BCA Spring Meeting 2006 Lancaster University Tuesday 4 April to Thursday 6 April 2006

The PCG and CCG will be running a Topas-Academic workshop on the final afternoon of the BCA spring meeting 2006 at Lancaster University. Topas-Academic is a powerful software suite written by Alan Coelho which allows the analysis of both powder diffraction and single crystal diffraction data. Data from most laboratory/central facility diffractometers can be analysed. More features of the software are detailed below. Like many other software suites used by the academic community, it is available for academic use for a nominal fee (in this case 500 Euros) to help the developer cover distribution and program support costs.

The workshop will be run along similar lines to the successful ones previously organised on packages like Jana and Crystals. A very brief overview of the software and how to operate it will be given. Attendees will then be encouraged to work through examples in their own specific areas of interest. Expert tutors will be on hand to assist with any difficulties. We will endeavour to prepare tutorials of relevance to molecular/extended systems and of interest to biologists/chemists/physicists. You can also bring your own data along to play with.

Tea (16:00-16:30)