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>Dear Colleagues,
>
>We are very pleased to announce that the 13th International Conference
>on Small-Angle Scattering (SAS2006 Kyoto) will be held at Kyoto
>International Conference Hall on July 9 -13, 2006.
>
>The International Conference on Small-Angle Scattering (SAS) has been
>held every three (or four) years since 1965. In this conference,
>researchers in various scientific fields such as physics, chemistry,
>biology, materials science, and engineering get together to discuss and
>explore the unique capabilities, needs, and opportunities of SAS for
>structure determination of various systems from atomic or molecular to
>mesoscopic scales. Systems to be studied by SAS of X-rays and Neutrons
>extend over a quite wide range; metals, ceramics, biomolecules, and
>soft matters such as polymers, liquid crystals, colloids, membranes,
>and surfactants. Therefore, this conference is highly interdisciplinary
>by nature.
>
>The conference will be organized so that speakers and participants in
>various fields can discuss their SAS studies as a common keyword beyond
>their specialities.
>
>In addition, as this is the first opportunity of SAS conference to be
>held in Asia, we wish to take advantage of this opportunity to promote
>SAS activities in Asian and Oceanian region as well as in Japan.
>
>We sincerely welcome your participation in SAS2006 Kyoto.
>
>Those of you who are interested in  further information are kindly
>requested to make pre-registration at the web-site:
>http://sas2006.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp./
>
>With our best wishes,
>
>  Chair of Organizing Committee, Takeji Hashimoto
>  Co-chair of Organizing Committee, Naoto Yagi
>  Chair of Program Committee, Yoshiyuki Amemiya
>  Chair of Local Executive Committee, Kozo Osamura
>  Chair of Editorial Committee, Mitsuhiro Shibayama
>
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>[Scope]
>
>In this conference, researchers in various scientific fields such as
>physics, chemistry, biology, materials sciences, and engineering get
>together to discuss and explore the unique capabilities, needs, and
>opportunities of SAS for structure determination of various systems
>from atomic or molecular to mesoscopic scales. Systems to be studied by
>SAS of X-rays and Neutrons extend over a quite wide range; metals,
>ceramics, biomolecules, and soft matters such as polymers, liquid
>crystals, colloids, membranes, and surfactants. Therefore, this
>conference is highly interdisciplinary by nature. In this conference,
>we are going to attempt to bring speakers and participants in various
>fields to meet in the same conference rooms to present and discuss
>their SAS studies, as a common but most important keyword among others,
>beyond their special fields. We are also going to highlight some
>topical sessions on researches; for example, researches concerning 1)
>dynamics and kinetics, 2) hierarchy structures studied with a wide
>range of momentum transfer, 3) novel techniques concerning with optics,
>detectors, microbeam, and contrast variation, 4) experiments under
>extreme ambient conditions, and 5) open-nonequilibrium systems under
>various external fields.
>
>[Committee]
>
>Chair of Organizing Committee,        Takeji Hashimoto (Kyoto)
>Co-chair of Organizing Committee,   Naoto Yagi  (JASRI)
>Chair of Program Committee,            Yoshiyuki Amemiya (Tokyo)
>Chair of Local Executive Committee, Kozo Osamura (Kyoto)
>Chair of Editorial Committee,           Mitsuhiro Shibayama (Tokyo)
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>[DEADLINES]
>
>June 30, 2005    Preliminary registration
>September 30, 2005    Second announcement and call for papers
>December 31, 2005    Abstract submission due
>February 15, 2006    Advanced registration
>February 15, 2006    Grant request (Young scientists and Asian countries
>only)
>
>[contact]
>
>http://www2.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp/sas2006/index.html
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
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>Takeji Hashimoto
>Chair of Organizing Committee
>SAS2006
>Department of Polymer Chemistry,
>Graduate School of Engineering
>  Kyoto University, Kyoto
>  615-8510 JAPAN
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