Welcome

The Asian Crystallographic Association is the regional affiliate representative for crystallographic societies and organisations in Asia and Oceania.

The Asia–Pacific region has had a long tradition of crystallography, and today, AsCA continues to promote communication and cooperation between researchers in this field. Among the four Regional Associates of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), we are one of the youngest and the fastest growing. AsCA is proud of great progress in the crystallographic activities of the region in the past two decades. The meetings of the Association continue to have grown in size and stature over time, with the quality of science at the recent meetings attracting participation from Europe and the United States. AsCA has now been in existence for about 35 years and looks forward to further growth in keeping with economic developments in the region.

Members

AsCA councillors are involved in a number of decisions regarding crystallographic activities throughout the region.

AsCA is a Regional Associate of the International Union of Crystallography. The objectives of AsCA are to facilitate cooperation in the science of crystallography within the Australasian region by promoting crystallographic research, and holding conferences and schools. Membership to AsCA is by country. Each member country has voting representation on the AsCA council with the number of votes determined by the membership level as detailed in the Constitution.

The current membership is as follows:

• Australia
• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• China, People's Republic of
• China, Taipei
• India
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Korea, Republic of
• Malaysia
• Mongolia
• New Zealand
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• United Arab Emirates
• Thailand
• Vietnam

All enquiries about membership should be directed to the secretary.

Meetings

Encouraging communication among scientists is one of AsCA's founding principles. A range of conferences including those organised by AsCA and other organisations can be found here.

Upcoming AsCA conferences

• AsCA 2024: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (December 01 - 06, 2024)
• AsCA 2025: Taipei, Taiwan (December 01 - 04, 2025) jointly hosted by Japan and Taiwan

Other upcoming conferences

• 11th International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals: (24th-28th June 2024; Caen, France)
  
• 27th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography: (11th-18th August 2026; Calgary, Canada)
  

History

The history of AsCA has been carefully documented.

This document, which describes the history of AsCA in detail, was compiled and summarised during 2012-2014 by the ad hoc Working Group for AsCA History Recording, which was chaired by Sydney Hall (Australia) and whose members included Shih-Lin Chang (Taipei), Mitchell Guss (Australia), Jimpei Harada (Japan), Krishan Lal (India), Yuji Ohashi (Japan), Ward Robinson (New Zealand), Jim Simpson (New Zealand), Se Won Suh (Korea), M. Vijayan (India), Yu Wang (Taipei), and Jan Wikaira (New Zealand).

Past conferences

Past Executive members

Archived Newsletters

• August 1985
• December 1985
• January 1988
• July 1988
• March 1989
• October 1989
• June 1990
• May 1991
• October 1992
• November 1992
• August 1993
• May 2013