IUCr XVII - Congress Program Categories

The titles of 105 microsymposia are listed here. Invitations to chairs and co-chairs identified on the table have been extended. The members of the Program Committee responsible for coordinating microsymposia are listed. Invitations to speakers will be extended by the session chairs. Microsymposia chairs have been instructed to reserve time for at least two or three papers in each microsymposium to be selected from contributed abstracts.

The following list will be used to organize all abstracts for inclusion in the oral and poster program and the published book of abstracts.

1. Instrumentation And Experimental Techniques
2. Methods For Structure Determination
3. Computing In Computational Modelling, Anaylsis & Molecular Design
4. Crystallography Of Biological Macromolecules
5. Biological Small Molecules
6. Organic Compounds
7. Organometallic and Coordination Compounds
8. Inorganic And Mineral Compounds
9. Charge, Spin and Momentum Density
10. Material Science
11. Structure/Property Relationships
12. Surfaces, Interfaces, Thin Films
13. Fiber Diffraction
14. Small Angle Scattering
15. Diffraction Physics and Optics
16. Crystal Growth
17. Characterization of Defects, Microstructure And Texture
18. High Pressure Crystallography
19. High/Low Temperature Crystallography (H. Hashizume)
20. Symmetry and its Generalizations (C. Johnson)
21. Topology
22. Databases
23. Teaching Crystallography
24. History of Crystallography
25. Other

Instrumentation and Experimental Techniques

1. Macromolecular Cryo Crystallography (I. Wilson)
2. Synchrotron Radiation I: Instrumentation and Techniques (A. Kvick)
3. Synchrotron Radiation II: Macromolecules (L. Johnson)
4. Detectors and Data Processing I: Macromolecular (L. Johnson)
5. Synchrotron Radiation III: Applications Time Resolved Micro-crystal High Energy (A. Kvick)
6. Detectors and Data Processing II (A. Kvick)
7. Neutron Scattering I: Applications (A. Albinati)
8. Electron Diffraction from Surfaces LEED, RMEED, PED, etc. (J. Steeds)
9. Neutron Scattering II: Instrumentation and Techniques (A. Albinati)
10. Combined Cryo Electron Microscopy and X- Ray Diffraction of Macromolecules (I. Wilson)
11. Other (H. Hashizume)

Methods for Structure Determination

1. Difficult Crystals: Data Collection, Reduction and Refinement (J. Flippen)
2. Laue/Time Resolved: Macromolecular Crystallography (L. Johnson)
3. Direct Methods Of Phase Determination (D. Dorset)
4. MAD and MIR: Macromolecular Phasing (L. Johnson)
5. Structure Determination Using Powder Data (R. Hill)
6. Macromolecular Ab Initio Phasing (L. Johnson)
7. Metalloproteins X-Ray and EXAFS Studies (L. Johnson)
8. NMR (J. Flippen)
9. Other (W. Duax)

Computing in Computational Modelling, Anaylsis and Molecular Design

1. Computing I: The Internet (P. Bourne)
2. Computing II: General Advances and Application (P. Bourne)
3. Computing III: Macromolecular Map Fitting And Modification (L. Johnson)
4. Computing IV: Macromolecular Refinement/Water/High Resolution Structures (L. Johnson)
5. Computing V: Macromolecular Homology Modelling, Structural Families and Docking (L. Johnson)
6. Computing VI: Materials Research (P. Bourne)
7. Graphics And Virtual Reality (G. Kruger)
8. Other (G. Kruger)

Crystallography of Biological Macromolecules

1. Enzymes (L. Johnson)
2. Metalloenzymes (L. Johnson)
3. (a) Membrane Proteins I: Workshop On Methods (I. Wilson)
   (b) Membrane Proteins II: (I. Wilson)
4. Nucleic Acids (I. Wilson)
5. Protein - DNA (I. Wilson)
6. Protein - RNA (I. Wilson)
7. Hot Macromolecular Structures (Wilson/Johnson)
8. Macromolecular Assemblies (I. Wilson)
9. Viruses (I. Wilson)
10. Receptors/Signal Transduction (I. Wilson)
11. Protein-Carbohydrate Structures (L. Johnson)
12. Drug Design II: Macromolecule Based (I. Wilson)
13. Muscle And Motor Proteins (I. Wilson)
14. Protein Design and Engineering (I. Wilson)
15. Immune System (I. Wilson)
16. Protein Folding And Extremophiles (L. Johnson)
17. Analysis and Structure Of Macromolecules (L. Johnson)
18. Other (I. Wilson)

Biological Small Molecules

1. Drug Design I: Small Molecule Based (J. Flippen)
2. Peptides (J. Flippen)
3. CNS Agents (J. Flippen)
4. Antibiotics (J. Flippen)
5. Steroids (J. Flippen)
6. Other Natural Products (J. Flippen)
7. Other Synthetics (J. Flippen)
8. Exotic Molecules - Biological (J. Flippen)

Organic Compounds

1. Organic Compounds (J. Flippen)
2. Sugars (J. Flippen)
3. Lipids (J. Flippen)
4. Alkaloids (J. Flippen)
5. Other Fused Rings (J. Flippen)
6. Supramolecular Structures (J. Flippen)
7. Inclusion Compounds and Complexes (J. Flippen)
8. Intercalated Structures (J. Flippen)
9. Exotic Molecules - Organic (J. Flippen)
10. Other (J. Flippen)

Organometallic and Coordination Compounds

1. Organometallic Chemistry And Coordination Compounds (J. Howard)
2. Single Metal Ion (J. Howard)
3. Two or more Metal Ions (J. Howard)
4. Metal Clusters (J. Howard)
5. Exotic Molecules - Organometallic (J. Howard)
6. Other (J. Howard)

Inorganic and Mineral Compounds

1. Inorganic And Mineral Compounds (J. Howard)
2. Inorganic Compounds (J. Howard)
3. Minerals (J. Howard)
4. Engineering Inorganic Crystals (J. Howard)
5. Systematics of Organics and Analysis (J. Howard)
6. Exotic Molecules - Inorganic/Mineral (J. Howard)
7. Other (J. Howard)

Charge, Spin and Momentum Density

1. Charge, Spin & Momentum Density I: Multipole and Maximum Entropy Refinement (D. Feil)
2. Charge, Spin and Momentum Density II: Comparison Of Theory With Experiment (K. Hermansson)
3. Charge Density Distribution III: High Resolution Electron Microscopy (D. Feil)
4. Charge, Spin and Momentum Density IV: > Magnetization Densities (D. Feil)

Material Science

1. Materials I Advanced Ceramics and Composites (G. Chapuis)
2. Materials II Non Crystalline Systems (G. Chapuis)
3. Materials III Strain And Stress Measurements (J. Jorgensen)
4. Materials IV Aperiodic Structures and Incommensurate Phases (G. Chapuis)
5. Materials V High Tc Superconducting Materials (D. Cox)
6. Materials VI Giant Magnetoresistive Materials (J. Jorgensen)
7. Materials VII Optic/Electronic Materials (D. Cox)
8. Materials VIII Powder Diffraction (R. Hill)
9. Materials IX Techniques, Real Time in situ Reaction Chemistry (J. Jorgensen)
10. Materials X Pore Framework Structures (D. Cox)
11. Materials XI Fullerenes (D. Cox)
12. Materials XII Local Order and Defect Scattering in Crystals (D. Cox)
13. Materials XIII Advanced Battery and Fuel Cell Materials (D. Cox)
14. Catalysis (J. Jorgensen)
15. Other (D. Cox)

Structure/Property Relationships

1. Molecular Recognition (J. Lipkowski)
2. Chemical Crystallography Of The Future: Open Commission (J. Flippen)
3. Dynamic Properties In Molecular Crystals (J. Howard)
4. Solid State Reactions: Structural Thermodynamics and Kinetic Aspects (J. Howard)
5. Phase Transitions (J. Howard)
6. Analysis of Atomic Displacement Parameters (J. Flippen)
7. Intermolecular Interactions (J. Flippen)
8. Chiral Compounds of Industrial Interest (J. Flippen)
9. Structure and Chemical Reactivity (J. Flippen)
10. Other (J. Lipkowski)

Surfaces, Interfaces, Thin Films

1. Surfaces I: Surface and Interface Crystallography (I. Robinson)
2. Surfaces II: Thin Films and Multilayers (I. Robinson)
3. Surfaces III: X-Ray and Neutron Reflectivity (I. Robinson)
4. Other (I. Robinson)

Fiber Diffraction

1. Fiber I: Synthetic Polymers (K. Gardner)
2. Fiber II: Non Periodic and Disordered Polymers (K. Gardner)
3. Fiber III: Methods of Structure Determination (D. Dorset)
4. Fiber IV: Fiber Diffraction Biological Polymers (R. Millane)
5. Other (K. Gardner)

Small Angle Scattering

1. Small Angle Scattering I: Tools and Techniques (J. Barnes)
2. Small Angle Scattering II: Applications (M. Caffrey)
3. Other (M. Caffrey)

Diffraction Physics and Optics

1. Diffraction Physics I: Neutron and X-Ray Optics (A. Albinati)
2. Diffraction Physics II - Magnetic Structures with Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation (A. Albinati)
3. Scattering Phenomena Inelastic, Anistropic Resonant Magnetic, Etc. (A. Albinati)
4. Interferometry (A. Albinati)
5. Polarization Generation And Exploitation (A. Albinati)
6. Extinction And Absorption (A. Albinati)
7. Other (A. Albinati)

Crystal Growth

1. Crystal Growth I: Macromolecular Crystallization Workshop (I. Wilson)
2. Crystal Growth II: Fundamentals (H. Klapper)
3. Crystal Growth III Methods/Materials (H. Klapper)
4. Crystal Growth IV: Controling and Predicting Crystal Morphology (H. Klapper)
5. Macromolecular Crystal Growth Under Microgravity (I. Wilson)
6. Crystal Growth From Solution And Melt (H. Klapper)
7. Epitaxial Growth, Doping and Imperfections (H. Klapper)
8. Twinning (H. Klapper)
9. Inorganic, Organic and Biological Compounds (J. Flippen)
10. Other (H. Klapper)

Characterization of Defects, Microstructure and Texture

1. Characterization Of Defects, Microstructure and Texture (J. Steeds)
2. Theory, Techniques and Instrumentation (G. Chapuis)
3. Applications (G. Chapuis)
4. Other (G. Chapuis)

High Pressure Crystallography

1. High Pressure I: Elements and Simple Compounds (R. Nelmes)
2. High Pressure II: Microbeam Techniques (R. Nelmes)
3. High Pressure III: Molecules, Ices and Minerals (R. Nelmes)
4. High Pressure IV: Pressure Cells and Sample Conditions (R. Nelmes)
5. High Pressure V: New Frontiers (R. Nelmes)
6. High Pressure VI: Data Collection and Analysis (R. Nelmes)
7. Other (R. Nelmes)

High/Low Temperature Crystallography (H. Hashizume)

Symmetry and its Generalizations (C. Johnson)

Topology

1. Topology I: Group Theory and Toplogy (C. Johnson)
2. Topology II: Critical Point (C. Johnson)
3. Other (C. Johnson)

Databases

1. Databases I: Small Molecule (J. Flippen)
2. Databases II: Inorganic, Powder, Polymer, Other (J. Rodgers)
3. Databases III: 25 Years of PDB (J. Rodgers)

Teaching Crystallography

1. Teaching Crystallography (L. Aslanov)

History of Crystallography

1. 100 Years Of X-Rays (L. Aslanov)

Other

• OPEN COMMISSION MEETING
• International Tables (T. Hahn)
• Journals (C. Bugg)

This information last updated Jan. 11, 1996