Newsletter From AONSAThe Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association

Volume 2, No.2 (November, 2010)

President’s comment
By Prof. John. W. WhiteAONSA on the moveFirst of all I want to thank my colleagues on the
AONSA Board and Executive for a very busy year so
far. We have created structures for operating AONSA
which are beginning to work well. These include“virtual” Board meetings – by email, informal
Executive meetings whenever we can get a sizeablegroup together eg at conferences, and full Executive
meetings in Singapore (May) and at the Tata Institute,
Mumbai (October). We now have our Articles, formal
by-laws, rules, and guidelines for running AONSA
business. These are all on the website for you.
AONSA’s work is now recognized by the IAEA as
important for our region and our summer schools havereceived their financial support. We are very gratefulfor that.
Next year we will have our first Asia-Oceania
Conference on Neutron Scattering in Japan (20/1124/11) preceded by the 4th AONSA Neutron School(13/11-19/11) with lots of experimental parts. I hope towelcome members from all Associations there. The
website will give details as they become available in
the next few months. The AONSA Neutron School at
BARC, Mumbai, India was again very successful andthere is a report here and on the website with pictures.
The EC has just had an excellent informal meeting in
conjunction with the 15th anniversary celebrations of
the HANARO reactor in Korea and a coincident IAEA
consultants meeting. AONSA is looking outwards toother organizations for help in our program. These
include IAEA, ICSU and IUCr.

Index
Index & President’s comment ………………p.1
IAEA Consultancy Meeting on Research
Reactor Coalitions and User’s Networks……p.2

AONSA Board and Informal Executive Committee
Meetings Held at KAIST &Call for Proposals for the 2nd AOCNS 2015……………………………p.3
Call for Nominations for the AONSA Prize 2011……………………………p.4
Report on 3rd AONSA Neutron Schoolat BARC in India ……………………………p.5
The Month of AONSA Big Events in Nov. 2011……………………………p.7
Report from KNBUA ………………………p.8
Report from TWNSS ………………………p.10
Report from J-PARC ………………………p.11

The photograph shows myself, the Vice-President
Professor Fujii and Professor Kuroda (Vice-PresidentInternational of ICSU) at a meeting to talk about this held in Tokyo in March 2010.

The International Conference on Neutron and
X-ray Scattering (ICNX) …………………p.13
AONSA Calendar …………………………p.15

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Newsletter from AONSAIAEA Consultancy Meeting on Research Reactor Coalitions
and Users’ Networks:“Education, Science and Applications with neutron beams in East Asia – Pacific Region”

The consultancy meeting was held at the Korean
Atomic Energy Research Institute, KAERI, between
27 and 29 October. The meeting was attended byeleven international experts, mainly from the AsianPacific region (Australia, Bangladesh, China, India,
Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines,
South Korea, and Vietnam) and chaired by Professor
John White as President of AONSA.
The meeting recognized the great opportunities forneutron scattering applications in the region from boththe very large investments made at reactors and pulsed
sources. An objective was to identify the needs of thevarious nations represented in the meeting and theways in which cooperation could be facilitatedbetween them immediately and in the longer term.

The photograph shows Professor Rob Robinson (Australia),
John White and Dr Danas Ridikas at the meeting.

Presentations were made by each participant on theirlocal plans, current collaborations and needs for the
future. These formed the basis of the subsequent oneday discussion after a visit to the impressive facilities
at the HANARO reactor which had beensystematically developed since 1985. The consultantsemphasised the importance of sustained programs
between centres to provide education and training ofyoung scientists, engineers and researchers through a
program facilitating bilateral and multilateral access toneutron scattering facilities across the region.

John White
President of AONSAAONSA’s role through neutron schools andconferences was recognised and thanks expressed for
IAEA support already given to this program.

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Newsletter from AONSAAONSA Board and Informal Executive Committee Meetings Held at KAIST
all participants enjoyed very active discussions on
various issues to strengthen the collaborations in the
Asia-Oceania region, which made the meeting very
productive. Association and facility reports weremade by participants, which updated current status
of user communities and facilities in the region. The
meeting was followed by a dinner hosted by the
Korean Neutron Beam Users Association. The
minutes of the meeting will be posted in the AONSA
website once it is ready.

The AONSA Board and informal Executive
Committee (EC) meetings were held at Korea
Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST) in Daejeon, Korea, on October 31, 2010. The
Board meeting in the morning was attended by JohnWhite (President), Yasuhiko Fujii (Vice-President),
Sung-Min Choi (Secretary), Wen-Hsien Li (Treasurer),
Mahn Won Kim (former President) and Masatoshi
Arai (former Secretary) and various issues identified
in the draft minutes of 5th AONSA Executive
Committee meeting in India were discussed. The
meeting was followed by a lunch hosted by the Basic
Atomic Energy Research Institute at KAIST. At thelunch, Yong Hee Lee, Dean of Natural Science at
KAIST and Ki-Bong Lee, President of Korean
Neutron Beam Users Association, welcomed all the
Board and informal EC participants.
The informal EC meeting in the afternoon was
attended by 14 participants including Ki-Bong Lee(KNUBA), Kye Hong Lee (HANARO), Rob
Robinson (ANSTO), Masatoshi Arai (J-PARC),
Yuntao Liu (CIAE), Edy Giri Rachman Putra(BATAN), Abdul Aziz Mohamed (Malaysian Nuclear
Agency), Kookheon Char (KNBUA), Chang Hee Lee(HANARO) and all Board members. In the meeting,Sung-Min Choi
Secretary of AONSA

Call for Proposals for the 2nd AOCNS 2015
The host and location of the 2nd Asia-Oceania
Conference on Neutron Scattering (the 2nd AOCNS) in
2015 will be decided in the Executive Committee
which will be held during the 1st AOCNS (November
20-24, 2011, Japan). Both paying regular member
societies and non-paying observers of AONSA cansubmit their proposals to the Secretary of AONSA byemail (sungmin@kaist.ac.kr) and the submission
deadline is September 30, 2011. The basic principles
and procedures to decide the host and location of
AOCNS are as followings:

will be announced in the AOCNS just before it.
- The host and location of AOCNS will be decided
in the AONSA EC meeting after reviewing theconference proposals submitted by neutron
societies in the Region.
- Both paying regular member societies and nonpaying observers can submit proposals.
<Procedures>
1. The call for proposal should be announced one
year ahead of the currently planned AOCNS.
2. Conference proposals should be submitted to theSecretary of AONSA by the application deadline
specified in the call for proposals. Under normal
circumstance, the deadline is one month before
the AONSA EC meeting. Only one proposal isallowed for each society.
3. The host and location of next AOCNS will bedecided in the EC during AOCNS where
candidates should present their proposals withenough information and the results should beannounced at the end of the conference.

Procedures to decide the host and location of
AOCNS(Approved in the 5th EC, Oct. 5, 2010. A minor revision
was made in the informal EC, Oct. 31, 2010)<Basic Principles>- The host and location of AOCNS will be circulated
in the Asia-Oceania Region.
- Under normal circumstance, the host and location of
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Call for Nominations for the AONSA Prize 2011
Selection Committee (hereafter referred toas the SC)) may submit one nomination orseconding letter for the Prize.
c. A nomination should include:z
A letter of not more than 5,000 characters
evaluating the nominee’s qualification for the Prizeand identifying the specific work to be recognized.
z
A brief curriculum vitaez
A short list of major publicationsz
Up to five reprints/preprintsz
At least two, but not more than four
seconding lettersd.
Nomination should be electronicallysubmitted to Chair of the SC by the deadline issued
by the SC.
e.
Nomination shall be active through tworeview cycles (4 years). Nominations may be
updated while still active.

The AONSA has established the “AONSA Prize” forthe first time to recognize outstanding research careerwith a significant impact or contribution to the use ordevelopment of neutron science or technology in the
Asia-Oceania Region.
Anyone may submit one nomination or seconding
letter for the AONSA Prize in 2011 by following therules as described below by February 28, 2011 to the
Chair of Selection Committee electronically(y_fujii@cross.or.jp). The Prize Ceremony will beheld and awardee(s) will deliver the Prize Lectureduring the first Asia-Oceania Conference on Neutron
Scattering (Nov. 20-24, 2011, Japan) .
Selection Committee for the AONSA Prize 2011
Y. Fujii (JSNS): Chair
B. Kennedy (ANBUG), M. W. Kim (KNBUA),
K. S. Liang (TWNSS), R. Mukhopadhyay (INSS)

3. Selection Committeea. The SC shall consist of five members chairedby the AONSA Vice President while other four
members shall be appointed by the EC. Their term
shall be two years (one selection cycle). A member
can be reappointed for the next selection cycle (up to
two cycles for four years).
b. The SC shall be independent of the EC.
Nominations shall be treated in confidence within
the SC.
c. The SC members shall represent a broad rangeof member societies (not observers) and fields ofneutron science and technology. The Chair of the
SC may co-opt a person or persons from member
societies or from observer country/region when noneof five members can cover research field(s) for
reviewing nominations submitted.
Co-opted
member(s) shall be approved by the EC.
d. The SC members shall be posted on the home
page of AONSA when the SC issues the call-for
nominations. The co-opted member(s) shall also be
posted.
e. The SC shall submit the name(s) of recipient(s)with a report of nomination process to the EC prior
to five months to Prize Ceremony at the quadrennial
Asia-Oceania Conference on Neutron Scattering(AOCNS) or the quadrennial International
Conference on Neutron Scattering (ICNS), both held
in an interval of two years.
f.
The SC shall carry out AONSA Prize
Ceremony at AOCNS or ICNS.

------------------------------------------------AONSA Prize(Established on Oct. 5, 2010)

The Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association(AONSA) awards the AONSA Prize every two years
to a person or persons to recognize his/her or theiroutstanding research career witha significant impact or contribution to the use ordevelopment of neutron science and technology in the
Asia-Oceania Region.
1. Rulesa.
The Prize shall ordinarily be awarded to one
person but may be shared by no more than three
persons when all the recipients have contributions tothe same accomplishment.
Recipient(s) should
receive the AONSA Prize only once.
b.
The Prize consists of a certificate citing thecontributions made by the recipient(s) and a monetary
prize. The amount shall be decided by the AONSAExecutive Committee (hereafter referred to as the EC).
Where the award is shared, the prize money shall beequally divided amongst recipients
2. Nomination and Eligibility
a. Nomination shall be opened to anyone whose
work has significantly impacted or contributed to theAsia-Oceania Region.
b. Anyone (not a member of the AONSA Prize
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Report on 3rd AONSA Neutron School at BARC in India
3. Small Angle Neutron Scattering: Key
Concepts and Scientific Applications (SungMin Choi)
4. Probing Mesoscopic Structures in
Hierarchically Structured Materials and PorousMedia by Small-Angle Scattering (Debasis Sen)
5. Contrast Variation in SANS and its
Application to Soft Matter (Vinod K. Aswal)
6. Complementary use of pulsed and steadyneutrons -Every neutron is good neutron(Kazuyoshi Yamada)
7. Polarized Neutron Reflectometry(Saibal Basu)
8. Inelastic Neutron Scattering-I(Naoto Metoki)
9. Inelastic Neutron Scattering-II(Mala N. Rao)
10. Molecular Motions in Condensed Matter:
Quasielastic Neutron Scattering Studies(Subhankur Mitra)
11. Introduction to Neutron Diffraction(D. J. Goossens)
12. Neutron diffraction – Instrument andExperiment (Vasudeva Siruguri)
13. Applications of Neutron Powder Diffraction
in Structural and Magnetic Studies (S. M.
Yusuf)

BARC operate a National Facility for Neutron
Beam Research at the Dhruva reactor. The National
Facility is regularly utilized in collaboration with about
200 users from various universities and other academic
institutions. At present there are over 25 active projects
under the universities (UGC-DAE-CSR) collaboration
program. During last five years, over 300 papers havebeen published in peer-reviewed international journals.
BARC has been regularly organizing Schools
on neutron scattering in cooperation with UGC-DAE-CSR.
So far 14 such Schools have been organized which
involved training in basic principles and various
applications in physics, chemistry, biology and materials
science, often including hands-on experiments at Dhruva.
The ‘3rd AONSA Neutron School’ was held
during 4-9 October 2010. This follows the previous
AONSA Neutron Schools at Korea (2008) and Australia(2009).
The present School is sponsored by Board of
Research in Nuclear Sciences, Department of Atomic
Energy, Government of India. It is being organized inassociation with Indian Neutron Scattering Society and incooperation with IAEA. Travel expenses of some of thestudents from developing countries were supported by
IAEA.
The distribution of the student participants was:
Australia and New Zealand (5), India (19), Japan (2),Indonesia (3), Korea (3), Taiwan (5), Malaysia (1). Theory
lectures were delivered by 7 Indian and 6 foreign scientists,and hands-on experiments were conducted for 10 groupsof students by the respective instrument scientists at the
Dhruva reactor at BARC. In addition, 14 students madeoral presentations of their research work.

The following Experiments were performed.
Each student performed two experiments.

The following lectures were delivered:
1. Soft Matter Kinetics and Structure by Controlling
Contrast in Neutron Scattering(John W White)
2. J-PARC and the prospective Neutron Sciences(Masatoshi Arai)

E5 Single Crystal Diffraction

E1 Powder Diffraction-Crystalline
E2 Powder Diffraction-NonCrystralline
E3 Magnetic Diffraction-I
E4 Magnetic Diffraction-II

E6 SANS-I
E7 SANS-II
E8 Reflectometry
E9 Inelastic scattering
E10 Quasielastic scattering

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Newsletter from AONSAThe programme included a conducted city-tour on one
afternoon, a welcome reception-cum-dinner, and the
School banquette and another dinner in nearby hotels. The
last one was special with some cultural activity by thestudents.
During the feedback session the students expressed theirsatisfaction and thanked all the contributors.
Generally the students appreciated the broad introduction
to various techniques that would be useful if they need topursue any of them in future and the interactions during
the experiments. Some did feel they should have had
more time to get deeper though it was clear that the time
was too short.

We warmly thank all the invitees from the EC for theirvisit to Mumbai and kind contribution in making the 3rd
AONSA Neutron School a very satisfying event. We arealso grateful to all the teachers for the very usefullectures we had. My colleagues and I would liketo especially thank AONSA for the opportunity toorganize the School.
With my best regards,
Samrath Chaplot

Group Photograph on Oct 4, 2010 at Training School Hostel, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai

Group Photograph on Oct 7, 2010 at Dhruva Reactor lobby, BARC, Mumbai

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Newsletter from AONSAThe Month of AONSA Big Events in Nov. 2011
< 1st Announcement >A series of the AONSA-sponsored big events are now scheduled during the period of
November 14 through 24, 2011 at the Tokai/Mito and/or Tsukuba area near the J-PARC and
JRR-3 Neutron Sources in Japan as follows.
general lectures on neutron scattering, parallelcourses related to methodology, and various
laboratory courses (tentatively assigned), such as,
powder diffraction, inelastic scattering, small-angle
scattering, neutron reflectivity, neutron spin echo,
residual stress measurements, and biologicalcrystallography.
[M. Shibayama, Principal of the 4th AONSA
Neutron School, Univ. of Tokyo]

1st AOCNS
The 1st AONSA Conference on Neutron Scattering(1 AOCNS) will be held in Tokai/Mito or Tsukuba
area, Japan during the period of Nov. 20 (Sun) – Nov.
24 (Thu), 2011 for 5 days following the 4th AONSA
Neutron School. The conference will be co-sponsoredby the AONSA and the Japanese Society for Neutron
Science and supported by major Institutes, Societies
and local Governments. The conference will cover all
scientific areas of neutron scattering such as
fundamental physics, material science, magnetism,
chemistry, disordered systems, biology, softmatter,surface/interface
scienceandinstrumentation(tentative). The scientific program will consist ofplenary lecture, invited lecture, poster presentation and
AONSA Prize lecture.
This quadrennial AOCNS plays a complementaryrole in the tripolar regional conferences, the preceding
ACNS(American Conference on Neutron Scattering)by NSSA and ECNS (European Conference Neutron
Scattering) by ENSA.
[T. Kanaya, Chair of the Preparatory Committee forthe 1st AOCNS, Kyoto Univ. *The Chair of the formal
Organizing Committee for the 1st AOCNS will be thenext President of JSNS who will be elected this fall.]st

In both events, the Local Organizing Committee
has been formed domestically while the wellcoordinated formation of the International Advisory
Board (IAB) and the International Scientific
Program Committee (ISPC for AOCNS) is now inprogress. More detailed information will be foundin web sites now under construction to be directly
linked from the AONSA home page. A financial
support program for students/young scientists will
be announced as soon as it is prepared.

Joban Highway● Tokai●Mito

4th AONSA Neutron School
The 4th AONSA Neutron School in a series ofannual Neutron School will be held in Tokai, Ibaraki,
Japan during the period of Nov. 13 (Sun.) – Nov. 18(Fri.), 2011, preceding the 1st AOCNS. The lecturesites will be Ibaraki Quantum Beam Research Center(IQBRC), Materials and Life Science Facility (MLF)/
J-PARC, and JRR-3. The total number of students is
expected to be about 40. The school will be organizedby the AONSA and co-organized by Japanese Society
for Neutron Science, J-PARC, JAEA, KEK, and ISSP,
U. Tokyo. This school will provide opportunities ofmaterial research with pulse-neutrons as well asreactor-neutrons. The program of the school will cover
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Report from KNBUAProf. Ki Bong Lee of POSTECH was elected as a newpresident of KNBUA in May. He succeeded to Prof.
Mahn Won Kim of KAIST who is a former Presidentof AONSA. Prof. Je-Geun Park of Seoul National
University became a secretary and the former
secretary, Prof. Sungmin Choi of KAIST, took chargeof International Affairs. A organization chart ofKNBUA with new officers are shown below.

Ki Bong Lee
Professor of Physics
POSTECHHANARO Symposium 2010
It was held at Daejeon Convention Center Nov 1 -2,
2010 sponsored by KNS, KNUBA, and AONSA. Thissymposium is to celebrate the 15th anniversary of
HANARO operation and the completion of the cold
neutron research facility. About 300 participants
gathered including Dr. Solkolov, IAEA, Mr. Jong Bae
Choi, MEST of Korea, and Dr. John White, ANU.
Other than Plenary session, the technical sessions
include source and reactor, energy and engineering,
soft matter, magnetism, activation analysis, irradiation
tests, and radioisotope. Several papers of thesymposium will be selected and submitted to an
International Journal of the Korea Nuclear Society,
Nuclear Engineering and Technology Feb. and April
edition in 2011. (The upper photo on the next page)

Center for Korean J-PARC Users
The Korean government has established a newresearch center, Center for Korean J-PARC Users(CKorJ-PARC), at Seoul National University in orderto support scientific activities by Korean scientists at
J-PARC. Founding director of the new center is Prof.
Je-Geun Park of Seoul National University. With
about 200 potential users already in Korea, this centeris expected to play a pivotal role in strengthening
Korea-Japan collaborations.
The CKorJ-PARC has signed a research agreementwith J-PARC on 1st October 2010 and opened abranch office on the 2nd floor of Ibaraki Quantum
Beam Research Center. It also held the firstcollaboration meeting on 26 August 2010.

Inauguration of the Cold Neutron
Research Facility
It was held at INTEC, KAERI on Nov. 1, 2010. The
cold neutron guide hall has 7 neutron scattering
instruments including the one installed by KIST. Thisis the outstanding outcome of 7 year project since2003. (The lower photo on the next page)

Kye Hong LEE
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Report from TWNSS

In 1.5 years time since it was found in 2009, theregistered members of TWNSS increase from 45 in
February 2009 to 193 in June 2010. This a-factor-of4 increases is progressively made through workshop,where educational courses including not only basic
neutron scattering knowledge but also hand-on data
analysis skill are offered. TWNSS will continue toorganize and improve such educational courses.
There will be two workshops every year in spring
and fall time, each focused separately on condensed
and soft matter sciences. Among the registeredmembers of TWNSS, 25% are scientists fromuniversities or research institutes, 30% are theirpost-doctors, and the rest 45% are their students.
The 47 professional researchers form 21 researchgroups. We view this 1:1:2 structure of member isquite health to include senior and young generation.

Taiwan Neutron Science Society (TWNSS) held thevery first Taiwan Neutron Scattering Conference(TWNSC) from June 27 to 29, 2010 at Huisum Forest
Area. Huisum Forest Area locates at the recreation
mountain size of Nan-Tou in central Taiwan. It is aperfect place for conference and out-doors discussion,and is managed by National Chung-Hsing University
rather than by a commercial company. The first
TWNSC attracted 98 attendants, among them 75% are
students. There are 15 invited oral and 14 poster
presentations, covering various research topics incondensed matter science as well as in soft matterscience. The oral presentations are mainly the reports
of current research results, whereas the posters arepresented by students and focused on the proposed or
to be proposed neutron scattering experiments.
Workshop courses on hand-on running data analysis
programs, such as GSAS for crystalline structure and
GNOM for structural conformation, were also offeredafter dinner time and with light beers. Many students
found that these hand-on experiences are very helpful
in “jump into” neutron scattering community.

Wen-Hsien Li
President, Taiwan Neutron Science Society
Director, Center for Neutron Beam Applications,
National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

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Report from J-PARC

J-PARC Budget Proposal Submitted to Finance
Department

J-PARC Open House
On August 28, the third J-PARC Open House washeld. This year, 3,800 people visited Tokai. This
number is agreeable to us, since visitors were able to
go around most of the J-PARC facilities without
waiting too long. Also, the capacity of cafeteria fits
perfectly to this number.

The budget request from our funding agency, Ministryof Education etc. (MEXT), to the Finance Department
was announced at the end of August. For JAEA an 8
cycle operation was submitted (9 cycles, which is 200days, is our ultimate goal). Also, the 400 MeV
upgrade and neutron beamline are in the budget
request. Furthermore, a budget associated with a new
third party operation is included. In addition, an
improvement of the Linac and 3 GeV toward 1 MW
operation was requested under the new frontier special
budget framework. For KEK a 6 cycle operation,
together with construction of the ultra slow muonchannel, is included in the budget request. Final
results for the JFY2011 funding will be announced at
the end of December. Everything added together
amounts to about 190 Oku Yen at this moment.
Center for Korean J-PARC Users Started
About 200 Korean physicists have decided toparticipate in J-PARC. The new organization called
the "Center for Korean J-PARC Users" (CKorJPARC) started officially. Agreement between thisCenter and the J-PARC Center was signed on October
1, 2010. The Korean Office will be open at Ibaraki
Quantum Beam Research Center. This is an excellent
opportunity for all of us.

Visitors receiving an explanation about benefit of neutrons

Neutron instruments in the 2nd experimental hall of MLF
welcoming many visitors

Status of Neutron Source
During the summer shutdown period, the equipment
was inspected or overhauled thoroughly. No serious
faults or defects were found and stable operation is
expected for the coming beam cycles.
The
accumulator of the cryogenic hydrogen system was
replaced with a new one to recover a function of thesystem to absorb hydrogen pressure fluctuations due

Signature ceremony by Prof. Je-Geun Park, head of CK or
J-PARC, and Dr. Shoji Nagamiya, head of J-PARC Center

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to turning on/off of the high power proton beam. User
operation has been started in middle of October asscheduled.

Scientific Meetings
An international workshop, "Neutron Application on
Strongly Correlated Electron System 2011
(NASCES11)" will be held on 23-25 February, 2011,in Tokai, the J-PARC home ground, under auspices of
J-PARC, ISIS and SNS. NASCES11 focuses onneutron applications on strongly correlated electron
systems such as superconductors, multiferroics
systems, rattling materials, f-electron systems, lowdimensional systems and frustrated spin systems. Also
cutting edge instrumentations and data analysis
software for neutron scattering will be discussed.
Detail of NASCES11 can be found on the website;
http://j-parc.jp/MatLife/en/meetings/NASCES/.

Status of Neutron User Program 2010A/B
User operation for the 2010A period (from June toNovember 2010) is continuing and 74 accepted
general proposals called by J-PARC as well as 20
general proposals called by Ibaraki prefecture(proposals from industrial users to two Ibaraki
prefecture beamlines) are being carried out. For the
2010B period (from December 2010 to March 2011),
99 general proposals were submitted, reviewed by theneutron science proposal review committee, andfinally, adoption or rejection of each proposal was
decided by the MLF advisory board. In total, 110days beamtime will be available: 50 days for 2010A
and 60 days for 2010B. The call for the next term
proposals (2011A) will be started on November 17.
Status of Neutron Instruments
The construction of six new instruments, DNA (BL02,
Inverted Geometry Spectrometer), SPICA (BL09,
Powder),
PLANET(BL11,High
PressureDiffractometer), TAIKAN (BL15, Small Angle
Neutron Scattering), VNR (BL17, Vertical
Reflectometer) and SENJU (BL18, Single Crystal
Diffractometer), are continuing.
Beamline andinstrument shielding for TAIKAN, beamline shielding
for DNA, choppers, supermirror guide tubes and all
the shielding for PLANET were installed already.
The International Advisory Committees for SENJU
and VNR were held in August and September,respectively, and valuable comments were obtained.
Call for Proposal for 2011A
The call for proposals for the J-PARC/MLF user
program for the first half term of FY2011 (2011A)
opens on November 17, 2011. Users wishing toconduct experiments at MLF are encouraged to submit
proposals via the web-based "J-PARC proposal
system".
Period of the submission: From November 17 to
December 7, 2010, 17:00 (JST)The 1st (top) and 2nd (bottom) experimental halls of MLF
with twelve operating instruments and six constructing
instruments

Application procedure: Applicants are requested tosubmit proposals electronically through the J-PARC
proposal system (https://gamusha1.j-parc.jp/j-pas/auth/menu.jsp).

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More detailed information will be available throughour Web site as http://j-parc.jp/index-e.html

12Newsletter from AONSAThe International Conference on Neutron and X-ray Scattering (ICNX)(The story behind the inspiration)
in Serpong, Indonesia. On the other hand, thecapability of the existing neutron scatteringscientist and the performance of the instruments
were needed to be improved and enhanced. For
that intention, we are strongly motivated for
expanding the scope and the aim of the local
seminar into a regional or international level.
We believe that many potential users who canbe attracted for utilizing the neutron facilities in
Serpong, Indonesia are around and would liketo update the neutron scattering communities in
the region that the NSL BATAN is still in
operation. Meanwhile, inviting the world-classneutron scattering scientist for instrument
development and also research activities will be
inspiring and tempting the young andenthusiastic neutron scattering scientist toaccelerate the neutron scattering activities inIndonesia. Then, it could be understood that in2005, the local seminar entitled the 6th National
Seminar on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering
dramatically changed. This one-day seminarwhich focused on neutron and X-ray scatteringin macromolecules has attracted the participants
including the speakers from around the world.
A two-day workshop for practical training has
been held prior to this seminar. [IUCr
Newsletter 13(3) 2005 & Neutron News 17(1)2006].

The International Conference on Neutron and
X-ray Scattering (ICNX) which is planned in
Taiwan in 2011, known as ICNX2011 has beenformally announced. This conference runs
biannually and was held previously in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia in 2009 and in Serpong andBandung, Indonesia in 2007.
The first ICNX in Indonesia was initiated witha long-historical story of the local seminar,“Seminar Nasional Hamburan Neutron dan
Sinar-X” (National Seminar on Neutron and XRay Scattering) organized by neutron scatteringlaboratory (NSL) in the National Nuclear
Energy Agency of Indonesia (BATAN). Thisseminar has been organized yearly started in1998 and then biannually since 2001
accommodating the local staff members forsharing the neutron scattering activities in
BATAN. We realized the neutron scattering
members and activities in Indonesia wereentirely small and limited, even though NSL
BATAN which consists of 7 neutron scattering
instruments and utilizes a powerful 30 MW
G.A. Siwabessy research reactor (RSG-GAS)
was the one of the largest neutron scattering
facilities in the Asia-Oceania region. For thatreasons, the seminar was designed foraccommodating not only neutron scattering
subjects, but also X-ray scattering/diffraction
with the aim for promoting neutron scattering(neutron science) and encouraging the newusers (especially X-ray users) from local
university and research institute. At the end, we
looked forward to them to consider and thenutilize the BATAN’s neutron scattering facility
in Serpong, Indonesia.

This successful seminar has strongly sparked us
to make our dream is coming true in organizing
a high-level seminar with the intention topromote neutron science in the region and toarise BATAN’s neutron scattering facility
utilization.
Informal
supportandencouragement were coming from colleagues
from Nuclear Malaysia Agency, ANSTO
Australia, BARC India, Japan, as well as from
Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia
for sharing the host for the first ICNX meeting.
Attending the International Conference on
Neutron Scattering (ICNS) 2005 in Sydney,
Australia as well as Small-Angle Scattering(SAS) 2006 conference in Kyoto, Japan by the
NSL BATAN member has given enormous
ideas for organizing an international level of

Despite the seminar that has been held fivetimes, the impact for attracting and persuading
the local users was insignificant. The main
problem was the local scientist didn’t have astrong basic knowledge on neutron scattering
while the scientist who has been exposed withneutron scattering abroad was limited andmostly they didn’t know the availability ofsimilar facility in their home country, like one
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neutron and X-ray scattering meeting inIndonesia.
The ICNX2007 as the first ICNX meeting
consisted of five five-day workshops at
BATAN nuclear site centre in Serpong andtwo-days symposium at Aula Barat ITB in
Bandung, West Java [Neutron News 19(1)2008]. This conference also devoted to
Marsongkohadi, Professor of physics in ITB,
who turned 75 in May 2007, for his pioneershipin promoting, developing and establishingneutron scattering in Indonesia since 1960’s.
The conference programs both the workshops
and symposium have impressed the participants
on applications of neutron and X-ray scatteringin materials science and biology in revealing
the static and dynamic structures from atomicto micro-level sizes of materials. Then, we
brought this enthusiasm by continuing the
ICNX meeting in the region, to Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia in 2009.
A three-days symposium of ICNX2009 focusedon the sustainable materials researchadvancement through research reactor andsynchrotron was organized remarkably. The
atmosphere during the meeting has been filledwith the spirit, friendship, and commitment for
promoting and establishing the neutron science
together with X-ray scattering in the region. It
was answered at the end of ICNX2009 with theannouncement of the coming ICNX2011 in
Taiwan. We were proud and fulfilled that the
ICNX becomes a noticeable meeting in theregion and the world as well for encouraging
neutron and X-ray scattering communities. It
will be a good indication that neutron & X-ray
scattering as a complement technique have to
run together for leading the improvement ofresearch and development in materials scienceand biology.

Chih-Hao Lee, took a responsibility as the protem
chair for the forth coming ICNX meeting, pointed
between Edy Giri Rachman Putra (left) and Abdul
Aziz bin Mohamed (right) as the chairman of theprevious meetings

Edy Giri Rachman Putra
The Chairman of the ICNX2007
Abdul Aziz bin Mohamed
The Chairman of the ICNX2009

By bringing the spirit from the first ICNX as
well as friendships, networking in the region
has been revived and further enhanced for
promoting neutron and X-ray science as well as
the facilities. Now, we all motivated forbuilding up strong user groups of neutron and
X-ray scattering through the ICNX meeting.

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Year 2010
Date(M/D)
3/8-3/12
3/13
5/22
6–8
6/26-6/30
7/5-7/8
8/29-9/3
10/4-10/9
10/4
10/5
10/27-10/29
10/31
10/31-11/3
11/1-11/2
11/16

EventsInternational Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Sources (Grindelwald, Switzerland)
AONSA Board Meeting (Tokyo, Japan)
The 4th AONSA EC Meeting (Singapore)
The virtual AONSA Board Meeting
American Conference on Neutron Scattering (Ottawa, Canada)
The 8th International Workshop on Polarized Neutrons in Condensed Matter
Investigations (Delft, Netherland)
The 26th European Crystallographic Meeting (Darmstadt, Germany)
The 3rd AONSA Neutron School (Mumbai, India)
AONSA Board Meeting (Mumbai, India)
The 5th AONSA EC Meeting (Mumbai, India)
IAEA Consultancy Meeting on Research Reactor Coalitions and Users’ Networks(Daejeon, Korea)
The AONSA Board Meeting (morning) and the informal AONSA EC Meeting(afternoon) (KAIST, Daejeon, Korea)
The 10th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association (Busan, Korea)
HANARO International Symposium 2010, In Celebration of New Cold Neutron
Facility (Daejeon, Korea)
AONSA Newsletter Vol.2 No.2 (Nov. 2010)

Year 2011
1/17-1/21
2/28
4/xx
8/23-8/31
10/xx
11/13-11/19
11/20-11/24

European Conference on Neutron Scattering (Prague, Czech)
Deadline for nomination for the AONSA Prize
AONSA Newsletter Vol.3 No.1 (Apr. 2011)
XXII Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography(Madrid, Spain)
AONSA Newsletter Vol.3 No.2 (Oct. 2011)
The 4th AONSA Neutron School (Tokai, Japan)
The 1st AOCNS (Tsukuba, Mito or Tokai, Japan)

Year 201211/18-11/23

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)[Staffing from October 13, 2010]
Office secretary was changed from Yukari Sugikawa to Junko Akutsu.
AONSA Office (Secretary: Junko Akutsu)
Neutron Science Section, Materials & Life Science Facility 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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