IUCr 1995 Report - Meetings

The IUCr sponsored the following meetings held during 1995:

1. International School on Advanced Electronic Materials, Madras, India, 6-15 February 1995.

2. BCA Fifth Intensive Course in X-ray Structure Analysis, Aston, Birmingham, UK, 1-9 April 1995.

3. International School on Quasicrystals, Balatonfüred, Hungary, 13-20 May 1995.

4. Charge Density School, La Plata, Argentina, 18-26 May 1995.

5. Erice School on Crystallography of Supramolecular Compounds, Erice, Italy, 1-12 June 1995.

6. Gordon Research Conference on Electron Distribution and Chemical Bonding, Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA, 2-7 July 1995.

7. 4th European Powder Diffraction Conference (EPDIC IV), Chester, UK, 10-14 July 1995.

8. Workshop on Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction Data, Oxford, UK, 16-20 July 1995.

9. Workshop on the Description, Understanding and Prediction of the Structure of Inorganic Solids, Montreal, Canada, 19-22 July 1995.

10. Rietveld Summer School '95-RS, Moscow, Russia, 20-22 July 1995.

11. Sixteenth European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM-16), Lund, Sweden, 6-11 August 1995.

12. International Conference on Interference Phenomena in X-ray Scattering, Moscow, Russia, 14-19 August 1995.

13. Conference on Fundamental Principles of Molecular Modelling, Skukuza, South Africa, 20-24 August 1995.

14. International Conference on X-ray Powder Diffraction Analysis of Real Structure of Matter: Size-Strain '95, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia, 21-25 August 1995.

15. Summer School on Neutron Scattering, Oxford, UK, 12-21 September 1995.

16. The Sixth International Conference on Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules, Hiroshima, Japan, 12-17 November 1995.

17. International Seminar-cum-School on Macromolecular Crystallographic Data, Calcutta, India, 16-20 November 1995.

18. Asian Crystallographic School of Gems and Precious Materials, Bangkok, Thailand, 20-21 November 1995.

19. 2nd Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA '95), Bangkok, Thailand, 22-24 November 1995.

20. 1995 Asian Crystallographic Computing School, Bangkok, Thailand, 27-30 November 1995.

The Executive Committee met in Lund, Sweden, in August. The Finance Committee met twice, in Chester, UK, in April, and then in August in Lund immediately before the Executive Committee meeting, to prepare its advice and recommendations on finances, establishment and staff matters. The most important items of business dealt with by the Executive Committee at its meeting, and in postal ballots, were:

(1) editorial policy, pricing policy and subscription rates, approval of appointments of Co-editors, electronic publishing, special issues, and other matters concerning the IUCr journals;

(2) publication of the new Journal of Synchrotron Radiation;

(3) staffing requirements in the IUCr office in Chester;

(4) upgrading of office technology in the IUCr office in Chester and expansion of this office, provision of an IUCr home page on the World-Wide Web;

(5) cooperation with databases, including relations between the IUCr and the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and between the IUCr and the Gmelin Institut/Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe;

(6) the implementation of the Crystallographic Information File (CIF) for Acta Crystallographica and other uses of CIF, patent application and adoption of the STAR file and CIF by other bodies;

(7) progress with Volumes A, B, C, D and E of International Tables, approval of Volume A1 and consideration of possible further volumes;

(8) the IUCr Newsletter;

(9) the World Directory of Crystallographers;

(10) approval of publications, jointly with Oxford University Press, in the IUCr/OUP Book Series;

(11) approval of the audited accounts for the previous year;

(12) funding and uses of the Publications and Journals Development Fund and the Research and Education Fund;

(13) the General Fund estimates and the level of the unit contribution;

(14) investment policy;

(15) funding and uses of the Publications and Journals Development Fund and the Research and Education Fund;

(16) sponsorship and financial support for meetings, including young scientists' support;

(17) report of the Sub-committee on Statutes and By-Laws;

(18) applications for membership of the IUCr;

(19) discussion of the arrangements for the Seattle General Assembly and Congress and consideration of the Programme Committee proposals;

(20) review of the activities of the Commissions;

(21) proposals to establish new Commissions.

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