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MaThCryst forthcoming activities
Summer School, June 2023, Nancy (France)
Eleventh basic and second advanced training course on symmetry and group theory, July 2023, Tsukuba (Japan)
International School on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography
First MaThCryst School in Latin America
The University of Havana, Cuba
15-20 July 2007
The IUCr-MaThCryst commission, in cooperation with the IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Teaching (CTC) and with the IUCr Commission on Inorganic and Mineral Structures (CIMS), has organised an International School on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography at the The school was held at the Universidad de la Habana Cuba.
Program
- 15 July, Sunday: arrival and registration
- 16 July, Monday: Group theory applied to crystallography: part I. Dimension-independent fundamental notions of crystallographic groups (lattices, point groups, vector systems); classification of crystallographic groups (arithmetic/geometric classes, crystal systems, lattice systems, crystal families). Bernd Souvignier, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 17 July, Tuesday: Group theory applied to crystallography: part II. Application of crystallographic group theory to concrete problems in lower dimensional space. Marjorie Senechal, Smith College Northampton U.S.A.
- 18 July, Wednesday: Twinned crystals as polychromatic objects
- Morning session:Polychromatic point groups and their mathematics Marjorie Senechal, Smith College Northampton, U.S.A.
- Afternoon session:Reticular and symmetry theory of twins Massimo Nespolo, Université Henri Poincaré Nancy I, France
- 19 July, Thursday: OD structures Stefano Merlino, Università di Pisa, Italy
- 20 July, Friday, morning session: The mathematics of Polytypes Ernesto Estévez Rams, Institute for Materials and Reagents, Cuba
- 20 July, Friday, afternoon session: Modeling modular inorganic structures Giovanni Ferraris, Università di Torino, Italy
International Program Committe
Prof. Massimo Nespolo, Chair (MaThCryst)
Prof.
(CTC)
Prof. Giovanni Ferraris (CIMS)
Prof.
(IMRE)
Local Organizing Committee
Prof.
, Chair
Dr.
, Vice-chair
MSc. Cristy Azanza Ricardo
Ms.
, Secretary
Language
The official language of the School was English. No simultaneous interpretation was provided.
Didactic material
The files of the part of the presentations are available for download in one of the following format:
- PDF: you need a pdr reader like Acrobat Reader or PDF Exchange viewer (free)
- Impress: presentation software included in the suite Open Office (free). Use F5 to start the presentation show
- PowerPoint: presentation software included in the suite Microsoft Office (version 2000 or later). It can also be visualized by Impress (use F5 to start the presentation show).
Files
- B. Souvignier: Syllabus (pdf) (213 Kb)
- B. Souvignier: Slides (pdf) (237 Kb)
- B. Souvignier: Exercises (pdf) 48 Kb)
- M. Senechal: Introduction (pdf) (2.5 Mb)
- M. Senechal: Symmetry Groups (pdf) (791 Kb)
- M. Senechal: Subgroups (pdf) (95 Kb)
- M. Senechal: Lattices (I) (pdf) (1.2 Mb)
- M. Senechal: Lattices (II) (pdf) (416 Kb)
- M. Senechal: Color symmetry (pdf) (1.6 Mb)
- M. Nespolo: Definitions (Impress) (853 Kb)
- M. Nespolo: Twin index (Impress) (191 Kb)
- M. Nespolo: Twin Point Groups (Impress) (58 Kb)
- S. Merlino: OD structures: fundamentals of OD theory; examples and applications (1) (PowerPoint) (9.1 Mb)
- S. Merlino: OD structures: fundamentals of OD theory; examples and applications (2) (PowerPoint) (4.0 Mb)
- S. Merlino: OD structures: fundamentals of OD theory; examples and applications (3) (PowerPoint) (4.6 Kb)
- S. Merlino: Table of OD orthorhombic and monoclinic groupoId families (pdf) (38 Kb)
- E.E. Rams : The mathematics of polytypes (pdf) (3.9 Mb)
- G. Ferraris: Lecture text (pdf) (2.1 Mb)
- G. Ferraris: Exercises (pdf) (2.0 Kb)
- G. Ferraris: Solutions of the exercises (pdf) (528 Kb)
Local address
The address of the school website at the Havana University is http://havana2007.cristalografia.net/.
List of participants
Besides the lecturer and the members of the local organizing committee, the school was attended by 38 participants from 11 countries.
| Name | Country | |
|---|---|---|
| Juan Antonio Jiménez Gallegos | Mexico | |
| Christian Danie Farfán Barrera | Guatemala | |
| Sofía Romero Vargas | Mexico | |
| Cristina Pérez Krap | Mexico | |
| Gerardo Muñoz Montoya | Mexico | |
| Zailex C. García González | Venezuela | |
| César Octavio Vázquez Carmona | Mexico | |
| Luis Miguel Villamagua Conza | Ecuador | |
| Jorge Luis Cholula Díaz | Mexico | |
| Milton Carlos González Sánchez | Mexico | |
| Melissa Mederos Vidal | Cuba | |
| Javier Martínez Pons | Cuba | |
| Zahily Herrero Fernández | Cuba | |
| Leorlen Rojas Mazaira | Cuba | |
| Leonel Raúl Morejón Hernández | Cuba | |
| Alis Rodríguez Manso | Cuba | |
| Yoandys Gómez de la Torre | Cuba | |
| Alejandro Álvarez Paneque | Cuba | |
| Marek Pascioli | Poland | , |
| Tamara Djordjevic | Austria | |
| Mailyn Pérez Jiva | Cuba | |
| Llaneel García C. | Cuba | |
| Abel Gutarra | Peru | |
| Taryn Nefdt | South Africa | |
| Solemar Oliveira | Brazil | |
| Ana Elisa Bergues Pupo | Cuba | |
| Idelisa Bergues Cabrales | Cuba | |
| Yurimiler Leyet Ruiz | Cuba | |
| Juan Carlos Somarriba | Cuba | |
| Omar López Armas | Cuba | |
| Rafael Mendoza Meroño | Cuba | |
| Juan Ceballos | Mexico | |
| Claudia Damiani | Mexico | |
| Adaris López | Cuba | |
| Johan R. González | Cuba | |
| Roberto Domínguez | Cuba | |
| Jennifer Martínez | Cuba | |
| S.I. Ben Abraham | Israel |
The Organizers of the Havana 2007 International School on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography has observed the basic policy of non-discrimination and affirms the right and freedom of scientists to associate in international scientific activity without regard to such factors as citizenship, religion, creed, political stance, ethnic origin, race, colour, language, age or sex, in accordance with the Statutes of the International Council for Science. At this school no barriers existed which would have prevented the participation of bona fide scientists.
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Last update:
19 October 2007