28th March 2014

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Event Name An experiment on crystallography
Start Date 4th Mar 2014 9:00am
End Date 30th Nov 2014 4:00pm
Duration 271 days and 7 hours
Description

Many initiatives have been and are being organized to involve schoolchildren at Mudaliarpet, Pondicherry (India) into crystallography on the occasion of IYCr2014.

1. At first, the students were given a brief introduction on various crystals, which made them think about how crystals are formed.

2. Following this, a team of students were selected for a project on Crystal Growth - investigating the size, shape and number of crystals formed, taking various substances such as table salt, sugar, epsom salt, borax, potassium nitrate and alum. 

3. A Radio Talk was given by the teacher and the students on the "International Year of Crystallography".

4. A lecture was given on the topic to the school students, following which a demonstration -cum- exhibition, along with a poster presentation by the teacher is to be arranged for view for the public around the school locale. 

5. A next attempt to telecast the above in the television is made.

6. Students of our school are participating in the IYCr2014 Crystal Growing Competition. 


Location Mudaliarpet, Pondicherry
India
Contact Aravindaraja Devadoss
aravind.devadoss@gmail.com
URL asngmsmudaliarpet2011.blog.com
Category activities for schoolchildren

Event Name Crystallography Display for IYCr2014
Start Date 19th Mar 2014 2:00pm
End Date 25th Oct 2014 4:00pm
Duration 220 days and 1 hour
Description

A small display of minerals at the Diss Museum (Norfolk, England), specially chosen to link with the International Year of Crystallography.

DissMuseumMinerals have been selected that exhibit their crystalline form to illustrate some basic laws: the work of Nicolas Steno and the law of the constancy of facial angles (using quartz) and Réne Haüy's geometrical law of crystallization (using calcite and galena).

In addition there are minerals exhibiting special features including pyrite, sphalerite, magnetite, fluorspar, gypsum and rhodochrosite, some of which come from the famous 'Trepča' lead/zinc mine near Kosovo Mitrovica in Kosovo.

Opening times (19th March to 25th October):
Wednesday and Thursday: 2.00pm to 4.00pm
Friday and Saturday: 10.30am to 4.00pm
Sundays (4th May to 31st August): 2.30pm to 4.30pm


Location Diss, Norfolk
United Kingdom
Contact Peter Perkins
pjperkins@live.co.uk
URL http://www.disscommunity.net
Category exhibitions

Event Name Crystals: Beauty, Science, Structure
Start Date 7th Nov 2013
End Date 30th Mar 2014
Duration 144 days
Description

From gigantic and exotic cave formations to everyday ingredients such as salt and sugar, crystals are all around us. In our latest special exhibition – Crystals: Beauty, Science, Structure – we look at the history of the study of crystals, an endeavour which has prized their mysterious and natural beauty, as well as probed their fundamental atomic structures.

In the middle ages, natural minerals were thought to carry occult properties, perhaps suggested by their startling array of colours and geometric forms. These regular forms promised a special insight into nature and from the 17th century onwards they were exactly measured and their symmetries exhaustively classified.

At the turn of the 20th century even deeper secrets were illuminated by the ground-breaking technique of x-ray crystallography. Today, crystallography is the hidden science behind many aspects of our lives.

This year, 2013, celebrates the centenary of the pioneering work of father and son William and Lawrence Bragg, which laid the foundations for the science of x-ray crystallography. The International Year of Crystallography takes place during 2014.


Location Oxford Museum of History of Science
United Kingdom
Contact Mike Glazer
glazer@physics.ox.ac.uk
URL http://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/mhs/crystals-beauty-science-structure/
Category exhibitions

Event Name IYCr2014 Melbourne public lecture series
Start Date 27th Mar 2014
End Date 28th Mar 2014
Duration 2 days
Description In the framework of the celebrations for the International Year of Crystallography at the University of Melbourne, Professor Jenny Martin will give lectures on the history of the Braggs and their contribution to crystallography.


Location Melbourne
Australia
Contact Dr Stuart Mills
smills@museum.vic.gov.au
URL http://science.unimelb.edu.au/crystallography
Category lectures

Event Name Living with crystals
Start Date 13th Feb 2014 6:00pm
End Date 11th Jan 2015 6:00pm
Duration 332 days
Description

The exhibition "Living with crystal" (original title in Slovenian: Živeti s kristali), organized on the occasion of the International Year of Crystallography, will be open from 13 February 2014 to 11 January 2015 at the Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana. 

On display: Photographs of minerals, Crystal drawings, Mineral and crystal collections, Jewellery, Fluorescent minerals, Interactive presentation of minerals and rocks on Biedermeier tables, Interactive play "Umek the Mineralogist", Microscopic world of crystals.

Authors: Miha Jeršek, Mirjan Žorž, Breda Činč Juhant, Katarina Fuchs

 


Location Prirodoslovni muzej Slovenije, Ljubljana
Slovenia
Contact Breda Èinè Juhant
bjuhant@pms-lj.si
URL http://www.pms-lj.si/si/razstave/obcasne-razstave/634
Category exhibitions

Event Name Nobel Structures: Celebrating Crystallography
Start Date 15th Mar 2014
End Date 18th May 2014
Duration 64 days and 23 hours
Description The United Nations have declared 2014 the International Year of Crystallography. Few people know how important this subject is, even though it has led to 29 Nobel Prizes. ‘Nobel Structures: Celebrating Crystallography’ aims to raise awareness about this fascinating field, allowing us to see how molecules fit together, from diamonds to DNA.

The exhibition will investigate the achievements of som...e of the most important scientists of the twentieth century and their work with X-rays. Their ground-breaking discoveries unravelled the structures of DNA, penicillin and insulin, to name but a few...

But crystallography goes beyond the boundaries of science, inspiring artists and designers. Come and explore its many facets and forms at the St Andrews Museum, Kinburn Park, Doubledykes Road.


Location St Andrews
United Kingdom
Contact Nobel Structures Group
crystallography@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL http://nobelstructures.wix.com/home
Category exhibitions

Event Name Platonic Solids and Quasicrystals - Moments in the History of Crystallography
Start Date 30th May 2013
End Date 4th May 2014
Duration 340 days
Description

This year's exhibition at Carolina Rediviva, Platonic Solids and Quasicrystals, is all about crystallography and shows how this science has been perceived over time. By collaborating with the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University, we can exhibit books side by side with real crystals, models of crystals and instruments that have been used to measure the angles of these strange formations that seem to have been cut and polished by human hand whereas in fact they have been shaped by uniform atomic structures.

Welcome on a beautiful journey through this collection of historical scientific books and artifacts.


Location Uppsala
Sweden
Contact Johan Kjellman
johan.kjellman@em.uu.se
URL http://www.ub.uu.se/en/Just-now/Exhibitions/Current-exhibitions/
Category exhibitions

Event Name Wilfrid Laurier Faculty of Science Poster Conference
Start Date 28th Mar 2014 1:00pm
End Date 28th Mar 2014 4:00pm
Duration 3 hours
Description Students in CH390: Chemical Literature and Scientific Communication will be presenting their term research on topics related to The International Year of Crystallography in the Faculty of Science Poster Conference. This event is open to the wider public and will be taking place in the Science Building Atrium from 1 - 4pm.


Location Waterloo, ON
Canada
Contact Louise Dawe
ldawe@wlu.ca
URL
Category other

Event Name National Seminar on Crystallography (43A)
Start Date 28th Mar 2014 4:00pm
End Date 30th Mar 2014 2:00pm
Duration 1 day and 21 hours
Description

The National Seminar on Crystallography (43A) will be held at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali during 28-30 March, 2014.

IISER
The year 2014 is being celebrated as the International Year of Crystallography (IYCr2014) to mark 100 years since the award of Nobel Prize to Max von Laue for the discovery of X-ray diffractionby by crystals. This national seminar at IISER Mohali will be the first of the three national seminars to be held in India in 2014. The National Programme Committee and the Local Organizing Committee are in the process of organizing this conference with the help of various funding agencies. The scientists, post-docs and the students working in the different areas of crystallography in the country will be able to present their exciting results and will be able to exchange their idea to enrich their view and knowledge. The conference will have equally balanced oral and poster presentations in the areas of macromolecular and small molecule crystallography and the application of crystallography in materials science. The seminar is supported by the Indian Crystallographic Association.

Download the conference flyer 

 


Location IISER Mohali
India
Contact Dr. Angshuman Roy Choudhury
angshurc@iisermohali.ac.in
URL https://sites.google.com/site/nsc43aiisermohali/
Category seminars