The European High Pressure Research Group (EHPRG) was established in the sixties of the last century to support a development of both the basic as well as the applied high pressure research by the annual meetings. To create a close contact of all the workers in scientific and technological high pressure disciplines, the wide scope of the EHPRG conferences is traditional and characteristic feature of these meetings. A relatively rapid increase of high pressure activities in almost all areas of Physics, Geosciences, Material Research, Chemistry and namely in Biosciences during the last decades demands a similarly rapid exchange of knowledge in high pressure research and technology.

You’re invited to the 77th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (near Knoxville). The conference will take place over three days and feature sessions focused on all areas of diffraction, from powders to protein crystals. Topics will include emerging technologies/techniques, Total scattering, Magnetic scattering, and Integrative Structural Biology. The Chung Soo Yoo Award, established by the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society to honor Dr. Yoo’s memory, and a $400 cash prize will be given to the graduate student having the best poster presentation at the conference.

Main themes

• General problems of inorganic crystal chemistry and structural mineralogy
• X-ray crystallography and X-ray crystal structure analysis
• Mineral physics and spectroscopy
• Applied mineralogy and crystal chemistry
• High-pressure and high-temperature crystal chemistry
• Theoretical crystal chemistry and mineralogy
  
• History of mineralogy and crystal chemistry

The European Powder Diffraction Conference, EPDIC, is a biannual conference dedicated to all aspects of the analysis of polycrystalline materials by diffraction methods. Each EPDIC has the aim to highlight the latest developments in powder diffraction including methodology, data analysis and instrumental advances. EPDICs traditionally bring together scientists from institutes, universities and instrumentation companies to discuss the progress in academic and industrial research related to powder diffraction. The 17th edition of EPDIC (EPDIC17) will take place in the town of Šibenik, an emerging star of the Croatian Adriatic coast.

La Société française de minéralogie et de cristallographie a vu le jour le 21 mars 1878, il y a 140 ans aujourd'hui ! (*)

Afin de célébrer cet évènement, MINES ParisTech accueillera la SFMC le dans ses locaux historiques de l'hôtel Vendôme, Paris 6ème, pour une journée scientifique sur le thème de la "Minéralogie des extrêmes" comprenant des conférences invitées, une session de posters et une visite de la collection de minéralogie de l’École des Mines

• Mineralogy and Crystallography
• Synthesis
• Post-synthetic Treatment
• Characterization
• Ion Exchange
• Catalysis
• Adsorption and Diffusion
• Membranes and Films
• Computational Chemistry
• Layered Materials
• New Porous Materials
• Novel Applications
• Industrial Application.

The scope of Zeolite 2018 is the presentation and discussion of the progress in various aspects of the natural zeolites science and technology. The program includes plenary lectures, oral and poster presentations, round-table discussions and an industrial exhibition. An optional post-conference field trip to the natural zeolite deposit in Nižný Hrabovec, Slovakia is included in the conference program.

Topics:

1. Zeolite Formation and Occurrence
2. Mineralogy of Natural Zeolites
3. Functionalization of Zeolite Surface
4. Applications in Engineering and Environmental Protection
5. Zeolites in agriculture and building materials
6. Zeolite: catalysts and modern applications
7. Zeolites in medicine