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 annual meeting of the Serbian Crystallographic Society. The Conference will be a live event.

Language

The official language of the Conference is English.

Topics

All fields of crystallography.

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• Plenary lectures
• Oral presentations
• Poster presentations

Awards

“The Best Oral Presentation” and “The Best Poster Presentation” prizes will be awarded at the Conference closing session.

Social activities

On Thursday afternoon, June 27^th, an excursion will be organized.

On Friday evening, June 28^th, SCS will organize a Conference dinner.

The price of the excursion and gala dinner is included in the regular registration fee.

Conference material

At the beginning of the Conference every participant will receive the Book of abstracts in Serbian and English.

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)

The EPDIC Conference is the biennial meeting dedicated to all aspects of the analysis of polycrystalline materials by diffraction methods. It brings together experts from universities, research institutes and instrumentation companies to share their knowledge and discuss the current trends and challenges in powder diffraction.
In agreement with the traditional character of this Conference, EPDIC18 will yield an exciting scientific program that will cover a broad range of hot traditional and new topics interesting to the powder community.

The Conference will be held in Padova, at the Padova Congress Centre on behalf of AIC. It will be organized in synergy with ECM34, which will precede EPDIC18 in the same location.

7th CrysAC workshop on "Bio-apatite, humans, archaeology, and environment"

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The workshop is the 7th in the series of very successful events organized by the IUCr commission on "Crystallography in Art and Cultural Heritage" (CrysAC), aiming to increase the interaction between crystallographers and different communities working in the area of Cultural Heritage.

This specific workshop focuses on several aspects of apatite crystal structure, crystal chemistry, and microstructure in materials of different nature. Apatite is an incredibly important compound for the geochemistry of phosphorus and for the biochemistry of modern and ancient bones. Its importance in medicine, archaeology, mineralogy, palaeoanthropology, environmental sciences can not be underestimated. The workshop gathers several of the leading experts in apatite investigation from very different research areas: it is expected that such a multi-disciplinary approch will critically present the state-of-the-art of apatite research, with benefit of all participants.

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.

The 7th Microscopy Characterisation of Organic-Inorganic Interfaces (MCOII) meeting will return to an in-person format in 2023 and will be hosted for the first time in North America at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, home of the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy. The transatlantic scientific organizing team of Nadja V. Tarakina (MPIKG, Germany) and Kathryn Grandfield (McMaster University, Canada) have put together an exciting two-day programme. As usual, the first day will be more general, covering a broad range of microscopy approaches (correlative microscopy solutions, in-situ liquid microscopy methods, low-voltage electron microscopy and many more) in the context of imaging hybrid and soft matter.On the second day, a special Focus Lecture Series, entitled "Multi-dimensional and multiscale microscopy of organic-inorganic interface" will cover a more-detailed range of lectures on tomographic methods spanning light, X-ray and electron microscopy, as well as atom probe tomography and in situ electron microscopy/tomography. This conference will bring together world-leading experts in microscopy, highlighting the latest achievements, new opportunities and outstanding challenges in probing beam-sensitive and hybrid materials and their interfaces.

Theme

Harnessing Crystallography for Africa’s Research and Technology TransformationÂ

Sub-Themes

• Inorganic and Industrial Materials
• Crystal Engineering and Structural Chemistry
• Crystallography and Life Sciences
• Diffraction Physics and Phase Transformations
• Crystallographic Databases
• Application of Crystallography in Materials Science, Agricultural and Geological Sciences

Bursary applications

Please apply here.

The British Zeolite Association (BZA) was founded in 1977 to provide a forum where zeolite scientists could meet to review and share their latest findings. Today the (ordered) nanoporous materials community in the UK numbers several hundred active research scientists and engineers, from both industry and the academic sector, who reflect the great variety of applications of micro- and mesoporous materials, from catalysis and petrochemical processing to chemical separations, detergents and environmental clean-up.

The major event of the BZA's year is the annual meeting, which brings together scientists from the UK and overseas to present and discuss the latest research in the area. Strong emphasis is given to presentations from research students and young postdoctoral workers.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of all areas of crystallography-related science to share their recent research findings. The conference will also promote the interest and understanding of crystallography with respect to teaching and research in Bangladesh. It is expected that regional and international scientists will join the conference, which will allow Bangladeshi crystallographers to interact and collaborate with foreign participants. The Organizing Committee may arrange one or two sessions in hybrid mode.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 October 2022

Registration deadline: 30 November 2022Â

Flyer of the 7th BCA Conference

Poster of the 7th BCA Conference

For the past three decades high pressure research has made breakthrough progress in many fields of science mainly due to the significant improvements in the high-pressure apparatus and developments of advanced static and dynamic probes. Most of the experiments at extreme conditions are very challenging and require dedicated techniques to collect crystallographic data with unprecedented speed and resolution to quantitatively characterize pressure/temperature induced transformations in the crystalline lattice. The tunability, brilliance, and collimation of synchrotron X-ray sources provides scientists with unique capabilities for probing the structural, chemical, and physical properties of various types of materials in-situ at extreme pressure, temperature, and strain with ultra-high spatial, temporal and energy resolution. However, in many cases the complex energy landscapes of multicomponent chemical systems require the use of the predictive power of computational methods that play an essential role in extreme-conditions crystallography coupled with physical experiments.

The purpose of the 2022 workshop of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on High Pressure is to bring together researchers who apply extreme-conditions crystallography in combination with other experimental and computational methods to study a wide range of material properties covering various fields of science, including condensed-matter physics, solid-state chemistry, geophysics, materials science, biology, nanotechnology etc. The workshop aims to facilitate extensive discussion and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Students, postdocs and early carrier scientists in particular will find this workshop helpful in gaining improved familiarity with available state-of-the-art methods and how they can be applied to their research.

We plan to organize a tour to the relevant APS beamlines for workshop attendees (pandemic permits) and a half-day tutorial with hands on examples.

Following the tradition of quadri-annual general meetings of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) organised by national societies, the French Society for Mineralogy and Crystallography will host the 23rd General Meeting of the IMA in Lyon, France, during 18â€"22 July 2022.

2022 is the year to celebrate mineralogy. It marks the bicentennial of the death of René Just Haüy (born 1743), the father of modern mineralogy and crystallography. Two centuries ago is also when Haüy’s Traité de mineralogy and Traité de cristallographie were published.

Back to the present day, the last two main Mars exploration programmes, Mars2020 and Huoxing 1, will have had just enough time for sample return and post-processing. With the return of Hayabusa 2, for the first time, fragments of a primitive carbonaceous asteroid will be analysed.

The meeting will bring together all the new facets of modern mineralogy; mineralogy as we know it will meet exploratory planetology, all to celebrate two centuries of mineralogy.

The overarching themes of the IMA2022 are as follows:Â Â

• Mineral systematics
• Physics and chemistry of minerals
• Ores and ore mineralogy
• Mineralogy and petrology
• Planetary mineralogy
• Planetary interiors
• The dynamical world of minerals

The 30th Annual Meeting of the German Crystallographic Society (DGK 30), which will take place in the historical main building of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, will feature presentations and discussions of recent and exciting results of research on crystallographic topics.

Subjecting matter to extreme conditions reveals a multitude of fascinating phenomena, and is applicable to a wide range of disciplines. From the extremophiles that exist in the deepest depths of our oceans to the exotic new materials that are made when atoms are pushed ever closer together, understanding the structure of materials at extreme conditions affects Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geoscience and Material Science. In order to achieve its goals, high pressure research has been always at the vanguard of technical progress. It is a discipline in which equipment plays a particularly important role. State-of-the-art diamond anvil cells can now achieve megabar ranges of pressure, millions of times atmospheric pressure, with this beaten by an order of magnitude in dynamic compression experiments. In this manner, scientists are able to mimic the conditions in the interiors of giant planets. Nature is even more ambitious, as in the stars petapascal pressures (the order of tens to hundreds billion atmospheres) are reached. In the laboratory, we can even create conditions of pressure, temperature and magnetic fields that are not found naturally, allowing us to complement nature to explore more exotic phases of matter.

Therefore, the course will cover broad ground in the application of extreme conditions crystallography. The topics will span from fundamentals of high-pressure single crystal and powder diffraction, to presenting the many flavors of static and dynamic compression, to reviews of sources for extreme conditions work (synchrotrons, neutrons and free electron lasers). Complementary experimental (Mössbauer spectroscopy, X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, inelastic scattering) and computational methods will also be discussed. Diffraction analysis on the structure of liquids, glasses and nanocrystalline materials as well as multigrain crystallography will also be introduced. The lectures will be harmonized with the related sessions of interactive tutorials, providing hands-on experience to the attendees. These workshops will be focused on basic laboratory skills and the elements of data processing software related to the high pressure.

Presenter: Dr. Enrico Mugnaioli, IIT Pisa

This school will be a fully online event organized in Budapest, Hungary

Extended Standard registration deadline
30 June 2021

Student under 35 years: EUR 240
Participant above 35 years: EUR 290
Non-Academic: EUR 390

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Given the current situation and the fact that knowledge dissemination has to continue, the BCS meeting will be an 'open for all', free of charge event. Registration is required for organizational purposes.