Topics

• X-ray facilities, instrumentation, optics
• Materials science and energy-related materials
• Catalysis
• Radioactive and nuclear materials
• Life science, biology and biochemistry
• Earth and environmental sciences
• Cultural heritage
• Atoms and molecules
• Nanotechnology
• Surfaces and interfaces
• Magnetism
• Soft matter
• X-ray and electron spectroscopy (XES, RIXS, NIXS, HERFD, and XPS)
• Theoretical methods
• Software, data analysis
• Newer methods and combination of techniques
• Time-resolved and ultrafast techniques
• X-ray microscopy

Effect of Disorder and Disordered Materials

This new Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Neutron Scattering, to be held in Hong Kong in 2015, will feature world-leading neutron scattering scientists who will share and discuss their latest discoveries in the GRC (interactive) style. As it is impossible to capture all new activities over a very diverse field of neutron scattering studies, the conference will instead focus on selected topics that have seen rapid developments over the last few years. Innovative instrumentation is the backbone of scientific discoveries, and thus one of the nine sessions will be devoted to discussions of the performance of innovative instruments. A diverse and vibrant user community is vital for the success of the neutron scattering facilities. We thus particularly encourage the participation of young scientists, to learn and profit from interactions with leading scientists in neutron scattering in the casual environment provided by the conference.

The 59th Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference, sponsored jointly by AIP Publishing and the Magnetics Society of the IEEE, in cooperation with the American Physical Society, will be held November 3-7, 2014 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort in Honolulu, Hawaii. Members of the international scientific and engineering communities interested in recent developments in fundamental and applied magnetism are invited to attend the Conference and contribute to its technical sessions. Sessions will include invited and contributed papers, oral and poster presentations, and invited symposia. This Conference provides an outstanding opportunity for world-wide participants to meet their colleagues and collaborators and discuss developments in all areas of magnetism research. In terms of the number of presentations, this will be one of the largest MMM in the history of the Conference, with over 1900 oral and poster presentations.

EHPRG 52 is a multidisciplinary conference for European scientists, who use high pressure in their research, and is organized jointly by CNRS, University of Lyon and University of Montpellier.

The conference will focus on a wide range of studies from pure physics to materials science, geosciences, chemistry, food science and technology, bioscience, biotechnology, …

EHPRG52 will be a coupled event with the UNESCO International Year of Crystallography. Special sessions on advances of structure determination under high pressure will be organized both from the experimental point of view and from advanced theoretical modeling methods.

A pre-conference school, sponsored by the CNRS French high pressure network (http://www.reseauhp.org) will take place from 5th to 7th September 2014.

“Condensed Matter in Paris” is an international conference covering all aspects of condensed matter physics, including soft condensed matter, liquid physics, biophysics, materials science, quantum physics and quantum simulators, low temperature physics, quantum fluids, strongly correlated materials, semiconductor physics, magnetism, surface and interface physics, electronic, optical, structural, and mechanical properties of materials, acoustics, and disordered media. An important place will be granted to interdisciplinary topics as well as to the development of research infrastructure in Europe.

“Condensed Matter in Paris” is jointly organised by the Condensed Matter Divisions of the French Physical Society SFP and of the European Physical Society EPS, and will unite the 14^th Journées de la Matière Condensée (JMC14) and the 25^th Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the EPS (CMD25) in a single event.

 “Condensed Matter in Paris” is the next in the series of biyearly JMC and CMD conferences, the last of which were held in Montpellier and Edinburgh, respectively. It will also host the biyearly French-Singaporean workshop on physics, which, this year, will have “Graphene” as its main theme.

The Sixteenth International Conference on High Pressure in Semiconductor Physics (HPSP-16) is a satellite of the International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS 2014) to be held in Austin (USA) during the following week.

HPSP is a biennial meeting with a long standing tradition. The first two meetings took place in Poland (1985) and Montpellier (1986) as a Polishâ€"French Meeting on High Pressure Applications in Semiconductors. The success of these early conferences made it clear that the topic area of high-pressure semiconductor physics had wide interest. Consequently, in 1988 the series was convened under its present name and has been organized as a satellite meeting of the traditional International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS). Recent HPSP conferences were held in :

• Sapporo, Japan (2000)
• Guildford, UK (2002)
• Berkeley, USA (2004)
• Barcelona, Spain (2006)
• Fortaleza, Brazil (2008)
• Changchun, China (2010)
• Montpellier, France (2012)

Topics

• Electronic structure, X-ray absorption
• Mechanical properties including vibrational, elastic and piezoelectric properties
• Thermal properties including thermoelectric behaviors
• Optical properties
• Electrical transport phenomena
• Defect states
• Structural studies including phase transitions
• Spin dependent properties
• Carbon related semiconductors (clusters, nanotubes, graphene)
• Low-dimensional semiconductor structures
• Novel materials, structures and devices
• State of the art computation of material properties under high pressure
• New experimental and computational techniques

SCES 2014 will be held in Grenoble at the University Campus in Saint Martin d'Hères.

Following the long history and continuity of SCES the conference in Grenoble will cover a wide range of subjects in the diverse field of strongly correlated electron systems. SCES emphasizes the fundamental physics of strongly correlated electron systems that span from bulk materials including f-electron based heavy fermions, d-electron based compounds, and organic materials to artificial materials such as nanoscale structures as well as cold atoms in optical lattices.
The main topics that will be featured in SCES 2014 are listed below.

Topics

• Heavy fermion physics (including valence and/or charge fluctuations)
• Quantum phase transitions and quantum criticality
• Non-Fermi liquid phenomena
• Unconventional superconductivity
• Kondo physics in bulk materials and nanoscale structures
• Metal-insulator transitions
• Quantum magnetism and physics of frustration
• Ferroics and multiferroics
• Correlated atoms in optical lattices
• Topological aspects of strongly correlated systems

Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (a Royal Society of Chemistry Conference) will be the follow-up event to successful conferences ISACS 3 and ISACS 8 held in 2010 and 2012 respectively, by bringing together leading scientists from across the world to share scientific developments.

The Scientific Committee warmly invites you to take part in ISACS 13 and looks forward to welcoming you to Dublin.

Themes

• Main Group Chemistry
  
• Metals in Biology
  
• Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis
  
• Porous and Solid State Materials
  
• Supramolecular Materials

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• Strongly Correlated Electrons and High Temperature Superconductivity
• Quantum and Classical Spin Systems
• Magnetic Structure and Dynamics
• Spin Electronics and Magnetotransport
• Nanostructures, Surfaces and Interfaces
• Molecular Magnets
• Soft and Hard Magnetic Materials and Applications

The Conference proceedings containing plenary talks and selected papers will be published as a regular issue of Acta Physica Polonica A.

Ubiquitin (Ub) and Ub-like modifiers (Ubls) are small proteins that upon covalent attachment regulate protein functions. Because of the general role of Ub/Ubls in basically every cellular pathway and their key functions in disease onset, our goal is to strengthen bonds with other research fields. Therefore, we bring leading scientists from different research fields together and introduce them to the fascinating and versatile world of Ub/Ubls to identify novel research directions.

The format of the conference will be a combination of lectures by invited speakers [including Thomas Steitz, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)], selected oral-poster presentations and poster presentations.

Topics will cover Ub and Ubl Enzymology and their relations to:

• Chromatin & transcription regulation
• RNA & Protein Quality Control
• Nuclear envelope & transport
• Signalling & DNA repair
• Disease & Therapeutics Â

Attendance will be limited to a total of 200 participants (excluding speakers) and poster presentations will be limited to 100.

Invited speakers

Prof. Luigi Ambrosio, Director of DSCTM, CNR, ItalyÂ

Polymer based nano-structures for tissue regeneration.

Dr Roberto Zamboni, Director ISOF-CNR, Italy

Silk: a natural biomaterial enabling advanced optoelectronic and photonic devices for living technologies.

Dr Michele Saviano, Director IC-CNR, Bari, Italy. President of AIC

Molecular targeting in nanomedicine

Dr Dritan Siliqi, IC-CNR, Italy

Synergic use of Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) with crystallography for
the study of bio-materials.

Dr Cinzia Giannini , IC-CNR, Italy

Exploiting high brilliance synchrotron-like micro-focused beams in a table-top facilities to study nano- and bio-materials.

Prof. Arben Merkoci, ICN2, SpainÂ

Nanobiosensing and actuating in lab-on-chip and paper-based lateral flow platforms

 Prof. Salvador Alegret, UAB, Spain

Bioanalitical Nanotechnology. An example of technoscientific convergence

Prof. Víctor F. Puntes, ICN2, Spain

Nanocrystals as reagents: building next generation of nanoparticles.

Dr Teresa Pellegrino, IIT, Italy

 Development of magnetic nanomaterials for intelligent drug delivery and cancer therapy

Prof. Enzo di Fabrizio, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Nanostructures for photonics and sensors in medicine

Prof. Gianluca M. Farinola, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy

 Nanostructures silica from diatoms microalgea: smart  materials for biology and medicine

Dr Lucia Curri, IPCF-CNR, Italy

Inorganic nanoparticles and nanocrystals active in the NIR region for biological applications

A special 3CG session is under planning to celebrate IYCr2014

•  3CG Workshop on Crystal Growth for Optoelectronic Device
  Chairs:Â
  
• Â 3CG Workshop on Crystal Growth for Renewable Energy and Energy Storage
  Chairs: Partha Dutta
• Â 3CG Workshop on Crystal Growth in Microgravity and at Externally Imposed FieldsÂ
  Chairs:Â
  
•  3CG Workshop on Crystal Growth in the Nano- and Micro-scale
  Chairs:Â Murali Rangarajan
• Â 3CG Workshop on Frontiers in Crystal Engineering
  Chairs: Jagadese J. Vittal
•  3CG Workshop on Functional Materials
  Chairs:Â Suja Elizabeth
•  3CG Workshop on High Pressure Crystal Growth and Diffraction
  Chairs: Robin D. Rogers
•  3CG Workshop on Mesocrystal / Nonclassical Crystallization
  Chairs:
•  3CG Workshop on Modeling and Simulation in Crystal Growth
  Chairs: Xiaobin Niu
• Â 3CG Workshop on Nitrides Thin Films and Applications
  Chairs: Elisabeth Blanquet
•  3CG Workshop on Recent Advances in Growth of Wide Bandgap Materials
  Chairs: Tania Paskova
•  3CG Workshop on Sapphire and Related Materials
  Chairs:Â Kheirreddine Lebbou
• Â 3CG General Workshop on Crystal Growth
  Chairs: Zhiming Wang

The conference will be open to the `Grand Public' with the aim to show the great impact crystallography has on many aspects of our lives nowadays:

- crystallography, its background and outputs

- crystals in nature

- crystals in the civilization of silicon

- crystals in lasers and laser reading

- molecular engineering and crystallography

- crystals in bio-engineering

- defects in crystals and structure materials

- aperiodic crystals.

To this end, few among the best European experts have confirmed their contribution: C. Lecomte, P. Cordier, A. Schuhl, D. Lupinsky, C. Sanchez, D. Moras, Y. Brechet and T. Janssen will give and overview of their respective fields that will be understandable to the layman with a minimum scientific background.

The conference is organized by Académie Lorraine des Sciences (www.als.uhp-nancy.fr) and will take place on Nov 15, 2014 in the magnificent City Hall of Nancy, France from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Access is free. The final program will soon be released on the web site of the Academy.

 An ancient tradition links the study of crystallography to this city, which during the sixteenth century saw the Medici family attracting on the banks of the Arno river Nicolas Steno, who stated the first law of crystallography. In the same period the Medici started to collect some crystalline specimens, first nucleus of one of the most precious and ancient collections of natural crystals.

The program selected by the Scientific and Organizing committees is thought to support the participation and contacts between members of the two groups involved, enabling the exchange of ideas in scientific fields (such as crystal growth, methods and techniques for structure determination, molecular recognition, polymer and material science, molecular medicine and structural biology), different and sometimes seemingly distant, but all associated with crystallography.

Thus, a hundred years after the international awards for the fundamental importance of studing matter by means of crystals, we are confident that Florence, the cradle of Renaissance ideas, will be the venue in which scientists from different fields will innovate and find stimuli for growth and collaboration.

The SCTE 2014 Conference started back in 1965 and, following a long tradition, has always been a forum where new ideas and discoveries related to the solid state chemistry and solid state physics of d- and f-Â element compounds are presented and discussed.

The conference will deal with the structure, crystal chemistry, chemical bonding and magnetic and electronic transport properties of different classes of intermetallic compounds. Hydrides, borides, carbides, silicides and homologues, pnictides, as well as chalcogenides, oxides and halides (especially those of low oxidation state exhibiting metal or semimetal properties) will also be covered.

Fundamental and applied research in the areas of solid state chemistry, physics and materials science of compounds containing d- and f- elements will be admitted.

Main topics addressed include:

• processes and syntheses;
• crystal chemistry;
• phase equilibria;
• thermodynamics;
• magnetic and electrical properties;
• theory, electronic structure, chemical bonding;
• applications.

A four day conference focusing on Surface Design and Engineering. The speakers will be world-leading scientists, covering topics in colloids and materials for surface design and surface architecture engineering.

Conference Topics:

• Nanostructured architectures
• Smart particles/surfaces
• Printed and flexible electronics
• Self-assembly of particles/surfaces
• Renewable particle/surface materials
• Food packaging
• Particle/surface coatings
• Particle/surface design for advanced materials and sensors
• Modeling, theory and novel techniques in particle/surface design and engineering

Training School on Engineering of Micro and Nanosurfaces
Sunday 15th June, 09:00-17:00

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Conference devoted to the development and application of electron and probe microscopy in solid state physics, materials science, chemistry, geology, biology, medicine, nanotechnology and and industry. The program of the Conference includes original talks, poster communications, round tables and informal discussions of present-day achievements in scanning electron microscopy.

Topics

• Transmission electron microscopy (analytical, low-voltage, scanning).
• Â Electron microscopy in the studies of new materials, nanostructures included.
  
• Methods of electron diffraction and electron crystallography. Electron optics and new instruments.
• Probe scanning microscopy.
• Scanning electron microscopy.
• Focused electron and ion beams in the analysis of materials.
• Electron and ion lithography.
  
• Electron and probe microscopy in chemistry and geology.
  
• Electron, probe and focal scanning microscopy in biology and medicine.