The "European Conference on Neutron Scattering" (ECNS)
series is organized every four years by the European Neutron Scattering
Association ENSA
(home page: http://neutron.neutron-eu.net/n_ensa/).
The Chairman of ENSA is now Peter Allenspach, PSI.
The first of this series was held in Interlaken (CH) in 1996,
the
second ECNS in Budapest (HU)
in 1999,
the third ECNS took place in Montpellier (FR) in Sept. 2003,
ECNS
4 happened in Lund (SE) in June 2007
ENSA awards every two years the prestigious Walter Hälg Prize.
The "International Conference on Neutron Scattering" series was
organized every three years by the local Neutron Scattering Association of the
place where it takes place. From 1997 on it is held every four years in
alternation with the ECNS.
There is an International Advisory Committee of about 26 members.
The last meetings:
ICNS’82 in Hakone (JP), ICNS’85 in Sante Fe (USA),
ICNS’88 in Grenoble (FR), ICNS’91 in Oxford (GB),
ICNS’94
in Sendai (JP),
ICNS’97 in Toronto (CA),
ICNS
2001 in Munich (DE), proceedings in Appl. Phys. A (Suppl.1), 2002
ICNS
2005 was be held in Sydney (AU),
ICNS
2009
will be held in Knoxville, TN (USA).
The
first "American Conference on Neutron Scattering" (ACNS) was organized
by the Neutron Scattering Association of America (NSSA), in conjunction with the
SNS-HFIR User Group (SHUG), in Knoxville, Tennessee, in June 2002.
Chairman
is Rob Briber (UMD) (e-mail: rbriber@eng.umd.edu),
ACNS
home page: http://www.sns.gov/acns/
ACNS2008
(American Conference on Neutron Scattering, n°4) to be held in Santa Fe, NM in
Mai 2008.