IXS Executive Committee electronic Meeting
  June 5, 2007, Paris

Minutes

E-present members:

photo Andrea Di Cicco
Chair
photo Hiroyuki Oyanagi
Vice Chair
photo Julie Cross
Treasurer
photo Adriano Filipponi
(at large)
(co-chair of XAFS XIV)
photo Grant Bunker
(Also Chair of Education
and Dissemination
Committee)
photo Matt Newville
(NA)
photo Elisabeth
Holub-Krappe
photo Pieter Glatzel
(EU)
photo Bruce Ravel
(at large)
photo Mark Ridgway
photo Toshihiko Yokoyama
photo Ziyu Wu
photo T. K. Sham
(Former Chair)

The electronic meeting started in early January 2007 and ended on June 5th, 2007, using mainly the EC e-mail list for opinion exchange and voting purposes. All of the EC members participated to the discussion and to the voting sessions.

On January, 3rd, P. Glatzel noted that: 1)  "We (IXS) could run some Wiki pages like xafs.org. Some of the information I am suggesting below already exists somewhere. But we could collect everything and set it in context. The pages should contain an overview, basic explanations, some names that can be contacted for help, some key publications, links..¨ 2) "The acronym "IXS" is a bit unfortunate in view of the fact that it also stands for "inelastic X-ray scattering" which is becoming part of the XAFS community portfolio. I am pointing this out to you being aware that changing our acronym might be very difficult."

Several members (G. Bunker, B. Ravel, M. Newville and others) approved the idea of suitable "wiki" pages of the IXS. A group (P. Glatzel, M. Newville, B. Ravel, G. Bunker, J. Cross) was formed for the construction of those wiki information pages on January 15th. The results of the effort would be presented to the EC as soon as they have a stable format for those pages.

10 May A. Molenbroek e-mail:
The IUCr commission on XAFS aims at organizing two microsymposia and a
workshop at the next IUCr Congress in Osaka, Japan, to be held from 23-31
August 2008 (see: http://www.congre.co.jp/iucr2008/index.html).
At the moment we discuss within the IUCr commission on XAFS and also in
the International Program Committee about the details of the program
(chairs for sessions, keynote speakers, type of symposia etc.). We
currently have in mind to organize two microsymposia, one on "Combined
XAFS and diffraction of inorganic structures" and one on "XAFS in
biocrystallography".

-Cooperation-

My position:
i) I am in favor of cooperating with the IUCr XAFS commission in
organizing workshops/microsymposia as mentioned. Any comment, suggestions?
ii) We could propose to members of the IUCr XAFS commission to co-organize
a session at the next XAFS conference concerning combined EXAFS/diffraction
techniques and data-analysis. Any comment, suggestions?

On May 10, 2007, Andrea Di Cicco posed two issues to the IXS Executive Committee. Here are the results of the voting:


                                                                            IXAS                    IUX              Abstaining
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Q1: I would then recommend 
to express finally your vote starting 
from now to May 18th, selecting                    12                         0                        0
finally among the two acronyms.
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                                                                            In Favor             Against          No Comment
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Q2: In response to A. Molenbroek's
e-mail dated 10 May 2007 (see below):
Would the IXS be interested in 
co-organizing (part of) the workshop                7                           0                       5
and/or the satellite meetings in the 
microsymposia?
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The first 2007 e-meeting ended at 8:40 pm until 5th June.

Recorded by J. Cross and A. Di Cicco




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