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The 27^th meeting of the European Crystallographic Association (ECM27) will take place in Bergen, Norway from 6–11^th August 2012.

The program committee have organised a rich scientific program of microsymposia and keynote lectures, with invited talks by CrystEngComm Editorial Board member Mark Spackman (University of Western Australia), Neil Champness (University of Nottingham, UK), Paola Gilli (University of Ferrara, Italy), and 2011 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, Dan Shechtman (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology) – read my recent interview with Dan here.

Prizes to be awarded at ECM27 include the European Crystallographic Association (ECA) Max Perutz Prize and the Erwin Felix Lewy Bertaut Prize of the European Crystallographic and Neutron Scattering Association (ECA-ENSA). The nomination deadlines for these awards are the 28^th February and 31^st March 2012, respectively.

There are two satellite meetings preceeding the main meeting on ‘Methods of High-Pressure Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction’ and the ‘Workshop on the Diffraction Data Deposition’.

Registration for this meeting is open now…

The 2012 meeting for the Control and Prediction of the Organic Solid State Project will take place on Tuesday 3^rd April 2012 at University College London from 9am – 4pm.

The meeting theme is “Crystal or not –where do we go from here?”, and features a variety of speakers including Alastair Florence, ChemComm Editorial Board member Jon Steed, and Sally Price (who will soon be featured in a CrystEngComm interview – watch this space!).

Register now. The meeting is free to attend.

This symposium, being held in the Magnéli Hall at Stockholm University May 23rd, will cover the ever expanding fields of Metal-Organic Frameworks, Porous Coordination Polymers and Zeolites.

The day will include lectures from the following key speakers:

Michael O’Keeffe, Arizona State University
Neil Champness, University of Nottingham
Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University
Unni Olsbye, University of Oslo,
Stuart Batten, Monash University
Tina Düren, University of Edinburgh
Javier García-Martínez, University of Alicante
Xiao-Ming Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University
Myunghyun Paik Suh, Seoul National University

For more details about the event, including how to register, you can access the website here.

Also of interest, the recent Hot Article published by the group ‘Coordination polymers, metal–organic frameworks and the need for terminology guidelines’.

The annual meeting of the American Crystallographic Association will be held 28th July – 1st August 2012, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Westin Waterfront Hotel.

The deadline for abstracts to be considered for oral presentations and posters is 31st March 2012, to be submitted online. 40% of all talks will be from contributed abstracts.

Scientific sessions are organized by the 12 Scientific Interest Groups (SIGs) within the Association, covering a diverse range of crystallography. There are four award presentations and lectures scheduled, including John Spence (Buerger award), Paul Fenter (Warren award), Ron Hamlin (Supper Instrumentation Award), and Emmanuel Skordalakes (Etter Early Career Award). The meeting will be preceeded by a series of workshops covering data refinement and crystallographic education.

Registration is now open! Book now to take advantage of the Early Bird Rate, which will close on 31st May 2012. The deadline for travel grants for students and young scientists is 31st March 2012.

The annual spring meeting of the British Crystallographic Association will be held at Warwick University from 16th to 19th April 2012.

The theme this year is ‘Challenges in Crystallography’ to reflect the upcoming Olympics in London in 2012. The deadline for abstracts to be considered for oral presentations and posters is 16th January 2012, to be submitted online at http://crystallography.org.uk/

Sessions include Hydrogen Bonding, Phase Transitions and Multidimensional Approaches. Confirmed plenary speakers include Branton Campbell, Laurence Pearl and Robin Taylor. The first day of the meeting will be the Young Crystallographers satellite meeting, containing presentations and poster sessions from students and young researchers. The meeting is organised by the 2012 planning committee, and chaired by Kirsten Christensen of the University of Oxford.

Registration is now open! Book Now to take advantage of the Early Bird Rate, which will close on 12th March 2012.