Sponsored meetings
Acting on the recommendations made by the Sub-committee on the Union Calendar, the following schools and meetings have been or are being sponsored by the IUCr, mostly with financial support.
9 - 13 January 2006
International Workshop on Crystal Growth and Characterisation of Advanced Materials
Chennai, India
25 - 29 January 2006
Fourth European Charge Density Meeting (ECDM-IV)
Brandenburg, Germany
23 - 28 April 2006
RapiData 2006
Brookhaven, USA
8 - 12 May 2006
Third Moroccan School of Crystallography
Agadir, Morocco
9 - 18 June 2006
Structure and Function of Large Molecular Assemblies
Erice, Italy
18 - 24 June 2006
International School on Biological Crystallization
Granada, Spain
19 - 23 June 2006
Electron Crystallography School
Bangalore, India
26 - 30 June 2006
Fourth National Crystal Chemical Conference
Chernogolovka, Russia
9 - 13 July 2006
Thirteenth International Conference on Small-Angle Scattering
Kyoto, Japan
22 - 27 July 2006
ACA Annual Meeting
Honolulu, USA
6 - 11 August 2006
23rd European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM-23)
Leuven, Belgium
13 - 18 August 2006
Sagamore XV: Electron Charge, Spin and Momentum Densities
Warwick, UK
20 - 25 August 2006
Structural Chemistry - Indaba 5
Kruger National Park, South Africa
27 August - 2 September 2006
IUCr Teaching Commission Intensive School on Single-Crystal X-ray Structural Analysis
Siena, Italy
28 August - 2 September 2006
Structural Analysis by X-ray Diffraction, Crystallography under Perturbation
Nancy, France
1 - 4 September 2006
Tenth European Powder Diffraction Conference
Geneva, Switzerland
11 - 14 September 2006
XX Conference on Applied Crystallography
Wisla, Poland
15 - 22 September 2006
Workshop on Use of Monte Carlo Techniques for Design and Analysis of Radiation Detectors and Tenth International Symposium on Radiation Physics (ISRP-10)
Coimbra, Portugal
18 September - 22 September 2006
Aperiodic 2006
Miyagi, Japan
28 September - 1 October 2006
Crystallography at High Pressure
Dubna, Russia
6 - 13 October 2006
Fundamentals of Modern Methods of Biocrystallography - BioCrys 2006
Oeiras, Portugal
20 - 23 November 2006
Joint Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association and the Crystallographic Society of Japan
Tsukuba, Japan
27-30 November 2006
Workshop on Synchrotron-Light Applications in Biological Materials
Cairo, Egypt
14-19 January 2007 - postponed to 15-20 July 2007
International School on Theoretical and Mathematical Crystallography
Havana, Cuba
4 March - 2 April 2007
BCA Intensive Course in X-ray Structure Analysis
Durham, UK
16 - 20 April 2007
Latin American Workshop on Applications of Powder Diffraction and School on Methods of Powder Diffraction
Campinas, Brazil
22 - 27 April 2007
RapiData 2007
Brookhaven, USA
7 - 11 May 2007
6th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering (IXS2007)
Hyogo, Japan
20 - 24 May 2007
Fifth International Conference on Solid State Crystals and Eighth Polish Conference on Crystal Growth (ICSSC-5 and PCCG-8)
Zakopane, Poland
7 - 17 June 2007
Engineering of Crystalline Materials Properties: State-of-the-Art in Modelling, Design, Applications
Erice, Italy
11 - 15 June 2007
Crystallization: Focus on Membrane Proteins
Brookhaven, USA
11 - 17 June 2007
School and Workshop on X-ray Micro- and Nanoprobes: Instruments, Methodologies and Applications
Erice, Italy
1 - 6 July 2007
Gordon Research Conference on Electron Distribution and Chemical Bonding
South Hadley, USA
1 - 6 and 8 - 13 July 2007
First School on Materials Applications of the Organic Solid State (SMAOSS) and XVIII International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (XVIII-ICOSS)
Merida, Venezuela
2 - 6 and 8 - 12 July 2007
XVI International Conference on Crystal Chemistry and Diffraction Studies of Minerals and Workshop "Minerals as Advanced Materials"
Miass and Apatity, Russia
21 - 26 July 2007
ACA Annual Meeting
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
23 - 31 July 2007
International Conference on Neutron and X-ray Scattering
Serpong and Bandung, Indonesia
5 - 11 August 2007
13th International Summer School on Crystal Growth
Park City, Utah, USA
12 - 16 August 2007
VIII Latin-American Workshop on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials and Their Applications (LAW3M)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
12 - 17 August 2007
9th International Biology and Synchrotron Radiation Conference
Manchester, UK
22 - 27 August 2007
ECM-24
Marrakech, Morocco
2 - 5 September 2007
Symposium in Honour of Professor Dame Louise Johnson, FRS, DBE
Oxford, UK
3 - 6 September 2007
Advanced Methods in X-ray Charge Density Analysis: Extracting Properties from a Multipolar Refinement
Martina Franca, Italy
6 - 7 September 2007
Structure Elucidation by Combining Magnetic Resonance, Computation, Modelling and Diffraction (SMARTER)
Aveiro, Portugal
6 - 9 September 2007
Advances in Crystallography at High Pressure at Large-Scale Facilities
Chilton, UK
17 - 21 September 2007
Electron Microscopy and Multiscale Modelling
Moscow, Russia
7 - 9 October 2007
Diffraction Analysis of the Microstructure of Materials
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
8 - 12 October 2007
Synchrotron Radiation and Neutrons for Cultural Heritage Studies
Grenoble, France
14 - 19 October 2007
Quasicrystals - the Silver Jubilee
Tel Aviv, Israel
29 - 31 October 2007
MSA-GS-ANL Short Course on "Amphiboles"
Rome, Italy
4 - 7 November 2007
Eighth Asian Crystallographic Assocoation Conference (AsCA '07)
Taipei
28 - 29 March 2008
II International Workshop on Layered Materials: 'Structure and Properties'
Vercelli, Italy
30 March - 3 April 2008
Rietveld Refinement Training School
Durham, UK
6 - 11 April 2008
RapiData 2008
Brookhaven, USA
27 April - 3 May 2008
International School on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography
Gargnano, Italy
6 - 9 May 2008
12th International Workshop on Protein Crystallization
Quintano Roo, Mexico
26 - 29 May 2008
Fourth Moroccan School of Crystallography
Rabat, Morocco
29 May - 8 June 2008
From Molecules to Medicines: Integrating Crystallography into Drug Discovery
Erice, Italy
31 May - 5 June 2008
ACA Annual Meeting
Knoxville, USA
6 - 11 June 2008
European Charge Density Meeting
Gravedona, Italy
6 - 11 July 2008
10th International Conference on Quasicrystals (ICQ10)
Zurich, Switzerland
10 - 14 June 2008
Crystallization: Focus on Membrane Proteins
Brookhaven, USA
18 - 22 June 2008
Structure Determination From Powder Diffraction Data: a Hands-on Workshop on X-rays, Synchrotron Radiation and Neutron Diffraction Techniques including Experimental and Computational Aspects
Villigen, Switzerland
22 June - 5 July 2008
The Zurich School of Crystallography Bring Your Own Crystals 2008
Zurich, Switzerland
14 - 16 July 2008
First K.H. Kuo Summer School of Electron Microscopy and Crystallography: Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Macromolecular Complexes
Beijing, People's Republic of China
19 - 22 September 2008
European Powder Diffraction Conference (EPDIC-11)
Warsaw, Poland
19 - 26 January 2009
Second African School and Workshop on X-rays in Materials: Some Established Techniques and Practical Applications
Dakar, Senegal
1 - 5 February 2009
Role of Synchrotron Radiation in the Advancement of Materials
Red Sea, Egypt
9 - 11 March 2009
II Latin American Symposium on Polymorphism and Crystallization of Drug and Pharmaceutical Products (LAPOLC 2009)
Estancio de Sao Pedro, Brazil
28 March - 6 April 2009
XII Intensive School on X-ray Structure Analysis
Durham, UK
19 - 24 April 2009
RapiData 2009
Brookhaven, USA
18 - 22 and 25 - 29 May 2009
Second International School on Biological Crystallization and International School on Crystallization: Drugs, Foods and Agrochemicals
Granada, Spain
4 - 14 June 2009
High-Pressure Crystallography: From Novel Experimental Approaches to Applications in Cutting-Edge Technologies
Erice, Italy
8 - 12 June 2009
Symposium R on "X-ray Techniques for Advanced Materials, Nanostructures and Thin Films - From Laboratory Sources to Synchrotron Radiation
Strasbourg, France
11 - 19 June 2009
2nd School and Workshop on X-ray Micro- and Nanoprobes
Palinuro, Italy
14 - 19 June 2009
ICCOSS XIX (International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State)
Genoa, Italy
21 - 27 June 2009
Crystallography Online: International School on the Use and Applications of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server
Zarauz, Spain
29 June - 1 July 2009
International Conference on Neutron and X-ray Scattering 2009
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
4 - 11 July 2009
XX Jubilee International School on Physics and Chemistry of Condensed Matter
Bialowieza, Poland
10 - 20 July 2009
Advances in the Characterization of Industrial Minerals
Chania, Greece
13-17 July 2009
VII International School on Crystallography (Protein Crystallography)
Havana, Cuba
25-30 July 2009
ACA Annual Meeting
Toronto, Canada
26-31 July 2009
XAFS 14 International Conference
Camerino, Italy
16-21 August 2009
25th European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM-25) and Satellite Meeting on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography "Symmetry and Crystallography in Turkish Art and Culture"
Istanbul, Turkey
24 - 29 August 2009
International Summer School on Fundamentals and Basic Methods of Crystal Growth
Brasov, Romania
27 - 31 August 2009
Advanced Crystallography at High Pressure
Harbin, People's Republic of China
30 August - 12 September 2009
Zürich School of Crystallography
Zürich, Switzerland
9 - 11 September 2009
XIX Brazilian Crystallographic Meeting
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
13 - 18 September 2009
Aperiodic 2009
Liverpool, UK
13 - 18 September 2009
XIV International Conference on Small-Angle scattering (SAS 2009)
Oxford, UK
21 - 25 September 2009
Clay, Clay Minerals and Layered Materials 2009
Moscow, Russia
22 - 26 September 2009
Fourth Crystallographic School "Structural Analysis using Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction Data: Crystallography under Applied Constraints"
Nancy, France
25 - 27 September 2009
Summer Schools on Polycrystalline Structure Determination and Diffraction-Based Structure Analysis
Zakopane, Poland
22 - 25 October 2009
Joint Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association and the Chinese Crystallography Society (AsCA '09)
Beijing, People's Republic of China
28 - 30 October 2009
Charge Density Refinement and Analysis
Marrakech, Morocco
11 - 16 April 2010
RapiData 2010
Brookhaven, USA
18 - 22 April 2010
Powder Diffraction and Rietveld Refinement School
Durham, UK
18 - 23 April 2010
Adsorption, Absorption and Crystal Growth
Gargnano, Italy
2 - 8 May 2010
Third Annual School on Advanced Neutron Diffraction Treatment using the FullProf Suite
Tenerife, Spain
24 - 28 May 2010
Second International School of Crystallization: Drugs, Foods, Agrochemicals, Minerals, New Materials
Granada, Spain
24 - 30 May 2010
Diffraction at the Nanoscale: Nanocrystals, Defective and Amorphous Materials
Villigen, Switzerland
25 - 28 May 2010
International Symposium of Diffraction Structural Biology (ISDSB 2010)
Paris, France
25 - 29 May 2010
Second Chemical Crystallography Workshop
Ontario, Canada
3 - 13 June 2010
Structure and Function from Macromolecular Crystallography: Organization in Space and Time
Erice, Italy
6 - 11 June 2010
Gordon Research Conference in Crystal Engineering
Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire, USA
21 June - 2 July 2010
Summer Schools on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography
Nancy, France
24 - 29 July 2010
ACA Annual Meeting
Chicago, USA
8 - 12 August 2010
Third K.H. Kuo Summer School of Electron Microscopy and Crystallography: International Workshop of 3D Molecular Imaging by Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Beijing, People's Republic of China
8 - 13 August 2010
Sixteenth International Conference on Crystal Growth in conjunction with the Fourteenth International Summer School on Crystal Growth
Dalian, People's Republic of China
27 - 30 August 2010
12 European Powder Diffraction Conference
Darmstadt, Germany
29 August - 2 September 2010
26th European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM-26)
Darmstadt, Germany
19 - 23 September 2010
Structure Under Extreme Conditions of Pressure and Temperature
Knoxville, USA
26 September - 2 October 2010
International School on Aperiodic Crystals
Carqueiranne, France
9 - 16 October 2010
Fundamentals of Modern Methods of Biocrystallography - BioCrys 2010
Oeiras, Portugal
11 - 15 October 2010
IXS2010 - Seventh International conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering
Grenoble, France
31 October - 3 November 2010
Tenth Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association
Busan, South Korea
15 - 19 November 2010
XII Seminario Latinoamericano de Análisis por Técnicas de Rayos X (Latin-American Seminar of Analysis by X-ray Techniques)
Puebla, Mexico
23 - 26 November 2010
First North African Crystallographic Conference
Casablanca, Morocco
29 November - 3 December 2010
International School on Fundamental Crystallography
Montevideo, Uruguay
18 - 19 December 2010
Symposium No. 239 of Pacifichem 2010: Chemistry and Materials Science Under High Pressures
Honolulu, USA
26 March - 3 April 2011
XIII Intensive School on X-ray Structure Analysis
Durham, UK
3 - 8 April 2011
RapiData 2011
Brookhaven, USA
12 - 13 April 2011
Improving the Data Quality and Quantity for XAFS Experiments
Tsukuba, Japan
25 - 29 April 2011
School on Fundamental Crystallography
Mahdia, Tunisia
9 - 13 May 2011
X-ray Techniques for Materials Research - From Laboratory Sources to Free Electron Lasers
Nice, France
22 - 26 May 2011
Workshop on Crystallographic Software
Tokyo, Japan
22 - 27 May 2011
3rd International School on Biological Crystallization
Granada, Spain
23 - 27 May 2011
SMARTER 2 Structure Elucidation by Combining Magnetic Resonance, Computation Modelling and Diffraction
Aveiro, Portugal
28 May - 2 June 2011
ACA Annual Meeting
New Orelans, USA
2 - 12 June 2011
Electron Crystallography - New Methods to Explore Structure and Properties of the Nanoworld
Erice, Italy
2 - 12 June 2011
The Power of Powder Diffraction
Erice, Italy
13 - 17 June 2011
International School on Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering in Condensed Matter (REXS 2011)
Aussois, France
13 - 26 June 2011
Zurich School of Crystallography 2011 - Bring Your Own Crystals
Zurich, Switzerland
20 - 24 June 2011
XVII International Conference on Crystal Chemistry, X-ray Diffraction and Spectroscopy of Minerals
St Petersburg, Russia
2 - 6 November 2011
Workshop on Mathematical Crystallography
Manila, Philippines
7 - 18 November 2011
Third School of the Argentinian Crystallography Association
Bariloche, Argentina
12 - 25 November 2011
School of Crystallization and Crystallography for Latin America
Florianopolis, Brazil
21 - 25 November 2011
VIII International School on Crystallography and X-ray Diffraction
Havana, Cuba
11 - 16 December 2011
Workshop on Crystallography at the 6th International Conference of the African Materials Research Society
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
23 - 28 January 2012
Dakar, Senegal
25 - 29 March 2012
Powder Diffraction and Rietveld Refinement School
Durham, UK
22 - 27 April 2012
Brookhaven, NY, USA
23 - 27 April 2012
From Genes to Atomic Structures: an Introduction to Synchrotron-Based Structural Biology
Trieste, Italy
21 - 25 May 2012
Granada, Spain
31 May - 10 June 2012
Present and Future Methods in Biomolecular Crystallography
Erice, Italy
10 - 15 June 2012
2012 Gordon Research Conference 'Crystal Engineering'
Waterville Valley Resort, NH, USA
17 - 20 June 2012
Electron Crystallography School - New Methods and Applications
Stockholm, Sweden
17 - 20 June 2012
Fourth European Conference on Crystal Growth (ECCG4)
Glasgow, UK
19 - 23 June 2012
Insubria International Summer School on Crystallography for Health and Biosciences
Como, Italy
15 - 20 July 2012
Sagamore XVII - Great Potentials from Advanced Probes
Kitayuzawa, Hokkaido, Japan
28 July - 1 August 2012
Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association
Boston, MA, USA
6 - 11 August 2012
27th European Crystallographic Meeting
Bergen, Norway
24 - 27 August 2012
International Workshop on New Developments of Methods and Software for Protein Crystallography
Xi'An, People's Republic of China
27 August - 1 September 2012
International Summer School on Crystal Growth and Photovoltaic Materials
Brasov, Romania
2 - 6 September 2012
XXII Conference on Applied Crystallography
Targanice/Andrychow, Poland
2 - 7 September 2012
Cairns, Australia
2 - 7 September 2012
Kruger National Park, South Africa
14 - 15 September 2012
Applications of Precession Electron Diffraction
Manchester, UK
15 - 20 September 2012
European Charge Density Meeting ECDM 6
Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia
23 - 27 September 2012
Advances in Crystallography at High Pressures
Mito, Japan
25 - 30 September 2012
Hefei, People's Republic of China
7 - 12 October 2012
International Symposium on Radiation Physics (ISRP 12)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
20 - 27 October 2012
Fundamentals of Modern Methods of Biocrystallography - BioCrys2012
Oeiras, Portugal
22 - 27 October 2012
Crystal Structure prediction using the USPEX Code
Lausanne, Switzerland
5 - 9 November 2012
4th School of the Argentinian Crystallography Association
Santa Fe, Argentina
18 - 22 November 2012
Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt
18 - 23 November 2012
XIII Seminario Latinoamericano de Analisis por Tecnicas de Rayos-X
Santa Marta, Colombia
25 November - 3 December 2012
International School on Fundamental Crystallography 2012 (ISFC2012)
Uberlândia, Brazil
2 - 5 December 2012
Adelaide, Australia
8-11 January 2013
Biomolecular Forms and Functions: A Celebration of 50 Years of the Ramachandran Map
Bangalore, India
9-15 March 2013
Synchrotron Charge Density School
Chicago, IL, USA
6-14 April 2013
XIV Intensive Teaching School in X-ray Structure Analysis
Durham, UK
8-16 April 2013
Macromolecular Crystallography School 2013: From Data Processing to Structure Refinement and Beyond
Montevideo, Uruguay
21-26 April 2013
Brookhaven, NY, USA
22-25 April 2013
Accuracy in Powder Diffraction IV
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
30 May - 8 June 2013
The Future of Dynamic Structural Science
Erice, Italy
2-7 June 2013
Gordon Research Conference on Electron Distribution and Chemical Bonding
Les Diablerets, Switzerland
3-6 June 2013
EMU School on Minerals at Nanoscale
Granada, Spain
9-22 June 2013
Zurich School of Crystallography - Bring Your Own Crystals
Zurich, Switzerland
16-20 June 2013
Dynamic Structural Photocrystallography in Chemistry and Materials Science
Buffalo, NY, USA
13-15 June 2013
XX Conference of Serbian Crystallographic Society
Belgrade, Serbia
8-12 July 2013
International Workshop on X-ray Powder and Electron Crystallography
Patras, Greece
15-19 July 2013
Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering 2013 (REXS 13)
Oxford, UK
20-24 July 2013
American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting
Hawaii, HI, USA
29 July - 1 August 2013
International Conference on Structural Genomics 2013 - Structural Life Science
Hokkaido, Japan
4-10 August 2013
15th International Summer School on Crystal Growth
Gdansk, Poland
11-16 August 2013
17th International Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (ICCGE-17)
Warsaw, Poland
25-29 August 2013
28th Meeting of the European Crystallographic Association
Warwick, UK
1-6 September 2013
12th International Conference on Quasicrystals (ICQ12)
Krakow, Poland
8-11 September 2013
Advances in Static and Dynamic High-Pressure Crystallography
Hamburg, Germany
8-11 September 2013
11th International Conference 'Biology and Synchrotron Radiation (BSR)'
Hamburg, Germany
9-12 September 2013
Como, Italy
18-20 September 2013
XXI Brazilian Crystallographic Meeting
Goiania, Brazil
27 September - 1 October 2013
III International Conference Crystallogenesis and Mineralogy
Novosibirsk, Russia
30 September - 5 October 2013
Gulechitza, Bulgaria
30 September - 5 October 2013
8th International Workshop on Bulk Nitride Semiconductors 2013 (IWBNS-VIII)
Kloster Seeon, Bavaria, Germany
14-25 October 2013
School of Crystallization and Crystallography for Latin America (ECRISLA 2013)
Florianopolis, Brazil
23-27 October 2013
5th Moroccan School of Crystallography - EMC5
Oujda, Morocco
29 October - 1 November 2013; 4-8 November 2013
Cordoba, Argentina
11-22 November 2013
Cape Town, South Africa
7-10 December 2013
12th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA 2013)
Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
9-13 December 2013
Australasian Course in Macromolecular Crystallization 2013 (ACMC_13)
Melbourne, Australia
27-31 January 2014
School of Crystallization and Polymorphism
San Jose, Costa Rica
27-31 January 2014
Southern Africa Powder Diffraction Conference and Workshop
Johannesburg, South Africa
30 March - 3 April 2014
Powder Diffraction and Rietveld Refinement School
Durham, UK
7-11 April 2014
Electron Crystallography School - Introduction to Electron Diffraction Tomography
Darmstadt, Germany
8-16 April 2014
Macromolecular Crystallography School 2014: From Data Processing to Structure Refinement and Beyond
Sao Carlos, Brazil
27 April - 2 May 2014
Brookhaven, USA
27 April - 9 May 2014
International School on Fundamental Crystallography 2014 (ISFC2014)
La Plata, Argentina
10-15 May 2014
Hot Topics in Contemporary Crystallography
Sibenik, Croatia
26-30 May 2014
Granada, Spain
30 May - 8 June 2014
Structural Basis of Pharmacology: Deeper Understanding of Drug Discovery through Crystallography
Erice, Italy
10-13 June 2014
International Expo/Sir Workshop
Bari, Italy
18-22 June 2014
1st International Symposium on Halogen Bonding (ISXB-1)
Lecce, Italy
25-29 August 2014
Bloemfontein, South Africa
19-21 August 2014
New Quantum Materials of Novel Properties at Extended Pressure
Beijing, People's Republic of China
28 August - 6 September 2014
1st European Crystallography School
Pavia, Italy
15-19 September 2014
Crystallography in Material Science: Novel Methods for Novel Materials (EMRS Symposium N)
Warsaw, Poland
13-15 October 2014
XVIII International Conference on Crystal Chemistry, X-ray Diffraction and Spectroscopy of Minerals
Yekaterinburg, Russia
16-17 October 2014
Turin, Italy
27-31 October 2014
Symmetry Relationships between Crystal Structures with Applications to Structural Phase Transitions
Varanasi, India