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Crystallography News British Crystallographic Association Crystallography News British Crystallographic Association Issue No. 134 September 2015 ISSI 1467-2790 Sweetness and Light in Philadelphia BCA Spring Meeting p6 XRF Meeting Report p10 CSD Anniversary p13 ACA Meeting Report p21 German Crystallographic Society Report p26 EMPYREAN 100M 10M 1M The world of X-ray diffraction 0D Intensity [counts] 100K 10K 1K is no longer fl at 100 10 -6000 -4000 -2000 0 2000 4000 6000 Omega/2Theta [s] Intensity [counts] FWHM = 0.026 °2 1D 4000 ┒ Intensity [counts] 3000 Position 2Theta [deg.] (Copper Cu)) 2000 1000 0 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 Position 2Theta [deg.] (Copper (Cu)) 2D 3D The new Empyrean from PANalytical The only XRD platform is truly innovative, with cutting-edge technology in every aspect. 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Crystallography News September 2015 Contents From the President. 2 From the Editor. 4 BCA Council 2015. 5 BCA Administrative Office, 4 Dragon Road BCA Spring Meeting, Nottingham 2016. 6 Harrogate HG1 5DF Tel: +44 (0)1423 529 333 e-mail: [email protected] Puzzle Corner. 9 XRF Meeting Report, 17 June 2015. 10 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NEWS is published quarterly (March, June, September and December) by the British Crystallographic Celebrating 50 years of the Cambridge Association, and printed by Bowmans, Leeds. Text should preferably be sent Structural Database. 13 electronically as MSword documents (any version - .doc, .rtf or .txt files) or else on a PC disk. Diagrams and figures are American Crystallographic Association most welcome, but please send them separately from text as .jpg, .gif, .tif, or Annual Meeting. 21 .bmp files. Items may include technical articles, news about people (eg awards, honours, retirements etc), reports on past meetings of interest to crystallographers, XXIV Congress and General Assembly of the notices of future meetings, historical International Union of Crystallography. 24 reminiscences, letters to the editor, book, hardware or software reviews. Please ensure that items for inclusion in the December 2015 issue are sent to the German Crystallographic Society Annual Meeting. 26 Editor to arrive before 25 October 2015. Carl Schwalbe 15 St Augustine Drive Book Review. 29 Droitwich Worcs WR9 8QR Tel: 01905 775257 Obituaries. 30 e-mail: [email protected] Meetings of Interest. 31 The British Crystallographic Association is a Registered Charity (#284718) As required by the DATA PROTECTION ACT, the BCA is notifying members that we store your contact information on a computer database to simplify our administration. These details are not divulged to any others without your permission. You may inspect your entry during the Annual Meeting, or otherwise by application to This month’s cover: the BCA Administrative Office. We will be happy to amend entries at any time. CCDC cake, IUCr Editor’s doughnuts, Diamond light by Danny Axford, Liberty Bell Printed by Bowmans Westland Square, Westland Road, Leeds, LS11 5SS photo by J. Fusco for Visit Tel: 0113 272 0088 Web: www.bowmans77.co.uk Philadelphia™ Crystallography News September 2015 1 From the President SINCE my last CN column, plans Chemistry department for me. Mike also recently stepped in to have moved forward regarding the help the BCA on another project when our help was requested 2016 BCA meeting in Nottingham. by a BBC documentary producer. The documentary, produced The programme committee, by the BBC Arts division focusing on the work of M. C. Escher, chaired by Phil Lightfoot, held and featuring Roger Penrose, was in need of input to show the their planning meeting on June 24 links between Escher’s periodic drawings and crystallography. at the conference venue at the I’m sure many of us who teach crystallography make some University of Nottingham. This use of Escher prints to illustrate concepts of periodicity or allowed everyone the opportunity symmetry and I think there has long been an affinity for the to look round the site, which is work of Escher among crystallographers. As is often the case well suited for the meeting with with requests like this one, they weren’t quite sure what was lecture/meeting rooms, poster and exhibition space all in needed, but needed something quickly as filming was taking close proximity in one building. Accommodation, dining place within a couple of weeks. I’m grateful to Simon Coles area and bar are also close by. in his capacity as BCA Education & Outreach Officer for leading discussions to put together something that the BBC The meeting programme is taking shape, and I’m very pleased could use and to Mike for putting together a set of slides and that we will have Prof. Arwen Pearson (Hamburg Centre for consenting to be filmed. The documentary will be part of the Ultrafast Imaging, University of Hamburg) to give the Lonsdale BBC4 series Secret Knowledge (http://www.bbc.co.uk/ Lecture and Prof. Christer Aakeröy (Kansas State University) programmes/b01rfzgy) and I am told is likely to be to give the BCA Prize Lecture, as well as a strong line-up of broadcast in August, which is a few weeks after the time of plenary lectures and invited lectures already confirmed. The writing this column, but will be before the time that CN is preliminary programme is available via the BCA meeting published in September. Hopefully if you missed it, those of website and will be updated as the programme develops. you in the UK at least may be able to find it on BBC iPlayer. Fingers crossed that Mike’s contribution made the final cut. A At the beginning of July I had the pleasure to attend the further BBC article on Escher can be found at CSD50† symposium, held in very pleasant surroundings at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1TXskHdW0 Downing College, Cambridge, over the course of 3 days, to Hrtng1bYgzRBRf/chaos-is-present-everywhere-the- celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the mysterious-world-of-mc-escher Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). The symposium brought together many current and former CCDC staff along I would like to congratulate John Helliwell, former BCA Vice- with colleagues from around the world who have had President, on receipt of the 8th Max Perutz Prize, presented interactions with the CCDC over its long history. The at the ECM meeting in Rovinj, Croatia. John has been presentations were an enjoyable mix of talks on the history honoured for his long, generous and fruitful dedication to and development of the CSD and talks related to the diversity developing all aspects of the use of synchrotron radiation for of research and education facilitated by the CSD and the crystallography and for his boosting support to global associated software developed and supported by the CCDC. development of synchrotron and neutron facilities. I would It was a pleasure to see Olga Kennard and Jack Dunitz at also like to congratulate Elspeth Garman, former BCA the symposium, both of whom I hope will not mind my President, on receipt of the 2015 Mildred Dresselhaus revealing are now beyond their 90th year. Having established Award from the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging. the CSD in 1965 and then the independent Cambridge Elspeth was honoured for her pioneering contributions to Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) in 1987 and served as structural biology, especially in leading the field of radiation its first director until 1997, it was fitting that Olga Kennard damage during macromolecular X-ray diffraction, and in gave the opening lecture. Jack Dunitz, who has strong links recognition of her outstanding contributions to mentoring and to the CCDC throughout its existence, and is also a former training of a generation of crystallographers. CCDC governor, contributed insightful comments after many of the lectures from his regular seat near the front of the I am grateful for the contributions of Elizabeth Shotton auditorium. The symposium concluded with a lecture from (Diamond Light Source) as IG representative to BCA Council. current CCDC director Colin Groom, who looked into his Her term of office has just come to an end and we welcome crystal ball and provided a sequence of predictions about the David Beveridge (Harman Technology Ltd) as the new future of crystallography and the CSD with a timeline spanning IG rep. the next 50 years. Everyone in attendance was invited back for CSD100 in 2065.
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