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[email protected] IUCr 2008 IUCr 2008 XXI Congress of the International Osaka, Japan Union of Crystallography WELCOME CONTENTS The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) was founded in 1948 to promote international cooperation in crystallography and the first General Assembly and Congress was held in Cambridge, USA. WELCOME ................................................................................... page 1 The Union has additional objects to contribute to advancement of crystallography in all its aspects .............................................................................. including related topics concerning the non-crystalline states; to facilitate international standardization of COMMITTEES page 2 methods, of nomenclature, and of symbols used in crystallography; and to form a focus for the relations of IMPORTANT DATES .................................................................... page 3 crystallography to other sciences. Since then, the Union showed its activities in three fields. The first one is the organization of General TIMETABLE .................................................................................. page 3 Assembly and Congress every three years. The second one is the publication of eight