23rd - 31st August 2005

Twentieth Congress and General Assembly of the IUCr

Programme Committee meeting before the Congress in Trapani, Sicily, 16-20 June 2004. Left to right: A. Benedetti, K. Byrappa, ?, F. J. Lahoz, J. L. Martin, C. Lecomte, A. Zagari, A. L. Spek, C. Mealli, M. Kaftory, Y. Fujii, P. Spadon, ?.

Michelangelo Hall, Fortezza da Basso, Florence.

Audience.

G. Bingen.

S. Siliani, P. Spadon, G. Bingen.

Bill Duax.

I. Bertini, W. L. Duax, C. Mealli, P. Paoli.

Ivano Bertini.

J. Makhubalo, I. Bertini, W. L. Duax.

J. Makhubalo.

Carlo Mealli.

P. Paoli, S. Siliani.

Paola Paoli.

S. Siliani.

J. Makhubalo, W.L. Duax, C. Mealli, I. Bertini, P. Paoli, S. Siliani, P. Spadon, G. Bingen.

Musical interlude - brass ensemble.

Parade of historical characters of Florence.

Philip Coppens.

Delegates.

Audience.

KN 1: A theoretician's view of crystallography. Roald Hoffmann.

KN 1: A theoretician's view of crystallography. Session Chair Joel Bernstein.

Roald Hoffmann, Ivano Bertini, Antonio Tiripicchio.

Roald Hoffmann receives the 2005 Sacconi Medal from Ivano Bertini. The Inorganic Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society together with the Luigi Sacconi Foundation, on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Division, awards the Luigi Sacconi Medal to a scientist (Italian or foreigner) who has obtained particularly significant results in Inorganic Chemistry, the field in which Luigi Sacconi gave outstanding contributions.

KN 2: Structure and recognition in the BARS/CtBP-dependent transcription regulation. Martino Bolognesi.

KN 2: Structure and recognition in the BARS/CtBP-dependent transcription regulation. Session Chair Dusan Turk.

KN 3: Ion pumping by Ca²⁺-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum. Chikashi Totoshima.

KN 3: Ion pumping by Ca²⁺-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum. Session Chair Giuseppe Inesi.

KN 5: Single-particle diffraction. Audience (Bill Duax in foreground).

KN 5: Single-particle diffraction. David Sayre.

KN 5: Single-particle diffraction. Session Chair John Spence.

KN 6: Elucidating the structures of nanoporous microcrystals. Lynne McCusker.

KN 7: Structure analysis of modulated crystals: trends and tendencies. Vaclav Petricek.

KN 8: High-throughput technologies in structural biology. Raymond Stevens.

KN 8: High-throughput technologies in structural biology. Session Chair M. Vijayan.

KN 9: Structure solution of pharmaceutical compounds from powder diffraction data. Peter Stephens.

KN 10: Quasicrystal structure analysis: the state of the art. Akiji Yamamoto.

KN 11: Structure of protein assemblies by comparative modeling and electron microscopy. Session Chair Douglas Ohlendorf.

KN 11: Structure of protein assemblies by comparative modeling and electron microscopy. Andrej Sali.

KN 12: Quantum mechanical simulation of the vibrational properties of garnets. Roberto Dovesi.