Full Report

General Remarks

The work in these areas is ongoing. Specific actions have been identified by the work groups. Some general activities that encompass several themes will be:

• A presentation and discussion session will be held at the SAS2012 Conference in Sydney in November 2012. This will describe current and future activities and ask for broader participation in canSAS activities.
• The identity of the various activities related to small-angle scattering will be clarified and canSAS will in future be accessible on the web at www.cansas.org
• Updates to the work group mail lists will be required for technical reasons and the opportunity will be taken to review the membersip of the lists so that e-mail addresses of people that have not been active and not requested continued participation will be removed.

Although much work was performed in small-groups there was considerable interaction between the different activities with most participants being involved in the general discussion on all topics. It was apparent that collaboration should continue.

Acknowledgements

The results described arise from four full days of intensive work in small groups during the meeting in Uppsala and from preparatory work. We acknowledge the generous support of the agencies employing the particpants that have made available time and travel resources to permit the co-operative work. We are also grateful to people who have given freely of their own time to support the SAS community. Just the direct participation amounts to about two-person months of effort. These 'sponsors' are APS (Argonne National Laboratory), NCNR (National Institute of Standards and Technology), ISIS (STFC), the Diamond Light Source, the European Spallation Source, Institut Laue Langevin, University of Auckland, Kyoto University, University of Tokyo and Uppsala University. We are also grateful for further participation from ANSTO, APS and ESRF in webinars and by making contributions to discussion on the wiki.

Group Reports

Data Format Group http://www.smallangles.net/wgwiki/index.php/2012_Data_Working_Group_Report

Standards Group http://www.smallangles.net/wgwiki/index.php/StandardsGroupReport

Web Portal Group http://www.smallangles.net/wgwiki/index.php/2012_Web_Working_Group_Report

The new web portal for the small angle scattering community is http://www.smallangle.org/