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Final Draft of SAS Commission Annual Rept for 1996
- To: "Dacombe, Mike" <execsec@iucr.ac.uk>, SA_SCAT Listserv <sa_scat@NIST.GOV>
- Subject: Final Draft of SAS Commission Annual Rept for 1996
- From: "John D. Barnes" <john.barnes@NIST.GOV>
- Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 17:04:13 +0000
For your reference and retention As approved by NIST Washington Editorial Review Board, 5 Mar 1997 IUCr Commission on Small-Angle Scattering Annual Report for 1996 The creation of a Commission on Small-Angle Scattering (SAS) was first suggested at the American Crystallographic Association's Annual Meeting in Montreal in July of 1995. At that time a working group was established with Dr. John Barnes of NIST (USA) as chair and Dr. Terence Sabine of ANSTO (Australia) as co-chair. By February of 1996 these two had recruited 6 additional members to the working group. The working group sponsored, under the leadership of Drs. Barnes and Sabine, two sessions on small-angle scattering at the XVII Congress of the Internation Union of crystallography (IUCr) in Seattle. The working group also drafted Terms of Reference for a permanent SAS Commission. The working group approved these and presented them to the worldwide SAS community at the X International Conference on Small-Angle Scattering (SAS-96) in Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brazil in July of 1996. The draft terms of Refernce were forwarded to the IUCr Executve Committee in time for the IUCr General Assembly to approve the SAS Commission as a permanent entity at its gathering in Seattle in August of 1996. The general assembly approved the membership of the Commission as follows: John D. Barnes (USA, Chair), Terence M. Sabine (Australia), Gernot Kostorz (Switzerland), Aldo Craievich (Brazil), Jeffrey Penfold (UK), Eric Kaler (USA), Dmitri Svergun (Russia), and Kozo Osamura (Japan). The Executive Committee appointed Dr. Michael Hart (USA) as its liaison with the Commission. Since that time the Commission members have been mainly engaged in "community building." Dr. Barnes has established a site on the World Wide Web (http://www.nist.gov/sas) which the worldwide SAS community can use to communicate with one another. Up to date details on all matters regarding the Commission's membership, its history, and its activities can be found at that address. The community's internet listserver has in excess of 260 subscribers as of this writing. The Commission is attempting to expand this list to include as many practitioners of SAS as possible. Additional content, in the form of links to SAS laboratories, and SAS literature compilations are being sought for the web site. Commission member Aldo Craievich deserves special recognition for organizing and promoting the X InternationalConference on Small-Angle Scattering. This event, held in Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brazil brought together over 250 SAS practitioners from all over the world for four days of outstanding technical sessions. A visit to the newly commissioned Brazilian National Synchrotron Light Laboratory was a highlight of the meeting. The proceedings of the conference, co-edited by Aldo Craievich, Gernot Kostorz, and Jose Teixeira will be published in an issue of the Journal of Applied Crystallography by mid-1997. Preparations are underway for the XI International SAS Conference, to be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the spring of 1999. A preliminary technical agenda has been drafted and the Commission is recruiting volunteers to carry out parts of that agenda. The Commission is cooperating with the Small Angle Special Interest Group of the American Crystallographic Association to sponsor three sessions at the 1997 ACA annual meeting in St. Louis, MO, USA. A series of tutorial sessions on "Small-Angle Scattering for the Industrial Plastics Laboratory" is planned for the 1998 Society of Plastics Engineers ANTEC meeting. These activities are part of an outreach effort aimed at bringing SAS methods into more widespread use in the world materials community. Proposals for interlaboratory testing programs are being formulated. . Respectfully submitted John D. Barnes Chair, IUCr Commission on Small-Angle Scattering John D. Barnes john.barnes@nist.gov Bldg 224 Rm A209 voice: 301-975-6786 N.I.S.T fax: 301-977-2018 Gaithersburg, MD 20899
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