European Crystallographic Association

Zurich School of Crystallography 2022
2022-06-19 - 2022-06-30 | Dept. of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse, 190, Zurich, 8057, Switzerland
The next Zurich School of Crystallography will be held from 19th to 30th June 2022 at the Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich.
The School is intended primarily for young researchers in the chemical, molecular and solid state sciences. Applicants from all regions of the world will be considered. The goal is that the participants gain hands-on experience plus a theoretical background in the art and science of routine crystal and molecular structure determination of small molecules by single-crystal X-ray crystallography, as well as in the interpretation and presentation of results. The School will consist of lectures, computer exercises and practical work. The School is ideal for anyone for whom a knowledge of crystal structure analysis would be particularly helpful in their current research. The School is not suitable for persons interested specifically in powder diffraction techniques or macromolecular crystallography.

10th International Conference of the Hellenic Crystallographic Association (HeCrA)
2021-10-15 08:00 - 2021-10-17 17:00 UTC | National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, 27 Neapoleos Str, Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece
The 10th International Conference of the Hellenic Crystallographic Association (HeCrA) will take place in October 15-17, 2021 in Athens, Greece, in an in-person format. A limited number of bursaries for travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses, will be granted to eligible young students who will travel to Athens from abroad or from other Greek cities.
Kostas Bethanis (president of the HeCrA board)

2nd International School on Porous Materials (MOFschool2021)
2021-06-21 - 2021-06-25 | Villa del Grumello – Como Lake, Como, Italy
Dear Colleagues,
With great pleasure we announce that the applications are now open for the 2nd International School on Porous Materials (MOFschool2021) which will take place in June 21th-25th 2021.
As much as the Covid-19 pandemic will allow travelling, MOFschool2021 will be held as a blended event, at Villa del Grumello, on the beautiful shores of Lake Como, Italy. In this case, a restricted number of participants will be welcomed in presence, while the rest in remote. In case the pandemic will make this solution unfeasible, MOFschool2021 will be held as a completely in-remote event.
The School is addressed to qualified undergraduate, graduate and PhD students as well as young post-doctoral fellows with a maximum age of 35. Applicants will be selected by the School Directors based on their CVs.
The School gathers some of the worldwide experts in the field of metal-organic and covalent-organic frameworks and will cover the current research developments. Starting from advanced synthetic methods, the School will propose representative examples of up-to-date characterization techniques and cutting-edge applications, up to implementation into devices.
Grants are available to (fully or partially) cover the participation costs. Information on the Program, Venue, Registration and availability of Grants can be found at https://mofs2021.lakecomoschool.org/
Short-talk and poster sessions are available for the Scholars to present their research.
Looking forward to welcoming you to Villa del Grumello,
the School Directors,
Valentina Colombo (University of Milan, Milan, Italy),
Simona Galli (University of Insubria, Como, Italy),
Jorge A.R. Navarro (University of Granada, Granada, Spain)

1st ECA lunch webinar - Dr Andrea Thorn
2021-06-10 13:00 - 14:00
Registration for Andrea Thorn’s lecture is closed but you can already register for the next webinar or the second or third Thursday of July. The speaker will be announced soon.

Online meeting via zoom.
For our survey, we kindly ask that you enter the country of your institution as your country.
You will receive a link to the zoom event after the registration deadline.

Link to the event:
ECA webinars – stay tuned !

Zürich School of Crystallography 2021
2021-06-06 - 2021-06-17 | Dept. of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse, 190, Zurich, 8057, Switzerland
The Zurich School is intended primarily for young researchers in the chemical, molecular and solid state sciences. Applicants from all regions of the world will be considered. The goal is that the participants gain hands-on experience plus a theoretical background in the art and science of routine crystal and molecular structure determination of small molecules by single-crystal X-ray crystallography, as well as in the interpretation and presentation of results. The School will consist of lectures, computer exercises and practical work. The School is ideal for anyone for whom a knowledge of crystal structure analysis would be particularly helpful in their current research.

Zeroth ECA webinar
2021-05-30 08:00
The zeroth ECA webinar will take place on 30 May.
The information collected using below form will only be used for the organisation of this ECA webinar series.

Celebrating Rosalind Franklin's 100-year Birthday: New Structures, New Challenges
2020-12-09 - 2020-12-18
The Biological Structures Group of the British Crystallographic Association organises its virtual Winter Meeting 2020 on Friday 18th December. It celebrates Rosalind Franklin’s 100th Birthday with a line-up of worldleading international speakers presenting some of the newest and exciting achievements in structural biology, including a substantial number of presentations related to SARS-CoV-2.
We are also delighted that Professor Matthew Cobb from the University of Manchester will open our meeting with a historical account of the life and times of Rosalind Franklin.
In addition to organising meetings, a key role of the BCA Biological Structures Group is to promote the development of structural biology, particularly through supporting workshops,
training and other events aimed at students and early career researchers. We receive many requests for support and profits from this meeting will be used to support as many of those
events as we are able.
Please note that we have tried to keep registration costs low. However, if you are a student and/or young researcher and are in need to support to attend this meeting then please
contact our secretary Dr. Mark Roe (M.Roe@sussex.ac.uk) to discuss your circumstances.
Registration Packages:
Standard Rate (incl. membership for the British Crystallographic Association 2021) – £60
Standard Rate (without membership) – £40
Student Rate (incl. membership for the British Crystallographic Association 2021) – £35
Student Rate (without membership) – £20
All proceeds of the meeting are used to support workshops, crystallographic meetings and bursaries.
To register please use this link: https://www.eventsforce.net/hg3/188/register

Three day online course in Powder X-ray diffractometry
2020-11-24 - 2020-11-26
PhD’s, postdocs and other researchers in the Netherlands and beyond are invited to join an online course in Powder X-ray diffractometry (PXRD) that will be held from 24th to 26th of November of this year 2020.
With this online workshop and school on Powder Diffraction we intend to help participants to overcome the barriers to look into their data in greater detail. In a 3-day intensive course the participant will learn the basic theory behind powder diffraction and how crystallographic analysis of their (own) data may help them to answer concrete questions on the material of their subject.
We invite PhD’s and postdocs to apply for this course. We encourage participants to send a description of their science case and how they would like to use diffraction and crystallography to answer questions relating to their data.
The cost of the course is € 125.– for academics and € 500.– for non-academics.
Please visit the website of the Dutch Crystallographic Society for more information.

IUCr Computing School
2020-08-17 - 2020-08-22 | Nove Hrady, Czech Republic
Dear all,
we announce the IUCr Computing School in Nove Hrady (Czech Republic) which will take place between the 17th and the 22nd August 2020 prior to the IUCr congress in Prague. Registration has already started.
Further information about the school can be found on the website: https://www.xray.cz/iucr/workshops/nh/default.htm
Follow also our hashtag in Twitter, #IUCr2020CompSchool
Active developers of crystallographic software, tools and methods are invited to participate at this Computing School. The school is not introductory and it is recommended that participants already have some basic programming skills and crystallographic knowledge. Our aim is to discuss and exchange ideas and to tackle the challenges related to the method development in crystallography. Participants can be early career scientists (PhD students, Postdocs, etc.) as well as established developers.
Our confirmed speakers are:

Simon Billinge (Columbia University, USA)
Luc Bourhis (Bruker, France)
Paul Boyle (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada)
Iracema Caballero (Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, Spain)
Gemma de la Flor (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Dorothee Liebschner (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Rafiga Masmaliyeva (Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Azerbaijan)
Garib Murshudov (Laboratory of Molecular Biology-MRC, UK)
Reinhard Neder (Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Erlangen, Germany)
Alexandre Ourjoumtsev (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, France)
Randy Read (University of Cambridge, UK)
Massimo Sammito (University of Cambridge, UK)
Arkadiy Simonov (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland)
Melanie Vollmar (Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, United Kingdom)
Thomas White (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Hamburg, Germany)

For any questions regarding the school please contact us.
Best wishes,
Claudia Millán (cmncri at ibmb.csic.es)
Martin Lutz (m.lutz at uu.nl)
Jan Rohlicek (rohlicek at fzu.cz)

4th International Symposium on Halogen Bonding (ISXB-4)
2020-03-23 - 2020-03-27 | Stellenbosch, South Africa
Dear Friends and Colleagues
We are pleased to invite you to attend the 4th International Symposium on Halogen Bonding (ISXB-4) to be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, 23-27 March 2020.
As with the previous symposia in this series, the aim of ISXB-4 is to bring together scientists from a variety of disciplines, but with a common interest in the halogen bond and related interactions. The symposium will cover both experimental and theoretical aspects of a broad range of fields such as medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, materials science and industrial applications through keynote addresses, contributed presentations and posters. Following on from the previous meetings there will be a focus on young scientists, with special sessions for emerging investigators and for undergraduates and high-school learners.
ISXB-4 will be held on the picturesque campus of Stellenbosch University, which is situated in the heart of the historical town of Stellenbosch, a popular tourist destination surrounded by mountains and vineyards. It is well-known for the excellent locally-produced wine, good food and a range of modern art galleries. Also nearby is Cape Town, a vibrant, cosmopolitan city which is world renowned for the iconic Table Mountain and beautiful beaches with prolific sea life, including penguins.
We look forward to welcoming you to Stellenbosch in 2020!
Best wishes,
Catharine Esterhuysen (on behalf of the ISXB-4 Organising Committee)

2nd CCP4/BGU Workshop on Advanced Methods for Macromolecular Structure Determination
2020-02-23 08:00 - 2020-03-04 17:00
Dear All,
We are very pleased to announce the 2nd CCP4/BGU Workshop on Advanced Methods for Macromolecular Structure Determination, which will take place at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beer-Sheva, Israel, between 23rd February to 4th March, 2020.
The workshop is limited to 25 participants, and everybody who is interested is welcome to apply.
The workshop program will be suitable for last-year PhD students, as well as postdoctoral researchers and young scientists in their first years of research.
The workshop will embrace the full course of Macromolecular Crystallography and Cryo-EM: from data collection to structure solution and PDB Deposition, with a particular emphasis on practical aspects of each and every step.
In addition, all participants will have an opportunity to carry out remote data collection at Diamond Light Source on their own samples.
A team of leading structural biology software developers from around the world will present lectures and tutorials and will also be available to help participants with their own projects, such as processing own data and solving structures during hands-on sessions of the workshop.
More information, including “how to apply”, registration form and tentative program, can be found at: https://lifeserv.bgu.ac.il/wp/ccp4workshop/
The closing date for application is 20.12.2019.
Best wishes,
Anat Shahar & Eugene Krissinel

Hot Topics in Contemporary Crystallography 4
2019-10-01 - 2019-10-06
HTCC4 workshop will entirely be dedicated to structural biology. Over four intense working days, we shall cover techniques which go beyond classical crystallography, yet which complement it so smoothly: XFEL – X-ray free electron laser (HT1), cryo electron microscopy (HT2), NMR in macromolecular structural research (HT3) and biomolecular in-silico simulations (HT4).
The principal HTCC target audiences are young(ish) crystallographers, electron microscopists, NMRists and researchers in in silico simulations dealing with biomacromolecular systems. Nonetheless, we count on researchers from the domains of (bio)chemistry, physics, biology and life sciences from both industry and academia, who appreciate and take advantage of the structural studies, want to spice up their research with an additional hint of interdisciplinarity, or, simply learn what’s new in the dynamic world of structural research.

International school on aperiodic crystals
2019-09-08 - 2019-09-14 | Portbail, France
The Commission on Aperiodic Crystals of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) organises the 4th edition of the school “International school on aperiodic Crystals” (ISAC4).

This school will take place in Portbail (Normandy) from September 8 to 14 2019. The targeted audience is clearly a non-specialist one: Phd students, young 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.The school will be organized on 5 days in Normandy, north-west of France. Experts in the field of aperiodic crystal will give lectures, in a tutorial way and on a step by step basis. The number of participants will be limited to 40 in order to facilitate exchanges. After an introduction to the high dimensional concept, the basis of the structure determination of aperiodic crystal will be introduced for each class of aperiodic crystals. Various examples will then be presented, together with overviews on phase transitions, phonons and phasons, simulations and aperiodic crystal stability.Tutorial in small groups (20) will also be organized in order to practice the notions learned in the lectures.
For further information please visit the school’s website: https://isac4.sciencesconf.org
On behalf of the organizers: Olivier Pérez

Crystallographic Information Fiesta
2019-08-29 - 2019-09-03 | napoli, Italy
Registrations are open for the AIC International Crystallography School 2019, entitled “Crystallographic Information Fiesta”, which will be held in Naples, Italy, on 29 August to 3 September as a satellite event of MISCA 2019 (Meeting of the Italian and Spanish Crystallographic Associations).
http://www.cristallografia.org/aicschool2019
The School is organized by the Commission on Crystallographic Teaching of the Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC) in partnership with several IUCr bodies [IUCr Journals, IUCr Data, Committee for the Maintenance of the CIF Standard (COMCIFS), Committee on Data (CommDat), International Tables for Crystallography] and crystallographic databases (ICDD, CCDC, PDBe, ICSD, BCS).
AICS2019 offers an intensive course in Crystallographic Information, covering the extraction, dissemination and use of scientific knowledge from the structure determination experiment to database-driven discovery. This school will emphasise to students the need to collect the most complete and meaningful raw data, extract the most reliable information they can, critically review the structural model they have derived, and disseminate that information in a complete and verifiable manner through the twin channels of scientific publication and curated database deposition.
The Scientific Programme of AICS2019 will consist of lectures delivered by internationally leading scholars and supervised tutorials (14 h) on crystallographic software and databases. The scientific path of the school will include 15 hours of hands-on tutorials and partly take place in two parallel streams dedicated to the crystallographic study of structures with small cell parameters (molecular and extended solids) and of macromolecules, respectively.
Major crystallographic database organisations (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Protein Data Bank, International Centre for Diffraction Data, Inorganic Crystal Structure Database) and the Bilbao Crystallographic Server are directly involved in the organization and teaching sessions. Dedicated lectures and tutorials are included in the programme. A lecture on how to plan and design a synchrotron experiment is also included as part of the LAAAMP Colloquium Programme (https://laaamp.iucr.org).
The School is mainly directed at PhD students and young researchers coming from both University and Industry. In order to foster active interaction among students and instructors, the School is restricted to at most 50 qualified and selected participants. Selections will be made on CVs and other relevant aspects of the candidates’ application.
Confirmed lecturers and tutors so far are:

Mois I. Aroyo (Editor, Intl Tables for Crystallography Vol. A), Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain
Rita Berisio, IBB-CNR, Naples, Italy
Luciana Esposito, IBB-CNR, Naples, Italy
Larry Falvello (Section Editor, Acta Crystallographica Section C), University of Zaragoza, Spain
James Hester (Chair, IUCr COMCIFS), ANSTO, Australia
Loes Kroon-Batenburg (IUCr CommDat), University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Paolo Lotti, University of Milan, Italy
Chiara Massera (Section Editor, Acta Crystallographica Section E), University of Parma, Italy
Brian McMahon (IUCr CommDat and COMCIFS; Co-editor, Intl Tables for Crystallography Vol. G), IUCr, UK
Abhik Mukhopadhyay (Scientific Database Curator, PDBe), EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK
Horst Puschmann, OlexSys, Durham University, Durham, UK Serena C. Tarantino, University of Pavia, Italy
Luigi Vitagliano, IBB-CNR, Naples, Italy
Michele Zema (IUCr Executive Outreach Officer), University of Pavia, Italy

In a touristic destination such as Naples and during the school holiday period, we are making every effort to keep REGISTRATION FEES as low as possible, and we are able to offer a very convenient package including 5 nights accommodation in a 4* hotel, lunches and coffee-breaks at 490 euros. Moreover, BURSARIES are available to cover registration fee as well as travel costs, in full or partially.
DEADLINE for pre-registration and bursary application is 19 May 2019. We look forward to welcoming you in Naples.
Serena Tarantino, Paolo Lotti, Chiara Massera, Paolo Pio Mazzeo
AIC Commission on Crystallographic Teaching

Hot Topics in Contemporary Crystallography 3
2018-09-23 - 2018-09-27 | BlueSun Elaphusa Hotel, Put Zlatnog rata 46, Bol, island of Brač, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
Croatian Association of Crystallographers is proud to announce the third edition of its advanced crystallography workshop “Hot Topics in Contemporary Crystallography – HTCC”. The meeting aims to attract motivated researchers by in-depth tackling the fascinating developments and achievements of the experimental methods and theoretical approaches expanding over the last decade that put forward crystallography at the front lines of natural sciences.
This year, the international programme committee of the HTCC3 has chosen the following three hot topics: Crystallography under extreme conditions, Total scattering – crystallography beyond the Bragg equation, and Dynamical crystallography. The team of the leading professors and scientists in these fields will be tirelessly presenting, explaining, tutoring, discussing and challenging you over the three intensive working days of the workshop. You will also be invited to present your own research in a form of a poster, and to discuss various aspects of your work with the top notch experts. Last, but not least, you will have a rare opportunity to enjoy the cutting edge crystallography in an enchanting Mediterranean ambiance of one of the most beautiful islands of the Croatian Adriatic.
Web page: http://htcc2018.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HTCC2018/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crystallographers.hr/?hl=hr

Twenty-sixth Croatian-Slovenian Crystallographic Meeting (CSCM26)
2018-06-13 - 2018-06-17 | Hotel Valamar Diamant, Brulo 1, Poreč, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
The Twenty-sixth Croatian-Slovenian Crystallographic Meeting (CSCM26) will be held in the Hotel Valamar Diamant, in Adriatic city Poreč, Croatia, located in the western coast of Istrian Peninsula, from June 13th to 17th, 2018. The Meeting is organized by the Croatian Crystallographic Association and Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana. All the necessary information on the venue, scientific programme, registration procedure, abstract submission, social programme, deadlines and accommodation arrangement can be found at the official website of the Meeting, http://kristalografi.hazu.hr.
There is no registration fee for this Meeting. Also, a number of bursaries is available to PhD students and postdocs (bursary deadline is April 15th). The deadline for the accommodation arrangement, registration and abstract submission is May 10th, 2018.

ICG - Italian Crystal Growth
2017-11-20 - 2017-11-21 | Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza, 4, Milan, 20126, Italy
For some years now, this Conference has been representing a key landmark of outstanding scientific quality for the community of Italian crystal growers and, in general, for scientists involved in the development of novel crystalline materials with advanced functionalities. The latest ICG edition in 2013 took place in Parma (Italy) and was attended by more than 120 participants, including both young researchers and representatives from industry. This year, the following topics will be covered by dedicated scientific sessions:

Fundamentals of Crystal Growth
Low Dimensional Structures: films, wires, dots
Organic-based Materials
Crystalline Materials for Energy
Industrial Crystallization
Crystallization of Biomolecules

National Meeting Announcement: Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Crystallography
2017-09-12 | Faculty of Science, University of Geneva, 30 quai Ernest-Ansermet, Room A150, Geneva, Switzerland
Annual Meeting and General Assembly of the Swiss Society for Crystallography

Novel experimental and analytical methods
In-situ and in-operando crystallography
Charge density and bonding analysis
Molecular crystals
Aperiodic crystals
Low dimensional materials
Disorder and diffuse scattering
Design and synthesis of novel materials
Strongly correlated electron systems

EMU School "Mineral fibres: crystal chemistry, chemical-physical properties, biological interaction and toxicity"
2017-06-19 - 2017-06-23 | Modena, Italy
Registrations to the EMU school 2017 are now open! Please spread the news!
The 2017 EMU (European Mineralogical Union) school on “Mineral
fibres: crystal chemistry, chemical-physical properties, biological interaction and toxicity” will be held in Modena (Italy) on June 19-23, 2017. The related EMU Notes Volume will be also released during the school.
The school addresses advanced graduate and PhD students as well as young and experienced researchers with an interest in mineral fibres.
The school will cover different multidisciplinary aspects related to the study of natural fibres and is thus aimed at students with a background in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Material Science, Medicine, Physics who strive for working in the field of mineral fibre and asbestos and want to acquire both a strong background in this specific area of environmental protection and a multidisciplinary open vision of the asbestos related problems.
For detailed information and REGISTRATION (ON-LINE) go to the web site: emu2017.unimore.it
Travel grants will be issued by EMU and IUCr for young scientists participating at the school (see the web site for the details).
The selection will be made by the school organizers in due time. SIMP has decided to support attendance (travel and accommodation) of Italian students. A call for applications will be issued by SIMP in the near future.

Zurich School of Crystallography 2017
2017-06-11 - 2017-06-22 | Application deadline 16th January, 2017, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich, CH-8057, Switzerland
The School teaches small-molecule single-crystal X-ray structure determination. The School will consist of lectures, computer exercises and practical work. Participants can even bring their own crystal and determine its structure! The school is ideal for young researchers in the molecular and solid state sciences for whom a knowledge of crystal structure analysis would be particularly helpful in their current research.
Application deadline 16th January, 2017

6th ALMA Conference
2017-05-31 - 2017-06-03 | Augustinian Monastery, Mendel Square, Brno, Czech Republic
Every two years ALMA conference is organized as an open forum for wide interdisciplinary discussions concerning research, protection and restoration of artworks among Czech experts and students from the fields of natural sciences, history of art and restoration of artworks.
Conferences are organized by the ALMA Laboratory – a joint workplace of Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i. Conference proceedings “Acta Artis Academica” of 2010, 2012 and 2014 are listed in the ISI Proceedings fully searchable in the Web of Science.
The date of the next ALMA conference will be slightly shifted to the end of May/beginning of June 2017 to take part in a wider series of international conferences and to synchronize with the partner conference in Krakow (Poland), that follows the same strategy – to bring the top scientific research to the practice of cultural heritage protection.
Additionally, the 2nd CrysAC (Commission on Crystallography in Art and Cultural Heritage) workshop will be organized within the frame of the ALMA conference as its integral part. It will be organized in co-operation of the CrysAC commission, Laboratory ALMA and the Czech and Slovak Crystallographic Association. This workshop was introduced for the first time at the 6th Meeting “X-ray and other techniques in investigation of the objects of cultural heritage” organized in May 2016 in Krakow (Poland) by Jagiellonian University and the Commission on Crystallography in Art and Cultural Heritage of the International Union of Crystallography.
The main aim of the conference is to offer a true interdisciplinary platform with a focus on case studies demonstrating the benefits of applying scientific analyses and/or new methods (techniques) in practice.
A more detailed description of the aims of the ALMA conference and the 2nd CrysAC workshop follows:
PAINTING AS A STORY or PAINTING IN THE COURSE OF TIME
Every painting changes even after being painted. Significant changes affect its identity and authenticity. This conference will focus on interdisciplinary case studies on painted artworks*, which will present methodological novelties or unconventional research approaches and will accent the role of time-dependent processes affecting the quality, originality, authenticity and state of preservation of the object. All contributions have to relate to one of the following topics:
1) Degradation phenomena (processes of corrosion, weathering, chemical interactions, with particular attention given to those influencing durability and aesthetic quality of painted objects)
2) Unclear history: historical vs. analytical facts (how can analytical information complement, clarify, or dispute the literary evidence and how the „life story“ of each object can be understood by critical comparison of historical and analytical data and by proper distinguishing of original layers and later interventions; how can analytical approach help with dating, which can often be determined only through comparative studies of art techniques, materials availability and technological evolution)
3) Unclear future: conservation of modern and contemporary art (problems of durability and restoration/conservation of objects of modern and contemporary arts as one of the key questions of present days)
4) Symmetry in art.
*The term „painted artworks“ includes easel and panel paintings, wall paintings, polychrome statues, illuminated manuscripts, painted objects of applied arts (on any support) and all related/alternative technologies to paints, as, e.g., printing, dyeing, glazing etc.)

Workshop on Hot Topics in Contemporary Crystallography
2017-04-22 - 2017-04-26 | Valamar Diamant Hotel, Brulo 1/1, 52440, Poreč, Croatia
We are now a bit more than a century away from the first structural studies based on the diffraction of X-rays on crystals, but over this relatively short period of time, the level of complexity that we are capable of examining has multiplied literally by millions. In particular, over the last decade or so, we are witnessing a remarkable advance in experimental methods and theoretical approaches in crystallography which are putting this scientific branch of ours to the front lines of not only structural chemistry, but of natural sciences in general.
In order to review and tackle these fascinating recent achievements and developments, we in Croatian Association of Crystallography, have, three years ago, developed the concept and launched the first edition of Hot Topics in Contemporary Crystallography – a high level workshop intended to the utterly ambitious PhD students and postdocs, as well as to the young crystallographers in the early stages of their autonomous carriers, conducting their research within the broad spectrum of disciplines and sub disciplines related to crystallography.
Hereby, we are proudly announcing the registration opening and call for bursary applications for the second edition of the Hot Topics in Contemporary Crystallography workshop – HTCC2017, to be held in Poreč, one of the jewels of the Croatian Adriatic, from April 22nd to 26th, 2017. For more on confirmed speakers, topics to be covered, registration fee, registration procedure, bursary application, venue etc, please visit the official website of the HTCC2017.
We are so much looking forward to welcoming you in Poreč.

AnalytiX-2017
2017-03-22 - 2017-03-24 | Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk Hotel, 810-8650, FUKUOKA-SHI, 2-2-3 JIGYOHAMA, CHUO-KU, JAPAN, Fukuoka, Japan
BIT’s 5th Annual Conference of AnalytiX 2017 (AnalytiX-2017) will be held on March 22-24, 2017 in Fukuoka, Japan. AnalytiX-2017 is an international event focusing on the core knowledge and major advances in the ever-expanding field of Analytical Sciences and Technologies by attracting experts on a global scale.AnalytiX-2017 provides a unique opportunity for leading experts and researchers from science academics, research institutes, industry manufacturers and so on, to collaborate and share the recent developments in the field of Analytical Sciences and Technologies. With the participation of outstanding international experts, we hope productive discussions would stimulate new creative ideas to translate new discoveries into better practice and application. AnalytiX-2017 will continue to build upon the success of past 4 years, offering a top-notch scientific program created by international experts in related fields.

Application of Neutrons in Engineering Materials Science
2016-10-10 - 2016-10-14 | Haus am Schüberg Conference Centre, Wulfsdorfer Weg 33, Ammersbek, Germany
The school will take place from 10 to 14 October 2016 in Freising near Munich.
Further details will be published soon.

International Conference HeCrA-HSCBB16
2016-10-07 - 2016-10-09 | Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
The 8th International Conference of the Hellenic Crystallographic Association (HeCrA) and the 11th Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (HSCBB) are jointly organized as HeCrA-HSCBB16.
HeCrA-HSCBB16 will take place at the Agricultural University of Athens in October 7-9, 2016
The conference will address key questions and issues in molecular structure and interactions. The Conference is the major event both of HeCrA & HSCBB. It is a forum to communicate state-of-the-art research, interact and establish scientific networks and collaborations. In particular, it will bring together crystallographers with Bioinformaticians and Computational Biologists for the identification of macromolecular targets and small molecules of pharmaceutical and biotechnological interest and study their interactions. There will be oral and poster presentations in addition to talks from distinguished invited speakers from Greece and the European Union.
Organisers: Hellenic Crystallographic Association & Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

Twenty-fourth Croatian-Slovenian Crystallographic Meeting
2016-09-21 - 2016-09-25 | Hotel Elaphusa, Put Zlatnog rata 46, Bol, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
The Twenty-fourth Croatian-Slovenian Crystallographic Meeting (CSCM24) will be held in the Hotel Elaphusa, Bol, the island of Brač, Croatia, from September 21 st to 25 th , 2016. The Meeting is organized by the Croatian Crystallographic Association and the Slovenian Crystallographic Society. All the necessary information on the venue, scientific programme, registration procedure, abstract submission, social programme, deadlines and accommodation arrangement can be found at the official website of the Meeting, http://cscm24.org.
There is no registration fee for this Meeting. The deadline for the accommodation arrangement, registration and abstract submission is June 30 th , 2016.

AIC International Crystallography School 2016
2016-09-07 - 2016-09-11 | Hotel Admiral Palace, Viale Pascoli 145, Rimini, 47921, Italy
The AIC International Crystallography School 2016 “Polymorphism, stability and phase transitions in crystals: theory, experiments, applications” will be held in Rimini (7-11 September 2016). Full details can be checked at http://2016.aicschool.org. Bursaries covering registration fee, travel and subsistence expenses are available until May 15.

Symmetry Festival – 2016
2016-07-18 - 2016-07-23 | Vienna University of Technology, Bldg. of the Electrotechnical Institute 25-29 Gusshausstr., Vienna, Austria
The World’s Largest Multidisciplinary Conference & Art Festival in Symmetry Studies
Organized by Symmetrion, under the auspices of the International Symmetry Association
Programs
International Scientific Conference, including Talks and Workshops,
Art Exhibits, including Contemporary Art and Origami Exhibition,
Teacher Programs and Book Shows,
Concerts, Performances and Movies,
Family Day (22 July afternoon) and Public Programs,
Excursion day (23 July, facultative).

3rd International School on Aperiodic Crystals
2016-07-04 - 2016-07-08 | Groenenborger Campus of the University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, Antwerp, 2020, Belgium
The International Union of Crystallography – Commission on Aperiodic Crystals, C-MAC and the University of Antwerp would like to invite you to the 3rd International School on Aperiodic Crystals which will be held in Antwerp, Belgium on July 4-8, 2016. This is a joint Antwerp Summer University School and C-MAC Euroschool.
The school will be held in the Groenenborger Campus of the University of Antwerp (Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium).

16th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules
2016-07-02 - 2016-07-07 | Hotel Pyramida, Belohorska 24, Praha, Czech Republic
The conference will be held in Prague from July 2 to July 7.
Main conference topics:

Theory and practice of crystallization
Sample preparation and handling in advanced techniques
Crystals for “high resolution studies”
Membrane proteins
Structure diversity of bio-macromolecules
Crystallization of conformationaly unstable proteins and other crystallization resisting (challenging) bio-macromolecules
Automation techniques in crystallization
Crystallization in industry
Crystallization in drug design
Crystallography in education
