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Crystallography News British Crystallographic Association Issue No. 99 December 2006 ISSN 1467-2790 BCA Spring Meeting 2007 - Canterbury p8-15 ECM Meeting p16-19 ACA - Honolulu p21-22 Awards of Medals p25-26 Meetings of Interest p27 Crystallography News December 2006 Contents From the President . 2 Council Members . 3 BCA From the Editor . 4 Administrative Office, Elaine Fulton, From Professor P Dolding Beedle. 5 Northern Networking Events Ltd. Puzzle Corner . 6 1 Tennant Avenue, College Milton South, East Kilbride, Glasgow G74 5NA Peter Main - Honorary Fellow . 6 Scotland, UK Tel: + 44 1355 244966 Fax: + 44 1355 249959 BCA 2007 Meeting . .8-13 e-mail: [email protected] BCA 2007 Meeting Timetable . 14-15 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NEWS is is published quarterly (March, June, September and December) by the ECM . 16-19 British Crystallographic Association, and printed by William Anderson and Sons Ltd, Glasgow. 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Awards of Medals . 25-26 Bob Gould 33 Charterhall Road IUCr Wins Award . 26 EDINBURGH EH9 3HS Tel: 0131 667 7230 e-mail: [email protected] Meetings of Interest . 27 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 This month’s cover: administration. These details are not divulged to any others without your permission. You may inspect your entry Next year’s Spring Meeting, during the Annual Meeting, or otherwise by application to the BCA Administrative in Canterbury, provides Office. We will be happy to amend entries at any time. a contrast with this year’s ACA in Honolulu. Designed & printed by Wm. Anderson & Sons Ltd. 34 Loanbank Quadrant, Glasgow. Tel: 0141 440 2881 e-mail: [email protected] Crystallography News December 2006 1 From the President WHEN you read this the schools and colleges. The current members of the Brains Christmas vacation will Trust are Mike Glazer, Elspeth Garman, Bill David, be approaching rapidly so Garry Taylor, and Chick Wilson himself. We are most let me add my very good grateful to them for giving up their very valuable time. If wishes for the festive you would like to book any of them to give a talk at your season and wish you a institution please get in contact with Chick in the fi rst peaceful and prosperous instance. New Year. This is my fi rst chance As you will see later in this issue of Crystallography News to report on the ECM23 Lindsay Sawyer and his team have done a splendid job Leuven Meeting. I think organising the programme for the BCA Spring Meeting to that all who attended be held at the University of Kent at Canterbury from 16-19 will agree that it was a very successful and enjoyable April, 2007. In addition to an outstanding list of “Named” meeting. At the Meeting John Helliwell was elected and “keynote” lecturers there are sessions that should to the Presidency of the European Crystallographic have something to spark everyone’s interest. This year, we Association, and I am sure that you would wish to join me welcome back the X-Ray Fluorescence community who in congratulating him on this prestigious appointment. will be running parallel sessions throughout the meeting. As last year, the Young Crystallographers will be running On the home front, the BCA Council met in September a satellite meeting before the main meeting and this and discussed a wide range of issues pertaining to year we have the “Motherwell Event” to recognise Sam the development of the Association. For the future, Motherwell’s outstanding contribution to crystallography perhaps the most important development is that it has over the last four decades. I went on the site visit to been proposed that the “Young Crystallographers” are Canterbury during the Summer and found it to be a very established as a separate “group” within the BCA. This pleasant environment for the Meeting. So I encourage will allow them to set up their own meetings and contribute you all to come along and help to celebrate our 25th to the BCA in a number of very positive ways that will Anniversary Meeting. strengthen the organisation. Secondly, I am particularly pleased that the Council has agreed that the BCA should Finally, at the AGM, at the Spring Meeting, we have to elect formally elect an Education Offi cer who will sit on Council a new Vice President, and Secretary, as John Finney and and be responsible all educational matters in which Christine Cardin are coming to the end of their terms the BCA is involved. In this context, I am delighted to of service. So the Council offi cers and I look forward to report that Chick Wilson who has been looking after receiving nominations for these key vacancies of education matters has organised a Brains Trust of eminent Vice-President, Secretary and the new formal post of crystallographers who have agreed to go out and present Education Co-ordinator. lectures on crystallography to university science societies, Paul Raithby 2 Crystallography News December 2006 BCA Council 2006-07 COUNCIL MEMBERS Prof. William Clegg (2009) EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS School of Natural Sciences President (2009) Immediate Past President (Chemistry), Prof. Paul R. Raithby Prof. Chick Wilson, University of Newcastle, Department of Chemistry Department of Chemistry, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE University of Bath University of Glasgow NE1 7RU Claverton Down GLASGOW G12 8QQ Tel: 0191 222 6649 BATH BA2 7AY Tel: 0141 330 8522 [email protected] Tel: 01225 383183 [email protected] [email protected] Editor Vice President (2007) GROUP REPRESENTATIVES “Crystallography News” Prof. John L. 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[email protected] Crystallography News December 2006 3 From the Editor BCA Corporate Membership WELCOME to issue 99 of The BCA values its close ties with commercial Crystallography News! As we companies involved with crystallography. celebrate 25 years of the BCA, To enhance these contacts, the BCA offers we will be seeing Issue 100 of this journal, which, like the BCA itself Corporate Membership. Corporate Membership is has grown and evolved greatly available on an annual basis running from 1 January since 1981. We hope to have some to 31 December and includes the following benefits: special articles to celebrate this landmark, and suggestions would • Up to 10 free BCA memberships for your – as always – be most welcome! employees. • A 10% discount on exhibition stands on the Much of this issue is concerned with the Spring Meeting, and a annual BCA Spring Meeting, OR - A promotional considerable part of the details of the lecture programme as well as poster at the annual BCA Spring Meeting.