Industrial Group meetings in 2001

• BCA Spring Meeting7-10 April 2001, University of Reading
  • Industrial Group Posters
  • Basic Powder Diffraction Workshop 8- 9 April 2001
  • Why Industry Uses Crystallography 9 April 2001
  • New & Future Possibilities in Powder Diffraction 10 April 2001
  • Industrial Group AGM 10 April 2001
• Pharmaceutical SIG meeting 7th June 2000 - GlaxoSmithkline, Harlow
• Autumn Meeting - Crystallography in Industry, 1st November 2000 - Pilkington, Lathom, Lancashire

BCA Spring Meeting 2001.

University of Reading, 7-10 April 2001

Industrial Group Posters

Posters are invited for display at the Spring Meeting. As an extra incentive to your participation, in addition to the acclaim that your poster will no doubt bring, the Industrial Group are offering a magnificent prize of £50 for best poster.

Some guidelines follow for what we would prefer to see in our po sters and our adjudicators will work from these.

Posters are encouraged that:

• are relevant to industry (including some background and value of the work to industry)
• have clear aims, results and conclusions
• concentrate on telling the story, rather than fine detail
• are not an advertisement for a commercial product

There will be an opportunity to give a brief oral presentation of the content of each poster.

For more i nformation, contact:

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2. Basic Powder Diffraction Workshop

3. Sunday 8^th April, all day - Monday 9^th April, am.

   Thi s one and a half day course has been constructed with a special concern for the many people now working in X-ray Powder Diffraction who are relatively new to the field. There are no special pre-requisites for taking part, other than a general technical background, but a little hands-on experience of XRPD would help.

   The workshop is divided into three parts:

   Introduction to Crystallography 09:00 - 12:30 8^th April
   Jeremy K. Cockcroft, Birkbeck College London

   This session will cover the basic crystallographic principles underpinning powder diffraction with emphasis on the factors that determine the position and intensities of the peaks in a powder pattern. In addition, some of the crystallographic factors affecting profile line shape will also be discussed.
   A brief overview of crystallographic symmetry and its affect on powder data will be covered. Having dealt with the basic principles, we will then discuss the principles and practice of indexing, unit cell refinement, and space group determination of our powder diffraction data.

   Powder Diffraction Instruments 14:00 - 17:30 8^th April
   Judith Shackleton, Manchester Materials Science Centre

   In this session we will investigate powder diffraction geometry. We look at the various components of the diffractometer, what they do, how they work and how we make the optimum choices.
   We will also, discuss the choice of X-ray tubes, the ano de and tube focus as well as the characteristics of various types of detectors. The selection of data collection conditions (step size, counting time etc) and the importance of good sample preparation will also be described.

   Phase Identification 09:00 - 12:30 9^th April
   John Faber, International Centre for Diffraction Data

   This session will give an overview of the history of phase identification and the development of the ICDD powder diffraction file ( PDF). Methods of identification and characterisation of crystalline substances by use of the PDF will be covered. The importance of gathering good quality data and the use of new computer aided search methods will be demonstrated. The content is designed for both beginners and experienced users of the Powder Diffraction File.

   For further information, please contact:

   Dave Taylor, 35 Birchley Road, Billinge, Wigan, Lancs. WN5 7QJ
   tel. 01744 893108, email: djtayl [email protected]

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4. Why Industry Uses Crystallography

   Monday 9^th April, pm

   Crystallography has wide application in many of our manufacturing industries. This session will give a series of overviews of the value that crystallography brings to a selection of these industries. While we hope these surveys will be interesting in their own right, we also intend that they spark some ideas across traditional industrial boundari es.

   The Session Chair is Steve Norval and will begin with:

   The Alun Bowen Industrial Lecture

   13:30 'Crystallography in the Aerospace Industry'
   Colin Small, Rolls Royce

   Followed by:

   Applications of Crystallography in the Phamaceutical Industry
   14:20 Proteins, David Brown, Pfizer
   14:40 Small Molecules, Royston Copley, GlaxoSmithKline

   15:00 X-ray Diffraction in the Miner als Industry,Nick Elton, St Austell

   15:30 Close of Session

   For more information, contact:

   Steve Norval, ICI plc, Science Support Group,
   Wilton Centre, PO Box 90, Wilton, Middlesbrough TS90 8JE,
   tel. 01642 432005, fax. 01642 432244, email: [email protected].

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5. New & Future Possibilities in Powder Diffraction

Tuesday 10^th April, 9:00 - 12:30

The programme highlights some aspects of instrumentation and methodology in powder diffraction that have seen recent advances and explores what we should expect to see in the future.

Session Chair: Chris Frampton

For more information, contact:

Industrial Group AGM

The 17^th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Industrial Group will be held at the University of Reading on 10^th April 2001.

Nominations are sought for the position of chairman and for two committee members to serve for three years from April 2001.

Nominations, which shall be proposed by not less than two members of the Group and shall be accompanied by the written consent of the nominee, shall be sent to reach the Honorary Secretary of the Group not later th an seven days before the Annual General Meeting.

The Honorary Secretary is: Dr P Holdway, A7 BLDG, DERA, Farnbourough, Hants, GU14 0LX. Tel. 01252 393117/392159, fax. 01252 397223, email: [email protected].

Pharmaceutical SIG meeting.

7th June 2001, GlaxoSmithKline, Harlow

REGISTRATION DEADLINE - 31 MAY 2001

Programme:

For more information please contact:

Dr C L Anderton
GlaxoSmithKline, New Frontiers Science Park (North), Third Avenue, Harlow, Essex CM19 5AW Tel: 01279 627376 Fax: 01279 627374 Email: [email protected]

Autumn Meeting -Crystallography in Industry

Thursday 1st November 2000 - Pilkington, Lathom, Lancashire