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BCA Spring Meeting 2005

Tuesday 12^th to Thursday 14^th April 2005

Satellite Meetings

(Latest update: 7 March 2005)

Several pages of information are now being made available here (as they become available):

• General Information
• Arrival Information for Delegates
• Registration, Accommodation, & Form
• Scientific Program & Timetable
• Abstract Submission & Posters
• Bursary Application
• Commercial Exhibition
• Car Parking

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

Loughborough University

Loughborough University is situated on the western site of the historic town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, East Midlands, and thus it is located in the heart of the UK. Loughborough town retains the charm of a small market town while supporting significant industries: it is home to Astra Zenica, 3M Healthcare, and BG Technology, to name a few. The town still has a twice weekly market, selling a variety of goods including clothes, local crafts and food produce.

Loughborough lies on the edge of the new National Forest with Charnwood Forest offering an area of outstanding natural beauty. Beacon Hill provides walks and extensive parkland with excellent views over Loughborough and the Trent and Soar valleys. Bradgate park, just five miles away, is Leicestershire�s biggest park and contains the ruins of the 15th Century Bradgate House, the house of Lady Jane Grey. The park�s 850 acres are home to herds of red and fallow deer and provide walking and cycling opportunities through the spectacular heath, bracken and woodland.

The University of Loughborough is largely due to the entrepreneurship of Dr Herbert Schofield, Principal of Loughborough College (1915-1950), who developed the small Technical Institute in the centre of the town into a College for the delivery of high-level engineering courses & teacher training. In addition, his foresight in purchasing land on the western edge of the town resulted in the green and spacious (410 acres) campus that Loughborough University has today. His policy of buying and building student residences was so successful that today the university has one of the highest proportions of students living in halls of residence within the UK. In 1966, the Loughborough College obtained a Royal Charter to become the first University of Technology in the country. Although it has since grown in size, the university still maintains its traditions in engineering and sport.

Further details are given in the external web links below:

Car Parking

Although parking on campus is normally restricted, there will be plenty of parking, free of charge, throughout the conference in Loughborough University grounds. Car parks can be found next to the James France building and around the Faraday and Royce buildings. Visitors should use the main entrance on Epinal Way.

Registration, Accommodation, Meals, & Form

Registration

The BCA Treasurer is pleased to announce that there is no increase in registration fee for the 2005 Spring Meeting in Loughborough. In addition, one-day registrations will again be available for those who cannot attend all of the meeting.

The registration fees are as follows:

Please note that the deadline for early registrations is 14 March 2005.  ALL registrations received after this date will be charged the late registration rate.

Accommodation

Two types of accomodation are available at Loughborough:

Please note that en-suite accommodation is limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis, so early registration is recommended.

Meals

Registration Form

The registration form is available on-line as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file (bca05reg.pdf).

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

Printed versions of the form were supplied with the December 2004 issue of Crystallography News, and are available on request from the BCA Administrative Office (for those without access to a printer).

Scientific Program

The overall meeting theme of In situ and Non-ambient Crystallography will be addressed in the four plenary lectures that open the meeting, and this theme is strongly evident in many of the parallel sessions, for example In situ Diffraction, Phase Transitions, and Photocrystallography. A session on Modern Techniques in Crystal Structure Refinement will be accompanied by a hands-on CRYSTALS Workshop, and other parallel sessions will explore High-throughput Crystallography, Non-ambient Pharmaceutical Studies, processes and structures At and in the Membrane, and Crystallography in Industry. Throughout the meeting, we will be joined by the X-ray Fluorescence community with a parallel programme of talks that should provide something of interest to us all. We also welcome members of the RSC Solid State Chemistry Group, who have been involved in the planning of several of the programme.

This year�s meeting includes the BCA Prize Lecture, given by a crystallographer in honour of an eminent colleague: the Prize Lecturer will be announced later. With the prizewinner also to be announced at the meeting itself, the CCDC Prize Lecture will also be given in the plenary session. An innovation this year is an Exhibitors� Forum; this will provide an arena for exhibitors at the meeting to present their non-ambient, in-situ and other offerings to us. Following the successful teaching sessions last year, there will be a Tutorial Session to introduce the Phase Transitions sessions. There will also be a hands-on CCP14 Workshop.

There will be the usual Commercial Exhibition running from Tuesday to Thursday, and, of course, a poster session. The posters and commercial exhibition will take place in the same area, with a caf� in the corner of the exhibition hall to aid interactions with and between exhibitors, poster presenters, and participants generally.

Several Satellite meetings will run on the day before and the morning of the main BCA meeting. Two all day workshops, one on White Beam Techniques, and a hands on computer-based CCP4 Workshop, will run on Monday 11th April. The Monday afternoon will also see ISIS and Daresbury crystallography user meetings, while a further innovation this year is a Joint Facilities User Meeting on the Tuesday morning where issues of common interest to users of the major central facilities will be discussed. If you want to attend any of these satellite events, just tick in the relevant box on the main meeting registration form.

By the time you read this, the Scientific Programme will be complete, and available below: the X-Ray Fluorescence programme is listed separately. It�s particularly pleasing to see again a good number of eminent scientists from outside the UK � this really will be an international meeting.

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

Scientific Timetable

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