European Crystallographic Association

6th MACSMIN (Mathematics and Computer Science for Materials Innovation)
2025-09-08 - 2025-09-12 | Materials Innovation Factory (and on zoom), 51 Oxford street, Liverpool, L7 3NY, United Kingdom
MACSMIN 2025 is the satellite of the ECM35 (European Crystallographic Meeting) and the 6th annual conference of the series Mathematics and Computer Science for Materials Innovation (https://kurlin.org/macsmin.php). The meeting is hybrid with all talks running also on zoom.
Please email vitaliy.kurlin@gmail.com to get a link. Following the MACSMIN tradition since 2020, the 6th MACSMIN will present a number of scientific advances, including (1) a final hierarchy of structural invariants (of periodic crystals, rigid molecular conformations, and protein backbones) from the ultra-fast to complete with polynomial-time metrics, which exposed numerous exact and many more near-duplicates in the major databases such as the CSD, COD, ICSD, Materials Project, Google’s GNoME, and PDB; and (2) three principles of Atomic Geometry aiming to determine all chemistry from the precise enough geometry.

25th Conference on Applied Crystallography (CAC 2025)
2025-09-07 - 2025-09-10 | Hotel Crystal Mountain, ul. Bukowa 19A, Wisła, Poland
We are delighted to invite you to participate in the 25th Conference on Applied Crystallography (CAC), which will take place on 7–10 September 2025 in Wisła, Poland.
The CAC conference is one of the longest-running international crystallography events in Europe, with a tradition dating back to 1962. It brings together researchers working at the interface of crystallography, materials science, chemistry, and physics.
This year, we are proud to host Prof. J. Georg Bednorz, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (1987), as our keynote speaker.
Topics:

X-ray diffraction and crystallographic techniques in materials characterization
Crystal structure determination of metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites
Powder diffraction, phase analysis, and texture studies
Nanocrystallography and advanced diffraction methods
Structure–property relationships in functional materials
Crystallography in solid-state chemistry, physics, and materials engineering
Applications of crystallography in energy, environment, and biomedical research

International School on Electron Crystallography 2025 – Erice, Italy
2025-05-30 - 2025-06-07 | Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy
We are excited to announce the International School on Electron Crystallography, which will be held in the charming town of Erice, Italy, from 30 May – 7 June 2025.
This event will bring together leading experts, researchers, and students in the field of electron crystallography to explore the latest developments and techniques. The International School on Electron Crystallography offers a comprehensive learning experience for participants at all levels, from beginners to advanced researchers. Through lectures, hands-on tutorials, and interactive sessions, attendees will gain valuable insights into the principles and applications of electron crystallography, including electron diffraction, 3D electron diffraction (3D ED), structure determination, and the latest innovations in the field.
Key Topics:

Fundamentals of electron crystallography and diffraction
3D electron diffraction techniques
Structure determination of molecular and inorganic materials
Applications in nanomaterials, pharmaceuticals, and structural biology
Recent advances in instrumentation and data analysis

The school is designed for students, postdocs, and professionals working in electron microscopy, crystallography, materials science, chemistry, physics, and related disciplines. Whether you are new to electron crystallography or looking to deepen your expertise, this school provides a unique opportunity to expand your knowledge and network with experts in the field.
Various travel grants from different organizations will be advertised on the school’s webpage to support student participation.
Details on registration, abstract submission, and travel grant applications will be made available on the official website: https://crystalerice.org/2025/
Join us in Erice for an inspiring week of learning, networking, and exploring the beautiful surroundings of Sicily! For further information, please visit our website or contact the course directors: Alexander Eggeman, Mauro Gemmi, Tatiana Gorelik.

33rd Annual Meeting of the German Crystallographic Society
2025-03-10 - 2025-03-13 | Leibniz University Hanover, Callinstrasse 3-9, Hannover, 30167, Germany

Hercules European School 2025
2025-03-09 - 2025-04-12 | EPN Campus, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble, 38026, France
HERCULES EUROPEAN SCHOOL is a five weeks course coordinated by the Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA). The school provides training for students, postdoctoral and senior scientists from European and non-European universities and laboratories, in the field of Neutrons, X-ray Synchrotron Radiation, and Free Electron Laser for condensed matter studies (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Geosciences, Industrial applications).
Neutron and X-ray science is integrated with complementary techniques like (but not only) optical and electron microscopy, NMR, optical spectroscopy.
It includes lectures, practicals, tutorials, and visits of Large Facilities: ALBA in Barcelona, KIT in Karlsruhe, Petra III and European XFEL in Hamburg, Elettra and FERMI in Trieste, ESRF and ILL in Grenoble, SOLEIL in Paris-Saclay, and PSI in Villigen.

6th International Symposium on Halogen Bonding (ISXB6)
2024-10-20 - 2024-10-25 | Sheraton Dubrovnik Riviera Hotel, Šetalište dr. F. Tuđmana 17, Srebreno, 20207, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
It is our great pleasure to invite you to the 6th International Symposium on Halogen Bonding (ISXB6), which will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from October 20-25, 2024. The symposium will take place at the Sheraton Dubrovnik Riviera Hotel, a modern resort located in a secluded beachfront location near the Dubrovnik Old Town.
Previous series of international scientific conferences ISXB was held in the city of Porto Cesareo (Italy, 2014), Gothenburg (Sweden, 2016), Greenville (USA, 2018), than due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic remotely (online) in Stellenbosch (South Africa, 2020) and Chiba (Japan, 2022).
The ISXB series of symposia aim to bring together researchers from all over the world who are interested in the fascinating phenomenon of halogen bonding and related interactions, from fundamental principles to applied technologies, covering both experimental and theoretical approaches in various areas of research ranging from advanced materials to medicinal chemistry and chemical biology. The ISXB6 will feature keynote addresses and invited lectures by internationally renowned experts, contributed presentations, posters, and flash communications by young and promising researchers.
We are looking forward to welcoming all of you which are interested in this topic in Dubrovnik and to sharing with you an exciting and memorable scientific and social event. For more information, please visit our web site: https://isxb6.hkd.hr/.

18th European Powder Diffraction Conference - EPDIC18
2024-08-30 - 2024-09-02 | Padova Congress, Via N. Tommaseo 59, Padova, Italy
The EPDIC Conference is the biennial meeting dedicated to all aspects of the analysis of polycrystalline materials by diffraction methods. It brings together experts from universities, research institutes and instrumentation companies to share their knowledge and discuss the current trends and challenges in powder diffraction. In agreement with the traditional character of this Conference, EPDIC18 will yield an exciting scientific program that will cover a broad range of hot traditional and new topics interesting to the powder community.
The Conference will be held in Padova, at the Padova Congress Centre on behalf of EPDIC and AIC. It will be organized in synergy with ECM34, which will precede EPDIC18 in the same location.

ElCryS24 : Electron Crystallography School 2024
2024-08-24 - 2024-08-26 | University of Padova, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Via Gradenigo, 6 - 35131, Padova, Italy
The school is organized as a satellite event to ECM34 in Padova.
The three days of lectures and tutorials will provide a comprehensive overview of the modern state of electron crystallography. Participants will learn various techniques of data collection, data processing, and crystal structure solution for both organic and inorganic materials. A particular focus will be set on optimal data reduction in the presence of geometrical distortions in electron diffraction patterns, as well as at the application of dynamical refinement for absolute structure determination.

32nd Annual Meeting of the German Crystallographic Society (DGK)
2024-03-18 - 2024-03-21 | Arvena Kongress, Eduard-Bayerlein-Straße 5a, Bayreuth, 95445, Germany

10th Anniversary Meeting of the Young Crystallographers
2023-10-04 - 2023-10-06 | DESY, Notkestrasse 85, Hamburg, Germany
The Young Crystallographers are a working group within the German Society for Crystallography (DGK). For 10 years, we meet regularly in autumn at different universities or the STOE facilities.
These meetings specifically aim to provide a platform for networking and scientific exchange for young scientists with an interest in crystallography, as well as to establish contacts with industry and research institutions. We want to give young scientists the opportunity to gain early experience in scientific presentation in a relaxed atmosphere and without the stress of a larger conference.
For our grand anniversary, we are happy to meet at the DESY facilities! We are working hard to allow you deep insights as well as a great overview of the possibilities at this large-scale facility.
During the 3-day meeting, you will:

present your own work as a poster (A0 portrait) and lightning talk (~5 min.)
have the DESY campus tour
participate in an experiment and get a hands-on experience at a beamline of your choice at PETRA III (see The Experiments)
hear academic talks from senior scientists
hear industry talks from our sponsors/partners

At the end of the meeting, you will also have the chance to join a tour of the European XFEL Campus. If you intend to participate, please indicate so during registration. Note that you will need to get to the XFEL facilities by public transport as it is a bit outside the main DESY campus.
The registration fee of 60 € includes the tours and experiments at DESY, coffee breaks as well as lunch and BBQ on Thursday.

7th Microscopy Characterisation of Organic-Inorganic Interfaces Meeting
2023-06-27 - 2023-06-28 | McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
The 7th Microscopy Characterisation of Organic-Inorganic Interfaces (MCOII) meeting will return to an in-person format in 2023 and will be hosted for the first time in North America at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, home of the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy. The transatlantic scientific organizing team of Nadja V. Tarakina (MPIKG, Germany) and Kathryn Grandfield (McMaster University, Canada) have put together an exciting two-day programme. As usual, the first day will be more general, covering a broad range of microscopy approaches (correlative microscopy solutions, in-situ liquid microscopy methods, low-voltage electron microscopy and many more) in the context of imaging hybrid and soft matter. On the second day, a special Focus Lecture Series, entitled “Multi-dimensional and multiscale microscopy of organic-inorganic interface” will cover a more-detailed range of lectures on tomographic methods spanning light, X-ray and electron microscopy, as well as atom probe tomography and in situ electron microscopy/tomography. This conference will bring together world-leading experts in microscopy, highlighting the latest achievements, new opportunities and outstanding challenges in probing beam-sensitive and hybrid materials and their interfaces.

3rd International School on Porous Materials (MOFschool2023)
2023-06-19 - 2023-06-23 | Villa del Grumello – Como Lake, Como, Italy
It is a pleasure for us to announce that the 3rd International School on Porous Materials (MOFschool2023) will be held in Como (IT) at Villa del Grumello, from 19th to 23rd June 2023.

MOFschool2023 aims to introduce the attendees into the vast and interdisciplinary field of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs): starting from MOFs and COFs advanced synthetic methods, the School will propose representative examples of up-to-date characterization techniques and cutting-edge applications, up to implementation into devices. To this aim, MOFschool2023 lecturers’ panel can count on a number of internationally recognized scientists, including Thomas Bennett, Silvia Bordiga, Elisa Borfecchia, Roland A. Fischer, Laura Gagliardi, Felipe Gándara, Carlos Martí Gastaldo, Daniel Maspoch, Davide Proserpio, Joachim Sauer, Jeffrey R. Long, Omar Yaghi and others to be announced!

You can find all the important information, including the provisional program and timetable, on the School webpage.

The school is organized as a mixed event: scholars can apply as in-presence (48 places) or as remote (100 places) participants. Bursaries are available for deserving scholars attending the school.

Don’t lose your chance to participate or to invite your students to participate: applications are already open!

Workshop on Electron Crystallography
2023-05-30 - 2023-05-31 | Groenenborger Campus of the University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, Antwerp, 2020, Belgium
We would like to invite you to a workshop on Electron Crystallography and present your research on diverse aspects of 3D ED / MicroED. The aim of the workshop is to take a snapshot of the current state of the method, its achievements and problems.

Functional Materials under Pressure & Chirality in Crystals ECM33 satellite meetings
2022-08-28 - 2022-08-30 | VVF “Club Intense”, Avenue Edouard Branly Claouey, 33950 Lège-Cap-Ferret, France

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/
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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.
