The 31st European Crystallography Meeting was held in Oviedo, Spain from 22-26 August 2018.
During the meeting George Sackman presented a poster (MS10-P05) on recent neutron diffraction work with Richard Cooper and Alison Edwards: Disordered or not: A cautionary tale when inferring proton disorder solely from X-ray and computational data.
Richard Cooper gave a … Read the rest
The 2018 Meeting of the British Crystallographic Association was held at Warwick University where Chem. Cryst. was well represented. The meeting started with the Young Crystallographers Satellite meeting, during which Lewis Morgan’s oral presentation was so “eggsellent” that he won the Industrial Group Prize for the best talk, and with it, the dubious honour of … Read the rest
The triennial congress of the International Union of Crystallography was held in Hyderabad over 8 days in August 2017.
During the meeting Richard Cooper presented recent work with Jerome Wicker:
Optimizing co-crystal screens using a data-driven machine learning method
We also took an opportunity to present recent developments in the CRYSTALS software at the … Read the rest
Congratulations to Part II students Laura Fenwick and James Walker who both won poster prizes awarded by the Chemical Crystallography Group of the British Crystallographic Association at the Annual Spring Meeting in Lancaster.
Laura’s poster “Measuring and controlling dissolution rates of pharmaceutical materials by co-crystal formation” reported dissolution rate studies of tablets of pure paracetamol … Read the rest
The sixth Moroccan school of Crystallography was held in November 2016 at Université Moulay Ismaïl in the historic Moroccan city of Meknes. Richard Cooper gave a lecture on Structure Validation and Visualisation and a one day workshop on Refinement and Validation using the CRYSTALS software.… Read the rest
The 2016 British Crystallographic Meeting Spring Meeting took place at the University of Nottingham from 4th – 7th April. Contributions from Chem. Cryst. staff and students were:
Jerome G. P. Wicker, Bill I. F. David & Richard I. Cooper
When will it Crystallise? (Talk in session: From Amorphous to Crystal)
Jo Baker & Richard … Read the rest
The 30th biennial conference of the Society of Crystallographers of Australia and New Zealand (Crystal30) was held in Hobart, Tasmania in March 2016.
Richard Cooper gave a keynote entitled “Routine problems and non-routine solutions in single crystal structure analyses” in which he discussed the use of the CRYSTALS software (and other tools) to address commonly … Read the rest
The 3rd Edition of the School of Crystallisation and Crystallography for Latin America organised by Prof. Carlos Campos was held in December in Florianópolis, Brazil. The quiet setting in a monastery south of the main centre of Florianópolis provided ideal conditions for an intensive week of crystallography lectures, posters and discussions. Richard Cooper attended to … Read the rest
Congratulations to Sophie Gearing who won an RSC CrystEngComm poster prize at the British Crystallographic Association Meeting in York for her poster “Does it Crystallise?” which presented studies of the crystallinity in a set of molecular materials.
Her research tests predictions made in recent research by Jerome Wicker by using combinatorial synthesis to access a … Read the rest
The triennial congress of the International Union of Crystallography was held in Montreal over 8 days in August 2014.
Contributions to the meeting from Chem. Cryst. staff and students included:
Richard I. Cooper and James A. Arnold:
Displacement Parameter Restraints for Dealing with Limited Data
Karim J. Sutton, Pascal Parois and Richard I Cooper:… Read the rest
