IUCr 1996 Report - Int. Tables Volume D. Physical Properties of Crystals

Volume D is progressing steadily, if slowly. About two thirds of the manuscripts have now been received. Only one is missing for Part I (Tensorial Aspects of Physical Properties); there is still quite some work to be done to coordinate the various contributions, but it is hoped that this part will be sent to the Technical Editor before the summer of 1997. Two chapters are missing for Part II (Symmetry Aspects of Excitations).

Several authors of Part III (Symmetry Aspects of Structural Phase Transitions, Twinning and Domain Structures) have met once in Prague and several times in Aachen. Their work is progressing in close cooperation. A meeting was held in Nijmegen in February 1997 to discuss the proposed accompanying software. There was a very promising demonstration of the program to determine the independent components of tensors for any group (not necessarily crystallographic), for tensors of any rank, for spaces of n dimensions, n >= 3 (applicable to quasicrystals for instance), and for the representations of groups. A database of Equitranslational Structural Phase Transitions group-subgroup relations will also be included in the CD ROM. It is hoped that every manuscript will be received by the end of 1997.

Editor A. Authier

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