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Physica B 385–386 (2006) xxxiii–xxxiv
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Preface
Between 27 November and 2 December 2005, approxi-mately 750 neutron scatterers from 38 countries in sixcontinents descended on the Olympic city of Sydney,Australia, for ICNS2005, the eighth in the series ofInternational Conferences on Neutron Scattering. Theconference, with John White and Trevor Hicks as honorarychairs, was held right at the water’s edge, offering sparklingviews of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline. Besides thewonderful dinner cruise for the majority of delegates with fineviews of Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge andthe southern night sky, another highlight of the meeting wasthe Wednesday afternoon visit to the new OPAL reactor.OPAL is a 20-MW heavy water reactor with large liquid-D2
cold source and high-yc supermirror guides and an initialsuite of nine funded instruments which is essentially completeand which will commence hot commissioning in 2006.
The plenary scientific talks covered the whole range ofneutron applications from engineering and the earthsciences to biophysics, in addition to several of thetraditional neutron strengths in polymers, correlated-electron physics and materials discovery. There were alsoplenary facility talks from around the world including thenew MW-class spallation sources in the USA and Japan,and two special symposia on macromolecular (protein)crystallography and neutron interference/coherence. Inaddition to the strong program of oral presentations, twomassive poster sessions, well lubricated with drinks andhors d’oeuvres, were held—few had ever seen so manyposters (4300 on each evening) presented together in asingle spacious room. In another evening session, the JapanSociety for Neutron Science awarded its prize to KazuYamada of Tohoku University, with the Walter Halg Prizeof the European Neutron Scattering Association beingawarded to Albert Furrer and Hans-Ulrich Gudel fromSwitzerland.
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It was the first time that a conference in the ICNS serieshad been held in the Southern Hemisphere, and the firsttime outside of Europe, North America or Japan. We wereparticularly pleased to see a large number of delegates fromneighbouring countries in South-East Asia, and acknowl-edge support from the International Atomic EnergyAgency in supporting their presence. All in all, it was anexcellent meeting of the whole neutron family, spreadaround the world as it is.
Chair
Brendan KennedyUniversity of Sydney, Australia
Secretary
Rob RobinsonBragg Institute, Australia
Program Chair
Evan GrayGriffith University, Australia
Publications Chair
Stewart CampbellUniversity of New South Wales,
Australian Defence Force Academy,
Australia
E-mail address: [email protected]
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