{"id":12,"date":"2023-06-28T09:16:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/individual-members\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:36:10","slug":"scope-and-objectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Scope and objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIG-08 represents, supports and synchronizes activities related to powder diffraction and to stimulate information exchange and diffusion within the European powder diffraction community.<\/p>\n<h1>SIG-08 Officers<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jpopovic@irb.hr\"><b>Jasminka Popovic<\/b><\/a> (Chair)<br \/>\nDivision of Materials Physics, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"mailto:rosanna.rizzi@ic.cnr.it\">Rosanna Rizzi<\/a><\/b> (Vice-Chair)<br \/>\nInstitute of Crystallography, National Research Council, Bari, Italy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:imargiola@upatras.gr\"><strong>Irene Margiolaki<\/strong><\/a> (Secretary)<br \/>\nBiology Department, University of Patras, Patras, Greece<\/p>\n<h1>Meetings<\/h1>\n<p>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. Next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epdic18.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPDIC18<\/a> will take place in 20.08-02.09.2023. in Padova, Italy.<\/p>\n<h1>Documents<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-08-inauguration-document\/\">Inauguration Document<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-08-activity-reports-2002-2008\/\">Activity Reports 2002-2008<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SIG8-AR-2008_09.pdf\">2008-2009 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SIG8-AR-2009_10.pdf\">2009-2010 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SIG8-AR-2010_11.pdf\">2010-2011 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SIG_08_2012.pdf\">2011-2012 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SIG_08_2013.pdf\">2012-2013 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SIG8_2014.pdf\">2013-2014 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SIG_08_2015_UH_PS_UH.pdf\">2014-2015 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2015-2016 Annual Report<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/SIG8_annual-report_2016-2017.pdf\">2016-2017 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2017-2018 Annual Report<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Report-SIG8_2019.pdf\">2018-2019 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SIG-08_Activity_Report_2019-2020.pdf\">2019-2020 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SIG-08_Activity_Report_2020-2021.pdf\">2020-2021 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SIG-08_Activity_Report_2021-2022.pdf\">2021-2022 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/SIG-08_Activity_Report_2022-2023.pdf\">2022-2023 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SIG-08_Activity_Report_2023-2024.pdf\">2023-2024 Annual Report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIG-08 represents, supports and synchronizes activities related to powder diffraction and to stimulate information exchange and diffusion within the European powder diffraction community. SIG-08 Officers Jasminka Popovic (Chair) Division of Materials Physics, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia Rosanna Rizzi (Vice-Chair) Institute of Crystallography, National Research Council, Bari, Italy Irene Margiolaki (Secretary) Biology Department, University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1607,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}