â- Â General Session (Fundamentals & Growth Technologies)

G01Â Fundamentals of Nucleation and Crystal Growth
G02Â Surfaces and Interfaces
G03Â Nanomaterials and Low Dimensional Structures
G04Â Thin Films and Epitaxial Growth
G05Â Organic and Biological Crystallization
G06Â Bulk Crystal Growth
G07Â Crystalline Defects
G08Â Advanced Growth Technologies
G09Â In situ Observation and Characterization
G10Â External Fields, Microgravity
G11Â Industrial Crystallization

â- Â Topical Session (Materials & Applications)

T01Â III-V Semiconductors
T02Â Group IV Semiconductors
T03Â 2D Materials
T04Â II-VI and Oxide Materials
T05Â Materials for Spintronics
T06Â Materials for Optical Devices
T07Â Materials for Electron Devices
T08Â Materials for Organic Devices and Bio Applications
T09Â Nitride Semiconductors
T10Â Silicon Carbide
T11Â Late News Session

â- Â Joint Session - examples -

Scope of ISSCG-16

Researchers who are playing active roles in frontiers of wide-ranging fields of crystal growth will give lectures on a wide array of topics ranging from instructive topics to the latest topics. Students will therefore have an opportunity to systematically learn about crystal growth from its fundamentals to its applications. All of the lecturers and students will stay in the same lodging for six days. The friendly and at-home atmosphere will be a valuable opportunity for both lecturers and students.

The summer school is run in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy.

Ape­ri­od­ic crys­tals are long range or­dered struc­tures which lack trans­la­tion­al in­vari­ance. They are found in a large va­ri­ety of sys­tems (min­er­als, or­gan­ic com­pounds, sin­gle el­e­ment un­der pres­sure, ox­ides, fer­ro-electrics, in­ter­metal­lic com­pounds) and en­com­pass in­com­men­su­rate­ly mod­u­lat­ed struc­tures, in­com­men­su­rate com­pos­ites and qua­sicrys­tals.

The struc­ture de­ter­mi­na­tion of ape­ri­od­ic crys­tals and the in­flu­ence of the ape­ri­od­ic or­der on their phys­i­cal prop­er­ties have made tremen­dous progress in re­cent years. How­ev­er the high di­men­sion­al de­scrip­tion and su­per­space ap­proach used to de­scribe the atom­ic struc­ture of ape­ri­od­ic crys­tal re­mains dif­fi­cult to grasp for the non-spe­cial­ist.

In this school the basics of the analysis of aperiodic crystals will be explained for a non-specialist tar­get­ au­di­ence, i.e. Phd stu­dents or ex­pe­ri­enced sci­en­tists work­ing in the field of crys­tal­log­ra­phy, chem­istry, ma­te­ri­al sci­ence or sol­id state physic and will­ing to have a ba­sic un­der­stand­ing of ape­ri­od­ic crys­tals.

This is a joint Antwerp Summer University School and C-MAC Euroschool.

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MXIS training course is dedicated to in situ protein crystallography. This 3-day workshop will include full lectures at the IBS and practical sessions at the ESRF, on beamlines FIP-BM30A and BM14. Full classes will be done in day 1 while practical sessions will be organized in subgroups that will be rotating from day 2 to day 3 (topics: ligand coating, crystallogenesis, in situ diffraction for crystal screening and structure resolution, in situ data processing). Possibility will be given to participants to practice on their own samples.

XXIII Users' Meeting.

 The ultimate aspiration of biology is to provide a comprehensive picture, over time and space, of the myriad of relationships between molecular structure, function and organization within bio-systems with increasing complexity level, ranging from single molecules to cells. Towards this aim, integrative approaches, which exploit state-of-the-art nano and sub-nano scale spatial resolution and unprecedented chemical sensitivity and selectivity, are required. The goal of this thematic workshop is to bring together biophysicists and biologists with scientists involved in the development of cutting-edge synchrotron-based and state-of-the art benchtop microscopies. The need for integrating the cluster of multidisciplinary synchrotron radiation based techniques with the newest laboratory approaches will be emphasized, focusing on their synergic interplay in the context of life-science.

Membrane Protein Expression/Purification

Free electron laser crystallography

Electron Microscopy

Simulations and ion channel function

Ion Channels

GPCRs

Pumps and ATPases

ABC Transporters

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COSPAR, the International Union of Crystallography and the International Astronomical Union are proud to announce the first International School/Workshop on Crystallography for Space Sciences.

The aim of the School/Workshop is to prepare a selected number of participants for the next generation of projects in search of a deeper knowledge and understanding of extraterrestrial minerals and rocks, either large solid bodies or interstellar dust particles, using in-situ and remote analytical techniques.

The workshop is intended to instruct about 30 PhD students, postdocs and young staff members in modern crystallographic techniques in the fields of diffraction, imaging, spectroscopy and remote sensing. They will also learn the formation of mineral growth patterns in the early Earth, our Moon, Mars and other planets and moons, meteorites and interstellar dust, as well as relevance of crystals with origin of life and detection of primitive life forms. During the workshop, the students will analyze and discuss data from the mission Discovery and Curiosity as well as the forthcoming Exomars mission. Portable difractometers and spectrophotometers designed for these missions will be used during field trips for remote analysis of volcanic rocks.

1. X-ray diffraction. Fundamentals and applications to space crystallography

2. Powder Diffraction: Sample preparation, data collection and analysis

3. Advanced X-ray diffraction techniques and portable diffractometers

4. Spectroscopic Methods. Fundamental and applications to space crystallography

5. Raman, Infrared and Mössbauer spectroscopy

6. Study cases: Meteorites, Lunar rocks, Interstellar dust, Mars mineralogy, etc

7. The use of portable infrared and Raman spectrophotometers

8. Minerals in space: Meteorites, Interstellar dust, Comets, Moon and Mars, etc...

9. Crystallization in space

10. Minerals and the origin of Life

BSR is a unique forum to discuss the novel possibilities of synchrotrons and X-ray lasers and to promote their applications to challenging biological problems.

This meeting provides a forum for scientists involved in research and development on synchrotron and free electron laser sources to come together with a broad community of biologists, with the ambition to make the best use of the most advanced infrastructures in structural biology. Possible applications range from atomic-resolution and time-resolved structures of biological macromolecules, medium resolution images of the largest molecular complexes in the living word, and cellular and sub-cellular structures.

Scientists at all possible career levels are invited to this meeting â€" ranging from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and principal investigators both from academia and industry. There will be ample opportunities for individual presentations.

Featuring five parallel workshops representing a wide range of research interests, the Diamond Synchrotron Radiation User Meeting offers opportunities to hear about the latest in synchrotron research and technique developments, along with the chance to network with colleagues from Diamond and the synchrotron user community.

Workshops
• Current Issues in Energy Research
• MX and Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS)
• PDF Analysis: The Local Point of View of Materials Development
• Soft X-ray Full-field Imaging and Scanning Microscopy
• Transition Metal Oxides, Superconductivity and Interfaces

This year's edition will be a joint MX and Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) workshop.

Day one will have updates from the MX and SAXS beamlines on capabilities, software and access. Day two will have a number of user talks highlighting the use and development of SAXS and MX data to address challenging scientific questions. The second day will also include a user discussion session.