The 2026 Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference will be held at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and features two parallel scientific sessions one focused on life sciences and the other on chemistry and materials scienc with shared keynote lectures bringing together the full community for interdisciplinary exchange.

• Opening Reception, September 15
• Parallel Scientific Sessions, September 16-18.
• Poster Session with Student Poster Contest, September 16th
• Conference Banquet, September 17th
• Tours of LCLS and SSRL, September 18th (advanced registration required)

To Register or learn more visit: https://cvent.me/Eaamay

A Pre-conference Workshop on Computational Tools for Structure-based Drug Design will be held on September 15th, with seperate registration.

On behalf of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), it is with immense excitement and joy that we cordially extend our warmest invitation to you to join the IUCr for the Twenty-Seventh Congress and General Assembly, set to be held in the magnificent city of Calgary, located in the heart of Alberta, Canada from August 11th-18th, 2026.

Calgary, a city renowned for its breathtaking natural beauty and warm hospitality, has been chosen as the host for this remarkable occasion. Nestled amidst stunning landscapes and boasting a rich cultural heritage, this vibrant metropolis promises to provide an unforgettable experience for all attendees.

At 14:00 CET (Central European Time), 13.00 GMT. The workshop is also repeated on 23rd April 2026 at the same time.

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Workshop Content

• Fundamentals of detection of systematic errors in X-ray, neutron, and electron diffraction

• Residual analysis as a tool for identifying systematic effects

• Quantitative evaluation of reproducibility

• Cross-comparison of datasets (instrument, site, or generation comparisons)

• Interpretation of characteristic error patterns

• Derivation of concrete optimization strategies

Target Audience

• R&D and development leaders

• Application scientists

• Quality management and methodology specialists

• Scientific group leaders

• Technical sales and product managers in instrumentation

In silico digital design methods are becoming more popular in the formulated products industries as tools to anticipate manufacturing and processing bottlenecks before they occur. Particle Informatics tools enable you to leverage the wealth of data in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) to provide insight into the surface chemistry and topology of crystal facets.

What we will cover

In this virtual workshop, we will provide an overview of the functionality available in the CSD-Particle suite, focusing on tools for particle surface analysis. The session will include presentations and demonstrations by CCDC expert tutors and a hands-on part for you to try the software, with the tutors available to help you and answer your questions.

You will learn:

- How to use the desktop molecular visualizer software Mercury for Particle Informatics studies.

- How to use the Surface Analysis tool.

- How to calculate Full Interaction Maps on surfaces.

- Recent advances and improvements of the CSD-Particle tools.

- How you can best use Mercury and CSD-Particle in your workflows.

In the new economy, your data is your worth.

How can leaders plan and execute a structural science data strategy to last the next 60 years?

Join our expert panel from top international data institutions, to learn how they are preparing in the face of change. From team skills and training, to technological changes, to maintaining data integrity â€" get insights to inform your proprietary data plans and policies.

Part of a series celebrating 60 years of The CCDC and the Cambridge Structural Database; the world’s largest database of small-molecule organic and metal-organic structures in the world. All are experimentally determined, fully curated, and used by thousands of scientists globally.

Join us to explore:

• How can organizations ensure resilience in their structural chemistry and biology data for the future
• How can scientific data leaders best plan for technological changes?
• How should quality and quantity be balanced in an increasingly data-hungry world?
• How can structural science data integrity be maintained as data sets become more complex?
• What skills do teams in scientific data management need to be ready for the future?
• What key data standards should be set today to ensure we’re ready for the next 60 years?

The panellists:

• Suzanna Ward, Head of Data and Community for the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)
• Stephen Burley, Director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank (PDB)
• Tom Blanton, Executive Director of the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD)
• Silke Rehme, Head of Specialist Services at Fiz Karlsruhe for the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD)

Who should attend?

• Leaders in Science and Pharmaceutical organizations
• Chief Technical Officers
• Chief Data Officers
• Chief Scientific Officers
• Data Quality Managers
• Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics Scientists and Leaders
• AI/ML Scientists
• Data Scientists
• Drug Discovery Data Specialists

 At the XXV Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography in Prague, it was decided that the 35th edition of the European Crystallographic Meeting would be held in Lviv, Ukraine, in 2025.

 Unfortunately, there is a war in Ukraine, and it is not reasonable to organize a great scientific event in Lviv in 2025. An alternative was thus elaborated where, thanks to a collaboration between the Ukrainian Crystallographic Committee and the Polish Crystallographic Association, the conference site will be Poznan, a city in neighbouring Poland.

In this webinar Gilles Ouvry of NRG Therapeutics will share how the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) can be a source of inspiration for drug design.

The majority of the focus will be around mining torsional information from the CSD on common functional groups and highlighting how it has been used in a range of drug discovery projects, creating cheat sheets for medicinal chemists using Conquest and Mercury. Other minable CSD data points will be explored, including using IsoStar to mine intermolecular interactions.

• Bulk crystal growth
• 2D-epitaxial growth
• 3D-epitaxial growth
• Relation between optical/electrical properties of crystals and their microstructure
• Crystallization in the semiconductor industry
• Crystallization in biology and medicine
• Crystal characterization methods

The next annual British Zeolite Association meeting will take place in Ambleside, in the Lake District National Park, over 2â€"5 July 2024, with an expected attendance in excess of 100 delegates.

The meeting brings together leading scientists from the UK and Europe, covering all aspects of the zeolite, MOF and nanoporous material fields.

Confirmed plenary speakers include:

• Professor Robert Mokaya (University of Nottingham, UK)
• Professor Bert Sels (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Professor Céline Chizallet (IFP Energies Nouvelles-Lyon, France)
• Dr Andrea Laybourn (University of Nottingham, UK)
• Professor Alvaro Mayoral (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM GMT

Anticipating the physical characteristics and surface properties of a structure by analysing its chemical attributes can save significant costs and time within the pharmaceutical industry. CSD-Particle software allows formulation scientists to gain insights into particle behavior, rapidly analyse the mechanical and chemical properties of a crystal particle, and address potential manufacturing issues with its visual and statistical tools.

During the webinar, Andy Maloney (Particle Science Team Leader) will demonstrate:

• Different approaches to morphology prediction.
• Rapid particle description and analysis using CSD-Particle and the CSD Python API.

Who should attend:

• Crystallization scientists
• Formulation scientists
• Chemical engineers
• Crystallographers
• Solid form scientists
• Materials scientists

If you’re interested in comparing polymorphic systems based on their hydrogen bonding networks, and want to understand how to calculate and visualise which hydrogen bonds are likely to form and how hydrogen bonding networks are ranked, then this free, 90-minute, hands-on workshop is for you!

What we'll cover

We will focus on the updated Hydrogen Bond Propensity tool from CSD-Materials to study the hydrogen bond network in a crystal structure and how it ranks compared to putative networks. We will also see how to complement this analysis using Full Interaction Maps (FIMs).

We will have hands-on activities to teach you how to use the desktop molecular visualizer software Mercury for:

The tutors hosting the event have developed these tools for solid form analysis alongside experts from major pharmaceutical companies and academia.

The workshop will be recorded and all registered participants will have access to the recording.

The flagship of the European Crystallographic Association (ECA) activities is the European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM), held every year, except when there is an IUCr Congress. The ECMs are the main meeting point for crystallographers in the ECA area to show their recent research. Microsymposia at ECMs are proposed and organized by ECA SIGs.

ECM 34 will be organized at the Padova Congress Centre on behalf of ECA and AIC. It will include all topics of interest to crystallography and it will be organized in synergy with EPIDC 18, which will follow ECM 34 in the same location.

The Young Crystallographers are a working group within the German Society for Crystallography (DGK). For 10 years, we meet regularly in autumn at different universities or the STOE facilities.

These meetings specifically aim to provide a platform for networking and scientific exchange for young scientists with an interest in crystallography, as well as to establish contacts with industry and research institutions.
We want to give young scientists the opportunity to gain early experience in scientific presentation in a relaxed atmosphere and without the stress of a larger conference.

For our grand anniversary, we are happy to meet at the DESY facilities! We are working hard to allow you deep insights as well as a great overview of the possibilities at this large-scale facility.

During the 3-day meeting, you willÂ

• present your own work as a poster (A0 portrait) and lightning talk (~5 min.)
• have the DESY campus tour
• participate in an experiment and get a hands-on experience at a beamline of your choice at PETRA III (see The Experiments)
• hear academic talks from senior scientists
• hear industry talks from our sponsors/partners

At the end of the meeting, you will also have the chance to join a tour of the European XFEL Campus. If you intend to participate, please indicate so during registration. Note that you will need to get to the XFEL facilities by public transport as it is a bit outside the main DESY campus.

The registration fee of 60 € includes the tours and experiments at DESY, coffee breaks as well as lunch and BBQ on Thursday.

Deadline for registration is 22.08.23.

ECRS is a well-established conference series that focuses on residual stresses in structural and functional materials. From experimental methods via modelling techniques to industrial applications a broad gamut of residual stress-related topics is addressed. The series is well attended by scientists, PhD students and engineers from both academia and industry.

Previous editions have been successfully held in Karlsruhe (1983), Darmstadt (1990), Frankfurt/Main (1992), Cluny (1996), Delft (1999), Coimbra (2002), Berlin (2006), Riva del Garda (2010), Troyes (2014) and Leuven (2018).Â

This gathering brings together scientists, students, and engineers with a shared interest in residual stresses, a phenomenon that affects the physical properties of materials and surfaces across various scales. While its core focus lies in mechanical engineering and materials science, residual stresses also hold relevance in solid-state physics, life sciences, geology, and the chemical reactivity of solids. Managing residual stresses can unlock improved material and structural properties, such as enhanced fatigue life and geometrical stability. The analysis of residual stresses, being a highly sensitive parameter influenced by micro/nano-structure, provides valuable insights into the history of materials and structures. This conference offers an interactive platform for experts from diverse disciplines including mechanics, physics, optics, chemistry of solids, manufacturing, diffraction, and engineering. Attendees can exchange their perspectives and share recent advancements through experimental, theoretical, and numerical approaches.

 Two tutorials are planned

Main topics

• Diffraction Methods
• Mechanical Relaxation Methods
• Acoustic Methods
• Electromagnetic Methods (Barkhausen effect)
• Electron Microscopy Methods
• Instrumentation
• Modelling methods
• Stresses in Microelectronics
• Stresses in Additive Manufacturing
• Microstructures, Composites and Nanomaterial
• Thin Films and Coatings
• Welding, Fatigue and Fracture
• Cold Working and Machining
• Heat Treatments and Phase Transformations