The IUCr news letter volume 30, issue 4 is out! You can find it here.

The ECA (European Crystallographic Association) invites you to join the online lectures on Quantum Crystallography and Complementary Fields on December 21st. Lectures provided:

This time there will be 3 lectures which will start at 4 pm CET on the 1^st of December, 2022:

Lecture 16:  “Modelling electrostatic potential in electron diffraction studies” by Paulina Dominiak
(Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Poland)

Lecture 17: “Exploring dynamical scattering using ‘digital’ large-angle convergent beam electron diffraction
(D-LACBED) patterns” by Richard Beanland (Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK)

Lecture 18:  “3D electron diffraction for charge density analysis: what are the challenges?”  by Lukas Palatinus
(Division of Solid State Physics, Department of Structure Analysis, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy
of Sciences, Prague, Czechia)

Such lectures will be held once per month, starting in December. For registration and more information, please have a look at the event page here.

It is still possible to nominate scientists for the ECA Perutz Prize 2022, HCS/ECA Kálmán Prize 2022, and ECA/ENSA Bertaut prize 2022.
The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April.

The European Crystallographic Association (ECA) is pleased to announce a call for nominations for three different prizes:

• the twelfth Max Perutz Prize. This Prize will be awarded in recognition of meritorious achievements in any branch of crystallography to an individual scientist clearly affiliated with the ECA. More information can be found here.

• the second Alajos Kálmán Prize. This Prize will be awarded to an individual researcher in recognition for outstanding scientific contributions in the field of structural sciences within the last 5-10 years. The nominee must have a clear affiliation with ECA. The prize has been established by the Hungarian Chemical Society and is endorsed by ECA. More information here.

• the tenth Erwin Félix Lewy Bertaut Prize. This prize is awarded to a young scientist (up to 8 years after finishing her or his PhD thesis) having a clear affiliation with the ECA/ENSA region, in recognition of notable experimental, methodological or theoretical contributions to the investigation of matter using crystallographic or neutron scattering methods. The European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) and ECA award the Bertaut Prize in a regular alternating sequence, or as specified by the two associations based on mutual agreement. More information here.

The prizes will be awarded at the next European Crystallographic Meeting (23 – 27 August 2022) in Versailles, France.

IUCr Newsletter Vol. 30, No. 1 is now available, with a letter from the President, calls for nominations for the Ewald prize and the Bragg prize, a new section in IUCrJ,  discussions on the solution of the protein folding problem and more.

The online registration for the European Crystallographic meeting in Versailles is open.

Early bird rates are available until April 18th 2022.

You can find all recent news from the European Crystallographic Association here.

The latest issue of the IUCr Newsletter (Volume 29, no 4) is now available to readers, with contributions, amongst others, about the recently founded African Crystallographic Association, crystallography in Guatamala and the United Arab Emirates, meeting reports and news from the the IUCr and ECA.

The latest issue of the IUCr Newsletter (Volume 29, no 3) is now available to readers, with contributions, amongst others, about the 25th IUCr Congress in Prague, on ferroelectrics, on operando structural science, Lipid transport across cell wall of the Tuberculosis bacterium and the contributions to crystallography of J.D.Bernal.

The latest issue of the IUCr Newsletter (Volume 29, no 2) is now available to readers, with contributions, amongst others, about Digital design of pharmaceutical solid forms, improved refinement of disordered crystal structures and a comment on the announcement of the AlphaFold Database.

The latest issue of the IUCr Newsletter (Volume 29, no 1) is now available to readers, with contributions, amongst others, about Quantum mechanics and crystallography, Cryo-EM, the Extremely Brilliant Source of the ESRF and an article about Caroline MacGillavry, Maurits Escher, Khudu Mamedov and periodic patterns.