Today and tomorrow, under the auspices of the Australian Academy of Science, ANSTO is hosting a joint Japan-Australia Workshop on "Sharing Science with Neutrons".
17 prominent researchers from the leading research institutions in Japan will attend, along with a similar number from across Australia. In addition a number of Australian early-career researchers have been invited.
This workshop results from a joint Japan-Australia Science and Technology Meeting held in Tokyo in August 2012, in which Dr Masa Arai and Bragg Institute Head, Rob Robinson, participated, and indeed from much longer-standing deep interactions and collaborations between Japan and Australia in crystallography, neutron scattering and synchrotron radiation.
In the workshop, we are seeking to enhance and grow the long-term scientific interactions between the research communities of the two countries, and extend them to new areas. In particular, there is potential to greatly increase and strengthen the interactions between the new J-PARC spallation neutron source in Tokai, and our OPAL research reactor, here in Sydney, and to have higher levels of Australian usage at J-PARC along with greater Japanese involvement at OPAL and the Bragg Institute.
We hope that, by highlighting the exciting new science and technology in both countries, new opportunities and ideas will emerge, which we will be able to pursue together over the coming years.
Published: 05/11/2013