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 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".

The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History proudly announces its upcoming exhibition: CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: Where Art & Science Collide, on display from September 18, 2014 –January 17, 2015.

On Thursday, September 18th, at 6 PM, a free public lecture featuring David Gardner, Master Jeweler and Gemologist, was followed by an open reception with refreshments and gallery viewing.

This year marks the centenary of the birth of modern crystallography, a science studying the composition and structure of crystals. Crystallographers provide fundamental knowledge and technology essential for the development of new materials.

Crystallography has become the very core of structural science, revealing the structure of DNA, allowing us to understand and fabricate computer memories, showing us how proteins are created in cells, and helping scientists to design powerful new materials and drugs. It permeates our daily lives and is essential in agro-food, aeronautics, automobiles, cosmetics, and computers, as well as the electro-mechanical, pharmaceutical and mining industries. Because of the beauty and symmetry of crystals, they also figure prominently in architecture, art forms, and jewelry.

This exhibition will offer visitors an overview of the many applications of the science of crystallography. Materials on display will include stunning specimens from the Museum’s extensive mineral collection and will showcase examples of crystals used in art and jewelry.

This exhibit was made possible in part through Hotel Tax Revenue funded from the City of College Station through the Arts Council of Brazos Valley and through David Gardner’s Jewelers. The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History is committed to promoting science, and cultural and natural history with the integration of art in exhibits and educational programs.

The Museum is open to visitors Tuesday-Saturday from 10 am-5 pm. For more information about this adult program, exhibits and other displays, events, programs and activities, please contact the Museum at 979-776-2195, visit us on the web at www.brazosvalleymuseum.org, or follow us on Facebook.

Co-organized by the InnovCrete programme and the Hellenic Crystallographic Association

Local Organizers: M. Kokkinidis & K. Petratos

Main Topics (tentative):

• Macromolecular Crystallography: Advances in Refinement and Phasing, Crystallization and crystal treatment, Protein-Nucleic acid complexes, Membrane proteins, Structure and function of biomacromolecules;
• XFEL and time resolved crystallography methods;
• Hybrid approaches (SAXS, EM, etc.);
• additional topics of special interests of the HeCrA community.

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.

- 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

This exhibition presents 29 paintings inspired by crystallographic concepts, selected among the 80 participants of the Art Contest "cristalizARTE. Cuando el arte se encuentra con la ciencia". Artists from all over Argentina were divided into two categories according to their age: adults and teenagers under 18 y.o.

You can also visit our website to see the participating artworks, as well as the Winners of the contest.

Photos of the opening day
 

The follow-up event to the exhibition Tiles, Weaves and Origami: A Journey through Art and Crystallography.

http://www.iycr2014.org/events/exhibitions/tiles,-weaves-and-origami-a-journey-through-art-and-crystallography

As part of its celebration of Science Month in Philippine Schools, the High School Department of Visayan Nazarene Bible College brings you Journey Into the Crystal CEBU, the Philippine staging of the traveling exhibition Voyage dans le cristal.

http://www.iycr2014.org/home/ongoing/special-voyage/special/voyage-dans-le-cristal

Travel through time and discover the fascinating world of crystals!

The exhibition is open for public viewing at the Main Lobby of Visayan Nazarene Bible College, St. Mary's Drive, Apas, Cebu City.

The exhibition "Crystals - Artwork of Nature" (original title: "KRISTALLE - Kunstwerke der Natur") will take the visitors on an exciting journey through crystals and the structure of matter using models and elaborated computer graphics. In the spirit of the International Year of Crystallography 2014, this exhibition aims at disseminating crystallography and the knowledge of the structure of matter to the general public, and providing information on history and application of crystallography.

The exhibition tours through all of the federal states of Austria. This tour stop takes place at the renowned city of Leoben in Styria, home of the famous Montanuniversitaet - the country's university for mining, metallurgy and materials. After the official opening on the 18th of September, there will be hourly guided tours for school classes and general public through the exhibition during opening times until the 26th of September.

Furthermore, at this occasion, it will also be possible to get the Austrian commemorative postage stamp celebrating IYCr (which is shown on this homepage at http://www.iycr2014.org/events/postage_stamps/austrian-stamp). It was produced to honour the famous Austrian mineralogist and crystallographer Felix Machatschki, who was born in Styria. There will be a limited emission of the special enveloppe with special postmarks adapted to time and place of the event.

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

On the occasion of IYCr, a public lecture on the life and achievements of the renown Austrian crystallographer Felix Machatschki (for further information see the Austrian IYCr-postage stamp honouring him - http://www.iycr2014.org/countries/events-by-country/austria/austrian-stamp) was given. The event took place in his home town Arnfels in Styria, on his birthday and even in the house he was born exactly 119 years ago.

The following subjects will be discussed:

• Computer design of nano-objects
• Advanced methods for synthesis of clusters and nanostructures
• State-of-the art “in-situ” methods for the nanodiagnostics

Results of the workshop are anticipated to be:

• New insights into the nature of materials within nanoscale range given by advanced computer modeling
• Discussion of novel methods of synthesis at nanoscale
• Discussion of state-of-the-art techniques for the “in-situ” nanodiagnostics
• Enhancement of cooperation for interdisciplinary research
• Creation of a background and a motivation for young researchers to work in this interdisciplinary field of research

To celebrate IYCr2014, the Egyptian National Committee of Crystallography (ENCC) in Cooparation with the Egyptian Society of Crystallography and its Applications (ESCA) organize a Symposium on Structural Role of Crystallography in Pharmacological Sciences.

Objectives 

The process of curing a disease starts with identifying its target protein that is considered a building block in a wide range of pharmacological applications. With the three-dimensional structures of both the target protein and the appropriate medicinal compounds, extensive information can be combined to help developing better drugs. X-ray crystallography comprises the most important technique for determining the 3D-structures, and it plays a major role to identify the active conformation adopted by a protein excluding the inactive one(s). This symposium focuses on the powerful contribution of Crystallography in the field of Pharmacology, by shedding light on the basic concepts and approaches.

Programme

9:00-9:30 Registration

9:30–10:00 Opening Session

10:00–11:00 Prof. Dr. Karimat El-Sayed, Quality Control in Pharmaceuticals Industry

11:00–12:00 Prof. Dr. Adel Girgis, Chemical Synthesis of Medicinal Drugs

12:00–13:00 Break

13:00–14:00 Dr. Gihan S. Kamel, Disease–related Proteins: CloserLook With Crystallography Eyes

14:00–15:00 Dr. Nasser Saad, Methods and Advantages of Computer Aided Drug Design

15:00–16:00 Closing Session and Recommendations 

Download the leaflet of the event 

As part of the celebrations for the international Year of Crystallography 2014, the first Workshop on Crystallography in Albania was organized at the Tirana International Hotel in Tirana on 25 September 2014, with the collaboration of the University of Tirana and the Polytechnic University of Tirana. The workshop was held in conjunction with the XX Congress of the Carpathian Balkan Geological Association.

Programme

8.00 Registration

Chairs: Dritan Siliqi and Enkeleida Beqiraj

8.30 Welcome
Prof. Agim Sinojmeri, Faculty of Geology and Mining, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania.
Dr Michele Saviano, Director of Institute of Crystallography (IC)-CNR, President of Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC), Italy.
Dr Michele Zema, Project Manager for IYCr2014, IUCr, UK and University of Pavia, Italy

9.30 One hundred years of Crystallography
Prof. Aldo Craievich, Instituto de Física, USP, Sao Paulo, Brasil.

10.30 Basics aspects of Crystallography
Prof. Aldo Craievich, Instituto de Física, USP, Sao Paulo, Brasil.

12.00 Crystallography and the phase problem: from small to the macromolecules
Dr Dritan Siliqi, CNR-IC, Bari, Italy.

13.00 Lunch

Chairs: Aldo Craievich and Michele Saviano

14.00 Powder X-ray diffraction: theory and applications
Dr Angela Altomare, CNR-IC, Bari, Italy.

15.00 Crystallography applied at Mineralogy Science
Dr Francesco Capitelli, CNR-IC, Rome, Italy.

15.45 X-ray microscopy with Small/Wide X-ray Scattering (SAXS-WAXS) contrast
Dr Davide Altamura, CNR-IC, Bari, Italy.

16.45 Atomic resolution Electron Microscopy methods in the study of Inorganic matter
Dr Elvio Carlino, CNR-IOM, Trieste, Italy

17.30 Coffee break

Chair: Agim Sinojmeri and Altin Mele

17.45-18.45 Past, present, and the future of crystallography in Albania.
Short presentations and discussion. 

Supported by

• Italian Crystallographic Association, AIC
• International Union of Crystallography, IUCr
• European Crystallographic Association, ECA
• CNR Institute of Crystallography
• School of Neutron Scattering "Francesco Paolo Ricci" 
• Rigaku Corp.

You cannot fit Science in one box? Think again! Logix Creative and Daaa Haus have been entrusted with the conceptualisation, design and fabrication of the science installation in Pjazza St George during the Science In The City 2014 and Notte Bianca 2014 happenings on Saturday 26th September and Saturday 4th October 2014 respectively - and, judging from the blue prints, they have done just that!

Introducing AMAZE²: a massive installation in the shape of a giant cube housing a maze that plans to portray the various elements of science in a fun and eclectic way. The Installation, a journey through various rooms arranged as a full size maze, will take the visitor through various representations and interactive exhibits of science. From the weather to the big bang, from the earth to the human body, from solar energy to renewable energy, no stone will be left unturned. Logix/Daaa are also thinking outside the box – literally, as around the installation various exhibits featuring Lufthansa, with an array of interactive displays designed to experience the science around flight engineering, a car manufacturer displaying a fleet of EV vehicles and a Beer manufacturer sponsoring a Beer Haus experiment bar will offer patrons tons of entertainment while they warm up before cooling down after the experience of the AMAZE2 cube.

This cube will contain a tech-biogarden where the audience can play with devices and make their own sounds with the living systems. An art installation by IZAXA in collaboration with biochemist Rosalin Bonetta, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Protein Science (Dept. of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Malta), under the supervision of Professor G. Hunter and Dr T. Hunter, invites participants to celebrate the 100th anniversary since the start of X-ray Crystallography. Another area will house artefacts inspired by the CERN particle accelerator that's trying to explain the wonders of the Universe.

AMAZE² will offer visitors of all ages an accessible exhibition of educational displays that puts science in their hands. With the aid of Science in the City Consortium, Notte Bianca, Biopilot, Izaxa and V.18 Logix/Daaa will fit Science in the box and mix it with art and culture to form an epic assault on the senses. Everyone will be truly AMAZED – squared.