AMERICAN CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION STRUCTURE MATTERS Number 4 Winter 2016 2016 Bau Award at Denver ACA Meeting ACA - Structure Matters www.AmerCrystalAssn.org Table of Contents 2 President’s Column 3 Dispatch from an AIP Fellow Contributors to this Issue 4-7 News from Canada 8 What's on the Cover 9-13 Living History - I David Brown What's on the Cover 13 ACA History Portal Page 8 14-15 Rigaku Symposium on X-Ray Diffraction 16-17 Book Reviews 18 Keeping Aloft with Science on Twitter (YSG) 19 CrystalCon 2016 20-23 News and Awards 23 Spotlight on Stamps: in Memoriam: Hugo Rietveld 24-26 Update on Structural Dynamics 27 ACA Corporate Members 28 ACA Denver - Workshop on the CSD Python API Election Results Index of Advertisers 29 ACA Denver - Workshop on Application of SANS/SAXS 30 ACA Denver - Processing SAXS Data with RAW -Overview and Tutorial 32-36 ACA Denver - Travel Grant Recipients 37-42 Obituaries Stan Nyburg (1924-2016) David Davies (1927-2016) Douglas (Doug) Dorset (1942-2016) 43-45 ACA Elections Results for 2017 46 2016 Contributors to ACA Award Funds 47 Puzzle Corner 48-49 ACA 2017 New Orleans - Preview 50 Call for Nominations 51 ACA 2017 Summer Course in Chemical Crystallography 52 Calendar of Meetings Contributions to ACA RefleXions may be sent to either of the Editors: Please address matters pertaining to advertisements, membership Judith L. Flippen-Anderson [email protected] inquiries, or use of the ACA mailing list to: Thomas F. Koetzle ................................................ [email protected] Marcia J. Colquhoun, Director of Administrative Services American Crystallographic Association Cover: Connie Rajnak Book Reviews: Joe Ferrara P.O. Box 96, Ellicott Station Historian: Virginia Pett Net RefleXions: Anastasiya Vinokur Buffalo, NY 14205 Photographer: Peter Müller Puzzle Corner: Frank Fronczek tel: 716-898-8692; fax: 716-898-8695 Copy Editing: Jane Griffin [email protected] Spotlight on Stamps Daniel Rabinovich Deadlines for contributions to ACA RefleXions are: February 1 (Spring), May 1 (Summer), August 1 (Fall), and November 1 (Winter) ACA RefleXions (ISSN 1058-9945) Number 4, 2016. Published four times per year in the spring, summer, fall, and winter for the membership of the American Crystallographic Association, P.O. Box 96, Ellicott Station, Buffalo, NY 14205-0096. 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In this column I would ACA Long-term Plans: A key element of the our long-term like to give you an idea of what has been plan is to provide maximal benefits for current members and to discussed and a summary of longer-term increase membership by broadening the scope of the ACA to plans for the ACA. include newly-emerging areas of structural science. Status of the American Crystallographic The immediate approach to increasing membership will be to Association: We are a strong membership organization with over encourage members of the cryo-EM and NMR crystallography 1000 members devoted to structural science. We have a long- fields to come to the 2017 ACA meeting where there will be term record of running outstanding Annual Meetings, publishing sessions devoted to these fields, to join the ACA, and to become the quarterly RefleXions magazine and the journal Structural active in planning future meetings that will be of even more Dynamics, and reaching out to the professional, student, and interest to them. wider communities through our website, social media, the ACA History Portal, crystal growing competitions and support of We plan to take advantage of several important new student travel to the our Annual Meetings. Our Annual Meetings opportunities. One is working more closely with the IUCr. The are attended by both members and non-members interested in ACA is a Regional Associate of the IUCr. The IUCr and the ACA atomic structure and provide an exceptional environment for benefit each other in many ways such as their joint missions of presenting scientific results, networking, and keeping up with promoting structural science around the world, and the IUCr the latest science. has helped the ACA for years through student travel awards for attending the ACA Annual Meeting. The IUCr is working with Challenges and opportunities for the ACA:There are several the ACA to help even more through support for archiving ACA immediate challenges for the ACA. One is a working deficit in Annual Meeting abstracts and possibly on meeting software. recent years of about $30,000 per year that may be as high as $80,000 for 2016. A second is the upcoming retirement of key In addition to its close relationship to the IUCr, the ACA is a personnel in the ACA Buffalo office. A third is a decade-long member of the AIP. This membership in AIP gives our members decline in overall membership and attendance at our Annual free access to Physics Today, publishes the ACA journal Structural Meetings. Dynamics, and enables the ACA to take advantage of the AIP’s expertise in public relations, and supports the AIP’s mission to At the same time there are opportunities for the ACA. One promote science to the general public. We plan to continue this is the opportunity of bringing in newly-expanding structural close relationship and to use our role in the AIP to encourage the communities such as cryo-EM and NMR crystallography to the AIP to even further enhance its outreach to the general public on ACA. Another is the opportunity to enhance the partnerships the importance and benefits of science. between the ACA and the International Union of Crystallography, between the ACA and the American Institute of Physics, and We have an opportunity to further develop ACA's relationship between the ACA and the Hauptman-Woodward Institute in with the Hauptman-Woodward Institute as well. The HWI is a Buffalo where it is housed. scientific organization heavily invested in structural science that has substantial overlap with the ACA in vision and goals. The Strategic Planning: Our ACA Council and the ACA Succession HWI has administrative and management services that could Committee have been planning the near- and longer-term success potentially benefit the ACA and lead to further cost savings. of the ACA over the past year. Our overall goal is to continue its outstanding operations focusing on the Annual Meeting, Prospects: The ACA Council and Succession Committee RefleXions, Structural Dynamics and outreach. have developed a clear and thoughtful plan for maintaining the outstanding benefits of the ACA to our members and to the A key strategy for accomplishing this goal is to reduce the public while transitioning to new staffing in the ACA Buffalo operating deficit to near zero while maintaining current operations Office, increasing membership, and building closer relationships through cost savings obtained by hiring of new staff at early career to its partners including the IUCr, the AIP and the Hauptman- stages and through the modest increase in dues approved by the Woodward Institute. membership at the 2016 ACA Membership meeting. A second Tom Terwilliger key strategy for an outstanding ACA will be working with ACA partners to achieve efficiencies in operations and to maximize the ACA benefits to members and positive impact on society. ACA 2017 Transition: Our long-term Director of Administrative Services (Marcia Colquhoun) is planning to work part-time through 2017 and serve as a consultant in 2018. We are now beginning a search for a new Director of Administrative Services, 2 ACA Dispatch from an AIP State Department Fellow Winter 2016 Structure Matters Dispatch from an AIP Fellow December 2016 GW for 16 years, one can develop a bit of myopia that one does I am delighted to not even know they have. I feel like the last year was a perfect pen a few final remarks storm of professional development opportunities. Beyond the regarding my 2015-2016 AIP Fellowship (which actually is designated as professional year as the American development), my service on ACA Council and participation Institute of Physics State in the Council of Scientific Society Presidents semi-annual Department Science meetings has allowed me to develop a capacity to recognize the Fellow. In case you perspectives of a diverse range of stakeholders and communities. are just tuning in, let Moreover, exposure to the cultures of different communities has me encourage you to been enlightening in terms of learning how other scientists or dig up the Spring and policy folks get things done. I hope to bring some best practices Summer 2016 issues of from these experiences into not only my role at GW, but also to RefleXions for a bit of my continued advisory role at ACA as well as whatever other the back story as to how opportunities are on the horizon. I feel empowered as a mentor, I engaged with the Bureau enlightened as a citizen and perhaps a bit more effective with of International Security respect to leadership.