Following the success of the format used for the last couple of years, the PCG-SCMP Winter meeting will take place at the Cosener’s House, Abingdon, 10th-11th November 2014 (lunchtime to-lunchtime), in conjunction with the ISIS Crystallography Users Meeting. Registration for the meeting is free. For participants working at UK-based research institutions who attend both meetings… Read More »
Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility. Located on the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire a 20 minute drive south of Oxford. The fixed-term position will be based on Beamline I19 at Diamond, which is designed for small-molecule single-crystal diffraction using an intense x-ray beam (5-25 keV) to study the… Read More »
If you are a PhD student/postdoc in polymer, soft matter or colloid science and want to hear about job options other than following the steps of your supervisor at University, please come and join us for this one-day event on the 29th October 2014 (Rutherford Lab, Didcot, near Oxford). The event is organised by the… Read More »
This year’s Industrial Group Autumn Meeting will be held at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London on Wednesday 12 November. The meeting will celebrate industrial science during this International Year of Crystallography with talks covering a wide range of crystallographic topics. There will also be a lecture from one of the RI’s historians… Read More »
The Royal Institution in collaboration with STFC have created a Crystallography Collection on their website with a number of videos describing crystallography and diffraction, as well as videos on the history of this important area. More recently they have created two videos entitled ‘Understanding Crystallography: Part 1 and 2’. These are great videos, the first… Read More »
The registrations for the 1st European Crystallographic School (ECS1) are open. The school, under the ECA patronage, will be held in Pavia from August 28th to September 6th, 2014. ECS1 is inserted into an Erasmus Intensive Programme (IP) that will allow students to obtain 3 ECTS credits. The school starts with a first preparatory course… Read More »
Monday 7th April 13:00 High pressure studies of illicit materials Iain Oswald (University of Strathclyde) 13:30 Preparation of Protein Crystals for Long Wavelength X-ray Crystallography Using a Humidity Controlled Stream S. Horrell (Diamond Light Source/University of Liverpool) Big Methods for Small Molecules K. Sutton (University of Oxford) 14:00 Total scattering applied to… Read More »
The next Young Crystallographers Satellite Meeting (YC2014) will take place prior to the main BCA Spring Meeting from 1 pm on Monday 7th April until 11.15 am on Tuesday 8th April at the University of Loughborough. Following the established format there will be three sessions of oral presentations – a superb opportunity for Young Crystallographers… Read More »
The BCA Industrial Group is having its autumn meeting on the 12th and 13th of November at the diamond light source. Together We Stand Divided We Fall: Crystallography Within Material Science This year’s Autumn meeting will focus on bringing together case studies across a range of industries that illustrate how there can never be one… Read More »
Hello all, The first European Young Crystallographers Satellite Meeting will take place at ECM28, where early stage researchers will have the opportunity to present their work in an informal and friendly environment. Please find the timetable below. YC-ECM Timetable 2013 This event has been made possible by grants from the European Crystallographic Association and the… Read More »