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IUCr news digest 27 October 2014
The third IUCr-UNESCO Summit Meeting in the International Year of Crystallography was hosted by Professor André Roodt, Head of the Department of Chemistry, and President of the European Crystallographic Association, at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
More than 100 senior researchers, early-career researchers, post-doctoral fellows and students representing more than 40 research groups from 32 universities and more than 20 countries attended the Pan African Summit meeting. The meeting consisted of a 2.5 day conference followed by the 2 day Summit.
The conference looked at the current state of crystallography in Africa, presented via 15 keynote lectures and additional presentations from some 15 young scientists from English-, French- and Arabic-speaking African regions. The programme of the Summit focused on how to use crystallography as a potential vehicle to expand science in Africa.
Registrations are open for the IUCr-UNESCO OpenLab Hong Kong, which will be held at the HKUST Campus from 3 to 7 December 2014. The main partners of this OpenLab are Agilent Technologies and OlexSys.
The OpenLab HK offers an opportunity to provide impetus to develop the science and its practice in some of the less developed countries of the Asian region. Students from HK, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines have already applied. The deadline for registration is 31 October 2014. Participation is at no cost; however, a charge of US$300 is necessary as a Residential Fee for a single room on the HKUST campus for 6 nights (2 to 7 December). Some bursaries are available to subsidise the costs of accommodation and, where possible, travel.
Mars has been a subject of fascination and active study since at least the 19th century, and its surface and
atmosphere have been analysed remotely by optical and spectroscopic methods. The two Viking landers, launched in 1975, ushered in a new era of in situ exploration of Mars, which has continued sporadically since that time. Studies of the surface of Mars culminated in two very successful landed missions, the Mars Exploration Rovers (landed in 2004) and Mars Science Laboratory (landed in 2012). Tremendous technological innovations have come from these missions, but our advances are far greater than these and include new ways to look at our own Earth. To listen to a lecture by Professor David L. Bish, Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA on the value of exploring Mars to humanity, follow the link below. The event will take place on Tuesday 4 November 2014 at 5.30pm at the Leggate Theatre, Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool (Building 421 on the Campus Map), UK.
