BCA Spring Meeting 2002 University of Nottingham Monday 25 March to Thursday 28 March 2002

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Several pages of information are now available here:

• General Information
• Registration, Accommodation, & Meals
• Scientific Program & Timetable
• Abstract Submission & Posters
• Bursary Application
• University of Nottingham
• Satellite Workshop

The on-line scientific program will be updated on a continuing basis: additional details will be added when organisers and program speakers make additional information known.

General Information

BCA Spring Meeting 2002

The BCA annual spring meeting will take place at the University of Nottingham from Monday 25 to Thursday 28 March 2002.

The Scientific Program, including all Plenary Lectures, Symposia, and Workshops will take place under one roof in the Pope Building, on the University Park Campus, as will the Poster Sessions, the Commercial Exhibition, tea/coffee sessions and lunches.

Tea/coffee will be served at 10:30 hrs and at 15:30 hrs in rooms A13 and A14 of the Pope Building, on each full day of the meeting.

The Commercial Exhibition will run from Monday 25 to Wednesday 27 March. For more information on the Exhibition and Sponsorship opportunities, please contact the BCA Administrative Office.

The BCA Administrative Office will manage all administrative issues. All queries concerning BCA Spring Meeting 2002 should be directed in the first instance to the Project Manager, Euan Woodward.

The Local Organisers for the Spring Meeting in 2002 are Dr Sandy Blake and Dr Claire Wilson of the School of Chemistry.

University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham started life in 1798, first as an adult school and then as a college in the centre of Nottingham before moving to its current site after World War I. This large estate, three miles west of the city centre, was provided by one of Nottingham's most famous dignitaries, Sir Jesse Boot, later Lord Trent, founder of The Boots Company. It has greatly expanded into today's 330-acre University Park Campus. Set in an extensive belt of woodland, parks, and playing fields, it is now the focus of life for more than 22,000 students. University Park is one of the largest and most attractive campuses in the UK, with modern teaching facilities, 12 halls of residence, a conference and exhibition centre, and an award-winning main library.

Further details are given in the external web links below:

Car Parking

The main visitor's car park is adjacent to Hugh Stewart Hall and currently all parking is free for conference delegates. There is also limited car parking available in the vicinity of the Pope Building, which is also currently free of charge. We cannot, however, guarantee car parking spaces to all delegates.

Registration, Accommodation, & Meals

Registration

No registration fee will be charged to students and the unemployed. However, students and unemployed delegates must cover the costs of their meals and accommodation. Registration fees are as follows:

All delegates who do not wish to book accommodation at the University of Nottingham will be charged a non-resident supplement of £55.00. This fee covers morning and afternoon refreshments and all lunches (25, 26, & 27 March), but not evening dinners. Non-residents can also buy a £30.00 conference dinner ticket, reduced rate £15.00 for students.

Please note that the deadline for early registrations is 22 February 2002. ALL registrations received after this date will be charged the late registration rate of £180.00.

Accommodation

Please note that accommodation at the University of Nottingham can only be purchased on a full board basis in three-day packages.

Each three-day package entitles the delegate to accommodation on the nights of Monday 25, Tuesday 26, and Wednesday 27 March 2002. All meals apart from the Conference Dinner are included in this package (i.e. dinner on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26, and lunch on Monday 25, Tuesday 26, and Wednesday 27). All dinners will be served in Hugh Stewart Hall.

Two three-day packages are available:

Please note: en-suite accommodation is limited and will be allocated on a first come basis, so early registration is recommended. An allocation of bedrooms has been reserved in the Hugh Stewart Hall, which is a short walk from the Pope Building. Once this allocation is filled, accommodation if available, will be in outlying halls a 15 to 20 minute walk from the Pope Building. We would therefore recommend that you register early.

Please note: en-suite rooms have the sole use of a shared bathroom.

Meals

On Monday 25, Tuesday 26, and Wednesday 27 March, lunch will be served in rooms A13 and A14 of the Pope Building. Dinners (including the Conference Dinner) will be served in the Hugh Stewart Hall. All meals apart from the conference dinner are included in the three-day accommodation packages.

A non-resident supplement of £55.00 will be charged to those delegates who do not wish to book accommodation at the University of Nottingham. This will entitle the delegate to lunch on Monday 25, Tuesday 26, and Wednesday 27 March and to tea/coffee at all breaks. Please note: the supplement does not include any evening dinners. The Conference Dinner can be purchased at a cost of £30.00, reduced to £15.00 for students.

Form

The registration form is available on-line as an Adobe PDF file (regbca02.pdf) or as a MS Word document (regbca02.doc or regbca02.rtf). A scanned version of the form (not for actual use) is shown below (click to enlarge):

Please do not forget to send your payment with your form.

Printed versions are also available on request from the BCA Administrative Office.

Abstract Submission

Submission of abstracts will be electronic only. For instructions, please visit the URL: http://www.isis.rl.ac.uk/bca2002/. If you have any query regarding abstract submission, please email: [email protected].

Please note that the deadline for abstracts was 22 February 2002 and is now CLOSED.

Posters

• Each poster area measures 900 mmm wide x 1000 mm high. We would suggest that you produce posters as 850 mm wide x 950 mm to allow for the frame of the poster board.
• Posters will remain on display throughout the meeting. Posters should be put up by 14:00 hrs on Monday 25 March and must be removed by 14:00 hrs on Wednesday 27 March
• Please put up your poster on the board corresponding to you poster number.
• Posters should be fixed to the poster boards using drawing pins. These will be available at the registration desk, which will be situated in Room A13.
• The main poster session (in conjunction with the Poster/Exhibition wine reception) takes place in rooms A13 and A14 from 19:300 hrs - 22:00 hrs on Tuesday 26 March. Please be present at your poster throughout this session.
• Please also note that there will be "Oral Poster" Sessions at which you will be asked to give a very short introduction to your poster, to encourage people to come along and see it. So bring along 1-2 overgeads to advertise your poster
• Each of the BCA subject groups offers a prize for the best poster in their area, which are presented at the BCA AGM (16:00 on Wednesday 27 March).

BCA Bursaries for BCA Spring Meeting

A limited number of bursaries are available from the Arnold Beevers Bursary Fund to cover the £165 three day accomodation package and £15 conference dinner at Nottingham. Student registration is free. The bursary will not cover travel expenses and recipients will be expected to present a poster.

Council is seeking commercial sponsors of Spring Meeting Bursaries and it is hoped to offer some Named Bursaries at this meeting.

The closing date for all bursary applications is 25 January 2002. The Arnold Beevers bursary form is available on-line as a MS Word document (bursary.doc) or in rich text format (bursary.rtf). Scanned versions of the form (not for actual use) are shown below (click to enlarge):

 

Printed versions are also available on request from the BCA Administrative Office.

Scientific Timetable

Details of individual sessions are available by clicking on the links within the timetable.

Scientific Program

The format of the scientific programme at this BCA Meeting will differ from previous years. The sessions are based on current "hot-topics" in the field of crystallography and cross the boundaries of the various groups of the BCA. Most sessions are therefore organised by several groups. There are also many parallel sessions to try and ensure that there are interesting sessions (hopefully with no conflicts) for all delegates throughout the conference.

There is one plenary and one parallel session on New Methods of Structure Solution and Phasing covering single crystal and polycrystalline analyses. There are also sessions on Rietveld Refinement and Polymorphism and Structural Changes, these are areas of great activity in industry and academia. "Hot-topics" in the biological field include DNA Recombination and Repair and the more general area of Protein Crystallography, Drugs and Disease and these both have three-hour sessions each. Detectors are of interest to us all and there is a session on this topic. Thin Films is a diverse area of activity and a very important technology requiring challenging methods in analysis and three hours are devoted to this topic. In addition, throughout the meeting there will be a series of workshops including Thin Film Analysis, Amorphous Materials, Powder Diffraction, Macromolecular Crystallisation, the CCP4 Program Suite and the CRYSTALS Software. Also there are prize lectures and special interests groups (SIGs) on Educational Matters and on the status of the DIAMOND Synchrotron Project.

The posters are also a critical part of this meeting bringing a great opportunity to discuss your latest work over a glass of wine. All poster exhibitors will have the opportunity to give a brief oral presentation and a chance to win one of the poster prizes. We hope that you will find this meeting a very fruitful and enjoyable scientific experience.

Details of individual sessions are available by clicking on the timetable above or by downloading the full program (in a format which is suitable for printing).

Satellite Meeting to BCA Spring Meeting 2002

PCG/ISIS Workshop: Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Rietveld Refinement

The workshop will take place immediately prior to the Nottingham BCA meeting, on Sunday 24 and Monday 25 March, 2002, in Room A63a in the Economics & Geography Building.

This meeting is intended to begin a series of tutorial workshops organised by the PCG on powder diffraction profile refinement methods. This technique, much used and a vital component of much of physical crystallography, is very powerful but if improperly used can lead to problems both in the refinement process itself and in the resulting structural models. The aim of these workshops is to provide a general introduction to the method and its applications. They are aimed both at those new to the technique, particularly research students and post-docs, and those who feel the need for a refresher.

The first of these workshops will introduce the basics of profile refinement using the Rietveld method. The workshop will include introductory lectures, demonstrations and hands-on examples. Topics will include:

• principles of Rietveld refinement, including minimisation;
• crystal structure refinement and what it achieves, including the use of constraints and restraints;
• data collection strategies, including angle- and energy-dispersive techniques with both X-ray and neutrons;
• basic refinement strategies - how to give yourself the best chance to get the right result;
• an introduction to some of the software suites available.

Registration forms are now available in MS Word or Adobe PDF format. The cost is just £25 including accomodation and meals on Sunday 24^th March.

Speakers will include Bill David (ISIS/UCL), Jeremy Cockcroft (Birkbeck) and Kevin Knight (ISIS). Further details will be announced on the meeting web sites:

http://www.isis.rl.ac.uk/crystallography/rietveldworkshop.htm or
http://bca.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/bca/pcg/riet2002.htm