One Day Workshop in Crystallography

The first Workshop in Crystallography in Albania during the XX Congress of the Carpathian Balkan Geological Association

Organized by the Geological Society of Albania (GSA) and European Crystallographic Association (ECA) in collaboration with Institute of Crystallography-CNR (Bari, Italy).Â

8.30-13.00. Chairs: Dritan Siliqi and Enkeleida Beqiraj

• Welcome
• • Prof. Agim Sinojmeri, Faculty of Geology and Mining, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
    Dr. Michele Saviano, Director Institute of Crystallography (IC)-CNR, President of Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC), Italy
• One hundred years of Crystallography
• • Prof. Aldo Craievich, Instituto de Física, USP, Sao Paulo, Brasil
• Basic aspects of Crystallography
• • Prof. Aldo Craievich, Instituto de Física, USP, Sao Paulo, Brasil
• Crystallography and the phase problem: from small to the macromolecules
• • Dr Dritan Siliqi, CNR-IC, Bari, Italy.

14.00-17.30. Chairs: Aldo Craievich and Cinzia Giannini

• Powder X-ray diffraction: theory and applications
• • Dr Angela Altomare, CNR-IC, Bari, Italy.
• X-ray microscopy with Small/Wide X-ray Scattering (SAXS-WAXS) contrast
• • Dr Cinzia Giannini, CNR-IC, Bari, Italy.
• Atomic resolution Electron Microscopy methods in the study of Inorganic matter.
• • Dr Elvio Carlino, CNR-IOM, Trieste, Italy
• Scanning probe microscopy: theory, instrumentation and advanced applications to mineral and material science.
• • Dr Giovanni Valdré, Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

• Past, present, and the future of crystallography in Albania.
• • Short presentations and discussions