Meetings and Schools

The IUCr MaThCryst commission organizes, in cooperation with other IUCr commissions, Satellite Conferences and Schools on Crystallography. School are of two types:

• general schools, targetting young scientists (PhD students, post-docs) or researchers from different fields who need to deepen their formation in mathematical and theoretical crystallography;
• thematic schools, devoted to introducing more specific and advanced topics.

We try to alternate the two types of schools, on the basis of the availability of the lecturers.

The events organized by the Commission can also be divided on the basis of the regional venue.

Satellite meetings

• Satellite conference ECM-32, 16-18 August 2019, Wien, (Austria) didactic material available
• IUCr 2017 Satellite, 30 August - 4 September 2017 National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (India)
• IUCr Congress Satellite Workshop on the Role of Magnetic Symmetry in the Description & Determination of Magnetic Structures, 14 - 16 August 2014, Hamilton, (Canada)
• ITOn! 2011 - Satellite Workshop of IUCr 22, 31 August - 3 September 2011, Bilbao (Spain)
• Satellite Conference, ECM-26, 27-29 August 2010, Darmstadt (Germany) - poster abstracts and didactic material available
• Satellite Conference, ECM-25, 14-16 August 2009, Istanbul (Turkey) - poster abstracts and didactic material available
• Satellite conference
  ECM-24, August 2007, Marrakech (Morocco) - didactic material available
• Satellite conference
  AsCA'06 18-19 November 2006, Tsukuba (Japan) - poster abstracts and didactic material available
• Satellite conference
  ECM-23, 4-6 August 2006, Leuven (Belgium) - poster abstracts and didactic material available
• Satellite conferenceECM-22, 24-26 August 2004, Budapest (Hungary) - poster abstracts available

Workshops and microsymposia

• MACSMIN 2024 : Mathematics and Computer Science for Materials Innovation, 9-13 September 2024, Liverpool (UK) - hybrid conference
• 2021 SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, 17-28 May 2021, Bilbao (Spain) - online conference
• AMS sectional meeting, special session on Crystallographic and Highly Symmetric Structures, 2-3 November 2019, Gainesville, FL (USA)
• Second Workshop on Mathematical Crystallography 20-24 May 2017, Manila (Philippines) - didactic material available
• SIAM conference on mathematical aspects of Material Science, 8-12 May 2016, Philadelphia (USA)
• Workshop on Symmetry relationships between crystal structures with application to structural phase transitions, 27 - 31 October 2014, Banaras (India) - didactic material available
• SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, 9-12 June 2013, Philadelphia (USA)
• Workshop on Crystallographic Software, 12-16 December 2011, Tokyo (Japan)
• Workshop on Mathematical Crystallography 2-6 November 2011, Manila (Philippines)

Schools in the European region

• Summer School, 12-16 June 2023, Nancy (France)
• Crystallography Online: Workshop on the use and applications of the structural and magnetic tools of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server, January 2022, Leioa (Spain)
• Mathematics and Computer Science for Materials Innovation, 15-17 September 2021, online
• Summer School, 3-7 June 2019, Nancy (France)
• International Autumn School on Fundamental and Electron Crystallography (IASFEC), 8 - 13 October 2017, Sofia (Bulgaria)
• Polymorphism, stability and phase transitions in crystals: theory, experiments and applications. AIC School 2016, 7-11 September 2016, Rimini, (Italy)
• International Scientific School 'Combined topological and DFT methods for prediction of new materials II', 4-10 July 2016, Samara (Russia)
• International School on Fundamental Crystallography with applications to Electron Crystallography, 27 June - 2 July 2016, University of Antwerp, (Belgium) - didactic material available
• International Scientific School "Combined topological and DFT methods for prediction of new materials", 14-20 September 2015, Samara (Russia)
• Second Balkan School on Fundamental Crystallography / Workshop on Magnetic Symmetry and its Application in Magnetic Structure Description, 13-19 July 2015, Istanbul (Turkey)
• School on Topological methods for expert systems in materials science, 12 - 16 August 2014, Samara (Russia)
• School on Fundamental Crystallography, 30 September - 5 October 2013, Glulechitza (Bulgaria) - didactic material available
• School on Topological methods in crystal chemistry and materials science, 9-13 September 2013, Lausanne (Switzerland)
• Schools on Topological Crystal Chemistry and on the Irreducible Representations of Space Groups, 21 June - 2 July 2010, Nancy (France) - poster abstracts and didactic material available
• Crystallography online: International School on the use and application of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server, 21-27 June 2009, Lekeitio (Spain) didactic material available
• Summer School,
  27 April - 2 May 2008, Gargnano (Garda Lake, Italy) - poster abstracts and didactic material available
• Summer school20-24 June 2005, Nancy (France) - poster abstracts and didactic material available

Schools in Latin America

• ISFC7 - Seventh MaThCryst School in Latin America, August 2024, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima (Peru)
• ISFC6 - Sixth MaThCryst School in Latin America, 26-30 November 2018, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotà (Colombia) didactic material available
• ISFC5 - Fifth MaThCryst School in Latin America, 30 October - 5 November 2016, Universidad de la Habana, Havana (Cuba)
• School on Fundamental Crystallography, 27 April - 3 May 2014, La Plata (Argentina) - didactic material available
• School on Fundamental Crystallography, 25 November - 3 December 2012, Uberlândia (Brazil) - didactic material available
• School on Fundamental Crystallography, 29 November - 3 December 2010, Montevideo (Uruguay)
• Summer School
  15-20 July 2007, Havana (Cuba) - poster abstracts and didactic material available

Schools in Asia

• forthcoming International School on Fundamental Crystallography and Workshop on Rietveld Refinement Analysis (ISFC-2026) 23-28 February 2026, Rourkela (India)
• Third Shanghai International Crystallographic School 14-21 June 2024, Shanghai (China)
• Second Shanghai International Crystallographic School 1-7 July 2019, Shanghai (China)
• Topological Methods in Materials Science 2017, October 2017, Beijing (China)
• Shanghai International Crystallographic School 11-17 June 2017, Shanghai (China)

Training course on symmetry and group theory in Japan (ongoing series)

• forthcoming Fourteenth basic course, 13-31 July 2026, Tsukuba (Japan)

Thirteenth basic course, 14 July - 1st August 2025, Tsukuba (Japan)

• Twelfth basic course, 22 July - 2 August 2024, Tsukuba (Japan)
• Eleventh basic and second advanced course, 10-28 July 2023, Tsukuba (Japan)
• Tenth basic course, 22-26 August 2022, Tsukuba (Japan)
• Ninth basic course, 13-17 September 2021, Tsukuba (Japan)
• Eighth basic course, 22 July - 2 August 2019, Tsukuba (Japan) and 5 - 9 August, 2019, Koya Montain (Japan)
• Seventh basic course, 6-10 August 2018, Tsukuba (Japan)
• Sixth basic course, 31 July - 4 August 2017, Tsukuba (Japan)
• Fifth basic course, 6-10 March 2017, Tsukuba (Japan)
• First advanced course, 1-5 August 2016, Tsukuba (Japan)
• Fourth basic course, 7-11 March 2016, Tsukuba (Japan)
• Third basic course, 3-7 August 2015, Osaka, (Japan)
• Second basic course, 9-13 March 2015, Tsukuba, (Japan)
• First basic course, 15-17 August 2014, Tsukuba, (Japan)

Schools in Africa

• Second South African School on Fundamental Crystallography & Satellite meeting of the 21st Meeting of the International Mineralogical Union, 25 - 29 August 2014, Bloemfontein (South Africa)
• School on Fundamental Crystallography, 9-13 April 2012, Mahdia (Tunisia)
• School on Fundamental Crystallography, 12 - 16 April 2010, Bloemfontein (South Africa)

For inquiries, suggestions and requests write to mathcryst@iucr.org