Opening Ceremony, UNESCO, Paris, 20-21 January 2014
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Day 1 | 20 January
08:30-09:55 Registration
Video clip of the International Year of Crystallography
10:00-10:55 Welcome
Neil Ford, Director of the Division of Public Information of UNESCO, Moderator
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations by video message
Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO | Transcript (PDF): English and French
Gautam R. Desiraju, President of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | Transcript (PDF): English
Soumaia Benkhaldoun, Vice-Minister of Higher Education and Research of Morocco
Messages from International and National Organizations, speakers:
Gregory Petsko, President of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB)
10:55-11:30 Lecture on milestones in crystallography and future perspectives
Christian Brönnimann, Introduction
Jenny Glusker - Crystallography: past, present and future
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:10 Session 1: Young talented crystallographers of the world
12:00-12:40 Short talks from young crystallographers from all regions of the world
Speakers:
- Africa: Yvon Bibila (Côte d'Ivoire), Delia Haynes (South Africa)
- Arab States: Mohamed Eddaoudi (Saudi Arabia)
- Asia: Rumana Akther Jahan (Bangladesh), Ji-Joon Song (Republic of Korea)
- Latin America: Adriana Serquis (Argentina)
- Eastern Europe: Marcin Nowotny (Poland)
- Western Europe and North America: Anders Ø. Madsen (Denmark)
12:40-13:10 Roundtable on careers in crystallography
Declarations of young scientists to world governments to be collected in a booklet on careers and future developments of crystallography
13:10-14:50 Lunch break
14:50-15:30 Nobel laureate lecture
Jules Tenon, Introduction
Brian K. Kobilka Structural insights into G-protein coupled receptor signalling
Judith Howard, Summary remarks
15:30-18:00 Session 2: Crystallography in emerging nations: success stories and the role for development in the BRICS countries
Neil Ford, Director of the Division of Public Information of UNESCO, Chair/Facilitator
Hao Ping, President of the 37th session of the General Conference of UNESCO
Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO
Vinay Sheel Oberoi, Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of India to UNESCO
Speakers:
- Thirumalachari Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India - India
- Glaucius Oliva, President of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - Brazil
16:35-17:00 Coffee break
- Thomas Auf der Heyde, Deputy Director-General at the South African national Department of Science and Technology (DST); Catharine Esterhuysen, President of the South African Crystallographic Society – South Africa
- Mikhail Kovalchuk, Director of the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Chairman of the Russian National Committee for Crystallography – Russian Federation
- Gao Song, President of the Chinese Crystallographic Society (CCrS) - China
Day 2 | 21 January
09:00-11:15 Session 3: Crystallography for society and the future
Johannes Friso van der Veen, Chair and introduction
John Spence - From X-ray tubes to X-ray lasers
Martijn Fransen - Crystallography in our daily lives | See the video of the presentation on: Vimeo (high-resolution) | YouTube
Rigaku’s video clip - Applications of crystallography | See the video on: Youtube
Juliette Pradon - Crystallography research in the developing world
Sunday Asuquo Thomas, Introduction
David Bish and David Blake - Crystallography in the study of the Universe
Frank Burgäzy - A Short History of Crystallographic Technology
Diego Lamas, Introduction
Philippe Walter - Crystallography in the studies of art and historical artefacts
11:15-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-12:45 Session 4: Crystallography, symmetry and art
Hocine Merazig, Chair and introduction
Abdelmalek Thalal - Symmetry in art and architecture of the western Islamic Golden Age
Emil Makovicky - Highlights of eastern Islamic ornamental art as seen through crystallographers' eyes
Peter J. Lu - Modern math in medieval Islamic architecture
12:45-13:20 Session 5: Crystallography and peace
Samar Hasnain, Chair and introduction - IUCrJ and crystallography working across nations
Chris Llewellyn Smith - SESAME: Fostering science, building bridges
13:20-13:30 Closing remarks - International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP) of UNESCO
Maciej Nalecz, Director, Executive Secretary of the International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP) of UNESCO
Organizing Committee
Francesco Glorioso, Consultant
Programme Committee
La cristallographie, une clé de la connaissance - Crystallography, a key to knowledge
Date: Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Venue: Room 11, UNESCO, 7, place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris
Organized by: Comité de pilotage de l’ « Année Internationale de la Cristallographie en France – AICr2014 » with the support of UNESCO, the IUCr and the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research, and under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences.
Participation is free.
This meeting is intended for scientists of all disciplines and also for PhD or master students. It aims at introducing all the current challenges of crystallography and enlightening the prospects opened by this science in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics and Earth sciences.
The presentations will be given in French or in English, a simultaneous translation will be provided.
The workshop will be broadcast live thanks to the partnership of some French Universities. In addition, the talks will be recorded and will be available on the UPMC-Sorbonne website (http://video.upmc.fr).
List of invited speakers
• Massimo ALTARELLI – XFEL – Hamburg – Germany
« New horizons of structural investigations at the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser Facility »
• Karim BENZERARA – Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris – France
« The Crystal and the Living: when crystallography meets microbiology »
• Jacqueline CHERFILS – CNRS – Gif-sur-Yvette – France
Title to be defined
• Vincent FAVRE-NICOLIN – INAC/CEA – Grenoble – France
« Cristallographie 2014 : des poudres aux nano-structures de semi-conducteurs »
• René GUINEBRETIERE – Centre Européen de la Céramique – Limoges – France
Title to be defined
• Maryvonne HERVIEU – CRISMAT – Caen – France
« Electrons et nano-analyses structurales de la matière condensée »
• Irene MARGIOLAKI – Université de Patras – Greece
« Macromolecular Powder Diffraction: Past, Present, Future »
• Paolo RADAELLI – University of Oxford – UK
Title to be defined
• David STUART – University of Oxford – UK
Title to be defined
• Bertrand TOUDIC – Université de Rennes – France
« Crystallography in high dimensions »
Website of the workshop | Online registration | Leaflet