Sagamore is a prestigious conference that has been held triennially since 1964 under the auspices of the IUCr Commission on Quantum Crystallography (formerly the Charge, Spin, and Momentum Densities).

The Sagamore conferences have traditionally concerned interchange between researchers interested in property densities or distributions of materials such as the electron distribution, spin distribution, nuclear particle distribution, and electrostatic potential studied by the most accurate theoretical methods, and using the most advanced experimental techniques. There has been a focus on diffraction and scattering methods, and reconciling differences between the different methodologies.

The field has undergone rapid change in the last decade, with the term “Quantum Crystallography” being used to emphasize wave function based modelling methods. At the same time, both the quantity and precision of data have also increased due to advances in detector technology. There is a race to make the data from these methods available to general chemists, and to reveal new physical and chemical insights that may be exploited.

For the first time, the Sagamore conference will be held in India on the beautiful grounds of Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, one of the 12 Institutions of Eminence designated by the Government of India. A tour of the Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is also included in the program.

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The 5th National Crystallography Meeting is organized by the National Crystallography Society. The National Crystallography Society was founded in 2001 at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. The aim of our association is to organize the professional, cultural and social activities of the members, to support education in the field of crystallography, to contribute to the understanding, development and dissemination of Crystallography in Turkey and to carry out scientific activities and publications in this field. Our Association is a member of the European Crystallographic Association (ECA). During the meeting, in addition to the presentations of internationally recognized invited speakers, both oral and poster presentations of the participants will also take place.

The CrysAC Workhop on "Bio-Apatite, humans, archaeology and environment" planned for last autumn and posptponed due to the war in Israel will take place on September 17, 2024 at the Department of Geosciences of University of Padova. It will be followed the next day by a short workshop on carbonates. This workshop invites scientists from research institutions, museums, and conservation bodies, to look at apatite from various points of view from mineralogy, structure, anthropology, archaeometry or possible nano-technology.

In keeping with the terms of reference of the Commission, the CrysAC workshop on "Provenance Studies in Art and Cultural Heritage" is within the series of one-day workshops organized by the IUCr Commission on Crystallography in Art and Cultural Heritage, aimed to stimulate knowledge exchange between crystallographers, researchers and other experts interested in Cultural Heritage investigations. Different communities are invited to present reviews of established research, recent results and envisaged trends in key areas of Archaeometry and Conservation Science.

The present workshop, organised as a satellite meeting of the 7^th International Congress Chemistry for Cultural heritage (CHemCH 2024, Bratislava, Slovakia), will invite scientists from research institutions, museums, and conservation bodies, in order to illustrate state-of-the-art studies focusing on determining origin of materials (manufacturing method or natural sources) and provenance of art objects (whether in the sense of regional, workshop, or period) using methods of advanced materials analysis. Although only invited contributions are planned, all interested people are invited to exchange ideas and discuss the presented topics.

The Polish Crystallographic Meeting, Scientific Workshop and Session of the Young Crystallographers Sections of PCrA will be held at the Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Okólna 2 in Wrocław.

The Workshop is devoted to selected issues and problems of modern crystallography.

The Scientific Session of the Young Crystallographers Section of PCrAÂ is a forum for exchanging experiences addressed primarily to students, PhD students and young doctors (maximum 5 years after defense).

The topics of the Meeting include basic and applied research on the ideal and real structure of crystals carried out with the use of X-ray radiation obtained both with traditional methods and in synchrotrons, research with the use of neutrons and electrons, problems of symmetry, phase transformations and crystal growth, new research and computational methods and all other aspects of crystallography. The conference is an annual meeting place and a forum for exchanging ideas of all Polish crystallographers.

The conference is an international forum on scintillator materials spanning  from fundamental aspects to technological applications. Topics include:

• Mechanisms and theory of scintillation
• Characterizations of scintillators
• Crystals: growth and structural control
• Optical ceramics and glasses
• Nano- and metamaterials, hybrids, and other novel materials
• Scintillators for fast timing detection and imaging
• Scintillators for neutron detection and imaging
• Applications of scintillators: fundamental research, health, environment, energy, metrology, industrial controls.

Topics

• bioimaging

• biophotonics

• electro-optic effects

• energy conversion in rare earth doped materials

• energy transfer in materials

• femtosecond and terahertz spectroscopy

• luminescent materials and phosphors

• nanophotonics

• nanostructures including photonic crystals

• nanothermometry

• non-linear effects

• optical properties of all classes of materials

• plasmonics

• photoconductivity

• photoinduced effects

• photovoltaic materials

• photonic band gap materials

• photonic materials and devices

• quantum dots

• quantum wires

• semiconductors for optoelectronics

• silicon photonics

• waveguides

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)

Organized by the Korean Association of Crystal Growth