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ANBUG NewsANBUG Newsletter - 2006/123rd March 2006ICNS2005 in Sydney was a great success - around 750 delegates were kept busily engaged throughout the week (27 Nov - 2 Dec 2005) with a full programme covering 12 main topics in neutron science. As well there were a number of equally successful activities based around the welcome reception, harbour cruise dinner, visit to OPAL and Meetings of the Japanese and Australian Neutron Societies. Congratulations to all involved in its organisation and to all those who attended and contributed to its success. ANBUG held both a committee meeting and its AGM (29 Nov) at ICNS2005. A further committee meeting has since been held on 1 Feb 2006. A few points arose that may be of general interest to Australian neutron users: Samples environments at OPAL: The Bragg Institute has submitted a plan to ANSTO for the expansion of their sample environment suite and will be advertising a new position for an Ancillaries Manager soon. A prioritised sample environments list will be drawn up which incorporates data collected from the recent ancillaries survey that many ANBUG members have completed. It is intended that items will be bought off the top of this list periodically, and the prioritised list will continually evolve as new needs arise. Next wave of neutron beam instruments: A 2-day meeting was held in the Blue Mountains on the weekend immediately following ICNS2005, to discuss the next wave of instruments at OPAL. 30-35 people (internationals and Australians) were invited. Most of the ANBUG committee were present as representatives of ANBUG and/or various Instrument Advisory Teams. The outcome was encouraging with the main recommendation that ANSTO builds a new instrument (on average) every second year. AINSE/ANBUG symposium and summer school: The 2006 symposium will be held in the AINSE auditorium at Lucas Heights from 11-13 December, followed by summer school from 13-15 December. (Note that this is the week after the AIP congress in Brisbane.) A goal of this meeting will be to lay the groundwork for a future Asian Neutron Scattering Meeting. ISIS LIEF grant: It was clear from the AGM that strong support still exists for the LIEF grant that facilitates Australian access to ISIS. The suite of instruments at ISIS is felt to be highly complementary to that under construction at OPAL. OPAL User Laboratory Survey: If you haven't already replied to this survey then we encourage you to do so. Ultimately we the Users are the main beneficiaries as ANSTO seek to match the optimum equipments to the requirements of users. Late News: Look out for another web survey in coming weeks. ANSTO is seeking feedback on its Proposed Policy for handling Data at OPAL.
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