Asia-oceania neutron scatterers meet in Tsukuba

Abstract

In early November 2000, as part of the ICANS-XV program, there was a meeting of representatives from many of the neutron scattering fad ties and user associations in the Asia-Oceania regon. Reviews of the facilities in the region were given by Chungtang Ye (China), Archara Sangariyavanich (Thailand), Syrofie hdwan (Indonesia), Chung-Hee Lee (Korea), Chien-Hsiung Lee (Taiwan), Rob Robinson (Australia), and Yasuhiko Fujii (Japan). There are modern reactor facilities in Japan, Indonesia and Korea and newlrebuilt research reactor facilities will come on line in Thailand (2001–3), Australia (2005), China (2006) and Taiwan (2006), with a new megawatt-level spauanon source planned for JAERI's Tokai site in Japan on a similar timescale. There are already strong user organizations in Japan (Neutron Scattering Association of Japan with −400 members) and Australia (Australian Neutron Beam Users Group with -120 members), and there are signs that similar societies may be formed in other Asian countries. We discussed the possible formation of an Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association, to act on the behalf of these societies and facilities, much as ENSA does in Europe, and it is kely that this organization wdl be founded at a meeting of the Asian Crystallo-graphic Association in Bangalore, India in September 2001. There is a strong desire to hold the 2005 International Conference on Neutron Scattering in our regon, and possibly also to hold a regional conference in 2003, two years after ICNS2001 in Munich.