You’re invited to the 77th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (near Knoxville). The conference will take place over three days and feature sessions focused on all areas of diffraction, from powders to protein crystals. Topics will include emerging technologies/techniques, Total scattering, Magnetic scattering, and Integrative Structural Biology. The Chung Soo Yoo Award, established by the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society to honor Dr. Yoo’s memory, and a $400 cash prize will be given to the graduate student having the best poster presentation at the conference.

Main themes

• General problems of inorganic crystal chemistry and structural mineralogy
• X-ray crystallography and X-ray crystal structure analysis
• Mineral physics and spectroscopy
• Applied mineralogy and crystal chemistry
• High-pressure and high-temperature crystal chemistry
• Theoretical crystal chemistry and mineralogy
  
• History of mineralogy and crystal chemistry

The European Powder Diffraction Conference, EPDIC, is a biannual conference dedicated to all aspects of the analysis of polycrystalline materials by diffraction methods. Each EPDIC has the aim to highlight the latest developments in powder diffraction including methodology, data analysis and instrumental advances. EPDICs traditionally bring together scientists from institutes, universities and instrumentation companies to discuss the progress in academic and industrial research related to powder diffraction. The 17th edition of EPDIC (EPDIC17) will take place in the town of Šibenik, an emerging star of the Croatian Adriatic coast.

Le 11ième Forum de Technologie des Hautes Pressions aura lieu cette année à Sète du 1er au 4 octobre 2018. Il est organisé par le réseau de technologie des Hautes Pressions et localement par le groupe STEP (groupe de Science et TEchnologie des hautes Pressions de Montpellier), sous la tutelle de la plateforme réseaux de la Mission pour l'interdisciplinarité du CNRS avec le concours du pôle formation du service mutualisé d'Île-de-France.

This year, the international programme committee of the HTCC3 has chosen the following three hot topics: (i) HT1: non-ambient conditions, (ii) HT2: total scattering â€" crystallography hidden beyond the Bragg equation, and (iii) HT3: dynamical crystallography.

The lecturers are the leading experts in their respective fields: Elena Boldyreva, Simon Parsons and Michael Probert for the HT1; Simon Billinge, Emil Božin and Matthew Tucker for the HT2; and Christian Bressler and Michael Först for the HT3.

DyProSo is an international biannual research meeting on functional properties of condensed matter resulting from elementary excitations, molecular motions, transport processes and other dynamic phenomena occurring in many body systems. Of special concern is always a scientific dialogue between young and experienced researchers working on the dynamics of materials

The scientific programme of DyProSo XXXVI will contain the subjects: -

• Amorphous and soft matter
• Multiferroics and ferroelectrics
• Electrons and spins
• Diffusive dynamics
• Phonons and magnons
• Theoretical and experimental methods
• Excitations of strongly correlated electron systems
• Low-dimensional systems
• Materials under high pressure
• Applications and interdisciplinary subjects

• The generation and diagnostics of extreme states of matter as appearing in the interior of planets, brown dwarfs and stars is one of the key scientific challenges in a number of scientific fields. These include:
  
• Generation of such conditions at FLASH and the future free electron laser facility (European XFEL).
  
• Generation of higher pressures in static experiments both in the laboratory and at synchrotron facilities (PETRA III).
  
• Development of new diagnostic tools.
  
• Predictions of high pressure and temperature properties of materials from ab initio methods.
  
• Application of such results to the study of interior of planetary and astrophysical bodies.

With the developments in micro-beam technology many traditional high-pressure powder samples may contain only tens or hundreds of multiple grains, displaying “spotty” poor powder patterns in diffraction images. As a result, polycrystalline structural refinement for ultrahigh-pressure samples becomes increasingly difficult and the results could be uncertain. On the other hand, successful examples of growth and preservation of micron-sized single crystal samples above 100 GPa are challenging and extremely rare. The recently developed “multigrain crystallography” treats multiple grains as a collection of single crystallites, obtaining diffraction data from a few to hundreds of single crystallites simultaneously. The multigrain approach provides great promise for structure refinement of miniature samples at ultrahigh pressures. This workshop will bring scientists from multiple disciplinary fields to (1) discuss the current status of multigrain crystallography, (2) review the currently used algorithms and various experimental procedures at synchrotron facilities, and (3) identify the challenges and opportunities of multigrain crystallography in high pressure research. Both the diffraction techniques using monochromatic and polychromatic beams will be discussed in this two-day forum.

The workshop contents:

• Â Plenary sessions with invited speakers, first day
• Â Discussions, second day
• Â Promises and limitations
• Â Indexation
• Â Integration filtering and scaling
• Â 2D/3D information
• Â Challenges and opportunities for high-pressure research

A registration fee of $150 will be assessed to all attendees except invited speakers. Â This fee includes the cost of meals, coffee breaks, and an abstract volume. Registration fee paid via PayPal (Visa and Mastercard accepted).

Organizing Committee

• Dmitry Popov (HPCAT), [email protected]
• Guoyin Shen (HPCAT), [email protected]
• Stas Sinogeikin (HPCAT), [email protected]
• Przemek Dera (University of Hawaii at Manoa), [email protected]

Local Administrator

Plenary talks:

• Dave Mao (HPSTAR, China)
• Chi-Chang Kao (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)

Sessions:

• High-pressure chemistry and synthesis
• Mineral physics and planetary materials
• Computational approaches
• High-pressure materials and physics
• Polymorphism and crystal chemistry
• Synchrotron techniques
• High-pressure spectroscopy
• Amorphous materials
• New Frontiers in Extreme Conditions Crystallography

Social program:

• Tour of PAL and PAL-XFEL facilities
• Day tour of the historic Gyeongju city

• The generation and diagnostics of extreme states of matter as appearing in the interior of planets, brown dwarfs and stars is one of the key scientific challenges in a number of scientific fields. These include:
• Generation of such conditions at FLASH at the future free electron laser facility (European XFEL).
  
• Generation of higher pressures in static experiments both in the laboratory and at synchrotron facilities (PETRA III).
  
• Development of new diagnostic tools.
  
• Predictions of high pressure and temperature properties of materials from ab initio methods.
  
• Application of such results to the study of interior of planetary and astrophysical bodies.

To bring together researchers from these different fields in the physical sciences a workshop series has been established by DESY, XFEL GmbH, DLR Berlin, the University of Rostock and Bayerisches Goinstitut to discuss related topics and problems. Earlier workshops were held at DESY Hamburg (2012), DLR Berlin (2013), University of Rostock (2014) and the Bayerisches Geoinstitut at the University of Bayreuth. The aim of the upcoming workshop is to continue the discussion of scientific questions with relevance for extreme planetary environments in terms of high pressure (HP) and high temperature (HT). The conditions prevalent in the deep interiors and atmospheric envelopes of solar system planets, their satellites as well as massive solid and gas giant extrasolar planets, respectively, and are not fully accessible by conventional experimental and theoretical methods. New and enabling techniques to be used in the HP/HT regime are based on the combination of intense pulsed X-ray sources with pulsed sample excitation, in particular but not exclusively related to high energy optical lasers. Simultaneously, ab initio simulations for matter under extreme conditions provide a more and more predictive data set for planetary interiors in this HP/HT regime.

The following topics will be part of the workshop:

• Evolution and structure of giant planet interiors
  
• Interior structure, bulk composition, and internal geodynamics of solid planets
  
• Deep volatile cycles and exchange processes between geochemical reservoirs
  
• Physics and chemistry of impact processes
  
• Equations of state, petrology, and geochemistry of planetary materials
  
• Melting relations and phase transformations of materials at extreme states
  
• Dynamic and ultrafast processes in strongly excited solids or similar,
  
• Compression experiments using high-power optical and free electron lasers
  
• Laboratory experiments using multi-anvil and diamond-anvil cells
  
• Ab initio simulation studies for matter under extreme conditions

We are happy to announce VI-th National Crystallographic Symposium (NCS2016) that will be held on October 05-07, 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria.

As you may have already recognized this is will be the sixth "NCS" of the series started in 2009.

We have already started the preparation of the next issue of the conference (submitted manuscripts will be published in the journal “Bulgarian Chemical Communications”, a special issues due April 2017).NCS16 papers will also be online available in full text via the present platform.  You are warmly invited to come and join us!

NCS2016 is held under the auspices of BCS and is the major event on Crystallography, crystal growth, structure analyses and related techniques in Bulgaria. The Symposium aims at the applications of different crystallographic techniques in combination with other methods in the fields of materials sciences, mineralogy, biology, environmental engineering, computational methods etc. Bringing together researchers from different areas NCS16 will provide them with a high-qualified platform for them to share their latest studies and to assist further findings and collaboration.

With passionate participants from the world, NCS2016 Â would be perfect for you to present your research and find collaboration for your future work.

Emergent Properties at High Material Densities

Exploring the Diversity of Phenomena Within the High Pressure Landscape over a Wide Range of Timescales

The conference will include invited talks and contributed poster presentations covering the following topics:Â

• High temperature thermal analysis and calorimetry
• In situ high temperature X-ray and neutron diffraction
• High temperature thermodynamic properties from mass spectrometry and other equilibrium experiments
• Radiation thermometry
• Experimental determination of phase diagrams
• First principles computations of structural and thermodynamic properties at high temperatures

The aims of the conference are to disseminate information on experimental and computational methods suitable for structural and thermodynamic studies of oxides at temperatures above 1500°C, to promote collaboration between research groups in the field, and to delineate bottleneck experimental and computational issues to focus on in future research.

Technical Workshops: October 20, 2016

• Brian Toby GSAS-II Workshop
• Netzsch Workshop
• Setaram Workshop

STOHT Conference: October 21-22, 2016

Preliminary List of Topics

The latest advances in methodology and applications of charge densities:

• advances in data analysis
• understanding dynamics of atoms and structures
• progress in using large scale facilities
• charge densities in crystal engineering
• charge densities in materials science
• charge densities and electron diffraction
• charge densities in life sciences
• charge densities at extreme conditions
• charge densities beyond single crystal approach
• physical applications of charge densities
• charge densities of inorganic materials and minerals
• compute or/and measure?
• charge densities towards classical structural analysis
• methods beyond charge densities