For the European Crystallographic Meeting in Warwick, the Young Crystallographers’ Group of the British Crystallographic Association and the European General Interest Group for Young Crystallographers (GIG-YC) are joining forces to establish the European Young Crystallographers satellite meeting, in order to promote interaction between up-and-coming and more established crystallographers.
The European Young Crystallographers satellite meeting will take place at ECM28, Warwick, UK on Sunday 25th August 2013, prior to the ECM opening ceremony. This satellite meeting will be the first of its kind at a European level and will run from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. The opening lecture will be a plenary by Dr Birger Dittrich, followed by three sessions for oral presentations and a poster session dedicated to young crystallographers (anyone under the age of 35) presenting their work. The meeting will cost £15 to attend, and this includes registration, coffee and lunch. This fee has been subsidized by the European Crystallographic Association and the International Union of Crystallography, and we are very grateful for their financial support.
We feel that this satellite meeting is an extremely valuable event for young researchers and believe that it will help create a network for young crystallographers, enabling them to communicate their research in an informal environment and to establish connections with other young crystallographers. Given the significance of 2013 to many crystallographers around the world with the centenary of the Braggs’, we want to ensure that we celebrate the contributions of younger members and to continue promoting the fantastic work of these up-and-coming scientists. We strongly urge all young crystallographers to support this meeting and present their work via a poster or an oral presentation.
We look forward to welcoming you to Warwick, so register NOW and don’t miss out!
Olex2 has become established in the community of small-molecule crystallographers as an easy-to-use unified package that provides tools needed for day-to-day analyses of small molecule structures.
This workshop will introduce a number of advanced structure refinement features available in OLEX2 to a wide audience.
We will introduce a typical OLEX2 workflow followed by several in-depth examples of how non-routine structures may be refined. Particular attention will be paid to refinement of disordered structures and what advantages OLEX2 offers in handling them.
The day will consist of structured ‘instruction’ sessions, interspersed by plenty of ‘hands-on’ sessions, where you can apply these procedures and new skills to your own structures.
The number of places is limited to 50 participants, and the provisional cost will be 80 euros for this full-day workshop.
ECACOMSIG, the European Crystallographic Association’s Computing Special Interest Group, is organising a two day Computing School on 23rd – 24th of August 2013, immediately before the European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM28) at Warwick University.
The School will provide an introduction to software development for crystallography students and post-docs – especially those who are not currently involved with software development (or at an early stage of this). We will not be teaching the basics of programming, so students will need to be familiar with at least one programming or scripting language in current use. These include both modern languages (e.g. Python, C++, Java) or older languages, such as Fortran, C, Perl or Tcl.
The School will be held over two full days, starting in the morning of 23rd August 2013, so students and teachers should plan to arrive on the evening of Thursday 22nd August.
The School will be open to a maximum of 30 applicants. A limited number of bursaries will be available to assist with the cost of attendance. For more information on bursaries, please contact Harry Powell
The registration fee (including dinner on 22nd and 23rd August, and lunch and refreshments on 23rd and 24th August) is currently planned to be €125.
Registration (including accommodation bookings) will be via the ECM28 website
Further details will be posted on the ECACOMSIG website as they become available.
We look forward to seeing you in Warwick!
