To be given by Venki Ramakrishnan

The annual lecture series is set up in the recognition of Fritiof Sjöstrand's contribution to the development of electron microscopy and will be delivered by eminent scientists in the field. The event is organised by SciLifeLab, Karolinska Institutet and the Journal of Structural Biology and open to anyone. A holder of the lectureship will particularly spend time with students and postdocs.

This year's summer school is devoted to methods and applications of small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and neutron reflectometry, and is targeted at those who have no or little previous experience with neutron scattering methods. The school will consist of a combination of introductory lectures and training in scattering techniques and will provide participants with an unique opportunity to become familiar with neutron scattering methods and their application to current research topics.

Attendance is limited to 35 students and to people affiliated with US universities and US industry. Financial support for PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty members will be made available, on request.

For further information and more contact details, please visit:Â https://www.ncnr.nist.gov/summerschool/ss18/index.html

Application deadline: 2nd April 2018

The 12th Central European Training School on neutron techniques will be held at the Budapest KFKI Campus of Hungarian Academy of Sciences on 6th-11th May 2018.

All newcomers (PhD and Master's students, post-doctoral researchers and young researchers) into this field of structural research are welcome. The school will consist of 2 full days of lectures and 3 days of experimental work, around the topic of neutron scattering and imaging techniques.Â

Application deadline is 15th March 2018.Â

A limited number of grants are available for EU students.Â

For more information and registration, please visit:Â https://www.kfki.hu/cets/

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The school aims to provide advanced training of neutron, X-ray, and light scattering experiments for young post-graduates and post-doctors in the field of soft matter science. A primary focus will be on the methodology of static and dynamic scattering techniques and provide information on data interpretation and recent applications and developments.

Registration for the school is now open, with a deadline of 21st February 2018.

https://indico.ill.fr/indico/event/86/page/5

The school is limited to 35 students. There is an estimated participation fee of 850 euros, which includes the cost of accommodation with full board and additional recreational activities.

The school aims to contribute to the training of scientists in treatment of X-ray and neutron diffraction data. The lectures at the school will be dedicated to general applications (2 days) and analysis of different problems on condensed matter science (2.5 days).Â

The maximum number of participants is limited to 30 - candidates will be selected based on their motivation letter and CV (including a letter of recommendation from the thesis supervisor for applications from PhD students).

For more information and registration, please visit:

https://indico.ill.fr/indico/event/84/

Registration deadline: 8th September 2017

This course is primarily aimed at young researchers, instrument and development scientists at international and national neutron facilities who have a basic understanding of neutron scattering but have less background in polarized neutron instrumentation. Lectures on theory, sources, and neutron instrumentation, and tutoring on various scattering techniques will be provided. Graduate students or postdocs at universities with an interest in neutron instrumentation projects are also highly welcome.

Registration is now open via the form at the link below. and closes on 10th May 2017.

The 13th Canadian Neutron Scattering Summer School will be held at Chalk River Laboratories on May 15-19, 2017.Â

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The school is aimed at graduate students and post-docs with backgrounds in physics, chemistry, or materials science who may have no prior knowledge of how to use neutron beams to study materials. Undergraduate students, professors and other researchers are welcome as well. The curriculum covers a wide range of scientific areas, such as magnetism, industrial alloys, and thin films, and will incorporate both lectures and experimental training.

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Early registration deadline is Feb 28, 2017.

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For more information, including the list of topics included in the program, Â please visit the school webpage:Â http://cins.ca/ss2017/

Lecture given by Professor Andrew Harrison, Director of DIAMOND Light Source, Harwell, UK.

Lecture given by Richard Henderon FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Taking advantage of the facilities at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and Institut Laue Langevin, this one week theoretical and practical course will cover both basics and applications of small-angle X-ray scattering and small-angle neutron scattering on biomacromolecular solutions.

More information, including the application requirements, can be found at: http://meetings.embo.org/event/17-small-angle-scattering

Application deadline is 15th June 2017.

Aim and target

This training course aimed at providing a solid background in symmetry and group theory to students and scientists working on crystalline materials.

Program

The training course will span five full days, from 6 to 10 March, 2017. The program is essentially the same as that of the previous training courses.

Exercises proposed during the whole course will be an integral part of the course: participants are requested to actively take part in solving the proposed exercises. Evening sessions are also proposed for discussion, practicals, solution to the exercises, questions and answers.

Didactic material will be distributed before and during the lectures and also made available in electronic form.

Monday, 6 March

• Matrix algebra
• Abstract algebra and the notion of group
• Introduction to crystallographic symmetry and lattices
• Evening: welcome reception

Tuesday, 7 March

• Morphological symmetry
• Stereographic projection, with exercises
• Crystallographic point groups and geometric crystal classes
• Symmetry elements with a translational component (screw axes and glide planes)
• Introduction to space groups: basic notions and the Hermann-Mauguin symbolism
• Graphical construction of space groups
• Evening (20:00-23:00): on-demand practicals, questions & answers optional session

Wednesday, 8 March

• Practicals on the graphical construction of space groups
• Metric tensor and applications
• Matrix representation of symmetry operations
• Change of axial settings and alternative settings of space groups
• Evening (20:00-23:00): on-demand practicals, questions & answers optional session

Thursday, 9 March

• Normalizers
• Chirality
• Wyckoff positions, Wyckoff sets
• Factor groups, symmorphic groups
• Crystallographic orbits
• Evening (20:00-23:00): on-demand practicals, questions & answers optional session

Friday, 10 March

• Reciprocal lattice and systematic absences
• Group-subgroup relations
• Structure-substructure relations and applications to displacive phase transitions

Coffee break will be served at 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Lunch break will be from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Language

The official language of the training course is Japanese. No simultaneous interpretation will be provided.

Venue

The training course will held at the seminar hall of the 4th building of KEK, Tsukuba campus.

Lecturer

Prof. Massimo Nespolo, Université de Lorraine, France (on behalf of MaThCryst)

Local Organizing Committee

Dr. Maki Okube, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Prof. Takashi Kamiyama, KEK
Prof. Noriyuki Igarashi, KEK

Registration and accommodation

Details are available at the this address.

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together the best scientists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and synchrotron experts and see how the most strategic fields for the UAEÂ can be addressed through synchrotron science. UAE scientists will include both national and non-national speakers. International top synchrotron experts will give a talk at the event.

One of the main points will be to understand what the requirements of the UAE scientists are in terms of synchrotron research (what types of beamlines, techniques, etc.). Once these are defined, we will try to understand what would be the best option in terms of costs and benefits for the UAE.

Professor Dame Goodfellow will discuss the societal benefits for investing in science and higher education. She will outline the case for such investment for an economically and intellectually rich modern society.
Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent since 2007. She is a member of the Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology since 2011. She is the President of Universities UK. She has also been the Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), one of main research council that funds biological sciences research in the UK.

This Lecture Course, #16 in a series that started in 1987, will accommodate about 85 graduate students, postdocs and senior scientists during a 9-day summer school in Cargèse, a small village in Corsica.

Lectures, poster sessions and discussions will be be held from 9.00 h. till 12.30 h. and from 17.30 h. till 19.30 h. starting on June 12th , 2017. The course ends in the evening of Thursday June 22.

Active participation by all participants in all scientific activities has become a tradition. A detailed programme as well as a poster and lecture abstract book will be presented on the internet. The selection of graduate student and postdoc participants will be based on their poster abstract, list of publications and recommendation (if requested). Deadline for application is April 1, 2017.

A decision about participation will be made in April 2017 and more detailed information will be mailed to the selected participants in due time.

X-ray diffraction is an extremely successful technique for determining the atomic-scale structure of matter and has been used for more than a century. Not all appears to be well, however. Based upon the observation that surprisingly complete powder diffraction patterns can be obtained using samples with very few crystallites, Dr. Paul Fewster has challenged the conventional interpretation of X-ray diffraction and has recently published "A new theory for X-ray diffraction" [Acta Cryst. A70 (2014) 257]. The goal of this mini-symposium is to understand and discuss this new theory. Dr Paul Fewster will explain his ideas, while several other speakers will present closely related topics. There will be ample time for discussion

Richard Catlow FRS, Chair of Chemistry REF (2014) and Dean of the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University College London, invites you to join him in this hour long session which will illustrate the scope of contemporary chemistry by describing the role of chemical research in several key global challenges.

Professor Catlow will discuss recent developments relating to CO2 conversion and utilisation, the development of renewable energy technologies, food security, global health and safe water. He will look at how chemistry in the UK and internationally is making decisive contributions to key societal challenges; and how problems posed by contemporary issues provide fundamental scientific challenges for the discipline.

Photonic Crystals-Inhibited Spontaneous Emission: Optical Antennas-Enhanced Spontaneous Emission

Speaker: Professor Eli Yablonovitch, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Photonic crystals have now been identified within the coloration of peacocks, parrots, chameleons, butterflies and many other species. But photonic crystals are also part of everyday technological life in opto-electronic telecommunication devices that provide us with internet, cloud storage, and email.Â

Nonetheless, the original motivation of photonic crystals was to create a “bandgap” in which the spontaneous emission of light would be prevented. The “optical antenna” can have the opposite effect, accelerating spontaneous emission. Over 100 years after the radio antenna, we finally have tiny “optical antennas” which can act on molecules and quantum dots. With optical antennas, spontaneous light emission can become faster than stimulated emission.Â

Lecture by Prof. Anthony Ryan, OBE, Pro-Vice Chacellor, Faculty of Science, University of Sheffield, as part of the 2015 Science & Society Lecture series

A Science and Society 2015 lecture by Dr Harren Jhoti, President & CEO, Astex Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge)

Dr Harren Jhoti co-founded Astex in 1999 and was Chief Scientific Officer until 2007 when he was appointed Chief Executive. During its development, Astex successfully raised more than £50 million from US and European venture capitalists and established multiple alliances with major pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline.

As part of these alliances, Astex applied its proprietary Fragment-Based Drug Discovery technology to generate novel drug candidates for patients with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. In 2013 Astex was acquired by Otsuka Pharmaceuticals for $886 million, one of the largest transactions in UK Biotechnology, and now operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Otsuka.

In 2007 Dr Jhoti was named by the Royal Society of Chemistry as 'Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year' and was awarded the Prous Institute-Overton and Meyer Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery by the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry in 2012.

But before being a successful chemist and business man, Dr Jhoti had interrupted his studies to start a rock band. During the talk, he will tell about his determination to succeed after his failed attempt at becoming a rock star.

Tickets for the event can be obtained from

https://www.liv.ac.uk/events/science-and-society/form.php