IUCr 1997 Report - Meetings

The IUCr sponsored the following meetings held during 1997:

1. Fifth International Symposium on Protein Structure Function Relationship and Workshop on Protein Structure Elucidation, Karachi, Pakistan, 6 - 9 and 11 - 16 January.

2. BCA/CCG Sixth Intensive Course in X-ray Structure Analysis, Durham, UK, 7 - 14 April.

3. 26th International School of Crystallography: Electron Crystallography, Erice, Italy, 22 May - 2 June.

4. School on Direct Methods for Solving Macromolecular Structures, Erice, Italy, 22 May - 2 June.

5. Fifth European Powder Diffraction Conference (EPDIC 5), Parma, Italy, 25 - 28 May.

6. ACA Annual Meeting, St Louis, Missouri, USA, 20 - 25 July.

7. Sagamore XII Conference, Waskesiu, Saskatchewan, Canada, 27 July - 4 August.

8. Structural Chemistry Indaba II - Intermolecular Interactions, Skukuza, South Africa, 3 - 8 August.

9. Symposium on Organic Crystal Chemistry, Rydzyna, Poland, 17 - 21 August.

10. Seventeenth European Crystallographic meeting (ECM-17), Lisbon, Portugal, 24 - 28 August.

11. International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals (Aperiodic '97), Alpe d'Huez, France, 27 - 31 August.

12. Seventh International Conference on the Application of Density Functional Theory in Chemistry and Physics, Vienna, Austria, 2 - 6 September.

13. Rietveld Summer School '97-PL (RSS97-PL), Cieszyn, Poland, 5 - 7 September.

14. Fifth Oxford Summer School on Neutron Scattering, Oxford, UK, 8 - 18 September.

15. Conference on X-ray Scattering from Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Layers, Smolenice, Slovakia, 1 - 4 October.

16. Current Challenges on Large Supramolecular Assemblies, Athens, Greece, 31 October - 4 November.

17. Crystallography at High Pressure: the Next Steps, Grenoble, France, 21 - 23 November.

The Executive Committee met in Lisbon, Portugal, in August. The Finance Committee met twice, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in March, and then in August in Lisbon 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, format of offprints, and other matters concerning the IUCr journals;

(2) appointment of a Promotions Representative;

(3) cooperation with databases, including relations between the IUCr and the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and between the IUCr and the Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe;

(4) progress with Volumes A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H of International Tables and development of associated software;

(5) the IUCr Newsletter; the Tenth Edition of the World Directory of Crystallographers;

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

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

(8) investment policy;

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

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

(11) fiftieth anniversary of the IUCr;

(12) appointment of the Selection Committee for the fifth Ewald Prize;

(13) discussion of the arrangements for the Glasgow General Assembly and Congress;

(14) importance of crystallography.

Other items dealt with in this way were:

(15) consideration of a proposal to establish an Inter-Union Bioinformatics Group;

(16) 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;

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

(18) charges for visas;

(19) crystallography in Africa;

(20) use of financial support through ICSU;

(21) access to large-scale research facilities;

(22) review of the activities of the Commissions;

(23) review of the activities of Regional Associates.

Items concerning the Chester office were:

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

(25) upgrading of office technology in the IUCr office in Chester; provision of Internet services, domain site name, formation of an IUCr World-Wide Web editorial board, and establishment of mirror sites.

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