Events
Schools
Powder Diffraction and Rietveld Refinement School
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In Durham
High-Pressure Crystallography: Status Artis and Emerging Opportunities. 49th Erice Course
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In Erice, Sicily
16th BCA/CCG Intensive Teaching School in X-Ray Structure Analysis
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In Trevelyan College, Durham
International School for Materials for Energy and Sustainability IV (ISMES IV)
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In Golden (near Denver), Colorado
Inelastic neutron scattering school
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In ANSTO, Lucas Heights NSW
The Bragg Institute hosts 13 neutron scattering instruments. The four spectrometers: Taipan, Pelican, Sika and Emu provide the capability to observe energy transfers between 1µeV â€" 60meV encapsulating science in fields as diverse as protein dynamics to phonon dispersion, from magnetic dynamics to observation of the hyperfine structure of the nucleus
During a one week intensive study course you will have the opportunity to perform cutting edge science on some of the world’s top neutron spectrometers. Scientists, engineers and technicians will be on hand to assist your learning experience, providing you with skills that you can utilise at neutron sources across the world.
Maud school on combined analysis
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In Trento
This international school will cover many aspects of the “Combined Analysis†by X-ray, neutron and electron scattering and X-ray fluorescence applied to material science, ranging from fundamental requirements to technically relevant industrial and academic applications. The combined analysis method has been developed over the years starting from the Rietveld method, extending it to most of the powder diffraction analyses and more recently incorporating, on the same idea, other techniques such as reflectivity, X-ray fluorescence and electron diffraction.
CINEMAX: Methods in Imaging of Material Microstructure. 1st International PhD Summer School
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In Hven in Oresund
Over 5 days, you will get introduced to data acquisition, 3D reconstruction, segmentation and meshing and finally, 3D modelling of data to extract physical parameters describing flow or mechanical properties. Teaching and exercises will take place in close interaction with top experts in the field.
Topics
- Experimental methods and applications
- Volumetric reconstruction
- Segmentation techniques
- Flow simulation
- Mechanical modelling
Deadline for registration for the summer school is June 30th, 2015
Application of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation in Engineering Materials Science
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In Hamburg
The school will provide a systematic overview of the application of neutrons and synchrotron radiation to the structural analysis in applied materials. All relevant experimental methods will be covered in a three-day course which will be followed by a two-day practical. The practical at GEMS/DESY in Hamburg will cover various diffractometers, SAXS instruments and tomography stations. Neutron data analysis will also be practised.
2015 PSI Summer School on Condensed Matter Research
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In Zuoz
ECRISLA 2015. Module II: Crystallography
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In Florianópolis
3rd Edition of the School of Crystallisation and Crystallography for Latin America
The proposed themes involve:
- all material science
- control and description of industrial crystallisation processes
- nanotechnology
- polymorphism
- co-crystallisation of drugs and
- tools for structural determination of solids (including amorphous) from powder diffraction.
Module I on Crystallization: 7-11 December
Module II on Crystallography: 14-18 December
Confirmed speakers:
Dario Braga University of Bologna
Fabrizia Grepioni University of Bologna
Norberto Masciocchi University of InsubriaAntonella Guagliardi Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Istituto di Cristallografia
Simon J. L. Billinge Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University and Physicist at Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory
Richard I. Cooper Head of Chemical Crystallography and Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.
Silvia L. Cuffini Institute of Science and Technology, UNIFESP
Helvécio Rocha Laboratório de Sistemas Farmacêuticos Avançados, LaSiFA
ECRISLA 2015. Module I: Crystallization
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In Florianópolis
3rd Edition of the School of Crystallisation and Crystallography for Latin America
The proposed themes involve:
- all material science
- control and description of industrial crystallisation processes
- nanotechnology
- polymorphism
- co-crystallisation of drugs and
- tools for structural determination of solids (including amorphous) from powder diffraction.
Module I on Crystallization: 7-11 December
Module II on Crystallography: 14-18 December
Confirmed speakers:
Dario Braga University of Bologna
Fabrizia Grepioni University of Bologna
Norberto Masciocchi University of InsubriaAntonella Guagliardi Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Istituto di Cristallografia
Simon J. L. Billinge Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University and Physicist at Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory
Richard I. Cooper Head of Chemical Crystallography and Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.
Silvia L. Cuffini Institute of Science and Technology, UNIFESP
Helvécio Rocha Laboratório de Sistemas Farmacêuticos Avançados, LaSiFA
VII School of the Argentinian Crystallography Association
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In La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina
IKZ Summer Course on Crystal Growth 2015
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In Berlin
Defect formation during crystal growth from melt and selected epitaxial processes
This lecture course gives an overview of the important defect types, their origins and interactions during the bulk crystal growth from the melt and selected epitaxial processes. The equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics, kinetic and interaction principles are considered as driving forces of defect generation, incorporation and ensembling. Results of modeling and practical in situ control are presented. Strong emphasis is given to semiconductor crystal growth since it is from this class of materials that most has been first learned, the resulting knowledge then having been applied to other classes of material. The treatment starts with melt-structure considerations and zero-dimensional defect types, i.e. native and extrinsic point defects. Their generation and incorporation mechanisms are discussed. Micro- and macro-segregation phenomena - striations and the effect of constitutional supercooling - are added. Dislocations and their patterning are discussed next as a central course theme. The role of high-temperature dislocation dynamics for collective interactions, like cell structuring and bunching, is specified. Additionally, some features of epitaxial dislocation kinetics and engineering are illustrated. Next the grain boundary formation mechanisms, such as dynamic polygonization and interface instabilities, are discussed. The interplay between facets, inhomogeneous dopant incorporations and twinning is shown. Finally, second phase precipitation and inclusion trapping are discussed. The importance of in situ stoichiometry control is underlined. Generally, selected measures of defect engineering are given at the end of each chapter. Monday, 13.07.2015, 09:00 - 11:00 Overview, melt structure and point defect formation Monday, 13.07.2015, 14:00 - 16:00 Dislocation background and definitions Tuesday, 14.07.2015, 09:00 - 11:00 Dislocation dynamics Tuesday, 14.07.2015, 14:00 - 16:00 Grain boundaries, faceting and twinning Wednesday, 15.07.2015, 09:00 - 11:00 Second-phase particlesProf. Peter Rudolph, Professor Dr. habil, Dr. Ing., was born at July 1st, 1945 in Gera (Germany). After high-school graduation 1964 in Berlin and subsequent study at the Technical University of Lviv (Ukraine) he received the Diploma of Electronic Technology in 1969. The PhD (Dr. Engineer) of Solid State Physics and Technology he obtained at the same university in 1972. From 1973 to 1993 he was employed at the Institute of Crystallography and Material Science of the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1978 he prepared μg-crystal growth experiments for the first German manned space flight. In 1979 he obtained the DSc (Dr. habil) of Crystallography at the Humboldt University. Here, in 1980 he became the head of the Laboratory of bulk Crystal Growth and in 1985 the university professor position. From 1991 to 1993 he was member of the expert group of the ESA on μg-melt growth experiments. From 1993 to 1994 and in 1998 he held guest professorships at the Institute for Material Research of the Tohoku University in Sendai (Japan). During these times he also co-laborated with numerous Japanese Companies. Then, from 1994 to 2011 he was employed at the Leibniz Institute of Crystal Growth (IKZ) in Berlin. After his retirement in 2011 he is still related active as crystal technology consultant (CTC) for research and industry. He published about 300 original papers, reviews, book contributions, and is co-author of 35 patents. Recently he edited the 2-nd volume of Elsevier´s Handbook of Crystal Growth. He held diverse guest lecture courses in more than 15 countries around the world. He acted also as lecturer of several International Schools on Crystal Growth of the IUCr and IOCG. Peter Rudolph has held various functions in the VfK (secretary), DGKK (president, head of working group), IUCr and IOCG (executive committee). In 2001 and 2008 his former teams won the Innovation Prize of Berlin-Brandenburg.
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Cristallographie Electronique
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In Villeneuve d'Ascq
La première école de cristallographie électronique organisée par la Sfmu en collaboration avec l’AFC se tiendra au laboratoire UMET de l’Université Lille 1 du 16 au 20 novembre 2015.
L'école porte sur la détermination des structures et des microstructures à l’échelle nanométrique par diffraction électronique dans un microscope électronique en transmission (MET). Elle concerne en particulier les développements récents associés à l’utilisation de nouvelles techniques d’acquisition et/ou d’analyse des données telle que la précession, la tomographie et la cartographie d'orientation. Les méthodes d'analyse de symétrie en faisceau convergent seront également présentées.
School on Single Crystals of Functional Materials and Their Applications
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In Chennai
SERC-School
SSN College of Engineering, Chennai will conduct the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi sponsored school for imparting training in basic and cutting edge areas in functional materials. For those interested in understanding crystal growth and thin film preparation of functional materials and feel its applications, the school will offer a rare opportunity to learn from eminent scientists in the field.
Tentative Topics:
A. Courses
(1) Crystallographic aspects of Materials and their functionalities
(2) Growth of single crystalline materials in different forms including thin films
  (a) Bulk growth Solution growth including Low Temparature and High Temperature Melt growth including Bridgman â€" Stockbarger, Cz, Float - Zone etc.,
    (b) Thin films - LPE, VPE, MOCVD, MBE, Sputtering, PLD etc.
(3) Introduction to Phase diagrams and phase transitions
    (i) Characterisation
    (ii) Structural (X-ray, synchrotron, surface etc.,)
    (iii) Optical (Linear and Nonlinear)
    (iv) Crystal Defects
(4) Growth Kinetics Theoretical and experimental aspects of crystal growth
(5) Nucleation and growth of thin films
(6) Applications
- Importance and challenge associated with selected functional materials
- Hetero structures of functional semiconductors
- Materials for white light emitting devices( including demonstration)
- Quantum wells and super lattices
- Magnetic and superconducting thin films
- Piezo, pyro and ferro electric based devices
- Thermoelectric based devices
B Laboratory
Hands on training of growing single crystals and realisation of devices
(1) Crystal Growth Training on Crystal Growth of single crystals by Solution growth, Melt grown crystals by Bridgeman method, Chokrolski method and Top Seeded solution growth method.
(2) Thin film Training on thin film preparation by PECVD, Sputtering etc.,
(3) Characterisation of the grown crystals
(4) Device fabrication of grown crystals
**This is a tentative program guide. Content may change slightly.
        Applications are invited from research scholars, post-doctoral fellows and young faculty with research interests in related areas, for participation in this school. Few final year students of M.Sc. and M.Tech. with strong motivation to pursue research in these areas will be selected.
        All the selected participants will be provided to and fro train fare and local hospitality. Interested persons should send the following to the school director through email or post,
(i) curriculum vitae including full postal and email address
(ii) brief write up of current research areas
(iii) list of publications, if any
iv) letter of recommendation from head of the department
(v) a short write up on how the candidate is expected to benefit from the school to enhance his research activities.
Neutron Scattering Applications to Hydrogen Storage Materials
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In Berlin
Neutron Scattering Applications to Hydrogen Storage Materials
SCOPE Energy research is an important scientific area today and hydrogen is one of the most promising sources of energy due to its highest energy density by weight. The efficient hydrogen storage depends on development of the new materials. Neutron scattering and -diffraction are powerful, non-destructive tool for the analysis of structure and dynamics in matter in a broad space and time domain. High sensitivity to hydrogen makes neutron scattering techniques ideally suitable to study the process in hydrogen storage systems. The goal of this school is to introduce participants to basics of neutron scattering techniques and show how these techniques can be applied for exploration of hydrogen storage materials.ÂThe school is organized jointly by University of Potsdam, Germany and University of Tartu, Estonia. It will be held from 17th â€" 26th of August 2014 at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Berlin, Germany.  The lectures and practical exercises will give basics to:
- Hydrogen economy and hydrogen storage technologies - Fundamentals of the gas storage  - Basics of the neutron scattering and in particular in-situ neutron diffraction - Characterizing sorption behavior of porous materials by ab-initio and crystal structure refinements
Lectures: M. Russina (HZB), H. Kurig (University of Tartu, Estonia), D. Többens (HZB), D. Wallacher (HZB), M.C. Schlegel  and Roman Svetogorov (NRC, Mocsow) Â
TARGET GROUP The course is primarily aimed at early stage researchers with basics knowledge in Thermodynamics and Solid State Physics. It is part of the curriculum of the Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences at the University of Potsdam, Modul 741A and is credited with 4 credit points.Â
NJUST/CCP4 school: From data processing to structure refinement and beyond
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In Nanjing
The first CCP4 Chinese crystallographic school will take place at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST). It will focus on macromolecular structure solution, refinement and validation from X-ray diffraction image data.
The school will cover many modern crystallographic software packages including CCP4, XDS and SHELX, taught by authors and other experts. It will be organized in three sections â€" lectures, tutorials and hands-on trouble-shooting.
Applicants: Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young scientists at the assistant professor level are encouraged to apply. Only 20 applicants will be selected for participation. Participants of the workshop are strongly encouraged to bring their own problem data sets or crystals so the problems can be addressed during the school.
Application information: The application deadline is Friday August 7th. The application form, the program, contact info and other details can be found at
http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/schools/china-2015/index.php
Fees: There is no fee for the workshop. The students will be responsible for their transportation and lodging. The workshop organizers can help make the reservations for hotel accommodation close to NJUST. The likely total cost for lodging and meals will be in the region of 2500 RMBs.
Data Processing and Structure Solution Workshop
The aim of this workshop will be to cover all aspects of the structure solution process in macromolecular crystallography, starting from data processing, through phasing and refinement, and ending with validation and deposition.
The workshop will cover many popular programs used for data processing and structure solution with the software developers available to help throughout the week. Programs covered will include: Mosflm, Scala, DIALS, XDS, Refmac, ArpWarp, Phaser, Coot, SHELXC/D/E, BALBES, MrBUMP, Buccaneer and many more.
Summer School for Big Data in Biology
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In Austin, TX
The Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics at The University of Texas at Austin is proud to host the 2nd annual Summer School for Big Data in Biology.
The Summer School offers intensive four-day workshops on diverse topics for analysis of large-scale DNA, RNA, and protein datasets. The summer schools provides a unique hands-on opportunity to acquire valuable skills directly from experts in the field, with courses tailored towards novices or intermediate and advance users.
This year we offer 10 workshops. Each workshop will meet for four half-days (either mornings or afternoons) for a total of twelve hours. Instructors will post lectures, datasets, exercises, and course information on a website accessible to enrolled participants. There will be no examinations, but participants may request certificates of completion. Academic credit will not be issued. Please carefully check the specified prerequisite knowledge before enrolling in a course.
Third CCP4-OIST school: From data processing to structure refinement and beyond
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In Okinawa
Software workshop: the workshop will be taught by authors and other experts, including Garib Murshudov (refmac), Victor Lamzin (arp/warp), Robbie Joosten (pdb_redo) and Phil Evans (aimless). It will be organized in three Sections - lectures, tutorials and hands-on trouble-shooting. We will also be covering the use of DIALS for data processing and the new ccp4 interface.
There will be model data sets available for tutorials but data, provided by participants, will have higher priority for the hands-on sessions.
Applicants:
Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young scientists at the assistant professor level are encouraged to apply. Only 25 applicants will be selected for participation. Participants of the workshop are strongly encouraged to bring their own problem data sets so the problems can be addressed during data collection workshop and/or hands-on sessions.
Application:
Application deadline is 22 August. Application form, the program, contact info and other details can be found at http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/schools/OIST-2015
Fees:
There is no fee for the workshop. The students will be responsible for their transportation costs outside Okinawa. Lodging will be provided at the OIST Guest House "Seaside House". The workshop will also cover the expenses for all meals and refreshments.
Crystal Shape Engineering - Summer School
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In Zurich
Modeling, measuring and controlling crystal shape
The course will be divided into five different topics, held by experts in the field:
Molecular ModelingÂ
Prof. Michele Parrinello and Dr. Matteo SalvalaglioÂ
Università della Svizzera Italiana / ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Mechanistic Growth Models
Prof. Michael F. DohertyÂ
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Population Balance Modeling Â
Prof. Marco MazzottiÂ
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Monitoring Particle Size and Shape Â
Dr. Thomas VetterÂ
University of Manchester, UK
Optimization and Control of Crystallization Processes Â
Prof. Zoltan K. NagyÂ
Purdue University / University of Loughborough, USA / UK
