The European Crystallographic Computing Forum is a participant driven event. We encourage informal tutorials between participants. Participants can bring small software projects and work on them together with other participants in teams, being helped by the invited tutors and each other.

Mornings will be filled with plenary discussions and lectures on topics of general interest to computing in all disciplines of crystallography, afternoons and evenings will be run code-camp style, intersparsed with tutorials as needed.

The course aims to cover the theoretical and practical aspects of protein
crystallography from protein expression and purification, through crystal
growth to data collection on in-house and synchrotron sources, phasing
methods, automated model building and phase extension, refinement, and
validation. Hands-on sessions in data processing (XIA2, DIALS), molecular
replacement, MAD/SAD phasing, refinement and electron density map
interpretation (in COOT) will be included.

The School is intended for postgraduates or postdocs new to
crystallography. The week is very intensive, and gives a concentrated
overview of the methods which many find useful.

As in the past, priority is given to UK applicants because of the funding
arrangements, but is open to a limited number of overseas applicants.

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The Nordic Neutron Science Program (NNSP) and SwedNess are proud to announce the 3rd Nordic-Baltic School in Neutron Scattering. The event will take place this year in the Estonian university town of Tartu, 9th-20th September 2019. The school is primarly for PhD students early in the their studies, but M.Sc. students can apply as well.

On 7th and 8th September, the school will be preceded with a crash course on the necessary Mathematics (complex numbers, Fourier transforms etc.) and Physics for students from non-Physics backgrounds.Â

The cost for participation, accommodation and travel is free for students from Nordic countries. The school is funded by Nordforsk and the Swedish Strategic Research Council (SSF).Â

Registration deadline: 2nd August 2019

The school aims to contribute to the training of scientists in treatment of X-ray and neutron diffraction data. The school is based on intensive hands-on sessions using the computer programs of the FullProf Suite.

The lectures and tutorials will provide the essential tools necessary for an efficient use of the FullProf Suite at an intermediate level.

PhD students and experienced scientists with a basic knowledge of diffraction techniques and crystallography are encouraged to apply.

Registration deadline: 31st July 2019

AICS2019 offers an intensive course in Crystallographic Information, covering the extraction, dissemination and use of scientific knowledge from the structure determination experiment to database-driven discovery. This school will emphasise to students the need to collect the most complete and meaningful raw data, extract the most reliable information they can, critically review the structural model they have derived, and disseminate that information in a complete and verifiable manner through the twin channels of scientific publication and curated database deposition.

The 25th Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS) Summer School on Methods and Applications of Neutron Spectroscopy will be devoted to methods and application of neutron spectroscopy. Neutron reflectometry and small angle scattering techniques will not be covered in this edition of the school.

Participants will have the opportunity of using three of the following 5 neutron instruments: disk chopper spectrometer, backscattering spectrometer, spin echo spectrometer, BT7 double focusing thermal triple-axis spectrometer and the multi-axis crystal spectrometer.

The course is targeted at those with little or no previous experience with neutron spectroscopy methods, and will consist of introductory lectures and training in scattering techniques.Â

Attendance is limited to 35 participants and to those affiliated with US universities and US industry. Â

The first day of the Association of Crystallography of Aix-Marseille (ACAM) 2019 meeting will be devoted to the teaching of crystallography. There will also be an opportunity to discuss current or future projects.

Registration for the event is free: please use the survey link below to register for the event. Registration deadline: 23rd May 2019 A detailed program will be made available by the end of April to all those who have registered their interest.

The targeted audience for this school is a non-specialist one: PhD students, young or experienced scientists working in the field of crystallography, chemistry, material science or solid state physics who want to have a basic understanding of aperiodic crystals are encouraged to apply.

The number of participants is limited to 40. Tutorials in small groups will be organised in order to practice the content learned in the lecture courses.Â

Registration deadline: 15th June 2019

Registration costs vary according to career stage of the applicants. The registration fees are all inclusive, and hence cover the cost of accommodation and meals for the entirety of the school. Please visit the school website for more information and the specific registration costs.

This workshop, which will be held at the University of the Basque Country, will contain lectures, tutorials and round tables for industry and scientific users. In addition, there will be a visit to the ESS Bilbao facility and also a neutron beam-time proposal writing exercise.

Registration deadline: 31st May 2019

It is a great pleasure for us to welcome you to the

First International School on Advanced Porous Materials (MOFSchool)

Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Covalent-organic Frameworks (COFs) are non-conventional porous materials based on the self-assembly of organic/inorganic and organic/organic prearranged synthons, respectively. The extensive library of synthons and synthetic conditions can lead to the formation of a wide variety of MOFs and COFs with functional properties â€" adsorption, separation, capture, heterogeneous catalysis, sensing, drug delivery, to quote a few â€" that outperform, in many aspects, those of classical porous materials.

This field of research is progressing very fast, evolving from an initial interest on the synthesis and characterization of these systems to the preparation of targeted advanced porous materials with exotic properties.

Advanced porous materials functional properties are of interest to the ever increasingly demanding technological sector. Consequently, unique products based on them are arriving (or will soon arrive) on the market. Yet, there is still a large playground for making new materials and/or improving the properties of existing ones.

The big question is: How can we do it??

The MOFSchool aims to provide you with tools to answer this question, by showing you how to rationally prepare, characterize, modify and shape MOFs and COFs into next-generation materials. In order to achieve this goal, we have gathered an impressive group of internationally recognized teachers, including Vladislav A. Blatov, Silvia Bordiga, Roland A. Fischer, Felipe Gándara, Rob Ameloot, Kirill A. Lomachenko, Jeffrey R. Long, Jorge A.R. Navarro, Davide M. Proserpio and Omar M. Yaghi”

The MOFSchool, jointly organized by the Universities of Insubria, Milano La Statale and Granada, has made a great effort to encourage participation of young, enthusiastic scientists from any corner of the world, for which we are gratefully indebted to our generous funders.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Villa del Grumello
and we are sure you will have a very fruitful and pleasant stay on the amazing shores of the Lake of Como!

Sincerely yours,

Valentina Colombo, Simona Galli and Jorge A.R. Navarro (School Directors)

The ISBC2019Â belongs to a series of International Crystallization Schools organized yearly every last week of May since 2006 in Granada. The whole series of ISC and ISBC is sponsored by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), The Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain, The University of Granada and the Specialized Group of Crystallography and Crystal Growth (GE3C) of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, and it is supported by the Working Party on Crystallization (WPC) of the European Federation of Chemical Engineers and the International Organization of Crystal Growth.

The school is designed for PhD students and early-stage researchers. Participants will learn how a biological problem can be tackled using an integrated approach, going from atomic resolution to whole organism level. The school also aims at showing how physics can help model biological processes. Several topics will be covered: cell and tissue morphogenesis, role of membranes at mesocopic and molecular scales, remodeling and transport processes, concepts and methods from physics applied to biology, state-of-the-art experimental approaches, links between cellular and structural biology.

UXSS is an annual event jointly organized by the Center for
Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) in Hamburg and the Stanford PULSE
Institute. UXSS is intended to introduce students and postdocs to the
latest science that is enabled by novel X-ray Free Electron Lasers. The
program will be highly interdisciplinary, with topics ranging from
materials physics to structural biology. The list of confirmed speakers
can be found below. There will also be a coursework exercise involving
a mock proposal for European XFEL, with the help of experienced mentors.

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The lectures cover the following topics:

• introduction to X-ray sources
• atomic and molecular physics
• condensed matter physics with X-rays
• theory of X-ray matter interaction
• structural biology
• matter in extreme conditions
• chemical dynamics
• coherent diffractive imaging
• inelastic X-ray scattering

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The 2019 Advanced School of the Italian Society of Neutron Scattering (SISN), will be held at the campus of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy. The School, co-organized by SISN and JRC, is addressed at PhD students, post-doctoral research associates and early-career scientists interested in the study of magnetic correlations in condensed matter systems.

The school is intended primarily for scientists, student and postdoctoral researchers, who are new to the field of neutron scattering. It provides an excellent introduction to the field, which is developed through to its application in contemporary research. Lectures and tutorials covering all aspects of the theory and practice of a variety of neutron scattering techniques will be given by international experts. Students will gain a comprehensive grounding in modern techniques and applications at both steady state and pulsed neutron sources and have the opportunity to hear about the latest research being carried out with the technique.

The school has its origins in 1966,as the first one of its kind, and many famous neutron practitioners have attended the schools of the past 50 years.