BCA Spring Meeting

The Industrial Group of the British Crystallographic Association has organized sessions on Powder Diffraction Hardware, Search Match, and a JCPDS Workshop for the Mar. 29-Apr. 1 meeting of the British Crystallographic Association in Manchester, UK. The Chemical Group is sponsoring a session entitled "Crystal Engineering" with the author of a recent book on the subject, Gautam R. Desiraju, (Hyderabad, India), as an invited speaker. The Physical Group and the Biological Structures Group have organized sessions on "Anomalous Dispersion" and "Time-Resolved Laue Diffraction, Electron Crystallography and Cryo-Crystallography", and, jointly with the British Biophysical Society: "Comparison of NMR and X-Ray Crystallography of Proteins". For more information, contact: B. Beagley, Dept. of Chem., UMIST, Manchester M60 1QD, UK Tel.: 61-200-4522/4568; FAX: 61-236-7677 or J. R. Helliwell, Dept. of Chem., U. of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK Tel.: 61-275-4694; FAX: 61-275-4598.