IMA 2018

XXII General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 13-17 August 2018 Official Website

ICG2017 - Italian Crystal Growth

Italian Crystal Growth - Materials and Methods in Crystal growth Conference Milan, Italy, 20-21 November 2017 For some years now, the Italian Crystal Growth Conference has been representing a key landmark of outstanding scientific quality for the community of Italian crystal growers and, in general, for scientists involved in the development of novel crystalline materials with advanced functionalities. This year, the following topics will be covered by dedicated scientific sessions: Fundamentals of Crystal Growth Low Dimensional Structures: films, wires, dots Organic-based Materials Crystalline Materials for Energy Industrial Crystallization Crystallization of Biomolecules Official Website

XXIV Meeting and General Assembly of IUCr

XXIV Meeting and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography Hyderabad, India, 21-28 August 2017 Hyderabad, India will host the 24th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography 2017 from 21 – 28 August 2017. The program is cutting edge with 3 plenaries, 40 keynotes, 119 microsymposia, regular and e-posters, commercial exhibits, satellite meetings, workshops and official meetings of the IUCr. A parallel program on science related matters and outreach is also planned. This will be a state of the art international meeting set in the unique ambience of India. Official Website

The 2nd European Mineralogical Conference

The 2nd European Mineralogical Conference Rimini, Italy, 11-15 September 2016 Following the success of the 1st European Mineralogical Congress held in Frankfurt in 2012, emc2016 will showcase the state-of-the-art of mineralogical sciences, promoting exchange of new research results between the European - and international - countries. The title of the emc2016 has been conceived to echo the aphorism by late C. V. Guidotti (19.09.1935-19.05.2005) “Minerals, the Alphabet of Geology, and Rocks, the Words of Geology”. The contributing societies presently are: DMG Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft MinSoc Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland MinSocFin Mineralogical Society of Finland ÖMG Österreichische Mineralogische Gesellschaft PTMin Mineralogical Society of Poland RMS Russian Mineralogical Society SEM Sociedad Española de Mineralogía SFMC Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie SIMP Societa‘ Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia SSMP Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology with participation of: EMU European Mineralogical Union Official Website

EosFit Workshop

EosFit workshop at ECM-2015 in Rovinj

Friday August 28^th 2015

Hotel Park, Rovinj, Croatia

An equation of state (EoS) describes how the volume or density of a material varies with changes in pressure and temperature. It also defines how some of the elastic properties of the material change in response to compression and expansion. Equations of state therefore provide not only fundamental thermodynamic data but also give insights in to the details of interatomic interactions within the solid state, as it is these that resist the externally-applied compressive stresses. EoS are thus fundamental to understanding the structure-property relationships in crystalline materials. Workshop participants will be introduced to equations of state to describe the volume variation of crystals with pressure and temperature, and taught how to use the EosFit-7 software to determine elastic parameters from diffraction data.

Organisers:
Dr. Ross J. Angel, University of Padova
Dr. Tiziana Boffa-Ballaran, Bayreuth
Dr. Matteo Alvaro, University of Padova
Dr. Daria Pasqual, University of Padova

Links: Announcement (.pdf 64kb), download the EosFit program from www.rossangel.com

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