Crystallography Symposium
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In Liverpool University
Barkla X-ray laboratory of Biophysics was opened on 21st July 2011 by Sir Tom Blundell and Late Dame Louise Johnson. Charles Glover Barkla was a graduate and then a lecturer at the University. He made key contributions to the birth of X-ray physics and crystallography (http://www.biophysics.liv.ac.uk/X-rays_Liverpool.html), for which he received the 1917 Nobel Prize in physics. Arnold Beevers and Henry Lipson, who were also student and staff at Liverpool in the 1930’s invented the Beevers-Lipson strips which became the workhorse of crystallographic calculations (Fourier synthesis) prior to the emergence of calculating machines and computers in the 1960’s. A symposium is organized to celebrate the achievements of Lipson & Beevers in the presence of a number of family members of Henry Lipson. An X-ray exhibition will be opened at the end of the symposium celebrating the achievements of Sir Oliver Lodge (the first Physics Professor of the University, 1881), Barkla, Beevers & Lipson.
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Session OneÂ
Chair: Professor Anthony Hollander, Director IIB
10:30 - 10:40
Welcome: Professor Samar Hasnain, Max Perutz Professor of Molecular Biophysics Â
10:40 â€" 11:10
Eleanor Dodson, FRS (University of York) Â
Fourier Maps I have known; from Beevers-Lipson strips to Winograd Fast Fourier Transforms
11:10 â€" 11.20
Peter Strickland (IUCr’s Executive Managing Editor)
Lipson & IUCr
11:20 â€" 12:30
Session Two         Â
Chair: Prof Stephen Holloway, Pro-Vice ChancellorÂ
11:20 â€" 11:45
Mike Glazer, Vice President of IUCr (Oxford University)
Role of Lipson in Crystallography
11:45 â€" 12:10
Stephen Lipson (Technion, Israel)
My youth with Fourier Strips
12:10 â€" 12:30
Hod Lipson (Cornell/Columbia)
Fourier Strips: The dawn of bioinformatics
VOTE OF THANKS & GROUP PHOTOÂ
12:40Â
Professor Janet Beer, Vice Chancellor will open the X-ray exhibition celebrating the achievements of Barkla, Beevers, Lipson and Lodge at Liverpool
12:40 - 14:00
LUNCH & DEPARTUREÂ
