The school is targeted towards researchers interested in applying representational analysis for solving magnetic structures with neutron diffraction. Â The school will cover representational analysis and the theory of magnetic structures. Â The program will include both lectures and labs working with software such as SaraH and FULLPROF. Â This year, we will also cover magnetic symmetry tools developed on the Bilbao crystallographic server. Â Invited lecturers include Andrew Wills (U. College, London), Â V. Ovidiu Garlea (ORNL), Â Clarina Dela Cruz (ORNL), Â and Juan Manuel Perez-Mato (Universidad del Pais Vasco). Â Â Â

The school will be hosted at the University of Maryland College Park campus and participants can stay on campus at discounted prices. Â The school will begin Monday morning, August 3rd, and end Thursday late afternoon, August 6th. Â Â

The deadline for early registration is May 31, 2015. Â Attendance will be limited to 30 participants, so please apply soon. Â

The course will be taught by a number of tutors with expertise covering all aspects of the field, including Wulf Blankenfeldt (Braunschweig), Liz Duke (Diamond), Katherine Mcauley (Diamond), Bill Hunter (Dundee), Kevin Cowtan (York), Jim Naismith (St Andrews), Tracey Gloster (St Andrews), and Garry Taylor (St Andrews).

The School is intended for first year postgraduates or postdocs new to crystallography. The week is very intensive, and gives a concentrated overview of the methods which many find useful.

As in the past, priority is given to UK applicants because of the funding arrangements, but is open to a limited number of overseas applicants.

Applicants from industry are welcome, although an increased fee is charged â€" please contact us for further information.

Introduction to the theoretical background of the Rietveld method and principles of crystal structure refinement from powder diffraction data.

This six day long school aims to introduce participants to the way the information about crystal structure and sample microstructure is contained in X-ray powder diffraction patterns and how to get use of it.

The school provides a set of lectures, devoted to the main aspects of crystal structure description and fundamentals of powder diffraction. Main concepts, that Rietveld structure refinement is based on, will be covered as well.

Practical sessions are designed to initiate and promote basic skills for working with powder diffraction data and respective data treatment software. Tutors will be on disposal to help participants in the course of training.

The aim of the ESCG School is to bring together PhD students and young researchers from all over Europe and the rest of the world in a warm and stimulating atmosphere to introduce them to the fundamental concepts and mechanisms governing crystal growth processes. Nowadays, many schools, tutorials and brief courses on specific aspects of the growth of advanced materials are being offered to the International Crystal Growth community; however, the importance of raising the new generation of crystal growers with an in-depth knowledge of the fundamental concepts at the basis of crystal growth science is never enough emphasized. To fill the gap, the ESCG School intends to address the fundamental aspects of the science and technology of crystal growth, with emphasis on the fundamental thermodynamics, fluid-dynamics, kinetics and atomistic mechanisms ruling crystal growth processes; these mechanisms will be presented along with principles of crystallization from the melt, liquid and vapour, for application to the synthesis of bulk, epitaxial, and nanosized crystals. The ambition of the School is to give the attendees a unitary view of the science and technology of crystal growth, despite the many and apparently diverse materials fields it nowadays applies. Selected senior experts in the field will give the lectures, answer your questions and are available for discussions.

ESCG is also the official AIC School 2015. It will take place in conjunction with the Fifth European Conference on Crystal Growth (ECCG5), which will be held also in Bologna in the days after the School. We cordially invite you to participate in this school and mark the dates in your agenda.

Crystallography: Fundamentals, Online Tools and Applications

The European Crystallographic Association (ECA) and the University of Oviedo invite the world-wide crystallographic community (and all scientists and students working in any related field) to an intensive session of working together and learning crystallography from each other.

With help from our sponsors, we have achieved a registration cost of 570 euros (young academic, including accommodation and meals). We expect to have student bursaries available to reduce the cost further for a limited number of attendees. The number of attendees is limited to 90 students.

The application deadline is March 31st, 2015.

Programme

The programme schedule aims to answer the new and challenging requirements of the crystallography education and training during the 2nd century of modern crystallography. It is divided into four different modules:

Pre-school basic tools:

• Matrix calculus in crystallography
• Symmetry elements and symmetry operations
• Basic group theory
• Introduction to Reciprocal Space

Fundamental Crystallography:

• Symmetry groups and types of symmetry in direct space
• Space groups and their description in International Tables for Crystallography, Vol. A
• Group-subgroup relations â€" On line tools.
• Crystal-structure descriptions â€" On line tools.
• Crystal-structure relations â€" On line tools.
• Diffraction and Phasing.
• Diffraction Methods for Metal-Organic and Inorganic crystals.
• Diffraction Methods for biological crystals.
• Diffraction Methods for Nanomaterials â€" Electron diffraction.
• Diffraction Metodos for Magnetic Materials.
• Practical sessions on Online Tools â€" Tutorials : Sir/Expo-Janaâ€"Toposâ€"Fullprof

 Specific Subjects:

• Biological Crystallography
• Materials Crystallography
• On line tools â€" Tutorials: CCP4, SHELX, SIR

Hot topic Subjects:

• Time resolved Crystallography
• XFEL Crystallography
• Electron Crystallography
• Crystallography in the Space

UXSS 2015 is jointly organized by the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY and the PULSE institute at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The summer school program will be highly interdisciplinary, with topics ranging from accelerator physics to molecular biology.Please note that the number of summer school participants will be limited. In order to facilitate the selection of participants, we are asking applicants to provide a short text describing their educational and scientific background and their motivation for applying for participation in UXSS 2015. The applicants will be asked to pay a registration fee in the amount of 100 EUR. Accepted applicants will receive financial support for travel and local expenses, provided by the VolkswagenStiftung.

Please forward this announcement to doctoral students and postdoctoral research associates who you think might be interested in participating in UXSS 2015.

 List of speakers at UXSS 2015
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- Giorgio Margaritondo, EPFL, Switzerland: X-ray light sources

- Robin Santra, DESY & Univ. of Hamburg, Germany: Fundamentals of X-ray--matter interaction

- David Reis, SLAC & Stanford Univ., USA: Ultrafast X-ray application in condensed matter physics

- Linda Young, Argonne Natl. Lab., USA: Atomic and molecular physics using ultrafast X-rays

- Markus Gühr, SLAC, USA: Ultrafast chemical dynamics

- Simone Techert, DESY & Univ. of Göttingen, Germany: Time-resolved structural biology and chemistry

- Thomas White, DESY, Germany: Serial femtosecond crystallography

- Wilfried Wurth, DESY & Univ. of Hamburg, Germany: Ultrafast electronic dynamics in solids

- Ulf Zastrau, Univ. of Jena, Germany: Matter under extreme conditions

Structural Systems Biology - From Molecules to Organisms is organised by Joachim Herz Stiftung and CSSB Â

The CSSB Spring School will provide an introduction to advanced biophysical approaches for Structural Systems Biology.Â

• Courses in sample preparation and analysis, advanced microscopy, single particle analysis, structure determination at atomic resolution and modeling of structure and dynamic of complexes.
• It will allow young researchers (experienced students, PhD students and postdocs) to view challenging problems from interdisciplinary scientific topics like Infection Biology from various methodical angles. Â

With special topic: Phenix

The Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility (CMCF) is pleased to announce an intensive 5-day hands-on synchrotron data collection school at the Canadian Light Source. Participants will attend a series of lectures and be actively engaged in macromolecular crystallography (Mx) data collection at CMCF beamlines. Completing the school will enable participants to make effective use of the beamlines remotely and will better equip participants to collect diffraction data on-site. This year's invited speaker is Dr. Paul Adams from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He will guide participants through an in-depth look at using Phenix during structure solution. Participants should have a basic grounding in crystallography prior to attending the course. Given enough interest, an optional introductory review will be offered on Monday, June 1.

Epitaxy and Promises

Scope

Epitaxy allows nowadays the usual growth of nanostructures with unique properties. The control of their growth at the finest level is a challenge in achieving new systems. It involves both the understanding of the growth mechanisms together with the knowledge of the properties of materials at the nanoscale. It is a domain where both fundamental research and industrial issues are closely entangled.

This summer school is aimed at giving to Ph-D students, young but also senior scientists, an up-to-date overview on the epitaxy of semi-conductors. The basic growth mechanisms will be presented with an emphasis on the new developments in this understanding. The control of the growth using patterns, selective growth or new geometries such as nanomembranes, nanowires or sheets, will be reviewed. The properties of the epitaxial systems, already explored or expected, will be given both theoretically and experimentally with a description of the characterization techniques. The school will give the opportunity to review the most important achievements in practical applications of epitaxial nanostructures. A particular attention will be given to new trends and pioneering directions, as well as to new materials and devices.

The topics include growth, nanostructures, characterization, physical properties and devices.

Crystal Growth

Semiconductors epitaxy

Properties and characterization

Integration and applications

This summer school is dedicated to PhD students and young scientists. It will provide both a reminder of the basic understanding of epitaxy together with a description of its modern applications. It will explore the latest developments of the crystal growth at the finest levels, its potential together with its challenges. The opto-electronic and magnetic properties of nanostructures made by epitaxy will be described together with their characterization. Finally, the use of epitaxy both in new fundamental objects and in industrial applications will be explored.

Integrative Structural Biology tools for the study of protein-ligand interactions

Invited speakers and tutors:

Paul Adams, Berkeley, USA
Pavel Afonine, Berkeley, USA
Armando Albert, Madrid, Spain
Jose Maria Carazo, Madrid, Spain
Kay Diederichs, Konstanz, Germany
Paul Emsley, Cambridge, UK
Carmelo Giacovazzo, Bari, Italy
Xavier Gomis-Ruth, Barcelona, Spain
Juan Hermoso, Madrid, Spain
Eugene Krissinel, Oxford, UK
Rob Nicholls, Cambridge, UK
Maria Solá, Barcelona, Spain
Isabel Usón, Barcelona, Spain

Applicants:
The workshop has been designed for postgraduate, postdoctoral and research scientists that deal with macromolecular crystallography but need further knowledge on the routine uses and fundamentals that underlie the modern techniques for macromolecular crystallography. The topics will cover crystallographic computing and fundamentals using XDS, CCP4 and Phenix, as well as the state of the art on topics such as the strategies for protein production, phasing with ARCCIMBOLDO, SHELX and SIR2014, modeling with COOT and low resolution techniques. MCS2015 will provide five days and a half of lectures and workshops. The course is designed for 25 highly motivated students.

Requests to participate must be sent by a free-formated E-mail, before March 21, 2015 to the following address: [email protected], indicating the motivation to participate and including a letter of recommendation from PhD Director (only for PhD students).
Accepted participants will be notified by e-mail before April 4, 2015.

Organizers:
Armando Albert ([email protected] ), Juan Hermoso ([email protected]) and Xavier Gomis-Rüth ([email protected] )

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The proposed school will compare and creatively confront different modern approaches to highly charged, structured, and disordered Coulomb systems. Its primary purpose will be to merge the different theoretical, experimental and simulation approaches in order to progress towards a unified description of the electrostatic interactions in soft- and bio-matter. An overview of approximate analytical theories as well as sophisticated simulations will put the students in contact with the state-of-the art research in biophysics and will allow them to build connections between these different theoretical approaches, as well as with the available experimental data.

Besides a poster session, attendants will be also invited to give short talks about their research activity. This school is aimed at graduate students and researchers in the fields of statistical mechanics, materials science, biophysics and nanobiotechnology. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.

This school will be preceded on Sunday March 8 by a one-day minicourse by Prof. Jose Nelson Onochic (Rice University) on Energy Landscapes in Biophysics.

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Organizers / Lecturers:

Fernando Luís Barroso da Silva (USP-Ribeirão Preto, Brazil): On the peculiar electrostatic effects observed in protein systems â€" a computational approach

Roland Netz (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany): Hydration and dielectric effects at surfaces

Rudolf Podgornik (U. Ljubljana, Slovenia): Charge regulation and electrostatic interactions in proteins

Invited Lecturers:

Mathias Boström (University of Oslo, Norway): Hofmeister effects, Van der Waals forces and material modeling of cellulose in solution

Hernan Chaimovich (USP-São Paulo, Brazil): Trifluoromethane sulfonate as a surfactant counterion: properties and applications

Ralf Eichhorn (Nordita, Sweden): Theory of phoretic effects induced by the (counter-)ions in the system

Rosângela Itri (USP-São Paulo, Brazil): Protein interactions as revealed by small-angle x-ray scattering

Yan Levin (UFRGS, Brazil): Introduction to statistical mechanics of charged systems

João Ruggiero Neto (UNESP-Rio Preto, Brazil): Electrostatic and non-electrostatic features in the interaction of lytic peptides with model membranes

Jose Nelson Onuchic (Rice Univ.):Â Onuchic Minicourse on Energy Landscapes in Biophysics

SyncLight 2015, the São Paulo School of Advanced Sciences (ESPCA) on Recent Developments in Synchrotron Radiation will be held at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Source (LNLS) in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, between July 13-24, 2015.

SyncLight 2015 will bring graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers from Brazil and from many other countries together. The school is sponsored by the São Paulo State’s Research Foundation (FAPESP)and organized jointly by the LNLS and the American Physical Society (APS). The instructors are selected from currently active and leading researchers around the world.