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	Chair	Co-chair	Secretary
SIG1 MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY	Keith Wilson York Structural Biology Laboratory University of York, Heslington, York, UK. YO10 5DD Phone: +44(01904) 328262	Elspeth Garman Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, England	Gerlind Sulzenbacher Architecture et Fonction des Macromolecules Biologiques, CNRS Case 932, 163 Avenue de Luminy, Marseille, 13288, France
SIG2 CHARGE, SPIN AND MOMENTUM DENSITY Website	Bo Brummerstedt Iversen Department of Chemistry and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) University of Aarhu DK-8000 Arhus C, Denmark Phone: +45 8942 3969 Fax: +45 8619 6199 Website	Ullrich Pietsch Universität Siegen Walter-Flex-Str. 3 D-57068 Siegen, Germany Phone: +49 271 7403755 Fax: +49 271 7403763 Website	Carlo Gatti ISTM-CNR,Dept Physical Chemistry Via Golgi 19 Milano, 20133, Italy Phone: +39.02.50134277 Fax : +39.02.50134300 Website
SIG3 APERIODIC CRYSTALLOGRAPHY Website	Sander van Smaalen Laboratory of Crystallography BGI Building, University of Bayreuth Universitütsstrasse 30 D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany Phone: +49-921-553886 fax: +49-921-553770		Michal Dusek Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences Cukrovarnicka 10 16253 PRAHA, Czech Republic
SIG4 ELECTRON CRYSTALLOGRAPHY Website	Louisa Meshi Electron Microscopy Unit Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva, Israel Phone: +972-54-5909283		Ute Kolb Institut fur Physikalische Chemie Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz Welderweg 11 55099 Mainz Germany Tel.: 0049 6131 3924154 Fax: 0049 6131 3923768 Website
SIG5 MINERAL AND INORGANIC CRYSTALLOGRAPHY MIC Website	Frédéric Hatert Département de géologie / Minéralogie et cristallochimie Bât. B18 Minéralogie et cristallochimie Universite de Liège boulevard du Rectorat 17 4000 Liège 1, Belgique Phone.: +32 4 3662143 Fax.: +32 4 3662202 Website	Sergey V. Krivovichev Dept. Crystallography Faculty of Geology St.Petersburg State University University Emb. 7/9 199034 St.Petersburg, Russia Phone +7 812 328 96 47	Massimo Nespolo CRM2 Nancy Université B.P. 70239 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex France Phone: +33-383-684885 Fax: +33-383-406492 Website
SIG6 IET INSTRUMENTATION AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES	Jean-Louis Hodeau Institut NEEL, CNRS, BP 166X , F-38042 GRENOBLE Cedex, France	Naomi Chayen Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London Phone +44 (0)20 7594 3240	Gernot Heger Department of Crystallography RWTH Aachen
SIG7 MIR MOLECULAR INTERACTION AND RECOGNITION	Susan Bourne Department of Chemistry University of Cape Town Private Bag Rondebosch, 770 South Africa Phone: +27-216502563	Carl Henrik Gorbitz Department of Chemistry University of Oslo PO Box 1033 Blindern N-0315 Oslo, Norway Phone: +47-22855460	Paola Gilli Dipartimento di Chimica Università di Ferrara Via L. Borsari 46 I-44100 Ferrara, Italy Phone: +39-0532-455-141
SIG8 POWDER DIFFRACTION Website	Paolo Scardi Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies University of Trento Via Mesiano 77, I-38050 Trento, Italy Phone: +39 0461 882417/67/22 Fax: +39 0461 881977 Website	Robert Cernik Manchester University Materials Science Centre, Grosvonor St, Manchester, UK	Udo Welzel Dept Prof. Dr Ir. E.J. Mittemeijer Max Planck Institute for Metals Research Heisenbergstr. 3, Stuttgart 70569, Germany
SIG9 COM CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC COMPUTING Website	Harry Powell MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH, UK Phone: +44 (0) 1223 248011 Fax: +44 (0) 1223 213556 website	Lachlan Cranswick Canadian Neutron Beam Centre National Research Council Canada Building 459, Chalk River Laboratories Chalk River ON, Canada, K0J 1J0
SIG10 X-RAY DIFFRACTION PHYSICS AND OPTICS	Mikhail Kovalchuk Institute of Crystallography Russian Academy of Sciences Leninsky pr. 59 117333 Moswcow, Russia	Bernarde Capelle IMPMC, Case 115 4 Place Jussieu F-75252 Paris, France
SIG11 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY under EXTREME CONDITIONS	Leonid Dubrovinsky Bayerisches GeoinstitutUniversity Bayreuth D-95440 BayreuthGermany Tel. +49-921-553736 Fax +49-921-553769	Alfonso San-Miguel Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée et Nanostructures Université Lyon 1 and CNRS 43 Bvd du 11 Novembre 1918 F-69622 Villeurbanne, Cedex Tel. (+33) (0)4 72 44 80 57 FAX (+33) (0)4 72 43 29 25	Karen Friese Department of Condensed Matter Physics Faculty of Science and Technology University of the Basque Country Apdo. 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain Tel. +34 94 601 5481 Fax. +34 94 601 3500
SIG12 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY of FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS	Helmut Ehrenberg Leibniz-IFW Dresden P.O.B. 27 00 16 D-01171 Dresden, Germany Phone: +49 351 4659 246 Fax: +49 351 4659 452	Julien Haines Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier UMR 5253 CNRS-UM2-ENSCM-UM1 Equipe C2M Université Montpellier II Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc Place E. Bataillon cc 1504 34095 MONTPELLIER cedex 5 FRANCE Phone: +33 (0)467 14 93 49 Fax: +33 (0)467 14 42 90	Xavier Torrelles Institut de Ciència de Materiales de Barcelona Campus UAB, Bellaterra 08193 Barcelona, Spain website
SIG13 MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES Website	Fernando J. Lahoz Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragon (ICMA) Dpto. Quimica Inorganica, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC 50009 Zaragoza (SPAIN) Tel: +34 976 761147 Fax: +34 976 761187	Paul Raithby Department of Chemistry University of Bath BATH BA2 7AY U.K. Tel: +44 (0)1225 383183 (direct line) Tel: +44 (0)1225 386444 (secretary) Fax: +44 (0)1225 386231	Alessandra Crispini Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche Edificio Polifunzionale Universita della Calabria 87030 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy Tel: +39 0984 492888 Fax: +39 0984 492067