Meetings calendar
Forthcoming meetings
BCA Annual Meeting
St Andrews, April 6-9, 1998
Hot Structures, Exploiting Protein Crystal Structures for Structure-Based Drug Design, Supramolecular Chemistry, Twinning, The Alun Bowen Industrial Lecture: R. Snyder on Hardware Developments, Data Quality, Fit for the Purpose. Contact: P. Lightfoot, School of Chem., U. of St Andrews, Purdie Bldg, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9ST; e-mail: pl@st-and.ac.uk; http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/BCA/bcameet.html.
ICCBM-7
The 7th International Conference on Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM-7) will be held in Granada, Spain, May 3-8, 1998. Topics are: Nucleation behavior, Growth kinetics and growth mechanisms, Solution studies, Mass transport processes, Mass spectrometry, Molecular engineering, Crystallization of membrane proteins, 2-D crystallization of proteins, Surface modifications to facilitate crystallization, Physical properties of protein crystals, Microgravity and related techniques, Design of crystallization experiments and rotocols, Crystal characterization, Industrial processes, Mosaicity and resolution limit, Colloid crystallization and protein crystallization, invited lecturers, oral and poster presentations. Contact: FAX: 34 58 243384, E-mail: Iccbm7@ugr.es.
1998 ACA Meeting
The ACA will hold its 1998 meeting in Washington, D.C. July 18-23. The abstract deadline is March 6, 1998, and the Advance Registration deadline is June 1, 1998. Highlights of the meeting will be the Fankuchen Memorial Award and the 50th Anniversary of the IUCr Symposium including lectures on the history of the IUCr and the application of the technique in the areas of biology, chemistry and physics. The Transactions Symposium, Crystal Engineering, organized by M. J. Zaworotko and R. D. Rogers,deals with designing new classes of molecular sieves which may have applications in catalysis, chemical separation, drug selection and materials science. Confirmed speakers include S. B. Blackstock, W. T. Pennington, and A. Clearfield. Three workshops will be held on Saturday, July 18.
- Current Approaches to theSo lution and Refinement of Atomic and Near-Atomic Resolution Data. Speakers: G. Sheldrick, R. Miller, T. Spek, R. de Graaff, L. Ten Eyck, C. W. Carter, Jr and A. Brunger,
- Modeling Disordered Materials. Speakers: R. McGreeny, P. Gaskill, P. Vashishta and D. Drabol.
- Data Handling for Small Angle Scattering. Topics will include: High Pressure Compounds, Microcrystal Diffraction with Synchrotron Radiation , Crystallographic Databases, Synchrotron, Neutron and Other "Emerging" Tools Available for Small Molecule Crystallography, Crystal Growth: Techniques and Methods, Publication and Presentation of Crystallographic Results, Surfaces, Interfaces and Films, Non-Oxide Glasses, Colloids and Gels, Membrane Proteins, Hot New structures, Direct Methods Phasing of Macromolecules, Structure-Based Drug Design, CCD Detectors, Crystal Growth, Computational Methods, Problem Structures, Combining Scattering Methods with Diffraction and NMR to Solve Complex Problems, Modeling Small Angle Scattering Data, New Directions in Neutron Scattering Instrumentation for Protein and Membrane Crystallography Electronic Materials, The State of the Art in Fiber Diffraction, General Interest Group Symposium (GIGS) on different ways of thinking about crystal architecture and/or crystal nucleation and growth.
Predict-a-Crystal
A Leopoldina-Meeting on the topic "Can Crystal Structures Be Predicted?" organized by J. D. Dunitz (Zurich), P. Paufler (Dresden) and A. Nelles (Halle/Saale) will be held in Dresden, Germany, August 21-22, 1998. Invited lectures will be presented by K. Schwarz, I. Brown, A. Gavezzotti, W. Baur, H. Eschrig, and R. Boese. For information contact: A. Nelles, Deutsche Akademie der Nat Leo. PF 11 05 43, D-06019 Halle (Saale) FAX: 49-0-345-202-1727, E-mail: nelles@leopoldina.uni-halle.de.
Innovations in Materials Conference (IMc)
A new kind of international conference will be held in Washington, D.C., July 19-22, 1998, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel. The conference will be a venue for presentation and discussion of step-function, unexpected advances in all sub fields of Materials Research.
In addition, papers in one forum will discuss new ways to remove blocks to innovation from intellectual property arrangements to peer review to GATT. A second will accept papers on successful models for inter-institutional, including international, collaborations between and among industries, universities and government labs.
Also at the meeting, the Innovations in Real Materials Awards will he presented for research by an individual or team which has led to 'real' materials. Nominations and selection will be by members of the National Academies of many nations.
For information and submitting abstracts, contact: IMc HQ, FAX: 814 863 7040, E-mail: KathyMoir@psu.edu.
Rustum Roy, Pennsylvania State U.Prague-nostications for ECM-18
The state of the art of X-ray crystallography and prospects for instrumentation and methods development and applications in the next century will be the topics of the 18th European Crystallography Meeting (ECM) in Praha, Czech Republic, August 16-20, 1998. The topics covered will include Materials Science (Structure in Physics and Technology), Structural Chemistry (Chemical Crystallography), Structural Biology (Macromolecular Crystallography) and Foundations of Crystallography. There will be a special session to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of IUCr and Acta Crystallographica. The technical program will include hardware, software and databases, tutorials and commercial and non-profit exhibit s. The social program will include visits to glass-art factories and Bohemian castles and spas, wine and cheese tutorials and brewery excursions. There will be satellite meetings on Solution and Refinement of Di fficult Structures, Bratislava, Slovakia (August 12-14), a European Spectroscopic Conference, Praha (August 23-27) and the 6th European Powder Diffraction Conference, Budapest, Hungary (August 22-24). For more information contact the ECM-18 Conference Secretariat R. Kuzel, Fac. of Mathematics and Physics, Charles U. 121 16 Praha 2, Ke Karlovu 5, Czech Republic. FAX: 00420-24911061, E-mail: kuzel@karlov.mff.cuni.cz,http://krystal.karlov.mff.cuni.cz/ecm/ecm.htm or http://www-xray.fzu.cz/ecm/ecm.htm.
AsCA'98
The third meeting of the Asian Crystallographic Assn will be held in Selangor, Malaysia, October 13-15, 1998. Local Organising Committee Chair: A.H. Othman, International Organising Committee Chair: S. L. Chang (Taiwan), and International Program Committee Chair: T. Yamanaka (Japan). It will be a high-level conference on frontier topics in crystallography and is intended as a forum of all the fields of crystallography in Asia. Each day's program includes three consecutive oral sessions and a poster session. A variety of crystallographic contributions are welcomed. Topics to be discussed include synchrotron radiation, electron microscopy, neutron diffraction, powder diffraction, protein and virus structures, phase transition, crystal growth, film and surfaces and electron distribution. Further information is at http://telperion.otago.ac.nz:800/rweavers/ASCA/asca98.htm.
ERICE 1999
Crystal Engineering: From Molecules And Crystals To Materials
The 28th crystallographic course at the Majorana Centre, Erice, will be directed by Dario Braga, Bologna, Italy and A. Guy Orpen, Bristol , UK, May 12-23, 1999.
This course will follow the three principal steps of crystal engineering: design, synthesis and evaluation. It is intended to bring together those who have focused on the properties of crystalline materials, analysts of crystal structures, supramolecularchemists and crystallographers to describe and discuss their views on this rapidly evolving field. A few sessions will be organized jointly with the participants in the course on Data Mining.
For information contact Paola Spadon, Exec. Sec., Int'l School of Crystallography, Dept. Organic Chem., Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy; FAX: 39 49 8275 239, E-mail: paola@pdchor.chor.unipd.it; http://www.geomin.unibo.it/orgv/erice/crysteng.htm.
Data Mining in Crystallography
The 29th crystallographic course to be held at the MajoranaCentre, Erice, May 12-23, 1999, will be on the topic of "Data Mining in Crystallography" and will be directed by Tom Blundell, Cambridge, UK and Suzanne Fortier, Kingston, Canada.
This meeting will bring together researchers from the areas of crystallography, informatics and machine-learning for in-depth discussions of the fundamental concepts, methodologies and tools of data mining. These will be illustrated through presentations of applications in the crystallographic domain, including structure classification and prediction, structure-activity relationships and materials design. A few sessions will be organized jointly with the participants in the course on Crystal Engineering.
For information contact Paola Spadon, Exec. Sec., Int'l Schoolof Crystallography, Dept. Organic Chemistry, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy; FAX: 39 49 8275 239, E-mail: paola@pdchor.chor.unipd.it; http://www.geomin.unibo.it/orgv/erice/datamini.htm.
