Newsletter From AONSAThe Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association

Volume 5, No. 12(December, 2013)

Index
President’s Message………………………………P.3
Report on 11th EC Meeting…………………….….P.4
Event’s Report ……………………………………P.5
AONSA Website updated
Society Report …………………………………P.5~8
・ANBUG・NSSI・JSNS・TWNSS

Facility Report …………………………………P.9~12
・BARC
・J-PARC
Report from AONSA Office………………………P.13
Calendar…………………………………………...P.14

・ The successful invitation of the International
Conference on Neutron Scattering in 2017 (ICNS2017)
was achieved to Daejeon in Korea. This fact reflectsthat both European and American communities
represented by ENSA and NSSA, respectively haverecognized our AONSA as their equal partner forming
the tri-polar framework covering the globe. AONSA
will strongly support our Korean colleagues’ effort tohost it successfully.
・Dr. B. A. Dasannacharya was selected as winner ofthe AONSA Prize 2013 for his pioneering contribution
to neutron spectroscopy and users program in our
Region. The Awarding Ceremony and his Prize
Lecture were held successfully in the plenary sessionof the ICNS2013 in Edinburgh. This fact also reflects
the worldwide recognition of our AONSA’s activities.
・The global cooperation with ENSA and NSSA inneutron and with AOFSRR (Asia-Oceania Forum for
Synchrotron Radiation Research) in synchrotron was
initiated by the former President (Prof. John White).
The continuous promotion of it has been made as
mutual invitation of President and Executive members
to major events of each association.

President’s message

By Prof. Yasuhiko FUJII(JSNS, CROSS-Tokai)

Gaining More Momentum !
The two-year term of my Presidency is ending on
December 31, 2013. Major news in the last two years
very joyful and stimulative to AONSA are highlighted
as follows:
・ The China Neutron Scattering Society (CNSS)
formally joined AONSA as the 6th regular member ofthe Executive Committee.
It reflects such anenergetically growing neutron community in China as
three large-scale neutron facilities, China Spallation
Neutron Source (CSNS) under construction, China
Advanced Research Reactor (CARR, 60MW), andChina Mianyang Research Reactor (CMRR, 20MW)
both in commissioning are getting ready for promoting
users programs.

For the first one year (2014), I’ll remain in the
Executive Committee as the immediate Past President
and help our AONSA as much as possible under WenHsien Li’s new Presidency.
Finally, I wish sincerely thank all of EC members/observers and the AONSA Office as well as allSocieties and Facilities for their generous and great
contributions to AONSA.

Passing the baton to the next President !

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The 11th AONSA Executive Committee Meeting held in Dongguan, China
The 10th AONSA Executive Committee (EC)Meeting was held at the Chinese Spallation Neutron
Source (CSNS) temporary office, Dongguan, China
on November 17, 2013. The meeting was attended by
17 participants and started with an opening remark by
President Yasuhiko Fujii acknowledging Chinesecolleagues including Hesheng Chen for their great
efforts to arrange the meeting. This was followed bya welcoming remark by Hesheng Chen. All
participants enjoyed very active discussions on
various AONSA activities and plans. The agenda of
the meeting include the nominations and approval of
the EC members and observers, and Board members
for the next term (2014-2015), the AONSA budget,the 6th AONSA Neutron School in 2014 (Serpong,Indonesia), selection of the host of 7th AONSA
Neutron School (J-PARC/JRR3, Tokai, Japan), the
2nd AOCNS in 2015 (Manly, Australia), theICNS2017 in Korea, the AONSA homepage design
upgrade, the AONSA Visiting Fellowship, thepossible collaborations with ICSU and IUCr, three

ENSA-NSSA-AONSA Presidents Meeting held in
Edinburgh during ICNS2013, the neutron sessions
during the 12th Asia Pacific Physics Conference(APPC12, Chiba, Japan), and possible AONSA
activities for celebrating the International Year of
Crystallography 2014. The great efforts of allcontributors to these AONSA activities were highly
appreciated by all the EC participants. In theafternoon, neutron association and community
reports, a summary of facility reports and a special
facility report on the CSNS were presented to the EC.
The meeting was ended with a closing remark by
President Yasuhiko Fujii expressing his sincere
thanks to all the Board members and EC Members
and Observers for their great efforts andcontributions to many successful AONSA activities
over the last two years under his presidency. A dinnerkindly hosted by CSNS was greatly enjoyed by all
the EC participants together with colleagues from
CSNS. On the following day, EC participants
enjoyed their visit to the CSNS site.
Sung-Min Choi,
Secretary of AONSAThe 10th AONSA EC Meeting at the Edinburgh International Conference Center

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AONSA Website Design Update
The AONSA website has been completely
redesigned and launched. The new site can be found at
the same location, www.aonsa.org. The original
website will still be accessible through a prominent
link on the front page, and some content from the newsite will still be linked back to the old one until all thecontent has been transferred.
As well as an updated design, one of the mostimportant features of the new site is a modern content
management system (CMS), which will:• Allow authorised users (the AONSA President,
Secretary and Public Relations Officer as well as
the AONSA office) to add and/or edit content
remotely through a web browser;•

Automatically add “latest updates” to the front
page;

•

Create a dynamic version of the Newsletter within
the website, from which we can create static
versions for email distribution to members;•

Automatically archive all content.

The total cost of the design (by MagicDust Pty Ltd,
Australia) was AU$1848, including hosting of the site
for 1 year. Over the course of this year we will migrate
the site to our own server (based at J-PARC) so that
this will not be a recurring cost.
Chris Ling,
AONSA Public Relations Officer
Society Report

Report from Australian Neutron Beam Users Group (ANBUG)
Access to international facilities: ANBUG is stillseeking an avenue by which to renew international
travel funding for its members, following the ARC’sruling that rules limiting the amount of LIEF
funding that can be allocated to travel are nonnegotiable. The next strategy will be to approach the
STA. Prof B Kennedy has written to the physics
cluster leader on the STA (successor to FASTS)
expressing our concern at the lack of funds andpointing out how the inability to fund student travel
to overseas facilities due to ARC travel caps isadversely affecting research training. Dr F Bruhn(AINSE Managing Director) is consulting with theAustralian Academy of Science to determine thebest way to engage with government on this issue.
Some positive news was received, however, when
Prof E Gray consulted the CEO of the ARC (ProfAidan Byrne) who has told us that the ARC isrevising the LIEF funding rules for the next round,and that they will take our case into consideration.
AINSE-ANBUG Neutron Science Symposium(AANSS-2013): 76 neutron scatterers from
Australia, New Zealand and beyond participated in
the 11th AANSS from Dec 2–3, 2013. The meeting
was Chaired by A/Prof Chris Ling and organized by
Rachel Caldwell of AINSE. It was particularly
pleasing to see that the number of institutions
represented continues to grow, with abstracts
received from 13 different universities and research
institutes. More than half of the 28 oral scientificpresentations were given by students, who acquitted
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themselves outstandingly. A particular highlight
was a presentation by Prof Emeritus Anthony Klein(University of Melbourne) on “The prehistory andhistory of neutron scattering in Australia”.
Membership: ANBUG membership is now growing
at a rate of about 50 per year, despite our policy of
requiring members to actively confirm theirinvolvement (leading to an annual temporary
reduction in numbers when some members fail to doso). The implementation of a direct link from the
OPAL User Portal to the ANBUG membershipappears to have made a big impact on this. Current
active membership is 220.
Remote access to OPAL: Prof E Kisi (ANBUG
Vice-President) has raised the possibility of running
remote experiments on some Bragg instruments,
with 3rd year undergraduate laboratory exercises inmind. The AINSE Winter School is very popularand useful, but at 1 student per institution, has
limited outreach to the wider undergraduate student
body. Remote experiments also have some potential
to be useful in research, notably for experimentsthat don’t require large amounts of user intervention
during long collection runs (e.g., a sequence oftemperatures in a furnace or cryostat). The ANBUG
Executive Committee, led by Prof Kisi, will workthrough AINSE to petition the Bragg Institute to
explore and develop online undergraduate
experiments.
Chris Ling,
ANBUG Past President
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Report from Japanese Society for Neutron Science (JSNS)First of all, we are pleased to report that the numberof JSPS members has reached 608 (including 61
students) at October 1st, 2013. This is the first time toreach over 600 memberships in JSNS !
The 31st Regular Council Meeting was held on
November 26th, 2013 to discuss and decide many
issues including reports from the board ofadministration, report on the accident in Hadronfacility in J-PARC and report on the present situationof resume of JRR-3.
The 13th Annual Meeting of JSNS was held in
Sawayaka Chiba Kenmin Plaza, Kashiwa, on
December 11th – 12th, 2013. The chairman and vicechairman were Prof. M. Shibayama (Univ. of Tokyo)
and Prof. T. Masuda (Univ. Tokyo), respectively, andthe chairman of the program committee was Prof. H.
Yoshizawa (Univ. of Tokyo).

awards were given to three young scientists and theaward ceremony was held in the banquet, which washeld in Plaza Ikoi (Kashiwa Campus, Univ. of Tokyo)
in the evening on the first day of the meeting.
The JSNS Outstanding Achievement Prize 2013 wasawarded to Prof. Toru Ebisawa (J-PARC Center) for“Neutron optics and development of devices” and Prof.
Yasuo Yamaguchi (Professor Emeritus of Tohoku
University) for “Investigation on magnetism oftransition metal using polarized neutron in the earlytime and contribution to increase of joint research innuclear facility and development of monochro-device”.
Prof. Toshiharu Fukunaga (Kyoto University) won the
JSNS Scientific Prize for “Structural study ofamorphous metal with pulse neutron”.

Prof. M. Shibayama, the chairman of the annual meeting, in the 3rdopen public symposium.
JSNS Scientific Prize winner, Prof. T. Fukunaga (Kyoto
University), with the president, Prof. T. Kanaya.

In the opening session, there were two speeches from
special guests, Mr. Kudo (Director of Office forQuantum Radiation Research Science and Technology
Policy Bureau, MEXT) and Dr. J. Sugiyama (Presidentof Society of Muon and Meson Science of Japan), after
the welcome addresses by the chairman of the meeting(Prof. M. Shibayama) and the director of Institute for
Solid State Physics, Univ of Tokyo (Prof. H.
Takigawa). There were two invited talks by Dr. J.
Sugiyama on “Materials Research with Muons andNeutrons” and by Prof. Y. Murakmi (President of theJapanese Society of Synchrotron Radiation Research,
KEK) on “Cooperative Efforts to Element Strategy
Initiative (electronic and magnetic materials) in theInstitute of Materials Structure Science, KEK”, 7 JSNS
Prize lectures, 23 contributed talks, and 130 posters.
275 participants enjoyed these oral and poster
presentations on new and exciting results from JPARC/MLF, JRR-3 and many other facilities anduniversities, and exchange of information. Poster
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JSNS Young Researcher Prize was given to Dr.
Takenao Shinohara (J-PARC center) for “Developmentof magnetic imaging with polarized pulse neutron” andto Dr. Tatsuya Kikuchi (J-PARC center) for“Development of model-free analysis method forquasi-elastic neutron scattering and its application towater“. JSNS Technology Prize was given to Dr.
Takuji Kume (Kao Corp.,) for “Development of nanosize emulsions for cosmetics utilizing structural
analysis by small-angle neutron scattering andrheology” and to Dr. Kenji Nakajima, Dr. Seiko
Kawamura, Dr. Mitsutaka Nakamura, Dr. Ryoichi
Kajimoto , Dr. Masatoshi Arai (J-PARC center) and Dr.
Katsuhiko Yoshida (Kobe Steel) for “Practicalapplication of spectrometer of double disk chopper
type for pulse neutron source” Following the last
annual meeting in 2012, the seminar for industrial
application of neutron was also held in the same place
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Newsletter from AONSASociety Reportand 4 talks were given from industrial sides. In
addition, a special room was prepared by JSNS for
giving advices to neutron beginners from neutron
experts, especially in industry on scientific as well as
technical problems. Many industrial engineers,scientists and/or groups visited this room to discuss
their own problems.
On the day after the annual meeting the 3rd open public
symposium on neutron science and applications to highschool students and residence in Chiba area was held at
the same place. About 65 people attended thesymposium. Three lectures were given in the
symposium. Dr. Suzuki from J-PARC gave an

introduction of neutron science and its application
using many interesting cartoons. Prof. Shibayama in
University of Tokyo talked about “Nano-exploration ofSuper Polymer Gels in Daily Life by Neutron Beam”
and Prof. Yamamoto in Tsukuba Univ. introduced
recent developments on “Cancer Therapy by Neutron
Radiation”. The audience really enjoyed the three talks
on neutron science and applications.
T. Kanaya
President of JSNS
M. Sugiyama
General affair of JSNS

Group photo of participants in the 13th annual meeting

Report from Neutron Scattering Society of India (NSSI)
Neutron Scattering Society of India has atpresent about 130 members.

participants using the available instruments at
the Dhruva reactor.

NSSI is co-organizing a pre-conference schoolon neutron scattering at BARC, Mumbai during
February 4-8, 2014 and a conference on neutron
scattering at Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research (IISER), Pune, during
February 10-12, 2014. About 10 experts fromabroad are expected to participate. The school
will include hands-on experiment for the

Information on NSSI is now available via thewebsite: http://www.nssi.iitm.ac.in.
The first issue of NSSI Newsletter was publishedin August 2013. The NSSI Newsletter will be
published biannually.
Samrath Chaplot ,Ramaprosad Mukhopadhyay
BARC, Mumbai, India

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ReportSociety
ReportReport from Taiwan Neutron Science Society (TWNSS)
different discipline. The first trial was successfully
accomplished by opening a special neutron session in
the annual meeting of Chinese Chemical Society
located in Taipei. With the help of Dr. Chia-Hung Hsu(NSRCC) and Prof. Ru-Shi Liu (National Taiwan U.),I and Professor Michael Y. Chiang (National Sun Yatsen U.) held a half day seminar session on November
25th in National Chi-Nan University. Applications ofneutron scattering techniques in various chemistry
fields were introduced and experiences in all aspects ofneutron researches were shared. We plan to copy thissuccessful experience to other meetings in different
disciplines.

TWNSS Annual Meeting and NSRCC Neutron
User Group Meeting Combined
Our TWNSS annual meeting held in October 10th to13th was combined with the NSRRC Neutron User
Group Meeting for first time to provide better
opportunity for boosting neutron research interest in
the science community. The combined meeting washeld at National Museum of Marine Biology &Aquarium (NMMBA), Checheng, Pingtung, Taiwan.
Over two hundred participants and a full three day
sessions with talks spread in four different areas
claimed the success of this meeting. Keynote speakers,
Dr. Jason Gardner (NSRCC, Taiwan), Prof. Peter K.
Liaw (U. Tennessee, USA), and Prof. Mu-Ping Nieh
(U. Connecticut, USA) shared their work in neutron
scattering and initiated interest among young students.
Workshops on small angle neutron scattering andneutron powder diffraction techniques were also muchappreciated by the students participated. We
implemented one interesting change in the student
poster session: all poster authors were asked to give athree minutes oral introduction with one slide tohighlight their poster content. This is well received by
all the participants—be it senior or junior.

The Neutron promoting session in the Annual meeting of CCS
located in Taipei.

ANOSA Neutron Crystallography Workshop
PlannedTo celebrate the 2014 international crystallography
year, TWNSS planned to organize a workshop
dedicated to neutron crystallography in fall 2014. If
possible it may be combined with NSRCC Neutron
User Group Meeting again.
The Joint TWNSS Annual Meeting and NSRRC Neutron User
Group Meeting held at NMMBACollaboration and Communication Enhanced
Since neutron scientists in Taiwan rely on facilities
elsewhere, we have always kept good communication
channel with other ANOSA members. Noting that aclose neighbor, Chinese neutron Science Society(CNSS) joined ANOSA recently, we’d like to extend
our welcome to the new member and we wish there
will be much enhanced new collaboration and close
links with all ANOSA members in the future.

Promoting Neutron Research Participants
Among the current four hundred members in TWNSS,
sixty-eight were principal investigators. We would liketo expand this particular group since it is tied to thegrowth rate of neutron research projects directly. We
found out that a total of 26 neutron beam time
proposals were granted worldwide for neutron users in
Taiwan and 57 people were involved in actual neutron
experiments. This is a satisfactory number considering
the fact that we do not have practical neutron facility in
Taiwan. However we believe this number can bepromoted higher. One strategy we come up is to ask
TWNSS members to act as salespersons in each
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Hsiung Chou
President, TWNSS

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Report from BARC
The National Facility for Neutron beam Research(NFNBR) is being used by researchers from various
universities and national institutions in India
regularly. The annual project review meeting for the
projects under the aegis of UGC-DAE consortiumfor scientific research was recently held at BARC
during Oct 21-22, 2013. Principle investigators ofthe various projects presented their work andhighlighted the scientific achievements. There areabout 30 projects running at present. About 10 new
proposals were also presented.

NFNBR and basics of neutron scattering andneutron diffraction in crystalline and non-crystalline
systems.
used to avoid non-centric scattering contribution in
the data, and has improved the signal to noise ratio
very significantly.
A new cryomagnet facilitating in-situ diffraction
studies at 7 Tesla and 1.5 K is also being installed at
one of the diffractometers at NFNBR.
There is significant progress in development of thetime-of-flight inelastic spectrometer and up
gradation of several instruments with focusing
monochromators and analyzers and variable
collimators.

A committee comprising scientists from BARC,UGC-DAE-CSR and a few others from
University/Institutions met after the presentation to
discuss the status of the various projects and future
action.

Samrath Chaplot ,Recently an awareness workshop was organized by
UGC-DAE CSR in University of Hyderabad during
Oct 28-30, 2013. About 50 people from that region
attended the workshop. There were presentations on

Ramaprosad Mukhopadhyay
BARC, Mumbai, India

Dr. Mala N. Rao, SSPD, BARC, delivering lecture ‘neutron scattering’ in the awareness workshop held at University of Hyderabad during
Oct 28-30, 2013.

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Facility Report

Report from J-PARC
The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (JPARC) is a series of world-class proton acceleratorsand experimental facilities using secondary-particle
beams. The Materials and Life Science Experimental
Facility (MLF) of J-PARC enables cutting-edge
research using the world’s most intense neutron andmuon beams generated from a 1 MW pulsed protonbeam.
The research covers a wide range offundamental and applied scientific fields such as
physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, earthscience, energy science and engineering. There are
currently 18 neutron and 3 muon instruments available

for users and a further 3 neutron instruments and 1
muon beamline are under construction as of Oct. 31,
2013. A variety of devices are also available to control
sample environment parameters such as temperature,magnetic field and pressure. General research
proposals are accepted twice a year, around May andOctober. It is strongly recommended that applicants
make contact with the relevant instrument scientist
before submitting a proposal. Detailed information
about the instruments is available on the webpage(http://j-parc.jp/MatLife/en/index.html).

Neutron and muon instruments at MLF.

made up of third parties and reconfirm the safety
management system and emergency response
procedure while listening to comments. The causes of
the accident were investigated by the External Expert
Panel at a total of six meetings in the two months after
June. Based on the developed improvement measuresand other steps to prevent accident recurrence, KEK
and JAEA submitted a report on measures to be taken

Responses to the radioactive material leak accident
at the J-PARC Hadron Experimental Facility
In response to the radioactive material leak accident
at J-PARC's Hadron Experimental Facility on May 23,
the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization(KEK) and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)
were instructed on May 28 by the Minister of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology,
Mr. Shimomura, to establish an External Expert Panel
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Facility Reportto the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Scienceand Technology on September 26.
On September 13, training for dealing with anaccident was conducted, assuming an accident
involving leakage of mercury, which is the target forneutron beam production at the MLF. Due to the recent
accident at the Hadron Experimental Facility, a wideranging review has been conducted of accident
response, and has suggested a revised management
system includes the introduction of “Alert Status”. This
was the first training based on that review. The training
was initiated by the occurrence of a mercury leakalarm at 13:30. It then proceeded according to a seriesof accident scenarios and finished at about 16:00.
Reviews on all responses during the training will bereflected in development of better emergency
procedures manual. Similar training is planned to beheld at the Neutrino Experimental Facility this year.
On October 1, KEK and JAEA examined andreviewed the safety management system to prevent
accident recurrence, and implemented a reorganizationof J-PARC. For the new organization top priority isplaced on safety, and a clear command structure wasdeveloped to respond in case of an emergency.
Independency of the Safety Division, particularly the
Radiation Safety Section, was enforced making a clear
separation between safety management and research. A
new Deputy Director position was created to take fulltime responsibility for all aspects of safety. This
Deputy Director is in charge of safety issues

throughout the J-PARC Center, including overseeing
the response if an abnormal situation occurs, andsupervising work in the Safety Division. Dr Baba, who
is an emeritus professor of Tohoku University, wasappointed as the Deputy Director. In addition, twosections, the Neutrino and the Hadron Sections, havebeen newly established under the Particle & Nuclear
Physics Division, thereby clarifying their safety
management demarcation and organizational division.
http://www.jPleaseseethewebsiteparc.jp/HDAccident/HDAccident-e.html for the latest
information.
Multi-step thickening of Nafion film in water
Known for its remarkable conductivity anddurability, a Nafion® film is widely used as a proton
exchange film in polymer electrolyte fuel cell. Suchexcellent electrochemical and mechanical properties
are associated with the characteristic network in water.
The formation mechanism of the network in the film is,however, still unclear. In this study, water sorption
kinetics in a Nafion film was examined by neutronreflectivity (NR) measurements on the BL16 (SoftInterface Analyzer: SOFIA) and surface plasmon
resonance (SPR). It was found that the films thickened
in three regime and its speed is dependent on thesubstrate species. This implies that the network
formation in the Nafion film was suppressed due to theinteraction between substrate and Nafion. This result
was published on ACS Macro Lett., 2, 856 (2013).

Water sorption kinetics in a Nafion film

→Nafion films thickened in three regime

density. However, the internal strain state at theconditions of use, under ultra-low temperature andhigh magnetic field, is unknown because the SPC
wires are covered by the thick jacket.
On the BL19 (Engineering Materials Diffractometer:
TAKUMI), internal strains of the superconducting
cable was measured just after a performance test at theconditions of use. The results showed that theelectromagnetic forces during the test caused a

Analysis of internal strain of a superconducting
cable for the ITER fusion reactor
ITER central solenoid conductor is one of thecritical components in the ITER fusion reactor, which
composes of a superconducting cable consisting of 576
Nb3Sn strands and 288 copper strands, and is wrapped
a JK2LB stainless steel square jacket. Meanwhile, it iswell known that the presence of internal strains in the
superconducting wires will degrade the critical current
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Facility Reportconcentrated void at the LLS part (figure), andconsequently buckling associated with filament
fracture occurred via the high compressive strains inthe strands. The bending occurred because there is no
support from the thick jacket. This is the first result toelucidate the origin of the degradation of thesuperconducting cable for the ITER.

Compressive with bending(Cable)Tensile (Jacket)

protein of the amyloid fibril formation, were done in its
monomeric and the amyloid fibril states. Temperaturedependence of the mean square displacements (figure,right) obtained from the scattering curves (figure, left),showed that the proteins in the amyloid fibril state issofter than the monomeric state, suggesting acorrelation between the amyloid fibril formation andthe aberration in the protein dynamics. This result was
published on J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 82, SA019 (2013).

Dynamics of the protein that forms the amyloid
fibrils
Abnormal filamentous aggregates of proteins related
to pathogenesis of various diseases such as Parkinson’s
disease. Elucidation of the mechanism of the amyloid
fibril formation is important for elucidation of themechanism of pathogenesis of these diseases. Neutron
inelastic scattering makes an investigation of theaberration in protein dynamics, which is postulated tobe related to the amyloid fibril formation, possible.
On
the
BL02
(Biomolecular
Dynamics
Spectrometer: DNA), neutron inelastic scattering
measurements of hen egg-white lysozyme, the model

Monimeric state

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Report from AONSA OfficeDuring the J-PARC MLF/CROSS Neutron Science Proposal Review Committee meeting on October 17, 2013 at
Tokai, Japan, three Board Members, Y. Fujii, S.M. Choi and S. Chaplot, and a former Board Member, Masa Arai
had a chance to meet AONSA Office Secretary, Yukino Inoue who has been doing excellent job for AONSA. After
this, Y. Fujii, S.M. Choi and S. Chaplot had a short ad hoc Board meeting to review the agenda of the 11th EC
Meeting and enjoyed a dinner kindly hosted by Y. Fujii.
Sung-Min Choi,
Secretary of AONSA(from the left, Masa Arai, Samrath Chaplot, Yukino Inoue, Yasuhiko Fujii and Sung-Min Choi)

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AONSA Calendar
Year 2013
Date
1/14-1/17
6/17-6/21
7/8-7/12
7/9
7/9
7/11
7/12
7/14-7/19
11/17
12/2-12/3
12/7-12/10

EventsThe 2nd International Symposium on Neutron Scattering/ISNS (Mumbai, India)
The 6th AONSA Neutron School (Tokai, Japan) (* Cancelled)
The 10th International Conference on Neutron Scattering (Edinburgh, UK)
The 10th AONSA EC Meeting (Edinburgh, UK, during ICNS2013)
AONSA Regional Meeting during ICNS2013 (Edinburgh, UK)
ENSA-NSSA-AONSA Three Presidents’ Meeting during ICNS2013 (Edinburgh, UK)
AONSA Prize Award Ceremony during ICNS2013 (Edinburgh, UK)
The 12th Asia-Pacific Physics Conference/APPC (Chiba, Japan)
The 11th AONSA EC Meeting (Dongguan, China)
AINSE-ANBUG Neutron Science Symposium (AANSS) (Lucas Height, Australia)
AsCA 2013 (Hong Kong, China)

Year 2014Date
2/4-2/8
2/10-2/12
2/21
8/5-8/12
9/29-10/3
10/X
10/12
10/1210/17
10/1210/16

Events
Pre-Conference School on Neutron Scattering at BARC (Mumbai, India)
Conference on Neutron Scattering (CNS 2014) (Pune, India)
The 12th AONSA EC Meeting (Daejeon, Korea)
The 23rd IUCr Congress and General Assembly (Montreal, Canada)International Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Sources (ICANS XXI) (Mito, Japan)
The 13th AONSA EC Meeting (Serpong, Indonesia)
AONSA Special Session for IYCr2014 (Serpong, Indonesia)
The 6th AONSA Neutron School (Serpong, Indonesia)
The 8th International Workshop on Sample Environment at Neutron Scattering Facility(Oxfordshire, UK)

Year 2015
Date
7/18 or
7/19
7/19-7/23
TBD
TBD
TBD

EventsThe 14 AONSA EC Meeting (Manly, Australia)th

The 2nd AOCNS (Manly, Australia)
The 15th AONSA EC Meeting (Tokai, Japan)
The 7th AONSA Neutron School (Tokai, Japan)
Gordon Research Conference on Neutron Scattering (Hong Kong, China)

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