The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) covers introductory aspects of synchrotron and XFEL radiation. A link to the course can be found at

https://www.edx.org/course/synchrotrons-and-x-ray-free-electron-laser.

A short 'teaser' video is also viewable at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyIGssgri50, which gives an insight into the course contents.

The course is aimed at a broad scientific audience from historical-artefact restorators and paleontologists, through biologists, biochemists and chemical engineers, to materials scientists and physicists. It includes the following themes:

• Interaction of X-rays with matter;
• The production and physics of synchrotron and XFEL radiation;
• X-ray optics, beamlines, and instrumentation;
• X-ray diffraction and scattering;
• UV and X-ray spectroscopies;
• X-ray imaging (mainly tomography and lensless imaging/ptychography);
• Extra week on phasing techniques in macromolecular crystallography.

The course begins next Monday 5th March 2018 and lasts for nine weeks - each week, two to three new videos are released (youTube videos embedded in the edX player, which can be downloaded and viewed at leisure), each approximately 20 minutes long, plus optional problems (and optional final exam at the end of the course). Enrollment on the course (see above link) is free; a Verified Certificate can be purchased at the end for those who so wish and have achieved the pass grade.

This is an excellent opportunity, especially for younger staff and students, to learn more about the fascinating and interdisciplinary world of synchrotron science and all its myriad possibilities in an engaging and exciting manner!

Muons are a valuable and versatile probe of condensed matter. The µSR (muon spin rotation / relaxation / resonance) spectroscopic techniques are used to investigate magnetic, superconducting, semiconducting, molecular, ionic and metallic systems.

The aim of the Muon Spectroscopy Training School is to provide a practical training course for Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers on the use of muons in condensed matter research.

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Discover and Explore the Future of Pharma.

The gathering will address Pharmaceutical Research in the area of Pharmaceutical manufacturing, while laying emphasis on innovative methodologies in pharmaceutical and food manufacturing. Pharma Europe 2018 will be the best venue for Research Associate, Research Scientist, Directors, CEO’s of Pharmaceutical Organizations, Supply Chain companies, Bio-informatics Professionals,  Noble laureates in Health Care and Medicine, Quality Assurance Specialist, Market research Analyst, Associate Product Manager, Product Manager, Strategy Director, Business Development Manager, Pharmacists, Deans, Students, Professors, Researchers, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences from Universities and Medical Colleges.

Pharma Europe 2018 Conference will encourage Young Researcher’s Forum, scientists and the researchers in their early stage of career graph to widely discuss their outcome so as to enrich and develop the idea. The ‘Best Poster Award’ is meant to encourage students in taking active part in the International Science platform to sharpen their skills and knowledgebase.

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The important tracks that are part of Pharma Europe 2018 includes Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Pharmacological Sciences, Drugs and Regulations, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Types of Pharmaceutical Formulations, Nanotechnology, Novel Drug Delivery Systems, Pre-formulation Studies, Bio-Pharmaceutics, Bioinformatics, Genetics & Genetic Engineering, Pharmaceutical Packaging, Radiopharmaceuticals, Pharma Companies, Hospital Pharmacy, Industrial Pharmacy, Ethics in Pharmacy, Pharma Consulting & Services

The Abstracts that are accepted for presentations are published in the proceedings of the Journals like Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs: Open Access, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Journal of Pharmaceutics & Drug Delivery Research.

• Biomolecular, soft condensed matter structure & dynamics
• Physics and chemistry of condensed matter

• to learn new techniques using neutron and synchrotron radiation
• to expand your theoretical and practical knowledge, not only for your present research but for your scientific career
• to experiment these techniques on world-class instruments & beamlines
• to build a network of relations with fellow young researchers and experienced teachers from all around the World

You are cordially invited to participate to the 6th TUNISIAN CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC MEETING (TCM6) by submitting a paper and actively assisting in its work.

TCM6 is intended to provide an excellent opportunity for National, Maghreb and International researchers to make their own work known to a wider audience and to have discussions with other participants. This conference will also be an opportunity to exchange experiences, create and consolidate cooperation between different research structures.

This outstanding conference, organized by the “Tunisian Crystallographic Association”, will take place from 1â€"5 November 2017 in a beautiful and exotic Hotel: El Mouradi Djerba Menzel 4* on Djerba Island, an ecological place, very popular by its palm groves, its beaches and its wetlands populated by various species of migratory birds.

The conference will expand to cover a broad set of research topics about:

• Crystal Structure of Materials, Nanoparticles and Minerals
• Chemical Crystallography
• Cements
• Thin films
• Magnetic order and its consequences
• Dielectrics and multiferroics
• Crystal structure relationships and their applications
• Semiconductor devices and their applications

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Important Dates :

Abstract submission deadline: September 15, 2017

Acceptance notification:Â October 1, 2017

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More information is available on the conference web site: http://tcm6.org/

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Abstracts for consideration as oral and poster presentations can be submitted online via:

·         The conference’s official website:http://tcm6.org/

·         Email: [email protected]

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Please feel free to forward this invitation to any of your colleagues who may be interested.

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Key Topics and Focus of the Conference

The key topics shall be

• the physical and chemical control of spin-architectures at surfaces and interfaces,
• the experimental investigation of spin properties e.g. via local probe and spatially averaging experiments (X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, spin polarized photoemission techniques, spin-resolved scanning tunneling spectroscopy/ microscopy)
• the ab-initio calculation of the spintronic behavior at real and model interfaces, and
• the characterization of exploratory spintronic devices on the basis of single or few atoms or molecules.

Content

• Interaction of photons, neutrons and muons with matter
• Production of photons, neutrons and muons
• Experimental setups: optics and detectors
• Crystal symmetry, Bragg's law, reciprocal lattice, structure factors
• Elastic and inelastic scattering with neutrons and photons
• X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray magnetic circular dichroism
• Polarized neutron scattering for the study of magnetic materials
• Imaging techniques using X-rays and neutrons
• Introduction to muon spin rotation
• Applications of muon spin rotation

DyProSo is an international biannual research meeting on functional properties of condensed matter resulting from elementary excitations, molecular motions, transport processes and other dynamic phenomena occurring in many body systems. Of special concern is always a scientific dialogue between young and experienced researchers working on the dynamics of materials

The scientific programme of DyProSo XXXVI will contain the subjects: -

• Amorphous and soft matter
• Multiferroics and ferroelectrics
• Electrons and spins
• Diffusive dynamics
• Phonons and magnons
• Theoretical and experimental methods
• Excitations of strongly correlated electron systems
• Low-dimensional systems
• Materials under high pressure
• Applications and interdisciplinary subjects

Topical Sessions

The following parallel sessions will be held in the afternoons:

• Applied Physics and Plasma Physics
• Astronomy und Astrophysics **
• Atomic Physics and Quantum Photonics
• Biophysics, Medical Physics and Soft Matter
• Condensed Matter Physics (KOND) (incl. NESY)
• Correlated-Electron Physics in Transition-Metal Oxides *
• Earth, Atmosphere and Environmental Physics
• Emergent phenomena in novel low-dimensional materials *
• History of Physics
• Magnetism and Spintronics at the Nanoscale
• Nuclear, Particle- & Astrophysics (TASK-FAKT)
• Physics in Startups
• Scientific Opportunities with SwissFEL
• Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films
• Theoretical Physics

The Low Temperature Physics Conference is an international event held every three years, under the auspices of the IUPAP through its Commission C5 on Low Temperature Physics. The aim of these conferences is to exchange information and views among the members of the international scientific community in the general field of Low Temperature Physics. It is a tradition that LT offers updates on the various topics, provided by the highest representatives of the field, as well as oral and poster contributions in the different areas. As usual the conference covers five subtopics:

• Quantum fluids and solids
• Superconductivity
• Cryogenic techniques and applications
• Magnetism and quantum phase transitions
• Quantum transport and quantum information in condensed matter

The main topics that will be featured in SCES 2017 are:

• Heavy fermion systems
• Kondo effect and valence fluctuations
• Quantum phase transitions and related phenomena
• Unconventional superconductivity
• Metal insulator transitions
• Strong spin-orbit interaction in correlated systems
• CEF effects and multipolar ordering in SCES
• Theoretical methods for strong correlations
• Correlated topological phases
• Kondo physics at nanoscale
• Quantum magnetism and frustration
• New materials; bulk, thin films and artificial structures
• Strong correlations in actinides
• Non-equilibrium phenomena in strongly correlated systems
• Ferroics and multiferroics
• Strong correlations in optical lattices
• Strongly correlated materials in applications
• Large research infrastructures for SCES investigations
• Novel techniques

Materials by Design: Using Active and Meta-Materials to Explore New Physics and Create Customized, Tunable Matter