ACA 1997 meeting

The ACA, the North American Affiliate of the IUCr, will hold its annual meeting in St Louis, MO, July 20-25, 1997 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, which is readily accessible from the airport (25 minutes by the light rail system at a cost of $l). Union Station, which celebrated its centenary last year, was the main rail station for the city until 1978. The station was renovated in 1985 to include a small shopping mall, a number of restaurants, and a hotel/conference facility, More details and the attractions will be provided via a Web page currently under construction at Web page: http://www.hwi.buffalo.edu/ACA/.

Plans for the scientific sessions are nearly complete. The formal sessions are scheduled to begin on Sunday, July 20; workshops will be scheduled for Saturday, July l9. Three awards - the Buerger, the Patterson, and the Warren - will be presented this year in a special session on Wednesday afternoon. The ACA symposium will address the new topic of Structural Informatics. A banquet is planned for Thursday evening. There will be no break in the scientific sessions for an organized excursion. A full outline of the program will be available in the next ACA Newsletter along with the call for papers. Abstract deadline is March 7.

For information, contact: Program Chair, B. Stallings (Tel.: 314-537-7236, e-mail: wcstal@ccmail.monsanto.com) or a member of the program committee: J. Barnes (Small Angle Scattering), H. Berman and G. Gilliland (ACA Symposium), A. Clearfield (Synchrotron Radiation), T. Egami (Amorphous Materials), S. Geib (Service Crystallography), E. Jabri (Young Scientists), J. Kelly (Biological Macromolecules), F. Ross (Continuing Education Comm.), T. Russell (Neutron Scattering), T. Siegrist (Materials Science), and D. Templeton (General Interest Group).