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IUCr forthcoming Congress:
IUCr 2020 Congress shifted to year of 2021:
Aug. 14-22, 2021, Prague, Czech Republic
IUCr2021 the 25th IUCr Congress
Sep. 25-28, 2018, Tianjin, China
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The Book "Modern Charge Density Analysis" edited by Carlo Gatti and Piero Macchi is now published by Springer, see the link.
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At the IUCr meeting in Boston in 2012 the Executive Committee established an ad interim Commission on Crystallography of Materials. Since the IUCr meeting in Hyderabad in 2017, our Commission has been approved as a PERMANENT IUCr commission.
The Founding Committee (from 2012 to 2017)
The Current Committee
Membership
- Changqing Jin (Chair, People's Republic of China)
- B.Albert (Germany)
- E.Antipov (Russia)
- Wenhui Duan (People's Republic of China)
- V.Blatov (Russia)
- M.Eremets (Germany)
- Y.Gogotsi (USA)
- M.Petrukhina (USA)
Consultants
- Tian Cui (People's Republic of China)
- V.L. Solozhenko (France)
- A.R. Oganov (Russia)
- H. Maynard-Casely (Australia)
- O. Yaghi (USA)
- S. Qiu (People's Republic of China)
- Nan Zhang (People's Republic of China)
- Y. Sugawara (Japan)
Terms of reference
- To organize Keynote Lectures, symposia and workshops (also in collaboration with other Commissions) on the hottest topics at the crossroads between crystallography and materials science, and raise the presence of materials scientists at crystallographic meetings.
- To strengthen the links and interactions among crystallographers and materials scientists, solid-state physicists and chemists.
- To organize workshops to increase crystallographic proficiency of materials scientists and physicists, and to train a new generation of crystallographers working in various fields of materials science.
- To promote scientific collaboration and mobility of scientists across these disciplines.
- To spearhead the recognition of crystallography as an interdisciplinary science (not just as a technique or as a tool).
- To encourage the publication of materials science research in the journals of the Union.
- Finally, the Commission will act in accordance with the general statement of principles regarding Commissions of the IUCr.
Mailing list: contact Artem R. Oganov to be included, and also to distribute information on events, job openings, etc.
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