There is considerable overlap in membership and interests. Young and Harlow will draft a survey to go out with the dues notice. The SIG organized three sessions in Buffalo. The GIG appreciates an opportunity to draw some additional speakers from abstracts submitted The GIG attempts to cover the cracks between the various SIGs with respect to both methods and experimental results. There was general discussion of when the Award should be presented.
Public information is important in order to promote federal funding.
AIP has recently had experience with putting journals online and could do the same with Acta Crystallographica. In the area of education, AIP sponsors the Physics Olympiad and the Society of Physics Students, which has chapters in physics departments at 650 institutions of higher education. They hope to be self-sustaining in several years. Cox will work with James Kaduk and Abe Clearfield to plan this. This topic might also be the subject of a future Transactions symposium.