Four short-courses or tutorials will be held on Sunday November 5th prior to ICOTOM:

• A Guide to Practical Crystallography and its Applications to Materials Textures
• Practical Tutorial on MTEX
• Practical Tutorial on Dream.3d
• Texture Analysis from Diffraction Data using MAUD Application Examples and Hands-on Tutorial

• Chemical surface reactions
• Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs)
• Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films
• Preparation and properties of supported membranes
• Chemically modified electrodes
• Enzyme modified electrodes and polymer modified electrodes
• Novel techniques and instrumentation for examining surfaces
• Recognition signal transduction and processing
• Detection techniques and protocols
• Miniaturization of analytical systems and the nanotechnology use
  

Topics

• Plenary & Prize Sessions
• Advances in Neutron Methods
• Hard Condensed Matter
• Soft Matter
• Biological Structures and Dynamics
• Neutrons for Energy and Sustainability
• Materials Chemistry and Synthesis
• Structural Materials and Engineering
• Neutron Physics

The series of SMARTER meetings aims to bring together scientists in the areas of computation, diffraction, and NMR spectroscopy to promote combining various techniques and develop smarter approaches for structure determination of complex inorganic, organic and biological materials.

Registration and more information about the meeting can be found here:Â Â https://smarter6.ki.si/index.php/smarter6/

Registration opens in Spring 2018.Â

The Astbury Conversation is designed to give an insight into life in molecular detail - whether you are a researcher wanting to know about the latest developments, or you are simply interested in learning more about the hidden - but fascinating â€" world of macromolecules.

The second biennial Astbury Conversation aims to bring together leading researchers from across the globe to discuss the most recent progress in the field of structural molecular biology in its broadest sense. This event is inspired by the pioneering work at Leeds of the Braggs (Nobel prize 1913), and in the 1930s to 60s of Professor Bill Astbury, FRS, a field of research continued today in the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology.

It is fitting that more than 100 years after the Braggs’ Nobel Prize winning breakthrough we celebrate discoveries in structural molecular biology both within the University and across the wider scientific community by hosting the Astbury Conversation as one of the highlights of the University calendar.

The programme includes;

• An academic Symposium themed around “Allostery in Biology” to include prestigious talks, selected presentations and poster sessions
• Plenary Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Kobilka of Stanford University,
• A Public Engagement Event themed around “Understanding More about the Secret Life of Molecules”, followed by a wine reception.

Other confirmed speakers include:
Professor David Agard (University of California)
Professor Dame Carol Robinson (University of Oxford)
Professor Hagan Bayley (University of Oxford)
Professor Katrin Rittinger (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Professor John Briggs (University of Cambridge)
Professor Riki Eggert (King’s College, London)
Professor Babis Kalodimos (University of Minnesota)
Professor Jim Naismith (University of Oxford and Director of the Research Complex at Harwell)
Professor Matthias Rief (Technical University of Munich)

The registration fee for the Symposium is just £49 (no accommodation) or £139 (including overnight accommodation). This includes access to all talks, event materials and meals, including beer and pizza at the poster evening.

Places are limited

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The meeting will be held in the heart of Darling Harbour which forms part of our larger Sydney Harbour, recognised as one of the world's most beautiful waterways. Darling Harbour is Sydney's most exciting entertainment precinct and only moments from the heart of Sydney's city centre. It offers multiple accommodation, entertainment and transport options including fine restaurants, museums, a retail marketplace and outdoor entertainment venues.

With neutron scattering remaining at its core, we also wish to extend and showcase nuclear-based techniques more broadly and how they are increasingly being employed. Such examples include neutron activation analysis and isotopic fingerprinting techniques for authenticity and traceability to combat food fraud. It is recognised that neutron methods are often applied in concert with other complementary measurement methods, including X-ray and light scattering, and such contributions where food materials are the focus are warmly invited.

The conference welcomes participants and contributions from the wide community of food science and product development, food packaging, and nutrition, as well as exponents of nuclear-based methods including scattering. In particular we intend to have a mixture of talks from food scientists and technologists with problems where scattering methods may be applicable, as well as talks from those already using scattering and other nuclear-based methods. We also anticipate the opportunity for one-on-one discussions to provide advice on specific problems as well as pre-conference presentations on what some of the techniques have to offer the food science community

You are cordially invited to participate to the 6th TUNISIAN CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC MEETING (TCM6) by submitting a paper and actively assisting in its work.

TCM6 is intended to provide an excellent opportunity for National, Maghreb and International researchers to make their own work known to a wider audience and to have discussions with other participants. This conference will also be an opportunity to exchange experiences, create and consolidate cooperation between different research structures.

This outstanding conference, organized by the “Tunisian Crystallographic Association”, will take place from 1â€"5 November 2017 in a beautiful and exotic Hotel: El Mouradi Djerba Menzel 4* on Djerba Island, an ecological place, very popular by its palm groves, its beaches and its wetlands populated by various species of migratory birds.

The conference will expand to cover a broad set of research topics about:

• Crystal Structure of Materials, Nanoparticles and Minerals
• Chemical Crystallography
• Cements
• Thin films
• Magnetic order and its consequences
• Dielectrics and multiferroics
• Crystal structure relationships and their applications
• Semiconductor devices and their applications

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Important Dates :

Abstract submission deadline: September 15, 2017

Acceptance notification:Â October 1, 2017

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More information is available on the conference web site: http://tcm6.org/

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Abstracts for consideration as oral and poster presentations can be submitted online via:

·         The conference’s official website:http://tcm6.org/

·         Email: tcm6.Djerba2017@gmail.com

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Please feel free to forward this invitation to any of your colleagues who may be interested.

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We are really looking forward to welcoming you in DJERBA.Â

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With neutron scattering remaining at its core, we also wish to extend and showcase nuclear-based techniques more broadly and how they are increasingly being employed. Such examples include neutron activation analysis and isotopic fingerprinting techniques for authenticity and traceability to combat food fraud. It is recognised that neutron methods are often applied in concert with other complementary measurement methods, including X-ray and light scattering, and such contributions where food materials are the focus are warmly invited.