By recently-signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the ‘International Association of Physics Students’, working to support friendly relations among physics students, has formalized its collaboration with the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr).
3 The International Union of Crystallography, IUCr, has appointed two main editors for its newsletter. They are Henry Chapman, the Co-editor of IUCr Journal; and Prof. Xiaodong Zou of the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University.
The French Society for Mineralogy and Crystallography will host the ’23rd General Meeting’ of the ‘International Mineralogical Association’ between 18–22 July 2022, in Lyon.
Established in 2020, the Emirates Crystallographic Society, ECS, is another milestone for the growing research community in United Arab Emirates, write Panče Naumov, Sharmarke Mohamed, Liang Li and Wael Rabeh.
Delia Haynes as President and 8 others as executive members have been elected to run the affairs of the newly-formed African Crystallographic Association (AfCA).
With stories about coronavirus dominating the news, it is encouraging to hear that crystallographers around the world are making strong contributions to the efforts to find a vaccine and advance therapeutics.
As light sources push the limits of research and innovation, it’s important not to leave any regions in the dark. One effort to increase access to these rare and complex facilities is LAAAMP—Lightsources for Africa, the Americas, Asia and Middle East Project.
How can basic sciences infrastructures contribute to sustainable development? This question was at the center of what can be seen as the first pre-event of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development. The exact title of the session organized and moderated by Michel Spiro, President of IUPAP and of IYBSSD steering committee, and…
