Announcements
2012 Small-Angle Scattering Conference
Following a vote of the delegates at SAS 2009 in Oxford, we have been successful in a competition to bring SAS 2012, the 2012 International Conference on Small-Angle Scattering, to Sydney. The bid was led by Elliot Gilbert, on behalf of the Australian and New Zealand small-angle communities (with explicit involvement from the Australian Synchrotron, CSIRO and 6 universities). Tentative dates are for 11-15 November 2012.
New ANSTO Bus Service
ANSTO is pleased to announce a regular and direct mini-bus service between ANSTO and Sutherland railway station. This is intended primarily for users and visitors coming to ANSTO. This service will be run as a trial until 18 April 2010, with possible extension.
The mini-bus stops at Sutherland (Bus Bay 1, East Parade), ANSTO motel and ANSTO reception/security. The cost is $5 per single trip (no concessions).
The timetable is available at http://www.ansto.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/44120/Bus_timetable_factsheet.pdf.
4th Call for Proposals at OPAL
The 4th call for proposals is open and includes all 7 initial instruments (powder diffraction, SANS, reflectometry, strain scanning, single-crystal diffraction, triple axis). The National Deuteration Facility is offering biodeuteration of molecules such as proteins, nucleic acids and biopolymers, and for the first time, partly deuterated or perdeuterated organic molecules through chemical deuteration. Investigators seeking chemical deuteration should contact either Paramjit.Bansal@ansto.gov.au or Tamim.Darwish@ansto.gov.au. Please contact Peter.Holden@ansto.gov.au for biodeuteration.
All proposals are to be submitted via the Online Proposal System https://neutron.ansto.gov.au/ by November 27.
Proposal review will take place in December and January, with the Program Advisory Committee meeting in early February. The first experiments in this round are likely to be scheduled in April 2010.