Newsletter From AONSAThe Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association

Volume 3, No.2 (December, 2011)

President’s message

By Professor
John W. White

Sharing
I offer the thanks from all in our region to Professor
Toshiji Kanaya and his colleagues in Japan andinternationally for the excellent science and personal
interactions we enjoyed at AOCNS. The neutron
scattering instrument workshop was a great idea. Our
hearty thanks also to the Facility Director’s meeting
and Professor Mitsuhiro Shibayama for this excellent
program.

The 1st Proton Beams after the
Earthquake (December 9, 2011)

In my speech to the AONSA conference banquet, I
took the theme of “sharing”. I firmly believe that wehave an enormous potential for sharing in the scientificgrowth of our region. The wide geographicaldistribution of neutron facilities in Asia-Oceania, theinvolvement of young people being educated in ourneutron schools as well as growing scientificcollaborations – will fulfil this potential.

Index
Index & President’s Message………………p.1
1st AOCNS …………………………………p.2
Organization Committee Chair’s Report
Global Cooperation
AONSA Prize CeremonySocial Activities
Instrument Scientist Workshops (ISWs)

The sharing of outstanding individuals such as our first
AONSA prize-winner Professor Noboru Watanabe wasillustrated by the outcome at J-PARC of his elegant
neutron moderator design. The remarkable recovery of
J-PARC from the great earthquake disaster in March2011 drew the admiration of all on the 24 November
visit.

7th EC Meeting ……………………………p.7“Outreach” is the keynote for AONSA’s strategy to
grow our Associations. I welcome a new member ofthe Board, Associate Professor Chris Ling to help withthis. It was also a pleasure to welcome at AOCNS
Professor Moonhor Ree, representing the synchrotron
community.

4th Neutron School…………………………p.8
Society Report ……………………………p.9
NSSI
TWNSS

Finally, as this is my last newsletter as President I
thank every member of AONSA for their cooperation
and I look forward to staying in close contact withAONSA activities in the years to come.

Calendar …………………………………p.11

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Organization Committee Chair’s Report
The 1st Asia-Oceania Conference on Neutron
Scattering (1st AOCNS) was held during the period
from 20th November to 24th November, 2011 in
Tsukuba, Japan, which was organized by the AsiaOceania Neutron Scattering Association (AONSA), theJapanese Society for Neutron Science (JSNS) andmany other institutes and universities. This firstneutron conference in the Asia-Oceania region was
surely a historical event.

The number of the participants was 586; 375 fromJapan, 69 from Korea, 53 from Australia and New
Zealand, 30 from Taiwan, 12 from India, 12 from
China, 10 from Indonesia, 3 from Malaysia, 14 from
Europe and 8 from North and South America. The
number was much larger than we expected. This is a
big success. The organizing committee appreciates
their participation to the conference.
In the conference there were 24 scientific sessions
including various fields such as Fundamental Physics,
Hard Matter, Soft Matter, Chemistry, Materials
Science, Biological Molecules, Industrial Applications,
Complementary Use of Various Methods, and so on.
There were also 8 Facility Reports in the Asia-Oceania
region, Global Cooperation Sessions I and II, and
AONSA Prize Ceremony and AONSA Prize Lecture,
which are reported in details in separated articles byProfessor Fujii. Poster Awards to young students werealso arranged. In these sessions, 4 plenary talks, 24
keynote lectures, 35 invited talks, 41 contributed talks
and 386 poster presentations were given. In addition to
the scientific sessions, the conference banquet, 3 social

The JSNS established the pre-organizing committee in2009 to prepare the conference. As everyone knows a
big earthquake hit Japan on 11th March, 2011, and thesubsequent Tsunami caused unbelievable destructionof many lives, cities, towns and villages. The nuclear
reactor disaster in Fukushima also caused serious
problems. In such situation the organizing committee
discussed postponement or cancellation of theconference. However, we received many of warm
messages from neutron colleagues of all over the worldand kind supports from neutron facilities in the world.
Encouraged by them the organizing committee decided
to hold the conference as originally scheduled.

Group photo of the AOCNS participants

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events, and site tours to J-PARC/JRR-3 were arranged
during the conference. The reports on those can befound in the articles in this issue.
On the first day of the conference, Instrumental
Scientist Workshops (ISWs) were held to discuss thepresent situation and the future directions of theneutron instruments, which is reported by Professor
Shibayama in this issue, and the AONSA Executive
Committee decided to hold the 2nd AOCNS in Sydney,
Australia, 2015.
The organizing committee believes that the conference
was really successful to show the power of neutron
researches in the Asia-Oceania region and the future
directions. This is surely owing to the efforts of allpresenters, International Advisory Board members,
International Scientific Program Committee members,
Local Organizing Committee members, Sub Program
Committee members, Conference Supporting members,
many sponsors to support the conference financially,
and all of the participants to the conference. We, theorganizing committee, express again our sincere
gratitude to all of the participants to the conference.

The Asia-Oceania Conference on KARAOKE

See you in Sydney in 2015!
Toshiji Kanaya
Chair of the Organizing Committee, 1st AOCNS

Passing a baton to 2nd AOCNS in Closing Session

Global Cooperation
On the occasion of AOCNS, we invited Prof. Michael
Steiner (Chairman of ENSA), Prof. B. Gaulin(President of NSSA) and Prof. M. H. Ree (President of
AOFSRR) to promote AONSA’s international
cooperation with other neutron association/society inEurope and America as well as synchrotron radiation
community in our A-O region. All of them kindly
accepted invitation and gave us their generous reports
in the Sessions of Global Cooperation I and II during
the Conference. Such an idea initiated in the AONSABoard Meeting a year ago took a specific form whenthe 1st Three President Meeting (ENSA-NSSAAONSA) was held in Tokai, Japan last February(Neutron News 22, 4 (2011)).

The former and present AONSA Board members welcomed
Prof. M. Steiner (Chairman of ENSA, third from left) andProf. B. Gaulin (President of NSSA, second from right).

(Continued)

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1st AOCNSThis time the 2nd Three President Meeting was also
held on Nov. 23 during the Conference with anemphasis on more exchange of their information andpromotion of cooperation. One of the issues was ona host of the ICNS 2017 (quadrennial International
Conference on Neutron Scattering) to be selected bybid at ICNS 2013 (Edinburgh). AONSA is very
eager to hold it in 2017 in our A-O region which will
follow such a natural sequence as last several
ICNS’s 1997 (Toronto, Canada), 2001 (Munich,Germany), 2005 (Sydney, Australia), 2009

(Knoxville, USA), and 2013 (Edinburgh, UK). We
have agreed to support such a systematic rotation of ahosting region in which a hosting society(country/region) will be decided with regional
Association’s responsibility. Korean colleagues havea plan to host it and AONSA Executive Committee
has already expressed its strong support to KNBUA.
Yasuhiko Fujii
Vice President of AONSAAONSA Prize Ceremony
A winner of the 1st AONSA Prize is Prof. Noboru
Watanabe (Scientific Consultant of JAEA, Emeritus
Professor of KEK, Japan) as previously announced
for his pioneering development of accelerator-based
neutron sources and instrumentations, and his great
contribution to the establishment of neutron science
community and finally to the realization of one of themost powerful pulsed neutron scattering facility at JPARC.

AONSA has greatly appreciated their generous
contribution.

The Ceremony was held in the special session on
AONSA Prize 2011 on Nov. 23 during theConference. The Vice President of AONSA, Prof. Y.
Fujii, reported details of selection process as Chair of
Selection Committee. As its highlight, the President,
Prof. J. White, awarded Prof. Watanabe Certificate ofPrize, Medal and Monetary Prize (US$5,000)
followed by the Prize Lecture specially chaired by Dr.
G. Bauer (retired from PSI). Prof. Watanabe’s onehour lecture greatly impressed all of audiences withhis devotion to R&D of pulse neutron sources andinstrumentations starting from the TOHOKU Linac,
KENS through J-PARC. His longtime worldwide
friends such as Drs. G. Bauer, J. Carpenter (retired
from ANL) and A. Taylor (ISIS) attended thisceremony to congratulate him.

The AONSA President (J. White, left) congratulating
Prof. Watanabe during the Ceremony

The present AONSA Prize has been made possibleby the following voluntary contributors:
Individuals: Prof. M. W. Kim (KAIST/Korea)
Prof. M. Shibayama (Tokyo Univ./
Japan)
Facilities:
ANSTO/Australia
HANARO/Korea
NSRRC/Taiwan
Societies:
JSNS
KNBUA
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Prof. Watanabe giving his Prize Lecture

Yasuhiko Fujii
Vice President of AONSA
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Social Activities in 1st AOCNS
members are working in Public Work ResearchInstitute in Tsukuba. Then, Dr. J. Suzuki (Chair of
local organizing committee) introduced the membersof the local organizing committee and supporting
members. Before closing the banquet, the host of 2nd
AOCNS, A/Prof. C. Ling (Univ. of Sydney) gave amessage to welcome the participants to the 2nd
AOCNS. It was really a joyful banquet.

As the first event of social activities of 1st AOCNS,
the reception party was held in the multi-purpose hallof Epochal (the venue) on November 20 (Sun). Morethan 200 people joined the reception party. The party
was quite informal; without any opening address andspeech. All the participants enjoyed talking, drinks
and foods.
On November 23, the following three social eventswere prepared for the participants of the conference
and their accompanying persons: (1) Japanese flower
arrangement (Ikebana), (2) Shopping at Akihabara
and Asakusa, (3) Walking in Mt. Tsukuba. In the firstevent, Japanese instructors taught how to arrange
flowers from the basic level for 8 participants. Afterthe event, the arranged flowers were displayed at theentrance hall of the venue (please see the photo). In
the second event, the participants enjoyed the
shopping at Asakusa (for traditional Japanesesouvenirs) and Akihabara (for modern electric
equipments) with a Japanese guide. In the third event,the participants enjoyed seeing autumn color ofleaves in Mt. Tsukuba with a Japanese guide.

The participants are taking foods in the reception party

The conference banquet was held at Hotel Grand
Shinonome on the evening of November 23. The
number of the participants was 319. At the beginning,
Prof. Y. Noda (Co-chair of program committee,
Tohoku University) gave an opening address onbehalf of the organizing members. Then, Prof. R.
Robinson (ANSTO, Australia), Prof. A. Taylor (ISIS,
RAL, UK), and Dr. Y. Kawakami (Eisai Co., Ltd)
made speeches to celebrate the 1st AOCNS. Next, we
had a ceremony of Opening Sake Barrels (Kagami
Biraki). The following 11 members opened thebarrels with wooden hummers: Prof. J. White(President of AONSA, ANU), Prof. M. W. Kim(Past-President of AONSA, KAIST, Korea), Prof. S.
L. Chaplot (BARC, India), Prof. K. B. Lee (POSTEC,
Korea), Prof. C. Loong (Sun Yat-Sen Univ., China),
Prof. W.-H. Li (NCU, Taiwan), Dr. E. G. R. Putra(BATAN, Indonesia), Dr. A. A. Mohamed (MNA,
Malaysia), Prof. J. Carpenter (ANL, USA), Prof. T.
Kanaya (Chair of 1st AOCNS, Kyoto Univ.), Dr. M.
Arai (J-PARC), Dr. F. Muelhauser (Scientific
Secretary of Technical Meeting, IAEA).

The Ikebana flowers displayed in the entrance hallProf. J. White made a toast and the time of talking,drinking, and eating started. Japanese, western, andvegetarian foods were served buffet style. Special
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The Opening Sake Barrel ceremony in the banquet

O. Yamamuro
Local Organizing Committee, 1st AOCNS
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1st Instrument Scientist Workshops at AOCNS
The 1st Instrument Scientist Workshops (ISWs) of
neutron scattering facilities in Asia-Oceania region
were held on Nov. 20, 2011, as a satellite meeting of
AOCNS 2011, Tsukuba, Japan. The ISWs were
proposed by the Inaugural Asia-Oceania Neutron
Facility Directors’ Meeting, held on May 20, 2011, in
Bandung, Indonesia. The purpose of ISWs is to getbenefit from shared knowledge about instrumentation,complementary capabilities at other facilities in theregion, etc.

It was a great success to hold workshops on theoccasion of AOCNS. Table 1 shows the statistics of
1st ISWs. The numbers of participants andinstruments introduced were 162 and 82, respectively.
The number of countries/areas is 5.75 in average outof 8 member/observer countries. These numbers aremuch larger than the expectation of the coordinators,
indicating that instrument scientists wish to exchange
information about instruments, such as sample
environments and accessories, to learn knowhow ofdata reduction, user programs, etc. Those were reallyenthusiastic workshops. Most of ISWs agreed tolaunch mailing list or home page to keep close
contact among instrument scientists. It is understoodthat equal partnership, i.e., equal relationship, equal
contributions, and equal benefits is important forgood and long standing collaborations. There wasonly one regrettable thing. The time allotted to the
ISW, 3 hours, was too short. It was recommended tohave next ISW with longer time.

Originally, it was planned to hold a few workshops
dealing with typical instruments, such as powder
diffractometers and small-angle neutron scattering
instruments. However, it turned out to hold eight
ISWs covering powder diffraction, single crystal
diffraction,
small-angle
scattering(SANS),
reflectivity, triple axis, time-of-flight (TOF),
engineering diffractometry, and neutron imaging.
Since these were the first workshops on instruments
by instrument scientists, the main objective was toknow each other. Each ISW started by selfintroduction and address exchange, followed bydescription of instruments, discussion, etc. For
example, the neutron powder diffraction (NPD)-ISW
was organized as follows. Discussion time wascoordinated for mutual understanding; proposal
systems, number of users, topics (crystal, magnetism,batteries, energy-related, polymers, functional
materials, etc.), sample environments, minimum
sample size challenged, etc. They agreed to continue
the NPD instrument scientist workshop and meetwhen AsCA’12 (the Asian Crystallographic
Association, Dec.2-6, 2012) will be held in Adelaide,
Australia as the Bragg centenary. Other ISWs
proceeded similarly.

The 1st ISWs can be summarized as follows: (1) It
was the first face-to-face meeting on instruments by
instrument scientists. (2) 15 - 27 scientists got
together at each ISW and discussed their problems,
including upgrades, budget, human resources, etc.
(3) The workshop was very meaningful for our
instrument scientists to share the knowledge and tohave a continuous communication, especially fordeveloping countries. (4) Instrument scientists willkeep communication by making mailing list, home
page, portal site, and/or uploading the presentation
files.

Snap shot of TOF workshop

Mitsuhiro Shibayama
Prof. Univ. Tokyo
Coordinator-in chief

Table1. Statistics of the 1st ISWs

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The 7th AONSA Executive Committee Meeting held at Tsukuba, JapanThe 7th AONSA Executive Committee (EC) Meeting
was held at Tsukuba International Congress Center,
Tsukuba, Japan, on November 20, 2011, just before the
1st AOCNS. The meeting was attended by 23
participants, which is the highest number of attendance
so far, and started with an opening remark by President
John W. White acknowledging all the efforts of theBoard and EC members and observers. In the meeting,all participants enjoyed active discussions on various
issues.
The agenda of the meeting includes the nominations
and approvals of the next EC members and observers,
and the next Board members (2012-2013), the reports
for the AONSA Prize, the 4th AONSA neutron school
held at ANSTO, the 5th AONSA neutron school to beheld in Beijing next year, the 1st AOCNS, and the
instrument scientist workshop during the 1st AOCNS.
The great efforts of contributors for these activities
were highly appreciated by all the EC. These were
followed by excellent presentations of proposals forthe 2nd AOCNS in 2015 and Sydney was selected. All
participants were very glad to hear a report on recent
fruitful meetings and communications with ENSA andNSSA including three Presidents’ meeting. The
meeting was continued with lunch boxes and ended
with a group photo of all participants. The minutes ofthe meeting will be posted in the AONSA homepage
once it becomes ready.
Sung-Min Choi
Secretary of AONSA

Seriously discussing at EC Meeting[From left] Keng Liang, Mahn Won Kim, and Masa Arai

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4th AONSA Neutron School 2011
preparing and setting-up a neutron scatteringexperiment, and whose data could be readily analysedin the timeframe of the school. These experiments
included Lithium battery studies using the powder
diffractometers Echidna and Wombat; analysis ofresidual stresses and texture using the Kowari
diffractometer; analysis of bio-functional plasma
coatings using X-ray and neutron reflectometry(Platypus); a Small-Angle Neutron Scattering study of
sodium dodecyl sulfate micellar growth driven byaddition of a hydrotropic salt; and the study of yttriastabilised zirconia using the Taipan three-axis
spectrometer.

The 4th Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association(AONSA) Neutron School was held from November
12 to 17, 2011 at the Australian Nuclear Science andTechnology Organisation (ANSTO) in Sydney,
Australia. This School brought together 32 PhD
students and early-career researchers from Australia,
China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia andTaiwan.
Following the disaster of the Great East Japan
Earthquake in March 2011, the two major neutron
scattering facilities in Japan, the JRR-3M research
nuclear reactor and J-PARC spallation neutron source
were disabled for some time. As a consequence of thisevent, the Japanese neutron-scattering facilities did nothave the capacity to train students of AONSA member
nations using local facilities. The 2011 AONSA
Neutron School, which was scheduled to occur at thesefacilities in Tokai, Japan 13 to 18 November, was thus
re-located to the neutron scattering facilities of the
Bragg Institute at the OPAL 20 MW research reactor.

In addition to the formal program, the participants
were provided with guidance on applying for
beamtime, experienced an educational Australian wine
tasting, a Sydney harbour cruise and tour of the Sydney
CBD, as well as an early morning bushwalk where
wild kangaroos and some of Australia’s beautiful
native flowers were seen.
Overall, the 4th AONSA Neutron School has helped
those attending early-career researchers build expertiseand confidence in the application of neutron scattering
techniques. We hope that one day these researchers
are similarly educating future generations. ANSTO has
received very positive feedback following the schoolfrom participants, their supervisors and the attending
lecturers for which we are grateful.

Over five days, the School program consisted oftwenty-three scientific talks that provided an
introduction to the theory of neutron scattering and its
applications to the materials sciences, and four days ofneutron scattering beamtime with hands-on experienceand data analysis on the instruments at the Bragg
Institute.
Lectures on the first day provided a general
introduction to neutron scattering with John Stride andClemens Ulrich (University of New South Wales)
covering the basic theory, applications and available
facilities world-wide, followed by more specific talks
by Wen-Hsien Li (National Central University,
Taiwan) on elastic neutron scattering techniques, by
Je-Geun Park (Seoul National University, Korea) on
inelastic scattering, and by Richard Mole (ANSTO) on
quasi-elastic neutron scattering techniques. Vanessa
Peterson (ANSTO) then discussed the role of neutrons
as a probe for sustainable-energy materials.

We wish to thank the speakers and instrument
scientists for their fine efforts in stimulating theinterests of the participants; as well as AONSA,AINSE, IAEA and the Australian Prime Minister’s
Education Assistance Program (EAP) for Japan for
their financial assistance provided to attending students.

On Monday, Duncan McGillivray (University of
Auckland, New Zealand) presented applications of
Small-Angle Neutron Scattering, and Mike James(ANSTO) presented applications of Neutron
Reflectometry before students split up into groups
based on their instrument selection to hear instrumentspecific talks and begin their overnight data collection.
Joseph Bevitt
Scientific Coordinator, ANSTO Bragg InstituteStudents were divided into five groups, each group
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Report from Neutron Scattering Society of India (NSSI)
users in view of their current research. A visit to theneutron facility was also arranged. It is now planned toorganize a meeting for students with both theory andhands-on experiments.

The ‘Indian neutron scattering society (INSS)’ is now
renamed as ‘Neutron Scattering Society of India(NSSI)’. The society is now registered vide registration
no. Maharashtra State, Mumbai 2011, GBBSD, 9616,
dated June 28, 2011.

Design of a Fermi-chopper based time-of-flight
spectrometer has been completed; the delivery of the
Fermi chopper is expected by the end of next year. The
detector bank is being designed with about 90 detector
covering a wide Q-range.

A large contingent of students from India attended therecently held Asia-Oceania Conference on Neutron
Scattering at Tsukuba during November 20-24, 2011.
They all appreciated very much the well organized
conference for its academic as well as social aspects.
Many of them attended the Instrument Scientists
Workshop and got to know the status of the
instruments exiting in the Asia-Oceania region. The
visit to J-PARC and JRR-3 also has been very usefulfor the young researchers.

The shielding for a combo-instrument for residual
stress analysis, Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis
and Fission fragment spectroscopy is just completed.
These are planned to be commissioned by the end of
next year.

Like other members of AONSA, NSSI also had aregional meeting on 22nd November 2011 at Room No.
202 B, Tsukuba International Congress Center,
Tsukuba. Dr. S.L. Chaplot, President, NSSI welcomed
the participants and briefed about the activities of NSSI.
It was a good opportunity to exchange views as theparticipants were from different places in India. It wassuggested to have a website for NSSI such that themembers can get information regarding the facilities
and activities related to the Society.
A Theme Meeting was organized recently at Mumbai
during October 18-19, 2011 to enhance the utilizationof the National Facility for Neutron Beam research
existing at Dhruva Reactor, Bhabha Atomic ResearchCentre, Mumbai. About 30 university faculties wereinvited, who did not have much of background withusage of neutrons but were thought to be potential

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Group photo after the NSSI meeting during AOCNSSamrath Chaplot
President, Neutron Scattering Society of India

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Report from Taiwan Neutron Science Society (TWNSS)
speech. Prof. Mou is a National Chair Professor. He
is also the University Chair Professor of the
Department of Chemistry of the National Taiwan
University. Prof. Tsang-Lang Lin, from the National
Tsing-Hua University, also a long-time neutron user,
gave an invited talk and chaired one symposium inthe 1st AOCNS. Both professors travel around theworld to apply neutron scattering to solve the soft
matter structures.

Growing TWNSS
2011 was an incredibly exciting year for Taiwan
Neutron Science Society (TWNSS). In January, the
TWNSS hosted the 2nd Taiwan Neutron Scattering
Conference, which along with more than 150
researchers; Professor Hsi-Mei Lai of the National
Taiwan University and Professor Hsiung Chou of the
National Sun Yat-Sen University were elected as the
new President and Vice President of TWNSS,
respectively. In 2011, the number of the TWNSS
members exceeds more than 300 – about 70 percentof whom are young researchers and graduate students.
Our members’ research fields extend from basic
physics to nutrition of life, covering topics ranging
from engineering applications to the fundamentals of
lipid and water.

Likewise, for decades, scientists in Taiwan have been
globally applying neutron instruments for various
researches. After struggling with rough experimental
trips all over the world, we are very pleased to havethe network and neutron facilities rooted in AsiaOceania region. TWNSS is one of the founding
members of the Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering
Association (AONSA); with the diverse research
activities and the growing community of energetic
users in Taiwan, TWNSS will continue bridging the
Taiwan scientists to every AONSA member for
tentative collaborations. Along this line, Prof. WenHsien Li of the National Central University and Prof.
Chih-Hao Lee of the National Tsing-Hua University
already served in the International Advisory Board
and Prof. Hsiung Chou of the National Sun Yat-Sen
University and Prof. Ya-Sen Sun of the National
Central University were in the International Scientific
Program Committee of the 1st AOCNS.

Fig.1 The flyer of the 2nd
Taiwan Neutron Scattering
Conference

Debut of TWNSS Logo
An official logo of TWNSS is shown in the rightabove. The image of colorful waves indicates thewide spectrum of neutron scattering for various
research activities in Taiwan. The lower left and righthalves are equally essential “User” and “Facility”.
The “M&D” represents that TWNSS, functioning asa platform to bridge the Users and the Facilities,
provides the management and development services
for our societies.

SIKA in ANSTO
SIKA is a cold neutron 3-axis spectrometer inAustralian Nuclear Science and Technology
Organisation (ANSTO). SIKA is going to be inoperation soon. TWNSS sincerely invites the users to
discuss the potential projects with the SIKA teammembers.

TWNSS in the 1st AOCNS
Last month, more than 30 scientists and graduate
students from Taiwan presented their researchfacilitating neutron scattering in the 1st Asia-Oceania
Conference on Neutron Scattering (AOCNS), held in
Tsukuba, Japan.

The participants of the Taiwan Night in the second day of the AOCNS[In the middle] Prof. His-Mei Lai (President of TWNSS)[From middle to the left] Prof. Wen-Hsien Li,
Prof. Chih-Hao Lee, and Prof. Tsang-Lang Lin.
[From middle to the right]Prof. Hsiung Chou

During the AOCNS, we’ve seen the recognition of
our Taiwan colleagues’ hard work. We were very
proud to attend Prof. Chung-Yuan Mou’s keynote
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Hsi-Mei Lai
President of TWNSS
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Calendar of AONSA Activities(as of 2011/12/16)

Year 2011
Date (M/D)
2/20
2/23
2/28
4/27
5/19-20
6/27-7/1
7/17-7/22
8/23-8/31
10/24-10/28
11/12-11/17
11/20
11/20-11/24
11/22-11/25
11/28-12/1
12/16

EventsAONSA Board Meeting (Narita, Japan)
The ENSA-NSSA-AONSA Chairman-Presidents’ Meeting (Tokai, Japan)
Deadline for nomination for the AONSA Prize 2011
AONSA Newsletter Vol.3 No.1 (Apr. 2011)
The 6th AONSA EC Meeting (Bandung, Indonesia)
ICNX 2011 (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
European Conference on Neutron Scattering (Prague, Czech)
XXII Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography(Madrid, Spain)
The 6th AOFSRR Workshop (Bangkok, Thailand)
The 4th AONSA Neutron School (ANSTO, Australia)
The 7th AONSA EC Meeting (Tsukuba, Japan)
The 1st AOCNS (Tsukuba, Japan)
IAEA Technical Meeting (Tsukuba, Japan)
Polymer Conference (Bali, Indonesia)
AONSA Newsletter Vol.3 No.2 (Dec. 2011)

Year 2012
Spring
7/29-8/2
Fall
10/22-10/26
11/18-11/23
12/2-12/6

The 8th AONSA EC Meeting (TBA)
M2S-X (Washington DC, USA)The 9th AONSA EC Meeting (TBA)
The 5th AONSA Neutron School (Beijing, China)
The 15th International Small-Angle Scattering Conference (Sydney, Australia)
The 12th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association (Adelaide, Australia)

Year 2013
7/7-7/11

The 10th International Conference on Neutron Scattering (Edinburgh, UK)

Location of AONSA Office (Secretary: Junko Akutsu)
Neutron Science Section, Materials & Life Science Division,
J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)
2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki, JAPAN 319-1195
Phone: +81-29-284-3752
Fax: +81-29-284-3889
Email address: akutsu.junko@jaea.go.jp
For more information: http://www.aonsa.org

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