Manchester<br>
Manchester, M13 9PL, UK<br>
tel: +44 161 2754234</span><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Previous Foxon Lecturers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">2024 Rachel Oliver – Cambridge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2023 Fabien Massabuau -Strathclyde<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2022 Michael Strain – Strathclyde <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2021 Brian Corbett – Tyndall<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2020 Mike Uren – Bristol <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Previous European Speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">2024
</span><span style="color:black">Oliver Ambacher- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">2023 Gwenole Jacopin - Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">2022 </span><span style="color:black">Martin Feneberg - Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">2021 </span><span style="color:black">Eva Monroy - PHELIQS-NPSC, Grenoble, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">2020 </span><span style="color:black">Elison Matioli - EPFL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Previous Non-European Speakers:</span><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">2024
</span><span style="color:black">Jim Speck – UCSB, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">2023 </span><span style="color:black">Grace Xing – Cornell, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">2022 </span><span style="color:black">Umesh Mishra -UCSB, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">2021 </span><span style="color:black">Chris Van de Walle -UCSB, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">2020 Zlatko Sitar , North Carolina State, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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