The school is organized as a satellite event to European Crystallographic meeting â€" ECM29 in Rovinj, Croatia, 23-28 of August 2015. The school intends to cover main directions of contemporary research in the area of electron crystallography. The lectures are designed to meet the needs and interests of participants with diverse background â€" materials science, physics, chemistry, geology and biology. The participation in the school is granted with one ECTS credit point.

The program of the school comprises three days of lectures and tutorials and is structured as follows: each of the three days, a set of four lectures are given during each morning while the afternoon sessions are devoted to tutorials. The first day lectures are devoted to basic crystallography concepts and specifics of their application to electron diffraction. The second day lectures cover the structure solution methods and their use for structure analysis based on electron diffraction data. The third day lectures deal with specific crystallographic problems â€" lattice defects, modulated structures and poorly crystalline materials, seen by electron scattering. Tutorials will be given in small groups and interactive manner in order to encourage active discussions. A poster session gives students a possibility to present their research to the lecturers as well as to other participants.

As last but not least point it should be mentioned that active evening program facilitating free communication of students from different countries and also the lecturers should not be underestimated, and is in many cases a basis for fruitful scientific collaboration in the future.

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A one-week "Summer School on Methods and Applications of Neutron Spectroscopy” will be held from June 8 - June 12, 2015 at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). Â

For information about the summer school go to http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/summerschool/ss15/index.html.

We are pleased to announce the second International Summer School of Crystallography at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at DESY, Hamburg (D). Prof. Carmelo Giacovazzo will lecture on the basics of crystallography, covering mathematical understanding of crystallographic point and space groups, diffraction experiments, structure factor calculations, systematic absences, determination of space groups, background of phasing for structure determination of biomolecules and many additional topics. Participants will also learn modern applications and instrumentation of protein crystallography experiments at advanced light sources, such as 3rd generation synchrotron and XFELs.

Speakers:

Prof. Carmelo Giacovazzo (University of Bari),

Prof. Henry Chapman (CFEL / DESY, University of Hamburg),

Prof. Arwen Pearson (CUI, University of Hamburg),

Dr Thomas Schneider (EMBL), Dr. Gleb Bourenkov (EMBL),

Dr Adrian Mancuso (European X-FEL),

Dr Thomas White (CFEL / DESY)

The summer school program is geared for PhD students working in the field of crystallography, but exceptions for motivated PostDocs and MSc students can be made. The course will mostly cover mathematical background of crystallography, hence we are looking for students, having a (bio)physics background. This will NOT be a workshop covering protein crystallographic programs but rather will be theory oriented.

Besides the lessons there will be guided tours of PETRAIII/European XFEL, a BBQ and a harbor boat trip scheduled.

Accepted applicants will be asked to pay a registration fee of approx. 100 EUR (includes coffee breaks and lunch). In addition, participants will have to pay for their own travel expenses, accommodation will cost 70 EUR at the DESY Guest House (the rest will be covered by the school budget).

The application deadline is on the 15th of March, 2015. Notification of accepted applicants will be sent end of March. Places and accommodation are limited to 30 students in total.

The application is as simple as follows:

Applicants must provide a motivation letter, as well as, a CV, directly to the organizer Cornelius Gati (cornelius.gati@desy.de).

The aim of this School is to provide a comprehensive foundation for researchers in the field of soft matter, liquids and complex fluids

The lectures will introduce key topics of current interest together with the theoretical, experimental and computer simulation approaches used to address them. The School is directed towards postgraduate students from a wide range of backgrounds including physics, chemistry, chemical engineering and biophysics.

The school will start with a welcome reception early evening on Sunday 12 April and finish with lunch on Thursday 16 April. There will be lectures on Liquid Crystals, Polymer Physics, Biophysics and Neutron Scattering & Disordered materials.

The CSSB Spring School will provide an introduction to advanced biophysical approaches for Structural Systems Biology.Â

• Courses in sample preparation and analysis, advanced microscopy, single particle analysis, structure determination at atomic resolution and modeling of structure and dynamic of complexes.
• It will allow young researchers (experienced students, PhD students and postdocs) to view challenging problems from interdisciplinary scientific topics like Infection Biology from various methodical angles. Â

8th annual CCP4 USA Crystallography School

The first two days will be dedicated to data collection and processing. The rest of the school will focus on structure solution, refinement and validation.

The course is intended mainly for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young scientists in the area of structural biology from all across the globe. The school is not meant as an introductory level course to protein crystallography. It is designed more for applicants with reasonable expertise in crystallography and experience with the CCP4 suite. The purpose of the school is to address specific problems that the applicants face while collecting diffraction data and while solving and refining novel structures. Applicants with crystals for data collection or with already collected data will be given strong consideration, although these are not mandatory requirements.

Several of the leading PX software developers from around the world will present lectures and tutorials on their software and will also be available to help with problems during hands-on sessions of the school.

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The aim of the School is to bring together experts and young scientists interested in exploiting the anomalous signal from light atoms (e.g. S, P, Ca, K, Mg) native to the protein or crystal for macromolecular structure determination using soft (wavelengths > 1.5Ã...) X-rays in order to help train the next generation of scientists in this maturing field. The 5th Winter School on Soft X-rays in Macromolecular Crystallography is a continuation of similar workshops held in Europe since 2003 as indicated:

1st Winter School:Â Bressanone/Brixen, Italy; Feb. 25-27, 2003

2nd Winter School: Seefeld, Austria; March 22-25, 2006

3rd Winter School:Â Berlin, Germany; February 18-20, 2009

4th Winter School:Â Grenoble, France, February 6-8, 2012

Topics Covered

Source/Beamline Considerations These lectures and Case Studies will cover the optimization of the experiment setup in terms of the hardware, choice of wavelength and other source specific parameters.

Data Collection Strategies This lecture will cover techniques and problems associated with collecting sulfur-SAD data including crystal centering, data collection setup and methods used to increase the anomalous scattering signal to noise ratio in the data. The lecture will highlight common areas where problems can occur and suggest how best to eliminate them.

Data Reduction Theory and Strategies These lectures and Case Studies will focus on the data reduction process (indexing, integration and scaling) using several popular data reduction programs as examples, highlighting critical program input parameters and program output. The lecture will highlight common areas where problems can occur and suggest how best to eliminate them. New methods such as Multi-Crystal and Single Crystal Multi-dataset averaging will be described.

Anomalous Substructure Determination & Phasing This lecture and Case Study will describe the use of SHELXCDE [9] and HKL2MAP to determine the anomalous scattering substructure, the correct handedness of the anomalous scattering substructure, the generation of initial protein phases and interpreting the quality of the resulting electron density map.

This International School will focus on the fundamentals of crystallization from solution and its applications to the field of the crystallization of biological macromolecules.

ISBC2015 will provide five days of lectures and practical demonstrations related to the crystallization of biological macromolecules, biominerals and biomimetic materials, with one full day devoted to case studies on the crystallization of membrane proteins, viruses and large macromolecular complexes

We invite students from all over the world to join us to learn from selected international experts, to hear case study presentations, to watch practical hand-on demonstrations, to participate in round-table discussions and to present their research results in the dedicated poster sessions.

The language of the School will be English.

The School will be held from the 24th to the 29th of May 2015 at Hotel San Antón in Granada (Spain).

Topics of the School

ISBC Granada 2015 will focus on the fundamentals of crystallization from solution and its applications for the crystallization of biological materials.

• Nucleation: Classical and non-classical approaches
• Crystal growth kinetics and mechanisms
• Properties of macromolecular solutions relevant to crystallization
• Screening: Searching for crystallization conditions
• Crystallization techniques: Batch, Vapour and Counter Diffusion, How do they work?
• Crystallization and diffusion transport: gels, microfluidics and microgravity
• Crystallization of large crystals for Neutron diffraction and tiny crystals for XFEL
• Polymorphism in protein crystals
• Robotics and crystallization
• Membrane Protein Crystallization: case studies
  
• Lipid cubic phase, bicelles and detergents
• Crystallization of Large Macromolecular Complexes:
• In vitro and in vivo studies of Biomineralisation processes

The 3rd School on Crystal Structure Determination from Diffraction Data Application on Powder samples is organised by The “Association tunisienne des matériaux et de l’environnement” and the “Unité de recherche de Chimie des Materiaux et de l’Environment”, Université de Tunis El Manar -Tunisia in collaboration with The Department of Structure Analysis, Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, The « Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes » (UMR 6226, CNRS - Université Rennes 1) and The DICAM Department at the University of Trento.

The number of participants will be limited to about 60 to ensure a convivial atmosphere, and the possibility to share dinners between all participants. The school will bring together specialists from the various sub-fields of crystallography and materials sciences with the aim to raise mutual interest and to teach under- and postgraduate students, young post-docs as well as senior scientists interested to be introduced to determination of crystal structure from powder diffraction data.

This school introduces the theory of powder diffraction and the methods available for crystal structure determination and for microstructure analysis from powder diffraction data (indexing, space group determination, structural and microstructural refinement techniques).

One unique aspect of this school will be the extensive use of computer programs during hands-on sessions dedicated to educational exercises.

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The Scientific advisory committee of the CS3D school is composed of: Prof. R. BEN HASSEN (Tunisia), Prof. V. PETRICEK (Czech Rep.), Prof. A. BEN SALAH (Tunisia), Prof. A. KABADOU, Dr T. ROISNEL (France), Dr. M. AMAMI, Dr M. PASTUREL (France), Prof. M. LEONI (Italy), Dr. Jan ROHLICEK (Czech Rep.).

The Organizers: Prof. R. BEN HASSEN, Prof. T. BEN AYED, Dr S. CHERIF, Dr M. AMAMI, Dr G. LASSOUAD, Dr H. CHAKER, Dr B. BELGACEM, Dr S. OUNI, Dr A. GHOUILI, Dr. L. BEN FARHAT.

The continuously growing interest in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (inducing the European Commission to consider them Key Enabling Technologie) well merges the new challenges they are able to foster, through the design of novel engineered nanomaterials, their structural aspects and multifunctional applications at a multiple scale, and the need for the development of highly focused, advanced physico-chemical characterization tools. The complexity of state-of-art nano-objects requires the synergistic collaborations of all actors differently contributing to the appealing Nanoworld.
To.Sca.Lake aims at stimulating such a synergy by inviting chemists, physicists, material scientists, biologists, mineralogists and all the interested scientists, from the Academia and the Industry, to join in the fascinating context of Villa del Grumello, a superb location overlooking the Como Lake. This workshop is mainly intended to draw the attention of the “nano” community towards the potentiality of Scattering Methods, spanning from Small and Wide Angle X-ray (SAXS and WAXS) to Low and Wide Angle Light Scattering (LALS and WALS) Techniques. Particular emphasis will be given to innovative Wide Angle X-ray Total Scattering (WAXTS) methods, in the form of the Debye Function Analysis of nanomaterials proposed in the DebUsSy Suite of Program. Theoretical lessons will be dedicated to fundamentals, experimental and computational aspects of the methods, and will illustrate advanced cases of application in strategic fields. Demos and hands-on sessions will constituite a relevant portion of the whole program.
Participation will be limited to a maximum number of 40 attendees on the basis on “first come first served” criterion.

Monday Afternoon:
* Hans-Beat Bürgi (University of Bern, Switzerland)
    The Origin of Diffuse Scattering, Single Crystal Approaches (1.5 h)
* Norberto Masciocchi (University of Insubria, Como, Italy):
    Basics of Powder Diffraction and Non-Bragg Scattering (1 h)
* Antonio Cervellino (Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, CH ):
    Physics of X-ray Scattering and the Debye Equation (1 h)
Tuesday Morning:
* Ruggero Frison (ETH Zurich, Switzerland):
    Data Collection Procedures, Instrumental Requirements, Data Reduction Analysis (1 h)
* Antonietta Guagliardi (IC-CNR, Como, Italy):
    The Debussy Approach (Debye Function Analysis) (1 h)
* Maksym Kovalenko (ETH Zurich, Switzerland):
    Inorganic Nanomaterials, Synthesis, Characterization and Applications (1.5 h)
Tuesday Afternoon:
* Hands-on Session on Data Reduction and Database Generation (3 h)
Wednesday Morning:
* Nora Ventosa (CSIC-ICMAB Barcelona, Spain):
    Nanovesicle-based materials: synthesis, characterization and applications (1.5 h)
* Antonietta Guagliardi (IC-CNR, Como, Italy):
    Applications of the Debye Function Analysis (1 h)
* Jan Skov Pedersen (University of Aarhus, Denmark):
    Basics of Small Angle X-ray Scattering, SAXS (1 h)
Wednesday Afternoon:
* Hands-on Session on Model Simulation and Refinement by Debussy 2.0 (3 h)
Thursday Morning:
* Fabio Ferri (University of Insubria, Como, Italy):
    Basics of Light Scattering and Applications (1.5 h)
* Jan Skov Pedersen (University of Aarhus, Denmark):
    Applications and Demo on SAXS Data Analysis (2 h)

The 11th LANSCE School on Neutron Scattering: Materials at the Mesoscale, will focus on the influence of surfaces, interfaces, meso- and micro-structure on the functionality of materials. The nine day school will provide an overview and training, through hands-on exercises, of concepts, instrumentation, measuring techniques and data analysis in neutron scattering. Techniques such as: neutron diffraction, small angle neutron scattering, local structure determination, neutron reflectometry together with scanning electron microscopy will be covered.

We draw your attention to the 7th ILL Annual School on Neutron Diffraction Data Treatment using the FULLPROF suite, to be held in Grenoble at the Institute Laue-Langevin from 2 to 6 March 2015

We invite you to visit our website http://www.ill.eu/FPSchool2015/ for more information (applications can be submitted starting from 1^st November 2014).

School aims and scope

The international school aims at providing a thorough background in physical and chemical surface characterization, based on methods and instruments, to interested PhD students, post-docs and scientists working at European and non-European universities and laboratories. The school will cover the different aspects of surface analysis and appropriate analytical techniques in detail, from the most conventional (Raman spectroscopy, AFM/STM, IBA) to the most innovative requiring Synchrotron X-ray (X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray microscopy, X-ray diffraction/scattering). The complementarity between laboratory and X-ray based techniques will be presented.

Plenary lectures and tutorials are given by specialists of materials science, solid state-physics, physico-chemical interface from CEA, Synchrotron SOLEIL and Paris Sud University. A substantial part of the programme is devoted to practical sessions carried out on cutting edge instruments, at the facilities of partner institutes and laboratories. In addition, a practical exercise on how to prepare a successful beam time proposal is given, as well as a poster session and a tour of SOLEIL. Examples presented during the lectures cover the variety of existing applications to physics and chemistry of condensed matter.

The attendees will be able to discuss their own projects with the speakers and other participants.