First Announcement
The 52nd Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference
Commerating the retirement of Dr. Richard K. McMullan
from Brookhaven National Laboratory
November 3 - 5, 1994
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Prof. Bryan Craven
General Chairman
The scientific program will be focused on four areas. These areas and some
of the speakers invited are as follows:
Hydration & Hydrogen Bonding
Jeffrey (Pittsburgh)
Mootz (Dusseldorf)
Berman (Rutgers)
Newton (Brookhaven National Lab)
Feil (Twente)
Nagle (Carnegie-Mellon)
Inorganic & Mineral Structures
Artioli (Milan)
Ghose (Washington)
Wuensch (MIT)
Sabine (Lucas Heights)
Organic & Organometallic Structures
Koetzle (Brookhaven National Lab)
Leiserowitz (Weizmann)
Schwarzenbach (Lausanne)
Beurskens (Niemegen)
Howard (Durham)
Macromolecular Structures
Swaminathan (Pittsburgh)
Sundaralingam (Ohio State)
Kim (UC, Berkley)
Seeman (New York University)
Fox (Yale)
A general poster session will be held in conjunction with the meeting.
Graduate students are especially encourged to present their work. A $200.00
prize in the memory of Dr. Chung Soo Yoo will be awarded to the best poster
presentation by a student.
Poster abstracts should be sent to Joan Klinger, Department of Crystallography
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260. The deadline for Abstracts is
October 1, 1994.
Nominations are now being accepted for the Sidhu Award. This award is for an
outstanding contribution to diffraction or crystallography by an investigator
who is less than five years from graduation. The awardee will be invited to
present a lecture at the conference and receive a $500.00 cash prize.
Nominations for the Sidhu award should be sent to Prof. Bi-Cheng Wang,
Deptartment of Crystallography, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260.
All nominations with supporting letter and c.v. must be received before
October 1, 1994.
Meeting accommodations can be made at the following hotels:
The University Club The Holiday Inn, University Center
123 University Place 100 Lytton Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone:(412) 621-1890 Phone:(412) 682-6200
Fax: (412) 621-8382 Fax: (412) 682-5745
Contact:
Ms. Elizabeth Johnson
Assistant Banquet Manager
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Registrtion Form
Name: ______________________________________________________________________
Address: ___________________________________________________________________
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Registration Fee $55.00, Students $10.00 $________
Banquet Fee $35.00 $________
Total enclosed $________
I will be presenting a poster (yes/no) ________
Poster title: ______________________________________________________________
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Abstract deadline October 1, 1994.
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Mail registration form to:
Prof. Bryan Craven
Department of Crystallography
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA, 15260
