Crystallography matters ... more!

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. 

Following the great success obtained in Reggio Emilia, the exhibition “L’ENIGMA ESCHER- PARADOSSI GRAFICI TRA ARTE E GEOMETRIA”, a major retrospective exhibition of the work of Maurits Cornelis Escher, will be on display at "Il Filatoio di Caraglio" (Cuneo, Italy) from 29 March to 29 June 2014.

The exhibition presents the work of the Dutch graphic artist from his debut on the scene to his latest years, bringing together 130 works, including lithographs, etchings and drawings, on loan from museums, libraries and national institutes – among which the Galleria d’Arte Moderna of Rome and the Fondazione Wolfsoniana of Genoa – as well as from some important, private collections.

A special section is dedicated to tilings, with a panel illustrating the 17 crystallographic planar groups and some original examples of Escher's plane-filling drawings.

The exhibition is included in the events for IYCr2014 celebrations in Italy. 

Read the press release on the Reggio Emilia exhibition mentioning the connection with IYCr2014 (in Italian)

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

The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) organizes NSTDA Annual Conference (NAC) to present the research and development (R&D) progress of NSTDA's and its partnership organizations' researchers every year. NAC2014 also celebrates IYCr2014 by including the work of Thai researchers relating to crystallography. The IYCr2014 booklet "Crystallography Matters" translated into Thai will be given to HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on her presiding over the opening ceremony of NAC2014 on March 31, 2014 at Thailand Science Park, Pathumtani  

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.

The workshops are addressed to the pupils of secondary and grammar schools and will be held as a part of the campaign: “University Always Open.”

Professor Claude Lecomte (Vice-President of IUCr) "International Year of Crystallography: The IUCr-UNESCO projects"

Professor Maria Ondina Figueiredo (CENIMAT-FCT-NOVA, Portugal) "CRYSTALS: form, metrics, symmetry, atomistic in the perspective of materials"

Professor Maria Arménia Carrondo (ITQB-NOVA, Portugal) "Structural Biology Contribution to New Advances in Science. The Portuguese Case"

The lectures were followed by a small gathering (click here to see the IYCr commemorative cake prepared for this occasion).

See the complete photo gallery of the event at http://xtal.dq.fct.unl.pt/iycr2014/Photo_Gallery.html#grid

Lecture by Urszula Rychlewska for Geology Students' Association at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

entitled: Need to understand crystals' behaviour? - get to know their structure

Lectures on Crystals on behalf of the IYCr at the "Lange Nacht der Forschung" ("Long Night of Research") in Austria.

Lange Nacht der Forschung, Wien:

Eine Präsentation vor dem Hintergrund des "International Year of Crystallography" (UNESCO). Der Wissenschaftskommunikator und promovierte Mineraloge und Kristallograph Dr. Robert Krickl führt in die Welt des Winzigkleinen, spricht über Relevanz von Mineralen und Kristallen in unserem Alltag und veranschaulicht welche große Auswirkung die unterschiedliche Anordnung von winzigen Atomen in unserer Welt hat. Der Vortrag gibt einen Vorgeschmack auf die Wanderausstellung, die durch Österreich touren wird.

Die UNO hat das Jahr 2014 zum "Internationalen Jahr der Kristallographie" erklärt, denn Kristalle sind aus unserem täglichen Leben nicht wegzudenken. Wir mögen uns dessen oft nicht bewusst sein, aber wir sind immer und überall von Kristallen umgeben. Wissen Sie eigentlich, was genau man unter einem Kristall versteht? Prüfen Sie selbst, wo kristalline Stoffe in Natur und Technik eine Rolle spielen und warum z.B. ein Mobiltelefon ohne kristalline Stoffe undenkbar wäre! Erleben Sie den ästhetischen Reiz von Kristallen und basteln Sie sich Ihr eigenes Kristallmodell! Erfahren Sie, wie Kristalle mit polarisiertem Licht faszinierenden Effekte und Farbenspiele hervorzaubern! Informieren Sie sich aus erster Hand über das Mineral Innsbruckit, das man erst kürzlich in Tirol entdeckt hat! Lassen Sie sich erklären, wie man den Kristallen Ihren Aufbau entlockt und warum es dafür einen Nobelpreis gab! Begleiten Sie uns auf einer Exkursion in die Wunderwelt der Kristalle!

Röntgenstrahlen können viel mehr als Knochen abbilden. Mit Röntgentechnik kann man die Struktur von Materialen untersuchen um dadurch wichtige Materialeigenschaften zu verstehen. Werfen Sie einen Blick in das Röntgenlabor der TU Wien – bei einer Laborführung lernen Sie unterschiedliche Untersuchungsmethoden und Geräte kennen.

Die regelmäßige Anordnung von Atomen in einem Kristall bestimmt wesentlich die physikalischen und chemischen Eigenschaften. Deswegen erfordert die Entwicklung von neuen oder die Verbesserung von bereits bekannten Materialien zuverlässige Daten über deren Strukturen und Eigenschaften. Mit unserem Beitrag wollen wir Ihnen anhand von Beispielen aus dem Alltag die Welt der Kristalle und die Untersuchungsmethoden mittels Beugungsexperimenten zur Untersuchung dieser Eigenschaften näher bringen. Neben einer Laborführung erwarten Sie verschiedene Versuchsaufbauten wie Beugungsexperimente mittels Laserstrahlen an optischen Gittern, Vorführungen von Beugungsexperimenten an den Geräten des Röntgenzentrums und eine Rätselecke mit Objekten zur Symmetrieerkennung.

Bedeutung der Kristallografie in alltäglichen Beispielen

Neben mineralogischen Objekten werden zoologische Unikate, aber auch Schmuckstücke, prähistorische Objekte, Kunstgegenstände u. v. m. untersucht.

Die Elektronenstrahlmikrosonde Jeol JXA 8530-F liefert auf Basis der Rasterelektronenmikroskopie eine präzise chemische Analytik der Objekte. Es handelt sich um das modernste Gerät seiner Art in ganz Österreich. Am NHM wird die Elektronenstrahlmikrosonde vorwiegend im Bereich der Meteoriten und Impaktforschung, Mineralogie und Petrologie eingesetzt.

Die Führungen finden auch im Rahmen des IYCr2014 http://www.iycr2014.org statt.

Dr. Dan Topa: „Sulfosalze – auf der Suche nach neuen Kristallstrukturen“

Christian Steinwender: „Rasterelektronenmikroskopie – Der Blick aufs Detail“

Treffpunkt: NHM Wien (Seiteneingang, Portier) Burgring 7, 1010 Wien

Beginnzeiten: 20 Uhr, 21 Uhr | Durchschnittliche Verweildauer: 45 Minuten

Max. Teilnehmer: 20 Personen pro Führung | Art der Station: Führung

Anmeldung per E-Mail: anmeldung@nhm-wien.ac.at

Ansprechperson: Gloria Lekaj +43 1 521 77-335

The location will be at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF).

The course will provide training on creating a roadmap towards determining the 3D structure of a macromolecular target including troubleshooting and rational decision-making. Emphasis will be given on Bio SAXS as a method of choice to characterize the structure of a single protein and protein complexes in solution coupled with X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, and electron microscopy (EM). An overview of mainstream methods will also be presented and attention will be drawn to techniques developed the last years like X-ray imaging. In addition, the participants will have a chance to get informed about the options they have for career development. Overall, the course will enable the attendees to adopt a broader way of thinking and get acquainted with state-of-the-art approaches currently employed in structural biology. This will increase researchers’ awareness on the facilities and services provided and capitalize on the investment that has already been made by Europe with the aim to promote innovative research.

Target Group & Selection process: The course targets mainly PhD students and post-doctoral scientists who are currently working in the structural biology field and have already some experience in working with macromolecules. Experienced researchers will also be considered but priority will be given to younger scientists. A total of 25 participants will be accepted in the course. The applicants will be expected to send a CV (max. 2 pages), a motivation letter (max. 1 page) explaining why they wish to participate and what they expect from the course and a reference letter. The Biostruct-X and local organizers will be responsible for the selection process to ensure that equivalent criteria will be applied.

Benefits:

Participants that have been accepted to the course are offered to send protein samples for characterization and crystallization to the Sample Preparation and Characterization (SPC) facility at the EMBL in Hamburg. The samples must be relatively pure (>90 % according to SDS-PAGE). The SPC will offer a preliminary sparse matrix screen that can be customized to the particular sample, as well as complementary characterization by thermal shift assay, dynamic light scattering and mass spectrometry. The preliminary results of this characterization will be discussed during the course. For more information, please visit the SPC website: https://htx.embl-hamburg.de/htxlab/

A limited number of fellowships will be awarded to participants coming from INSTRUCT member countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom) awarded by INSTRUCT (http://www.structuralbiology.com).

Host: The event will be hosted by NHRF, coordinator of Instruct-EL, the national distributed research infrastructure that functions as a hub for structural biology in South East European area and Cyprus.

The course is organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI-2014) that will also be held in Athens April 2^nd  – April 4^th, http://www.icri2014.eu

Registration fees: €50 for academic participants and €1000 for participants coming from industry.

Confirmed speakers in alphabetical order include:

T. Bergfors, M. Graewert, P. Konarev, R. Meijers, G. Nounesis, E. Pereiro, M. Petoukhov, S. Pispas, E. Saridakis, S. Savvides, Th. Schneider, Ef. Stratikos, D. Stuart, G. Spyroulias, D. Svergun, C.E. Vorgias, M. Weiss, M. Wilmanns

Organizing committee:

Local organizers :

National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF, host)

E.D. Chrysina, V. Papadimitriou, A. Xenakis, M. Zervou, P. Zoumpoulakis

Hellenic Crystallographic Association

I.M. Mavridis, S.E. Zographos

ICRI-2014 organizers:

• European Commission, Directorate General for Research & Innovation

Octavi Quintana Trias, Director of ERA policy

• “Athena”- Research and Innovation Center (on behalf of the Greek presidency/GSRT)

Yannis Ioannidis, President and General Director

The photograph exhibition "Entre Art et Sciences: le Corail en Images, de l'Animal au Cristal" will be hosted at the Scientific Centre of Monaco (CSM) from 7 April to 3 June 2014.

The workshops are addressed to pupils of secondary and grammar schools.

Motto of the Festival: "Exploring the world"

A journey into the world of crystals

Librinfesta is an exhibition held in Alessandria (Italy) from April 8th to 12th, 2014 to encourage schoolchildren (especially the youngest) to book reading. Among the various events, to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography, Dr. M. Milanesio, Dr. G. Croce and Dr. E. Conterosito of the Università del Piemonte Orientale organize some activities for children about the fascinating relations among crystals, symmetry, order, light, molecules and real life objects.

Viaggio nel mondo dei cristalli

Con il 2014 l’Associazione Il Contastorie di Alessandria organizza l’XI edizione  della manifestazione Librinfesta (dall’8 al 12 aprile 2014); Librinfesta è un evento per giovani lettori e un’occasione per creare tavoli di lavoro e aggiornamento per il mondo della scuola e per tutti coloro che riconoscono all’educazione e alla lettura un ruolo cardine nella formazione dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza. In programma eventi, letture, incontri e laboratori tra cui quello organizzato dal Dr. M. Milanesio, Dr. G. Croce e Dr. E. Conterosito dell’Università del Piemonte Orientale in occasione anche dell’Anno Internazionale della Cristallografia. Tale laboratorio dal titolo ‘Viaggio nel Mondo dei Cristalli’ è rivolto a studenti delle ultime classi della scuola primaria e a studenti della scuola secondaria ed ha lo scopo di far conoscere ai più giovani l’affascinante mondo dei cristalli e della cristallografia attraverso giochi sulla simmetria e sugli effetti di diffrazione della luce e di far meglio comprendere le proprietà delle molecole e le loro strutture anche in oggetti di uso quotidiano.

See the photos of the event 

The Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Lodz (Poland) will be the site of a panel discussion focused on current problems of crystallography and its historical influence on the development of other, important sectors of chemical sciences such as organic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, etc.. The discussion will be chaired by the Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, Professor Grzegorz Mloston (an organic chemist).  Alongside with a group of associate of the host Faculty, representatives of other academic and research institutions from Lodz, Poznan and Warsaw are invited to participate actively in the discussion.   

The panel discussion is scheduled for Thursday, April 10th and it is considered as a vital part of XIVth Festival of Science, Technology and the Arts held traditionally every year in April, in Lodz.

A LNEG (Portuguese Geological Survey) and Portuguese IGCP initiative to promote the International Year of Crystallography 2014 – 10, 11, 12 April, Beja, Portugal (10h30 - 11h30 am).

The objective is to promote IYCr2014 using the rock blocks of the Beja Geological Trail and their minerals. The trail collection includes Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, including sulphide stockwork veins mineralizations.

The initiative is dedicated to general public, teachers and students. Participation is free.

Download the poster of the event 

In the framework of the celebrations for the UN International Year of Crystallography at the University of Melbourne, Professor Peter Colman will present a public lecture at the Bio21 Institute in Melbourne, Parkville, Australia on the topic 'Crystals and X-Rays - how we see molecules and discover new medicines'.

Abstract: In the century since X-ray scattering by crystals was first observed, crystallographers have described the atomic structure of diverse materials such as diamond, DNA and proteins. Structure determines function and these structures explain diamond’s hardness, DNA’s role in hereditary, and how influenza viruses escape from one cell to infect another.  Contemporary drug discovery depends on the crystallographer’s photographs of protein molecules (magnified some 100 million times) to fashion drugs capable of selectively hitting the right target. Over the past twenty-five years crystallography has guided the discovery of new medicines for influenza, HIV and a number of specific cancers, and there is promise of much more to come.

Peter Colman studied physics at the University of Adelaide before embarking on a career in structural biology. Whilst at CSIRO in Melbourne his laboratory determined the crystal structure of the influenza virus protein neuraminidase, leading him to the discovery of a new class drugs for influenza. Relenza™ is among the earliest examples of drugs arising from X-ray crystallography. The drug class, known as neuraminidase inhibitors, are front-line agents in international preparedness for influenza pandemics. Crystallography is now a routine tool in drug discovery.  Colman, now at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, currently investigates new therapies for cancer that activate the cell suicide machinery.

The event is a One-Day Meeting organized for students of secondary schools in order to illustrate how the X-ray crystallography allows to get a picture of the exact position of the atoms in molecules. The day will be divided into short lessons, which will be held by young researchers, on the principles of this methodology and in several practical demonstrations on crystal growth and on the various stages of the process of structure determination.

Click here to download the poster of the event.

A Memorial Bronze Plate on the III Liceum Ogólnokształcące façade will commemorate the school years of Max von Laue in Poznan (1887-1891).
The unveiling ceremony on April 11, 2014 will be followed by a Laue Symposium.

Mariusz Jaskolski (Poznan, Poland), Chair of the Organizing Committee

PROGRAMME 

10:00 Opening
Dir. Katarzyna Kordus
Prof. Mariusz Jaskólski
Prof. Andrei Wieckowski

10:45 The Unveiling Ceremony

11.00 Concert of choral music

11.30 Official addresses
Local government representative
Prof. Maciej Nalecz (UNESCO)
Prof. Gautam Desiraju (IUCr)
Prof. Andreas Roodt (ECS)

12:00 Break

12:30 Laue Symposium, with the participation of
Prof. Wolfgang Schmahl (U. Munich)
Prof. Matthias Bochtler (IIMCB Warsaw)
Prof. Janusz Lipkowski (PTKr Warsaw)
Prof. Wojciech Rypniewski (IChB Poznan)
Prof. Alexander Wlodawer (NCI USA)
Prof. Jerzy Pelka (IF Warsaw)
Prof. Udo Heinemann (MDC Berlin)
Prof. Agnieszka Kiliszek (IChB Poznan)
Prof. Dieter Hoffmann (MPI Berlin)

15:00 Break

15:30 Poster session

16:00 Closing ceremony 

Read a report | See the photo gallery 

The Seminar will consists of two parts: one focused on the past history of crystallography in Poland and the other one on the present challenging topics which are of interests for the Polish community.

Below is the programme of this Seminar which will be also attended by Prof. Gautam Desiraju, President of IUCr:

Polish Crystallography: Past, Present and Future

Programme (Click here to download a printable PDF version)

10:00-10:20 Welcome

Krzysztof  Woźniak - Chair of the Organizing Committee
Paweł Kulesza – Dean of ChD
Ewa Bulska - Director of CNBCh
Janusz Lipkowski - President of PCA

10:20–10:35 Gautam Desiraju (President of  IUCr) Message from the President of IUCr

10:35–11:00 Barbara Oleksyn  (Jagiellonian University) Crystallography and Crystallographers in Poland: a Historical Outline

11:00–11:15 Marek Krygowski (ChD UW) Crystallography at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Warsaw

11:15–11:35 Anna Pajączkowska (ITME) Professor Jan Czochralski – Scientist of the World

11:35–12:00 Damian Kucharczyk (Agilent Tech.) XRD - development in technology and data quality    

12:00–13:00 Lunch +  visit to the labs

13:00-13:15 Dorota Pawlak (ITME) Novel Hybrid Materials for Photonics Manufactured by Crystal Growth Methods

13:15–13:30 Liliana Dobrzańska (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Structural Rearrangements in Single Crystals

13:30–13:45 Maria Górna (Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Wien, Austria) Human IFIT Proteins in Antiviral Defense

13:45–14 00 Łukasz Dobrzycki (CNBCh) Pyrrolidine and its Hydrates – in situ Crystallization, Structure and Properties

14:00–14:15 Michał Dobrowolski (CNBCh) Structural Diversities of Charge Transfer Complexes

14:15–14:30 Anna Makal (CNBCh) New Methods for Measurement and Analysis of Time-Resolved Laue Diffraction Data

14:30–14:45 Paulina Dominiak (CNBCh) Databank of Aspherical Atoms and Its Role in Crystallography and Structural Biology

14:45–15:00 Michał Chodkiewicz  (CNBCh) Diffuse Scattering in Crystallography

15:00–15:15 Magdalena Woińska (CNBCh) Wavefunction fitting and HAR – New Approaches  of Modern Crystallography 

15:15 Closing of the Seminar 

Esplorando il Nanomondo (Exploring the nanoworld)

Lecturer: Dr Enrico Mugnaioli

Venue: 15 April 2014, 11:00 am, Aula Magna Storica, Dipartimento Scienze Fisiche, Terra, Ambiente, via Laterina 8, Siena (Italy)

In nanomaterials - but not only - single crystals, which are the ideal starting point for structure determination, are too small to obtain X-ray diffraction patterns. It has long been known that electrons diffract much stronger with matter, but only recently it became technically feasible to solve the crucial problem of obtaining well defined diffracted intensities by Electron Diffraction Tomography (EDT).

Enrico Mugnaioli, principal investigator of a recently granted FIR project about the development of EDT in Italy, will explain the fundamentals of the technique and its possible applications to geological, environmental and materials sciences.

Read the short biographies of all speakers of the FCT-NOVA lecture series at http://xtal.dq.fct.unl.pt/iycr2014/Speakers.html

This MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) explains the basic building blocks of crystals, their symmetrical structure and introduces free software for crystal structure exploring. To be enrolled to this online course, visit the web site and click on the green button "Enrol with email".

The course is organized in chapters, every week a new chapter will be launched starting on April 18th.

Frank Hoffmann and his team from the University of Hamburg invite you to be part of the crystal admiring community.

International Year of Crystallography - A fascinating look at the Crystalline Material and its Nature

The activity will consist of a series of special lectures and labs by university professionals and aimed to teachers and students in the physics and chemistry areas at High Schools from Coban City.

A one-day symposium dedicated to IYCr2014 in the Czech Republic, organized within the traditional series of seminars called Rozhovory (already at its 294th edition). The workshop is open to the general public and teachers from secondary schools. A meeting with journalists is included.

The programme will show a wide scope of modern crystallography with attractive applications in very different fields (biology, pharmacy, physics, materials science, art, forensic science, industry etc.). 

The Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography of the IUCr is strongly committed to promote education in all the fundamental aspects of crystallography that nowadays are overlooked in common University courses. This mission is accomplished through a series of meetings in a wide range of regions. In spring 2014 we organize a school in Argentina, in continuation of our activity in the region after the previous schools in Havana, in Montevideo and in Uberlândia.

See the photo gallery 

The main ambition of the 4th PYCheM is diffusion of scientific work in chemistry between young researchers in Portugal and abroad. It is also intended to emphasize the bond between fundamental scientific research and its applicability in Industry by pointing to new professional opportunities and motivating the enterprising spirit of the participants. In addition to projecting and deepening the interest in chemistry in the society, this congress aims to reinforce the development of working networks between the young researchers, promoting their communication and work capabilities.

This conference will be privileged with the honorable presence of two Nobel Laureates: Dr Aaron Ciechanover and Dr Ada Yonath, Nobel Laureates in Chemistry in 2004 and 2009, respectively.

Portuguese speakers include Professors Maria João Romão, Elvira Fortunato and João Rocha.

This meeting has been scheduled to celebrate the year 2014-International Year of Crystallography and will take place at "El Colegio Nacional" in Mexico City on April 29 of this year.

This symposium is fostered by Profs. Maria Eugenia Mendoza, Abel Moreno and Eusebio Juaristi in collaboration with "El Colegio Nacional", to set up a forum where promising and important areas of research in X-ray crystallography will be presented and discussed. The event will be held in the beautiful colonial building of "El Colegio Nacional", located in the heart of Mexico City's historic district, a site surrounded by other magnificent constructions as the Aztec "Templo Mayor", the Metropolitan Cathedral and others.

A list of confirmed speakers are:

Wulf Depmeier, Kiel, Germany

Elies Molins, Barcelona, Spain

Irene Margiolaki, Patras, Greece

Sylvain Bernes, Monterrey, Mexico

Herbert Hopfl, Cuernavaca, Mexico

Xin Bokhimi, Mexico D.F., Mexico

Read the short biographies of all speakers of the FCT-NOVA lecture series at http://xtal.dq.fct.unl.pt/iycr2014/Speakers.html

The School Francesco Paolo Ricci is an international school established in 1994, entitled to Prof. Francesco Paolo Ricci who promoted with outstanding efforts the development of neutron research in Italy also actively contributing to the establishment of international agreements between the Italian Research Council (CNR) and the European International Neutron Facilities. The school provides a comprehensive training in the fundamental concepts of neutron scattering.

The school provides an excellent introduction to neutron scattering which is developed through to its application in contemporary research. It consists mainly of lectures and tutorials covering both the theory and technical aspects of neutron scattering with a particular emphasis on applications to Cultural Heritage. In addition to lectures on theory, sources, and neutron instrumentation, students will be tutored by world leading experts in the various scattering techniques including diffraction, quasi-elastic and inelastic scattering, imaging, small-angle scattering, reflectometry, and neutron-spin-echo.

The XII edition of the School will be held at the ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE (EMCSC)  as a Course within the International School of Solid State Physics (Director: Giorgio Benedek).

School Director: Ian Anderson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)

School Vice-Directors: Gabriele Salvato (CNR, IT), Antonella Scherillo (ISIS, UK)

Target Audience: Students attending universities majoring in physics, chemistry, materials science, or related fields.