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Programme

Thursday, 28 August       [Polo San Tommaso]

14:00

Registrations open for Erasmus IP

15:00-15:30

Welcoming and introducing notes

15:30-16:30

Santiago García Granda

Crystals and Diffraction

16:30-18:30

Gervais Chapuis

Tutorial on the discovery of crystallographic symmetries - with exercises

18:30-19:30

Cocktail party (aperitivo nel chiostro)

Friday, 29 August       [Polo San Tommaso]

9:00-10:40

Ludovico Pernazza

Introduction to linear algebra - with exercises

10:40-11:10

Coffee break

11:10-12:00

Emanuela Schingaro

Minerals and inorganic crystals

12:00-12:50

Consiglia Tedesco

From small molecules to macromolecules and supramolecular assembliess

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-15:30

Many tutors

exercises

15:30

City tour

Saturday, 30 August       [Aula Scarpa]

9:00-10:40

Ludovico Pernazza

Basics of group theory for crystallographers - with exercises

10:40-11:10

Coffee break

11:10-12:00

Giuseppe Zanotti

Macromolecular crystals

12:00-12:50

Gervais Chapuis

Beyond ideal crystalss

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:30

Carmelo Giacovazzo

Symmetry in the reciprocal space - with exercises

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-19:00

Carmelo Giacovazzo

Symmetry in the reciprocal space - with exercises

Sunday, 31 August       [Aula del ‘400]

9:00-09:50

Santiago García Granda

Introduction to X-ray powder diffraction

09:50-10:20

Lucia Robba (Bruker)

X-ray diffraction and beyond

10:20-10:50

Coffee break

10:50-12:00

Stanko Popovic

X-ray diffraction broadening analysis

12:00-12:50

Antonietta Guagliardi

Crystals@Nanoscale: the need for a Total Scattering approach

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30

Registrations open for ECS1

17:00-17:30

Opening Ceremony at the presence of

Vice President of the IUCr

President and Vice President of ECA

President of AIC

17:30-17:50

Michele Zema

IYCr2014: crystallography and Society

17:50-18:40

Alessia Bacchi

Crystallography and chemical education

19:00

Welcome party at Cortile delle Magnolie

Monday, 1 September       [Polo San Tommaso]

9:00-09:50

Gervais Chapuis

Symmetry in crystals

09:50-10:40

Mois Aroyo

Space groups and their presentations in International Tables for Crystallography

10:40-11:10

Coffee break

11:10-12:00

Carmelo Giacovazzo

Basic Mathematical concepts

12:00-12:50

Carmelo Giacovazzo

X-ray diffraction

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-15:20

Claude Lecomte

Radiation-matter interaction

15:20-16:10

Mois Aroyo

Symmetry relations between space groups

16:10-16:40

Coffee break

 

Tutorial

16:40-18:20

Gervais Chapuis

EPFL e-Crystallography course

18:30-19:30

Stanko Popović       [Polo San Tommaso]

Nikola Tesla in Science – Discovery of X-rays

Tuesday, 2 September       [Polo San Tommaso]

9:00-10:40

Carmelo Giacovazzo

The phase problem

10:40-11:10

Coffee break

11:10-12:00

Randy J. Read

Phasing macromolecular crystal structures by molecular replacement

12:00-12:50

Andreas Roodt

Small molecule chemical crystallography

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-15:20

Randy J. Read

Refining macromolecular crystal structures

15:20-16:10

Poster session &coffee break

 

Tutorial

16:40-18:20

Mois Aroyo

Bilbao Crystallographic server

19:00-20:00

Football match

Students vs Teachers

Wednesday, 3 September       [Polo San Tommaso]

9:00-09:50

Lukáš Palatinus

Structure solution by dual space iterative algorithms

09:50-10:40

Thomas Schneider

Phasing in biocrystallography based on anomalous scattering

10:40-11:10

Coffee break

11:10-12:50

Claude Lecomte

Structure factors and electron density

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-18:00

Visit to Certosa di Pavia

18:30

Social dinner

Thursday, 4 September       [Polo San Tommaso]

9:00-09:50

Juliette Pradon

An Introduction to the Cambridge Structural Database System

09:50-10:40

Brian McMahon

CIF and crystallographic data handling

10:40-11:10

Coffee break

11:10-12:00

Vladislav Blatov

Looking at crystal structures: topological analysis

12:00-12:50

Lukáš Palatinus

Structure determination using 3D electron diffraction methods

13:00-14:00

Lunch

 

Tutorials: parallel sessions

14:00-15:50

T4.1 Randy J. Read

DEMO Phenix

 

T4.2 Carmelo Giacovazzo

DEMO Sir2014

 

T4.3a Juliette Pradon

DEMO CSD & Mercury

15:50-16:20

Coffee break

16:20-18:00

T4.1 Randy J. Read

DEMO Phenix

 

T4.2 Carmelo Giacovazzo

DEMO Sir2014

 

T4.3b Brian McMahon

DEMO Jmol

18:30-19:30

Nobel Laureate Lecture       [Aula del '400]

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The use of recent advances in electron microscopy to study ribosome structures

Friday, 5 September       [Polo San Tommaso]

9:00-09:50

Cinzia Giannini

Are crystallography and imaging converging?

09:50-10:40

Thomas Schneider

Future possibilities for biocrystallography at synchrotrons and XFELs

10:40-11:10

Coffee break

11:10-12:00

Claude Lecomte

Time-resolved crystallography

12:00-13:00

Closing remarks

 

Q&A session

13:00-14:30

Lunch

 

Tutorials: parallel sessions

14:30-16:10

T5.1 Jelcsch/Lecomte

DEMO MoPro

 

T5.2 Thomas Schneider

DEMO Hkl2map/ Shelx

 

T5.3 Proserpio/ Blatov

DEMO Topos

16:10-16:40

Coffee break

16:40-18:20

Jelsch/Lecomte

DEMO MoPro

 

Thomas Schneider

DEMO Hkl2map/ Shelx

 

Proserpio/ Blatov

DEMO Topos

18:30-18:50

Closing Ceremony

Poster session

Posters will be on display in the main hall of Palazzo San Tommaso, venue of the ECS1 school, from 1 to 5 September. Moreover, a poster session is scheduled on Tuesday afternoon. Do not miss the opportunity to show and discuss with lecturers and other students about your research projects.
Poster prizes will be awarded by the IUCr and STOE.

The poster's maximum size is 90 x 120 cm; width x height.

Correct format... poster should be PORTRAIT  poster should NOT be LANDSCAPE Wrong format...

Erasmus IP – Final exams

Erasmus students and all those attending the 10-day full course must pass a final exam to apply for 3 ECTS credits.

Saturday, 6 September       [Polo San Tommaso]

9:00-12:00

Exams

 

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Deadlines

Applications:
28 February 2014
Warning New deadline Warning

Notification of selections:
18-04-2014
The selection committee has concluded the evaluation of the unexpectedly large number of applications received. Candidates will start receiving the results from next week onwards.

Abstract submission:
16 June 2014

Payment:
16 June 2014