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Crystallography News British Crystallographic Association Issue No. 95 December 2005 ISSN 1467-2790 IUCr Meeting - Florence p6-10 BCA Spring Meeting 2006 - Lancaster p12-19 Science and Mankind p20-21 Reports p22-26 Books p28-30 BCA News December 2005 Contents From the President . 2 Council Members . 3 BCA From the Editor . 4 Administrative Office, Elaine Fulton, Puzzle Corner . 5 Northern Networking Events Ltd. 1 Tennant Avenue, IUCR Meeting - Florence . .6-10 College Milton South, East Kilbride, Glasgow G74 5NA Scotland, UK Letters to Ed. 11 Tel: + 44 1355 244966 Fax: + 44 1355 249959 BCA Spring Meeting 2006 - Lancaster . 12-19 e-mail: [email protected] Science and Mankind . 20-21 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NEWS is published quarterly (March, June, September and December) by the British Crystallographic Association. Reports . 22-26 Text should preferably be sent electronically as MSword documents (any version - .doc, Awards and Prizes . 27 .rtf or .txt files) or else on a PC disk. Diagrams and figures are most welcome, but please send them separately from text as .jpg, .gif, .tif, or .bmp files. Books . 28-30 Items may include technical articles, news about people (e.g. awards, honours, Blessed Nicolai Steno . 30 retirements etc.), reports on past meetings of interest to crystallographers, notices of future meetings, historical reminiscences, . letters to the editor, book, hardware or Groups 31-33 software reviews. Please ensure that items for inclusion in Meetings of Interest . 34-35 the March 2006 issue are sent to the Editor to arrive before 25th January 2006. dSNAP / News from the COD . 36 Bob Gould 33 Charterhall Road EDINBURGH EH9 3HS Tel: 0131 667 7230 Cursors! . 37 e-mail: [email protected] 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 the BCA Administrative Office. We will be happy to amend entries at any time. This month’s cover: Florence! ...and what a meeting it was! Designed & printed by Wm. Anderson & Sons Ltd. The inset is a view of Lancaster 34 Loanbank Quadrant, Glasgow. Summer School Tel: 0141 440 2881 University campus. e-mail: [email protected] p23-24 Crystallography News December 2005 1 From the President ONE of our main However, in spite of effective lobbying in Florence by the purposes on BCA Council team (particularly by Edinburgh locals Bob & Sheila Gould is to contribute to the and Georgina Rosair), we lost out to Istanbul, which good and continuing was awarded the 2009 ECM. Having led the bid I felt health of the organisation, keenly that we were not able to bring ECM to the UK, and and I am acutely aware of was particularly disappointed considering the effort put in this as I prepare to hand by many others in putting us in the frame. With ECM in over to a new President. 2010 allocated to Darmstadt and 2011 being an IUCr year (Madrid), we will therefore not be in a position to have ECM This includes the vital in the UK till at least 2012. task of forward fi nancial planning; as you may have noticed we have effectively been running a small defi cit for several years now, and clearly this is not sustainable in the long term. Along with Treasurer, Sheila Gould, and the rest of Council, we have been reviewing the situation, which was discussed in detail at the Autumn Council meeting. It is important that as well as building and maintaining our ability to run from day to day and year to year, in an effi cient and appropriate manner, we are also able to support our necessary charitable expenditure, for example to support education initiatives (both centrally and those organised by the groups), the Young Crystallographers group, and other relevant activities. Feedback on Council discussions will be The British delegation to the IUCr General Assembly: left to right: John given as they evolve. Evans, Sheila Gould, Chick Wilson, Elspeth Garman and Bob Gould. Returning from the Florence IUCr congress, I had seriously On a much happier note, you will see in this issue the mixed feelings. It was a superb meeting, with around 2900 rapidly forming programme for the Annual Spring Meeting delegates (just outdoing in terms of numbers Glasgow in Lancaster in April next year. I hope you agree that we 1999 which you may recall attracted around 2700). The have the usual high quality programme, put together by science was excellent, plenty of colleagues to meet and Paul Raithby and his programme committee who are talk with, and as expected lots to do both scientifi cally thanked for all their hard work. It is a pleasure to confi rm and with various organisational things. Moreover, it is a the participation of the British Association of Crystal Growth pleasure to record that Chris Gilmore was elected to the in the 2006 meeting, which has the central theme of IUCr Executive, for a six-year term. In addition, many of Crystallisation - interpreted appropriately imaginatively in our nominations to the IUCr commissions were successful; forming the programme. Plans for 2007 are also forming, together with existing commission members this ensures with the venue likely to be in the South of England and that UK representation on these bodies has returned to possible participation by Non-Crystalline Diffraction & CCP-13 a more healthy level. I would like to thank all those who colleagues, along with a likely renewal of our XRF strand. agreed to be nominated for Commissions, whether elected or not; to maintain our infl uence and input into the work A fi nal note - you will be aware that the position of BCA of the Union, it is important that people are prepared to President is up for election at the Lancaster meeting; I stand up and be counted in this way. Following the General hope we have a strong fi eld and a competitive election for Assembly in Florence, the Union is now led as President this senior position within the organisation. BCA Secretary by Professor Ohashi, who was elected after a keenly Christine Cardin will be delighted to receive nominations fought contest. However, on the down side of Florence, ([email protected]). We also have I have to say I was disappointed that we failed to secure vacancies for three Ordinary Members of Council for which the European Crystallographic Meeting for Edinburgh in nominations are also strongly encouraged. 2009. We put together what I believe to have been a very strong, well-argued and detailed bid, considerably aided Chick Wilson by Gill Moore at Northern Networking Events and by the team at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. 2 Crystallography News December 2005 Council Members 2005-06 COUNCIL MEMBERS Dr Peter C.E. Moody (2006) EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Department of Biochemistry President (2006) Editor “Crystallography News” Adrian Building Prof. Chick Wilson Dr Robert Gould University of Leicester Department of 33 Charterhall Road University Road Chemistry EDINBURGH EH9 3HS LEICESTER LE1 7RH University of Glasgow Tel: 0131 667 7230 Tel: 0116 2523366 GLASGOW G12 8QQ [email protected] [email protected] Tel: 0141 330 8522 [email protected] Webmaster Dr Jeremy Karl Cockcroft Vice President (2007) GROUP REPRESENTATIVES Department of Chemistry Prof. John L. Finney Biological Structures University College London Department of Physics Dr Sheila Gover LONDON WC1H 0AJ & Astronomy 131 Main Road Tel: 020 7679 5802 University College Middleton Cheney [email protected] London, Gower Street BANBURY, OX17 2PW London WC1E 6BT Tel: 01295 711636 Tel: 020 7679 7850 [email protected] GROUP CHAIRMEN [email protected] Chemical Crystallography Biological Structures Group Secretary (2007) Dr Georgina Rosair Dr Richard Pauptit Prof. Christine Cardin School of EPS - Chemistry Protein Structure Lab University of Reading Perkin Building AstraZeneca Dept of Chemistry Heriot-Watt University Mereside Whiteknights EDINBURGH EH14 4AS Alderley ParK READING RG6 6AD Tel: 0131 451 8036/4241 MACCLESFIELD SK10 4TG, Tel: 0118 9318215 Fax: 0131 451 3180 Tel: 01625 516135 c.j.cardin@reading. [email protected] [email protected] ac.uk Industrial Chemical Crystallography Group Treasurer (2008) Ms Judith Shackleton Dr Simon Parsons Dr Sheila Gould Manchester Materials Science Centre School of Chemistry 33 Charterhall Road, Grosvenor Street University of Edinburgh EDINBURGH EH9 3HS MANCHESTER M1 7HS EDINBURGH EH9 3JJ Tel: 0131 667 7230 Tel: 0161 200 3581 Tel. 0131 650 5804 treasurer@ Fax: 0161 200 3586 [email protected] crystallography.org.uk [email protected] Industrial Group Physical Crystallography Dr Jeremy Karl Cockcroft ORDINARY MEMBERS Dr John Evans Department of Chemistry Department of Chemistry University College London Dr Alexander J. Blake (2006) University of Durham LONDON WC1H 0AJ School of Chemistry DURHAM DH1 3LE Tel: 020 7679 5802 University of Nottingham Tel: 0191 334 2093 / 2052 (lab) [email protected] University Park Fax: 0191 384 1297 NOTTINGHAM NG7 2RD [email protected] Physical Crystallography Group Tel: 0115 9513488 Professor Paolo Radaelli [email protected] Isis Facility Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Dr Elspeth F. Garman (2006) CO-OPTED MEMBERS Chilton Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics Professor John Helliwell DIDCOT OX11 0QX Rex Richards Building Department of Chemistry tel: 01235 445685 University of Oxford University of Manchester [email protected] South Parks Road MANCHESTER M13 9PL OXFORD OX1 3QU Tel: 0161 2754686 Tel: 01865 275398 [email protected] [email protected] Full committee details on the BCA website www.crystallography.org.uk Acknowledgements: The British Crystallographic Association is grateful to Birkbeck College, University of London, who host and manage the server for our website.
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