MaThCryst forthcoming activities


School on Fundamental Crystallography, April 2010, Bloemfontein (South Africa)

MaThCryst Summer Schools, June 2010, Nancy (France)

ECM26 Satellite Conference, August 2010, Darmstadt (Germany)

School on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography, November 2010, Montevideo (Uruguay)


Topology of crystal structures: nets, knots and surfaces

IUCr-XX congress, Microsymposium 66
Sunday, August 28 the afternoon session

The XX Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography will be held in Florence, Italy, August 23-31, 2005

Scientists working/interested on the field of topology of crystal structures should not miss the Microsymposium MS66 on Topology of crystal structures: nets, knots and surfaces that will take place on sunday, August 28 in the afternoon session.

The session will include five oral presentations, three are :

Prof. Michael O'Keeffe (MaThCryst)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 85287, USA.
Self-dual Tilings and Interpenetrating Nets

Prof. Elke Koch (MaThCryst)
Institut fur Mineralogie Petrologie und Kristallographie
Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Sphere packings with exceptional properties

Prof. Stephen Hyde (MaThCryst)
Applied Maths Dept, Research School of Physical Sciences
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Knotted nets and weavings - from 2D hyperbolic to 3D euclidean patterns

Dr. Stuart Batten
School of Chemistry, Monash University, Australia
The Nomenclature of Interpenetration

Prof. Vladislav Anatolievich Blatov
Department of Chemistry, Samara State University, Russia
Computer Analysis and Classification of Entanglements in Crystal Structures

Davide M. Proserpio Chair
DCSSI, Università di Milano, Italy

Jean-Guillaume Eon, Co-Chair
Instituto de Quimica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil