The conference will cover research in all aspects of the chemistry and physics of organic solids, with lectures focused on the following topics:

• Crystallization Processes
• Polymorphism
• Crystal Engineering
• Pharmaceutical Materials
• Molecular Motions in Crystals
• Chemical Reactions in Organic Solids
• Biomaterials
• Crystal Structure Prediction
• Chirality in Organic Crystals
• Inclusion Compounds and Supramolecular Materials
• Mechanochemistry of Organic Solids
• Metal-organic Frameworks
• Nano-structured Organic Materials
• Organic Polymers
• Amorphous Organic Solids
• Liquid Crystals
• Optical, Electrical, and Magnetic Properties
• Industrial Applications of Organic Solids
• Experimental and Computational Techniques

Confirmed Speakers

• Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard University
• Kunio Awaga, Nagoya University
• Graeme M. Day, University of Southampton
• Robert Dinnebier, Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Research, Stuttgart
• Karl-Heinz Ernst, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
• Tomislav Friscic, McGill University
• Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo
• Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, University of California, Los Angeles
• Kenneth D.M. Harris, Cardiff University
• Masahiro Irie, Rikkyo University
• Bart Kahr, New York University
• Yuji Ohashi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Masami Sakamoto, Chiba University
• Lian Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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The conference will be held 7-12 June in Santa Margherita di Pula (CA), Sardinia, Italy. The Sagamore XVIII will be focussed on:

Experimental probes for CSMD
CSMD for chemical and crystal engineering
Improved methods for CSMD
Insights on functional materials
DFT and theoretical methods
Dynamics: structure evolution and densities Topological Approaches
Nanoscale CSMD at extreme conditions
CSMD in the life sciences
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Preliminary list of topics:

• Advances in experimental probes for charge, spin and momentum densities
• Improved methods for improved densities
• Progress in DFT and theoretical methods for solids and related accuracy of properties of interest to Charge Spin and Momentum Density (CSMD)
  
• Topological Approaches: where we go
• CSMD at extreme conditions
• Charge and spin density analyses for Chemical and Crystal Engineering
• Functional materials: insight from charge, spin and momentum densities
• Dynamics: structure evolution and densities
• Nanoscale: structure, dynamics and densities - Electronic properties of nanomaterials
• CSMD in the life sciences (Understanding electronic and magnetic properties in bioactive
  compounds)
• What is the future of CSMD? (Round Table)

The Sagamore conference series started in 1964 focussing on aspects of the charge density. If you are curious about the name "Sagamore" name, you can read the history of Sagamore conferences.

The XXIII International Conference on Applied Crystallography will be held in Krynica Górska in Poland. As all the previous Applied Crystallography Conferences also this one will be organised by the Institute of Material Science of the University of Silesia in Katowice.

The Conference will provide a platform for crystallographers, material scientists and solid state physicists to discuss methods and techniques used in crystallography studies, to present their recent achievements in solving different material problems, to promote new ideas in the field of material science. The conference programme will include oral and poster presentations covering both the fundamental and applied research.

Organised by the IOP Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group (EMAG)

The bi-annual conference series 'Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials' has a long tradition in focusing on the most recent advances in the study of the structural and electronic properties of semiconducting materials by the application of transmission and scanning electron microscopy. The latest developments in the use of other important micro-characterisation techniques including scanning probe microscopy and X-ray topography and diffraction will also be featured.

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Chair:Â Alexandre Bonvin

Vice Chair:Â Valerie Daggett

The Gordon Research Conference on Computational Aspects of Biomolecular NMR provides a unique forum for the presentation and discussion of emerging methods at the intersection of experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), computational methods and other complementary biophysical techniques.

NMR is one of the most versatile methods for the investigation of biomolecular systems, whether these are proteins, nucleic acids, glycans, membranes, or functioning cellular and in vivo systems. In the modern toolbox of researchers, NMR is one of the well-established methods, which, in combination with other complementary biophysical and computational methods, contributes to our understanding and diagnosis of disease, the development of therapeutics to combat disease and the engineering of novel or improved biomolecules with a wide range of applications in heath, food and materials. NMR can provide unique structural, dynamical and functional information to achieve these goals. Continuous advances are pushing back the frontiers of NMR in numerous application fields, enabling the study of systems of ever increasing complexity and/or in more natural, cellular environments. All these can, however, only be achieved by integrating new types of data and learning to use them in combination with other experimental information sources. Computational methods, whose importance for the field has been recognized by the awarding of the 2013 Nobel prize in chemistry, play here a key role in this integration process.

This GRC conference will bring together practitioners in NMR, computational structural biology and other complementary biophysical techniques for the purpose of generating new ideas and promoting collaborations in order to generate the next generation of integrative methods that will allow us to tackle ever more challenging systems.

The 2015 meeting, which will take place at the beautiful location of Il Ciocco in Toscane. It will have sessions devoted to advances in integrative structural biology, complementary biophysical techniques, frontiers in solid state NMR, signal processing, intrinsically disordered systems and interactions, ligand interactions and metabolomics, conformational variability and challenges in structure determination. Further, the importance of NMR for industry will be highlighted in a dedicated session. The prominent list of speakers, along with the small format of the conference, will provide unique opportunities for graduate students, postdocs, and those new to this research area, to discuss their research with leaders in the field. Extensive poster sessions, along with promoted talks, will facilitate this process.

A Gordon Research Seminar on "Molecular Simulation for the Interpretation of NMR Data" will precede the conference. Besides providing an excellent opportunity for graduate students and postdocs to become familiar with the atmosphere of a Gordon Conference, the Seminar will feature keynote talks from leaders in the field and speaking slots for a number of students and postdocs. Application for the Seminar and Conference are separate, and those interested should consult the Seminar description.

Preliminary Program

A list of preliminary session topics and speakers is displayed below (discussion leaders are noted in italics). The detailed program is currently being developed by the Conference Chair and will be available by February 7, 2015. Please check the conference website for updates.

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• Keynote Session: Advances in Integrative Structural Biology
  (Antonio Rosato / Andrej Sali / Adam Lange)
• Conformational Variability and Dynamics
  (Andrew Baldwin / Christian Griesinger / Claudio Luchinat / Arthur Palmer / David Fushman)
• NMR and Computations in Industry
  (Ben Davis / Greg Siegal / Michael Schaefer / Chun-Wa Chung)
• Ligand Interactions and Metabolomics
  (Giovanna Musco / Robert Konrat / James Prestergard / Rafael Bruschweiler / David Wishart)
• Signal Processing
  (Christina Redfield / Jeffrey Hoch / Tatyana Polenova / Vladislav Orekhov)
• Pushing the Limits of Solid State NMR
  (Tatyana Polenova / Marc Baldus / Mei Hong / Lyndon Emsley / Anne Ulrich)
• Frontiers of NMR: Complementary Methods
  (Alexandre Bonvin / Pau Bernardo / Alexander Leitner / Holger Stark)
• Challenges in Structure Determination
  (Torsten Herrmann / Ad Bax / Tobias Madl / Chad Rienstra / Angela Gronenborn)
• Intrinsically Disordered Systems and Interactions
  (Valerie Daggett / Frans Mulder / Carine Van Heijenoort / Martin Blackledge)

Welcome Back to Asilomar!

April 19-24, 2015
Asilomar Conference Center
800 Asilomar Blvd
Pacific Grove, California

Chair

Teresa Carlomagno
EMBL Heidelberg

Important Dates

• October 31, 2014 Deadline for Laukien Prize nominations
• January 12, 2015 Deadline for abstracts to be considered for talks and for early decision
• January 12, 2015 Deadline for student travel stipend applications and Ritchey Travel Award applications
• March 9, 2015 Deadline for post deadline late-breaking abstracts
• March 20, 2015 Deadline for Conference registration and Asilomar housing

Cette école thématique a pour objectif de réunir des communautés très variées de chercheurs en sciences de la matière : elle intéressera les physiciens de la matière « dure » (électrons fortement corrélés et nanosciences) et de la matière molle, les chimistes et les biologistes, autour du thème fédérateur des symétries.

Anno 2014 marks the United Nation's International Year of Crystallography, a discipline on which is based the analysis of materials by neutron and X-ray diffraction. Since discovery of the latter by Laue and the Bragg's, over a centenary ago, the method excels and still evolves with the up-come of most modern sources. Recently X-ray free-electron lasers became available, high-energy synchrotrons are being refurbished, neutron reactors built and spallation sources driven to new scales; while future facilities, as energy-recovery linacs have been technically designed. Hand-in-hand with achievements in detector development, instrumentation and computing power, these installations continuously drive into new possibilities for materials analysis. The present symposium shall expose those latest developments for the materials science applications, demonstrating both pioneering experiments and well established methods. Modern diffraction methods of synchrotron and neutron radiation, combined simultaneously with time resolved or imaging techniques allow a multi-dimensional insight into materials. Thus information from an ensemble of individual grains in a polycrystalline material, time resolved in situ investigations can be obtained from materials undergoing mechanical, chemical or electric load under working or extreme conditions. Last but not least, coherent-beam diffraction opens new aspects of data acquisition and analysis in both spectroscopic and space resolved domains.

Contributions are sought in the fields of metallurgy and materials forming; energy materials in realistic conditions; response of functional materials under parametric load; materials under extreme or exotic conditions. Particularly contributions using an innovative approach in their application or from the novel upcoming facilities with unprecedented possibilities are desired.
The methods shall cover time and lengths scales from sub-picoseconds to days and sub-angstrom to meters, respectively.

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Topics will include:

In-Situ Processes Â

• Time resolved
• Complex environments
• Extreme conditions

Single Grain Resolved Studies Â

• Embedded grain characterization
• Grain statistics
• Orientation relationships
• Subgrains

Strain Scanning Â

• Strains and residual stresses
• Multiple length scales
• Grain resolved strain

Texture Â

• Three-dimensional reciprocal space mapping
• Texture evolution
• Local texture

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Liquid, Amorphous, Nanocrystalline and Distorted Materials Â

• Pair distribution function
• Diffuse scattering
• Phase transformations
• Local structure

Materials Imaging / Tomography Â

• Real time imaging
• High resolution tomography
• Combined diffraction tomography

Exotic and Novel Experimental Developments Â

• Coherent beam diffraction
• Fourier reconstruction
• X-ray photo-correlation spectroscopy
• Ultrafast processes
• The future arrived: X-ray free electron lasers

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The advanced experimental techniques using ultrabright and tunable X-ray, VUV or IR synchrotron and free electron laser radiation are indispensable tools to investigate the properties of matter with unprecedented space, spectral and time resolution.  Tightly focused beams of high intensity and coherence are especially well suited for chemical, morphological and structural characterization of materials under operando conditions. The topical sessions will focus on some of the major challenges of our century -  engineering materials capable of transforming efficiently chemical energy and solar energy into electricity and fuel. Opportunities also exist with x-rays for tackling challenges associated  with developing high capacity energy storage devices. The recent achievements in studies of interfacial electrochemical processes and charge transfer phenomena will be reported with selected presentations illustrating the potentials of the instruments, operated at the large scale facilities, with emphasis on the latest developments. We solicit abstracts demonstrating the recent achievements using synchrotron and FEL-based analytical methods spanning from all types of XRF, scattering (including RIXS and CDI), spectroscopy (including XRPES and XES) and X-ray imaging and microspectroscopy (SPEM, XPEEM, SXTM, TXM).Â

SA1 Synchrotron Studies of Processes in Energy Conversion, Electronic Devices and Other Materials I

• Charles Fadley, UC, Davis, "Looking Into Buried Interfaces with Soft/hard X-Ray Photoemission and Standing-Wave Excitation"
• Franz Himpsel, University of Wisconsin, "Synchrotron-Based Spectroscopy Shedding Light on Solar Cells"
• Gregory Hughes, Dublin City University, Ireland, "Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Metal Oxide Semiconductor Structures"

SA2 Synchrotron Studies of Processes in Energy Conversion, Electronic Devices and Other Materials II

• Benedetto Bozzini, University Lecce, Italy, "In-situ Characterization of PEMFC, SOFC, and Supercapacitor Components"
• Wanli Yang, ALS-LBNL, "Soft X-ray Spectroscopy of Battery Materials"

SA3 Free Electron Laser and Synchrotron Studies at the Molecule-Surface Interfaces I

• Oliver Gessner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Ultrafast X-ray Studies of Interfacial Charge-Transfer Dynamics"
• Sujoy Roy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Unraveling Topological Properties of Spintronic Materials Using Coherent X-rays"

SA4 Free Electron Laser and Synchrotron Studies at the Molecule-Surface Interfaces II

• Philippe Wernet, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Germany, "Valence Electron Rearrangements During Chemical Reactions in Real Time"
• Wilfried Wurth, Universität Hamburg, Germany, "FEL-Based Techniques to Explore Photochemistry and Transient States of Molecules on Surfaces"

SA5 Characterization of Nanostructured and LD Materials Using Synchrotron-Based Methods I

• Burkhard Beckhoff, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany, "Analysis and Speciation of Nanoscaled Materials by Means of Grazing-Incidence and High-Resolution X-ray Spectrometry"
• Andrea Goldoni, Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy, "Growth and Characterization of LD Materials for Applications in Energy and Sensor Devices"
• Petra Rudolf, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Netherlands, "Effect of Interfacial Interactions: Graphene Growth on Metallic and Insulating Surfaces"

SA6 Characterization of Nanostructured and LD Materials Using Synchrotron-Based Methods II

• Andres Santander, Centre de Sciences Nucleaires et de Sciences de la Matiere, France, "Novel 2D Electron Gases at the Surface of Transition-Metal Oxides"
• Claus Schneider, FZJ-Germany, Germany, "XPEEM: Recent Achievements and Future"

SA7 Â Synchrotron Analysis Poster Session

The National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven National Laboratory will host the 12th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation in New York City in July of 2015.

This event can be followed on Twitter @SRI2015NYC for up-to-date information on speakers, session topics, and events related to SRI 2015.

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The Australian Synchrotron's annual User Meeting showcases some of the best research and investigations undertaken at the facility, and provides our user community with updates on the latest developments and technical advances in synchrotron science, both at home and at our sister light sources overseas. Organised by the Australian Synchrotron User Advisory Committee, the 2014 meeting will again be held at the award-winning National Centre for Synchrotron Science (NCSS).

Topics:

• Advanced Materials
• Beamlines, Instrumentation and Techniques
• Biological Systems
• Earth and Environment
• Energy Materials
• Imaging
• Radiotherapy and Radiobiology
• Soft Matter
• Structural Biology
• Surface Science

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In the last decades experiments based on synchrotron radiation and coherent radiation generated by free electron lasers (FELs) and conventional lasers have contributed a great deal to the understanding of the physics in novel superconductors. Although the origin of the superconductivity in these materials is still a pending problem, it is time now for a critical analysis of the results so far obtained and looking forward for a new roadmap. Aim of the workshop is to bring together some of the most expert scientists in the field to discuss the role that synchrotron and FELs sources can play for advancing our understanding of the superconductivity mechanisms in novel and exotic materials.

Invited Speakers

• Sergey Borisenko (IFW Dresden, Germany)
• Andrea Damascelli (University of British Columbia, Canada) abstract
• Donglai Feng (Fudan University, China) abstract
• Atsushi Fujimori (University of Tokyo, Japan) abstract
• Antoine Georges (Collége de France, France)
• Giacomo Ghiringhelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) abstract
• Makoto Hashimoto (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA) abstract
• Bernhard Keimer (Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, Germany)
• Dragan D. Mihailovic (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
• Luca Perfetti (École Polytechnique, France) - abstract
• Kosmas Prassides (Durham University, UK & Tohoku University, Japan) abstract
• George Sawatzky (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Dirk van der Marel (Université de Genève, Switzerland)

The International Conference on Data Sharing and Integration for Global Sustainability (SciDataCon) is motivated by the conviction that the most significant research challenges â€" and in particular the pressing issues relating to global sustainability â€" cannot be properly addressed without due attention to various issues relating to data.  SciDataCon aims to make explicit the connection between concrete and specific challenges to ensure environmental protection, economic prosperity and social well being along with the research questions that arise from these challenges and the necessary role of data policy, management and analysis in addressing these research questions. The effectiveness and credibility of research findings rely on the widest possible availability of quality-assessed and interoperable datasets.

Research data are essential to all scientific endeavours. The emerging cultures of data sharing and publication, open access to, and reuse of data are the positive signs of an evolving research environment. Nevertheless, several cultural and technological challenges are still preventing the research community from realizing the full benefits of these tendencies.

The Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) and the World Data System (WDS), interdisciplinary committees of the International Council for Science (ICSU) are together advancing this agenda by actively promoting effective data policies and good data management practices in the research community, to produce better science, which ultimately benefits society. Â As a major contribution to this effort, the two organizations are co-sponsoring and organizing a high profile international biennial conference, which will examine, in an integrated way, the data issues at the heart of the global research questions and in a manner that will have tangible benefit for research and society.

The scope of the 23rd DGK annual meeting is to cover all areas of crystallography including a focus on computational and theoretical crystallography. We are very glad that a number of renowned scientists, representing the different fields of crystallography, have accepted our invitation for a plenary lecture. The 23rd DGK annual meeting will comprise 18 microsymposia, six plenary lectures and two poster sessions.

Topics:

• Polymers & Soft Matter Physics
• Soft Condensed Matter
• Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
• Biological Physics
• Chemical Physics
• Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
• Insulators and Dielectrics
• Semiconductors
• Superconductivity
• Magnetism
• Strongly Correlated Systems, Including Quantum Fluids and Solids
• Complex Structured Materials, including Graphene
• Superlattices, Nanostructures, and Other Artificially Structured Materials
• Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films
• Metals and Metallic Alloys
• General Theory/Computational Physics
• Quantum Information, Concepts and Computation
• Matter at Extreme Conditions
• Instrumentation and Measurements
• Fluids
• Energy Research and Applications
• Applications (IT, Medical/Bio, Photonics, etc.)
• Physics of Climate
• Physics Education(FEd)
• General

Scope/topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

• Kinetics of Complex, Multiphase and Hybrid Processes
• Catalysts Synthesis and Characterization
• New Catalytic Processes
• Catalytic and Multiphase Reactors
• Polymerization Reactors
• Electro-, Photo- and Sono-Chemical Reactors
• Phase Equilibrium and Phase Transport
• Innovation and Separation Processes
• Membrane Processes
• Membrane Science
• Simulation and Separation Equipment Design
• Hybrid and Membrane Processes
• Structured Systems, Meso and Micro Reactors
• Non-conventional Energetic Technologies in Chemical Processes
• Synthesis and Design of Processes
• Simulation, Optimization, Planning and Control of Processes
• Energy Integration and Optimization
• Bioreactors and Bioprocesses (new applications and configurations)
• Modeling of bioprocesses
• Systems biotechnology
• Biorefinery
• Advanced bioseparation technologies
• Clean Energy from Fossil Resources
• Emission ControlEfficiency and New Energy Carriers
• Capture, Storage and Use of CO2
• Sustainable Processes and Products
• Green Solvents: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
• Green Polymers from Renewable Resources
• Green Organic Synthesis Routes
• New Biosynthetic Strategies
• High Pressure and Supercritical Processes
• Ionic Liquids: New Reaction/Separation Media
• Fine Chemistry
• Nano-structured Materials, Catalysts
• Intelligent Materials
• Intelligent Polymers
• Coatings and Surface Treatments
• Biodiversity conservation
• Bio-drug discovery
• Bioenergy
• Bioenvironmental Engineering
• Marine Biochemicals
• Environmental Engineering & Management
• Sustainable & Clean Technologies
• Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
• Chemical Engineering educational challenges and development
• Chemical Reaction Engineering
• Thermodynamics
• Multiphase flows
• Crystallization Distillation, absorption and extraction
• Rheology
• Product Engineering and Development
• Nanomanufacturing
• Energy and Nuclear Sciences
• Mathematical modelling in chemical engineering
• Macromolecular Science and Engineering
• Advanced Materials Processing
• Multiscale Modelling
• Biochemical Engineering
• Physical Chemistry
• Radiochemistry
• Biophysical Chemistry

The conference covers contemporary problems of crystal engineering namely synthesis, structure and dynamics, and indeed these issues are the heart of chemistry itself. This symposium will focus on all aspects of structural chemistry, including multidisciplinary areas and this unique gathering will offer the opportunity for scientists from many different countries to exchange their scientific experience as well as to intensify their cooperation to partners. This conference, jointly hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry, University of Calcutta, Jadavpur University and IISER-Kolkata, is being organized to celebrate International Year of Crystallography.