The DyCoMaX workshop is dedicated to new scientific opportunities offered by the combination of dynamic compression, induced by powerful lasers or other shock-generating devices, with brilliant time-resolved X-ray probes.

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The main topics of the workshop are:

- Planetary science: structure, evolution, geodynamics of planets, space impacts

- Warm Dense Matter: experiments and modelling

- Behaviour of matter under high strain rates

- Synthesis of new materials, new chemistry

- Synergy with static compression

- Ab-initio simulations for matter under extreme conditions

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.

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT

It is well recognized that the pre-organization of a ligand into a low-strain binding conformation is a valuable objective in drug design. Mogul software from CCDC enables a rapid assessment of the geometry of a 3D model. During this webinar, Dr John Liebeschuetz will demonstrate recent work using Mogul, which validates the proposition that strained or unusual molecular geometries are seldom encountered in optimized drug molecules. When they do appear, they are often indicative of a crystallographic artifact.

We will explore:

The use of Mogul in distinguishing between crystallographic anomalies and genuinely unusual geometries in structure-based drug design.

Who should attend?

• Drug development scientists
• Computational chemists

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.

Dear Colleagues

We (the board members of the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society) are pleased to announce the availability of travel awards to attend the 80^th Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference. The Conference will be held at the Society’s ancestral home, in Pittsburgh, PA, on October 15, 2023 â€" October 17, 2023.

The awards are aimed at students, postdoctoral fellows as well as (non-faculty) staff scientists. Applications from minorities underrepresented in the sciences are especially encouraged. Details can be found here as well as attached.

The conference program includes

·        A historic overview on the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society

·        Scientific Sessions covering the Latest Development at Light Sources, High-pressure Applications, Structure-based drug design, Synergy of Computation and Crystallography, Crystallography and Cryo-EM, Structure property relationships in Quantum and Layered Materials, and many more!

·        A Young Investigator Platform showcasing achievements of students and postdocs

·        Student posters are eligible for the Chung Soo Yoo Award, which carries a $400 cash prize, related to materials and biological research, respectively

·        Fun social activities and Vendor Shows!

·        A Phenix Workshop prior to the conference (Oct 14, 2023, limited availability!)

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For the entire program, the venue and more details, and to register, please visit the conference web page.

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 following topics will be covered: Material synthesis; Structure determination (long range order and disorder); Electronic and Magnetic orders, Superconductivity; Atomic dynamics (phonon, phason, relaxation, heat transport); Ferroelectricity in perovskite; Catalysis and complex structures; Atomic scale Simulation and Machine learning for the study of complexity.

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 This conference is jointly organized by the International Research Network Aperiodic, the Hypermaterials project and the Hyper-ordered structure projects. It follows the IRN Aperiodic conference organized in Octobre 2021 in Carry le Rouet, France (https://irn-aperiodic.grenoble.cnrs.fr/). It is a successor to previous meetings held in Nagoya (2015), Annecy (2017) and Sendai (2019) bringing together aperiodic and correlated electron communities.

BCA CCG Autumn meeting 2022

Going beyond the data for chemical crystallographers

Registration for the Chemical Crystallography Group Autumn meeting is now live! The meeting will be held online on Wednesday 16^th November 2022. For details and registration, visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chemical-crystallography-group-autumn-meeting-2022-tickets-425715124397

The MLZ is delighted to host the Eighth European Conference on Neutron Scattering after successful events atÂ

• Interlaken 1996
• Budapest 1999
• Montpellier 2003
• Lund 2007
• Prag 2011Â
• Zaragoza 2015
• St. Petersburg 2019

The conference is organized on behalf of the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) and is one of the most important scientific events in the field of neutron research.Â

The conference will take place at the TUM Department of Mechanical Engineering and the new Science Congress Center Munich - both located in the immediate vicinity of the MLZ at Garching.Â

After a warm Welcome on March 19th, we are looking forward to four days of thrilling talks, pleasant posters, and decent discussions of the European neutron scattering community between March 20th and 23rd!Â

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Conferences Series welcomes professional chemists, bioscience experience researchers, professors, scientific communities, delegates, students, business professionals and executives from all over the globe to attend the “18th European Organic Chemistry Congress”[Euro Organic Chemistry Conference 2022] that is to be organized during July 18-19, 2022 Amsterdam, Netherlands which incorporates prompt keynote presentations, oral talks, poster displays and exhibitions.

Euro Organic Chemistry 2022 is an international platform to debate and learn about new compounds and its structures, bonding, reactivity in field of chemistry and in organometallic chemistry, organic chemical science, biogeochemistry, marine chemical science, petroleum chemical science, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry, advancements in the fields of modern experimental chemistry, modern analytical chemistry, modern theoretical chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, flow chemistry, microwave chemistry, green chemistry, spectroscopy, new synthetic ways and advances in catalysis.

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.

• Multiferroics and chirality
• Strongly correlated electron systems
• Frustrated and disordered systems
• Quantum materials
• Magnetic nanomaterials
• Thin films and multilayers
• Soft matter
• Imaging
• Polarized neutron instrumentation
• Polarized neutron techniques and methods

Polish Conference on Crystal Growth 2022 is an international conference organized by Polish Society for Crystal Growth (PTWK), Gdańsk University of Technology, and the ENSEMBLE3 Centre of Excellence.

The conference will be held in Gdańsk, Poland on June 19-24th, 2022.

The program of PCCG 2022 is focused on current research and development topics in the field of crystal growth, epitaxy, nanocrystals and advanced materials, including:

• Bulk growth
• Epitaxial growth
• Photonic crystals
• Intermetallics
• Topological insulators
• Biocrystals and biogenic crystals
• Semiconductors
• Materials for photovoltaics
• 2D materials
• Characterization methods
• Optical crystals
• Novel materials

Polish Conference on Crystal Growth 2022 is an international conference organized by Polish Society for Crystal Growth (PTWK), Gdańsk University of Technology, and the ENSEMBLE3 Centre of Excellence.

The conference will be held in Gdańsk, Poland on June 19-24th, 2022.

The program of PCCG 2022 is focused on current research and development topics in the field of crystal growth, epitaxy, nanocrystals and advanced materials, including:

• Bulk growth
• Epitaxial growth
• Photonic crystals
• Intermetallics
• Topological insulators
• Biocrystals and biogenic crystals
• Semiconductors
• Materials for photovoltaics
• 2D materials
• Characterization methods
• Optical crystals
• Novel materials

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The 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Engineering (GRC-CE) is a biannual meeting. The 2022 GRC-CE will bring together organic, inorganic, physical, computational chemists, as well as pharmaceutical scientists, materials scientists, data scientists, and others in a uniquely and highly interactive environment to discuss latest results at the cutting edge of the field. The program for the 2022 GRC-CE GRC includes sessions on Order, Disorder and Defects, Crystal Assembly, Polymorphs and Mixtures, Crystals Under Pressure, Crystal Reactivity, Pharmaceuticals and Cocrystals, Big Data and Informatics, Porosity and Open Framework Materials, and Engineering Across Different Length Scales.Â

An associated Graduate Research Seminar (GRS) prior to the GRC-CE conference ensures that young scientist are well represented as attendees at the GRC-CE. The highly interactive format of both the GRC and GRS ensures it will be a valuable experience for the next generation of researchers in the field. Â