Re: Proposals for IUCr2026 in Calgary

Indeed Herb. Thank you for your feedback. Be safe and stay healthy Stephen

On 2025-02-12 10:25, Herbert J. Bernstein wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

  Stephen has raised an important point in saying, "Hopefully, US participants will not find themselves barred from attending."  One must be realistic and consider the possibility that it is highly likely that a significant number of U.S. scientists will either find themselves

barred from attendance or without the funds to travel.  The old planning estimate of 20% hybrid attendance may now be an underestimate.

  Regards,

    Herbert

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM Stephen K. Burley, M.D., D.Phil. via comcifs <comcifs@mailman.iucr.org> wrote:

Thank you James.

As IPC Co-Chair, I will not involve myself directly in planning  COMCIFS microsymposia, etc.

I will be happy to provide feedback as requested.

I fully endorse collaboration with CommDat to avoid an overly narrow focus.

Broader appeal will maximize the success of the Calgary Congress.

With the benefit of hindsight, I am relieved that the chosen North American venue is Canada and not the US.

Hopefully, US participants will not find themselves barred from attending.

Be safe and be successful Stephen 

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On 2025-02-12 00:59, James H via comcifs wrote:

Dear COMCIFS,

 

The International Program Committee for the IUCr2026 meeting in Calgary is now collecting proposals for Microsymposia, Keynote and Plenary lectures. The deadline for suggestions is March 1st. Please provide me with any suggestions you have, preferably by email to this forum.

 

Last time we effectively teamed up with the Commission on Data (CommDat) as our interests tend to align quite closely. So far CommDat have suggested:

 * Bridget Murphy (DAPHNE4NFDI) as a keynote speaker, with a related MS along the lines of "Coordinated efforts towards open data for global open science"

* An MS on combining data from multiple techniques in Integrative Structural Biology

* An MS on the rapidly changing landscape of electron diffraction data. An ED CIF dictionary is in preparation, so I think we should get behind this as a forum in which a report on that dictionary can be presented.

 

A topic which is becoming more relevant is machine-friendly representation of complex data sets, but this is rather too niche for a whole MS.

 

Thoughts?

James.

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