PDC 94
John P Rose
rose+ at pitt.edu
Mon Oct 3 14:59:32 EST 1994
Final Announcement
THE 52nd ANNUAL
PITTSBURGH DIFFRACTION CONFERENCE
November 3-5, 1994
Mellon Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
and Clapp Hall, University of Pittsburgh
Honoring
Dr. Richard K. McMullan
on the occasion of his retirement
from the Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tentative Program
Thursday, November 3: Auditorium, Mellon Institute
8:30 am Opening Remarks
Prof. Helen Berman
President, Pittsburgh Diffraction Society
SYMPOSIUM Hydration and Hydrogen Bonding
Chair: Prof. Bryan Craven
8:45 am Clathrate Hydrates, Then and Now
Prof. G. A. Jeffrey, University of Pittsburgh
9:15 am The Formation and Stabilization of DNA by Water
Prof. M. Sundaralingam, Ohio State University
9:45 am Hydration of Helices: Some Anecdotes and Systematic
Studies
Prof. Helen Berman, Rutgers University
10:15 am Break
10:30 am Charge Transfer Mechanisms in Aqueous and Other
Condensed-Phase Media
Dr. Marshall Newton, Brookhaven National Lab.
11:00 am The Effect of Hydrogen Bonding on the Electron Density
Distribution
Prof. Dirk Feil, University of Twente, The Netherlands
11:30 am Hydrated Lipid Bilayers: Structure and Fluctuations
Prof. John Nagle, Carnegie Mellon University
12:00 pm From Alkali-Hydroxide Hydrates to Superacids: New
Studiesof Hydrogen-Bonded Systems and Crystal Structures
Prof. Dietrich Mootz, Heinrich-Heine-Univ., Dusseldorf
12:30 pm Hydrogen Bonded Structures in Organometallic Chemistry
and Beyond
Prof. Lee Brammer, University of Missouri-St. Louis
1:00 pm Break
SYMPOSIUM Inorganic and Mineral Structures
Chair: Prof. Dieter Schwarzenbach
2:30 pm Clusters and Networks in Polar Intermetallic Phases
Prof. John Corbett, Iowa State University
3:00 pm High Temperature Crystal Chemistry of Olivine by
Neutron Diffraction
Prof. Gilberto Artioli, Universita di Milano, Italy
3:30 pm Structural Phase Transitions in Minerals
Prof. Subrata Ghose, University of Washington
4:00 pm Break
4:15 pm Distribution and Anharmonic Thermal Motion of the
Mobile Cations in Ag+ and Cu+ Fast-Ion Conductors
Prof. Bernhardt Wuensch, Mass. Inst. of Technology
4:45 pm The First High Pressure Measurements on the Swiss-
Norwegian Beamline at the European Synchrotron
Radiation Facility
Dr. Hans-Peter Weber, Univ. de Lausanne, Switzerland
5:15 pm Prospects for New Crystallographic Experiments at
the Third Generation Synchrotrons
Dr. Ake Kvick, Eur. Syn. Radiation Facility, Grenoble
5:45 pm Neutron and X-ray Extinction Effects in Simple
Crystal Structures
Prof. Terence Sabine, ANSTO, Lucas Heights, NSW
Thursday Evening
POSTER SESSION Conference Room, Mellon Institute
Chair: Prof. S. Swaminathan
Posters will be on display throughout Thursday and on Friday until
6:00 pm. A mixer with wine and cheese will be held in the Conference
Room beginning at 7:30 pm. Judging for the Chung Soo Yoo Award will
take place.
Friday November 4: Auditorium, Mellon Institute
SYMPOSIUM Organic and Organometallic Structural Chemistry
Chair: Prof. Martin Sax
9:00 am Patterson Methods and Automated R2-Driven Structure
Expansion for Small Molecule X-ray Structure Analysis
Prof. Paul Beurskens, Univ. Nijmegen, The Netherlands
9:30 am Neutron Diffraction Study of Spermine Phosphate
Hexahydrate
Dr. John Ruble, University of Pittsburgh
10:00 am Structure-Reactivity Relationships in Intramolecular
Dyotropy
Prof. Judith Howard, University of Durham, England
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Structures of Transition-Metal Hydrides
Dr. Thomas Koetzle, Brookhaven National Laboratory
11:15 am Coordination Chemistry of Transition Metal Hydrides
Prof. Alberto Albinati, Universitˆ di Milano, Italy
11:45 am Break
SYMPOSIUM Organic and Organometallic Structural Chemistry (continued)
Chair: Dr. Thomas Koetzle
1:15 pm Diffraction Studies of Adsorbed Films
Dr. John Larese, Brookhaven National Laboratory
1:45 pm Molecular Interactions at Interfaces with a Focus
on Crystal Nucleation
Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz, Weizmann Institute, Israel
2:15 pm The Crystallography of Fullerenes: C70 and C60
Prof. Dieter Schwarzenbach, Univ. Lausanne, Switzerland
2:45 pm Modelling the Aspherical Density in C60
Dr. Jon Hanson, Brookhaven National Laboratory
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Conformation and Bonding in Metal Phosphine Complexes
Dr. Guy Orpen, University of Bristol, England
4:15 pm Tales of the Unexpected: Crystallography of Organic
Complexes of Oxovanadium(IV)
Dr. Pedro Matias, Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
4:45 pm Structure of and Amide Dynamics in the Biological Model
System Acetanilide
Dr. Juergen Eckert, Los Alamos National Laboratory
5:15 pm Break
Friday Evening: University Club
5:15 pm Reception and Banquet,Presentation of the Sidhu Award
and the Chung Soo Yoo Award
Speaker: Prof. George A. Jeffrey
Saturday, November 5: Clapp Hall, University of Pittsburgh
9:00 am Sidhu Award Lecture
Chair: Prof. Helen Berman
SYMPOSIUM Macromolecular Structure and Function
Chair: Prof. Bi-Cheng Wang
9:30 am Structural Basis for Signal Transduction in Cells
Prof. Sung-Hou Kim, University of California, Berkeley
10:00 am Engineering Loops and Turns in Proteins
Prof. Robert Fox, Yale University
10:30 am Structure Determination of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin
C2: Easy or Difficult?
Prof. S. Swaminathan, VA Med.Ctr. and Univ.of Pitts.
11:00 am Break
11:15 am Structural Neurobiology
Prof. Raymond Stevens, University of California, Berkeley
11:45 am Control of DNA Structure
Prof. Nadrian Seeman, New York University
12:15 am Electrostatic Properties of Nucleic Acids from
Diffraction Data
Prof. Bryan Craven, University of Pittsburgh
12:45 pm Concluding Remarks
General Information
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 15, 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 15, 1994.
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Mail registration form to:
Prof. Bryan Craven
Department of Crystallography
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA, 15260
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