Newsletter From AONSAThe Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association

Volume 2, 2009

President’s comment
Index
By Prof. Mahn Won Kim,

Contents & President’s comment………………………………………………p.1

President and Professor
AONSA and KAIST

Neutron School and AONSA………………………………………………p.2
The status of Taiwan Neutron Scattering Society………………………………………………p.3

Sharing and Promoting

Korean Neutron Beam Users Association(KNBUA)………………………………………………p.4

I am very pleased to report some of AONSA activities
during 2009. Since AONSA has been formed on August
28th 2008, we had the 2nd AONSA Execute Committee
Meeting in Taiwan from Feb. 23rd to 24th 2009 hosted by
Prof. Wen Hsien Li of Taiwan Neutron Science Society.
And, we had the informal EC meeting at ANSTO withmany other groups from Asia and Oceania region justbefore the 2nd AONSA Neutron School. These EC
meetings were for the finding the regional needs of theneutron scattering community and for the steering of
AONSA activities.

AINSE / ANBUG Neutron Scattering Symposium
AANSS………………………………………………p.5
AINSE Winter School………………………………………………p.6
AINSE Post Graduate Research Awards………………………………………………p.8

I feel very comfortable now on the output of the AONSA
Neutron School for the promoting the regional neutron
society after two successful events, once at the KAIST andthe other at ANSTO during this summer. Furthermore, thenext two AONSA Neutron schools are already arranged:
INSS will host the third Neutron School on next year and afollowing year the JSNS will host the fourth Neutron
School. Another news is that the JSNS will host theregional conference (Asia Oceania Conference for Neutron
Scattering: AOCNS) during 2011. The AOCNS will
provide the platform to promote and share the output of
research.

A strategy of JSNS for the future developmentof J-PARC/MLF………………………………………………p.9
Indian Neutron Scattering Society………………………………………………p.10
Report from the AONSA Office………………………………………………p.11

One of AONSA goals is to promote the optimized use ofpresent and future neutron sources in region that involves
the sharing of facilities. The Association should provide thesoftware for this goal or at least start to have a discussion. I
believe that most important software is a goodcommunication, intention and openness among members. I
hope that this newsletter provides to accommodate thisneed.
I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the
Execute committee and board members for helping me as
the first president of AONSA to make this association
having the bright future.
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Newsletter from AONSANeutron School and AONSAANSTO – AINSE Neutron School
The ANSTO – AINSE Neutron School is a 5 day school,
held at ANSTO, Lucas Heights.
The Neutron School has been running for two years. In
2009 it was combined with the AONSA school.
This school provides training for newcomers to neutron
scattering focusing on nanoscience.
There are not only lectures, but also practical sessions
with hands-on experiments and data analysis.
All neutron techniques (available at ANSTO) arecovered in the school, i.e. powder diffraction, singlecrystal diffraction, strain scanning, small-angle
scattering, reflectometry, and inelastic scattering using
three-axis spectrometers.

AONSA 2008

AINSE provides travel and accommodation support for
those participants, who attend, who are from AINSE
member Universities.

AINSE provided support for AINSE 4
students and 1 lecturer to from member
universities to attend the 1st AONSA school
which was held in Korea in 2008.

Out of the 41 participants that attended the 2009
AONSA / Neutron School 20 were from AINSE
member universities. AINSE provided travel andaccommodation support for these participants.

2nd AONSA Neutron School, ANSTO Lucas Heights 2009
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Newsletter from AONSAThe status of Taiwan Neutron Scattering Society

Taiwan neutron scattering society (TWNSS) was
formed in 2008. The number of members at beginningis 36 people. Up to now, 66 people are in this society.
It covers a wide range of scientific disciplines
including physics, chemistry, and biology. A general
assembly meeting is held in National Taiwan
University on Feb. 14, 2009. 42 people attended themeeting. The first chairperson elected is Professor
Wen-Hsien Li from Department of Physics, National
Central University. The deputy chairperson isProfessor Hsi-Mei Lai from Department ofagriculture chemistry of National Taiwan University
and the secretary is Professor Chih-Hao Lee from
Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Science, National
Tsing Hua University.
In the last year, A X-ray and neutron scattering
special interest group was also formed in the National
Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan. The
first chairperson of leading this group is Professor
C.H.Du, (Department of Physics, Tamkang
University). With this interest group formed, the wellestablished synchrotron radiation users can talk toneutron users closely and hope they can use neutron
beam as a complementary tool.

Fig. 1. The EC meeting held in Taiwan.

On Feb. 23-24, the executive committee (EC) meetingof AONSA was held at National Center of Traditional
Art in Taiwan. Fig. 1 shows the EC members strokeon the street of the center before meeting and Fig. 2
shows Professor Hsiung Chou (National Sun-Yat San
Univerisity) played a traditional top (gyro) whichmight relate with neutron spin.
In the first half of year 2009, 11 neutron proposals
were submitted to OPAL reactor asking for beam time
before the completion of our Taiwan-Australia
beamline (SIKA ). To prompt more neutron users, athree-day neutron school will be held in November 2022 this year. This is a third neutron school in Taiwan.
About 90 people will attend this neutron school. An
advertisement brochure is also edited for widelydistributed among the scattering community.

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Fig. 2 The EC members play top in Taiwan

3Newsletter from AONSAKorean Neutron Beam Users Association (KNBUA)
Ohshima from Tsukuba University, Dr. Takashi
Kamiyama from J-PARC, and Dr. Masato Ohnuma
from NIMS, gave lectures on i) Introduction to
Crystallography Theory and Its Applications, ii)
Introduction to Rietveld Method and Its
Applications, and iii) Introduction to Small Angle
Scattering and Its Applications, respectively. The
tutorial was attended by over 40 undergraduate andgraduate students and the participants enjoyedcomputer-based hands-on crystal structure analysis
lead by Dr. Seong-Su Lee at KAERI.

The KNBUA annual general meeting was held in
May 28th, 2009 at KAERI during the HANARO
Symposium 2009. All workshops and schools
sponsored by the KNBUA in 2008 and early 2009were reported together with recent AONSA activities
which include a) the 4th International Symposium on
the Characterization of Metals and Nanostructured
Materials by Using Neutron and Synchrotron X-ray
scattering (April 25, 2008, Daejeon), b) The 1st
AONSA Neutron Summer School (August 18-23,
2008, KAIST), c) Tutorial on Neutron Diffraction for
Residual Stress Measurement and Analysis (October
1-2, 2008, KAERI), d) The 6th Workshop on X-ray
and Neutron Scattering Techniques for Surface Nanocharacterization (December 11-12, 2008, PAL), and e)
The 9th Japan-Korea Meeting on Neutron Science(February 9-10, 2009, Pusan Univ.).
The followings are activities in 2009 after the annual
general meeting.
The 1st Special Summer Lectures on Neutron
Physics, Optics, and Precision Measurements.

The 5th International Symposium on the
Characterization of Metals and Nanostructured Materials by Neutron and Synchro-tron
X-ray Scattering

The lectures, hosted by the HANARO and sponsoredby the KNBUA, were held at KAERI from August 24
till August 26, 2009. Three invited speakers, Dr.
Muhammad Arif from NIST, and Dr. Hirohik M.
Shimizu from KEK, and Dr. Pil-Neyo Seo from Duke
University gave a series of lectures on fundamental
neutron physics, neutron optics and detection methods
in neutron physics together with their various
applications. The lectures were attended by about 60
graduate students, professors, and researchers.

The symposium, co-organized by the HANARO,
Sunmoon University and POSTECH and cosponsored by the KNBUA, KIMM and MEST, washeld at Daegu EXCO on October 22, 2009. There
were 15 talks including 4 invited talks by Dr. K.
Ohshima from University of Tsukuba, Dr. S.T.
Hong from LG Chem Research Park, Dr. M.
Ohnuma from NIMS, and Dr. Dr. N. Tamura from
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which
covered various aspects of neutron and x-ray
diffraction studies including lithium-ion battery,alloys, steels and fuel cell membranes. The
symposium was attended by over 100 participants.

Tutorial on Neutron Diffraction and SANSTechniques for Materials Science
The tutorials, hosted by the HANARO and sponsoredby the KNBUA, were held at KAERI during October
20 -21, 2009. Three invited lecturers, Dr. Ken-ichi
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Newsletter from AONSAAINSE / ANBUG Neutron Scattering Symposium
AANSS
The AANSS is a yearly conference held at AINSE,
Lucas Heights.
The conference is held at the end of the year andattracts between 50 – 90 delegates from Australianand New Zealand Universities as well as
International Guests. The photos are from the
Symposium in December 2008.
The conference has been running for 8 years, with awide variety of participants from Australian and New
Zealand Universities as well as international guests.
Prior to this a variety of conferences have beenorganised on a variety of Neutron Scattering topics
The main goals of the conference isTo present some of the best recent results inAustralian and international neutron scatteringscience;
To promote graduate student research
activities;
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To engage local researchers, especially students,
in the possibilities and practice of neutron
scattering methods;
To highlight the capabilities of the new OPAL
neutron beam facility at Lucas Heights, both atthe date of the Symposium and in the near
future;To highlight the complementarity of neutronand x-ray scattering, particularly synchrotron
X-ray scattering.
AINSE provides travel and accommodation support fordelegates who are either presenting an oral or posterthat is attending ding from AINSE member universities.
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Newsletter from AONSAAINSE Winter School
What is the AINSE Winter School?
The AINSE Winter School started in 1997 and is a
successful promotional and marketing tool for AINSE.
Students who attend the school are from a variety ofbackgrounds as demonstrated attached appendix.
The AINSE Winter School is a scholarship to each ofits member universities which enables a nominatedstudent to attend a 5 day program on Applications of
Nuclear Techniques. The School is held at ANSTO,
about 30km south of Sydney.

Who is the Winter School open to?
radiation safety (dose measurement, principles ofradiation protection and decontamination).
Tours to inspect other major facilities at ANSTO isincluded and a social program including dinners andspeakers, encourages students to discuss importantcurrent social issues involving science and technology.

The scholarship is open to all senior undergraduate
students in which knowledge of nuclear techniques ofanalysis would be of interest. Such techniques haveapplications in areas ranging from agriculture tozoology and include physics, chemistry, biology,
environmental science, geography, geology, andarchaeology.

When is the Winter School held?
The Winter School is held in the July Holidays – thecommon week.

What does the Winter School involve?
The Winter School involves a mixture of lectures,experimental sessions and demonstrations including
hands-on experience in experiments in neutron
scattering (instruments on the OPAL nuclear research
reactor), ion beam accelerators and secondary ion mass
spectrometry (SIMS) (techniques of ion beam analysis
of materials and applications to environmental
analysis), gamma irradiation (chemical and biologicaleffects of ionizing radiation and radiation processing),
the use of nuclear techniques in environmental studies
in soil and ground water (nuclear probes for metals insoils, radioactive tracers in flow studies, pollution) andVolume2, 2009

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Newsletter from AONSAAINSE Post Graduate Research Awards
AINSE Post Graduate Research Awards
AINSE offers awards for postgraduate students whose
research projects are associated with nuclear science,or its applications, and require access to the unique
national facilities at the Lucas Heights Science &Technology Centre.
Postgraduate Research Awards are offered by AINSE
for suitably qualified persons wishing to undertake
studies in AINSE's field of interest for a higher degree
at a member university of AINSE. Applications are
particularly encouraged in fields which are related to
the research activities of the Australian Nuclear
Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO) at
Lucas Heights, Australia.
Research Supplements are the principal form of award
and are offered to scholars who are (or will be) inreceipt of an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) or
equivalent scholarship.
Supplement Stipend: $7,500 pa.
The award also provides $5,500 pa for costs involved
in using the facilities and services at Lucas Heights.
Certain travel and accommodation costs to enable
students to work at Lucas Heights are also provided.
Candidates for an AINSE Postgraduate Research
Supplement must be nominated by the Australian or
New Zealand university where PhD enrolment is heldor proposed for tenure commencing before 30 June of
the year of application. The university must be amember of AINSE There are 39 current PGRA awardsof which 23 are students using the Bragg Facilities.

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Newsletter from AONSAA strategy of JSNS for the future development of J-PARC/MLF
In J-Pac/MLF, the first user program has started
on 23 December 2008 followed by the first neutron
beam on May 30 2008, opening a new history ofneutron science in the world, particularly in AsiaOceania region. J-PARC/MLF has an importantmission to meet growing interest and demand forneutron beam in the field of both fundamental scienceand industrial application.

We, JSNS organized a special committee to discusson ‘How J-PARC/MLF should be and where should
go? This committee chaired by Prof. Kanaya in
Kyoto University covers many issues from the basic
concept of neutron instruments to user program. Last
year, the committee figured out the line-up of the
instruments, so called ‘Instrumental Ground Design’in J-PARC/MLF with 23 neutron beam ports.
In addition to the Instrumental Ground Design,
we made future prospects for the scientificdevelopment in J-PARC/MLF, which should be
synchronized with the development of neutron beam
and instrumentation (see the bottom figure). In thisprospect, we predict emergence of new types ofscience, for example, which combines different
fields by a unified concept. With the anticipateddevelopment we will definitely need a second target
station within 20 years as constructed in ISIS thisyear.
Majority of neutron users eager to have a unified
user program which combines both pulsed andsteady-sate neutron sources in Japan. One of future
missions of JSNS is to take action to form the‘Neutron beam Platform’, which has been proposedby Kanaya committee.

‘Yell from the World’ : International scientific leaders
including Novel prize winner, laboratory directors,
etc., celebrating the J-PARC/MLF starting ceremony.

N. Metoki (chief secretary of JSNS)

Neutron Science Roadmap in J-PARC/MLF.

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Indian Neutron Scattering Society

At present INSS has about 80
members from universities andinstitutions spread all over the country.
Two members of INSS are in theexecutive committee of the AsiaOceania Neutron Scattering
Association (AONSA).
INSS as its first major endeavor has recently organized a‘School and Conference of neutron scattering andmesoscopic systems’ in cooperation with BARC, UGCDAE-CSR and Goa University. The pre-Conference School
including hands-on experiments was held at BARC Mumbai
during October 5-10, 2009 and the Conference was held at
The International Center, Goa during October 12-24, 2009.
The response to the School was over whelming. The School
was planned for 40 participants mainly involving Ph. D.
students and some faculty members not having exposure toneutron scattering techniques. There were about 150
applications, and it was very difficult to choose only 40 as
most applicants deserved to be selected; finally 54 people
were selected. All aspects of neutron scattering were covered.

Many of the participants at the School travelled to
Goa for the Conference. There were about 125
participants at the Conference, 28 invited talks(including 8 from abroad) and 97 posters. Various
sessions were devoted to SANS, soft matter,
structures, magnetism, diffusion, dynamics,
reflectometry and detectors. A lively banquette
was organized on 13 October. Overall theproceedings were well appreciated by theparticipants.
The General Body meeting of INSS was held at
The International Center, Goa on October 12,
2009, which was well attended.
The 3rd AONSA School on neutron scattering isplanned to be organized at Mumbai in India during
October 4-9, 2010. It is again proposed to cover
theory, hands-on experiments and data analysis.
C/o Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic
Research Centre, Mumbai 400085, India
Email: neutron@barc.gov.in

Participants really enjoyed the hands-on experience on using
the neutron scattering instruments at the Dhruva reactor for
two days. Experiments were planned on 10 different
instruments covering diffraction (powder and single crystal),
SANS, reflectometry, and inelastic and quasielastic
scattering. Participants were divided into different groups;
each group carried out 4 experiments.

Conference on Neutron Scattering and Mesoscopic Systems
The International Centre Goa
Oct 12-14, 2009

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Report from the AONSA Office¾ Staffing from April 2009
Office secretary was changed from Ayako Sato to
Yukari Sugikawa.

The plaque of
AONSA Office has
been completed.

¾ AONSA web site
We have corrected the country names in the website
to the association (or facility) names as below.
・Korea→ KNBUA・Australia → ANBUG
・Japan→ JSNS・Taiwan → TWNSS
・India→ INSS・China→ CSNS and CARR
・Indonesia → BATAN
・Malaysia → Malaysian Nuclear Agency

AONSA Office
Many thanks to
the writers and editorsof this issue¾ Meetings and Events of AONSA

Prof. Masatoshi ARAI
Secretary

The following are the meetings and events held by
AONSA in the last six months.
Title

Date

Yukari SUGIKAWA
Administrative Assistant

Place

AONSA Summer
SchoolAugust 16-21, Lucas Heights,
2009
SydneyInformal EC board
meeting

August 14,
2009

ANSTO,
SydneyThe 3rd EC meeting

October 23,
2009

Tsinghua
University,
Beijing

Office address:
Neutron Science Section,
Materials & Life Science Facility Division,
J-PARC Center,JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY,
2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai
Ibaraki, JAPAN, 319-1195

The 2nd AONSA neutron school was held in
August 16-21 in Sydney. The host of the next
AONSA summer school in 2010 will be INSS.
Informal EC board meeting was also held in
Sydney in August as an annex meeting of the IAEA
consultation meeting held in ANSTO. The minutes
was circulated among EC.
The 3rd EC meeting was held during the AsCA
meeting in cooperation with Chinese colleagues.

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