The deadline for oral presentations to be considered for inclusion in the 2010 BCA Spring Meeting symposia of is 2nd October. See http://crystallography.org.uk/spring-meeting/2010-Abstracts for submission details.
To encourage promising graduate students to pursue crystallography?oriented research, the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) has established the Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship Fund. Multiple recipients are selected on a competitive basis, each receiving an award of $2,500. Applications must be received by the ICDD by 30 October 2009.
The BCA Industrial Group provide a number of spreadsheets containing formulae for many useful conversions and corrections to X-ray data: http://ig.crystallography.org.uk/spreadsh/ssindx.htm
The IUCr’s Commision on Crystallographic Teaching provides a set of Teaching Pamphlets, which provide tutorials introducing different aspects of symmetry, diffraction techniques, structural science and crystallography.
They are freely available on the Web for the use of instructors and individuals.
A font, cryst, has been created by Ulrich Müller for displaying crystallographic symmetry axes in the style of the space-group diagrams in International Tables for Crystallography.
It is available from the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) website.
A collection of beautifully colourful images of crystalline material by Robert B. Alcott http://crystallineartistry.net/
The 2009 Autumn Meeting of the Chemical Crystallography Group will be held on Wednesday 18th November in the Chemistry Research Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK.
As usual, the programme will start around 10.45am to allow for same day travel from far and wide (depending on your transport links).
Follow this link for programme and registration (online or post).
This is the first time that as President I have had the very enjoyable task of inviting nominations for new Honorary Members of the BCA.
The 2009 IG Autumn meeting will be held on the 5th November at World of Glass – St Helens. It will include a morning session of Young Crystallographer presentations.
Registration is now open with free student places.
Programme details are on the Industrial Group’s meeting page: Autumn 2009
The IUCr’s triennial international congresses have always been lively and cordial meetings, where many close friendships and collaborations have been forged.
The first edition of the World Directory of Crystallographers was produced in 1957, an unprecedented handbook of contact information and details of research interests tying together the community ever more closely.
Follow the link above to find crystallographers, and to update or create your own entry.