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ACA SA SIG Update
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- Subject: ACA SA SIG Update
- From: "John D. Barnes" <john.barnes@NIST.GOV>
- Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 11:32:17 -0500 (EST)
1. SA SIG at the 1997 Annual Meeting The program is buidling very nicely. We have received abstracts for 23 contributed and invited papers. These will fill our three session, with a couple of presentations flagged as posters. I hope to post the session lineup to the SAS Worldwide web site next week. I will let you know when that happens. There are still opportunities (until 11 April) for poster presentations if you are willing to pay the $100 late abstract fee. 2. Panel Discussion - "SAS in North America - The Next Generation" It has been a while since the entire North American SAS community has had a chance for a discussion of what is happening and where we are going. I therefore decided to insert a panel discussion on the matters into the "Frontiers in SAS" session in St. Louis. Charlie Glinka of NIST has agreed to provide an overview of issues related to SANS facilities and Tom Irving of BioCAT has agreed to do the same for synchrotron SAXS. There are a number of other issues that cry out for coverage. I see issues related to data transport, software for data reduction and interpretation, performance of area detectors, and standardization of intensities, to name just a couple of obvious ones. I would like to hear from any of you who read this with suggestions for topics to be covered an people to cover them. If you know somoeone who would be especially interested in this activity please have them contact me ASAP. Note that we are not interested in presentations that would normally take the form of papers at a meeting. We are looking for broad overviews of these subjects that go beyond a given individual's own agenda. If the discussion goes well we may decide to publish it as a newsletter article, on the SAS Worldwide Web site, or in some other appropriate venue. 3. Why a "Small-Angle SIG?" - Recently one of my colleagues challenged the usefulness of the ACA meeting as being too much focussed on methodology, for which this particular colleague did not see a real need. I take vigorous exception to that. What value do our results have if we do not understand the methods that are behind them? Narrow segments of our comunity have many forums for presenting their work - the Biophysical Society, the Materials Research Society,, the American Physical Society, etc, etc. With the exception of the triennal world congresses on SAS (like SAS-96) there are very few venues in which the neutron folks, the x-ray folks, and the light scatterers can sit down to compare notes on their methods and on ways to interpret their results. The good response from foreign countries for the St. Louis meeting shows that we are getting some recognition for this role. I will welcome any suggestions by members of the SAS community as to other places where we can make a contribution. 4. Bonse-Hart methods - I received a number of good replies to my query of last week. I want to thank everyone who participated and I want to encourage other members of the community who have similar technical questions to use our community's electronic forums to seek answers. Above all, remind those of your friends who have not yet subscribed to the SAS listserver that it is both easy and desirable to climb on board. Thank You . John D. Barnes e-mail: john.barnes@nist.gov NIST Polymer Mech & Struct Grp voice: 301-975-6786 Bldg 224, Rm A209 FAX: 301-977-2018 Gaithersbrg, MD 20899
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