The school aims to provide advanced training of neutron, X-ray, and light scattering experiments for young post-graduates and post-doctors in the field of soft matter science. A primary focus will be on the methodology of static and dynamic scattering techniques and provide information on data interpretation and recent applications and developments.

Registration for the school is now open, with a deadline of 21st February 2018.

https://indico.ill.fr/indico/event/86/page/5

The school is limited to 35 students. There is an estimated participation fee of 850 euros, which includes the cost of accommodation with full board and additional recreational activities.

The American Crystallographic Association is excited to announce the 68th Annual Meeting to be held from July 20 to 24, 2018 in beautiful downtown Toronto, Canada.

The conference will take place at the Sheraton City Centre Hotel and will offer many opportunities to network, learn and collaborate with fellow scientists, students and professionals.Â

Join your fellow colleagues for the Opening Reception featuring keynote speaker John Polanyi, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, visit the expansive Exhibit Show and stay to attend the Closing Banquet.

There will be special sessions this year dedicated to remembering our colleagues Dick Marsh and Philip Coppens. The Transactions Symposium will feature the topic "Shining a Light on Structure-Based Drug Design" and there will be a special session on Crystallization on the International Space Station.

The ACA's Annual Meeting presents a wonderful opportunity for students and young scientists to network and integrate into the crystallographic community and will feature a 3-Minute Thesis session, a Networking Mixer and a Career Development session.

Before the Opening of the 23rd Meeting, from 05 to 07 September there will be a Workshop on Applications of Crystallography in Engineering.

The school provides neutron and muon beam research training for newcomers to the technique from a variety of backgrounds. In addition to lectures, the course provides practical sessions of hands-on experiments and data analysis. The school has a registration fee of JPY 30,000 - this fee includes a room charge and full board throughout the entirety of the school course. Financial support is available for participants travelling from developing countries.

For more information, and registration links, please visit:

http://www.cross-tokai.jp/9thAONSAschool/about.html

Registration deadline: 30th July 2017Â

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This school will focus on the basics of of crystalline structure determination, by use of X-ray diffraction, and on the relevant refinement and analysis methods used in such determination.

The primary languages of the school are both English and French.

Registration deadline: 10th June 2017.

For more information and registration, visit:

http://crm2.univ-lorraine.fr/lab/fr/education/congres/nancy2017/informations-generales/

Seminars

During the first days of your stay, a series of introductory lectures will make you familiar with the basic principles of neutrons and x-rays :

• Fundamental principles
• Techniques used for their production (nuclear reactor, synchrotron)
• Instrumentation and measurement techniques
• Interaction with matter

 Further on during your stay, various scientists from the ILL and the ESRF will give you insight into some more specific aspects of the application of neutrons and x-rays in a number different scientific fields, such as:

• Diffraction and structure of materials
• Imaging
• Nuclear and particle phyiscs
• Structural biology
• Magnetism
• Spectroscopy and inelastic scattering
• Soft matter studies
• and other examples of today's scientific questions

 In general, the content and the difficulty of the presentations will be adapted such that they are accessible for a third-year student who is interested in these subjects.

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Project work

During a large portion of your time you will work on an individual scientific project, embedded in one of the research groups at the ILL or ESRF. You will be tutored by one or several scientists of the institutes, with whom you will work together and who will ensure assistance and any other help you may need.

These projects are proposed by our research groups and are typically closely related to their actual scientific activities. They are therefore quite diverse and may be from any possible field on which the members of our institutes are working. We will try to match the subjects with your personal interests if you mention them to us and if it is possible; it may also be the occasion for you to discover a field which is completely new to you.

At the end of your stay, a seminar will be organized in which all participants give a short presentation of the results they have obtained.

 And also…

In addition to the series of lectures and your work on a project with one of our research groups, some activities will be organized in the evenings or on weekends, like excursions into town or into the mountains which are surrounding Grenoble.

Join Dr Paul Fewster, former Head of Research at PANalytical and
Co-editor for IUCr Journals to find out more. This event will take place
on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM BST, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CEST,
11:00 AM - 12:00 midday EDT, 8:00 AM - 9.00 AM PDT

The theory of X-ray diffraction from crystals has been established for
over 100 years; although it is still used, it cannot account for some of
the experimental data. The theory combined with measured data can
sometimes lead to the wrong structural model. In this webinar you will
hear about a new theory that includes the diffraction from crystals in
all directions, which explains the diffraction from polycrystalline
materials and the data collected in serial crystallography without the
need for complex structural requirements.

The webinar will be followed by a Q+A session, where you can quiz Paul
directly.

Register here to reserve your place.

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4267568948471460099

If you have any questions, please contact Dr Jonathan Agbenyega,
ja@iucr.org

The programme traditionally includes wide scope of modern crystallography and structure analysis and the 12th student symposium.
Main topics -experimental methods (X-ray sources, detectors, X-ray optics, diffractometers, techniques).

The scientific programme will start on Thursday, June 15th and will finish on Saturday, June 17th.

There is no registration fee and we hope to meet you all in the beautiful city of Ljubljana.
Please register as soon as possible (no later than May 15th) using the Registration form
by sending it to slocro25@fkkt.uni-lj.si.
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We also expect your abstracts not later May 15th. Please use the template and send it to the e-mail address, given above.
The late or incomplete applications will not be taken into account.
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During the meeting, the Olex2 workshop will be organized for a limited number of participants. The workshop's participants will be selected by taking into account the arrival dates of their applications.
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Because the faculty is not very close to the city center where most hotels are located and also due to the tight schedule of the meeting, we suggest the participants to have lunch at the faculty restaurant (reduced price is offered to the SCCM25 participants. The Saturday lunch will be paid by the organizers. So please let us know if you are interested in having a free lunch.
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During the meeting (on Friday afternoon), the conference trip to explore Ljubljana and the conference dinner will also be organized.
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Participants are expected to arrange the accommodation by themselves.

This is the third and final Workshop organised by the Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group (DDDWG), appointed by the IUCr Executive Committee to define the need for and practicalities of routine deposition of primary experimental data in X-ray diffraction and related experiments. It will take the form of a full-day workshop at the 2017 American Crystallographic Association Meeting with lectures from crystallographic practitioners, data management specialists and standards maintainers.

Objective: This workshop has two plenary sessions:

• What every experimentalist needs to know about recording essential metadata of primary (raw) diffraction data
  This will include: sample preparation and characterization; correct recording of instrument axes, correction factors, calibration - instrument manufacturers; attention to diffuse scattering or other interesting "metadata".
• Research Data Management policy mandates and requirements on Principal Investigators (PIs)
  This will include metadata standardization; data repositories; primary data linking to publications.

There will also be an optional technical session:

• High-data-rate/high-performance-computing issues of research data management for MX
  For synchrotron- and XFEL-based macromolecular crystallography (MX), high source brightness and the new generation of pixel array detectors raise big-data, high-performance-computing and high-performance-networking issues in research data management. There will be an optional early evening sub-session of the Research Data Management workshop to discuss the high-data-rate/high-performance-computing issues of research data management for MX that will include discussion of appropriate hardware choices and programming techniques that are useful in this context. All registrants for the Research Data Management workshop are welcome to attend this workshop sub-session.

The conference will be dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Â A special session of the conference will also be dedicated to correlation Fourier diffractometry, marking the 25th anniversary of the start of operation of the Fourier diffractometer at the IBR-2 pulsed neutron reactor.

Online registration and abstract submission must be completed before 30th June 2017.

 The third annual “Modern Methods in Rietveld Refinement for Structural Analysis” school will be held from June 18th-23th, 2017, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in close partnership with the Shull-Wollan Center Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences (University of Tennessee and ORNL) and Bruker-AXS.Â

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The primary goal of this school is to teach participants Rietveld refinement and other methods for evaluating crystal structures from powder diffraction data with an emphasis on data collected on US national user facility beamlines optimised for structural analysis such as the 11-BM, 17-BM, and 11-ID-B synchrotron beamlines at the APS of Argonne National Laboratory, the POWGEN and NOMAD time-of-flight neutron diffraction beamlines at the SNS of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the XPD synchrotron beamline at the NSLS-II of BNL.  This course will emphasise traditional solid state compounds (non-molecular), and will use the TOPAS software as the platform for Rietveld refinement (complementary trial license will be provided to participants). Â

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There will be a special secondary emphasis this year on the complementary use of pair distribution function (PDF) data to carry out small-box refinements for average unit cells, highlighting the new functionality of the TOPAS software to carry out both Rietveld and PDF refinements. Both NOMAD (neutron PDF) and 11-ID-B (synchrotron PDF) beamline scientists will be present as instructors at the course, and there will be an opportunity for participants to have data suitable for both Rietveld and PDF refinement collected on their own sample at both synchrotron and neutron beamlines.

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While this course is open to all applicants, priority will be given to Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers from North American institutions.  Completed applications should be received by March 31, 2017, although later applications may still be considered.