The Commission represent the interests of the worldwide Small-Angle Scattering community, and collaborates closely with national small-angle scattering interest groups.

The Terms of Reference define the scope of the Commission's activities, which are detailed in the Annual and Triennial reports. In particular the Commission is responsible for coordinating Small-Angle Scattering talks and Microsymposia at the IUCr Congresses, helping organise the triennial International Conference on Small-Angle Scattering, and awarding the Guinier Prize. The Commission also acts as a coordinating body for discussion on topics of interest to the community.

The Members of the Commission represent both the breadth of small angle scattering areas-of-interest and the geographical range of the IUCr associates.

Building a Worldwide Small-Angle Scattering Community

A 2021 survey of the healthy state of international collaboration within the community appeared in Journal of Applied Crystallography and the IUCr Newsletter and is also included here.

Individual members of the worldwide SAS community are hereby asked to:

• Subscribe to the small-angle scattering listserver. 

Use this communication forum to its fullest. The free exchange of information, questions, and views on matters pertaining to SAS through this medium will do much to enhance the SAS community worldwide. An archive of recent postings can be found here.

• Become members of their national associations of crystallographers.
• Enrol in the World Database of Crystallographers

Please take special care to include small-angle scattering as one of your research interests. 

• Promote the work of the Commission and its affiliated national interest groups by recruiting their colleagues as members of the community whenever and wherever they encounter them.