Forthcoming meetings

A one-day symposium is to be held to mark the retirement of Bill Clegg (though not from research!) and focusing on major aspects of his research career to date: synchrotron crystallography and structural alkali-metal chemistry, including both historical and current perspectives.

Lunch will be provided. There is no fee for attendance. To assist with catering plans, please register if you plan to come, by 15 March: contact Isobel Lamb on 0191 222 7102 or isobel.lamb@ncl.ac.uk

Registration, coffee and lunch are in the Bamburgh Room, King's Road Centre, Newcastle University (number 31 on the downloadable PDF campus map at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/documents/Campus-Map-Print.pdf; very close to Haymarket Metro Station), and the talks are in Lecture Theatre 6 of the King George VI Building (number 33 on the map; guides will show the way between these locations). For further travel information provided by the University, see www.ncl.ac.uk/about/visit/

Programme

From 10:00 Registration; coffee available

10:50 Welcome and opening remarks

11:00 Professor Paul Raithby (University of Bath): Bigger, brighter, faster: the development of

11:45 Dr Steve Liddle (University of Nottingham): A journey from lithium to uranium: a
structural tale

12:30 Dr Gary Nichol (University of Arizona, USA): Just trust me: synchrotron crystallography
from a service perspective

13:15 Lunch

14:15 Professor Bill Clegg (Newcastle University): Personal reflections (X-ray and otherwise)

14:30 Dr Simon Teat (Advanced Light Source, Berkeley, USA): Lord of the Rings

15:15 Professor Rab Mulvey (University of Strathclyde): Social and structural synergy: Clegg,

16:00 Professor Dietmar Stalke (University of Göttingen, Germany): What a lithium chemist

16:45 Closing remarks

The 2010 Spring Meeting will be held at the University of Warwick between 12^th and 15^th April 2010 and the theme is "Data Matters". Registration is now open online.

The broad ranging theme encompasses every aspect of crystallographic study, whilst promoting an interdisciplinary feel for the conference.

As usual there will be a Young Crystallographers Meeting (Monday 12^th April and Tuesday morning) and there will be a Pair Distribution Function workshop at the end of the conference. Throughout the meeting there will be a Software Fayre for demonstrations and problem solving sessions.

Programme information - timetable, session titles, prize lecturers (two knighted, FRS are amongst the recipients this year!) and satellite meetings - can be found on the Programme page.

As with last year, sessions in the meeting will comprise two invited speakers and one selected from contributed abstracts. We encourage you to look at the Programme to identify sessions of interest that you wish to contribute to. We invite abstract submissions for oral presentations for the extended deadline of 19^th October 2009. Posters are also an important part of the meeting and we encourage you to submit abstracts for these by 5^th February 2010. 

The Programme Chair for the meeting is Dr Simon Coles (contact Simon with questions or comments) and the full Programme Committee members are Elspeth Garman (President); Sandy Blake (Vice President); Harry Powell (Treasurer); David Massey (Northern Networking); Vilmos Fulop & Neil Isaacs (BSG); Ross Harrington & Hazel Sparkes (CCG); Martin Gill & Matthew Johnson (IG); Matt Tucker, Sarah Lister & Andrew Wills (PCG); Graham Findlay & Helena Shepherd (YCG) and Arwen Pearson (2011 Programme Chair).

http://www.dur.ac.uk/john.evans/webpages/pcg_rietveld_school_2010.htm

The BCA Summer School is a combined taught and practical course intended primarily for students and researchers new to crystallography. It is held in the University of Oxford's Biochemistry Department and St. Edmund Hall from 5th - 10th September 2010. Its aim is to provide comprehensive training in the theory and practise of crystallography, and to promote the exchange of experience and best practise within the British crystallographic community. The meeting covers the gamut of modern crystallographic theory and practice, from lattices, through phasing, to maximum likelihood and refinement. The focus is very much on relating theory to practise. The practical aspect of the workshop takes the form of intensively supervised computer tutorials. Although CCP4 programs will primarily be used in these tutorials, the aim will be to approach crystallographic questions in a software-agnostic manner.

Visit the webpage http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/aspsite/index.asp?pageid=698 for more information.

The 13th Intensive Teaching School in X-ray Structure Analysis will take place in Durham from March 26th until April 3rd 2011. This is a biennial school and demand for places is expected to be high. Find out more at the School's homepage: http://www.dur.ac.uk/durham.x-ray-school/