Biomolecular topics include:

X-ray Crystallography
Cryo-EM
X-ray tomography
Cryo -ET
X-ray free electron lasers

Please submit abstracts to pxk258@case.edu (Deadline September 14, 2018)

Conference Registration (Deadline August 27, 2018)

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Diego Lamas (Argentina) and Miguel Delgado (Venezuela) will be the Instructors.

This meeting aims to bring together scientists from a wide range of fields who utilise analytical technoques which require X-rays, including diffraction, scattering, tomography, imaging, reflectometry, X-ray fluorescence and X-ray spectroscopy. Researchers in these fields are encouraged to attend and share their work with the community and discuss the future of the study of matter using X-rays. Suppliers of scientific instrumentation will be exhibiting and demonstrating their equipment at the event.

The primary language of this meeting will be French.

Registration will open on February 2019.Â

The sixth edition of the "Crystallography and Large Equipment" school will take place at the SOLEIL synchrotron on 15th-19th October 2018, and will focus on the the possibilities offered by different crystallographic methods.

The number of places is limited to 24 applicants. Please visit the school website for more information (the only language available is French):Â

https://www.synchrotron-soleil.fr/fr/evenements/ecole-de-cristallographie

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Sixth MaThCryst school in Latin America - Workshop on the Applications of Group Theory in the Study of Phase Transitions

Registration application for this event is now open!

Student registration: 150 € Regular registration: 200 €. The fees include coffee breaks, printed material and five lunches at the University restaurant, located within the Faculty campus, at walking distance from the venue (vegetarian and vegan options available on request). Student fees apply on submission of copy of the student card valid the current academic year. Other registration fees, with the inclusion of accommodation, are also available.

Limited financial support will be available for young participants (students and post-doctoral fellows) depending on the amount of grants available.

The application details and procedures will be announced once the budget is finalised. The financial support that will be provided will be in any case partial and there will be no money transfer: grants will be attributed on site.
The following conditions apply for being eligible to receive a grant

• Funds from IUCr are reserved to applicants registered in the World Directory of Crystallographers. Registration is free of charge but undergoes a preliminary screening at IUCr: be sure to submit your registration well in advance before applying for financial support; your IUCrID is required to apply for financial support.
• Funds from ECA will be attributed to European applicants who must be or become ECA members. Grant receivers will be asked to write a short report about their participation.
• Fund from AFC and SFMC are reserved to French applicants.
• IUCr funds and funds from registration fees will be used to approach as much as possible a country and gender balance.
• All other funds that may be obtained will be used according to the rules imposed by the funding agencies.
• Students are requested to submit a copy of their student card, as well as a recommandation letter by their supervisors, explaining how they will benefit from participation in the school
• A list of publication is mandatory for post-doctoral fellows, optional for students
• A short motivation letter is requested from all applicants

Deadline for application: 31^st March 2019

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The official language of the school is English. No simultaneous translations will be provided. Â

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Visa

Citizens of some countries may need a visa to enter France even for a short trip. Check online if you need a visa. In the affirmative case, the organisers can provide, on request, an invitation letter. Please send your CV, copy of student card and supervisor recommendation (for students) or list of publications.Â

Contact

For inquiries, please contact mathcryst2019-contact@univ-lorraine.frÂ

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Special issue announcement

Participants to the summer school, as well as participants to the ECM-32 satellite, are invited to submit contributions to a special issue of Crystal Research and Technology that will be published on occasion of these two events. Deadline for submission: 30 September 2019. Details will follow.

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The school will provide an introduction to neutron scattering techniques including lectures by leading experts, analysis tutorials and hand-on experiments conducted using the instruments at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO).

Graduate students, PhD students, post-doctoral and early-career researchers who want to learn about neutron scattering and imaging are encouraged to apply.

Abstract submission deadline (to determine suitable participants, since places at the school are limited): 15th June 2018.

Registration fee: $450, which will cover accommodation in shared rooms and all meals during the school.Â

Registration will open to successful applications on 6th July 2018. Registration deadline: 30th July 2018.

The IFF Spring School 2019 will provide a solid introduction into scattering methods for the investigation of condensed matter and biomaterials. Topics will include modern scattering techniques and the advanced methods utilised at large scale facilities.

Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and physics and/or chemistry of condensed matter. All lectures will be held in English.

Registration period: 5th November 2018 to 10th January 2019.

Financial support is available for students who have yet to finish their Master's degree, to cover part of accommodation costs.

More details will be available closer to the registration date.

The aim of the school is to provide an overview of the forces governing the behaviour of soft matter systems and introducing the most relevant techniques to probe such interactions.Â

Due to the limited number of available places, the pre-registration deadline is 20th May 2018.Â

A short description of your research activity and a CV must be sent to the organising committee, who will inform successful applicants in early June.Â

For more information, please visit:Â Â https://workshops.ill.fr/event/17/

The IWMCG meeting was established to bring together diverse researchers sharing a common interest in crystal growth, model development, and model application issues.

Topics at this year's workshop will include the mathematical and computational modeling of:

• Melt and solution growth of bulk and substrate crystals
• Vapor growth methods
• Microstructure and defect formation processes during crystal growth
• Crystal growth mechanisms at a range of scales

In addition, modeling advances for crystal growth will be featured and discussed.

The workshop will also include invited and oral presentations, poster presentations, and industrial exhibits.

Abstract submission deadline: 22nd May 2018

Registration deadline: 1st August 2018

This five-day intensive course will act as an introduction to neutron scattering aimed at postgraduate students and early-career researchers, and will focus on fundamental scattering theory and hands-on data analysis. The techniques to be covered include diffraction, small angle scattering, quasielastic neutron scattering, and inelastic neutron scattering. The conference will be held at the new China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), about 60 miles north of Hong-Kong, which produced its first neutrons in 2017.Â

The registration fee for the course is $3000 HKD ($400 USD), which will include food and accommodation costs. Travel expenses will not be covered.Â

Limited scholarships are available.

For more information, please visit:Â https://projects.croucher.org.hk/summer-courses/neutron-scattering-a-powerful-method-for-materials-research-2

Application deadline: 25th May 2018

The aim of this workshop is to promote many aspects of crystallography including diffraction methods, instrumentation and software (with a particular focus on the services and products provided by Bruker). Topics of the workshop will include application of X-ray diffraction in academic research and industry, synchrotron radiaiton, crystallisation methods and structure solution and refinement using TOPAS.

It will also allow networking of researchers in the field, with a confirmed line-up of speakers, and to encourage cooperation between NYU and other organisations.

The number of attendees for certain components of the workshop are limited to below the 50 places available for the general workshop lectures, so early registration is advised.

For more information about registration, please contact Dr. Tony Hu (ch98@nyu.edu).

For more general information, please visit:Â http://as.nyu.edu/chemistry/research/facilities/xray-diffraction/workshop/2018.html

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The two and half day workshop includes lectures from various academic and industrial organizations and hands-on training classes on diffraction techniques. Faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and government and industrial scientists are welcome to register. Attendees are encouraged to bring their scientific problems for discussion and samples of interest to the workshop for the hands-on training classes as well.

After seven successful schools in this series, the 8th Brazil School for Single Particle Cryo-EM will take place Sep 27th - Oct 9th 2018
This single-particle data processing school is an intensive hands-on course/workshop, in which theory and practice are tightly intertwined. The spectrum of topics covered suits attendees that are new to the field as well as those for whom the technique is already of growing importance in their research and who wish to acquire an in-depth understanding of the methodology. Topics range from data collection and three-dimensional reconstruction techniques to the final interpretation of the cryo-EM maps by (flexible) fitting of X-ray structures. The last days of the meeting will be devoted to advanced topics such as dealing with heterogeneous data sets ("4D" cryo electron microscopy) and high-resolution refinements.Â
The attendees are expected to bring along a modern notebook computer onto which all necessary software will be installed. Most processing will take place in the context of the IMAGIC software system but other software packages such as Frealign will also be used. Cryo-EM data sets will be distributed for processing during the course. The participants may bring their own data sets for processing and discussion.Â
It is planned to stay at the 2016 school venue which was located in the country side of Mairiporã at the border of the Rio Juqueri (state of São Paulo).Â

The 2018 Atomic and Molecular Interactions Group (AMIG) summer meeting will take place on the 21st and the 22nd of June at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London; AMIG 2018 aims to bring together scientists, particularly from the UK and Ireland, working on interactions involving electrons, photons, ions, atoms, molecules and more, with an emphasis on young researchers.

Postgraduate students and postdoctoral research associates are particularly encouraged to apply. The format of the meeting consists of four sessions, each with an invited talk followed by oral presentations, and a poster session.

The Seventh National Crystallographic Symposium of the Bulgarian Crystallographic Society will be held at the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Sofia, Bulgaria.

As a well established event, the National Crystallographic Symposium is held every two years with guest lecturers in areas of different applications of crystallography.

The aim of this meeting is to promote and support research and education in the fields of crystallography and structure in Greece. The forthcoming conference will include plenaries and microsymposia dedicated to recent advances in CryoEM, XFELs, synchrotrons, spectroscopic methods and other related techniques for the study of materials, inorganics, small organics and biomacromolecules, emphasizing the progress of structural sciences in recent years.

This workshop will focus on scattering techniques and in particular time-resolved and in operando studies of kinetic processes. The main topics to be covered in the workshop will include Energy Materials, Soft Matter, Biological Matter, Inorganic Functional Materials and Catalysis. Due to support from the Norwegian Research Council and ESS & MAX IV, registration for the workshop is free; however, there is a limit of 100 participants and those with connections to the local InterReg project will gain priority in obtaining a position at the workshop.Â

For further information and contact details, please visit:Â https://www.twf2018.com/

Registration deadline: 29th April 2018

Abstract deadline: 6th April 2018

To complete registration, please visit:Â https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer/93111.html;Â or sent your abstract by email (with "NNSP-TWF2018" as the subject heading) to Reider Lund at this address: reidar.lund@kjemi.uio.no