Satellite Meetings of the XVII Congress and General Assembly

Powder Diffraction

The 45th Annual Denver X-ray Conference and IUCr Satellite Meeting on Powder Diffraction will take place August 3-8, 1996 in Denver, Colorado. Contacts: P. K. Predecki, Dept. of Engineering, U. of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, Fax: 303-871-4450; and Lynne Bonno, Dept. of Engineering, U. of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, Fax: 303-871-4450.

Synchrotron Radiation

The Synchrotron Radiation Satellite meeting, August 4-7, 1996, Argonne National Lab, will cover a broad range of instrumentation and research applications related to the use of synchrotron radiation in crystallography. Local Contact: Susan Barr, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 604439, Fax: 708 252 9250, e-mail: barr@ani.aps.ani.gov. Program Chair: Åke Kvick, ESRF, BP-220, 380 Grenoble Cedex, FRANCE, Fax: 33 76882542, e-mail: kvick@esrf.fr.

Computing School

The 1996 IUCr Summer Computing School at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, USA, August 18-22, organized by the IUCr Commission on Cumputing, will focus on the latest computational techniques with emphasis on macromolecular crystallography. Contacts: Philip Bourne, Howard Hughes Med Inst/Biochem, Columbia U., 630 W 168th St, New York NY 10032, Tel: 212-305-3657, Fax: 212-305-7379, e-mail: system@cuhhca.hhmi.columbia.edu; and Keith Watenpaugh, 7255-209-1, The Upjohn Co., 301 Henrietta, Kalamazoo, MI 49001, Fax: 616 385 7522, e-mail: kdwatenp@upj.com.

Neutron Scattering

The Neutron Scattering Satellite Meeting will be held August 5-7, 1996, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. It will cover advances in instrumentation and applications to crystallography, materials science, and molecular biology, including reflectometry, small angle scattering, and inelastic scattering. Local contact: Susan Krueger, Reactor Radiation Div., National Inst. of Standards and Technology,  Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA, FAX: 1-301-921-9847, e-mail: Krueger@enh.nist.gov. Program Chair: John White, Research School of Chem., Australian National U., Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. FAX: 61-6-249-0750, e-mail: jww@rschpl.anu.edu.au.

The XVII Congress update

The XVII Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography will be held in Seattle, Washington, USA, August 8-17, 1996. The Congress has endorsement of the US National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, the US National Institutes of Health and is sponsored, in part, by the American Crystallographic Association. The support of a growing list of commercial sponsors is greatlyappreciated as it will make it possible to enhance the quality of the scientific program.

Call for Papers - October 1995

The Call for Papers will be either included in or posted with Vol. 3, No. 3 of the IUCr Newsletter in October 1995 and placed on the ACA home page of the WWW. The deadline for abstract submission will be February 1, 1996.

Topics and Categories

The latest revisions to the list of Topics and Catagories in the table are highlighted in bold print. The subjects of the plenary lectures and the microsymposia will be submitted to the Executive Committee of the IUCr for approval at a meeting in Lund, August 2-4 1995. Once those titles are established, the listof general topics and categories will be revised once more. The latest information on the Congress can be found on the ACA home page starting at URL http://www.hwi.buffalo.edu/ACA/

Visas

The IUCr meeting will be held in accordance with the principle of the universality of science upheld by the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU). This principle entails freedom of association, expression, information, communication and movement in connection with international scientific activities, without any discrimination on the basis of such factors as citizenship, religion, creed, political stance, ethnic origin, race, color, language, age or sex.

Please contact the US embassy or consulate in your country early to determine if you will need a visa. You will probably need a business visa rather than a tourist visa. If you intend to visit countries other than the USA during your trip, attach an itinerary with your visa application. For instance, if you plan to visit Canada in the course of your travel, you will need to get a multiple entry visa. The Congress announcement will be sufficient invitation in most cases. However, if you encounter visa difficulties or are told you need a personalized letter of invitation to accompany your visa, request it before January 31, 1996 from the Congress's organizing committee by contacting J. L. Flippen-Anderson, Code 6030, Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC, USA (flippen@roentgen.nrl.navy.mil).

Table. Revised Congress Program Categories and Topics