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 scatterers) 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 to move beyond discussions at meetings and to take sustainable longer term action. Actions that respond to themes and issues were identified at these meetings. 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 at other large meetings to discuss how issues have evolved and what the current challenges are for the community. In that spirit, 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 that the meeting will end with some concrete action plans including hosting a session at the 2015 SAS meeting in Berlin to report on this meeting.

Venue an Registration

Registration is now open. Please visit [1].The meeting is hosted by JPARC and CROSS and will be held at the Ibaraki Quantum Beam Research Center (IQBRC) in Tokai, Japan.

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 5000 JPY asked of each paricipant. There is also an optional banquet for an extra 6000 JPY.

Meeting Schedule and Topics

The detailed daily schedule for this meeting is posted here

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

• Data Analysis Issues
  • Co-refinement of SAXS and SANS
  • Goodness of Fit Criteria and True Parameter Uncertainty Estimates
  • Multiscale Analysis Issues
  • Challenges in Modelling Anisotropic Data
• 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
• Emerging Publication and Deposition Standards and their Implications
  • For Data Formats
  • For Inovative Use and Advances of SAS Techniques
  • can One Set of Standards Really Apply to All of SAS?
• Develompent of a Global SAS Portal
• Emerging Techniques and the Challenges to Harnessing their Capabilities
  • GISAS
  • Next Generation SAS Instrumentation
  • Issue of Big Data
• Data formats

NOTE: All presentations will be given in English.

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)