Old notices
These pages collect together notices posted on the IUCr web site in past years. They are retained for archival interest, but there is no guarantee (or likelihood) that many of the web links found in these notices will still be active.
IUCr news digest 4 July 2014
The International Year of Crystallography 2014 Symposium is fast approaching; join us at the University of Liverpool on 17 July for a full-day symposium dedicated to the science examining the arrangement of atoms in solids. Three separate sessions (you can attend all or just one or two) will celebrate the University’s award of an honorary degree to Professor Dan Shechtman (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011) as well as the contributions of Charles Barkla and Sir Lawrence Bragg. Charles Barkla, a Liverpool graduate and a staff member of the University, played a key role in establishing X-ray crystallography (Nobel Prize in Physics 1917) while Lawrence Bragg established its fundamental basis (Nobel Prize in Physics 1915). Only a few seats remain; book your place to attend this historic event by following this link.
The Royal Society of Chemistry and the International Union of Crystallography announce the Global Experiment 2014 “The art of crystallization”. Aimed at school children between the ages of 7 and 16 years, entrants will try and find the best conditions for growing crystals; find out more here.
The IUCr-UNESCO OpenFactory in partnership with STOE, DECTRIS and Xenocs will take place from 10 to 19 September 2014 in Darmstadt and Grenoble. Delegates will receive seven days of intensive training by STOE, DECTRIS and Xenocs staff and guest scientists in cooperation with the IUCr. The training will focus on teaching participants the relevant theoretical skillset as well as include practical hands-on training. The President of the IUCr, Professor Gautam R. Desiraju, said of this landmark event, “we believe this is a unique opportunity for young scientists to be trained and build up their network in the crystallographic community”. Interest in attending the course was overwhelming. The 21 chosen delegates from 19 nations have now been announced; more details can be found here. Registrations for the Anton Paar OpenFactory taking place on 22 and 23 September 2014 are still open; further information can be found here.
Finally, see this month’s editorial in IUCrJ, Crystallography, materials and computation [Catlow (2014). IUCrJ 1, 200-201; doi:10.1107/S2052252514014122] where Richard discusses the growing interest of structural studies in materials science and the important role of computation, “which now permeates all aspects of crystallography”; let us know what you think.
