Topics

• High pressure chemistry: Synthesis and novel materials
• Pressure-induced phase transitions
• Static and dynamic techniques for pressure generation
• High pressure in bio- and life sciences
• Food science and high pressure technology
• Electronic, magnetic and transport properties
• Theoretical approaches to high pressure physics and Chemistry

Focus Area Contacts

Focus Area 1: Michael Hennig, Basel for SIG 1:

Focus Area 2: Jürg Schefer, Paul Scherrer Institute Villigen, for SIG 5, 11, 12

Focus Area 3: Piero Macchi, Berne, for SIG 2, SIG 3, SIG 4

Focus Area 4: Katharina Fromm, Fribourg, for SIG 7 and SIG 13

Focus Area 5: Radovan Cerny, Geneva, for SIG 6, SIG 8 and SIG 9

Objective
The aim of this workshop is to show, through lectures and practical courses, the solutions for 3D reconstruction in Cryo-Electron Microscopy.

Methodology
The lectures will cover single particle analysis, cryo-tomography of isolated specimens and cryo-tomography of structures inside a vitreous cryo-section or lamella and cryo-CLEM. The practical courses will show to the participants how to do sample preparation (high pressure freezing, plunge freezing, vitreous sectioning and cryo-fibbing), image acquisition in cryo-EM single-particle and cryo-tomography and 3D-reconstruction.

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

High pressure fosters interdisciplinary research, linking together frontier areas of research in several scientific fields. The Organizing Committee, together with the AIRAPT and EHPRG Committees, are committed to offer a weighted and attractive Scientific Program of the highest quality, and to assure the success of the conference. A High Pressure School for young researchers is scheduled prior to the conference. - Venue: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Facultad de Medicina) - Wide scientific coverage through 12 multidisciplinary topics - Pre-conference High Pressure School (August 28th - 30th) - Open Access Publication of Proceedings in IOP Conference Series

The primary focus of the meeting will be recent scientific advances in high pressure techniques. Presentations will cover a variety of subjects in and related to high-pressure crystallography, including crystal structures, phase transitions and their kinetics, new materials synthesis, Earth and planetary science, soft and biological matter, physical and chemical properties, theory and computation, as well as technique developments for high-pressure studies at synchrotron, neutron and laboratory-based facilities. This workshop is a continuation of The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on High Pressure workshop series first established in 1996 followed by workshops at the ESRF (1997), APS (‘98), SPring-8 (‘00), in Orsay (‘01), Berkeley (‘03), Saskatoon (‘04), Dubna (‘06), Oxford (‘07), Harbin (‘09), Gatlinburg (‘10), Mito (2012)  and most recently in Hamburg (2013). This year the workshop will be held at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) in Campinas/Brazil where several high pressure experiments are being performed in the current beamlines and are planned to be implemented in an ultra-low emittance synchrotron source called SIRIUS currently under construction. The IUCr and LNLS will be able to provide a limited amount of travel support for selected young scientists who would like to participate in the workshop. In order to be considered for financial support, please indicate your request during the registration.

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).

Coordinators

For UK: Prof Colin Pulham, Professor of High-Pressure Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh
For Russia:Â Prof Elena Boldyreva, Head of Chair of Solid State Chemistry, Novosibirsk State University

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Application and Deadline

The full application below must be completed and submitted by 5 December 2014 to Prof Colin Pulham (UK participants) at [email protected] or Prof Elena Boldyreva (Russian participants) at [email protected].

Download the application form

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.

EHPRG 52 is a multidisciplinary conference for European scientists, who use high pressure in their research, and is organized jointly by CNRS, University of Lyon and University of Montpellier.

The conference will focus on a wide range of studies from pure physics to materials science, geosciences, chemistry, food science and technology, bioscience, biotechnology, …

EHPRG52 will be a coupled event with the UNESCO International Year of Crystallography. Special sessions on advances of structure determination under high pressure will be organized both from the experimental point of view and from advanced theoretical modeling methods.

A pre-conference school, sponsored by the CNRS French high pressure network (http://www.reseauhp.org) will take place from 5th to 7th September 2014.

The Sixteenth International Conference on High Pressure in Semiconductor Physics (HPSP-16) is a satellite of the International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS 2014) to be held in Austin (USA) during the following week.

HPSP is a biennial meeting with a long standing tradition. The first two meetings took place in Poland (1985) and Montpellier (1986) as a Polishâ€"French Meeting on High Pressure Applications in Semiconductors. The success of these early conferences made it clear that the topic area of high-pressure semiconductor physics had wide interest. Consequently, in 1988 the series was convened under its present name and has been organized as a satellite meeting of the traditional International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS). Recent HPSP conferences were held in :

• Sapporo, Japan (2000)
• Guildford, UK (2002)
• Berkeley, USA (2004)
• Barcelona, Spain (2006)
• Fortaleza, Brazil (2008)
• Changchun, China (2010)
• Montpellier, France (2012)

The aim of this conference is to have at the same time specific subjects related to high pressure applications in semiconductor and concerned with materials, components and innovative techniques. The goal is to allow promising young scientists and internationally recognized researchers from different fields to meet together for a single-session conference. During the meeting a wide range of topics will be reviewed including advanced semiconductor materials, vibrational properties and electronic structures, phase transitions and of course the new devices and new techniques from physics under pressure.
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Topics

Submissions of original work on topics including, but not limited to the following list, are solicited:

• Electronic structure, X-ray absorption
• Mechanical properties including vibrational, elastic and piezoelectric properties
• Thermal properties including thermoelectric behaviors
• Optical properties
• Electrical transport phenomena
• Defect states
• Structural studies including phase transitions
• Spin dependent properties
• Carbon related semiconductors (clusters, nanotubes, graphene)
• Low-dimensional semiconductor structures
• Novel materials, structures and devices
• State of the art computation of material properties under high pressure
• New experimental and computational techniques

The Collaborative Conference on Crystal Growth (3CG) aims to promote discussions and information exchange across the frontiers of research in the fields of crystal growth and engineering. International scientists with common professional interests in crystal research will unite in a virtual, friendly and informal atmosphere to share their experimental and/or theoretical expertise in the physical, chemical, and biological phenomena and processes related to the design, growth, and application of crystalline material.

A special 3CG session is under planning to celebrate IYCr2014

Invited Speakers

•  3CG Workshop on Crystal Growth for Optoelectronic Device
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• Â 3CG Workshop on Crystal Growth for Renewable Energy and Energy Storage
  Chairs: Partha Dutta
• Â 3CG Workshop on Crystal Growth in Microgravity and at Externally Imposed FieldsÂ
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•  3CG Workshop on Crystal Growth in the Nano- and Micro-scale
  Chairs:Â Murali Rangarajan
• Â 3CG Workshop on Frontiers in Crystal Engineering
  Chairs: Jagadese J. Vittal
•  3CG Workshop on Functional Materials
  Chairs:Â Suja Elizabeth
•  3CG Workshop on High Pressure Crystal Growth and Diffraction
  Chairs: Robin D. Rogers
•  3CG Workshop on Mesocrystal / Nonclassical Crystallization
  Chairs:
•  3CG Workshop on Modeling and Simulation in Crystal Growth
  Chairs: Xiaobin Niu
• Â 3CG Workshop on Nitrides Thin Films and Applications
  Chairs: Elisabeth Blanquet
•  3CG Workshop on Recent Advances in Growth of Wide Bandgap Materials
  Chairs: Tania Paskova
•  3CG Workshop on Sapphire and Related Materials
  Chairs:Â Kheirreddine Lebbou
• Â 3CG General Workshop on Crystal Growth
  Chairs: Zhiming Wang

The LLB is engaged by in-kind contribution in the design of neutron instrumentation at the European Spallation Source (ESS) Sweden, specifically for magnetic diffraction from single crystals . A strong potential is anticipated for single crystal diffraction by neutron time-of-flight Laue techniques benefiting best from the ESS pulse structure and providing new opportunities to study microscopic samples under extreme conditions, temperature, magnetic field and pressure.

The meeting is organized by the LLB and aims to evaluate the new perspectives for magnetic single crystal diffraction at the ESS. We intend to join neutron experts and potential users in the field to gather the most important scientific community needs.

The meeting (limited to 30 participants) will start at 11:00 on Monday May 26th and end at 17:00 on Tuesday May 27th. Organizers will provide lunches and coffee breaks.

Participants will have a possibility to present a 10-20 minutes talk. A considerable part of the time will be reserved for an informal discussion.

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IUCrHP2012/QuBS2012

IUCr Commission on High Pressure 2012 Meeting "Advances in Crystallography at High Pressures"
International Symposium of the Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency

September 23-27, 2012 HOTEL LAKE VIEW MITO Mito, Japan

IUCr Commission on High Pressure 2012 Meeting

The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on High Pressure was establised in 1996 and a series of international workshops were held at the ESRF(97), APS(98), SPring-8(00), and in Orsay(01), Berkeley(03), Saskatoon(04), Dubna(06), Oxford(07), Harbin(09) and Gatlinburg(10). This year, to coincide with the opening of a high-pressure beamline at the spallation neutron source in J-PARC, the meeting will be held in Mito with a tour to J-PARC. It will be organized as a joint meeting of the Commission on High Pressure and the Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency.

Scope

This conference will cover the whole range of activities of the IUCr Commission on High Pressure. Contributions in all areas within or closely related to the broad area of high-pressure crystallography will be welcome.

The primary focus of the meeting will be recent scientific advances in powder and single crystal diffraction at static and dynamic high pressures. Presentations will cover a variety of subjects in and related to high-pressure crystallography, including crystal structures, phase transitions and their kinetics, new materials synthesis, Earth and planetary science, soft and biological matter, physical and chemical properties, theory and computation, as well as technique developments for high-pressure studies at synchrotron, neutron and laboratory-based facilities.  This workshop is a continuation of The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on High Pressure workshop series first established in 1996 followed by workshops at the ESRF (1997), APS (‘98), SPring-8 (‘00), in Orsay (‘01), Berkeley (‘03), Saskatoon (‘04), Dubna (‘06), Oxford (‘07), Harbin (‘09), Gatlinburg (‘10) and most recently in Mito (2012). This year the workshop will be held at DESY in Hamburg which looks back at a long history of high-pressure research at DORIS (shutdown in 2012) as part of HASYLAB.  In 2010, a new Extreme Conditions Beamline (ECB), optimized for high-pressure research in the Diamond Anvil Cell, opened at â€" PETRA III - the latest 3rd generation source with the currently smallest emittance in the world. In the future, DESY will extend its capabilities in the field of high-pressure research by adding a new Large Volume Press beamline at the extension of PETRA III and by contributing to the High Energy Density Instrument at the European XFEL which is being built in Hamburg. This year, the workshop will be organized jointly by the IUCr Commission on High Pressure and DESY.

Electron Distribution and Chemical Bonding

Pushing the Limits of Experimental and Theoretical Charge and Spin Density Studies

June 2-7, 2013Â

Les Diablerets Conference Center Les Diablerets, Switzerland

• Â Chair: Piero MacchiÂ
• Vice Chair: Wolfgang Scherer

The Gordon Conference on Electron Distribution and Chemical Bonding is typically devoted to discussion on the nature of chemical interactions by studying the electron density distribution of molecules or solids. This attracts contributions from various fields, ranging from quantum chemistry and theoretical physics to experimental crystallography, materials chemistry and solid state physics.
The frontiers of this scientific area are addressed by putting the focus on the exploration of new types of chemical bonding/interactions and the identification of the control parameters providing the basis for a rational materials/drug design. Accordingly, the topics also enclose recent and future innovative concepts such as state-of-the-art charge density studies at "non-standard conditions" (high pressure, electric field, etc.) or novel techniques to explore photochemical or ultrafast processes. Another focus lies on the challenge to perform charge density studies at subatomic resolution. Here, the conference attributes to the dramatic instrumental achievements in pushing the resolution limits to meet the requirements for the study of core polarization effects.

Advanced Crystallography at High Pressure

July 19-22, 2009, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China Â
This conference will cover the whole range of activities of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on High Pressure: Crystal structures and phase transitions, new materials, Earth and planetary science, soft and biological matter, physical and chemical properties, theory and computation, technique developments for high pressure studies on synchrotron, neutron and laboratory-based facilities. The conference will follow the sequence of meeting organized by the IUCr Commission on High Pressure (ESRF 1998, Argonne 1999, Spring-8 2000, Orsay 2002, Berkeley 2003, Saskatoon 2004, Dubna 2006, Oxford 2007).

Topics to be covered:

• Crystal structures and phase transitions
• Magnetic crystallography and physical properties
• Earth and planetary science
• Liquids and non-crystalline materials
• Polymers, proteins and biological systems
• Nanomaterials
• Materials synthesized under high pressures
• Theory and computation
• Neutron, synchrotron and laboratory techniques for high-pressure studies

Purpose of the Course

As a thermodynamic parameter, pressure is remarkable in many ways. It spans in the visible universe over sixty orders of magnitude, from the non-equilibrium pressure of hydrogen in intergalactic space, to the kind of pressure encountered within neutron stars.Â

In the laboratory, it provides unique possibility to control structure and properties of materials, dramatically alter electronic properties, break existing, or form new chemical bonds by reaching compressions in excess of an order of magnitude for molecular materials.Â

This agenda naturally encompasses elements of physics (properties and structure), chemistry (chemical reactions, transport), materials science (new materials) and engineering (mechanical properties); in addition it has direct applications and implications for geology (minerals in their natural, deep earth environments), planetary sciences, biology and medicine (deep sea ecosystems, membranes, protein and nucleic acid folding, the role of high-pressure in the origin of prebiotic forms of matter and the origin of life, des-activation of viruses and toxins).Â

Beyond its specificity, high-pressure science finds direct or indirect (i.e. economic) application in several fields of modern European technology, such as mechanical engineering (strain/stress analysis), optoelectronics and spintronics, nanotechnology, pharmaceutical industry, food processing, petroleum industry, seismic data interpretation, etc.