Crystallography matters ... more!

The ISSRNS is a series of biennial conference meetings organized in Poland since 1992. It has traditionally been devoted to recent advances and new techniques employing synchrotron radiation (SR) in physics, chemistry, materials science, crystallography, biology and medicine as well as in the fields of archeometry, environmental protection, geology, quality control, etc. The aim of this interdisciplinary meeting is also to bring together scientists working with synchrotron radiation and those who would like to learn more about the sources and specific experimental techniques.
The ISSRNS has a format of advanced workshop covering recent developments of synchrotrons and short-wavelength free electron lasers and providing a forum for reporting the most recent achievements in fundamental and applied research. Several introductory and tutorial lectures addressed to young researchers (M.Sc. and Ph.D. level), as well as to new potential users of the synchrotron radiation are foreseen.

ISSRNS 2014, the International Year of Crystallography and other events 

The year 2014 has been declared by the United Nations as the International Year of Crystallography. This fact will be honored at the ISSRNS 2014 by a special session devoted to the recent milestone advances in the discipline, whose progress is strictly related to the development of modern SR sources - synchrotrons and short-wavelength FELs.
In Poland, the first national synchrotron SOLARIS in Krakow is under construction, to be operational in late 2014. A concept of POLFEL, the Polish free electron laser proposed to be constructed at National Center for Nuclear Research in Otwock/Świerk also reaches its maturity. These facts will pronouncedly extend the program of the incoming meeting beyond its traditional topics to promote integration of the SR community of users, designers and constructors of the advanced synchrotron sources. 

THE TOPICS OF THE ISSRNS 2014 INCLUDE:

• X-ray diffraction: methods and applications,
  Macromolecular crystallography,
  Structure solution in nano- and micro-scales
  Elastic scattering of X-rays,
  Synchrotron radiation in nanoscience,
  Imaging, holography, spectroscopic mapping,
  X-ray absorption, fluorescence and photoelectron spectroscopies,
  X-ray magnetic dichroism,
  Synchrotron radiation at long wavelengths (THz, IR and VUV),
  Synchrotron radiation in life sciences and medicine,
  Novel applications of Free Electron Lasers,
  Synchrotron and alternative radiation sources – new developments and instrumentation,
  Advanced optics, irradiation damage and metrology of intense beams,

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. 

Eine neue Kluft im Steinbruch Eibenstein lieferte beachtliche Kalzitkristalle, z.T. Phantombildungen und Kalzite in Chalcedon.

Aus Motlas O.Ö. wurden herrliche Quarz-Stufen, Andalusit, Beryll, Schörl und Orthoklas angekauft.

In der Mittelvitrine werden aus der Studiensammlung des Museum besondere Stufen ausgestellt: Einzel-Quarzkristalle und Stufen (auch Amethyst), sowie seltene Mineralien wie Amstallit, bzw. aus dem Fundort Kottaun; ferner Beryll, Chalcedon, Schörl u.a.

Ebenso wurde der größte Feldspatkristall Österreichs aus Wanzenau bei Rosenburg dem Krahuletz-Museum übergeben und ist dort im Rahmen der Mineralien-Dauerausstellung zu sehen.

The Australian satellite of the IYCr2014 photo competition Crystallography in Everyday Life saw Crystal 29 conference delegates select their favorite images from more than 130 entries submitted world-wide.

The 15 stunning images celebrate the wonder of crystallography, symmetry and crystals as symbolized in the places, objects and experiences of everyday life and will now form part of the traveling exhibition around Australia.

Graziano Lolli from Italy won the first prize in this category with a photo of "romanesco broccoli".

El Museo de Historia Natural "Dr. Carlos A. Torres de la Llosa" de Montevideo, Uruguay ha realizado una exhibición especial de Cristales y Estructuras Cristalinas aprovechando su colección de minerales para celebrar el Año Internacional de la Cristalografía 2014. En la exposición se agregan a los minerales algunas figuras con las estructuras atómicas correspondientes.

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The Natural History Museum "Dr. Carlos A. Torres de la Llosa" of Montevideo, Uruguay has created a special exhibit of Crystals and Crystal structures using its own minerals collection to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography 2014. The exposition contains some figures with the atomic structures of the selected minerals.

The exhibition and lectures "World of Crystals" (original title Svět krystalů) aim at showing the amazing shapes of the crystals from the whole world and from the Železné hory (Iron Mountains) National Geopark in particular.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on 6 May at 6.30 pm in the exhibition hall of the Vodní zdroje Chrudim s r.o.

Opening times: Monday to Friday, 8.00 to 4.00 pm.

Download the poster of the exhibition

• Mechanism of Nucleation and Crystal Growth
• Crystallization at Extreme Conditions and in External Fields
• In-situ Monitoring and Control of Nucleation and Crystal Growth Process
• Technologies for Purification, Waste Treatment and Recovery
• Crystallizer
• Modeling of Crystallization Process
• Crystallization Process Design, Simulation and Control
• Stabilization of Amorphous
• Epitaxial Growth
• Polymorphism
• Phase Transitions
• Crystal Structure
• Intermolecular Interactions
• Chirality and Resolution
• Cocrystal
• Growth of Biological Materials and Biologically-Directed Growth
• Biomineralization
• Nanostructures and Nanoporous Crystals
• Liquid Crystals
• Novel Materials and Structure

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Wednesday, 21 May at 6 pm at the regional library of Lower Austria in St. Poelten.

Click on the image to download the invitation to the exhibition.

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)

Venue: Planetario de Pamplona

21 May, 7.30 pm: Los Minerales en La Tierra. Esther Lasheras, Universidad de Navarra

28 May, 7.30 pm: Photo 5: la imagen de ADN más famosa de la historia. Javier Novo, Universidad de Navarra

4 June, 7.30 pm: Las caras del cristal. Una aproximación multidisciplinar a la historia de la cristalografía. César Tomé, Universidad del País Vasco

18 June, 7.30 pm: Kriptonita, estalagmitas y otros cristales peculiars. Jose Ramón Isasi Allica, Universidad de Navarra

25 June, 7.30 pm: Neutrones en la vida cotidiana. Javier Campo, CSIC Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón

The exhibition will open on May 9th with a speech by Sven Lidin, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Lund University and Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.

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

Con motivo de este año tan especial, se ha organizado la exposición titulada "Los minerales: Año Internacional de la Cristalografía".

La exposición trata de ofrecer un recorrido por las características principales de los minerales, los cristales inorgánicos naturales. Estas características van desde cuales son las posibles formas de la celda unidad (sistemas cristalinos) hasta las principales propiedades físicas que presentan como consecuencia de su composición y su estructura, y que, con frecuencia, nos permiten identificarlos.

Every year, the third week of May, Uruguay celebrates the Science and Technology week. In 2014 the week will be motivated by the International Year of Crystallography 2014 and will have the motto "it all depends on the crystal you look through".

Researchers and graduate students will be offering talks focusing on the impact of Crystallography in our lives. The opening ceremony of the week will include a Dissemination Lecture on Crystallography. Lectures, about 1h long, will be offered to Primary and Secondary schools (both public and private), Teaching institutions in general and Social institutions from all the country. An estimate of 50 lectures on different aspects of crystallography will be given from May 19 to June 30 where the activities of the Sci & Tech week officially end.

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Cada año, durante la tercera semana de mayo, Uruguay celebra la Semana de la Ciencia y la Tecnología. Este año las actividades están motivadas por el Año Internacional de la Cristalografía 2014 y tendrá como llamador la frase "todo depende del cristal con que se mire".

Tanto investigadores como estudiantes de postgrado darán charlas enfocándose en el impacto de la Cristalografía en nuestras vidas. El evento de apertura de la semana estará basado en una charla de divugación de Cristalografía y las charlas, de 1 hora aproximada de duración serán ofrecidas a Escuelas Primarias y Secundarias (públicas y privadas), instituciones de enseñanza en general e instituciones sociales de todo el país. Se estima que unas 50 charlas serán dictadas sobre distintos aspectos de la cristalografía desde el 19 de mayo al 30 de junio cuando concluyen oficialmente las actividades de la Semana de la Ciencia y la Tecnología.

The 23rd consecutive meeting is organized jointly by the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana and the Croatian Crystallographic Association under the auspices of University of Ljubljana and promoted by the Slovenian Chemical Society.

The official language of the meeting is English. There is no registration fee.

The meeting will celebrate 2014, The International Year of Crystallography. 

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.

The 1^st FEBS-INSTRUCT practical crystallization course in the middle EU is in fact the 6^th run of the FEBS practical course named "Advanced methods in macromolecular crystallization VI“ that will take place at the Academy and University Center at Nove Hrady (Czech Republic) from June 20^th to June 27^th, 2014. The course is intended for undergraduate (5th year) and postgraduate students and postdocs with an interest in macromolecular crystallization.

The planned course is quite different from the established courses in protein crystallization. The course is designed to bring over the message of the benefits of more rational approaches to macromolecular crystallization and is aimed at a healthy mixture of advanced discussions of the theory and laboratory experiments. To achieve this goal, we have invited a number of prominent experts in the field as teachers and tutors.

 Proposed deadline for applications: March 31, 2014

 For more information about the course, please have a look at the website http://febs.img.cas.cz or contact organizers.

 Ivana Kuta Smatanova, e-mail: ivanaks@seznam.cz

Pavlina Rezacova, e-mail: rezacova@img.cas.cz

Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, e-mail: jmgruiz@ugr.es

Regional meeting of macromolecular crystallographer groups in the pacific northwest with emphasis on providing graduate students and postdocs opportunities to present their work. 

This biennial meeting has been held at differing locations in the Pacific Northwest since 1981. It has always proven to be a great venue to meet other researchers in the region who are interested in both the utilization of macromolecular crystallography and the development of new methods.

We are very pleased that the distinguished Brian Matthews from the University of Oregon will give the Saturday evening keynote. The title of his talk is: "From Bragg's Hometown to the MRC Cambridge and Beyond:  Experiencing the Progress of Crystallography."

Topics 

• Enzyme mechanism
• Drug discovery
• Complex formation
• Crystal growth
• Structure solution
• Model validation
• Structure/function relationship
• Structure prediction
• X-ray and cryo-EM complementarity
• Protein/nucleic acid interaction