01
Instrumentation and Experimental Techniques 1. Conventional
Sources of X-rays
2. Synchrotron Radiation I: Instrumentation and Techniques
3.
Synchrotron Radiation II: Applications
4. New X-ray Sources
5. Electron
Diffraction (LEED, RHEED, PED, AED)
6. Cryo-Electron Microscopy
7. X-ray
Imaging
8. Neutron Scattering I: Techniques and Instrumentation
9. Neutron
Scattering II: Applications
10. Area Detectors (Multi-wire, Image Plate, CCD)
11.
Data Accuracy and Detectors
12. Cryo-Crystallography: Techniques and Instrumentation
13.
Fast (pico-second) Crystallography
14. Free Electron Lasers for X-rays
02
Methods for Structure Determination 1. Difficult Structures
2.
Direct Methods of Phase Determination
3. Maximum Entropy Methods
4. Anomalous
Dispersion/MAD/MIR Phasing
5. Laue Time Resolved Methods
6. Incommensurate
Structure Solution
7. EXAFS and XANES
8. High Resolution NMR and Macromolecules
9.
Liquid Structure Determination
10. Structure Prediction: Computational Methods
11.
Ab initio Powder Diffraction Solutions: Molecular Compounds
12. Ab
initio Powder Diffraction Solutions: Inorganic Compounds
13. Ab initio
Powder Diffraction Solutions: Electron Diffraction
14. Ab initio Low
Resolution Macromolecular Phasing
15. X-ray and Neutron Complementarity
16.
Rietveld Refinement Methods
03 Computers in Analysis,
Molecular Modelling and Molecular Design 1. Programs
for Refinement and Analysis
2. Atomic Displacement Analyses and Variable Temperature
Analyses
3. Graphics and Virtual Reality
4. Rational Drug Design
5. Materials
Design
6. Structure Simulations: Inorganic Crystals
7. Structure Simulations:
Protein Folding Studies
8. Map Fitting and Modification
9. Image Reconstruction
10.
Homology Modelling, Structural Families and Docking
11. Use Of Genetic Algorithms
and Other Optimisation Methods
04 Crystallography of
Biological Macromolecules 1. Peptide and Protein Crystallisation
2.
Enzymes and Enzyme Catalysis
3. Metallo-Enzymes
4. Muscle and Motor Proteins
5.
Nucleic Acids
6. Protein - DNA Interactions
7. Protein - RNA Interactions
8.
Protein Design and Engineering
9. Protein Biosynthesis
10. Cryo-Crystallography:
Applications to Macromolecules
11. Proteins of the Immune System
12. Receptor
and Signal Transduction Proteins
13. Viruses and Viral Proteins
14. Macromolecular
Assemblies
15. Macromolecular Based Drug Design
16. Multi-domain Proteins
17.
Structural Motifs
18. Organelles
19. Diseases and Toxicity
20. NMR Applications
to Macromolecules
21. Time Resolved Studies
22. Structural Genomics
23.
High Resolution Protein Structures
24. Water and Other Solvent Structures In
Macromolecules
25. Hot Macromolecular Structures
05
Crystallography of Biological Small Molecules 1. Peptides
2.
CNS Agents
3. Antibiotics
4. Steroids
5. Other Natural Products
6.
Other Biosynthetic and Exotic Molecules
7. Hydrogen Bonding and Included Water
Structure
06 Crystallography of Organic Compounds 1.
Sugars
2. Lipids
3. Alkaloids
4. Fused Ring Systems
5. Fullerenes
and Carbon Cages
6. Supramolecular Assemblies
7. Inclusion Compounds and
Complexes
8. Intercalates
9. Clathrates
07 Crystallography
of Organometallic, Co-ordination and Main Group Compounds 1.
Metal Atom Complexes (N = 1-3) and Metal Clusters (N>3)
2. Molecular Recognition
Complexes
3. Fullerene Metal Complexes
4. Supramolecular Co-ordination Complexes
5.
Main Group Chemistry
6. Cage and Metallo-Cage Structures
7. Bio-Inorganic
Structures
8. Bio-Mineralization and Modifications
9. Inclusion Compounds
and Clathrates
10. Molecular Magnets
08 Structure/Property
Relationships 1. Molecular Recognition
2. Chemical
Crystallography Of The Future: Open Commission
3. Dynamic Properties In Molecular
Crystals
4. Solid State Reactions
5. Structural Thermodynamics and Kinetic
Aspects
6. Phase Transitions
7. Analysis of Atomic Displacement Parameters
8.
Intermolecular Interactions
9. Structure and Chemical Reactivity
10. Polymorphism
and Isomorphism: Identification and Characterisation
11. Polymorphism: Applications
12.
Time Resolved In situ Reactions
13. Hydrogen Bonding Studies
14.
Structure Property Relationships
09 Crystal Engineering
1. General Applications and Strategy
2. Organic
Compounds
3. Inorganic Compounds
4. Organometallic Complexes
5. Intermolecular
Interactions: Exploitation
6. Non Centrosymmetric Systems: Creation and Applications
10
Inorganic Crystallography and Geosciences 1. General
Geosciences
2. Systematics of Inorganic Compounds
3. Systematics in Geosciences
4.
High Pressure and High Temperature Studies
5. Minerals: Characterisation Methods
and Structures
6. Zeolites (Natural and Synthetic)
7. Exotic Molecules
11
Crystallography in Material Science 1. Superconducting
and Semi-Conducting Materials
2. Catalysis: In situ Studies
3. Giant
Magneto Resistance Materials
4. Fullerene Complexes: Applications
5. Non-crystalline
Materials
6. Ceramics, Glasses and Amorphous Materials
7. Aperiodic and
Incommensurate Structures
8. Polymers
9. Liquid Crystals
10. Nonlinear
Optical and Electronic Materials
11. Perovskite Materials
12. Ferroic and
Ferro-Electric Structures
13. Battery and Fuel Cell Materials
14. Residual
Stress Measurements
15. Pore Framework Materials
12
Surfaces, Interfaces, Liquids and Thin Films 1. Surface
and Interface Crystallography by X-ray and Neutron Diffraction
2. Surfaces
and Catalysis
3. Dynamic Diffraction Methods
4. X-ray Reflectivity: Instrumentation
and Applications
5. Neutron Reflectometry: Techniques and Applications
6.
Recent Liquid Structure Determination
7. Small Angle Scattering
8. Diffuse
Scattering
9. Interfacial Structures
10. Micelles
11. Thin Films and
Multilayers
12. Magnetic and Conducting Properties Of Thin Films
13
Fibre Diffraction 1. Polymers: Synthetic Fibres
2.
Structure Determination of Fibres
3. Biological Fibre Diffraction
4. Non-Periodic
and Disordered Fibres
14 Charge, Spin and Momentum
Density 1. Multipole and Other Modelling Methods
2.
Software Developments
3. Applications of Synchrotron Data
4. Maximum Entropy
Applications
5. Experimental Methods and Techniques
6. Topological Analyses
7.
Molecular and Crystal Properties From Charge Densities
8. Magnetisation and
Spin Densities
9. New Frontiers
15 Diffraction Physics
and Optics 1. Interferometry
2. Inelastic Scattering
3.
Neutron Optics
4. X-ray Optics: Lenses, Guides, and Focusing
5. Resonant
Magnetic X-ray Diffraction
6. Anisotropic Resonant Scattering
7. Polarisation:
Generation And Exploitation
8. Dynamical Diffraction
9. Extinction and Absorption
10.
N-beam Diffraction
11. Grazing Angle Incidence
16
Crystal Growth: Techniques, Instrumentation and Applications 1.
Systems that are Difficult to Crystallise
2. Industrial Mass Crystallisation
3.
Crystal Growth from Solution and Gels
4. Crystal Growth and Characterisation
From the Melt
5. Microgravity Crystallisation
6. Epitaxial Growth
7.
Crystal Doping and Imperfections
8. Self-Assembled Crystals
9. Exploitation
of Chirality
10. Crystal Growth: Modelling, and Predicting Morphology
11.
Morphology Modification: Theory and Experiment
12. Twinning: Acceptance and
Avoidance
13. Polymorphism: Recognition and Applications
14. Low Temperature
In situ Crystallisation
17 Characterization
of Defects, Microstructures and Textures 1. Techniques,
Theory and Instrumentation
2. Electron Microscopy
3. X-ray Topography
4.
Diffraction
5. STM and AFM Microscopy
6. Other Techniques Including Polarised
Light and Infrared Studies
7. Cathodo and Photo Luminescence
18
Electron Microscopy 1. Applications to Macromolecules
2.
Cryo-Microscopy
3. New Techniques and New Instrumentation
4. Applications
19 Electron Diffraction 1. New Techniques
and New Instrumentation
2. High Resolution Results
3. Other Applications
and Advances
20 Non-Ambient Conditions 1.
High Pressure Crystallography I: Extremes of Temperature and Pressure
2. High
Pressure Crystallography II: Physical Properties Under Pressure
3. High Pressure
Crystallography III: Phase Transitions and High Pressure
4. High Pressure Crystallography
IV: Data Acquisition and Analysis
5. High Pressure Crystallography V: Biological
and Soft Matter under Pressure
6. High Pressure Crystallography VI: New Frontiers
7.
High Temperature Crystallography: Instrumentation, Techniques and Applications
8.
Low Temperature Crystallography: Instrumentation, Techniques and Applications
9.
Phase Transitions I: Characterisation and Applications
10. Phase Transitions
II: Magnetic and Structural Identification
11. Applications of Light and Laser
Irradiation
12. Crystallography of Excited States
21
Symmetry and its Generalizations 1. General Symmetry:
Theory
2. Designer Symmetry: Theory and Practice
3. Pseudo-Symmetry: Recognition
and Applications
22 Aperiodic and Incommensurate structures
1. Data Collection and Structure Solution
2. Identification
and Refinement
3. Results and Applications
23 Crystallographic
Topology 1. Group theory and Topology
2. Tiling
3.
Quasicrystals
4. Networks
5. Critical Points
24
Databases
1. Creation and Exploitation
2. Coping with Rapid Expansions of Data. The Next Generation
Of Databases
3. Research Applications of the CSD
4. Research Applications of the PDB/NDB
5. Research Applications of the ICSD
6. Research Applications of the PDF
7. Data Mining and Knowledge Generation
8. Bio-informatics: The Future
25
Industrial Crystallography 1. Instrumentation and
Techniques
2. Stress-Strain Analysis
3. On Line Diffraction Analysis
4.
Line Broadening
5. Amorphous and SAS
6. Microporous Materials
7. Nanomaterials
8.
High Temperature Crystallography
9. Thick Coatings
10. Pharmaceutical Crystallography
26 Crystallographic Teaching 1. Changes in
Teaching Methods for the Future
2. Maintaining Standards Despite Automation
3.
Cheap Computer Programs for Developing Countries
4. Preparation for Publication;
CIF Files; How Much?
5. Crystallography on the World Wide Web
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The History of Crystallography 28 Other Topics
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