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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.

AsCA's main role is to support communication and collaborative research in the Asia–Pacific region.

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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:

All enquiries about membership should be directed to the secretary.

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AsCA's Constitution defines membership and entitlements.

AsCA Constitution

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

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

Conference Date Location Conference resources
IUCr Congress 1987
Perth, Australia
IUCr Congress 1990
Bordeaux, France Minutes
AsCA 1992 13–16 Nov Singapore, Singapore Program Photos Minutes
IUCr Congress 1993
Beijing, China Minutes
AsCA 1995 22–24 Nov Bangkok, Thailand Program Photos Minutes
IUCr Congress 1996
Seattle, USA Minutes
AsCA 1998 13–15 Oct Bangi, Malaysia Program Minutes
IUCr Congress 1999
Glasgow, UK Minutes
AsCA 2001 18–21 Nov Bangalore, India Program Photos Minutes
IUCr Congress 2002
Geneva, Switzerland Minutes
AsCA 2003* 10–12 Aug Broome, Australia Program Photos Minutes
AsCA 2004* 27–30 Jun Hong Kong Program Photos Minutes
IUCr Congress 2005
Florence, Italy Minutes
AsCA 2006* 20–23 Nov Tsukuba, Japan Program Photos Minutes
AsCA 2007* 4–7 Nov Taipei, Taiwan Program Photos Minutes
IUCr Congress 2008
Osaka, Japan Minutes
AsCA 2009* 22–25 Oct Beijing, China Program Photos Minutes
AsCA 2010* 31 Oct–3 Nov Busan, Korea Program Photos Minutes
IUCr Congress 2011
Madrid, Spain Minutes
AsCA 2012* 2–5 Dec Adelaide, Australia Program Photos Minutes
AsCA 2013* 7–10 Dec Hong Kong Program Minutes
IUCr Congress 2014
Montreal, Canada Minutes
AsCA 2015* 5–8 Dec Kolkata, India Program Photos Minutes
AsCA 2016* 4–7 Dec Hanoi, Vietnam - Minutes
24th Congress and General
Assembly of the IUCr
21-28 Aug Hyderabad, India - Minutes
AsCA 2018 2-5 Dec Auckland, New Zealand Program Minutes
AsCA 2019 17-20 Dec Singapore Program Minutes
* Archived site

Contact

The AsCA Executive and their contact details may be found below.

The Executive is elected for a period of three years. The current Executive will serve 2022–2025.

President: Genji Kurisu
Institute for Protein Research
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
gkurisu@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp
Immediate Past President: Xiao-Dong Su
School of Life Sciences
Peking University, Beijing, China
xdsu@pku.edu.cn
Vice President: Geoff Jameson
School of Natural Sciences
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
g.b.jameson@massey.ac.nz
Secretary/Treasurer: Siegbert Schmid
School of Chemistry and Nano Institute
The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
siegbert.schmid@sydney.edu.au