Lecture 33:Â "Dipolar group polarizability as a multipurpose tool for predicting molecular and bulk properties" by Anna Krawczuk (Univ. of Gottingen, Germany)

Lecture 34: "Reliable predictions of crystal structures entirely from quantum mechanics" by Krzysztof Szalewicz (Univ. of Delaware, Newark, USA)

Lecture 29: “Quantum crystallography for chemical bonding analysis" by Simon Grabowsky (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Lecture 30: “(Intermolecular) Covalent Interactions: A Quantitative Molecular Orbital Picture “ by F. Matthias Bickelhaupt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

The flagship of the European Crystallographic Association (ECA) activities is the European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM), held every year, except when there is an IUCr Congress. The ECMs are the main meeting point for crystallographers in the ECA area to show their recent research. Microsymposia at ECMs are proposed and organized by ECA SIGs.

ECM 34 will be organized at the Padova Congress Centre on behalf of ECA and AIC. It will include all topics of interest to crystallography and it will be organized in synergy with EPIDC 18, which will follow ECM 34 in the same location.

The Young Crystallographers are a working group within the German Society for Crystallography (DGK). For 10 years, we meet regularly in autumn at different universities or the STOE facilities.

These meetings specifically aim to provide a platform for networking and scientific exchange for young scientists with an interest in crystallography, as well as to establish contacts with industry and research institutions.
We want to give young scientists the opportunity to gain early experience in scientific presentation in a relaxed atmosphere and without the stress of a larger conference.

For our grand anniversary, we are happy to meet at the DESY facilities! We are working hard to allow you deep insights as well as a great overview of the possibilities at this large-scale facility.

During the 3-day meeting, you willÂ

• present your own work as a poster (A0 portrait) and lightning talk (~5 min.)
• have the DESY campus tour
• participate in an experiment and get a hands-on experience at a beamline of your choice at PETRA III (see The Experiments)
• hear academic talks from senior scientists
• hear industry talks from our sponsors/partners

At the end of the meeting, you will also have the chance to join a tour of the European XFEL Campus. If you intend to participate, please indicate so during registration. Note that you will need to get to the XFEL facilities by public transport as it is a bit outside the main DESY campus.

The registration fee of 60 € includes the tours and experiments at DESY, coffee breaks as well as lunch and BBQ on Thursday.

Deadline for registration is 22.08.23.

Lecture 27:  "Topological Analysis of the Electrostatic Potential in Molecular Systems" by Enrique Espinosa (Laboratoire de Cristallographie, Résonance Magnétique et Modélisations,  Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France)

 Lecture 28: "Breaking the Ice: Cryo-EM's Quest for Better Resolution and Quality" by Holger Stark (MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Goettingen, Germany)

The MLZ is delighted to host the Eighth European Conference on Neutron Scattering after successful events atÂ

• Interlaken 1996
• Budapest 1999
• Montpellier 2003
• Lund 2007
• Prag 2011Â
• Zaragoza 2015
• St. Petersburg 2019

The conference is organized on behalf of the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) and is one of the most important scientific events in the field of neutron research.Â

The conference will take place at the TUM Department of Mechanical Engineering and the new Science Congress Center Munich - both located in the immediate vicinity of the MLZ at Garching.Â

After a warm Welcome on March 19th, we are looking forward to four days of thrilling talks, pleasant posters, and decent discussions of the European neutron scattering community between March 20th and 23rd!Â

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May 19, 2022, 4:00 PM â€" 6:00 PM Warsaw time (Central European Time)

Lecture 10: Christian Jelsch (CNRS & Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France) : "Charge Density & Intermolecular Interactions"

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Lecture 11: Thomas Barend (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany): "Watching Molecules at Work with Free-Electron Lasers"

The lectures are free and open to everyone. Each lecture is expected to last maximum ca. 35min + up to 15min for Q&A. Just make sure to register so that you can attend.

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QENS 2020

Following the spirit of QENS Conferences since 1992, the main purpose of QENS 2020 is to cover the broad spectrum of scientific activities related with the investigation of material dynamics using quasi-elastic neutron scattering techniques (accessing both, frequency and time domains). QENS 2020 will offer a platform for discussion and exchange of scientific ideas among the experts in this field, and a general overview to newcomers about the capabilities of QENS in exploring atomic and molecular motions and relaxation processes of novel materials. As a novelty, this QENS Edition will explore and exploit the potential synergies between different methods (including experimental techniques and simulations, but always with QENS in the spotlight), in order to face diverse scientific challenges emerging in different research fields.

 The following scientific topics will be covered:

• Dynamics of liquids in different environments and under confinement
• Dynamics of polymers in bulk, blends, gels, membranes, films, composites etc. at different length scales
• Function/dynamics relation in biological and bio-related systems
• Role of dynamics in systems of medical relevance
• Transport mechanisms in energy-related materials
• Dynamical processes in soft matter, including liquid crystals, self-assembled materials, colloids, etc.
• Dynamics of novel materials for industrial applications
• Relaxation phenomena involved in the glass transition
• Lattice dynamics and Spin dynamics of magnetic systems

Complementarity with the following methods will be explored:

Experimental techniques:

• Spectroscopic and relaxation techniques like e. g., dielectric spectroscopy, NMR, rheology, calorimetry, etc
• Other scattering techniques providing dynamic and/or complementary structural information, like e.g., dynamic light scattering, Brillouin scattering, X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, diffraction, small angle scattering…

Simulations and Theory:

• Molecular Dynamics Simulations, including fully atomistic and coarse-grained models
• Monte-Carlo simulations
• DFT, Analytical methods, …

WINS 2020

WINS2020 --the 9th Workshop on Inelastic Neutron Spectrometersâ€" will cover innovative aspects of neutron instrument design. Progresses on new spectrometer projects will be presented. As in previous editions, the theme of “New idea, New concept, New design, New instrumentation for New sciences” will be followed. New developments in the application of polarization analysis, magnetic field, pressure, or improvements in sample environments for soft matter systems will be covered. Software for data acquisition, analysis and instrument simulation will be also part of the program. In analogy with the spirit of QENS 2020, the synergy with complementary methods â€"in this case mainly with advanced simulations and extensive Monte Carlo simulationsâ€"will be emphasized.

The workshop will consider:

• New ideas, new concepts and new designs for neutron spectrometers
• Novel devices, detectors and sample environments: polarization, magnetic field, pressure, soft matter environments
• Software for data acquisition and analysis
• Complementary computer methods for instrument simulation

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The program will include sessions devoted to

• the methodology of PDF and its applications
• the specialities of electron total scattering data collection, processing and interpretation
• present modern software for ePDF calculation
• refinement of ePDF data
• applications of Debye scattering techniques for electrons
• ePDF calculation from textured diffraction data

The 5th International Workshop "Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Exotic Spin Structures" (DMI-2019) will be held in Petrozavodsk as a satellite meeting of the European Conference on Neutron Scattering (ECNS-2019).

The objective of the workshop is to serve as a platform for discussion on the participants' recent research findings as well as an opportunity to review the recent progress, developments and advances in DMI and chiral magnetism.Â

Registration deadline: 5th May 2019Â

Following the success of the past editions (DESY 2016, Oxford 2013, Aussois 2011), the 4th international conference on Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering will be hosted outside Europe for the first time.

Topics will include:

• Electronic orderings, magnetism, interfacial phenomena, quantum materials, soft matter, phase transitions and inhomogeneity;
• Symmetry, topology, artificial structures, reduced dimensionality, structure and dynamics;
• Coherence, imaging, nanodiffraction, reflectivity, polarization and energy analysis (REXS in RIXS);
• Instrumentation development, multimodality, diffraction limited sources and XFELs;
• Theory and simulation, modeling and data analysis.

Topics range from instrumental advances and new methods in polarized neutron diffraction, X-ray magnetic diffraction (XMD), Compton scattering, time-resolved crystallography, Bader’s Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules (QTAIM) and more generally quantum chemical topological (QCT) approaches, with an emphasis on emerging fields such crystals under extreme external conditions of pressure and applied external fields including intense laser field. The conference will touch upon applications of crystallographic and quantum chemical research in material, drug design, and crystal engineering.