European Crystallographic Association

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 UTC
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

International School on Fundamental Crystallography with applications to Electron Crystallography
2016-06-27 - 2016-07-02 | Groenenborger Campus of the University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, Antwerp, 2020, Belgium
The International Union of Crystallography – Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography and the University of Antwerp would like to invite you to the International School on Fundamental Crystallography with applications to Electron Crystallography which will be held in Antwerp, Belgium on June 27 – July 2, 2016.
The school will be held in the Groenenborger Campus of the University of Antwerp (Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium).

15th European Powder Diffraction Conference (EPDIC15)
2016-06-12 - 2016-06-15 | The Nicolaus Hotel, Via Cardinale A. Ciasca, 27, Bari, Italy
The 15th European Powder Diffraction Conference (EPDIC15) will be held in Bari, a coastal town in southern Italy, from 12 to 15 June 2016.

ED-XPD Workshop
2016-06-06 - 2016-06-10 | Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry,Stockholm University, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry,Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
This workshop is intended for PhD students, postdocs and young researchers, who want to learn how electron diffraction (ED) and X-ray powder diffraction (XPD) can be combined to characterize the structures of polycrystalline materials. While the emphasis will be on using 3-dimensional ED data to solve a structure and XPD to refine it, the overlap of the two approaches (solving from XPD data and refining with ED data) will also be discussed. Lectures will cover basic crystallography, indexing, intensity extraction, structure solution, structure completion and structure refinement.

8th ILL Annual School on Neutron Diffraction Data Treatment using the FULLPROF suite
2015-12-14 - 2015-12-18 | Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble, France
FPSchool aims to contribute to the training of scientists in treatment of X-ray and neutron diffraction data.
The school is based on intensive hands-on sessions using the computer programs of the FullProf Suite. The lectures and tutorials will provide the essential tools necessary for an efficient use of the FullProf Suite at an intermediate level. In addition to general applications, Rietveld method, multipattern analysis, microstructure determination and refinement will be given particular attention.

Asian Crystallographic Association Meeting
2015-12-05 - 2015-12-08 | Science City, J.B.S Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, India
We cordially invite you to attend the 2015 Asian Crystallographic Association Meeting (AsCA 2015), to be held at Science City, Kolkata (the earlier name, Calcutta), a city famous for its intellectual and cultural pursuits. The meeting will cover diverse aspects of crystallographic research ranging from life sciences, drug development, crystal engineering to theory, instrumentation, synchrotron and neutron studies. It would be held for three and half days, during December 5-8 (Sat – Tuesday). The weather is usually mild and sunny during this time of the year, and we would endeavor to make your stay a memorable one.
Read more at: AsCA website

Pulverdiffraktometrie für organische Verbindungen ChemKrist–Workshop
2015-10-06 - 2015-10-08 | Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Goethe-Universität, Max von Laue Str. 7, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Workshop des Arbeitskreises „Chemische Kristallographie (ChemKrist)” der Fachgruppe „Analytische Chemie” der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) und des Arbeitskreises „Molekülverbindungen” der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kristallographie (DGK)

Introduction to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)
2015-10-04 - 2015-10-06 | Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Goethe-Universität, Max von Laue Str. 7, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and its accompanying software for search and analysis (ConQuest, Mercury, IsoStar and Mogul) – together known as the CSD System (CSDS) – is a fundamental resource in structural chemistry, finding applications in academia and in industry across a broad range of topics such as drug design and discovery, drug development and formulation, and materials science.
The workshop will provide information about the CSD itself, its content and its production. The CSDS software will be described, and a number of hands-on examples of the use of the CSDS to address real problems of both industrial and academic importance will be followed.

MATRAC Summer School 'Application of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation in Engineering Materials Science
2015-09-21 - 2015-09-25 | Haus am Schüberg Conference Centre, Wulfsdorfer Weg 33, Ammersbek, Germany
We take pleasure in informing you that registration is now open for our MATRAC Summer School ‘Application of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation in Engineering Materials Science’ to be held in Hamburg/Ammersbek, Germany, from September 21 to 25, 2015 in cooperation with the Röntgen-Ångström-Cluster and the Virtual Institute of the Helmholtz Association ‘New X-ray Analytic Methods in Material Science’ (VI-NXMM). The school will provide a systematic overview of the application of neutrons and synchrotron radiation to the structural analysis in applied materials. All relevant experimental methods will be covered in a three-day course which will be followed by a two-day practical. The practical at GEMS/DESY in Hamburg will cover various diffractometers, SAXS instruments and tomography stations. Neutron data analysis will also be practised. Registration deadline is June 24, 2015. For more information please visit our website http://www.hzg.de/matrac
