2015

The Commission continued to pursue the mission of spreading crystallographic knowledge related to artworks and ancient materials. During the first half of 2015 some IYCr2014 actions were continued through the effort of Commission members:

• Exhibition “IN THE UNUSUAL WORLD OF CRYSTALS”, organized by Alicja Rafalska-Lasocha, was shown in:
• January - in the Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS, Warsaw
• February - in the Institute of Physics PAS, Warsaw
• March-July - at Warsaw University of Technology (shown in several places)

Conferences, sessions, lectures

1. Organization of Microsymposium Cultural and historical aspects of crystallography at  ECM-29, Rovinj, Croatia - chair: Petr Bezdička http://ecm29.ecanews.org/programme/microsymposia/#ms50

2. Symmetry, light, materials: the crystallography of cultural heritage - invited lecture during the Microsymposium Cultural and historical aspects of crystallography at  ECM-29, Rovinij, Croatia: Gilberto Artioli

3. Tilings and Tessellations at Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran - invited lecturers JeanMarc Castera, Emil Makovicky,
http://isfahan.sciencesconf.org/

4. The Commission introduced and started to organize the CrysAC workshops: one-day thematic workshops which are planned to be organised each year in different places. The first CrysAC workshop, Cultural heritage authentication and forensic science, will be organised in Krakow (Poland) on 18 May 2016 - Alicja Rafalska-Lasocha, Gilberto Artioli, Petr Bezdička

5. Organisation of the scientific international conference 6^th Meeting X-ray and other techniques in investigations of the objects of cultural heritage which will be held in Krakow (Poland), 19-21 May 2016 - A. Rafalska-Lasocha, G. Artioli and P. Bezdička lectured). More at: http://www.biurokarier.chemia.uj.edu.pl/conf/x-ray16

6.Lectures on Crystallography and International Year of Crystallography delivered in Warsaw and Paris (Alicja Rafalska-Lasocha)

Publications

1. Powder diffraction in art and archaeology, International Tables, volume H, , (will be released in 2016), - Gilberto Artioli

2. Persian Variations published by Springer in Nexus Network Journal Architecture and Mathematics", January 2016, http://www.springer.com/-/3/AVIb2MkW2brxj7RSmPyA - - Jean-Marc Castera

3. Science of Crystal Structures: Highlights in Crystallography, Springer 2015, - Istvan Hargittai and Balazs Hargittai, Eds.

4. Culture of Chemistry, Springer 2015, Balazs Hargittai and Istvan Hargittai, Eds.

5. The use of XRPD for the investigation of historic pigments and painting materials in works by Henryk Siemiradzki (2015) J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 30(3) s. 751-758 - Alicja Rafalska-Lasocha

Continuing project

Celerino Abad-Zapatero continued collaboration with Mr. Painton Cowen to incorporate scientific content into 'rosewindow' site (http://therosewindow.com/TheRoseWindow2/Rose-numbers.htm)

In 2015 members of the CrysAC Commission (Gilberto Artioli, Alicja Rafalska-Lasocha) were invited to join the International Programme Committee of the XXIV Congress and General Assembly of the IUCr, to be held in Hyderabad in 2017.