Crystallography Online: International School on the Use and Applications of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server

Crystallography online: International School on the use and application of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server

Lekeitio, Spain, 21-27 June 2009
Supported by the:

• Spanish National Committee for Crystallography
• IUCr Commission on Teaching Crystallography
• ECA Special Interest Group No. 5 "Mineral and Inorganic Crystallography"

The IUCr MaThCryst commission has organized a school on the use and application of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server, a full-featured series of tools and routines for the analysis of crystallographic, crystal-chemical and solid-state physical problems.

List of main topics

• Symmetry databases for point and space groups
• Applications of group-subgroup relations between space groups
• Crystal structure transformations and alternative descriptions
• Solid-state physics and chemistry applications of group theory
• Selection rules in spectroscopy; phonon selection rules
• Structural pseudosymmetry
• Symmetry-mode analysis of ferroic structures
• Domain-structure analysis
• Structural phase transitions
• Symmetry in ab-initio calculations

Lectures

• Mois I. Aroyo (Bilbao, Spain)
• J. Manuel Perez-Mato (Bilbao, Spain)
• Karen Friese (Bilbao, Spain)
• Massimo Nespolo (Nancy, France)
• Gervais Chapuis (Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Michele Catti (Milan, Italy)
• Yuri Kitaev (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
• Juan Rodriguez-Carvajal (Grenoble, France)
• Harold Stokes (Utah, USA)