Polish Crystallographic Meeting (Konwersatorium Krystalograficzne) is an annual scientific conference being a forum for exchange of views of all Polish physicists and chemists engaged instructural research and related fields. It usually collects approx. 230 scientists from all academic centers in Poland: universities, institutes of Academy of Sciences, research and development centers, industrial laboratories. In the conference participate both leading Polish crystallographers, and a large group of young people: young scientists, PhD and undergraduate students. Conference is one of the oldest Polish recurring conferences. It was started in 1956 and since then, with short breaks, it is organized in Wroclaw. The organizers of the conference are: the Committee of Crystallography of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Crystallographic Association and the Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research in Wroclaw.

After the several successful Tunisian Crystallographic Meetings (TCM1, TCM2, TCM3 and TCM4) conferences held successively during March 2006 (Hammamet), June 2008 (Hammamet), April 2013 (Monastir) and November 2014 (Djerba), the Tunisian Cristallographic Association: TCA organizes the Fifth Tunisian Crystallographic Meeting to be held in the famous seaside resort of Yasmine Hammamet (HOTEL El MEHARI 5 *) during the period March 20-24, 2016.

The Fifth Tunisian Crystallographic Meeting "TCM5" will be held under the patronage of his Excellency the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

Prof. Andreas Roodt, European Crystallographic Association accepted to be the Honorary Chairman of our Meeting.

Topics

• Fundamental Crystallographic Studies.
• Biomaterials, Geology, Physics and Chemistry of Solids.
• Functional and Multifunctional materials.
• Surfaces and Interfaces.
• Characterization Techniques.

Topics

Plenary Lectures

Microsymposia

MS3. From Nature to Advanced Materials: Structure Characterization at the Nanoscale

MS4. New Topics in Crystal Growth Research

MS5. Nanostructures and Nanoscale Phenomena

MS6. Crystal Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds for the Understanding of Their Properties and Stability

MS7. Imaging Biomolecular Machines in Action through Cryo-Electron Diffraction and Cryo-Electron Microscopy

The BCA Industrial Group Autumn Meeting 2015 will take place at AstraZeneca in Macclesfield. The theme of the one-day conference is 'Cracking Challenging Crystals'.

The following speakers have already accepted to participate:

• Prof. Nicholas Blagden The University of Lincoln
• Dr Andrew Bond The University of Cambridge
• Prof. Steven Brown The UNiversity of Warwick
• Prof. Kim James Peakdale Molecular Ltd
• Prof. Ken Lewtas Lewtas Science & Technologies Ltd
• Dr Andy Stewart University of LimerickÂ

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
More information: Â http://cnpem.br/event/2015-iucr-high-pressure-workshop

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Symposium organized by the National Committee for Crystallography - 15 October 2014 - Academy Palace Brussels

The organisers aim to promote interdisciplinary contacts between Belgian scientists operating in different fields of structural analysis. Therefore the organisers welcome poster contributions in all fields of condensed matter chemistry and physics, life sciences, material sciences, earth sciences, pharmaca, synchrotron radiation, neutron sources. Lecturers include T. Bergfors, E. Alekseev, J. Hadermann, L. Aerts and Y. Kerremans.