canSAS-VIII

CROSS/JPARC in Japan - April 14-16, 2015

Goals

At the canSAS-V meeting in Washington DC in the fall of 2007, the canSAS community (collective action for nomadic small angle scatters) continued the trend started at the previous meeting in the UK of moving the discussion beyond data formats to discuss the variety of issues that affect SAS practioners worldwide. At that meeting, participants also started discussing how to build a community of practitioners and to move beyond discussions at meetings to sustainalble longer term action and achievents that respond to themes and issues identified at these meetings; moving beyond talk to the action in its name. Several working groups were set up to continue working after the meeting. Since then, the cansas.org domain was acquired, this wiki and a web presence were set up, and the working groups have moved forward. In the summer of 2012 a small workshop (with the focus on "work") was held in Uppsala to advance the work of three of the working groups. Progress has been presented at the international SAS meeetings in Oxford in 2009 and Sydney in 2012.

The time is now ripe for the community to come together again as a whole, at a dedicated meeting, away from the distractions of other meetings to discuss how issues have evolved and what the current challenges are for the community. In that vein the community is encouraged to participate early in shaping the content of the meeting by suggesting topics and speakers/discussion group leaders. Once again we hope to leave the meeting with some concrete action plans icluding hosting a session at the 2015 SAS meeting in Berlin to report on this meeting.

Venue

The meeting is hosted by JPARC and CROSS and will be held at the Ibaraki Quantum Beam Research Center (IQBRC) in Tokai, Japan.

Getting to CROSS

Registration

Note that as a community (grass roots) effort there are no specific funds to support the local organizing expenses of such meetings. Instead these expenses will be covered through the small registration fee of 15,000 JPY asked of each paricipant.

Meeting Structure and Topics

The plan is to have a mix of plenary lectures on important topics, some plenary discussions, as well as several break out/parrallel sessions to discuss how we as a community might address specific issues. Potential topic currently include:

• Data analysis issues
  • Co-refinement of SAXS and SANS
  • Goodness of fit criteria and true parameter uncertainty estimates
  • Multiscale analysis issues
• Reproducibility and Reliability
  • Understanding sources of errors and uncertainties and their effect on data interpretation
    • instrumental corrections/issues
    • resolution
    • multiple scattering issues
  • Reference and Calibration standards
• SAS portal
• GISAS
• Data formats

Local Organizing Committee

• Jun-ichi Suzuki(CROSS)
• Kazuki Ohishi(CROSS)
• Hiroki Iwase (CROSS)
• Shin-ichi Takata (J-PARC)
• Mitsuhiro Shibayama (ISSP)

Program Committee

• Paul Butler (NIST)
• Adrian Rennie (Uppsala Univ.)
• Sung-Min Choi (KAIST)
• Duncan McGillivray (NZ)
• Pete Jemian (APS)
• Naoto Yagi (Spring-8)