BCA Annual Spring Meeting - 21st - 23rd April 2009

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“Dynamic Crystallography” in Loughborough

 

Loughborough is conveniently located in central England, being less than two miles from the M1, close to East Midlands Airport and only 90 minutes by train from London St Pancras.  The University of Loughborough is set in an impressive 433 acre single-site campus, with on-site conference accommodation. Lectures, workshops, the conference exhibition and tea and coffee will all be located at the same venue. 

The main meeting will follow the successful format of recent years and run from 11:30 on Tuesday 21st April to 13:30 on Thursday 23rd April.  The overall theme of the meeting is “Dynamic Crystallography” and there are 20 cutting-edge symposia (titles below) around this theme.  We’ve allocated slots in each symposium for contributed talks in the areas outlined below (link to Sessions and Chairs).  Details on how to submit abstracts are given below.

The meeting will see the return of a parallel XRF stream for the third time of what is becoming a regular two year cycle. The programme will be of general interest and combined with some dedicated XRF stands in the commercial exhibition makes the meeting one not to be missed for anyone involved in XRF or considering a purchase. The session organisers are looking for offers of talks in the sessions listed below (link to Sessions and Chairs). 

In addition to the main meeting two satellite meetings will also take place:

  • The Young Crystallographers Meeting will run on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning
  • A meeting to mark the retirement of Dr Frank Allen as Scientific Director of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/) will run on Thursday afternoon until Friday lunchtime.

 

There is also a hands-on computer workshop on the dSNAP program (http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/snap/dSNAP_index.html) for multivariate analysis of structural data. 

As always, the BCA Spring Meeting will be the place to hear about the latest structural science, to network with colleagues and to meet with our exhibitors.  We hope to see you there!

 

Simon Parsons

Chair, Programme Committee

S.Parsons@ed.ac.uk

Links

 

Loughborough University: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/

Travel to Loughborough University: http://www.crystallography-meetings.org.uk/arrival.htm

BCA Timetable. – See Excel Spreadsheet or pdf.

Scientific Programme Committee

Sessions and Chairs

Click here for the BCA timetable.