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4th Workshop on Neutron Scattering Applications in Structural Biology
4th Workshop on Neutron Scattering Applications in Structural Biology Oak Ridge, TN (USA). June 24 – June 28, 2013 Application deadline: April 22, 2013 No registration fee. Travel and accommodation grants available for participants from U.S…
NIST "Summer School on Methods and Applications of Neutron Spectroscopy and Small Angle Neutron Scattering"
A one-week "Summer School on Methods and Applications of Neutron Spectroscopy and Small Angle Neutron Scattering” will be held June 17-June 21, 2013 at the NIST Center for Neutron Research. For information about the summer school go to htt…
Jeff Penfold Awarded the 2013 Rideal Lectureship
The Society of Chemical Industry and the Royal Society of Chemistry jointly awarded their 2013 Rideal Lectureship to Professor Jeff Penfold of the STFC ISIS Pulsed Neutron & Muon Source and Oxford University, for his major scientific co…
New Versions of FibreFix Released
Two new versions of FibreFix have been released: one for Windows 7 and higher (fixing a legacy issue with Microsoft .NET Framework 1), and another coded in Java (intended to facilitate future integration into ImageJ). See the Software page …
Neutrons and Life Sciences symposium
This ESS Science Symposium, co-hosted with the University of Copenhagen and the MoreLife Network at Lund University, will bring together current and potential users of neutron techniques in the biomedical sciences to discuss common challeng…
Neutrons for Future Energy Stategies
Finite fossil fuel reserves and growing environmental concerns have lead to an increase of interest in so-called renewable energy sources such as wind, solar or water energy. Consequently, the conversion and storage of energy and the supply…
Small angle neutron and X-ray scattering from proteins in solution Meeting
Small angle neutron and X-ray scattering from proteins in solution to be held in Grenoble, France, from May 6th to 10th. http://events.embo.org/13-SAXS/index.html
Calling All Biological Solution Small-Angle Scatterers: PDB-SAStf Seeks Community Input
During SAS2012 in Sydney, a panel discussion was held on publication guidelines for solution studies of biological macromolecules using SAS, and on the work of the Protein Data Bank Small-Angle Scattering Task Force (PDB-SAStf).The PDB-SASt…
Frontiers in Neutron Structural Biology
This meeting will bring together scientists to discuss new opportunities for biomedical research at the two advanced neutron user facilities (SNS and HFIR) at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Users now …
EMBO practical course on "Computational Structural Biology - from data to structure to function"
EMBO practical course on "Computational Structural Biology - from data to structure to function", EMBL Hamburg, 15-19 April 2013 http://events.embo.org/13-comp-structure/
canSAS VIII (8th canSAS Workshop)
The aim of this workshop was to provide a forum for SAS users and providers to discuss common needs and issues, learn from each other's experiences, and identify areas where collaboration could improve the field. Poster contributions were e…
SAS-2012 Proceedings Now Freely Available
The proceedings of the 15th International Small-Angle Scattering Conference (SAS-2012, Sydney, 18–23 November 2012) are now freely available for download. Editors: Duncan J. McGillivray, Jill Trewhella, Elliot P. Gilbert and Tracey L. Hanle…
Neutrons 2.0: workshop on software for neutron scattering
http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/events/neutrons-software/ The scope is to give audience a schematic overview of the individual steps in neutron scattering data analysis (DA) and identify similarities and challenges between techniques for syn…
The Impact and Future of Scattering Techniques in Soft Matter
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ATSAS v2.5 Released
A new release of the ATSAS program suite for biological macromolecule SAS analysis. ATSAS 2.5 is free for download for academic users.
Otto Glatter Awarded the 2012 Guinier Prize
The 2012 Guinier Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Small-Angle Scattering was awarded to Professor Otto Glatter of the University of Graz, Austria. The citation recognised his dedicated development, application, and dissemination of small-a…
Nordic Soft matter Scattering
As it is the tradition, the meeting will consist of a good mixture of exiting invited and contributed scientific talks, a good poster session that will allow for more in-depth scientific discussions and, of course, a nice dinner giving opti…
AsCA 12 / CRYSTAL 28 and the Bragg Symposium
A Joint Meeting of the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA), Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand (SCANZ) and the BRAGG Symposium marking 100 years since the founding of X-ray crystallography by William Bragg. http…
John W White Symposium: Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter
The “Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter by Scattering Methods; Past Present and Future. A Prof. John White Celebratory Symposium” is a satellite meeting to the SAS2012 conference. The meeting is being held in celebration of Profess…
15th International Small Angle Scattering conference (SAS 2012)
The 15th International Small Angle Scattering meeting http://sas2012.com
Advanced Bonse-Hart USAS Technique for Large Scale Structures
This satellite meeting to the SAS2012 conference focuses at the contemporary tendency in ultra-small-angle scattering to develop Bonse-Hart double-crystal diffractometers operating with the high-orders of the Bragg reflection. This approac…
AusBioSAXS
The ausBioSAS workshop aims to improve the proficiency of biologists who are using, or plan to use, small angle scattering techniques in their research. Both new and existing users of SAS techniques are invited to take part, with data coll…
GISAS 2012
This workshop brings together different communities working in the field of thin films, nanostructures, surfaces and interfaces comprising of soft matters, hard matters and both, to gain insights into the very powerful method of grazing inc…
International Conference on Natural Polymers (ICPN-2012)
This conference will be one of the big international meetings exclusively dedicated to Natural Polymers, Biomaterials, Biopolymers their Blends, Composites, IPNS and Gels from Macro to Nano scales. The conference will be extremely useful in…
ICNS2013 - International Conference on Neutron Scattering
The next International Conference on Neutron Scattering will take place in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland, at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, from 8 - 12 July 2013. ICNS 2013 will bring together scientists from a wid…
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