2nd April 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.
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): |
Minerals 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).| Location | Diss, Norfolk United Kingdom |
| Contact | Peter Perkins pjperkins@live.co.uk |
| URL | http://www.disscommunity.net |
| Category | exhibitions |
| Event Name | L'enigma Escher |
| Start Date | 29th Mar 2014 |
| End Date | 29th Jun 2014 |
| Duration | 92 days and 23 hours |
| Description | 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)
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| Location | Caraglio Italy |
| Contact | Ugo Bertolotti - Associazione Culturale Marcovaldo ugo.bertolotti@marcovaldo.it |
| URL | http://www.marcovaldo.it/pagine/ita/dettaglio_evento.lasso?id=4F26D874053422127CNwD2F627BA |
| Category | exhibitions |
| 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 | NAC2014 |
| Start Date | 31st Mar 2014 9:00am |
| End Date | 4th Apr 2014 5:00pm |
| Duration | 4 days and 8 hours |
| Description | 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 สำนักงานพัฒนาวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีแห่งชาติ (สวทช.) ได้จัดให้มีการประชุมวิชาการเป็นประจำทุกปี เพื่อนำเสนอผลงานวิจัยของนักวิจัยสวทช.และหน่วยงานพันธมิตร สำหรับปีนี้ ได้ร่วมฉลองปีสากลแห่งผลึกศาสตร์ โดยแสดงผลงานด้านผลึกศาสตร์ของนักวิจัยไทย และจะนำหนังสือ "Crystallography Matters" ตีพิมพ์โดย UNESCO ที่ได้แปลเป็นภาษาไทย ทูลเกล้าฯ ถวายสมเด็จพระเทพรัตนราชสุดาฯ สยามบรมราชกุมารี ในโอกาสที่เสด็จเป็นประธานในพิธืเปิดงาน NAC2014 ในวันที่ 31 มีนาคม 2557 ณ อุทยานวิทยาศาสตร์ประเทศไทย ปทุมธานี |
| Location | Thailand Science Park, Pathumtani Thailand |
| Contact | Omjai Saimek omjai@nstda.or.th |
| URL | http://www.nstda.or.th/nac2014 |
| Category | conferences |
| 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 | Opening session of the celebrations in FCT-NOVA |
| Start Date | 2nd Apr 2014 1:30pm |
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| Duration | N/A |
| Description | The Opening Session at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT) - Universidade Nova de Lisboa hosted the first three lectures of the celebrations for IYCr2014 in Portugal. The lectures were given by:
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"
See the complete photo gallery of the event at http://xtal.dq.fct.unl.pt/iycr2014/Photo_Gallery.html#grid
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| Location | Caparica Portugal |
| Contact | Ana Luisa Carvalho almc@fct.unl.pt |
| URL | http://xtal.dq.fct.unl.pt/iycr2014/Welcome.html |
| Category | symposia |
| Event Name | Lecture for Geology Students' Association |
| Start Date | 2nd Apr 2014 5:30pm |
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| Duration | N/A |
| Description | 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 |
| Location | Poznań Poland |
| Contact | Urszula Rychlewska urszular@amu.edu.pl |
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| Category | lectures |