Preliminary List of Topics

The latest advances in methodology and applications of charge densities:

• advances in data analysis
• understanding dynamics of atoms and structures
• progress in using large scale facilities
• charge densities in crystal engineering
• charge densities in materials science
• charge densities and electron diffraction
• charge densities in life sciences
• charge densities at extreme conditions
• charge densities beyond single crystal approach
• physical applications of charge densities
• charge densities of inorganic materials and minerals
• compute or/and measure?
• charge densities towards classical structural analysis
• methods beyond charge densities

The main objective of the ECS3 is to provide advanced training in both theoretical and practical aspects of crystallography, primarily for end-stage PhD students, postdoc and early state researchers who are already dealing with structure determination from either single crystals or powders or both. School program aims in improving fundamental knowledge which students already possess, and upgrading it regardless of the technique applied. Starting from the symmetry accessing all the way to unitization of contemporary X-ray powder diffraction and macromolecular structure determination, ESC3 will cover a very wide range of topics interesting for both single-crystal and powder community. Also, participants will get the chance to broaden their knowledge in some of advanced topics regarding particular frequently encountered problems, such as disorder or twinning. School also aims in presenting state-of-the-art application of crystallography in various fields of research starting from advanced inorganic (nano)materials, via crystal engineering and drug design, to macromolecules.

New Horizons and emerging biomedical challenges for Biophysics

Standard Registration closes: 1st April 2016 and Abstract submission for contributed talks: 15th March 2016. To register click here.

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

There will be dedicated sessions covering cutting edge biophysical approaches to areas of major interest to the wider community. Opportunities are available to secure a platform presentation under the following themes:

• Cryo electron microscopy and X-ray lasers
• NMR of proteins and cells
• Channels and transporters
• Molecular recognition
• Neurodegeneration and ageing
• Advances in computational biophysics
• Single cell biophysics
• Proteins and complexes in human diseases
• Metals in biology
• Synthetic biology: enzymes & organisms
• Biological soft matter including stem cells
• Catalysis
• Drug discovery
• Membrane proteins and complexes

Confirmed speakers include: Sir David Baulcombe, Sir Tom Blundell, Richard Henderson, Dame Pamela Shaw, Sir Munir Pirmohamed, Greg Petsko, Sheena Radford FRS, James Naismith, FRS, Chris Schofield, FRS, Lucia Banci, Ben Bax, Paul O'Neil, Imre Berger, Sriram Subramanian, Richard Strange, Mike White, Liz Carpenter, Yvonne Jones, Masaki Yamamoto, Malcolm Jackson, Richard Garratt, José M Mato, Nigel Scrutton, Robert Eady, Nigel Robinson, Rasmita Raval, Mike Hough, Stefan Marklund, Nigel Minton, Paul Huang, Stefan Przyborski, Violaine See.

â- Â General Session (Fundamentals & Growth Technologies)

G01Â Fundamentals of Nucleation and Crystal Growth
G02Â Surfaces and Interfaces
G03Â Nanomaterials and Low Dimensional Structures
G04Â Thin Films and Epitaxial Growth
G05Â Organic and Biological Crystallization
G06Â Bulk Crystal Growth
G07Â Crystalline Defects
G08Â Advanced Growth Technologies
G09Â In situ Observation and Characterization
G10Â External Fields, Microgravity
G11Â Industrial Crystallization

â- Â Topical Session (Materials & Applications)

T01Â III-V Semiconductors
T02Â Group IV Semiconductors
T03Â 2D Materials
T04Â II-VI and Oxide Materials
T05Â Materials for Spintronics
T06Â Materials for Optical Devices
T07Â Materials for Electron Devices
T08Â Materials for Organic Devices and Bio Applications
T09Â Nitride Semiconductors
T10Â Silicon Carbide
T11Â Late News Session

â- Â Joint Session - examples -

Growth Simulation and Practice
Nanostructure - Fundamentals and Applications

Ape­ri­od­ic crys­tals are long range or­dered struc­tures which lack trans­la­tion­al in­vari­ance. They are found in a large va­ri­ety of sys­tems (min­er­als, or­gan­ic com­pounds, sin­gle el­e­ment un­der pres­sure, ox­ides, fer­ro-electrics, in­ter­metal­lic com­pounds) and en­com­pass in­com­men­su­rate­ly mod­u­lat­ed struc­tures, in­com­men­su­rate com­pos­ites and qua­sicrys­tals.

The struc­ture de­ter­mi­na­tion of ape­ri­od­ic crys­tals and the in­flu­ence of the ape­ri­od­ic or­der on their phys­i­cal prop­er­ties have made tremen­dous progress in re­cent years. How­ev­er the high di­men­sion­al de­scrip­tion and su­per­space ap­proach used to de­scribe the atom­ic struc­ture of ape­ri­od­ic crys­tal re­mains dif­fi­cult to grasp for the non-spe­cial­ist.

In this school the basics of the analysis of aperiodic crystals will be explained for a non-specialist tar­get­ au­di­ence, i.e. Phd stu­dents or ex­pe­ri­enced sci­en­tists work­ing in the field of crys­tal­log­ra­phy, chem­istry, ma­te­ri­al sci­ence or sol­id state physic and will­ing to have a ba­sic un­der­stand­ing of ape­ri­od­ic crys­tals.

This is a joint Antwerp Summer University School and C-MAC Euroschool.

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COSPAR, the International Union of Crystallography and the International Astronomical Union are proud to announce the first International School/Workshop on Crystallography for Space Sciences.

The aim of the School/Workshop is to prepare a selected number of participants for the next generation of projects in search of a deeper knowledge and understanding of extraterrestrial minerals and rocks, either large solid bodies or interstellar dust particles, using in-situ and remote analytical techniques.

The workshop is intended to instruct about 30 PhD students, postdocs and young staff members in modern crystallographic techniques in the fields of diffraction, imaging, spectroscopy and remote sensing. They will also learn the formation of mineral growth patterns in the early Earth, our Moon, Mars and other planets and moons, meteorites and interstellar dust, as well as relevance of crystals with origin of life and detection of primitive life forms. During the workshop, the students will analyze and discuss data from the mission Discovery and Curiosity as well as the forthcoming Exomars mission. Portable difractometers and spectrophotometers designed for these missions will be used during field trips for remote analysis of volcanic rocks.

1. X-ray diffraction. Fundamentals and applications to space crystallography

2. Powder Diffraction: Sample preparation, data collection and analysis

3. Advanced X-ray diffraction techniques and portable diffractometers

4. Spectroscopic Methods. Fundamental and applications to space crystallography

5. Raman, Infrared and Mössbauer spectroscopy

6. Study cases: Meteorites, Lunar rocks, Interstellar dust, Mars mineralogy, etc

7. The use of portable infrared and Raman spectrophotometers

8. Minerals in space: Meteorites, Interstellar dust, Comets, Moon and Mars, etc...

9. Crystallization in space

10. Minerals and the origin of Life

The First Meeting of the Latin American Crystallographic Association will be held in conjunction with the Twenty Second meeting of the Brazilian Crystallographic Association.

This meeting will be of great importance for the Latin American crystallographic Community. It will gather crystallographers from all the American countries as part of the LACA, that recently became a Regional Associate of the IUCr.

Apart from the scientific importance of this meeting, we foresee the beginning of a new, stronger relationship among all the crystallographers in the American continents. The meeting in São Paulo, Brazil, follows the pattern of the previous one in Córdoba, Argentina, and we expect a large number of participants from all countries.

Satellite meetings

September 08th, 2015
One-Day Pre-Congress Workshop on Powder Diffraction Databases and Applications at the Physics Institute of Campinas State University - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP

September 12th to 15th, 2015
2015 IUCr High-Pressure Workshop  at the LNLS/CNPEM
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3rd Edition of the School of Crystallisation and Crystallography for Latin America

The proposed themes involve:

• all material science
• control and description of industrial crystallisation processes
• nanotechnology
• polymorphism
• co-crystallisation of drugs and
• tools for structural determination of solids (including amorphous) from powder diffraction.

Module I on Crystallization: 7-11 December

Module II on Crystallography: 14-18 December

Confirmed speakers:

Dario Braga University of Bologna

Fabrizia Grepioni University of Bologna

Norberto Masciocchi University of Insubria

Antonella Guagliardi Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Istituto di Cristallografia

Simon J. L. Billinge Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University and Physicist at Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory

Richard I. Cooper Head of Chemical Crystallography and Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Silvia L. Cuffini Institute of Science and Technology, UNIFESP

Helvécio Rocha Laboratório de Sistemas Farmacêuticos Avançados, LaSiFA

3rd Edition of the School of Crystallisation and Crystallography for Latin America

The proposed themes involve:

• all material science
• control and description of industrial crystallisation processes
• nanotechnology
• polymorphism
• co-crystallisation of drugs and
• tools for structural determination of solids (including amorphous) from powder diffraction.

Module I on Crystallization: 7-11 December

Module II on Crystallography: 14-18 December

Confirmed speakers:

Dario Braga University of Bologna

Fabrizia Grepioni University of Bologna

Norberto Masciocchi University of Insubria

Antonella Guagliardi Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Istituto di Cristallografia

Simon J. L. Billinge Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University and Physicist at Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory

Richard I. Cooper Head of Chemical Crystallography and Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Silvia L. Cuffini Institute of Science and Technology, UNIFESP

Helvécio Rocha Laboratório de Sistemas Farmacêuticos Avançados, LaSiFA

ECMS 2015 will deal with mineralogy, spectroscopy and related fields of science, with a special focus on the interplay between short-range and long-range information to account for crystalline and amorphous materials physical properties.

The Conference will bring together both theoretically and experimentally oriented scientists, providing them with an opportunity to share ideas and learn from one another.

Serependipity vs Prediction

The next Indaba, the eighth in a series of interdisciplinary workshops is organized by the South African Crystallographic Society in conjunction with the Structural Chemistry Commission of the International Union of Crystallography.

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The discovery of processes, novel molecular compounds and materials with exciting properties is often to a large extent based on serendipity but in other cases on the careful observation and interpretation of experimental data. In the latter, classical models and approaches derived from qualitative molecular orbital theory, methods based on parameters related to donor-acceptor strengths or empirical concepts based on geometric and steric effects may be employed. Following these discoveries, it is then quite general that a subsequent thorough analysis of experimental data such as state-of-the-art spectroscopy, magnetism, thermodynamic properties and/or detailed mechanistic information and electronic structure calculations is performed to 'fully' understand as many aspects thereof as possible.

As a result, new models and theories may emerge, possibly leading to rules concerning how the relevant properties of the process or the new class of compounds may be predicted and be improved. There are also examples where novel types of compounds or novel mechanistic ideas have emerged from theoretical studies or from a close collaboration between theoretically oriented individuals with experimentalists.

This has often led to the development of efficient models for the design and interpretation of experiments, based on some understanding of intra- and intermolecular interactions or processes.

Indaba 8 is dedicated to the discussion of Serendipity vs (first-principle) Prediction of scientific phenomena related to structure, dynamics, activity and function of molecular and other materials and processes. The scientific sessions will include invited keynote lectures, a small number contributed oral presentations as well as poster sessions spanning Theory and Molecular Modeling, Crystallography, Crystal Engineering, Materials, Supramolecular Chemistry, Organometallics, Biochemistry, Biology and other relevant fields. In the Poster sessions, a number of poster presenters will also be invited to present their work orally in 'Flash' presentations of 2-3 min each.

Participation is unrestricted except for a limitation on the numbers due to the nature of the venue which can accommodate only 120 delegates. Preference will be given to presenters of original research and to students and postdoctoral associates.

A limited number of IUCr-sponsored bursaries will be available for students and other young scientists, who are invited to apply for support, preferably by e-mail, with the recommendation of a supervisor or a senior colleague, to the Secretariat (thereza@technoscene.co.za). A preliminary Registration including a presentation title and abstract must first be submitted and your invoice number should be quoted on all correspondence. Any support granted will be conditional on the acceptance by the Organising Committee of the abstract submitted by the delegate (see Submission of Abstracts). The cut-off date for applications is 30 April 2015, but early application and submission of abstracts are encouraged for those delegates seeking support.

ECM29 satellite meeting organised by John R. Helliwell (University of Manchester), Brian McMahon (IUCr) and Aleksandar Višnjevac (Croatian Association of Crystallographers)

As part of the continuing activities of the IUCr Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group, this workshop will seek to define the necessary metadata that needs to be captured and deposited alongside experimental diffraction images in order that such raw data may be subsequently re-evaluated or re-used in more detailed scientific studies. The workshop will also explore the metadata requirements of other structural experimental techniques used by crystallographers.

Confirmed speakers: Loes Kroon-Batenburg, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Simon Coles, Southampton University and UK Crystallography Service, UK; John Helliwell, University of Manchester, UK; Brian McMahon, IUCr.