Fundamentals of X-ray Powder Diffraction is directed to both relative newcomers in the field and to more experienced users wishing to broaden their understanding of fundamental concepts and established procedures. The major emphases of Fundamentals of X-ray Powder Diffraction are the acquisition of reliable experimental data and qualitative phase identification using both manual and automated search techniques.

Applications are now open for the Instruct Theoretical and Practical Course: Integrative Structural Biology in Latin America, from 23 â€" 27 November 2020. This remote course, which is open to Latin American graduate students and postdocs, will cover a broad range of structural biology techniques, including X-ray crystallography, X-ray scattering, NMR and electron microscopy, with a focus on current strategies used to integrate the information gathered from different techniques.

The course consists of two parts: a series of lectures, combined with the opportunity to take part in neutron scattering experiments. The lectures encompass an introduction to neutron sources, along with scattering theory and instrumentation. Furthermore, selected topics of condensed matter research are be presented.

• Interaction of photons, neutrons and muons with matter
• Production of photons, neutrons and muons
• Experimental setups: optics and detectors
• Crystal symmetry, Bragg's law, reciprocal lattice, structure factors
• Elastic and inelastic scattering with neutrons and photons
• X-ray absorption spectroscopy, x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
• Polarized neutron scattering for the study of magnetic materials
• Imaging techniques using x-rays and neutrons
• Introduction to muon spin rotation
• Applications of muon spin rotation
  

This workshop is aimed at PhD students, post-doctoral fellows and any researchers or engineers involved in the field of bio-crystallography.Â

The workshop will contain lecture classes and hands-on experimental sessions, which will include time for the collection and processing of X-ray diffraction data collected on the Proxima-1 and Proxima-2A beamlines at SOLEIL.

Participants are invited to attend a MOOC session, which is accessible here, prior to attending the workshop.

Registration is limited to 12 participants. Registration deadline: 31st January 2020.Â

Dear Friends and Colleagues

We are thrilled to announce that the 2020 ACA Summer Course in Chemical Crystallography, to be held at Purdue University on May 31^st to June 7^th, is now open for applications.

The ACA Summer Course in Chemical Crystallography is a week long program that is now well into its third decade of instruction here in the United States. The course is directed towards Single-Crystal Chemical Crystallography and Powder Diffraction techniques, as applicable to small molecule studies and is designed to instruct attendees in the theory and practice of these two aspects of crystallography. Mornings are full with lectures on the theory of the experiment and afternoons and early evenings are covering hands-on workshops.

More information can be found at https://acasummercourse.net/ or https://acasummercourse.net/application/. To submit your application, please visit the address https://acasummercourse.net/2020-application/

Please do not hesitate contacting us at info@acasummercourse.net with any questions you might have

For the organizers,

Matt Zeller, Purdue University

Christos Malliakas, Northwestern University

Charlotte Stern, Northwestern University

Allen Oliver, Notre Dame University

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The advanced course covers a wide range of topics including systematic errors, factors affecting intensities of

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The clinic covers instrumentation, specimen preparation, data acquisition and qualitative phase analysis

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The XRF course covers the basics of X-ray spectra; instrumentation design; methods of qualitative and

The meeting provides a review of state of the art profile fitting analyses using TOPAS, hosting a program of invited speakers. The major component is to demonstrate TOPAS's outstanding modeling methods and related applications in X-ray and neutron diffraction.

Fifth intensive HOW-TO course in BioSAX

Students will have two days of lectures and hands-on software tutorials on the
basics of BioSAXS data collection and processing from expert practitioners
in the field. This will be followed by data collection on the BioCAT
beamline (Sector 18 at the APS) and data analysis help. Students are
encouraged to bring 1-2 research samples for the data collection.

Also, for the first time ever, BioCAT is offering this course for remote
participants. Remote participants will get a live-stream of the lectures,
and all of the tutorial materials. They will not be able to collect data.

Registration for on-site participants is first come, first served, and limited to the
first 15 registrants due to time constraints on how many users can collect
data during the course.

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Major topics covered includeÂ

• Single particle cryoEM (theory, hands-on specimen preparation, insight into data collection and hands-on image processing practicals).
  
• Cellular tomography (Both theory and sub tomogram averaging practicals) and
  
• Talks on MicroED - 3D electron Crystallography and its application.Â

Speakers include 2017 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Professor Joachim Frank (Columbia University).