Trim Conference Scout candidates per travel decisions

Removed PCIM Asia, IMAPS Onshoring Workshop, and SEMICON Taiwan (not
happening) and ICSCRM 2026 (no international travel to Japan).
Flagged WiPDA-Europe (Aalborg) as a real candidate worth raising at
the next meeting.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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           <h2>Conference Scout</h2>
           <p class="narrative" style="max-width: none;">A scheduled research agent that sweeps the web on the 1st of every month for conferences, trade shows, seminars, and networking events relevant to TXproducts — semiconductors, power electronics (GaN/SiC), X-ray optics, photon/nanoscience, and defense/aerospace expansion prospecting. Review the candidates below, then add anything worth tracking to the Events list yourself — nothing here is added automatically.</p>
-          <div class="opp-scout-note"><strong>Verification note:</strong> this run's sandbox blocked direct fetches to every official event site (even neutral test domains), so dates and locations below are cross-referenced across multiple independent search sources rather than confirmed on the primary page — double-check the official site before committing budget or travel. This is a fresh worldwide sweep (12 candidates, replacing the previous Europe-only list) spanning Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, tagged "Existing focus area" or "Potential new business (defense)" per TXproducts' corrected scope: semiconductors/power electronics (GaN/SiC), X-ray optics, photon/nanoscience, synchrotron/beamline science, and defense/aerospace prospecting.</div>
+          <div class="opp-scout-note"><strong>Verification note:</strong> this run's sandbox blocked direct fetches to every official event site (even neutral test domains), so dates and locations below are cross-referenced across multiple independent search sources rather than confirmed on the primary page — double-check the official site before committing budget or travel. 8 candidates remain after review (2026-08-27): PCIM Asia, IMAPS Onshoring Workshop, and SEMICON Taiwan were ruled out as not happening, and ICSCRM 2026 was dropped per a no-international-travel-to-Japan constraint. WiPDA-Europe (Aalborg) is flagged as a real candidate worth raising at the next meeting.</div>
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      Snapshot of the weekly research agent's report, hand-reviewed and pasted in here.
      Each entry: { title, dates (display text), location, url, reason }. */
   var SCOUT_RESULTS = [
-    { title: "PCIM Asia 2026", dates: "Aug 26–28, 2026", location: "Shenzhen, China",
-      reason: "Asia's leading power electronics / wide-bandgap semiconductor trade show — direct GaN/SiC device and materials audience. Existing focus area." },
-    { title: "IMAPS Onshoring Workshop 2026", dates: "Aug 31–Sept 2, 2026", location: "Arlington, VA, USA",
-      url: "https://imaps.org/page/Onshoring",
-      reason: "Workshop on the US Defense Industrial Base's microelectronics packaging/assembly onshoring — a direct entry point for X-ray/semiconductor characterization into defense supply chains. Potential new business (defense)." },
-    { title: "SEMICON Taiwan 2026", dates: "Sept 2–4, 2026", location: "Taipei, Taiwan",
-      url: "https://www.semicontaiwan.org/",
-      reason: "Major semiconductor equipment/materials/metrology trade show in a top compound-semiconductor manufacturing hub. Existing focus area." },
     { title: "WiPDA-Europe 2026", dates: "Sept 20–22, 2026", location: "Aalborg, Denmark",
       url: "https://www.energy.aau.dk/wipda-europe-2026-e156452",
-      reason: "IEEE workshop on wide-bandgap (GaN/SiC) power devices — niche but highly targeted technical audience. Existing focus area." },
+      reason: "IEEE workshop on wide-bandgap (GaN/SiC) power devices — niche but highly targeted technical audience. Existing focus area. Flagged as a real candidate — worth raising at the meeting." },
     { title: "XTOP 2026", dates: "Sept 21–25, 2026", location: "Karlsruhe, Germany",
       url: "https://xtop2026.kit.edu",
       reason: "16th Biennial Conference on High-Resolution X-Ray Diffraction and Imaging — direct X-ray diffraction/imaging overlap. Existing focus area." },
     { title: "NOBUGS 2026", dates: "Sept 21–25, 2026 (core Sept 22–24)", location: "Schenefeld Campus (European XFEL), near Hamburg, Germany",
       url: "https://nobugs2026.xfel.eu/",
       reason: "Explicitly covers metadata/data formats and FAIR data management for beamline software; co-hosted by DESY/European XFEL on TXproducts' home campus — the single best topical fit found. Existing focus area." },
-    { title: "ICSCRM 2026", dates: "Sept 27–Oct 2, 2026", location: "Yokohama, Japan",
-      reason: "Premier international conference on silicon carbide and related materials — direct match for the SiC/X-ray metrology work. Existing focus area." },
     { title: "RDA 27th Plenary Meeting (P27)", dates: "Oct 6–8, 2026", location: "London, UK",
       url: "https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/p27/",
       reason: "Research Data Alliance plenary — strong FAIR/research-data-infrastructure networking, though less domain-specific than NOBUGS. Existing focus area." },