23rd - 31st August 2005

Twentieth Congress and General Assembly of the IUCr

The Congress Banquet took place on Monday 29 August in the Meridiana courtyard of Palazzo Pitti, the most monumental of the late Renaissance Florentine buildings and sometime residence of the Medici family.

Louis Delbaere, M. Vijayan, Yuji Ohashi.

Bill Duax, Lodovico Riva di Sanseverino, Paola Paoli.

Giuseppe Filippini, Hartmut Fuess.

Carlo Mealli, Abdelmalek Thalal.

Lodovico Riva di Sanseverino, Carlo Mealli, Paola Paoli.

Yuji Ohashi, Bill Duax, Lodovico Riva di Sanseverino.

Palazzo Pitti at sunset, overlooking the sublime Boboli Gardens.

Paola Paoli, Carlo Mealli, Paola Spadon.

The IUCr Award for Exceptional Service to Crystallography is presented to Lodovico Riva di Sanseverino by the outgoing IUCr President, William L. Duax. The award recognises the efforts behind the long-term organisation of Erice Schools in crystallography. Yuji Ohashi, incoming IUCr President, is in the background.

Lodovico Riva di Sanseverino.

Armand Budzianowski receives a CCDC poster prize from Sam Motherwell.

Angshuman Roy Choudhury receives a CCDC poster prize from Sam Motherwell.

Birger Dittrich receives a CCDC poster prize from Sam Motherwell.

Magdalena Korczynska receives an IUCr poster prize from Bill Duax.

IUCr poster awards: ?, ?, Magdalena Korczynska, Bill Duax, Weenawan Sonphon.

IUCr poster awards: Weenawan Sonphon.