Education

Crystallography is a vital part of much modern research into the structure and properties of materials ranging across the scientific fields of Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Materials Science and Engineering.

The BCA

The British Crystallographic Association, formed in 1982, is the UK national association for this important science. With over 900 members representing the huge academic and industrial effort in Crystallography in this country, the BCA has as its prime aims the promotion of crystallography in research and the education of young people and others in the methods, possibilities and achievements of crystallographic science.

Education - for Scientists

The programme of Educational and training activities run by the BCA is extensive.  read more »

Ivan Orlov and Gervais Chapuis have released an iPhone app to help teach crystallographic symmetry.  read more »

A dreary, grey, condemned, 1960s low-rise council flat is an unusual place to find one of the most beautiful pieces of crystallographic art in the UK.

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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/

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.  read more »

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The Structural Medicine Division of Haematology in Cambridge hosts an online Protein Crystallography Course with topics ranging from the practical: crystallisation, data collection, structure solution and refinement, to in-depth mathematical and physical theory that underpins the subject.

The IUCr's Commision on Crystallographic Teaching provides a set of Teaching Pamphlets, which provide tutorials introducing different aspects of symmetry, diffraction techniques, structural science and crystallography.

They are freely available on the Web for the use of instructors and individuals.

The xForum (http://www.x-rayman.co.uk/xforum) is an international on-line web-forum, set up in 2006, for open collaboration and exchange of issues and information related to X-ray studies.  read more »