Crystallography News Online

1st June 2007

• Employment PhD student position Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Bayreuth, Germany and ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment PhD student position ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment Research scienist - Protein Crystallography. Parkville, Australia.
• Employment Postdoctoral Fellowship - Neutron scattering. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA.
• Employment Postdoctoral Position - Control system programmer. SNS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA.
• Meeting SMARTER - Structure elucidation by coMbining mAgnetic Resonance, compuTation modEling and diffRactions. Portugal. 6-7 September 2007.
• Meeting ICCBM12 2008 Cancun, Mexico. 6-9 May 2008.

24th May 2007

• Announcement Call for abstracts The deadline for submission of abstracts for talks for NIB2007 is May 28th. In addition younger scientists applying for financial support will need to submit abstracts for either posters or talks by the same date. Other poster abstracts received before June 18 will be included in the book of abstracts.
• Announcement Registration deadline for the 4th European Conference on Neutron Scattering A reminder that the dealine for registration is 28th May 2007.
• Announcement Los Alamos Neutron Science Center Call for Proposals for the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center for the Run Cycle Beginning the Week of October 1, 2007. The deadline for submitting the proposals is 6:00 p.m. (1800) Mountain Daylight Time, Tuesday, June 26, 2007. Further details available here.
• Employment Postdoctoral position - proton conductivity in ceramic materials for solid oxide fuel cells. Empa, Switzerland.
• Employment Postdoctoral position Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin, Germany.
• Employment Postdoctoral position X-ray science division, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA.
• Employment Assistant Physicist X-ray science division, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA.
• Employment Research Fellow Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Leeds, UK.
• Journal Issue: Structural Science Online, Volume 63, Part 3 (June 2007).
• Journal Issue: Biological Crystallography Online, Volume 63, Part 6 (June 2007).
• Journal Issue: Applied Crystallography Online, Journal of Applied Crystallography, Volume 40, Part 3 (June 2007).
• Meeting Workshop on Total scattering Pair Distribution Function ESRF, Grenoble, France. 22-23 October 2007.
• Meeting ICDDD 2008 Dubai, UAE. 3-6 February 2008.

8th May 2007

• Announcement First edition of International Tables Online is now available.
• Employment Postdoctoral opportunity in the X-ray Crystallography Group - Protein Structural Biology Alabama, USA
• Employment Postdoctoral Fellow - condensed matter physics and high-pressure neutron scattering Zurich, Switzerland.
• Journal Issue: Crystal Structure Communications Online, Volume 63, Part 5 (May 2007).
• Journal Issue: Structure Reports Online, Volume 63, Part 5 (May 2007)
• Journal Issue: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications Online, Volume 63, Part 5 (May 2007).
• Meeting BCA Industrial Group XRD and Minerals 15th May 2008, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, UK.
• Meeting 2007 Gordon Research Conference on Electron Distribution and Chemical Bonding: Dynamics And Densities 1-6 July 2007, Mount Holyoke College , South Hadley, MA, USA
• Meeting BCA Industrial Group Meeting on Small Angle Scattering ILL, Grenoble, France. 2-3 July 2007
• Meeting SHELX Workshop 21 July 2007. At the Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association at Salt Lake City, USA.
• Meeting BCA Industrial Group Pharmaceutical SIG & Autumn Meeting 7th - 8th November 2007 , AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

30th April 2007

• Announcement: BSR2007 Bursary Applications - Applications are now open for bursaries to support delegates attending the 9th International Conference on Biology and Synchrotron Radiation (BSR 2007), which will take place 13-17 August 2007, at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK (www.bsr2007.com). The deadline for applications is 15th May 2007. The bursaries will provide grants for travel and accommodation and will be awarded to applicants in two categories: young scientists including post doctoral fellows and new lecturers from any country including UK; and delegates from less economically developed countries (LEDCs) or member countries of SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East). Further information is available here.
• Employment: Assistant Professor/Research Associate in Neutron Scattering Uppsala University, Sweden.
• Employment: Instrument Scientist - SPINS cold triple axis spectrometer. NIST Centre for neutron research, USA.
• Employment: Instrument Scientist - Bulk-µSR Facilities group. Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow - Condensed matter physics and high-pressure neutron scattering. Paul Scherrer Institut and ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
• Employment: Positions available at the ESRF, Grenoble, France:
  
  • Beamline Scientist - X-ray imaging group.
  • Post-doctoral fellow - Microfocus beamline ID13.
  • Post-doctoral fellow - TROIKA beamline ID10A.
  • PhD Thesis Student - Thermal Diffuse Scattering for the Study of Lattice Dynamics.
• Employment: Post Doctoral Postion - Genra-3 instrument. GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht (Hamburg), Germany.
• Employment: Post Doctoral Postion - Residual stress analysis with diffraction methods. GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht (Hamburg), Germany.
• Employment: Post Doctoral Postion - Nanomagnetism, soft matter and/or biology. GKSS Research Centre, Garching (Munich), Germany.
• Journal Issue: Applied Crystallography Online, Journal of Applied Crystallography, Volume 40, Part s1 (April 2007) - Proceedings of the XIIIth International Conference on Small-Angle Scattering (Online Supplement).
• Meeting: Surfaces and Interfaces in Soft Matter and Biology : the impact and future of neutron reflectivity - A Symposium in Honor of Robert K. Thomas. ILL, France. 21-23 May 2008.

24th April 2007

• Meeting: Crystallization: Focus on Membrane Proteins Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA. 19-23 June 2007.
• Meeting: Modern Drug Target Crystallography and Structure Based Drug Discovery La Jolla, California, USA. 28-29 June 2007.
• Meeting: 9th EMU School: Nanoscopic Approaches in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Munich, Germany. 12-17 August 2007.
• Meeting: 9th PSI Summer School: Correlated Electron Materials. Zuoz / Engadin, Switzerland. 18-25 August 2007.
• Meeting: Short course on amphiboles Rome, Italy. 29-31 October 2007.

23rd April 2007

• Announcement: IPNS Call for Proposals - The deadline for proposal submissions for scheduling of experiments between October and December 2007 is 13th July 2007. Propsals may only be submitted via the IPNS Web-based proposal form. Further information is available here.
• Employment: PhD student position - Fundamental studies on materials for solid oxide fuel cells. Empa Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics, Switzerland.
• Employment: Research Assistant - Molecular & Structural Biochemistry. ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
• Journal Issue: Biological Crystallography Online, Volume 63, Part 5 (May 2007).

13th April 2007

• Meeting: Structural Biology of Disease Mechanisms Murnau, Germany. 5-8 September 2007.

12th April 2007

• Announcement: ECM deadline extension - Due to the large number of requests received by the secretariat of the European Crystallography Meeting regarding the deadline of the abstract submission , the organizers have extended the deadline to April 15, 2007.
• Announcement: Next generation dictionary definition language: COMCIFS has been considering a "next generation" DDL for use with future crystallographic CIF definitions. The brief for the development group was that a new DDL should, at a minimum: meet the attribute capabilities of existing DDLs; increase the semantic richness and precision in definitions; and provide mechanisms to enable common data definitions to be shared across domain-specific dictionaries. The draft proposal, called DDLm to reflect the inclusion of methods attributes for relating defined items, has been presented to COMCIFS for review, and is opened to the crystallographic community for inspection and comment. Details of DDLm are available here. An expanded briefing note appears on the cif-developers archive here.
• Employment: Crystallography Officer / Lecturer University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
• Employment: PhD Student Position - Powder Diffraction Methodology. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
• Employment: Ph.D. or Postdoctoral position - Diffuse scattering of disordered materials. Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
• Employment: Postdoctoral position - Neutron scattering. Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University, USA.
• Employment: Application Scientist for Rigaku Europe Kent, UK.
• Employment: SNS Instrument Scientific Associate Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
• Employment: Positions available at the ESRF, Grenoble, France:
  
  • Post-doctoral fellow - Inelastic Scattering beamline ID28.
  • Ph.D. Thesis Student - Soft-Condensed Matter group.
• Employment: Positions available at LLB, Saclay, France:
  
  • Scientist / Research Fellow
  • Postdoctoral Position - Small angle neutron scattering.
  • Postdoctoral Position - Ordered multipole structures.
• Employment: Beamline Scientist Macromolecular Crystallography. Diamond, UK.
• Journal Issue: Crystal Structure Communications Online, Volume 63, Part 4 (April 2007).
• Journal Issue: Structure Reports Online, Volume 63, Part 4 (April 2007)
• Journal Issue: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications Online, Volume 63, Part 4 (April 2007).
• Journal Issue: Synchrotron Radiation Online, Journal of Synchroton Radiation, Volume 14, Part 3 (May 2007).
• Meeting: MSSC2007 - Ab initio Modelling in Solid State Chemistry. Torino, Italy. 2-7 September 2007.
• Meeting: 10th Oxford School on Neutron Scattering Oxford, UK. 4-14 September 2007.
• Meeting: ElCryst2007 - New Instruments & Methods for Electron Crystallography. Aachen, Germany. 16-21 September 2007.
• Software: A new version 1.5c of Match!, Crystal Impact's software for phase identification from powder diffraction data, has been released. It contains a variety of minor improvements as well as bugfixes. Details fo the enhancements can be found here.

23rd March 2007

• Announcement: BENSC Call for Proposals - The deadline for proposal submissions has been extended until Monday 26th March.
• Announcement: LLB Call for Proposals - The deadline for proposal submissions for the spring session is 1st April 2007. Further information is available here.
• Employment: AINSE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Australia.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Structural chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Position Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore.
• Employment: Positions available at the ESRF, Grenoble, France:
  
  • Director General
  • Beamline Scientist Position SEXAFS/Standing Waves Beamline ID32
• Employment: Positions available at Diamond, Oxfordshire, UK:
  
  • Support Scientist for Beamline I19
  • Detector Scientist
  • Electronics/ Instrumentations Beamline Technicians
  • Mechanical Beamline Technicians
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate
• Journal Issue: Structural Science Online, Volume 63, Part 2 (April 2007).
• Journal Issue: Biological Crystallography Online, Volume 63, Part 4 (April 2007).
• Journal Issue: Applied Crystallography Online, Journal of Applied Crystallography, Volume 40, Part 2 (April 2007).
• Meeting: Practical X-ray Fluorescence Pennsylvania, USA. 30 April - 4 May 2007.
• Meeting: GSAS-II Rietveld Software Development Workshop. Argonne National Laboratory, USA. 10-11 May 2007.
• Meeting: Seventh Canadian Powder Diffraction Workshop Québec, Canada. 16-18 May 2007.
• Meeting: Fundamentals of X-ray Powder Diffraction Pennsylvania, USA. 4-8 June 2007.
• Meeting: Advanced Methods in X-ray Powder Diffraction Pennsylvania, USA. 11-15 June 2007.
• Meeting: 10th EMU School High-resolution electron microscopy of minerals. Nancy, France. 7 - 11 July 2008.

8th March 2007

• Employment: Postdoctoral Position Small Angle Neutrons Scattering at the LLB, Saclay, France.
• Employment: Positions available at the ESRF, Grenoble, France:
  
  • Beamline Scientist Position Macromolecular Crystallography Beamline ID14-1
  • Beamline Scientist Position Small-Angle Scattering beamline ID02
  • Post-doctoral fellow for the beamline ID22 (ID22 is an undulator beamline devoted to high resolution X-ray micro-analysis and micro-imaging)
• Journal Issue: Crystal Structure Communications Online, Volume 63, Part 3 (March 2007).
• Journal Issue: Structure Reports Online, Volume 63, Part 3 (March 2007)
• Journal Issue: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications Online, Volume 63, Part 3 (March 2007).
• Meeting: 5èmes RENCONTRES SCIENTIFIQUES de Saint-AUBIN: Diffraction sur monocristal 15-16 Mars 2007, laboratoire Synchrotron Soleil, France.
• Meeting: The Zurich Crystallography School 2007 An intensive summer school for small-molecule crystallography. Organic Chemistry Institute, University of Zurich, 5th -17th August 2007. Bring your own crystals.

5th March 2007

• Employment: Postdoctoral Position University of California, Berkeley, USA.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Associateship NIST Center for Neutron Research, USA.
• Employment: Instrument Scientist NIST Center for Neutron Research, USA.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Position Freiburg, Germany.
• Employment: PhD Position Freiburg, Germany.
• Journal Issue: Biological Crystallography Online, Volume 63, Part 3 (March 2007).
• Software: Crystallographic Database A new crystallographic database for non-organics will become available in July 2007: The "Pearson's Crystal Data CD-ROM". The "PCD" (as it is typically abbreviated) is published by ASM International and contains crystal structures of a large variety of inorganic materials and compounds. The first version (which will be released in July 2007) will already contain 150,000 structural data sets; updates will become available at an annual rate. More information about the database (including a detailed function list as well as licensing and pricing information) is available from Crystal Impact.

21st February 2007

• Employment: Postdoctoral Position Max-Planck-Institut, Mulheim, Germany.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Position EU Ancient Charm project, ISIS, UK.
• Employment: PhD studentship Electron density determination, Virginia Tech Crystallography Lab, USA.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Position Department of Magnetism, Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin, Germany.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Position NIST Center for Neutron Research, USA.
• Employment: Positions available at the ESRF, Grenoble, France:
  
  • Beamline Scientist Position - TROIKA beamline ID10A
  • Postdoctoral Position - Inelastic Scattering beamline ID16
  • Postdoctoral Position - Insertion Device beamline ID32
• Journal Issue: Crystal Structure Communications Online, Volume 63, Part 2 (February 2007).
• Journal Issue: Structure Reports Online, Volume 63, Part 2 (February 2007)
• Journal Issue: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications Online, Volume 63, Part 2 (February 2007).
• Journal Issue: Synchrotron Radiation Online, Journal of Synchroton Radiation, Volume 14, Part 2 (March 2007).
• Meeting: ASM Oak Ridge Chapter Educational Symposium - Neutrons for Materials Science and Engineering. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. 18 April 2007.
• Meeting: Neutron Stress, Texture, and Phase Transformation for Industry - NST2 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. 19 April 2007.
• Meeting: SRI2007Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation. Louisiana, USA. 25-27 April 2007.
• Meeting: APS Users Meeting Argonne, USA. 7-11 May 2007.
• Meeting: 2nd GISAXS Workshop Hamburg, Germany. 9-11 May 2007.
• Meeting: 2007 Joint NSLS and CFN Users' Meeting Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA. 21-23 May 2007.
• Meeting: New and emerging sources of intense beams of particles and short-wavelength radiation Lund, Sweden. 11-13 June 2007.
• Meeting: 1st School and workshop on X-ray micro- and nanopores - Instruments, Methodologies and Applications. Erice, Sicily, Italy. 11-17 June 2007.
• Meeting: Canadian Light Source 10th Annual Users' Meeting Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. 15-17 June 2007.
• Meeting: ICMAT 2007 - Synchrotron Radiation for Making and Measuring Materials Symposium. Suntec City, Singapore. 1-6 July 2007.
• Meeting: Current Trends in Microcalorimetry Boston, USA. 18-21 July 2007.
• Meeting: 3rd BioXAS Study Weekend - Satellite Meeting of BSR2007. Saint Aubin, France. 10-12 August 2007.
• Meeting: 24th European Crystallographic Meeting Marrakesh, Morocco. 22-27 August 2007.
• Meeting: Medical Applications of Synchrotron Radiation Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. 26-30 August 2007.
• Meeting: 8th Swiss Light Source Users MeetingVilligen-PSI, Switzerland. 10 September 2007.
• Meeting: Symposium on New Opportunities and Challenges in Material Research using Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser Sources Warsaw, Poland. 17-21 September 2007.
• Meeting: Non-ambient X-ray powder diffraction workshop Mülheim, Germany. 26-28 September 2007.
• Meeting: XRM2008 9th International Conference on X-ray Microscopy. ETH Zurich, Switzerland. 21-26 July 2008.

29th January 2007

• Announcement: NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) Call for Proposals - You are invited to apply for time on the neutron beam instruments at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). The deadline for new AND continuation proposals is FEBRUARY 7, 2007. Continuation proposals must be accompanied by an experimental report. Quick Access Proposals may be submitted at any time, but are held to a higher standard. Approved new and continuation proposals will be allocated instrument time in the period from April through October 2007. New for this cycle, proposals for experiments on the BT1 powder diffractometer on "mail-in" samples will be accepted. Further information can be found here.
• Announcement: Nominations Sought for the APS Compton Award - In conjunction with the Advanced Photon Source, the APS Users Organization has established the APS Compton Award to recognize an important scientific or technical accomplishment at, or beneficial to, the APS. Further information about this award, as well as a list of past winners, can be found here.
• Employment: Instrument Scientist - Macromolecular and Microstructure Sciences. NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), USA.
• Employment: XRPD Lab Technician West Lafayette, IN, USA.
• Employment: Project Manager ESS-Bilbao Initiative, Spain.
• Employment: Joint appointment -Head of Department and University Professor Methods and Instruments of Neutron Scattering. Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Research Fellows (2 posts) - Optical, transport and structural properties of simple systems under extreme conditions. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• Employment: Manager of X-Ray Crystallography Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• Employment: Post-docotoral position - Protein Crystallography University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
• Employment: Research Scientist - Three-Axis Spectrometer Group ILL, Grenoble, France.
• Journal Issue: Structural Science Online, Volume 63, Part 1 (February 2007).
• Journal Issue: Biological Crystallography Online, Volume 63, Part 2 (February 2007).
• Journal Issue: Applied Crystallography Online, Journal of Applied Crystallography, Volume 40, Part 1 (February 2007).
• Meeting: Molsoft ICM Workshop: Protein Structure and Drug Discovery La Jolla, CA, USA. 22-23 March 2007.
• Meeting: 9th Annual Inter/Micro 2007 Conference Chicago, IL, USA. 9-13 July 2007.
• Meeting: Summer School on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography Gargnano, Garda Lake, Italy. 27 April - 3 May 2008.
• Meeting: ACA Annual Meeting 2008 Knoxville, TN, USA. 31 May - 5 June 2008.
• Meeting: ACA Annual Meeting 2009 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 25-30 July 2009.
• Software: A new version 1.4a of Endeavour, Crystal Impact's well-known software for structure solution from powder diffraction data, has been released. This new version is basically a maintenance release in which a variety of bugs have been fixed (for details see the bugs list).
• Software: A new version 1.5a of Match!, Crystal Impact's software for phase identification from powder diffraction data, has been released. This new version is basically a maintenance release in which some bugs in the new Bruker RAW4 file import filter have been fixed. A demonstration version can be downloaded free-of-charge from here.

15th January 2007

• Announcement The European Crystallographic Association (ECA) and the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) announce the creation of a prize in honour of the late Erwin Felix Lewy Bertaut. Further details here.
• Employment: PhD Fellowship: Protein Crystallography Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany.
• Employment: PhD Student Position: Soft-Condensed Matter group Yielding and nonlinear flow behavior of colloidal glasses. ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: Post-doctoral Position Structural Studies on Protein Complexes. Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore.
• Employment: Post-doctoral Position in High Pressure Research Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA.
• Journal Issue: Crystal Structure Communications Online, Volume 63, Part 1 (January 2007).
• Journal Issue: Structure Reports Online, Volume 63, Part 1 (January 2007)
• Meeting: Advanced Methods in X-Ray Charge Density Analysis: Extracting Properties from a Multipole Refinement Martina Franca, Italy. 3-6 September 2007.
• Meeting: Small-Molecule Crystallography Summer School San Diego, USA. 29 July - 8 August 2007.

28th December 2006

• Announcement A fourth blind test of crystal structure prediction is being organised to evaluate current methodologies in ab initio crystal structure prediction. Previous such blind tests (the latest was published in Acta Cryst B, 2005, vol 61, 511-527) have been a valuable exercise in gauging the reliability of computational methods. The upcoming blind test, whose "targets" will be announced mid-January 2007 and will run until July 2007, is open to participation from any research group involved in developing new methods for crystal structure prediction. Anyone interested in participating should contact Graeme Day (University of Cambridge) for details.
• Employment: Post-doctoral Fellowships: Small Molecule Crystallography Indiana, USA.
• Employment: Post-doctoral Fellowship: Macromolecular crystallography New York, USA
• Employment: QENS Instrument Scientist Argonne, USA
• Employment: Instrument Scientist - Neutron Diffraction Berlin, Germany.
• Journal Issue: Foundations of Crystallography Online, Volume 63, Part 1 (January 2007)
• Journal Issue: Biological Crystallography Online, Volume 63, Part 1 (January 2007)
• Journal Issue: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications Online, Volume 63, Part 1 (January 2007).
• Journal Issue: Synchrotron Radiation Online, Journal of Synchroton Radiation, Volume 14, Part 1 (January 2007).
• Meeting: 9th European Conference on Surface Crystallography and Dynamics Vienna Austria, 2 - 5 September 2007.
• Meeting: Rapid Data Collection and Structure Solving at the NSLS: A Practical Course in Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction Measurement Brookhaven National Laboratory, 22-27 April 2007.
• Meeting: Workshop on Future Prospects for Macromolecular Dynamics on 4th Generation Light Sources 26th and 27th January 2007, Stretton, United Kingdom.
• Meeting: SAXIER: Small-angle X-ray scattering at high brilliance European synchrotrons for bio- and nano-technology Grenoble, France. 5th February 2007.
• Meeting: The Role of Structures in Biology. DIAMOND Light Source, UK. Feb 19th 2007.

14th December 2006

• Employment: Postdoctoral Position - Structural Biology. Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY, USA.
• Employment: 2 Beamline Scientists & 2 Postdoctoral Positions - High Pressure Synergetic Center (HPSynC) at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, IL, USA.
• Employment: Associate Research Professor/Full Professor Position - High Pressure Physics. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
• Employment: Assistant Research Professor Position - High Pressure Physics (Spectroscopy). University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
• Employment: Positions available at the ESRF, Grenoble, France:
  
  • Beamline Scientist Position - X-ray Imaging Group
  • Postdoctoral Position - Surface and Interface Science Group
  • Postdoctoral Position - Beamline ID09B - Time Resolved Beamline
  • Postdoctoral Position - Beamline ID20 - Magnetic Scattering Beamline
  • PhD Student Position - Optics Group - "Wave optical simulations for X-ray nano-focusing optics"
  • PhD Student Position - Beamline ID13 - "Microfluidics and synchrotron radiation scattering"
• Journal Issue: Crystal Structure Communications Online, Volume 62, Part 12 (December 2006).
• Journal Issue: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications Online, Volume 62, Part 12 (December 2006).
• Journal Issue: 7th edition of the IUCr Computing Commission Newsletter - Besides having articles of general interest, this edition has the theme: "Understanding Crystal Structures".
• Meeting: Advances in Protein Crystallography - Conference and Exhibition. South San Francisco, CA, USA. 24-25 January 2007.
• Meeting: Polymorphism & Crystallisation 2007. Le Meridien Piccadilly, London, UK. 21-22 March 2007.

13th December 2006

• Employment: PhD Student - Powder diffraction studies on proteins . ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Position - Protein Crystallography/Biophysics .University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, OH, USA.
• Employment: Post-doctoral research associate - Neutron Scattering Science Division .Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
• Employment: Research associate - Application of nuclear methods for elemental analysis of materials. Western Kentucky University, USA.
• Employment: Post-doctoral research assistant - Solid state chemistry . University of Oxford, UK.
• Employment: Neutron Backscattering Spectrometer Instrument Responsible . Jülich Center for Neutron Science (JCNS), Munich, Germany.
• Employment: Neutron Scattering Instrument Scientist .Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
• Meeting: 9th International Workshop on Physical Characterization of Pharmaceutical Solids Natick, Boston, USA. 24-29 June 2007.
• Meeting: 2nd TOPAS Users' Meeting Karlsruhe, Germany. 11-13 June 2007.
• Meeting: XIVth International Workshop on Quantum Atomic and Molecular Tunneling in Solids and other Condensed Phases Houston, Texas, USA. 28 Oct - 1 Nov 2007.

25th November 2006

• Employment: Postdoc position in the field of high-pressure neutron scattering.Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.
• Employment: Product Specialist: Protein Crystal Screening Oxford Diffraction, Oxfordshire, UK.
• Journal Issue: Biological Crystallography Online, Volume 62, Part 12 (December 2006)
• Meeting: 16th International Conference on Dynamical Processes in Excited States of Solids Segovia, Spain. 17 - 22 June 2007
• Software: McMaille, Monte Carlo powder pattern indexing, version 4 released with new figure of merit McM20 and ready for parallel computing with multicore processors.
• Studentship: PhD fellowship on neutron scattering studies of actinide materials Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU), Karlsruhe, Germany.

19th November 2006

• Employment: Post-Doctoral Researcher: Magnetic Structure Refinement Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Employment: Beamline Scientists and Postdoctoral Associates High Pressure Synergetic Center (HPSynC) at the Advanced Photon Source, USA.
• Employment: Associate Division Director Advanced Photon Source - Argonne National Laboratory, USA.
• Employment: Post-doctoral Fellowship: Membrane Proteins Illkirch, France.
• Employment: Postdoctoral position: protein-nucleic acid interactions New York, USA.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Position in High Pressure Synthesis and Characterization Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center, USA
• Employment: Postdoctoral Position in High Pressure Mineralogy and Geochemistry Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center, USA
• Employment: Postdoctoral Position in High Pressure Physics and CrystallographyLos Alamos Neutron Scattering Center, USA
• Journal Issue: Structural Science Online, Volume 62, Part 6 (December 2006).
• Journal Issue: Crystal Structure Communications Online, Volume 62, Part 11 (November 2006).
• Journal Issue: Applied Crystallography Online, Journal of Applied Crystallography, Volume 39, Part 6 (December 2006).
• Meeting: Neutrons in Biology - 2007. July 11-13, ISIS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
• Meeting: COMPRES workshop on Pressure Calibration at High Temperature. Washington, DC, USA. January 26-28, 2007
• Meeting: International Conference on Neutron & X-Ray Scattering 2007 Indonesia, July 23 - 31, 2007
• Obituary: Desmond Cunningham (1942-2006)
• Software: Software to edit and preview a CIF for publication.
• Software: XRD2DScan software Software for polycrystalline materials characterization using two-dimensional X-ray diffraction.
• Studentship: PhD studentship in Neutron Scattering Studies of Quantum Magnets Hahn-Meitner Institut, Berlin, Germany

5th November 2006

• Announcement OPAL reactor glows at full power. ANSTO's OPAL research reactor reached its full operating power of 20 Mega Watts
• Employment: Research & Applications Scientist at the CCDC. Cambridge, UK.
• Employment: Product Suport Engineer at the CCDC. Cambridge, UK.
• Employment: Post-doctoral position: small molecule crystallography Bloomington, Indiana, USA
• Journal Issue: Foundations of Crystallography Online, Volume 62, Part 6 (November 2006)
• Journal Issue: Structure Reports Online, Volume 62, Part 11 (November 2006)
• Journal Issue: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications Online, Volume 62, Part 11 (November 2006).
• School: PCG/SCMP Rietveld refinement training course 7/1/07 to 10/1/07, Durham, UK.
• Software: New version of dSNAP (Version 0.9.5) now available. Free software for clustering and classifying results from Cambridge Structural Database searches, and comparing your own structures to them. New features:
  • Include your own CIF files in the analysis
  • Automatic distance/angle generation
  • Automatic chemical symmetry correction
  • 3D fragment viewer overlay screen
  • Friendlier interface and 'Quick Start' guides
  • Updated documentation and tutorials
  • Bug fixes and other improvements
• Software: New DICVOL06 Released A new updated binary command-line version for DOS/Windows of the Dicvol powder indexing software by D. Louer and A. Boultif and is now available on-line at the CCP14 website.