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SAS99 and other SA_SCat news
- Subject: SAS99 and other SA_SCat news
- From: "John D. Barnes" <john.barnes@nist.gov>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 98 11:42:26 -0400
Dear Colleagues; The edition of SA_Scat News containbs updates on a couple of items. Be sure to cherck the SAS Worldwide web pages at http://www.nist.gov/sas for any items that I might miss in this letter. I. SAS99 (aka SAS XI) Yesterday I received a first announcement for SAS99 (aka SAS XI) in my mailbox. This is the latest editioon in the triennial series of international SAS Congress that the community has been putting on since 1965. They are perhaps our most valuable resource for communicating the latest and greatest research findings, analysis techniques, and news about instrumentation. Every subscriber to this list should do the following: 1. Check out the web site at http://sas99.bnl.gov/sas99 2. Put the event on your calendars for 16 to 20 May 1999 3. Indicate your intent to present a paper or poster 4. Let the organizers know what you would like to see in the way of content Brookhaven National Lab is a relatively easy place to travel to. It also has a high interest quotient as a leading center of SAS science. The printed first announcement is pretty terse, so that you will need to refer to the Web pages for more information regarding workshops, the scientific program, social activities, ancillary activities, etc. I hope to see all of you there. I am pretty excitied about the prospects for this meeting given its easy accessibility to a number of junior North Amercian scientists, who have found it difficult to travel to Europe and Brazil. II. IUCR XVIII The XVIII World Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, scheduled for the 4th to the 13th of August 1999 in Glasgow, Scotland is another opportunity for SAS practitioners to present their work to a high-profile international audience. As at the XVII Congress in Seattle, the number of pure SAS sessions will be somewhat limited, but there should be a lot of interesting stuff regarding instrumentation and studies in related areas. The web pages are a little spartan at this time. I used http://www.us.iucr.org/iucr-top/cong/18/index.html, but folks in other parts of the world will want to refer to their local IUCr mirror site. SAS Commission members Terence Sabine and Jeff penfold have been corresponding with the program Committee. Let's hope that they can get us a couple fo good sessions. III. ACA 98 - Arlington, VA 17-24 July. The SAS Component of the meeting started off with a workshop on "DAT Handling for Small-Angle Scattering." Malcolm Capel, Jan Skov Pedersen, and Dmitri Svergun carried the main burden of presenting a day-long series of interesting lectures. The handouts, prepared form the speakers' transparencies, ran to 12 pages. Thank you, dear colleagues, for helping with this. There were about 16 attendees with varying epxperience levels. Most of them stuck it thorugh to the end and the discussion was enthgusiastic. On this basis I would count the workshop a success. In a certain sense this workshop was a beta version of "CanSAS II" - which will take place in conjunction with SAS99. This will be a great opportunity for everyone in the SAS Community to get up to speed on activities in the area of data handling. Jill Trewhella is to be c ommended for the excellent job that she did preparing two topical sessions for the ACA Small-Angle SIG at this meeting. I hope that Jill is recovering from her serious bout with Poison Ivy, which forced her to make an early return to New Mexico. I was also very pleased to see SAS content in other sessions. I hope that this is a harbinger of more activity on the part of the members of the ACA Small-Angle SIG. These folks will be mainly supporting SAS99 next year, but their will be an effort to show the flag at the 1999 ACA Annual Meeting, which is to be held in Buffalo the week following SAS99. Some of our members may want to tack participation in that meeting onto their SAS99 trip. Look for a Call for Papers announcement fairly soon. Best Wishes Dr. John D. Barnes email: john.barnes@nist.gov NIST Polymer Structure and Mechanics Grp Voice: 301-975-6786 Bldg 224, Rm A209 FAX: 301-975-4977 NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 URL: http://www.nist.gov/sas or http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/~jdbarnes
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