2013
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IMA 2014 Call for Abstracts [posted 20 Dec 2013]
The organisers are pleased to invite you to the scientific session "Modular Aspects of Mineral Structures" to be held at the 21st General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA 2014, Sandton Convention Centre, Gauteng, South Africa, 1-5 September 2014)
IMA 2014 Call for Abstracts - The role of mineralogical sciences in the development of sustainable cement-based materials [posted 16 Dec 2013] The session organisers are pleased to invite abstracts to the session "The role of mineralogical sciences in the development of sustainable cement-based materials" to be held at the 21st General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA 2014, Sandton Convention Centre, Gauteng, South Africa, 1-5 September 2014)
10th Ewald Prize awarded to A. Janner and T.W.J.M. Janssen [posted 05 Dec 2013] The tenth Ewald Prize has been awarded to Professors A. Janner and T.W.J.M. Janssen (both from the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) for the development of superspace crystallography and its application to the analysis of aperiodic crystals.
Formation of the Asociacion Latinoamericana de Cristalografia (Latin-American Crystallographic Association) [posted 08 Nov 2013] A Latin-American Assembly, part of the First Latin-American Meeting on Crystallography held in Cordoba, Argentina, 29 October - 1 November 2013, agreed to the formation of the Asociation Latinoamerican de Cristalografía (Latin-American Crystallographic Association - LACA).
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 [posted 10 Oct 2013] The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2013 jointly to Martin Karplus, France and USA, Michael Levitt, USA and Arieh Warshel, USA for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
New wwPDB X-ray structure validation reports [posted 28 Aug 2013]
Final programme for ECM28 now available [posted 25 Jul 2013] The final programme for the 28th Meeting of the European Crystallographic Association (Warwick, UK; 25-29 August 2013) is now available.
Application Deadline is Approaching! 11th International Conference: Biology and Synchrotron Radiation (BSR) [posted 16 May 2013]
Student bursaries for International School on Aperiodic Crystals. [posted 20 Feb 2013]
The ICDD Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarships: 2013 [posted 13 Feb 2013] The ICDD Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship Committee has selected thirteen recipients for the 2013 Scholarship Program. These recipients were selected, on a competitive basis, from sixty-nine commendable applications received by the ICDD Scholarship Committee.
Student bursaries for APD-IV [posted 12 Feb 2013]
Through the support of the Executive Committee of the IUCr, the APD-IV secretariat is able to provide partial funding for travel and subsistence for bona-fide students to attend the Accuracy in Powder Diffraction meeting at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 22-25 April 2013).
Registration for ECM28 now open [posted 05 Feb 2013] Registration for the 28th Meeting of the European Crystallographic Association (Warwick, UK; 25-29 August 2013) is now open.
Tenth Ewald Prize - call for nominations [posted 04 Jan 2013] The International Union of Crystallography is pleased to invite nominations for the Ewald Prize for outstanding contributions to the science of crystallography. The tenth Prize will be presented at the Montreal Congress in August 2014.
Celebrating 100 Years of X-ray Crystallography [posted 02 Jan 2013] IYCr and Bragg Centennial websites now live.
