Draft - 28 October 1996

Suggestions for

IUCr SAS Commission

Technical Agenda

• A. Community Building - An effort to establish communication among as many members of the worldwide SAS community as possible. The Web site and the listserver are expected to play key roles in this.
  
  • A.1 Create a roster of worldwide SAS practitioners
    
  • A.2 Maintain the existing sa_scat listserver as a medium for dissemination of relevant information and as a tool for problem solving within the community.
    
  • A.3 Continue the development of the existing Worldwide Web site as a focal point for people seeking information about SAS.
    
  • A.4 Develop alliances with scientific print media to publicize the commission's activities.
    
• B. Meetings
  
  • B.1 - Maintain an orderly list of meetings with sessions of interest to SAS practitioners. This list would be published on the WWW site.
    
  • B.2 Provide whatever support we can to international congresses specifically devoted to SAS.
    
  • B.3 Assist planners of future IUCr Congresses in planning sessions and activities relating to SAS.
    
• C. Standardization
  
  • C.1 Compile references relating to use of standards and direct experimental methods for calibrating instruments for absolute intensity measurements.
    
  • C.2 Design and coordinate collaborative research projects to assess the performance of SAS measurement tools with regard to:
    
    • C.2.a absolute intensity
      
    • C.2.b instrumental resolution
      
    • C.2.c other effects as may be recognized as contributing to bias in SAS results.
      
• D. Software Assemble information, possibly including ftp access, for software codes relating to:
  
  • D.1 Data formats currently in use for the storage and exchange of SAS data.
    
  • D.2 Data reduction
    
  • D.3 Desmearing in both 1 and 2 dimensions
    
  • D.4 Data visualization
    
  • D.5 Modelling - including fitting and simulations
    
• E. Facilities
  
  • E.1 Compile a list of links to SAS activities at existing laboratories that allow collaboration with researchers outside their own organizations.
    
  • E.2 Assist in dissemination of information regarding access to user facilities.
    
  • E.3 Monitor the design and development of SAS capabilities at new and remodelled user facilities.
    
• F. Archival publication
  
  • F.1 Explore unresolved issues regarding SAS notation and nomenclature
    
  • F.2 Assist journal editors who seek guidance on matters relating to publication of SAS work.
    
• G. Education
  
  • G.1 Collect a list of references suitable for use by operators of short courses.
    
  • G.2 Assemble a compendium of textbooks and review articles for use in self-directed study by people who need to learn SAS.
    
  • G.3 Encourage and, where possible, support the development and dissemination of new educational material to the SAS community.