{"id":10,"date":"2026-02-13T15:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-16\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:19:37","slug":"scope-and-objectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Scope and objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong>The SIG 16 mission is to develop and strengthen links and interactions in the community of scientists studying condensed matter using magnetic crystallography.<\/strong><\/span> The topics covered by the SIG are :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Magnetic crystallography <b>tools and their development<\/b>\/implementation<\/li>\n<li><b>General use of magnetic crystallography<\/b> in a variety of materials (magnetic compounds in general, such as magnetic perovskites, magnetic functional materials, molecular magnet,\u00a0magnetic ordering, magnetic phase transitions, complex magnetic structures (incommensurate and quasiperiodic),\u00a0quantum materials in which symmetry is a key element to the understanding of emergent electronic properties,\u00a0co-representations, spin space groups and their applications, including altermagnetism)<\/li>\n<li><b>A<\/b><b>d-hoc techniques<\/b>, such as non-polarized and polarized neutron diffraction, or resonant X-ray diffraction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While its main scopes and activities will cover several aspects, such as :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contribution to the <b>promotion<\/b> of magnetic crystallography in the research community (development and usage of tools for magnetic symmetry determination)<\/li>\n<li>Promotion of the common <b>magCIF<\/b> standard (\u201cgood practice\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>Promotion of a <b>magnetic structure database<\/b> built on the sharing of magCIF files<\/li>\n<li><b>Support<\/b> for microsymposia and symposia on magnetic crystallography related topics in workshops and conferences<\/li>\n<li><b>Collaboration<\/b> and joint actions with other SIGs to enlarge the impact of magnetic crystallography within the European community<\/li>\n<li><b>Sponsorship<\/b> of schools or satellite meetings<\/li>\n<li>Elaboration of <b>teaching materials<\/b>, such as tutorials and lectures<\/li>\n<li><b>Promotion<\/b> of pertinent publications in IUCr journals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This site is currently in progress<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SIG 16 mission is to develop and strengthen links and interactions in the community of scientists studying condensed matter using magnetic crystallography. The topics covered by the SIG are : Magnetic crystallography tools and their development\/implementation General use of magnetic crystallography in a variety of materials (magnetic compounds in general, such as magnetic perovskites, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1099,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecanews.org\/sig-16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}