Recent activities

(* indicates a meeting in which the SIG was active)

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1st SIMP-AIC joint Meeting
Learning from and for the Planet Earth

Structures and Models in Earth, Materials and Life Sciences

Sestri Levante, Italy, 7-12-September 2008

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XXI Meeting and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography

Grand Cube Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka, 23-31 August 2008

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Summer School on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography

Gargnano, Garda Lake, Italy, 27 April- 2 May 2008

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* Short course on AMPHIBOLES

an Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and Mineralogical Society of America short course

Rome, 29-31 October 2007, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Palazzo Corsini, via della Lungara 10

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SMARTER

(Structure elucidation by coMbining mAgnetic Resonance, compuTation modEling and diffRactions) Crystallography Workshop

Aveiro, Portugal, 6-7 September 2007

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* ECM-24 - XXIV European Crystallographic Meeting

Marrakesh, Morocco, 22-27 August 2007. The Meeting was immediately preceded by a MaThCryst Satellite Conference.

Conferences (co-)organized by the SIG#5

Keynote Lecture: Porous nanomaterials, Lecturer : Joau Rocha. Friday 24 August, 8:30-9:30

Microsymposia

• MS 11 The enchanting world of phosphates
• MS 21 Functional phosphate materials
• MS 23 Crystallography of Planetary Interiors
• MS 35 Industrial process control for mineralogy and material sciences
• MS 41 Mineralogical crystallography
• MS 42 Nuclear waste materials
• MS 43 Empirical evaluation of bond strength in inorganic structures
• MS 45 Crystallography in Art and Archeology

The annual meeting of the SIG was held on Saturday 25 August 2007 at 18:15, at the "Palais des Congrès", "Karam1"

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* 9th EMU School: Nanoscopic Approaches in Earth and Planetary Sciences

August 12 to 17, 2007 Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen, Germany

The school was organised by Frank E. Brenker, Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Universitat, Frankfurt, Germany, and by Guntram Jordan, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen

Detailed information: http://www.9th-emu-school.de/, e-mail:

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* 41^st IUPAC World Chemistry Congress

Turin, Italy, 5-11 August 2007.

Section 4a-4 was devoted to Structural aspects of crystalline materials (from inorganic to macromolecular).

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* ECM-23 - XXIII European Crystallographic Meeting Leuven, Belgium, 6-11 August, 2006

The meeting was held at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. See also the list of * Satellite Conferences.

List of microsymposia (MS) (co-)organized by the SIG#5

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* IMA-2006

XIX General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association

Kobe, 23 ^rd -28 ^th July 2006

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IUCr-20 XX Meeting and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography Florence, 23 rd -31 st August 2005

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Mineral behaviour at extreme conditions 7th EMU School & Symposium and Erasmus IP Heidelberg, Germany, 19-26 June 2005

School director: Ronald Miletich (Heidelberg, Germany)

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* International School on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography Organized by the MaThCryst International Workgroup under the auspices of the European Crystallographic Association and supported by the Commission on Inorganic and Mineral Structures of the International Union of Crystallography Nancy, France, 20 th -24 th June 2005

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EMAS 2005 -IUMAS-3 9th EMAS European Workshop on Modern Developments and Applications in Microbeam Analysis 3rd Meeting of the International Union of Microbeam Analysis Societies

The Meeting of the European Microbeam Analysis Society (EMAS) and International Union of Microbeam Analysis Societies (IUMAS) took place in Florence, Italy on May 22-26, 2005.

The Meeting, with a well established Workshop format, addressed the latest developments in micro-beam analytical techniques (TEM, SEM, STEM, EBSD, EPMA, SIMS, PIXE, CL, ecc.) hence of interest to crystallographers for the contiguity and complementarity with crystallographic techniques.

Further information available on the Web at: www.emas-web.net/Content/EMAS2005.htm and in the Final Announcement available in PDF format

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Spectroscopic methods in mineralogy 6th EMU School and 5th European Conference on Mineralogy and Spectroscopy (ECMS) Vienna, 30 th August - 8 th September 2004

Location: Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography, University of Vienna - Geocentre, Althanstra?e 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Organisers: Prof. Dr. Anton Beran, Prof. Dr. Eugen Libowitzky

• in cooperation with: ?MG (Austrian Mineralogical Society)

• EMU School is sponsored by EMUand by the EC Socrates / Erasmus programme (Co-ordinator: T.G. Weiszburg)

Scope:

The first part of the 6 ^th EMU school provided an overview, an introduction, and intensive training on a variety of spectroscopic techniques frequently used in Earth sciences, i.e., UV / VIS / NIR, IR, Raman, M?sbauer, NMR, and X-ray absorption spectroscopy.

Spectroscopists of the world-wide Earth science community were invited to meet at the 5thECMS to present and discuss results of recent research.

Participants in the EMU school took the opportunity to meet scientists from the spectroscopic community.

Contact:

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Third meeting of the Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions (SMEC) 17-22 April of 2005, Deauville Beach Resort, Miami Beach

CeSMEC hosted the third meeting of the Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions (SMEC) 17-22 April of 2005. The focus of the 4-day meeting was to promote interdisciplinary research in the fields of geophysics, solid state physics, high pressure physics and chemistry and materials science.

Sponsored by Florida International University 's College of Engineering and the Center of the Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions (CeSMEC), Compres (Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences) and HPCAT (High Pressure Collaborative Access Team), and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. The meeting will bring together scholars from all over the world at the beautiful Deauville Beach Resort located in sunny Miami Beach. The proceedings are expected to be published in the Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids.

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* MICRO- AND MESOPOROUS MINERAL PHASES Mineralogical, Crystallographic and Technological aspects 6-7 December 2004, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei - Via della Lungara 10 - Rome (Italy) Meeting circular (PDF file) (137 Kb) Contact Program details available in PDF format.

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ICAM 2004 8 th International Congress on Applied Mineralogy Águas de Lindóia, Brazil, 19th - 22nd September 2004

The 8^th International Congress on Applied Mineralogy - ICAM 2004 was held for the first time in Brazil in the city of Águas de Lindóia, São Paulo State. Applied mineralogy embraces numerous applications of mineralogy in the mineral, metallurgical, chemical and materials industries as well as in waste recycling and environmental assessment and monitoring. As an interdisciplinary field, it involves characterisation of a wide variety of ores, mineral concentrates, engineered materials and industrial residues, as well as data interpretation regarding the industrial processes, end products and environmental regulations.

The 8th International Congress on Applied Mineralogy, ICAM 2004, was organised by the International Council for Applied Mineralogy (ICAM) and by the International Mineralogical Association - Commission on Applied Mineralogy (IMA-CAM).

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* ECM-22 - XXII European Crystallographic Meeting Budapest, Hungary, 26-31 August, 2004

The meeting was be held at the Faculty of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University.

A satellite meeting on Mathematical and symmetry aspects was be held before the ECM meeting (24-26 August, same venue), organized by the International Workgroup on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography ( MaThCryst ).

Program of the microsymposia (co)organized by the SIG5

Date	Title	Co-organizer	Chairs	Titles and speakers
Saturday 28 August afternoon	Investigation techniques in mineral science	SIG12	Massimo Nespolo (SIG5) (SIG12)	Neutron diffraction analyses of intact museum objects (Winfried Kockelmann) (25') Direct determination of defect structures in kaolin minerals by High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM) ( Toshihiro Kogure) (25') Pushing the Limits of Lab X-ray (Micro)Diffraction (Caroline Kirk) (15') Archeometric study of Dutch tin spoons from Amsterdam:1350-1750 AD (Dirk Visser) (15') Synchrotron X-ray analysis and diffraction mapping in Art and Archaeology (Jean Louis Hodeau) (15')
Sunday 29 August morning	Crystallography of planetary interiors	SIG11	Artem R. Oganov (SIG5) Leonid Dubrovinsky (SIG11)	Phase diagrams of minerals from density-functional perturbation theory. (Artem R. Oganov) (20') Squeezing magnets: implications for crystallography and geophysics (Gerd Steinle-Neumann) (20') Axial ratio and elastic constants of hcp Fe under Earth's core conditions (Che Gannarelli) (20') Crystallographic transitions related to magnetic and electronic phenomena under high pressure in iron oxides and compounds (Gregory Rozenberg) (20') High-pressure Behavior of Pyroxenes ( Tiziana Boffa Ballaran) (20') High-pressure phase transition of Fe2O3 (Shigeaki Ono) (20')
Sunday 29 August afternoon	Microporous and mesoporous materials	SIG8	(SIG5) (SIG8)	Are the HOH layers of the heterophyllosilicates suitable to prepare pillared materials? (Giovanni Ferraris) (25') Mesoporous materials as nucleation-inducing substrates for protein crystallization ( Naomi Chayen) (25') Structural study of dye modified synthetic zeolite mordenite (Petra Simoncic) (15') Estimating adsorption energy in AlPO4-15 molecular sieve ? Some approaches based on experimental charge density modelling (Florence Porcher) (15') Crystal structures of double Ceasium-Zirconium and Barium-Zirconium orthophosphates (Elena Gobechiya) (15')
Monday 30 August afternoon	Mineralogical crystallography	---	Herta Silvia Effenberger, Frédéric Hatert	Study of crystallographic aspects of the formation of pearlite in carbon steels using transmission electron microscopy (Ping Liu) (25') Biomineralization and stability of framboidal greigites (Anton Preisinger) (25') Crystal chemistry of the divalent cation in the alluaudite structure (Frédéric Hatert) (15') Anti-Loewenstein behaviour in the melilite and sodalite structure types ( Wulf Depmeier) (15') On the synthesis, crystal chemistry and magnetic properties of rasvumite and related compounds (Herbert Boller) (15')

The annual meeting of the ECA-SIG#5 was held on Saturday, 28^th Aug 17:00-18:00, room MR3.

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* Microstructure, modularity and modulations in mineralogy 32nd International Geological Congress Florence, 20 th -28 th August 2004

During the 32nd International Geological Congress in Florence, the following symposia of interest for the SIG were in the programme of the mineralogical section

Symposium code	Title of the symposium	Date of the symposium
G - 15.03	Crystal structures of minerals: topology and classification	August 21 - Afternoon
G - 15.04	Microstructures, modularity, modulations in minerals	August 22 - Full day
G - 15.05	Mineral engineering: from nature's lab to technologic applications	August 23 - Full day
G - 15.06	Physics of minerals: mineral spectroscopy	August 23 - Morning
G - 15.07	High pressure mineralogy	August 24 - Full day
G - 15.08	Natural zeolites: structure, properties and applications	August 24 - Morning

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Crystallography at High Pressure 18-21 August 2004, University of Saskatchewan campus, Saskatoon (Canada)

Program

• Chemistry and New Materials at High Pressure
• Superconductivity and Magnetism
• Liquids and Amorphous Solids at High Pressure
• Mineral Physics and Geophysics
• Computational Crystallography
• Biological Material and Soft Condensed Matter
• Technical Development in Neutron Diffraction
• Technical Development in X-ray Diffraction

For information, contact: or go to www.lightsource.ca/iucr2004

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4th European Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials 21-23 July 2004, Montpellier, France

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Fedorov session 2003 St. Petersburg, Russia, 9-10 December 2003

The Fedorov Session 2003 was dedicated to the 150 birthday anniversary of E.S. Fedorov. Main scientific topics of the session were as follows:

mathematical aspects of crystallography

structure of crystals

methods of investigations of crystals

development of crystallography during XX^th century

methods of teaching crystallography

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XV International Conference on X-ray Diffraction and Crystal Chemistry of Minerals Saint Petersburg State University 15 - 19 September 2003

The Conference is timed for the 300th anniversary of the city of St. Petersburg and for the 150-th anniversary of the birthday of E.S. Fedorov, the founder of a modern theory of crystal symmetry. The scientific program of the Conference included plenary lectures, oral and poster presentations. Details at the conference web site.

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9th European Conference on Solid State Chemistry Stuttgart, Germany, 3th-6th September, 2003

The meeting was held at the University of Stuttgart

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*ECM-21 - XXI European Crystallographic Meeting Durban, South Africa, 24th - 30th August, 2003.

The meeting was in Durban at the International Conference Centre, located 1 km from the beachfront. Durban is situated in the heart of the Zulu kingdom, Kwazulu- Natal.

Lecture and microsymposia of direct interest for the SIG#5

Plenary lecture Wednesday 27 August, 8:00-9:00

: The wonderful world of crystal structures of sulfosalts

Microsymposia

FOCUS AREA [2]: Materials and Minerals

Chair, Co-chair, Schedule and notes

1 Mineralogical Crystallography Herta Effenberger (U. Wien, Austria) "Tsumcorite and structurally related compounds." Svetlana Ivashevskaja (Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russia) "Models of the antraxolite structure." Ping Liu (R&D Centre, Sandvik Materials Technology, Sandviken, Sweden) "Crystallographic orientation relationship and phase identification in stainless steels." Petra Simoncic (U. Bern, Switzerland) "Domain structure in the zeolite mordenite." Tuesday 26, 9:15-11:15 2 Modular aspects of inorganic crystals Elena Belokoneva (Lomonosov Moscow State U., Russia) "Extended OD-theory (blocks, rods, layers) and modular aspects in inorganic crystal chemistry." Hans Grimmer (ETHZ and PSI, Switzerland) "The twin laws of tetragonal crystals that are compatible with Mallard's rule." Giovanni Ferraris (U. Torino, Italy) "Pseudo-symmetry, twinning and structural disorder in layer titanosilicates." Stefano Merlino (U. Pisa, Italy) "Modular character of the phases in tobermorite group" Tuesday 26, 13:45-15:45 dedicated to the memory of Boris B Zvyagin 3 From minerals to materials science Juan Rodriguez-Carvajal (CEA/Saclay, France) "Magnetic structure of mineral paramelaconite and related materials: a S=1/2 pyrochlore lattice." Giuseppe Cruciani (U. Ferrara, Italy) "Siting of transition metal ions in zeolites by XRD" Susana Rios (U. Cambridge, UK) "Microstructure of radiation-damaged zircon and its pressure dependence: evidence for nanovoids." Mike Thackeray (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) "From Gems to Lithium Battery Materials." Wednesday 27, 9:15-11:15 in cooperation with SIG#12 4 Perovskites ancient and modern Mike Glazer (U. Oxford, UK) "The scientific work of Helen D. Megaw." Giovanni Ferraris (U. Torino, Italy) "Perovskite-type modules - From Earth mantle to structure engineering." Chris Howard (ANSTO, Menai, Australia) "A Group Theoretical Approach to Perovskite Crystallography." Peter Daniels (U. Bayreuth, Germany) "Crystal structures in the perovskite related system A n B n O 3n+2 ." Thursday 28, 16:15-18:15 in cooperation with SIG#12 dedicated to the memory of Helen D. Megaw

FOCUS AREA [3]: Experimental and Computational Techniques

Chair, Co-chair, Schedule and notes

5 Crystallography at extreme conditions: recent results and new developments Michele Catti (U. Milano Bicocca, Italy) "On the mechanisms of the B1/B2 high-pressure phase transition: novel first-principles results." Pierre Fertey (LCM3B U. Henri Poincaré Nancy 1, France) In-situ diffraction from crystals under high electric fields: low quartz and isotypes Gregory Rozenberg (U. Tel-Aviv, Israel) High pressure Structural Transformations in RFeO3 perovskites related to magnetic phenomena" Alexandros Lappas (IESL-FORTH, Greece) Pressure Influence on Structure-Property Relations of Ternary Metal Chalcogenides Thursday 28, 13:45-15:45

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International symposium on the mineralogy and geochemistry of scandium 16-22 August 2003 Natural History Museums and Botanical Garden, University of Oslo, Norway Organized by the Geological Museum, University of Oslo

Contact:

(Head Curator of Minerals)

Geological Museum

University of Oslo

P.O. Box 1172 Blindern

N-0318 Oslo

Norway

Tel.: +47-22851647

Fax:: +47-22851800

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Ultra-high Pressure Metamorphism 5th EMU School & Symposium and Erasmus IP Eötvös L. University, Budapest, Hungary, 21-25 July 2003

School directors: D.A. Carswell (University of Sheffield, UK) and R. Compagnoni (University of Torino, Italy).

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Energy Modelling in Minerals Continuation of the 4th EMU School in Mineralogy hold in Budapest Gargnano, Garda Lake, Italy, 8-14 June 2003

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Gold and Platinum Group Minerals: from experimental mineralogy and microanalysis to deposit Modelling EGS-AGU-EUG Joint symposium Nice, France, 7-11 April 2003

IMA-COM (Commission on Ore Mineralogy) and the European Mineralogical Union are organising a symposium session at the EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, in Nice, France, 7th-11th April 2003. The session (VGP3.17) is titled "Gold and Platinum Group Minerals: from experimental mineralogy and microanalysis to deposit Modelling". Convenors are (Finland) , Roland.K.W. Merkle (South Africa) and Nigel J. Kook (Norway).

The aim of this special session is to bring together researchers of experimental sulphide and platinum group element (PGE) mineralogy, ore mineralogists, exploration geologists, people responsible for the ore deposit modelling and evaluation and representatives from the mining industry who have an interest in gold, and platinum group elements. The session will comprise a series of presentations that will review and discuss the ore mineralogy, geochemistry and deposit modelling of existing deposits and exploration targets. The role of experimental sulphide and PGE-mineralogy is emphasized in interpreting the genetical conditions of ore deposit formation. The following papers will be presented in the session:

Plenary Lecture
8.30-9.00
Merkle, R.K.W
Gold and platinum-group element containing minerals - reflections on the reliability of observations

Gold session
chairman Kari Kojonen/Roland Merkle

9.00-9.15
Ruiz, J.; Kirk, J.; Chesley, J.
Re-Os Evidence for Au extraction of the mantle through time

9.15-9.30
Verkhovtseva, N; Zhmodik, S; Chikov, B; Airijants, E; Nemirovskaya, N.
Experimental study of gold redistribution during the process of shock-wave stress

9.30-9.45
Ciobanu, C.L.; Cook, N.J.; Pring, A.
Gold enrichment and Bi-mineral assemblages in ores: Examples from shield and orogenic areas

9.45- 10.00
Cook, N.J.; Ciobanu, C.L.; Stanley, C.J.; Sundblad, K.
Compositional constraints on a modular series of Bi-Pb tellurides

10.00-10.15
Maslennikov, V. V.; Zaykov, V. V.; Maslennikova, S. P.; Tesalina, S. G.; Herrington, R. J.; Buschmann, B.; Becker, K.; Petersen, S.; Orgeval, J.J.; Leistel, M.
Gold-silver-tellurium mineral assemblages in different ore styles of the Southern Urals VHMS deposits

PGE-session
chairman Nigel Cook 10.45-12.30

10.45-11.00
Blaine, F.A.; Linnen, R.L.; Holtz, F.; Bruegmann, G.E.
The effect of water on platinum solubility in a haplobasaltic melt at 1250 degrees C and 0.2 GPa

11.00-11.15
Momme, P.; Oskarsson, N.; Keays, R.
Platinum-group elements in the Iceland Rift system: Melting processes and mantle sources

11.15-11.30
Helmy, H.M.
Pd-bismuthotellurides and other tellurides from some Cu-Ni-PGE deposits, eastern desert, Egypt

11.30-11.50
Melcher, F.; Oberth・, T.
Alteration of detrital platinum-group-minerals (PGM) in rivers of the Eastern Bushveld Complex

11.50-12.10
Kojonen, K. ; Gervilla, F.; Merkle, R. K.
Mineralogy of the Keivitsa Cu-Ni-PGE deposit, northern Finland

12.10.-12.30
Parkkinen, J.
Spatial statistical and structural modeling of the Keivitsa Ni-Cu-PGE deposit, northern Finland

Poster presentations

Poster 1: Galkin, N.; Gavrilenko, B.
Mineralogical and geochemical features of the Oleninskoe gold occurrence (Kola region, Russia)

Poster 2: Kojonen, K. ; Zaccarini, F.; Garuti, G.
PGE and Au minerals in the chromitites of the Ray-Iz ophiolitic complex, Polar Urals (poster)

Poster 3. Bockrath, C.; Ballhaus, C.; Holzheid, A.
Laurite - A sulfide mineral that crystallizes directly out of a silicate melt?

Poster 4. Hattori, K.H.; Johanson, B.; Cabri, L.J.
Selenium and arsenic concentrations in platinum group minerals of placer origin from Borneo and Sierra Leone

Poster 5. Vlimaa, J.; Kojonen, K.
Geochemical characterization of the Keivitsa Cu-Ni-PGE deposit, northern Finland

Poster 6. Jackson, M. T.; Bowles, J. F.; Prichard , H. M.; Belete , K. H.
The Characterisation of Ultramafic Bodies in Ethiopia

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CeSMEC will host the second meeting of the Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions (SMEC) in March 24-28, 2003. The focus of the meeting will be to promote the integration of mineral-physics, high-pressure chemistry/physics and materials science. The meeting, sponsored by the FIU Division of Sponsored Research and the Colleges of Arts & Sciences and Engineering, amongst others, will bring together scholars from all over the world at Florida International University's Biscayne Bay Campus

The meeting will be held in Miami Beach during March 24-28, 2003. Following the tradition of the first meeting it will aim at science emphasizing the role of extreme variables (pressure, temperature and size) in materials science and geophysics. This circular is to alert you to check the many symposia listed below and to let the organizers know of your interest in attending the meeting and contributing a paper or a poster. Several of you will of course be contacted directly by the organizers.

Programme brochure (PDF file - 753Kb)

Symposia List:

1. N. Saini, Italy: Inhomogeneous and Strongly Correlated Materials with Novel Electronic Properties (ISCM).
   Contact: INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"
   P. le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 ROMA
   Tel: +39-6-4991 4391 Fax: +39-6-4957 697 E-mail:

2. K. Rajan: RPI: Computational Alchemy
   Contact: 110 Materials Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Troy NY 12180-3590
   Tel:+1- 518-276-6126 Fax: +1-518-276-8554 E-mail:

3. Sudipta Seal: How small can we go?
   Contact: SNF: Engineering 381, University of Central Florida, 4000 University Blvd.,Orlando, FL 32816
   Tel: +1- 407-823-5277 Fax: +1-407-823-0208 E-mail:

4. Rajeev Ahuja and A. Belonoshko: High Pressure and Computational Materials Science
   Contact: Physics Dept. Angstromlaboratoriet, Lagerhyddsvagen 1, University of Uppsala, Box 530, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden
   Tel: +46-18-471 36 26 E-mail:

5. M. Pasternak, Israel and H. Annersten, Sweden: High Pressure Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Oxides and Related Compounds
   Contact: Moshe Paz-Pasternak, Condensed Matter Dept., Sch. of Physics & Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv Israel
   Tel: +972-3-642-4296 Fax: +972-3-642-2979 Email:

6. M. Eremets: Electronic properties of materials at megabar pressures
   Contact: Max-Planck-Institute of Chemistry, Joh.-J.-Becher-Weg 27, University Campus, D-55128 Mianz, Germany
   Tel: +49 6131 305 312 Email:

7. G. Ottonello: Thermodynamics of melts and glasses
   Contact: DIP.TE.RIS University of Genova, Coros Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy
   Tel: +39 010 3538307 Fax: +39 010 352169 Email:

8. W. Glasseley: Lawrence-Livermore: Fluids under extreme conditions
   Contact: Univ. of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., Livermore, CA 94550-9234
   Tel:+1- 925-442-6499 Email:

9. A.Goresy: Phases in Earth’s interior
   Contact: Max-Planck-Institute of Chemistry, Joh.-J.-Becher-Weg 27, University Campus, D-55128 Mianz, Germany
   Tel: +49 6131 305 292 Email:

10. Przemek Dera: CIW and R. Downs: U Ariz: Latest trends and future perspectives in high-pressure crystallography
    Contact: Carnegie Institution of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory, 5251 Broad Branch Rd. NW, #M-G08, Washington DC, 20015
    Tel: 202-478-8915 Email:

11. E. Ohtani: Japan: Heterogeneities in the lower mantle and CMB, and material circulation in Earth' interior
    Contact: Institute of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Economic Geology,Tohoku University, Tohoku, Japan
    Tel: +81-22-217-6662 Fax: +81-222-217-6675 Email:

12. Goran Grimvall , Uppsala: Thermodynamics of solids at high pressures
    Contact: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, KTH- SCFAB, Royal Institute of Technology,SE 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
    Tel: 46+ 8-5537-8160 Email:

13. Isaac Silvera: The hydrogens under static and dynamic high pressure
    Contact: Lyman Laboratoy of Physics #24, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA 02138
    Tel: +1-617-495-9075 Email:

14. John Tse, Ottawa: Clathrate hydrates and planetary ices
    Contact: Theory of Computation Program, Steacie Institute for Molecular Science, National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    KIA 0R6, Tel +1-613-991-1237 Email:

15. J. Bass: A topic in high pressure mineral physics
    Contact: U. of Chicago. Email:

The website of the Kovens Convention Center where we will convene is http://kovens.fiu.edu

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*IMA-2002 XVIII General Meeting of the International Mineralogial Association Edinburgh, 1st-6th September 2002

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Energy Modelling in Minerals 4th EMU School in Mineralogy and Erasmus Intensive Programme Budapest, Hungary, 24th June - 5th July 2002

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Department of Crystallography, Saint Petersburg State University. Saint Petersburg, September 17^th -21^st, 2001.

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Mineralogy and spectroscopy: 4th European conference

Paris - France

10th - 14th September 2001

(First Circular)

Solid state spectroscopy enables a refined description of the structural organisation of Earth materials (minerals, amorphous solids, fluids and magmas) and their formation processes. Crucial information can be obtained about site occupancy by major or trace elements, as well as about oxidation states and about chemical bonding. The presence of characteristic elements can be related to the physical properties of Earth materials (optical, mechanical and magnetic properties, element speciation, surface reactivity...). Solid state spectroscopy allows thus to link mineralogy to geochemistry, defining "solid state geochemistry".

In the last few years, the increasing development of solid state spectroscopy and the possibility to use most recent facilities opens new opportunities (kinetic studies, micro-, and nanoscale measurements, experiments under extreme conditions...). Hence the development of new domains of applications are emerging as, for instance, molecular environmental sciences.

Following Rome (1988), Berlin (1995) and Kiev (1996), here comes Paris (2001) as the 4th Euroconference on spectroscopy and mineralogy.

The final scientific programme is available at the conference WWW site.

Organising Committee

Committee members include
Yves Fuchs (Paris)
StA?Acphanie Rossano (Marne la VallA?Ace)
Christian Brouder (Paris)
Delphine Cabaret (Paris)
FranA?A§ois Farges (Marne la VallA?Ace)
Laurence Galoisy (Paris)
Philippe Sainctavit (Paris)

Scientific Programme Committee

Committee members include
Georges Calas (Paris) Chaiman
Anton Beran (Vienna)
Micheline Boudeulle (Lyon)
Ulf HA?A\lenius (Stockholm)
Klaus Langer (Berlin)
Annibale Mottana (Rome)
Alexei Platonov (Kiev)
Susan Stipp (Copenhagen)

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International Conference on
"Cathodoluminescence in Geosciences:
new insights from CL in combination with other techniques"

Freiberg, Germany, 6th - 8th September 2001

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XIV Conference-Workshop

"HORIZONS IN HYDROGEN BOND RESEARCH"

ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to announce the XIV Conference-Workshop "HORIZONS IN HYDROGEN BOND RESEARCH" to be held to Torino, Italy, from 3^rd to 7^th September 2001. Detailed information can be found at the web site.

SCOPE AND PROGRAM

All different aspects of physics, chemistry and biology of hydrogen bonding will be equally welcome. Accordingly, the meeting will include eight different microsymposia:

1. H-Bond in Material Sciences

2. H-Bond in Crystals

3. Rotational and Vibrational Spectroscopy of H-Bonded Systems

4. Electronic and NMR Spectroscopy of H-Bonded Systems

5. H-Bond in Biological Sciences

6. Theoretical Modeling of H-Bonded Systems

7. Poster Session

8. Electron and Momentum Densities of H-Bonded Systems

CONFERENCE SITE AND ACCOMODATION

The workshop will be held in Torino, the capital of the Piemonte region located in the North-West of Italy. The conference venue (Torino Esposizioni) is very close to the main park (Valentino) in the city along the river Po and to the Chemistry and Physics Departments. It is easily reachable from the railway station and the airport bus terminal. All lectures, poster sessions and coffea-breaks will be held at the conference building, whereas lunches will be served at the nearby Rotonda restaurant.

A list of nearby hotels is given in the web page and partecipants shall make their own reservation. Students and young scientists without a permanent position may apply for a reduced cost accomodation in a shared double room at the student house.

FIRST CIRCULAR, REGISTRATION AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION.

The registration fee includes the book of abstracts and all social events. Students and young scientists without a permanent position may apply for a reduced fee.

Category	Fee (Italian liras)	Fee (Euro)
Regular	500,000	258,23
Regular (after 31th of May 2001)	650,000	335,70
Students	200,000	103,29
Students (after 31th of May 2001)	300,000	154,94

The deadline for registration is May 31, 2001. The registration form and the first circular are available for download from the conference web site and should be filled and sent as soon as possible. The deadline for abstract submission is May 31, 2001.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

G. Gilli (Ferrara); J. Kroon (Utrecht); P. Ugliengo (Torino); A. J. Barnes (Salford); L. Sobczyk (Wroclaw); P.E. Hansen (Roskilde).

ORGANIZING COMMITEE

D. Viterbo (Alessandria); P. Ugliengo (Torino); S. Coluccia (Torino); G. Della Gatta (Torino); P. Gilli (Ferrara); V. Ferretti (Ferrara).

INVITED SPEAKERS

J. Bernstein; W. Caminati; J.J. Dannenberg; A.A. Dingley; F. Fillaux; P.A. Frey; A. Gavezzotti; K. Hermansson ; P. Hobza; F.K. Larsen; Z. Latajka; J. Mayers; A.S. Mildvan; I. Olovsson; C.L. Perrin; H. Ratajczak ; J. Sauer; L. Sobczyk; J. Waluk; K. Weisz; J.D. Wuest; A. Zecchina.

SECRETARIAT

Prof. Piero Ugliengo
XIV Conference-Workshop
Horizons in Hydrogen Bond Research
Dip.to di Chimica IFM - University of Torino
Via Pietro Giuria, 7
I-10125 Torino, ITALY
Tel. +39-11-6707140
Fax +39-11-6707855
E-mail: hbond2001@ch.unito.it

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Symposium J8: Transformation processes in minerals

Convenors: M. A. Carpenter (Cambridge), C. Mc Cammon (Bayreuth), M. Kunz (Zurich)

Symposium O8: Recent advances in the physics and chemistry of minerals

Convenors: David Vaughan (Manchester)

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