Preface

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Proceedings of the joint 13th and 14th International Conferences on Polarized Neutrons for Condensed-Matter Investigations The international Conference on Polarized Neutrons for Condensed-Matter Investigations (PNCMI) started its long journey in Dubna, Russia in 1996 and has taken place biennially since then. The present volume of proceedings represents the 13th and 14th editions of this series. The 13th PNCMI was originally suggested by the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of PNCMI to be held in Maryland, USA in 2020, and was postponed due to the fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic. The IAC later suggested, due to the still evolving pandemic, to replace PNCMI 2020 with a virtual PNCMI in 2021 and an in-person PNCMI in 2022.The 13th PNCMI, organized by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), was held online from July 27-30, 2021. One of the main objectives was to keep up the frequency of PNCMI conferences for the community, staying up to date on emerging topics using polarized neutrons and on related instrumentation development. 110 participants from 40 institutions and 15 countries crossing Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America attended the virtual conference. The conference was limited to invited speaker and poster sessions since it was run two- and one-half hours daily to accommodate different time zones for the international attendees.The 14th PNCMI was held in-person from July 25-29, 2022 in Annapolis, Maryland, USA and jointly organized by the University of Maryland and NIST. The number of conference participants was affected by international travel restrictions due to the pandemic. The conference attendees included 62 participants from 30 institutions and 10 countries crossing Europe, Asia, and North America. The scientific program featured a Keynote lunch presentation, titled “Polarization can be good”, given by Dr. Charles Majkrzak (NCNR), invited, and contributed oral talks, and poster presentations.The PNCMI conference covers the latest condensed-matter investigations using polarized neutrons and state-of-the-art methodologies and techniques of polarized-neutron production and utilization for novel instrumentation and experiments. The 13th and 14th editions covered the following traditional topics: multiferroics and chirality, strongly correlated electron systems, frustrated and disordered systems, magnetic nanomaterials, thin films and multilayers, imaging, polarized neutron instrumentation and polarized neutron techniques and methods. Quantum materials as an emerging topic was included in the 13th PNCMI as well. A new session, -- polarized quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) driven by recently growing interest and benefitting from modernized polarized neutron spectroscopies, was also included for the first time in the 14th PNCMI.A two-day Polarized Neutron School, for 12 graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers familiar with scattering techniques, was held at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) preceding the 2022 in-person conference.We would like to take this opportunity again to thank all participants for their attendance, and the International Advisory Committee for guidance in developing an excellent scientific program. We’d like to extend a special thank you to the University of Maryland and the NIST conference services for all their hard work and planning to help organize and ensure it ran smoothly. The 14th PNCMI was made possible with the generous support of Cryogenic Limited, HTS-110, Mirrotron, ORNL, and SwissNeutronics.List of International Advisory Committee, Local Organizing Committee are available in this Pdf.