SIGs
Role and constitution of a SIG
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2006-2007
SIG6 members :
John R. Helliwell (UK), Ake Kvick (S), Garcia Granda S. (SP), Kahn Richard (F), Saridakis Emmanuel (GR), Rodriguez-Carvajal Juan (F), Baumbach Tilo (D), Cernik Robert (UK), Heger Gernot (D) , Naomi Chayen (UK), J-L Hodeau (F)
chair : Jean-Louis Hodeau (CNRS-grenoble, F)
co-chair : Naomi Chayen (Imperial college UK)
secretary : Gernot Heger (Aachen D)
1. Our SIG6 contributes to the organisation of the attribution of a Prize for the best "INSTRUMENTATION AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES" poster at ECA meetings:
At ECA meetings there are different poster prizes (from private companies or from scientific groups) to encourage submission of abstract for poster sessions. Following a John R. Helliwell suggestion to have such a prize for the best ECA-SIG6 "INSTRUMENTATION AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES " poster at ECA meetings, we propose to give such a prize in memory of Prof Jacek Grochowski who was largely involved in our SIG6 and in the European Crystallographic Association.
Prof Jacek Grochowski died in June 2004 from a heart attack in Berlin on his way back from a synchrotron radiation run in HASYLAB. Jacek Grochowski was an incredibly energetic scientist and supporter of ECA activities. Notably Jacek was greatly involved in the organisation of ECM20 Krakow, Chair of the Syncrys2001Satellite Conference of the Krakow ECM and of course his work for the IET SIG6 of the ECA.
This Jacek Grochowski Memorial Poster Prize for the best "IET" SIG 6 poster at an ECA-Meetings will be 100 Euros to allow purchase by the winner of an IUCr Book Series book title or towards an IUCr International Tables Volume purchase.
For funding this price John R. Helliwell already obtained supports from his laboratory at the University of Manchester and Daresbury SRS, which have donated to ECA 794 GBP, ie approx 1200 Euros (at 100 Euros per prize per ECM these starting monies would last about 12 ECMs). To have further donations, a call is under way at institutions largely involved in instrumentation and experimental techniques like ESRF and ILL, and announcement will be put on the ECA website.
2. By its members activities, our SIG6 also partly contributes to the organisation of the attribution of an Erwin Felix Lewy Bertaut Prize of the European Crystallographic and Neutron Scattering Associations (ECA-ENSA)
The European Crystallographic Association (ECA) and the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) announce the creation of a prize in honour of the late Erwin Felix Lewy Bertaut, in memory of his scientific achievements which are cornerstones in both crystallography and neutron scattering.
Erwin Felix LEWY-BERTAUT, Crystallographer, CNRS research director and member of the French «Académie des Sciences», deceased in Grenoble on November 2003. He is internationally renowned in crystallography, in neutron diffraction and in magnetism. During his PhD work, he first discriminated the grain size itself from the grain size. He developed the so called Structure factor algebra. He contributed enormously to develop the neutron crystallography and he extended the use of the Group theory in Crystallography and particularly to magnetic structures. He contributed largely to the IUCr committees like the gInternational Tablesh and the gNeutron Diffractionh commissions and he was a Member of the IUCr Executive Committee 1975-1981. He was awarded by several prices and acknowledged as Professor Honoris Causa of various Universities.
The prize is awarded to a young European scientist (up to 5-8 years after finishing the PhD-thesis) in recognition of notable experimental theoretical or methodological contributions in the field of investigation of matter using crystallographic or neutron scattering methods. ECA & ENSA award that prize in a regular alternating sequence.
The first winner of the Lewy-Bertaut prize of European Crystallographic Association and European Neutron Scattering Association was Henrik M. Rønnow. The award ceremony will take place June 28th at the occasion of the European Conference on Neutron Scattering in Lund, Sweden. The winner of the award will give a presentation that will be preceded by a brief account on the life and scientific career of the late Erwin Felix Lewy-Bertaut, given by Prof. Hartmut Fuess, former chairman of the European Crystallographic Association and student of Lewy-Bertaut in the e60s.
3. The "IET" SIG 6 open SIG Meeting took place at the ECM23-LEUVEN meeting.
A review was discussed of the popularity of the IET SIG's Microsymposia abstracts submission; at 44 abstracts the IET SIG was half way in the table of all abstracts submitted as analysed by SIG. Thus, we discuss and propose scientific topics for microsymposia, based on the idea that (a) having broadly based Microsymposia topics (ie thus interesting a large fraction of ECA membership) and (b) shared microsymposia with another SIG on a more focussed topic of mutual interest both worked well.
A preliminary look forward to ECM 24 in Marrakech was made.
All member activities to organize workshops and schools in larges facilities was also recalled and encouraged.
4. The SIG6 contribution to the microsymposium
organisation for the ECA24 meeting at Marrakech are
:
Our proposition of keynote lecture on "imaging from a single molecule" was accepted, but we do not succeed to have the attendee of Prof. J. Spence or Prof J. Hadju,
We also organized several MICROSYMPOSIA for the ECA24
meeting:
MS 06 : Current trends in protein crystallization
Chair:
Naomi Chayen
Co-chair: Terese Bergfors
MS 25 : Coupling spectroscopy and diffraction
Chair: R J
Cernik
Co-chair: Jean Louis Hodeau
MS 28 : Micro- and sub-micro diffraction
Chair: Christian
Riekel
Co-chair: Phillipe Goudeau
MS 32 : 3D crystal imaging
Chair: Edward Mitchell
Co-chair: Trevor Forsyth
MS 34 : New synchrotron sources
co-proposed with
SIG 1 "Macromolecular Crystallography" and
co-proposed with SIG11 "Crystallography under extreme
conditions"
Chair: Edgart Weckert
Co-chair: Roger Fourme
MS 35 : Industrial process control for mineralogy and material
sciences
co-proposed with SIG 5 "Mineralogical
crystallography"
Chair: George Christidis
Co-chair: Ian Madsen
MS 36 : Issues in data collection and instrumentation
Chair: Paul Tucker
Co-chair: Gleb Bourenkov
MS 37 : X-ray scattering and diffraction techniques for
nanodiagnostics
Chair: Svetlana Zheludava
Co-chair: Sylvain Ravy
MS 38 : Magnetism by neutrons and Xrays
co-proposed with SIG 12 "Materials Science"
Chair: Thomas Brüeckel
Co-chair: Malcom J. Cooper
MS 44 : Developments and opportunities in time resolved
crystallography
co-proposed with SIG 12 "Materials Science"
Chair: Ake Kvick
Co-chair: Maciej Lorenc
MS 45 : Crystallography in Art and Archeology
co-proposed with SIG 5 "Mineralogical
crystallography"
Chair: Georges Tsoucaris
Co-chair: Eric Dooryhee
Report compiled by :
Dr. J.L. Hodeau, July 2007.
2005-2006
Activities of the ECA SIG "Instruments and Experimental Techniques" (IET SIG6) in the year 2005-2006
Report compiled by : J-L Hodeau (France), Chair IET SIG , IET SIG Executive Committee current members:- N E Chayen (UK), A Kvick (France) and J R Helliwell (UK)
IET-SIG 6 has actively supported the organizers of ECM23 with several suggestions and some SIG6 propositions were included in the ECM23 programme :
1 Plenary Lectures
Proposition of :
a - Prof J. Wark (Oxford, UK) on "Femtosecond x-ray
diffraction"
Co-proposition of :
b - Prof S. Larsen (ESRF, F) on "Progress in the application
of synchrotron radiation in chemistry and biology"
c - Prof G. Van Tendeloo (Antwerp, B) on electron diffraction
& microscopy : "Who y afraid of dynamical scattering?"
2 Lectures and Microsymposia
Co-proposition with SIG1 "Macromolecular Crystallography" of :
Co-proposition with SIG5 "Mineralogical Crystallography" of :
Proposition of :
3 The IET SIG 6 open meeting took place at the IUCr 2005 Congress in Florence where final propositions for ECM 23 in Leuven were adjusted. From August 2005, the IET SIG 6 Chair was proposed to be J-L Hodeau and the SIG6 Vice-Chair was proposed to be N Chayen ; this was supported by all members.
IET-SIG6 is heavily involved in the organisation and participation of workshops on new methods and instrumentation like specialized small workshops or long school like "High European Research Courses Using Large Experimental Systems".
The IET SIG 6 Executive Committee would meet within the ECM23 meeting in Leuven.
Dr. J-L Hodeau
July 2006.
2004-2005
Report compiled by: J R Helliwell, Chair IET SIG
IET SIG Executive Committee current members:- N E Chayen (UK)
A Kvick (France) and J-L Hodeau (France).
The SIG records with great sadness here the untimely death of its Vice-Chairman Prof Jacek Grochowski in June 2004 who died from a heart attack in Berlin on his way back from a synchrotron radiation run in HASYLAB. Jacek Grochowski was an incredibly energetic scientist and supporter of ECA activities. Notably Jacek was greatly involved in the organisation of ECM20 Krakow, Chair of the Syncrys2001Satellite Conference of the Krakow ECM and of course his work for the IET SIG6 of the ECA these last 5 years. He was also a friend and we miss him.
ECM22 Budapest activities included;
1 Pre-Conference Lecture to Hungarian scientists by J RHelliwell on EU Access "I3" funded programmes for Synchrotron Radiation and Neutron Facilities in Europe (on the occasion of Hungary's admission to the EU on May 1st 2004, obviously a timely lecture!).
2 Lectures and Microsymposia
a - Robotics and e-science in crystallography Plenary Lecture of the ECM22
(speaker C.Nave (UK)).
b - Microsymposium: Robotics in crystallographic experiment (hardware, software) organized by A. Kvick (France) and co-chaired by J. R. Helliwell (UK).
c - Microsymposium on Advances in neutron diffraction Chair T Koetzle (USA), Co-Chair E Svab (Hungary).
d - Microsymposium (shared with SIG 13): Materials difficult to crystallize: new technology versus art organized by N. Chayen (UK) and co-chaired by S. Bourne (RSA).
e - Microsymposium (shared with SIG 12): Novel diffraction methods applied to new charge/orbitally ordered materials (chair J-L. Hodeau (France), co-chair P. Thomas (UK)).
f - Microsymposium (shared with SIG 13): Chirality in solution, liquid and solid crystals (chair (in memorium) J. Grochowski (Poland), co-chair H. Flack (Switzerland)).
3 IET SIG 6 Open SIG Meeting took place immediately after the ECM22 Microsymposium on Robotics.
3.1 A review was discussed of the popularity of the IET SIG's Microsymposia abstracts submission; at 39 abstracts the IET SIG was exactly half way in the table of all abstracts submitted as analysed by SIG (top being SIG1 with over 150 abstracts and the bottom place involved a SIG with 8 abstracts). It was agreed that (a) the method of having broadly based Microsymposia topics (ie thus interesting a large fraction of ECA membership) and (b) shared microsymposia with another SIG on a more focussed topic of mutual interest both worked well.
3.2 A preliminary look forward to ECM 23 in Leuven was made.
3.3 The IET SIG 6 Executive Committee would meet within the IUCr 2005 Congress in Florence.
3.4 The vacancy of Vice-Chairman was agreed to be taken up by J L Hodeau. Moreover as the Chairman had served 5 years in extablishing and then running the SIG he stressed the importance of turnover and so in 2005 at Florence he proposed he would hand over to the Vice-Chairman to be the next Chairman. So, from August 2005 the IET SIG 6 Chair was proposed to be J L Hodeau; this was supported by all members present.
Prof J R Helliwell
April 2005.
2003-2004
2002-2003
In 2002/2003 the principal activities of the IET SIG of ECA
involved a variety of Microsymposia that members of the SIG designed
and organised for ECM 21 in Durban. Since in 2002 the XIX IUCr
Congress was organized, no direct need for IET SIG participation
appeared. However several members of our SIG have contributed as
chairs or co-chairs to the Geneva IUCr meeting
.
As a possible plenary lecture for Durban, IET SIG proposed
Tools for mineralogical crystallography".
2. Second IET SIG meeting took place in Geneva on August 8-th, 2002 at the XIX IUCr Congress site.
During the meeting:
e-mail to all IET SIG members ? was approved.
V- chair of IET SIG, was approved by the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of
ECM 21 and subsequently presented to the Publishers ? Participatants of the XIX IUCr
Congress Book Exhibition.
3. On the ECM 21 Joint Organizing and Programme Committees meeting held in Geneva on August 15-th, 2003 ? IET SIG representatives discussed distribution and harmonization of proposed Microsymposia among ?cientific fields of interest" of
13 active SIG , s. Since several of 45 Microsymposia organized and scheduled on the ECM 21 meeting in Durban were born due to cooperative effort of collaborating SIG,s ? our IET SIG activity report does not attribute their partial list strictly to IET SIG activity.
The present status of the Scientific Programme of the ECM 21 reflects contribution of our IET SIG to the work of the Programme and Organizing Committees, as well as positive results of inter-SIG cooperation.
Other activities included consultation on the organization of Instrumental Exhibition during ECM 22.
Prof John R Helliwell, Chairman ECA IET SIG
Prof Jacek Grochowsk i, Vice-Chairman ECA IET SIG
2001-2002
From
John
Helliwell
May 11, 2002
Report on the activities of the Instrumentation and Experimental Techniques SIG
In 2001 the principal activities of the IET SIG of ECA involved the variety of Microsymposia that its officers and members of the SIG organised for ECM in Krakow. In addition the SIG presented its report to the ECA Council. It also held its annual general meeting in Krakow into the early evening after one of the Krakow poster sessions. These various activities are reported on in detail below. After the ECM itself the IET SIG Vice-Chairman Prof Jacek Grochowski organised the Krynica Satellite meeting. This timely and very actively attended conference was a real highlight of activity with which the IET SIG was very glad to have been connected with. This is also explained in detail below.
Possible plenary for Durban: Tools for mineralogical crystallography.
Post-conference correspondence and chats indicate that SYNCRYS 2001 was very highly appreciated by the participants. A Conference Proceedings entitled "Synchrotron Crystallography, from Source to Applications"is now printed in Acta Physica Polonica, Section A, Vol. 101, (2002), pp. 559-802 - include 27 peer-reviewed papers, covering most important areas of present-day synchrotron crystallography:
Following the synergystic development of light sources and their applications in the short history of synchrotron crystallography, the papers cover the recent synchrotron radiation source development, its future vision, as well as frontier applications.
5. www site: The SIG sees the need for an improved www presence within the ECA website. The Chairman has approached Yves Epelboin to be the SIG's www Editor, who has agreed to do this.
6. The 2002 IET SIG annual general meeting has been set in Palexpo, Geneva (site of 19th IUCr Congress), for Thursday August 8th at lunchtime. (exact time and room to be announced).
Prof Jacek Grochowsk i, Vice-Chairman ECA IET SIG.
