France

IYCr French Commission

René Guinebretière rene.guinebretiere@unilim.fr - IYCr events coordinator
IYCr Steering Committee: http://www.aicr2014.fr/index.php/comite-de-pilotage

Co-ordinating organization - Local Crystallographic Association

afc Association Française de Cristallographie

Local information on the Web

[web site] L’Année Internationale de la Cristallographie en France (Webmasters: Pascale Launois and Marc Blanchard

Forthcoming events

Photographs of IYCr events

All events

This is a concise listing of all events in this country that are associated with the International Year of Crystallography 2014 and its follow-up initiatives.

15th Mar 2013 La biocristallographie : un outil incontournable pour de nouveaux médicaments BU des Sciences, Place centrale Campus de Grenoble
27th Mar 2013 The ribosome at high resolution: a conference by Ada Yonath Saint Martin d'Hθres
28th Mar 2013 "Espérance de vie: rêves et réalités". Une conférence grand public d'Ada Yonath, "Is there a limit to life expectancy? Wishes, predictions and reality Grenoble
7th Oct 2013 Festival La Novela Toulouse
13th Nov 2013 De la découverte de la diffraction des rayons X par les cristaux Nantes
28th Nov 2013 Bragg Symposium "Crystallography for life" Grenoble
17th Jan 2014 Festival de la cristallographie Paris
20th Jan 2014 IYCr2014 Opening Ceremony UNESCO Main Building, Paris
22nd Jan 2014 Lectures "la cristallographie, une clef de la connaissance" UNESCO, Paris
23rd Jan 2014 Satellite session SOLEIL-LLB of the 9th SOLEIL Users' Meeting Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
18th Mar 2014 Inauguration of the international year of crystallography in Marseille Marseille
17th May 2014 "Des cristaux aux bijoux" ("From crystals to jewellery") Le Visiatome - Marcoule
26th May 2014 E-MRS 2014 Spring Meeting Lille
6th Jul 2014 Exhibition "Gemmes, une brillante histoire" ("Gems, a bright story") Musée de Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye
10th Sep 2014 STOE DECTRIS Xenocs OpenFactory Grenoble and Darmstadt
2nd Oct 2014 La Cristallographie et Nous Alsace
11th Oct 2014 Cristallographie, Fleuriau de Bellevue et la géométrie des minéraux La Rochelle
14th Nov 2014 Exhibition "Des cristaux et des Hommes" ("Crystals and Men") Gradignan
15th Nov 2014 Les cristaux de demain dans notre quotidien Nancy
La cristallographie, science et techniques Vol. 44-45 (2015) of Reflets de la physique, the newsletter of the Société Française de Physique (SFP) is entirely dedicated to crystallography and IYCr2014
France: Concours National de croissance cristalline Nationwide A French national crystal growth competition for high-school students is planned for 2014 on the occasion of the International Year of Crystallography.