Dear Member
The BCA contract with Northern Networking Events (NNE) expired on 30 March 2012, and following a tender process by the BCA Council, HG3 of Harrogate was selected to take over the Membership Administration from 30 March 2012, and the meeting organisation from 1 April 2013 (to organise the 2014 Spring Meeting). The contracts for both roles will expire at the same time, on 31 July 2018.
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Nominations are now open for selected positions on the committee for the Young Crystallographers Group. The YCG will be holding elections at the AGM on Monday 16th April at 17.15 at the Warwick Spring Meeting for new committee members. Nominations should be received prior to this AGM. The posts open for nomination are:
Secretary/Treasurer
PCG Rep
CCG Rep
If you would like to nominate anybody for one of these posts, or to find out what being on the committee is like and what responsibilities these committee positions have, then please contact the YCG Secretary Anna Warren (Anna.Warren@diamond.ac.uk) before the AGM on the 16th April 2011. Nominators should also check with the person up for nomination that they are willing to stand for election prior to the nomination.
Many thanks and best wishes from the Young Crystallographers
I am delighted to inform you that the winner of this year’s CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists is Dr Gareth Lloyd from the University of Cambridge.
The quality of the nominees for the prize was exceptionally high. However, the committee felt that during his career to date, Gareth has made an outstanding contribution to crystallography with some high impact publications. Gareth will give a talk on his research at this year’s BCA Spring Meeting in Warwick, where he will also be presented with his prize.
Best wishes,
Hazel Sparkes.
CCG Chair
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This is the third (and last) time that as President I have had the very enjoyable task of inviting nominations for new Honorary Members of the BCA.
Honorary Membership is the highest membership accolade of the BCA, and is awarded to a small number of colleagues who have contributed significantly both to crystallography and to the work of the BCA.
In 2009 Bill Clegg, Venki Ramakrishnan and David Taylor became our most recent Honorary Members, taking the total number to 22.
In the coming year we anticipate electing one or two new Honorary Members.
Please send your nominations, together with a short (1 page) supporting case and the endorsement of at least 3 other BCA members to me at president@crystallography.org.
For information, a list of our 22 current Honorary Members is available at http://crystallography.org.uk/honorary-members
Best wishes
Elspeth Garman
President, British Crystallographic Association
At the BCA 2011 AGM held at the very successful Keele Spring meeting a major topic of discussion was our shrinking membership. For the sustainability of the BCA we urgently need to recruit new members and re-recruit lapsed members.
Membership of the BCA offers:
We seek to involve our membership in promoting the benefits of being in the BCA and so we are running a competition where the member who manages to recruit the most new or lapsed members wins free registration for the European Crystallography Meeting in Warwick in 2013. New members can now specify on their membership form who recruited them so that the recommending member can be entered into the competition. The winner will be announced at the 2012 AGM.
We ask each BCA member to approach their colleagues and contacts in any area of crystallography to consider BCA membership. If each member recruits just one new member, we could double our membership…
A further initiative is to offer an electronic version of Crystallography News to members as a pdf file instead of a paper copy. This will assist in keeping our costs down and is also better for our planet. If any member wishes to take up this offer please email the BCA Secretary Georgina Rosair: secretary@crystallography.org.
With best regards
Elspeth Garman
President
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Dear Member
It is with deep sadness that I write to inform you of the untimely death of BCA Council Member Dr Andres Goeta on 29 July 2011.
Andres joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Durham in 1995 as a post doctoral researcher in crystallography and in 1998 was appointed to the new post of X-ray Service manager. He subsequently became a Senior Research Officer and was a key figure in the department, collaborating with all staff, running the X-ray service, leading his own research group, working on innovative instrumentation projects in crystallography and lecturing to graduate and undergraduate students. He was a co-editor for Acta Crystallographica, a co-organiser of the Durham Crystallography Schools as well as being on the BCA Council.
The funeral will take place in St Mary’s Church, Shincliffe village on Friday 5th August at 1.45pm and afterwards at the crematorium at 2.30pm. Family flowers only but donations to any cancer charity would be appreciated.
Our sympathies lie with the family at this very distressing time.
Elspeth
Professor Elspeth F. Garman,
President, British Crystallographic Association
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Dear Member
I wanted to let you know that the venue for the 2012 Spring meeting will not be Loughborough University, as unfortunately they are now unable to accommodate us due to having been selected as the Olympic athletes training site.
At such short notice, we are very fortunate that Northern Networking have been able to book us in to Warwick University for the same dates with similar arrangements as for SM2010. I am happy to say that although Warwick is a more expensive venue, Loughborough have said in writing that they will be covering the difference in cost. Therefore there should be no financial implications for the BCA.
SM 2012 will be an excellent opportunity for us to have a ‘dry run’ of the venue before ECM28 in 2013.
With best wishes
Elspeth
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Crystallographic Computing School, Oviedo, Spain – 15th to 21st August 2011
Registration extended until 31st July 2011.
The IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Computing (“CompComm”) will be holding a Computing School immediately before the Madrid IUCr General Assembly and Congress this August that is intended to expose younger members of the Crystallographic community to the knowledge and experience of senior developers across the whole science. The speakers will concentrate on their own specialities (e.g. powder diffraction, small-molecule crystallography, protein crystallography), but will offer food for thought for all.
The School has a packed timetable of lectures and tutorials, and follows in the tradition of earlier Schools held before IUCr XX (Florence, 2005) and IUCr XXI (Osaka, 2008). There will be plenty of time for informal discussions with the lecturers and tutors and opportunities to explore the local Asturian hospitality!
The School is intended for prospective (or current…) developers, not to help those people who just want to run the programs better. Registration is open to all, but priority will be given to postgrads and postdocs.
The registration website is -
http://www.iucr.org/resources/commissions/crystallographic-computing/schools/mieres2011
Dr Harry Powell
Chairman ECA SIG9 (Crystallographic Computing)
Acting Chairman IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Computing
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The Spring Meeting Programme Committee would like to remind you of the
deadline for the ‘EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION’ which is now only 1 WEEK
AWAY. Additionally the cost of registration for this year’s meeting is
less than last year.
Please register at:
http://www.crystallography-
For those of you who are software developers (of any type of program!)
we are holding a Software Fayre this year at the meeting. This will be
in the form of a ‘drop-in’ stand in the exhibition hall with a couple of
desktop machines and it will be available for use throughout the whole
meeting. The duration and format of slots is entirely up to you! Please
contact Horst Puschman (<horst.puschmann@durham.ac.uk
or expressions of interest.
We look forward to seeing you in Warwick!
Simon Coles
(Programme Chair).
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The Spring Meeting Programme Committee would like to remind you of the deadline for poster abstract submissions is Friday 5th February.
Full details of how to submit online and the template to be used can be found on the BCA website at: http://crystallography.org.uk/
The poster session at the Spring Meeting is always a wonderfully lively and productive event that always lies at the core of the meeting – please help us to make it yet another success by submitting your abstracts and persuading your friends and colleagues to do so to!
Registration is also now open at: http://www.crystallography-meetings.org.uk/spring10.php
For those of you who are software developers (of any type of program!) we are holding a Software Fayre this year at the meeting. This will be in the form of a ‘drop-in’ stand in the exhibition hall with a couple of desktop machines and it will be available for use throughout the whole
meeting. The duration and format of slots is entirely up to you! Please contact Horst Puschman (horst.puschmann@durham.ac.uk) with any queries or expressions of interest.
We look forward to seeing you in Warwick and wish you all a successful New Year,
Simon Coles
(Programme Chair).
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