XII Durham School

The BCA/CCG (Chemical Crystallography Group of the British Crystallographic Association) will be holding the 12^th Intensive Teaching School in X-Ray Structure Analysis at Trevelyan College, Durham University. The school is intented primarily for younger scientists with some experience of structure analysis who wish to improve their understanding of the underlying principles and practice. The work schedule is intensive, with lectures starting at 20:00 on Saturday 28^th March, 2009 and the last lecture schedule to finish on Sunday 5^th April at 17:30, followed by the school dinner. The school provides a good mixture of lectures and tutorials sessions. The atmosphere is friendly and the accommodation and food are excellent. Participants must have a very good understanding of spoken English since there is a lot of material to be covered in rather a short time.

The total cost of the course is £800, which includes registration, accommodation, all meals for the whole course and a full set of lecture notes. We have managed to raise significant sponsorship and will be able to offer a number of bursaries towards the course costs for both UK and overseas applicants. Since on January 5th there are still a few places left, the deadline for application has been extended to 31^st January 2009.

The main focus of the school is on chemical and materials science. Topics to be covered will include:

Accommodation will be at St. Mary's College and lectures/tutorials will be held in the Sir James Knott Hall, Trevelyan College. Durham is on the fast east coast railway, e.g. only ~2.75 hrs away from London and 2 hrs away from Edinburgh. There are a number of cheap flights direct to and from Newcastle Airport (e.g. flybe to Exeter/Southampton; Easy Jet to Bristol/Stansted/Geneva/Nice/Barcelona, etc). More travel information can be found here.

For more information please email a.e.goeta@durham.ac.uk .

Many thanks to our sponsors, without whom it would not be possible to hold this 12^th school:
EPSRC, IUCr, BCA/CCG, Bruker AXS, Oxford Diffraction, Oxford Cryosystems, Chemical Computing Group, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Rigaku.

		12^th BCA/CCG Intensive Teaching School in X-Ray Structure Analysis 28^th March - 6^th April 2009, Trevelyan College, Durham, UK

School Home Page Online Application General Information School Timetable School Staff Travelling to Durham Trevelyan College St. Mary's College Durham Chemistry Contact Sponsors: $Oxford Diffraction Home$		The BCA/CCG (Chemical Crystallography Group of the British Crystallographic Association) will be holding the 12^th Intensive Teaching School in X-Ray Structure Analysis at Trevelyan College, Durham University. The school is intented primarily for younger scientists with some experience of structure analysis who wish to improve their understanding of the underlying principles and practice. The work schedule is intensive, with lectures starting at 20:00 on Saturday 28^th March, 2009 and the last lecture schedule to finish on Sunday 5^th April at 17:30, followed by the school dinner. The school provides a good mixture of lectures and tutorials sessions. The atmosphere is friendly and the accommodation and food are excellent. Participants must have a very good understanding of spoken English since there is a lot of material to be covered in rather a short time. The total cost of the course is £800, which includes registration, accommodation, all meals for the whole course and a full set of lecture notes. We have managed to raise significant sponsorship and will be able to offer a number of bursaries towards the course costs for both UK and overseas applicants. Since on January 5th there are still a few places left, the deadline for application has been extended to 31^st January 2009. Online application for the 2009 school is now closed. The main focus of the school is on chemical and materials science. Topics to be covered will include: Growth and evaluation of non-macromolecular crystals Space group determination Background theory to data acquisition for small molecules and inorganics Practical aspects of data collection Practical aspects of data processing Fourier syntheses Patterson syntheses and direct methods for crystal structure determination Refinement of inorganic, organic and metal-organic structures Derivation of results Random and systematic errors Introduction to twinning Introduction to powder diffraction Crystallographic Information File (CIF) Crystallographic databases (CSD, ICSD, etc) Accommodation will be at St. Mary's College and lectures/tutorials will be held in the Sir James Knott Hall, Trevelyan College. Durham is on the fast east coast railway, e.g. only ~2.75 hrs away from London and 2 hrs away from Edinburgh. There are a number of cheap flights direct to and from Newcastle Airport (e.g. flybe to Exeter/Southampton; Easy Jet to Bristol/Stansted/Geneva/Nice/Barcelona, etc). More travel information can be found here. For more information please email a.e.goeta@durham.ac.uk . Many thanks to our sponsors, without whom it would not be possible to hold this 12^th school: EPSRC, IUCr, BCA/CCG, Bruker AXS, Oxford Diffraction, Oxford Cryosystems, Chemical Computing Group, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Rigaku.
		Modified 12-Nov-2008 by A.E. Goeta