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 Partners of IUCr and UNESCO for OpenLab Albania: Bruker
The IUCr-UNESCO OpenLab Albania is aiming to be the first OpenLab for South-East Europe and the Balkan region. It follows the success of the events organized in Albania during the International Year of Crystallography 2014, namely the International Conference "New Frontiers of Nanomaterial Technologies for Applications in Biology and Medicine" and the "1st Workshop on Crystallography", which was held in conjunction with the XX Congress of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association.
The OpenLab is jointly organized by the Polytechnic University of Tirana, the International Union of Crystallography, UNESCO, the European Crystallographic Association and Bruker, with the support of the Department of Chemical Sciences and Materials Technology of the Italian National Research Council.
The OpenLab will make use of a portable Bruker-AXS SMART X2S single-crystal diffractometer.
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Bring your own laptops and your own crystals!
Different software and applets will be used at the OpenLab to help participants familiarize with the concepts of symmetry and diffraction.
And if you have grown any crystals as part of your research project, bring them to the OpenLab to have your diffraction data collected with the Bruker AXS SMART X2S diffractometer and tutors will help you solve and refine your crystal structure!
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Registration
Participation in the IUCr-UNESCO OpenLab Albania is free of charge. However, registration is requested through this online form.
Attendees from abroad or from outside Tirana can apply for a travel grant to cover, at least partially, their travel and accommodation expenses.
Click here to register online
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 15 May 2016
Lecturers
Corrado Cuocci, IC-CNR, Italy
Dritan Siliqi, IC-CNR, Italy
Michele Zema, University of Pavia, Italy and IUCr, UK
Bruce Noll, Bruker AXS Applications Scientist
Monday, 30 May
PUT, Main Auditor “Silvano Pedrollio”, second floor
17:00 Arrival of participants and registration
18:00-18:15 Bujar Dida (FIMIF-PUT) and Dritan Siliqi (IC-CNR) Welcome
18:15-19:00 Opening ceremony at the presence of authorities (Master of ceremony: Bujar Dida)
19:00-19:30 Opening Lecture: Michele Zema (IUCr) Crystallography and Society: the contribution of the IUCr to the development of scientific education, research and infrastructure
19:30-21:00 Welcome party offered by the Rector of the Polytechnic University of Tirana
Tuesday, 31 May
PUT, Faculty of Mathematical Engineering and Physical Engineering
09:00-10:00 Bujar Dida (FIMIF-PUT), Michele Zema (IUCr) and Dritan Siliqi (IC-CNR) Introduction to the OpenLab
10:00-13:00 GROUP A | Bruker Lab session I: SMART X2S demonstration; crystal mounting and preparation; data collection (Bruce Noll)
10:00-13:00 GROUP B | XRPD Tutorial I: An overview of powder diffraction; Instrumentation and methods for X-ray powder diffraction; Phase identification and qualitative phase analysis (Corrado Cuocci)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-17:30 GROUP A | XRPD Tutorial I: An overview of powder diffraction; Instrumentation and methods for X-ray powder diffraction; Phase identification (Corrado Cuocci)
14:30-17:30 GROUP B | Bruker Lab session I: SMART X2S demonstration; crystal mounting and preparation; data collection (Bruce Noll)
Wednesday, 1 June
PUT, Faculty of Mathematical Engineering and Physical Engineering
09:00-11:00 Gervais Chapuis (EPFL) Symmetry in Crystallography
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-13:00 Exercises: Gervais Chapuis (EPFL) Symmetry in Crystallography
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-17:00 GROUP A | Bruker Lab session II: Data reduction, structure solution and refinement with APEX3 (Bruce Noll)
14:30-17:00 GROUP B | XRPD Tutorial II: Structure determination by XRPD – part I (Corrado Cuocci)
Thursday, 2 June
PUT, Faculty of Mathematical Engineering and Physical Engineering
09:00-11:00 Gervais Chapuis (EPFL) X-ray diffraction
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-13:00 Exercises: Gervais Chapuis (EPFL) X-ray diffraction
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-17:30 GROUP A | XRPD Tutorial III: Structure determination by XRPD – part II (Corrado Cuocci)
14:30-17:30 GROUP B | Bruker Lab session III: X2S practicals: crystal mounting, data collection, structure solution and refinement (Francesco Capitelli, Dritan Siliqi, Michele Zema)
Friday, 3 June
PUT, Faculty of Mathematical Engineering and Physical Engineering
09:00-11:00 Gervais Chapuis (EPFL) Structure solution
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:15 Gervais Chapuis (EPFL) Structure completion and refinement
12:15-13:00 Gervais Chapuis (EPFL) Anisotropic tensor properties
13:15-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Michele Zema (IUCr) Recap: single-crystal XRD analysis – Open discussion
15:30-17:30 GROUP A | Dritan Siliqi (IC-CNR) Crystallography for Biology and Medicine
15:30-17:30 GROUP B | XRPD Tutorial III: QualX/EXPO2014 hands-on (Corrado Cuocci)
17:30-18:00 Bujar Dida (FIMIF-PUT) and Dritan Siliqi (IC-CNR) Closing ceremony and presentation of certificates
Scientific and Organizing Committee
Michele Zema, University of Pavia, Italy and IUCr, UK, IUCr representative, Chair
Dritan Siliqi, IC-CNR, Italy, Co-chair
Enkeleida Beqiraj, Polytechnic University of Tirana (PUT), Albania, Co-chair
Jean Paul Ngome Abiaga, UNESCO representative
Carl Henrik Gørbitz, University of Oslo, Norway, ECA representative
Altin Mele, University of Tirana (UT), Albania
Anila Bulo, University of Medicine (UMED), Albania
Local Organizing Committee
Bujar Dida, FIMIF-PUT, chair
Raimonda Totoni (Lilo), FIMIF-PUT, co-chair
Albana Jano, FIMIF-PUT, secretary
Edlira Baraj, FIMIF-PUT, member
Edlira Tako, FIMIF- PUT, member
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