The 2012 Meeting of the British Crystallographic Association was held at Warwick University. Oxford was very well represented this year with Kirsten Christensen chairing the Programme Committee and prizes being awarded to Joe Paddison, Nick Funnell and Emma McKinley.
Other contributions from Oxford include:
Karim J. Sutton, Kirsten E. Christensen, Amber L. Thompson & … Read the rest
[Update: Thank-you to all the speakers and attendees who made this a great event; details are available on the main Red Kite web page. See you all again next year!]
The inaugural meeting of the Red Kite Crystallographers will be held on Thursday 12th January, 2012 in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford.
Attendance will … Read the rest
The triennial Congress of the International Union of Crystallography was held in Madrid, Spain at the end of August 2011. Chem. Cryst. was well represented with several talks and posters including:
Richard I. Cooper
Optimising X-ray Experiment Strategy on-the-fly based on Feedback from Automated Structure Solution (Presentation)
Amber L. Thompson
Battle of the Titans: Atlas … Read the rest
David Watkin was presented with his ACA Fankuchen Award at the ACA 2011 meeting. He gave a plenary lecture entitled “X-ray Crystallography. Is the Gold Standard becoming Tarnished?”
The BCA Spring Meeting was held at the University of Keele in Staffordshire. Contributions from Chem. Cryst. included:
Richard I. Cooper, Amber L. Thompson & David J. Watkin
Standard Uncertainties and Experimental Design (Poster)
Amber L. Thompson & David J. Watkin
“Unpublishable” Data: Does My R-factor Look Big in This? (Poster)
David Watkin
What’s … Read the rest
Jeremy Law, a Part II student working with Dr Nick Rees and Dr David Watkin, has won a prize for his poster entitled “Alternative Approaches to Hydrogen Atom Location in the Solid State”. He presented his work to the joint ISIS Crystallography User Group and British Crystallographic Association PCG/SCMP meeting “Current Research in Physical Crystallography”… Read the rest
The ACA was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago, IL. Contributions from Chem. Cryst. include:
James Haestier, Amber L. Thompson, David J. Watkin, George C. Feast, Jeremy Robertson & Lee Page
Why is P21/n a Standard Non-Standard Space Group? (Poster)
Amber L. Thompson & David J. Watkin
Unpublishable” Data: Does My R-factor … Read the rest
The final dinner of the British Crystallographic Association Spring Meeting in Warwick was interrupted, as always, with the prize winning awards. Amber Thompson was awarded the International Union of Crystallography Prize (a copy of International Tables) for her explanation of the advantages of choosing non-standard space groups. Kirsten Christensen was awarded the Durward Cruickshank … Read the rest
The 25th European Crystallographic Meeting was held in the Harbiye Museum and Cultural Centre in the beautiful city of Istanbul. It was a very eventful week, and contributions to the conference made by Chem. Cryst. include:
N. David Brown, James Haestier, Mustapha Sadki, Amber L. Thompson & David J. Watkin
A Further Improved Structure Matching … Read the rest
The 2009 British Crystallographic Association Spring Meeting was held at the University of Loughborough. Contributions from Chem. Cryst. included:
N. David Brown, James Haestier, Mustapha Sadki, David J. Watkin & Amber L. Thompson
A Further Improved Structure Matching Algorithm (Poster)
James Haestier
Effects of Cell Errors on Derived Parameters (YC Presentation)
James Haestier
Computation of … Read the rest
