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School Programme

 Thursday 18th AugustFriday 19th AugustSaturday 20th AugustSunday 21st AugustMonday 22nd AugustTuesday 23rd August
07:30 - 09:00 breakfast
09:00 - 09:45modern approaches to programming
Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve (Berkeley)
intro to connecting programs together
Louis Farrugia (Glasgow)
dealing with overlapped data
Bill David (RAL)
Fourier methods
Lynn ten Eyck (San Diego)
programming for CIF
Brian Toby (NIST)
09:45 - 10:30using available tools
Louis Farrugia (Glasgow)
program suites
Harry Powell (Cambridge)
programming the science of crystallography
Ton Spek (Utrecht)
Maximum likelihood and its role in structure solution
Kevin Cowtan (York)
structure comparison, analysis & validation
Ton Spek (Utrecht)
10:30 - 11:00coffee
11:00 - 11:45scripting languages
Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve (Berkeley)
GUI design
Brian Toby (NIST)
Simple algorithms for Macromolecular Phasing
George Sheldrick (Göttingen)
refinement I - classical techniques
Lynn ten Eyck (San Diego)
testing software
Harry Powell (Cambridge)
11:45 - 12:30arrival & registrationmaintenance & development of legacy code
David Watkin (Oxford)
automated data collection and integration
Rob Hooft (Bruker-AXS)
automated structure solution
Tom Terwilliger (Los Alamos)
refinement II - modern developments
Dale Tronrud (Oregon)
Future of Direct Methods
George Sheldrick (Göttingen)
12:30 - 15:00lunch
15:00 - 15:45complete rewrites - when, why and how?
Jim Pflugrath (MSC/Rigaku)
operating hardware
Rob Hooft (Bruker-AXS)
symmetry in the modern world
Kevin Cowtan (York)
Rietveld refinement
Juan Rodriguez-Carvajal (CEA-CNRS)
depart for Florence (bus will be provided as part of Siena School registration cost)
15:45 - 16:30coordinate frames and operators
Kevin Cowtan (York)
integration
Jim Pflugrath (MSC/Rigaku)
powder crystallography - structure solution
Bill David (RAL)
statistical treatment of uncertainties
Dale Tronrud (Oregon)
16:30 - 17:15workshops/projects
17:15 - 17:20Welcome from the University of Siena
Marcello Mellini
17:20 - 17:30Welcome
Davide Viterbo (IUCr Executive Committee representative)
17:30 - 18:15Introductory talk
Ton Spek (Utrecht)
18:15 - 19:00Porting between Operating Systems
Harry Powell (Cambridge)
19:00 - 19:45Presentation of the Projects
Harry Powell (Cambridge)
"new" algorithms
Tom Terwilliger (Los Alamos)
pair distribution functions (PDF)
Simon Billinge (Michigan)
3 x student presentations3 x student presentations
20:00 - latedinner (Dinner in downtown Siena on Saturday 20th - included in cost of school registration)