• Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Nanocrystals, Nanoparticles and Thin Films
• Functionalization and Size-Dependent Properties of Nanocrystals, Quantum Dots and Nanowires
• Processing and Templating of Nanotubes and Nanoporous Materials
• Tailoring of Polymeric Nanoparticles, Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposites and Biohybrids
• Nanosystems for Biological and Medical Applications
• Nanosystems for Sensing, Diagnostic, Imaging, Magnetic, Electronic and Structural Applications
• Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications
• Nanomaterials for Chemical and Catalytic Applications

Functional materials, smart materials, intelligent materials â€" whatever your chosen terminology - will be a key pillar of 21^st century technology. In recent years, nanostructured materials and nano-composites have become increasingly important because of their remarkable properties and growing areas or practical application. Various aspects of the mechanical properties of nano-materials, plus analytical and computational modelling in combination with comprehensive experimental analysis of mechanical behavior, are yet to be fully explored. In spite of the rapid progress in this field, the mechanical properties of nano-materials and composites remain terra incognita in materials science. In the field of massive and complex manufacturing we are now in need of materials, with properties, that can be manipulated according to our needs.

This conference aims to comprise a cross disciplinary summit that transcends departmental, institutional, industrial, public and private research organizations and global barriers and lends itself to the integration of research and education in the vital field of advanced materials. The conference will focus on the sectors of advanced processing, material characterization, modeling and simulation, properties, performance and device fabrication.

Topics include:

• Characterization
• Amorphous materials
• Composites
• Computation and theory
• Electronic properties
• Materials chemistry
• Mechanical properties
• Metals and alloys
• Polymers and soft materials

As a part of the commemoration of the International Year of Crystallography, the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CNSNT), Sathyabama University, is conducting this workshop.

Topics to be covered

• Crystallography and powder diffraction
• Characterization of nanomaterials using XRD
• Thin films (polycrystalline and epitaxial) and their characterization using XRD
  
• High temperature and high pressure XRS in materials science and metallurgy
  
• Applications of X-ray synchrotron radiation
  
• Grazing incidence X-ray reflectivity (XRR)
• Small molecule crystal structures
• Recent advancements in XRD
• XRD software for data analysis

To be held at the Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry SB RAS

The workshop entitled “Molecular materials: from fundamentals to applications” will focus on various aspects of research into molecular materials ranging from fundamentals to applications. The following topics will be covered:

1. Polymorphism in Molecular Materials â€" control, prediction, and implications for applications.
2. Crystallisation of molecular materials under ambient and non-ambient conditions
3. In situ studies of molecular crystals and molecular materials â€" diffraction, vibrational spectroscopy, lattice dynamics
4. Solid-state chemical reactions of molecular materials - mechanochemistry

In 2013 the British Council has launched a new five-year programme to encourage international research collaboration between ambitious young researchers from the UK and nineteen countries around the world. In 2014 the British Council in Russia is partnering with the Royal Society of Chemistry to organise and deliver a chemistry-themed jointly funded Researcher Links workshop which will provide opportunities for 40 early career researchers from the UK and Russia to interact, learn from each other and explore opportunities for building long-lasting research collaborations.

The workshop will provide a unique opportunity for sharing research expertise and networking. During the workshops early career researchers will present their research in the form of a short oral (or poster) presentation and discuss this with established researchers from the UK and Russia. There will be a focus on building up links for future collaborations and participants will be selected on the basis of their research potential and ability to build longer term links.

The British Council and the Royal Society of Chemistry will jointly cover the costs related to participation in the workshop of UK and Russian researchers, including:
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• UK researchers: travel (both international and local), accommodation, Russian business visas;
• Russian researchers: travel and accommodation.

Miscellaneous event costs will also be covered (including at least 2 meals per day).

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Application and Deadline

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Eligibility Criteria:
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Applications must be submitted using the Researcher Links application form
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Application must be submitted before the above deadline
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Participants must be early career researchers: Early Career Researchers are defined as holding a PhD (or MD) and having up to 10 years post-PhD research experience. They are equivalent to the ‘Recognised Researcher’ and sometimes ‘Experienced Researcher’ categories in the EU framework for researchers’ careers. http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/pdf/research_policies/ Towards_a_European_Framework_for_Research_Careers_final.pdf. Leading Researchers as defined by the EU Framework for researchers careers are research group leaders who are internationally recognised in their field.

Participants must have a research or academic position (either a permanent post, research contract, or fellowship etc.) at a recognised research institution either in the UK or in Russia.
Quality Assessment:
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• Experience and relevance of the applicant’s research area to the workshop
  
• Motivation and contribution to the aims of the workshop
  
• Description of the long term impact expected through the participation in the workshop
  
• Ability to disseminate workshop’s outcomes

Selection Procedure:

• Eligibility check
• Quality assessment

Notification of results:
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Applicants will be notified by email 2 months prior to the workshop.

Equal Opportunities

The British Council is committed to equal opportunities and diversity in all its activities and this includes the avoidance of any bias in the assessment of applications due to gender, disability, racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or religious belief.  Participants’ selection undertaken by workshop organisers must not contravene this policy.  Extra support to enable participation of early career researchers with special needs will be given.

Join VIB at its first conference on ‘Structural dynamics in cellular communication’ that will take place in an architecturally significant venue in the heart of Europe (Brussels, Belgium) from 9-10 February, 2015.

The conference will cover the latest advances in protein science, focusing on systems structural biology, the functional role of structural dynamics, the organization of complexes and key technological advances. During four plenary sessions this first edition will handle the following topics: Â macromolecular machines and assemblages; protein network dynamics; protein fluctuations and function; and membrane proteins and complexes.

Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Lewis Kay, University of Toronto, Canada

Sheena Radford, University of Leeds, UK

Brian T. Chait, Rockefeller University, USA

Susan Buchanan, National Institutes of Health, USA

Thomas Marlovits, Center for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany

Organised by the IOP Superconductivity Group The annual scientific meeting of the IOP Superconductivity Group brings together researchers in fundamental and applied aspects of superconductivity. The day will include invited and contributed talks and the Brian Pippard prize lecture. There will also be a poster session.

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Session A - Applications

Session B - Unconventional superconductors

Session C - Novel correlated states

*The 2014 BCA-BSG Winter Meeting will take place on the European Photon and Neutron (EPN) Campus (hosting the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and the Institute Laue Langevin), Grenoble, France on 15-17 December 2014. The meeting will be themed around opportunities for Structural Biology at large-scale research infrastructure and will include sessions addressing the combination of structural information from X-rays & neutrons in Structural Biology, Structural Biology on the EPN Campus, and Emerging Techniques in Structural Biology.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Arwen Pearson, CUI, Hamburg, Germany
• Cecilia Casadei, University of Leicester, UK
• Julia Richardson, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Selma Maric, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
• Stephen Cusack, EMBL, Grenoble
• Andrea Dessen, IBS, Grenoble
• Catarina da Silva, CEA, Grenoble
• Antoine Royant, IBS, Grenoble
• Gemma Newby, ESRF, Grenoble
• Manfred Burghammer, ESRF, Grenoble
• Matthew Bowler, EMBL, Grenoble
• Ulrich Zander, ESRF, Grenoble
• Estelle Mossou, University of Keele, UK/ILL, Grenoble
• Helmut Schober, Director of Science, ILL, Grenoble
• Elizabeth Duke, Diamond Light Source, UK

The first half of the meeting - supported by the UK Science & Technology Funding Council (STFC) - aims at presenting the strategic significance to the structural biology community of UK investment in large-scale research infrastructure. This part of the meeting will include visits to ESRF and ILL Experimental Facilities, a round table discussion and speakers including:

• Florent Bernaudat, Partnership for Structural Biology, Grenoble
• Harald Reichert, ESRF, Grenoble
• Colin Miles, BBSRC, UK
• Pamela Williams, Astex, UK
• David Scott, University of Nottingham, UK
• Adrian Mancuso, European XFEL, Hamburg, Germany
• Andrew Harrison, Diamond Light Source, UK
• Gordon Leonard, ESRF, Grenoble
• Trevor Forsyth, ILL, Grenoble

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The deadline for registration is the 8 December.

The programme includes a poster session. Contributions from younger and more senior scientists on any aspect of Structural Biology are actively encouraged.

 In order to help reduce the costs of attending the meeting, the registration fee (32EUR for students; 64EUR for regular participants) will include the cost of all meals during the meeting, including the meeting dinner on 16 December and as many participants as possible will be housed - at participants' own cost - in the cost effective ESRF/ILL Guesthouse. The registration fee also includes membership of the BCA for the year 2015.

Five Travel Bursaries, each of up to £200, are available from the BCA to support participation in the meeting by research students and postdoctoral workers who are BCA members. Please see http://crystallography.org.uk/prizes/bursaries/abbf-bursaries/ for details.

The XXII European Synchrotron Light Source workshop will be hosted by the ESRF on 25th and 26th November in Grenoble, France. The workshop programme will cover all relevant aspects of the design, construction, operation and improvement of synchrotron light sources. It will focus on storage ring based sources and will be divided into four parts:

Participation in the workshop is free of charge. As is the custom, the ESRF will cover two nights' accommodation for up to two participants from each institute.

The conference will cover research in all aspects of the chemistry and physics of organic solids, with lectures focused on the following topics:

• Crystallization Processes
• Polymorphism
• Crystal Engineering
• Pharmaceutical Materials
• Molecular Motions in Crystals
• Chemical Reactions in Organic Solids
• Biomaterials
• Crystal Structure Prediction
• Chirality in Organic Crystals
• Inclusion Compounds and Supramolecular Materials
• Mechanochemistry of Organic Solids
• Metal-organic Frameworks
• Nano-structured Organic Materials
• Organic Polymers
• Amorphous Organic Solids
• Liquid Crystals
• Optical, Electrical, and Magnetic Properties
• Industrial Applications of Organic Solids
• Experimental and Computational Techniques

Confirmed Speakers

• Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard University
• Kunio Awaga, Nagoya University
• Graeme M. Day, University of Southampton
• Robert Dinnebier, Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Research, Stuttgart
• Karl-Heinz Ernst, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
• Tomislav Friscic, McGill University
• Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo
• Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, University of California, Los Angeles
• Kenneth D.M. Harris, Cardiff University
• Masahiro Irie, Rikkyo University
• Bart Kahr, New York University
• Yuji Ohashi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Masami Sakamoto, Chiba University
• Lian Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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This International School will focus on the fundamentals of crystallization from solution and its applications to the field of the crystallization of biological macromolecules.

ISBC2015 will provide five days of lectures and practical demonstrations related to the crystallization of biological macromolecules, biominerals and biomimetic materials, with one full day devoted to case studies on the crystallization of membrane proteins, viruses and large macromolecular complexes

We invite students from all over the world to join us to learn from selected international experts, to hear case study presentations, to watch practical hand-on demonstrations, to participate in round-table discussions and to present their research results in the dedicated poster sessions.

The language of the School will be English.

The School will be held from the 24th to the 29th of May 2015 at Hotel San Antón in Granada (Spain).

Topics of the School

ISBC Granada 2015 will focus on the fundamentals of crystallization from solution and its applications for the crystallization of biological materials.

• Nucleation: Classical and non-classical approaches
• Crystal growth kinetics and mechanisms
• Properties of macromolecular solutions relevant to crystallization
• Screening: Searching for crystallization conditions
• Crystallization techniques: Batch, Vapour and Counter Diffusion, How do they work?
• Crystallization and diffusion transport: gels, microfluidics and microgravity
• Crystallization of large crystals for Neutron diffraction and tiny crystals for XFEL
• Polymorphism in protein crystals
• Robotics and crystallization
• Membrane Protein Crystallization: case studies
  
• Lipid cubic phase, bicelles and detergents
• Crystallization of Large Macromolecular Complexes:
• In vitro and in vivo studies of Biomineralisation processes

The 3rd School on Crystal Structure Determination from Diffraction Data Application on Powder samples is organised by The “Association tunisienne des matériaux et de l’environnement” and the “Unité de recherche de Chimie des Materiaux et de l’Environment”, Université de Tunis El Manar -Tunisia in collaboration with The Department of Structure Analysis, Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, The « Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes » (UMR 6226, CNRS - Université Rennes 1) and The DICAM Department at the University of Trento.

The number of participants will be limited to about 60 to ensure a convivial atmosphere, and the possibility to share dinners between all participants. The school will bring together specialists from the various sub-fields of crystallography and materials sciences with the aim to raise mutual interest and to teach under- and postgraduate students, young post-docs as well as senior scientists interested to be introduced to determination of crystal structure from powder diffraction data.

This school introduces the theory of powder diffraction and the methods available for crystal structure determination and for microstructure analysis from powder diffraction data (indexing, space group determination, structural and microstructural refinement techniques).

One unique aspect of this school will be the extensive use of computer programs during hands-on sessions dedicated to educational exercises.

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The Scientific advisory committee of the CS3D school is composed of: Prof. R. BEN HASSEN (Tunisia), Prof. V. PETRICEK (Czech Rep.), Prof. A. BEN SALAH (Tunisia), Prof. A. KABADOU, Dr T. ROISNEL (France), Dr. M. AMAMI, Dr M. PASTUREL (France), Prof. M. LEONI (Italy), Dr. Jan ROHLICEK (Czech Rep.).

The Organizers: Prof. R. BEN HASSEN, Prof. T. BEN AYED, Dr S. CHERIF, Dr M. AMAMI, Dr G. LASSOUAD, Dr H. CHAKER, Dr B. BELGACEM, Dr S. OUNI, Dr A. GHOUILI, Dr. L. BEN FARHAT.

The conference will be held 7-12 June in Santa Margherita di Pula (CA), Sardinia, Italy. The Sagamore XVIII will be focussed on:

• Advances in experimental probes for charge, spin and momentum densities
• Improved methods for improved densities
• Progress in DFT and theoretical methods for solids and related accuracy of properties of interest to Charge Spin and Momentum Density (CSMD)
  
• Topological Approaches: where we go
• CSMD at extreme conditions
• Charge and spin density analyses for Chemical and Crystal Engineering
• Functional materials: insight from charge, spin and momentum densities
• Dynamics: structure evolution and densities
• Nanoscale: structure, dynamics and densities - Electronic properties of nanomaterials
• CSMD in the life sciences (Understanding electronic and magnetic properties in bioactive
  compounds)
• What is the future of CSMD? (Round Table)

The continuously growing interest in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (inducing the European Commission to consider them Key Enabling Technologie) well merges the new challenges they are able to foster, through the design of novel engineered nanomaterials, their structural aspects and multifunctional applications at a multiple scale, and the need for the development of highly focused, advanced physico-chemical characterization tools. The complexity of state-of-art nano-objects requires the synergistic collaborations of all actors differently contributing to the appealing Nanoworld.
To.Sca.Lake aims at stimulating such a synergy by inviting chemists, physicists, material scientists, biologists, mineralogists and all the interested scientists, from the Academia and the Industry, to join in the fascinating context of Villa del Grumello, a superb location overlooking the Como Lake. This workshop is mainly intended to draw the attention of the “nano” community towards the potentiality of Scattering Methods, spanning from Small and Wide Angle X-ray (SAXS and WAXS) to Low and Wide Angle Light Scattering (LALS and WALS) Techniques. Particular emphasis will be given to innovative Wide Angle X-ray Total Scattering (WAXTS) methods, in the form of the Debye Function Analysis of nanomaterials proposed in the DebUsSy Suite of Program. Theoretical lessons will be dedicated to fundamentals, experimental and computational aspects of the methods, and will illustrate advanced cases of application in strategic fields. Demos and hands-on sessions will constituite a relevant portion of the whole program.
Participation will be limited to a maximum number of 40 attendees on the basis on “first come first served” criterion.

Monday Afternoon:
* Hans-Beat Bürgi (University of Bern, Switzerland)
    The Origin of Diffuse Scattering, Single Crystal Approaches (1.5 h)
* Norberto Masciocchi (University of Insubria, Como, Italy):
    Basics of Powder Diffraction and Non-Bragg Scattering (1 h)
* Antonio Cervellino (Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, CH ):
    Physics of X-ray Scattering and the Debye Equation (1 h)
Tuesday Morning:
* Ruggero Frison (ETH Zurich, Switzerland):
    Data Collection Procedures, Instrumental Requirements, Data Reduction Analysis (1 h)
* Antonietta Guagliardi (IC-CNR, Como, Italy):
    The Debussy Approach (Debye Function Analysis) (1 h)
* Maksym Kovalenko (ETH Zurich, Switzerland):
    Inorganic Nanomaterials, Synthesis, Characterization and Applications (1.5 h)
Tuesday Afternoon:
* Hands-on Session on Data Reduction and Database Generation (3 h)
Wednesday Morning:
* Nora Ventosa (CSIC-ICMAB Barcelona, Spain):
    Nanovesicle-based materials: synthesis, characterization and applications (1.5 h)
* Antonietta Guagliardi (IC-CNR, Como, Italy):
    Applications of the Debye Function Analysis (1 h)
* Jan Skov Pedersen (University of Aarhus, Denmark):
    Basics of Small Angle X-ray Scattering, SAXS (1 h)
Wednesday Afternoon:
* Hands-on Session on Model Simulation and Refinement by Debussy 2.0 (3 h)
Thursday Morning:
* Fabio Ferri (University of Insubria, Como, Italy):
    Basics of Light Scattering and Applications (1.5 h)
* Jan Skov Pedersen (University of Aarhus, Denmark):
    Applications and Demo on SAXS Data Analysis (2 h)

2014 International Year of Crystallography Celebration Meeting at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London

Organised by the IOP Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group (EMAG)

The bi-annual conference series 'Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials' has a long tradition in focusing on the most recent advances in the study of the structural and electronic properties of semiconducting materials by the application of transmission and scanning electron microscopy. The latest developments in the use of other important micro-characterisation techniques including scanning probe microscopy and X-ray topography and diffraction will also be featured.

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Contributions are sought in the fields of metallurgy and materials forming; energy materials in realistic conditions; response of functional materials under parametric load; materials under extreme or exotic conditions. Particularly contributions using an innovative approach in their application or from the novel upcoming facilities with unprecedented possibilities are desired.
The methods shall cover time and lengths scales from sub-picoseconds to days and sub-angstrom to meters, respectively.

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Topics will include:

In-Situ Processes Â

• Time resolved
• Complex environments
• Extreme conditions

Single Grain Resolved Studies Â

• Embedded grain characterization
• Grain statistics
• Orientation relationships
• Subgrains

Strain Scanning Â

• Strains and residual stresses
• Multiple length scales
• Grain resolved strain

Texture Â

• Three-dimensional reciprocal space mapping
• Texture evolution
• Local texture

Liquid, Amorphous, Nanocrystalline and Distorted Materials Â

• Pair distribution function
• Diffuse scattering
• Phase transformations
• Local structure

Materials Imaging / Tomography Â

• Real time imaging
• High resolution tomography
• Combined diffraction tomography

Exotic and Novel Experimental Developments Â

• Coherent beam diffraction
• Fourier reconstruction
• X-ray photo-correlation spectroscopy
• Ultrafast processes
• The future arrived: X-ray free electron lasers