IUCr Commission on High Pressure Online Meeting
9 September 2021 (3:00 pm CEST, concluded at 4:10 pm CEST)
Present: Members: Kamil Dziubek (Chair), Boris Zakharov (Secretary), Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Nandini Garg, Kazuki Komatsu, Amy Lazicki, Stephen Moggach, Guoyin Shen. Consultants: Ross Angel, Agnès Dewaele, Giovanni Hearne, Stefan Klotz, Haozhe Liu, Malcolm McMahon, Timothy Strobel.
1. Welcome and apologies for absence
2. Voting system in the 2021-2023 biennium
- Voting can be held in a virtual meeting or by email. In case of email voting, ballots must be emailed either to the internal CHP mailing list or directly to the Chair of the CHP.
- Time limits for email voting is established as one week from the voting start date.
- The voting is valid if more than a half of the CHP Members is present at the virtual meeting or, in case of email voting, cast email ballots before the poll closing time. Both Members and Consultants are eligible to vote and all votes have equal power. Decisions are taken by majority vote.
3. Discussion on the venue of the 2022 IUCr High Pressure Workshop
- NSLS-II (Brookhaven National Laboratory). Stony Brook University faculties could be potential local organizers and the local HP groups are quite strong.
- LLNL would be the first dynamic compression lab hosting. Cons: (1) background checks required to get onsite are quite heavy and (2) lodging and conference facilities are scarce and expensive.
- Alternative locations outside of the US. There are HP teams in Argentina, but the number of researchers is small and they lack humanpower, besides the economic situation is the country may be a problem. Mexico is an option with a strong crystallographic community, but no HP-dedicated groups.
Amy Lazicki commented on possibility of holding the workshop at Livermore, confirming that it would be probably too complicated. However, she mentioned several other institutions in the area that have high pressure groups, including Berkeley, Stanford and LCLS. Timothy Strobel asked when in 2022 is the target date and what is the expected number of participants. Kamil Dziubek responded that the Workshop is held usually in the second half of September to avoid overlaps with other international events and that it usually gathered 50-80 participants before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Haozhe Liu emphasized that the Stony Brook group could be considered a potential host. Stefan Klotz suggested that the Workshop can be held in a place outside the LLNL lab, but still close to the facility and organized by the Livermore team.
The CHP Chair and the American Members and Consultants were tasked to collect the suggestions of the local organizers, approach the potential local organizing committees and present the bids to the CHP before the end of October.
4. Status of high pressure research in Africa and perspectives for the future High Pressure Workshop in the African continent
5. Identifying CHP representation to the International Program Committee of the 2023 IUCr Congress in Melbourne
6. Progress on the high pressure data management requirements and metadata standards
- “Data deposition and validation: state of the art” round table discussion has been organized at the 2021 IUCr High Pressure Workshop in Novosibirsk, February 2021.
- Working group dealing with “standardizing” high pressure data in chemical crystallography was established (R. J. Angel and K. F. Dziubek — CHP; S. Coles, J. Helliwell, A. Sarjeant — CommDat; J. Hester — COMCIFS; D. Allan — DLS; M. Meyer — Rigaku).
- K. F. Dziubek talk "Using raw data to improve the interpretation of high-pressure diffraction experiments" was presented at the “When should small molecule crystallographers publish raw diffraction data?” satellite workshop to the IUCr Congress in Prague, August 2021.
- Article to the Journal of Applied Crystallography on the importance of raw data in high pressure crystallography is to be prepared.
7. Collaboration with other IUCr Commissions and Committees
- CommDat and Commission on Biological Macromolecules — Standardizing high-pressure descriptors in the macromolecular CIF dictionary and relevant annotations in the PDB.
- Commission on Diffraction Microstructure Imaging (future initiatives on multigrain crystallography in high pressure research in liaison with the CDMI member Sébastien Merkel).
8. Development of CHP website and e-resources (past events and CHP archive, software list, social media)
- A Google drive was set up to store, share and edit files related to the CHP activity.
- A preliminary list of software related to high pressure research was created with the intention of being included at the CHP website.
- The opportunity of creation Twitter account was discussed. Suggestions on possible ways of arranging the CHP Twitter account will be proposed to the CHP in the nearest future.
- The need to collect information (documents, photos etc.) regarding previous Commission activity and the CHP Workshops was expressed.
9. CHP logo and the website appearance
10. Liaison with the IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature concerning the production of the Online Dictionary of Crystallography
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