Crystallography matters ... more!

Many initiatives have been and are being organized to involve schoolchildren at Mudaliarpet, Pondicherry (India) into crystallography on the occasion of IYCr2014.

1. At first, the students were given a brief introduction on various crystals, which made them think about how crystals are formed.

2. Following this, a team of students were selected for a project on Crystal Growth - investigating the size, shape and number of crystals formed, taking various substances such as table salt, sugar, epsom salt, borax, potassium nitrate and alum. 

3. A Radio Talk was given by the teacher and the students on the "International Year of Crystallography".

4. A lecture was given on the topic to the school students, following which a demonstration -cum- exhibition, along with a poster presentation by the teacher is to be arranged for view for the public around the school locale. 

5. A next attempt to telecast the above in the television is made.

6. Students of our school are participating in the IYCr2014 Crystal Growing Competition. 

Eine neue Kluft im Steinbruch Eibenstein lieferte beachtliche Kalzitkristalle, z.T. Phantombildungen und Kalzite in Chalcedon.

Aus Motlas O.Ö. wurden herrliche Quarz-Stufen, Andalusit, Beryll, Schörl und Orthoklas angekauft.

In der Mittelvitrine werden aus der Studiensammlung des Museum besondere Stufen ausgestellt: Einzel-Quarzkristalle und Stufen (auch Amethyst), sowie seltene Mineralien wie Amstallit, bzw. aus dem Fundort Kottaun; ferner Beryll, Chalcedon, Schörl u.a.

Ebenso wurde der größte Feldspatkristall Österreichs aus Wanzenau bei Rosenburg dem Krahuletz-Museum übergeben und ist dort im Rahmen der Mineralien-Dauerausstellung zu sehen.

The Workshop is addressed to PhD students, postdocs and young researchers, who are engaged in structural studies of proteins. The aim is to familiarize the participants with modern methods of biocrystallography as applied to structural studies of proteins and their complexes, including bioinformatics approaches. The Workshop will consist of hands-on practical sessions supported by lectures. All students are encourage to bring their own protein or diffraction data.

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The opening is scheduled on June 23rd, with the presence of Professor Robert Huber, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. The results of the Photo Contest will be announced.

The Australian satellite of the IYCr2014 photo competition Crystallography in Everyday Life saw Crystal 29 conference delegates select their favorite images from more than 130 entries submitted world-wide.

The 15 stunning images celebrate the wonder of crystallography, symmetry and crystals as symbolized in the places, objects and experiences of everyday life and will now form part of the traveling exhibition around Australia.

Graziano Lolli from Italy won the first prize in this category with a photo of "romanesco broccoli".

El Museo de Historia Natural "Dr. Carlos A. Torres de la Llosa" de Montevideo, Uruguay ha realizado una exhibición especial de Cristales y Estructuras Cristalinas aprovechando su colección de minerales para celebrar el Año Internacional de la Cristalografía 2014. En la exposición se agregan a los minerales algunas figuras con las estructuras atómicas correspondientes.

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The Natural History Museum "Dr. Carlos A. Torres de la Llosa" of Montevideo, Uruguay has created a special exhibit of Crystals and Crystal structures using its own minerals collection to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography 2014. The exposition contains some figures with the atomic structures of the selected minerals.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Wednesday, 21 May at 6 pm at the regional library of Lower Austria in St. Poelten.

Click on the image to download the invitation to the exhibition.

The exhibition will open on May 9th with a speech by Sven Lidin, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Lund University and Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.

The exhibition "Living with crystal" (original title in Slovenian: Živeti s kristali), organized on the occasion of the International Year of Crystallography, will be open from 13 February 2014 to 11 January 2015 at the Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana. 

On display: Photographs of minerals, Crystal drawings, Mineral and crystal collections, Jewellery, Fluorescent minerals, Interactive presentation of minerals and rocks on Biedermeier tables, Interactive play "Umek the Mineralogist", Microscopic world of crystals.

Authors: Miha Jeršek, Mirjan Žorž, Breda Činč Juhant, Katarina Fuchs

Con motivo de este año tan especial, se ha organizado la exposición titulada "Los minerales: Año Internacional de la Cristalografía".

La exposición trata de ofrecer un recorrido por las características principales de los minerales, los cristales inorgánicos naturales. Estas características van desde cuales son las posibles formas de la celda unidad (sistemas cristalinos) hasta las principales propiedades físicas que presentan como consecuencia de su composición y su estructura, y que, con frecuencia, nos permiten identificarlos.

- Man, crystal, pearl and coral: myths and symbols

- King, Prince and Bishop: gems in majesty

- the science of gems

Many events will be organized around the exhibition: concerts, conferences, demonstrations, ...

More information at http://www.aicr2014.fr and http://www.musee-saint-antoine.fr

The ACA Summer Course in Chemical Crystallography is a program that is now into its third decade of instruction here in the United States. The current incarnation of the course is directed towards Single-Crystal Chemical Crystallography and Powder Diffraction techniques, as applicable to small molecule studies. The course is designed to instruct attendees in the theory and practice of these two aspects of crystallography.

The course is held every summer, in even years at The University of Notre Dame, and in odd years at Northwestern University.

No prior knowledge of crystallography is expected from attendees. However, a good understanding of undergraduate level chemistry, physics and mathematics is desirable. While the course is geared towards graduate level attendees, applications from strong undergraduate students will be considered.  Past course attendees have included faculty members and industrial researchers.

Organized by

• Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana. Tirana, Albania
• Faculty of Geology and Mining, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania
• Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Tecnologie dei Materiali (DSCTM), CNR, Roma, Italy
• Istituto di Cristallografia (IC) - CNR, Bari Italy.
• Centre d'Investigaciò en Nanociéncia I Nanotecnologia (CN2), Barcelona, Spain
• Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, Italy
• Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività (ISOF)-CNR, Bologna, Italy
• Università degli di Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy
• Physical Sciences and Engineering Division. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
• OPAL (Organization for Promoting Crystallography in Albania), Tirana, Albania

Invited speakers

Prof. Luigi Ambrosio, Director of DSCTM, CNR, Italy
Polymer based nano-structures for tissue regeneration

Dr. Roberto Zamboni, Director ISOF-CNR, Italy
Silk: a natural biomaterial enabling advanced optoelectronic and photonic devices for living technologies

Dr. Michele Saviano, Director IC-CNR, Bari, Italy, and President of AIC
Molecular targeting in nanomedicine

Dr. Dritan Siliqi, IC-CNR, Italy
Synergic use of Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) with crystallography for the study of bio-materials

Dr. Cinzia Giannini, IC-CNR, Italy
Exploiting high brilliance synchrotron-like micro-focused beams in a table-top facilities to study nano- and bio-materials

Prof. Arben Merkoci, ICN2, Spain
Nanobiosensing and actuating in lab-on-chip and paper-based lateral flow platforms

Prof. Salvador Alegret, UAB, Spain
Bioanalitical Nanotechnology. An example of technoscientific convergence

Prof. Víctor F. Puntes, ICN2, Spain
Nanocrystals as reagents: building next generation of nanoparticles

Dr. Teresa Pellegrino, IIT, Italy
Development of magnetic nanomaterials for intelligent drug delivery and cancer therapy

Prof. Enzo di Fabrizio, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Nanostructures for photonics and sensors in medicine

Prof. Gianluca M. Farinola, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
Nanostructures silica from diatoms microalgea: smart  materials for biology and medicine

Dr. Lucia Curri, IPCF-CNR, Italy
Inorganic nanoparticles and nanocrystals active in the NIR region for biological applications

Read an article on Panorama online

The event is organized by the High School Department of the Visayan Nazarene Bible College in collaboration with the ANTHILL Fabric Gallery.

Resource Persons: Anya Lim, ANTHILL Fabric Gallery; Oscar Vincent Silang, VNBC High School

The 2014 Annual Conference of the BACG will be hosted by the University of Leeds, which is the home of the pioneering work underpinning the discipline of X-ray crystallography undertaken by William Henry Bragg and his son, William Lawrence Bragg in 1912-13, and for which they were jointly awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915. This conference will provide a forum for the exchange of scientific/technological ideas and findings amongst researchers from the UK and overseas focusing on the following topics. Internationally renowned researchers, both from academia and industry, will deliver a series of stimulating lectures.

Conference topics:

• Crystallisation Modelling Across Length Scales
• Crystallisation for Product Formulation
• Fundamentals of Nucleation and Crystal Growth
• Ice Nucleation and Crystallisation
• Industrial Crystallisation Processes

Invited Speakers:

• Peter Dryburgh (President of the BACG)
• Katsuo Tsukamoto (Tohoku Univ, Japan), Annual Lecture
• Richard B. Braatz (MIT, USA), Plenary Lecture
• Elias Vlieg (Radboud Univ, The Netherlands), Plenary Lecture
• Neil George (Syngenta, Jealott’s Hill, UK)
• Angelos Michaelides (Univ College London, UK)  
• John Morris (Asymptote Ltd, Cambridge, UK)
• Chris Price  (GSK, Stevenage, UK)
• Naír Rodríguez-Hornedo (Univ of Michigan, USA)
• Sven L.M. Schroeder (Univ of Manchester, UK)
• Pete Wood (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, UK)
• Chuan-Yu (Charley) Wu (Univ of Surrey, UK)

Conference Committee:

Tariq Mahmud & Yi-Yeoun Kim (Co-Chairs, Leeds U), Robert B. Hammon(Leeds U), Mingzhong Li (De Montfort U), Fiona Meldrum (Leeds U), Kevin J. Roberts (Leeds U), Ghazala Sadiq (CCDC), Linda Seton (Liverpool John Moores U)

Lectures are FREE but places are limited. Registration link: http://www.liv.ac.uk/events/science-and-society/form.php 

Programme of the event

Session one 10:00-12:30

Chair: Professor Ronan McGrath, University of Liverpool

Professor Andy Cooper (Chemistry, Liverpool) Crystallography of porous organic systems
Professor Stephen Pennycook (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN) Real space crystallography with aberration-corrected electron microscopy
Professor Danny Shechtman (Technion, Israel) Discovery of icosahedral phase and the field of quasi-periodic crystals

The session will be followed by lunch and an opportunity to view the Victoria Gallery & Museum collections.

Session two 13:45-15:55

Chair: Professor Samar Hasnain, University of Liverpool

Professor Richard Garratt (Sao Carlos, Brazil) Protein crystallography in Brazil: How it has changed in 25 years?
Professor Tetsuya Ishikawa (RIKEN, Japan) X-ray lasers - new horizons of crystallography
Barkla Lecture (sponsored by RIGAKU): Professor Gautam R. Desiraju (IISc, Bangalore, India) Crystal engineering: From molecules to crystals.

Tea and coffee will be served after the session.

Session three 16:15-18:00

Chair: Professor Stephen Holloway, University of Liverpool

Bragg Lecture (sponsored by DECTRIS): Professor Sir Tom Blundell (Cambridge) The contribution of crystallography to biology and drug discovery: Something to Bragg about!
Reflections from Patience Thomson, daughter of Sir Lawrence Bragg
Crystallography & Society: Presentations by Vivien Perutz and Dr Michele Zema.

Vote of thanks: Professor Ian Greer

The session will be followed by a drinks reception.

In the framework of the celebrations for the UN International Year of Crystallography at the University of Melbourne, Professor Michael Parker will present a public lecture at the Bio21 Institute in Melbourne, Parkville, Australia on the topic "Shining a light on Alzheimer's disease through X-ray crystallography".

Abstract: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common and devastating age-related disease with no effective disease-modifying treatments. Approximately, 34 million people worldwide are currently afflicted by AD and its prevalence is expected to triple over the next 40 years as people live longer. The mechanisms by which the disease progresses to cognitive decline in the sufferer are complex and not fully understood. A defining pathological feature is the deposition of extracellular plaques in the brain composed primarily of a peptide called amyloid beta (Aβ): a proteolytic breakdown product of the much larger Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP). Most pharmaceutical activity in AD research has focused on Aβ, its generation and clearance from the brain.

As part of the events to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography, the one-day symposium "University of Malaya Pharmaceutical Co-Crystal Symposium 2014" will focus on co-crystal technology, especially as it relates to the pharmaceutical industry.

Prof. Mike Zaworokto (University of Limerick and UM Academic Icon) is the plenary lecturer for the event.

This exhibition explores the colorful intersections between crystallography and art.

Crystal-inspired origami, the patterns of Philippine traditional weaves, and student works inspired by M.C. Escher are showcased. A panel depicting the 17 crystallographic wallpaper groups is also featured.

The event is the first of a series of exhibitions organized by the High School Department of the Visayan Nazarene Bible College to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography 2014.

The 3rd Science Café Event at the Kashiwa Library will focus on “A process until artificial DNA is produced from the crystal of DNA”

Speaker: Mr. Takeshi WADA, Professor of Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences (Graduate School of Frontier Science, the University of Tokyo)

Program Host: Yoshiyuki AMEMIYA, the director of the library（Professor of Graduate School of Frontier Science, the University of Tokyo)

Capacity: 25 persons

Fare: free

Application: Reservation is not required

23. Juli 2014: Prof. Bettina Lotsch, Universität München

„Farbe einmal anders: Photonische Kristalle in Natur und Forschung“

Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen des IYCr2014 um 18:30 im Vortragssaal des Naturhistorischen Museums statt

Einlass 18:15 unter Vorlage des Mitgliedsausweises bei der Kassa

Gemeinsame Veranstaltung der Freunde des Naturhistorischen Museums (http://freunde.nhm-wien.ac.at/aktivitaeten/vortraege.html) und der Österreichischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft (http://www.univie.ac.at/OeMG/vwien.html)

Reflections: tales from within the crystal

School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Crystals have long captivated humankind, from ancient healing remedies and myth and legend, to modern fashion trends and industrial applications.

Scientific interest in crystals was piqued over 400 years ago by Johann Kepler who detailed the beautiful symmetry of ice crystals. By the 20^th century, scientists discovered that X-rays could be used to determine the arrangement of the atoms which comprise the crystal, creating the field of Crystallography.

This exhibition celebrates the International Year of Crystallography bringing together crystal specimens, models and instruments used throughout history to solve the mysteries that lie within the crystal.

Para conmemorar los 100 años de la otorgación del Premio Nobel de Física al científico alemán Max von Laue “por su descubrimiento de la difracción de rayos-X por cristales”, la Unión Internacional de Cristalografía (IUCr, por sus siglas en inglés) junto a la UNESCO han proclamado el 2014 como el Año Internacional de la Cristalografía (IYCR, por sus siglas en inglés).

El objetivo del IYCR 2014 es incrementar la conciencia del público sobre la cristalografía de rayos-X y de cómo esta técnica apoya casi todos los desarrollos tecnológicos de nuestro mundo moderno. El IYCR 2014 tiene también un fuerte componente educativo enfocado en estudiantes de todas las edades y la ambición de proveer entrenamiento sobre esta técnica en países que no tengan una gran comunidad cristalográfica. Alrededor de todo el mundo se están haciendo actividades como parte de esta conmemoración y Puerto Rico no es la excepción.

El Colegio de Químicos ha organizado un Simposio de Cristalografía como parte de su Convención Anual PRCHEM 2014 en saludo al Año Internacional de Cristalografía.

El simposio contará con la participación del Dr. Juan Manuel García Ruiz, de la Universidad de Granada como conferenciante plenario, y los doctores Dalice Piñero (Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río Piedras), Dr. Rolando Roque (Universidad del Turabo), Dr. Jorge L. Colón (Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río ), Dr. Carlos Nieves Marrero (Universidad de Puerto Rico-Aguadilla), y el Dr. Juan López-Garriga (Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez).