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Award for AINSE Past President

AINSE congratulates E/Professor Bob Breakspere who was awarded an OAM in the 2010 Australia Day Honours. Bob was AINSE President in 1995 and 1996.

AINSE Honorary Fellowship

AINSE Awards an Honorary Fellowship to Professor John White, Australian National University.

AINSE Honorary Fellowships are awarded by the AINSE Council to individuals for distinguished and dedicated services to AINSE. Professor John White, CMG MSc Sydney MA DPhil Oxford, FRSC, FRACI, FAPS, FAA, FRS, is an outstanding Australian scientist and has given years of service to AINSE.

Professor White was presented with his Honorary Fellowip by AINSE President, Professor Allan Chivas at the AINSE Council Seminar on 10 December.

2nd AONSA Newsletter

The Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association
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President's comment
Neutron School and AONSA
The status of Taiwan Neutron Scattering Society
Korean Neutron Beam Users Association (KNBUA)
AINSE / ANBUG Neutron Scattering Symposium AANSS
AINSE Winter School
AINSE Post Graduate Research Awards
A strategy of JSNS for the future development of J-PARC/MLF
Indian Neutron Scattering Society
Report from the AONSA Office

Success for AINSE young career researchers

Dr Barry Green speaks to capacity audience at ANSTO talk in AINSE Theatre
On Thursday 15 October 2009 ANSTO hosted the eminent Australian scientist, Dr Barry Green (a world leading expert in Fusion technology) in its inaugural 'Distinguished Lecture Series'. The lecture, Fusion Energy - R&D Status October 2009, was delivered to a capacity audience in the AINSE Theatre. (AINSE is an active supporter of the Australian ITER Forum which is a collection of scientists and engineers from multiple research disciplines supporting a mission oriented goal of controlled fusion as an energy source. See Australian ITER Forum)

AINSE Scholar attends Lindau 2009
David Jacques, an AINSE postgraduate research award holder, attended the prestigious 2009 Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Germany. More information ...

Winter School 2009
The 2009 AINSE Winter School at ANSTO was held from Saturday 4 July to Wednesday 8 July. More information ...

Vale Eric Hall
Eric Hall, who received his first AINSE Research Award in 1961, made a valued contribution to AINSE over many years as Councillor, Vice-President and President. Eric died 29 July, 2009, aged 83, after a long illness. Vale Eric Hall 

John Ferris Scholarship
John Dawson of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at James Cook University, Townsville - has won a $15,000 top-up to his PhD scholarship to use radiocarbon dating tools to understand the impacts of climate change on reef islands.

The scholarship, which commenced on 1 July 2009, is administered by AINSE Ltd and means that John can travel to use sophisticated accelerator facilities at ANSTO. It is called the John Ferris Memorial Scholarship. More information ...

AINSE Gold Medal for Postgraduate Student Awarded
On 16 June 2009 Dr Dennis Mather, AINSE Managing Director presented a student Gold Medal to Dr Paul Saines who is currenty undertaking Post Doctorate studies at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK. The award was presented at a ceremony at ISIS, the pulsed neutron and muon source located at the UK Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. ISIS Director, Dr Andrew Taylor attended the presentation.
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AINSE 50 Year History
The 50 year history of AINSE is available in PDF format. More information ...