Sagamore XX Conference on Quantum Crystallography

Sagamore is a prestigious conference that has been held triennially since 1964 under the auspices of the IUCr Commission on Quantum Crystallography (formerly the Charge, Spin, and Momentum Densities).

The Sagamore conferences have traditionally concerned interchange between researchers interested in property densities or distributions of materials such as the electron distribution, spin distribution, nuclear particle distribution, and electrostatic potential studied by the most accurate theoretical methods, and using the most advanced experimental techniques. There has been a focus on diffraction and scattering methods, and reconciling differences between the different methodologies.

The field has undergone rapid change in the last decade, with the term “Quantum Crystallography” being used to emphasize wave function based modelling methods. At the same time, both the quantity and precision of data have also increased due to advances in detector technology. There is a race to make the data from these methods available to general chemists, and to reveal new physical and chemical insights that may be exploited.

For the first time, the Sagamore conference will be held in India on the beautiful grounds of Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, one of the 12 Institutions of Eminence designated by the Government of India. A tour of the Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is also included in the program.

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