The meeting is an annual event organized by Slovenian and Croatian crystallographers providing scientists from a wide variety of backgrounds with the opportunity to present their work and exchange the ideas in multiple areas of research involving crystallography.

The 23rd consecutive meeting is organized jointly by the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana and the Croatian Crystallographic Association under the auspices of University of Ljubljana and promoted by the Slovenian Chemical Society.

The official language of the meeting is English. There is no registration fee.

Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Department of Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences
Croatian Crystallographic Association Scientific Meeting

Celebrating the International Year of Crystallography 2014

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Contributions:

Biserka Kojić Prodić, X-ray crystallography â€" interdisciplinary science â€" a challenge for the future

Stanko Popović, Antun Tonejc, Contemporary diffraction methods in study of polycrystals

Željko Skoko, Jasminka Popović, Stanko Popović, X-ray diffraction line broadening analysis - how to determine microstructure

Mira Ristić, Svetozar Musić, Stanko Popović, Mark Žic, Marijan  Marcius, Željka Petrović, Metal oxides â€" synthesis and microstructure

Goran Štefanić, Structural and chemical  changes caused by contamination during the high-energy milling

Dražen Balen, Zircon typology â€" application in geological investigations

Vladimir Bermanec, Vladimir Zebec, Željka Žigovečki Gobac i Snježana Mikulčić Pavlaković, Importance of crystal morphology investigations

AnÄ'elka M. Tonejc, Davorin Medaković, Stanko Popović, Andrej Jaklin, Mirjana Bijelić, Ivana Lončarek, Structural studies of biomineralization in the sea hare Aplysia punctata by electron microscopy and diffraction

Ognjen Milat, Four-dimensional crystallography; a case study of modulated (M)_xCuO₂ composite crystal structureÂ

Ernest Meštrović, Crystallography in the research and control of active pharmaceutical ingredients

Goran Mikleušević, Zoran Štefanić, Marija Luić, Insights into the catalytic mechanism of E. coli purine nucleoside  phosphorylase by X-ray crystallography

Biserka Prugovečki, Dubravka Matković-Čalogović, Structural characterization of insulin derivatives

Sanja Tomić, Alan Tus, Alen Rakipović, Goran Peretin, Mile Šikić, BioMe: web-based platform for analysis of the metal-binding sites in the experimentally determined biomacromolecular 3D structures

Mario Cetina, Ante Nagl, Vedran Krištafor, Krešimir Benci, Karlo Wittine, Mladen Mintas, Supramolecular assembling of nucleoside analogues

Krešimir Molčanov, Crystal engineering in design of functional π-electronic systems  based in quinoid compounds

Aleksandar Višnjevac, Single crystal X-ray diffraction in investigation of biomimetic models of mononuclear metalloezyme active sites

Marijana Đaković, Zora Popović, Structural studies of  halogen bonds in Cu(II) i Ag(I) complexes

Boris Marko Kukovec, Marijana Đaković, Neven Smrečki-Lolić, Zora Popović, Nickel(II) and palladium(II) complexes with derivatives of iminodiacetic acid â€" preparation, crystal structures and catalytic properties

Gordana Pavlović, Marina Cindrić, Magnetic properties of tetranuclear nickel(II) complexes by supramolecular design

Mirta Rubčić, Ivan Halasz, Gordana Pavlović, Damir Pajić, Marina Cindrić, Imino derivatives of carbohydrazide and their coordination compounds

Vladimir Stilinović, Branko Kaitner, Influence of molecular dipole moment on the symmetry of molecular crystals

Ivica Đilović, Krunoslav Užarević, Dubravka Matković-ÄŒalogović, Marina Cindrić, Molecular recognition â€" the role of anionic templates in the chemistry of flexible receptors

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The second joint conference of the Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC) and of the Italian Synchrotron Radiation Society (SILS)

 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.

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES

Faculty of Sciences, University Mohammed I Oujda-er and the Moroccan Association of Crystallography (AMC) organized the 5th Moroccan School of Crystallography from 23 to 27 October 2013.
CMA organizes every two years a school on topics related to crystallography. The 1st school was held at the Faculty of Sciences of Marrakech in 2002, 2nd Faculty of Sciences El Jadida 2004, the 3rd Faculty of Sciences in Agadir 2006, the 4th at the Faculty of Sciences of Rabat in 2008 and the 24th European Meeting of crystallography ECM24 in Marrakech 2007.
This scientific event is part of the preparations for the International Year of Crystallography 2014.
The objective of this scientific event is to bring together potential users of crystallography, academics and industry to review the latest developments in this field. In addition to the fundamental aspect of crystallography, multiple applications extend the mining industry to the pharmaceutical industry through metallurgy and nuclear. This course is intended for researchers, PhD students, teachers and researchers and engineers. It will be moderated by scientists internationally renowned personalities in the form of conferences, courses and practical work. Part will be dedicated to the demonstration of new hardware and software to the latest crystallography.

The 21st Meeting of BCR will be held at UFG, Goiânia, on days 18, 19 and 20 September 2013. The event will be held at Campus Fern, the Center of Culture and Events Pr. Ricardo Freua Bufaiçal and short course will be taught in the Amphitheatre of the Institute of Physics.Â

The scientific program includes invited lectures, oral communications to be selected from submitted abstracts. The invited speaker will present overviews of areas of current interest

Welcome to AsCA 12/CRYSTAL 28

A Joint Meeting of the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA),Â
Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand (SCANZ) and the BRAGG Symposium

November 2012 marks the centenary of the founding of X-ray crystallography by Lawrence Bragg, a field in which he and his father, William, made pre-eminent contributions that were recognised by the award of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915. William was the Elder Professor of Physics at the University of Adelaide from 1886 to 1909 and Lawrence was born and educated in Adelaide.Â

To celebrate this important anniversary, the legacy of the Braggs' discoveries in X-ray crystallography and the insights that they have provided into the structure of matter, a combined scientific meeting of the Asian Crystallography Association and the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand is to be held in Adelaide from the 2nd to 5th of December 2012. The Conference will be followed by the Bragg Symposium at the University of Adelaide on the 6th of December 2012 that will explore some of the historical context and personal links to the Braggs' work as well as present some of the broader scientific and social impacts of the Braggs' work. The Conference and Symposium will have a strong line-up of national and international speakers.

A satellite event to the Seventh Meeting of the Argentinian Crystallography Association (AACr), the 3rd School of Crystallography, focused on X-ray and neutron diffraction in polycrystalline materials, held November 7-18, was partially supported by the IUCr. It was attended by 41 students from Argentinia, Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia. This School was divided into two modules. The first module, led by Juan Rodríguez-Carvajal and Gabriel Cuello, consisted of a compact version of the well-established 'FULLPROF School' held annually at the Inst. Laue Langevin in Grenoble. The second module, led by Raúl Bolmaro, Javier Santisteban, Miguel Vicente-Álvarez, Aldo Craievich and Eduardo Granado, focused on scientific and technological applications in polycrystals, such as internal stresses and strains, texture and size effects, and synchrotron radiation techniques. The afternoons were dedicated to demonstrations and practical sessions.

Welcome
Three years after their second successful Meeting (MISCA 2010, Oviedo, Spain), and six years after they organized their first joint Conference in Italy (MISCA 2007, Copannello di Stalettì, Italy), the Italian and Spanish Crystallography Associations deemed it necessary to renew this traditional event.
Stimulated also by the interest shown by the Swiss Crystallography Society, the three National Associations have merged their efforts to organize, in the beautiful surroundings of Villa Olmo, on the shore of the Lake of Como, the first Meeting of the Italian, Spanish and Swiss Crystallography Associations - MISSCA 2013.
In our intentions, the Conference will contribute to broaden the scientific contacts among the Members of the three communities. Â Moreover, thanks to the choice of an easily accessible location near Central Europe, it may attract scientists from neighboring Countries and fields.
Nearly one century has passed since Nobel Prizes were awarded for the discovery of diffraction by crystals and for closely related scientific activities. Later on, in 1927, Villa Olmo hosted the first Volta Conference, in which the uncertainty principle by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg was originally disclosed. It is therefore a pleasure for us to invite you to attend the MISSCA 2013 Conference, timely juxtaposing a historical location with a memory of  significant change of paradigms in Science. From Volta to kiloVolt!
The Presidents of the three Crystallographic Societies
AIC Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Michele Saviano (IC-CNR, Italy)
GE3C Â Â Â Â Â Â Fernando J. Lahoz (CSIC - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
SGK/SSCr   Jürg Schefer (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)

This meeting provides an opportunity for young researchers to present their work, discuss about crystallography, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and cooperation at national, regional or international levels.

Main Topics (tentative) will include:

• Â Macromolecular crystallography: advances in refinement and phasing, crystallization and crystal treatment, protein-nucleic acid complexes, membrane proteins, structure and function of biomacromolecules
• Â XFEL and time-resolved crystallography methods
• Â hybrid approaches (SAXS, EM etc)
• Â additional topics of special interests of the HeCrA community

Annual meeting of the Czech and Slovak Crystallographic Association. This year organized on the occasion of the International Year of Crystallography.

CRYSTAL 29, the 29th Biennial Conference of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand, will be held in the O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat, Mt Lamington Plateau, Queensland (http://www.oreillys.com.au), from April 22-25 2014.
The venue is located approximately 90 minutes drive from the Gold Coast or 2 hours drive from Brisbane. It is located on the western edge of the Lamington plateau and is graced with spectacular views across the Kerry Valley over the McPherson Ranges and the Great Dividing Range which are particularly remarkable at sunset.

Plenary and Keynote Speakers

1987 Plenary Speaker:

• Petra Fromme University of Arizona

Keynote Speakers:Â

• Vic Arcus, University of Waikato
• Joanne Etheridge, Monash University
• Andrew Goodwin, Oxford University
• Alice Vrielink, University of Western Australia

The 4th National Congress of Crystallography (TUCr2014) and “Residual Stress Analysis by X-Ray Diffraction and Texture" workshop hosted by Dicle University in Diyarbakir will be carried out on 16 to 19 May 2014.
As you know, 2014 has been declared as the International Year of Crystallography by the UN (United Nations). Centenary of the birth of modern crystallography will be celebrated all over the world with symposiums, meetings, workshops and exhibitions held throughout the year. In this context, TUCr2014 is of particular importance for us and it has been listed in IYCr2014’s official page of events to be held in the world.
We invite all researchers and scientists who study in different fields including physics, chemistry, biology, pharmacology, materials, archeology and mineralogy and use X-ray techniques in their studies to attend and contribute our meeting. We hope TUCr2014 meeting will be a platform to increase recognition of crystallography in the public sphere, lead to national and international collaboration opportunities among participants and encourage young researchers working in this area.
It is also planned to realize a workshop titled as "Residual Stress and Texture Analysis by X-ray Diffraction" for graduate and doctoral students during the meeting. In this workshop courses and practical issues will be discussed. Students who will participate in the workshop and the meeting will be able to get support through TUBITAK.
We expect your attention and contribution to our meeting
On behalf of the Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Süheyla Ã-ZBEY
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ã-mer ÇELÄ°K

Crystallography today presents tremendous development and is opening new possibilities in scientific research and technological innovation. It is a very diverse field and fundamentally interdisciplinary. It concerns any method to study how that manifests the crystalline arrangement of condensed matter at the atomic level, from theoretical calculations electron density to atomic force microscopy.Â

The Mexican Society of Crystallography has proposed to offer in its seventh National Congress, a number of Plenary Lectures illustrating the above. In particular, we have prepared seven courses and four workshops that cover topics of interest such as X-ray scattering at low angle, electron density, nanostructures, nanodifracción, atomic force microscopy, crystal chemistry, solid-state chemistry of metal oxides including traditional courses Introduction to Crystallography Crystallography and crystals.

For this seventh edition of the Congress, has been chosen to host the city of Villahermosa, capital of Tabasco, whose temperature in May ranges from 30 to 35 degrees Celsius.

The Organizing Committee wishes you a very successful participation in this event waiting foster collaboration between different academic institutions of the country and foreign speakers will visit us.Â

Mexican Society of Crystallography

BCA Spring Meeting (7-10 April 2014, Loughborough University)

"Crystallography @ 100: Looking to the future, learning from the past"

The 2014 Spring Meeting will follow the successful format used in recent years with the traditional Young Crystallographers’ satellite meeting on Monday 7 April, followed by the main meeting starting at lunchtime on Tuesday 8 April with the final session finishing at lunchtime on Thursday 10 April.

Crystallography as a field of research has reached its centenary and 2014 has been designated by UNESCO as the International Year of Crystallography. The theme of the meeting is in tune with these milestones and will be "Crystallography @ 100: Looking to the future, learning from the past." The meeting logo incorporates an image of the X-ray diffraction pattern of NaCl reported by W. L. Bragg in the charmingly titled 1913 paper "The Structure of Some Crystals as Indicated by their Diffraction of X-rays" (Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A. 1913, 89, 248-277; doi:10.1098/rspa.1913.0083). We are grateful to the Royal Society for permission to include this image.

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22nd Annual Meeting of the German Crystallographic Society

The scope of this 22nd DGK Annual Meeting is to show the diversity of crystallography as an interdisciplinary science. We are very glad that a number of renowed scientists, representing all different fields of crystallography, have accepted our invitation for a plenary lecture. It is our intention to offer researchers, feeling home within the interdisciplinary field of crystallography, an inspiring scientific platform.

The meeting will be preceded by a special IYCr2014 Symposium on 17 March.