Topics & Sub-Topics

01	Instrumentation and Experimental Techniques
1.	Conventional Sources of X-rays
2.	Synchrotron Radiation I:Instrumentation and Techniques
3.	Synchrotron Radiation II: Applications
4.	New X-ray Sources
5.	Electron Diffraction (LEED, RHEED, PED, AED)
6.	Cryo-Electron Microscopy
7.	X-ray Imaging
8.	Neutron Scattering I:Techniques and Instrumentation
9.	Neutron Scattering II: Applications
10.	Area Detectors(Multi-wire, Image Plate, CCD)
11.	Data Accuracy and Detectors
12.	Cryo-Crystallography:Techniques and Instrumentation
13.	Fast (pico-second) Crystallography
14.	Free Electron Lasers for X-rays

02	Methods for Structure Determination
1.	Difficult Structures
2.	Direct Methods of Phase Determination
3.	Maximum Entropy Methods
4.	Anomalous Dispersion/MAD/MIR Phasing
5.	Laue Time-Resolved Methods
6.	Incommensurate Structure Solution
7.	EXAFS and XANES
8.	High Resolution NMR and Macromolecules
9.	Liquid Structure Determination
10.	Structure Prediction: Computational Methods
11.	Ab Initio Powder Diffraction Solutions:Molecular Compounds
12.	Ab Initio Powder Diffraction Solutions:Inorganic Compounds
13.	Ab Initio Powder Diffraction Solutions:Electron Diffraction
14.	Ab Initio Low Resolution Macromolecular Phasing
15.	X-ray and Neutron Complementarity
16.	Rietveld Refinement Methods

03	Computers in Analysis, Molecular Modelling and Molecular Design
1.	Programs for Refinement and Analysis
2.	Atomic Displacement Analyses and Variable Temperature Analyses
3.	Graphics and Virtual Reality
4.	Rational Drug Design
5.	Materials Design
6.	Structure Simulations: Inorganic Crystals
7.	Structure Simulations: Protein Folding Studies
8.	Map Fitting and Modification
9.	Image Reconstruction
10.	Homology Modelling, Structural Families and Docking
11.	Use of Genetic Algorithms and Other Optimization Methods

04	Crystallography of Biological Macromolecules
1.	Peptide and Protein Crystallization
2.	Enzymes and Enzyme Catalysis
3.	Metallo-Enzymes
4.	Muscle and Motor Proteins
5.	Nucleic Acids
6.	Protein - DNA Interactions
7.	Protein - RNA Interactions
8.	Protein Design and Engineering
9.	Protein Biosynthesis
10.	Cryo-Crystallography: Applications to Macromolecules
11.	Proteins of the Immune System
12.	Receptor and Signal Transduction Proteins
13.	Viruses and Viral Proteins
14.	Macromolecular Assemblies
15.	Macromolecular Based Drug Design
16.	Multidomain Proteins
17.	Structural Motifs
18.	Organelles
19.	Diseases and Toxicity
20.	NMR Applications to Macromolecules
21.	Time Resolved Studies
22.	Structural Genomics
23.	High Resolution Protein Structures
24.	Water and Other Solvent Structures in Macromolecules
25.	Hot Macromolecular Structures

05	Crystallography of Biological Small Molecules
1.	Peptides
2.	CNS Agents
3.	Antibiotics
4.	Steroids
5.	Other Natural Products
6.	Other Biosynthetic and Exotic Molecules
7.	Hydrogen Bonding and Included Water Structure

06	Crystallography of Organic Compounds
1.	Sugars
2.	Lipids
3.	Alkaloids
4.	Fused Ring Systems
5.	Fullerenes and Carbon Cages
6.	Supramolecular Assemblies
7.	Inclusion Compounds and Complexes
8.	Intercalates
9.	Clathrates

07	Crystallography of Organometallic, Coordination and Main Group Compounds
1.	Metal Atom Complexes (N = 1-3) and Metal Clusters (N>3)
2.	Molecular Recognition Complexes
3.	Fullerene Metal Complexes
4.	Supramolecular Coordination Complexes
5.	Main Group Chemistry
6.	Cage and Metallo-Cage Structures
7.	Bio-Inorganic Structures
8.	Bio-Mineralization and Modifications
9.	Inclusion Compounds and Clathrates
10.	Molecular Magnets

08	Structure/Property Relationships
1.	Molecular Recognition
2.	Chemical Crystallography of the Future
3.	Dynamic Properties in Molecular Crystals
4.	Solid State Reactions
5.	Structural Thermodynamics and Kinetic Aspects
6.	Phase Transitions
7.	Analysis of Atomic Displacement Parameters
8.	Intermolecular Interactions
9.	Structure and Chemical Reactivity
10.	Polymorphism and Isomorphism: Identification and Characterization
11.	Polymorphism: Applications
12.	Time Resolved in situ Reactions
13.	Hydrogen Bonding Studies
14.	Structure-Property Relationships

09	Crystal Engineering
1.	General Applications and Strategy
2.	Organic Compounds
3.	Inorganic Compounds
4.	Organometallic Complexes
5.	Intermolecular Interactions: Exploitation
6.	Noncentrosymmetric Systems: Creation and Applications

10	Inorganic Crystallography and Geosciences
1.	General Geosciences
2.	Systematics of Inorganic Compounds
3.	Systematics in Geosciences
4.	High Pressure and High Temperature Studies
5.	Minerals: Characterization Methods and Structures
6.	Zeolites (Natural and Synthetic)
7.	Exotic Molecules

11	Crystallography in Material Science
1.	Superconducting and Semi-Conducting Materials
2.	Catalysis: In situ Studies
3.	Giant Magnetoresistance Materials
4.	Fullerene Complexes: Applications
5.	Noncrystalline Materials
6.	Ceramics, Glasses and Amorphous Materials
7.	Aperiodic and Incommensurate Structures
8.	Polymers
9.	Liquid Crystals
10.	Nonlinear Optical and Electronic Materials
11.	Perovskite Materials
12.	Ferroic and Ferroelectric Structures
13.	Battery and Fuel Cell Materials
14.	Residual Stress Measurements
15.	Pore Framework Materials

12	Surfaces, Interfaces, Liquids and Thin Films
1.	Surface and Interface Crystallography by X-ray and Neutron Diffraction
2.	Surfaces and Catalysis
3.	Dynamic Diffraction Methods
4.	X-ray Reflectivity: Instrumentation and Applications
5.	Neutron Reflectometry: Techniques and Applications
6.	Recent Liquid Structure Determination
7.	Small Angle Scattering
8.	Diffuse Scattering
9.	Interfacial Structures
10.	Micelles
11.	Thin Films and Multilayers
12.	Magnetic and Conducting Properties of Thin Films

13	Fibre Diffraction
1.	Polymers: Synthetic Fibres
2.	Structure Determination of Fibres
3.	Biological Fibre Diffraction
4.	Non-Periodic and Disordered Fibres

14	Charge, Spin and Momentum Density
1.	Multipole and Other Modelling Methods
2.	Software Developments
3.	Applications of Synchrotron Data
4.	Maximum Entropy Applications
5.	Experimental Methods and Techniques
6.	Topological Analyses
7.	Molecular and Crystal Properties from Charge Densities
8.	Magnetization and Spin Densities
9.	New Frontiers

15	Diffraction Physics and Optics
1.	Interferometry
2.	Inelastic Scattering
3.	Neutron Optics
4.	X-ray Optics: Lenses, Guides and Focusing
5.	Resonant Magnetic X-ray Diffraction
6.	Anisotropic Resonant Scattering
7.	Polarization: Generation and Exploitation
8.	Dynamical Diffraction
9.	Extinction and Absorption
10.	N-beam Diffraction
11.	Grazing Angle Incidence

16	Crystal Growth: Techniques, Instrumentation and Applications
1.	Systems that are Difficult to Crystallize
2.	Industrial Mass Crystallization
3.	Crystal Growth from Solution and Gels
4.	Crystal Growth and Characterization from the Melt
5.	Microgravity Crystallization
6.	Epitaxial Growth
7.	Crystal Doping and Imperfections
8.	Self-Assembled Crystals
9.	Exploitation of Chirality
10.	Crystal Growth: Modelling, and Predicting Morphology
11.	Morphology Modification: Theory and Experiment
12.	Twinning: Acceptance and Avoidance
13.	Polymorphism: Recognition and Applications
14.	Low Temperature in situ Crystallization

17	Characterization of Defects, Microstructures and Textures
1.	Techniques, Theory and Instrumentation
2.	Electron Microscopy
3.	X-ray Topography
4.	Diffraction
5.	STM and AFM Microscopy
6.	Other Techniques Including Polarized Light and Infrared Studies
7.	Cathodo and Photo Luminescence

18	Electron Microscopy
1.	Applications to Macromolecules
2.	Cryo-Microscopy
3.	New Techniques and New Instrumentation
4.	Applications

19	Electron Diffraction
1.	New Techniques and New Instrumentation
2.	High Resolution Results
3.	Other Applications and Advances

20	Non-Ambient Conditions
1.	High Pressure Crystallography I: Extremes of Temperature and Pressure
2.	High Pressure Crystallography II: Physical Properties Under Pressure
3.	High Pressure Crystallography III: Phase Transitions and High Pressure
4.	High Pressure Crystallography IV: Data Acquisition and Analysis
5.	High Pressure Crystallography V: Biological and Soft Matter under Pressure
6.	High Pressure Crystallography VI: New Frontiers
7.	High Temperature Crystallography: Instrumentation, Techniques and Applications
8.	Low Temperature Crystallography: Instrumentation, Techniques and Applications
9.	Phase Transitions I: Characterization and Applications
10.	Phase Transitions II: Magnetic and Structural Identification
11.	Applications of Light and Laser Irradiation
12.	Crystallography of Excited States

21	Symmetry and its Generalizations
1.	General Symmetry: Theory
2.	Designer Symmetry: Theory and Practice
3.	Pseudo-Symmetry: Recognition and Applications

22	Aperiodic and Incommensurate Structures
1.	Data Collection and Structure Solution
2.	Identification and Refinement
3.	Results and Applications

23	Crystallographic Topology
1.	Group Theory and Topology
2.	Tiling
3.	Quasicrystals
4.	Networks
5.	Critical Points

24	Databases
1.	Creation and Exploitation
2.	Coping with Rapid Expansions of Data:The Next Generation of Databases
3.	Research Applications of the CSD
4.	Research Applications of the PBD/ NADB
5.	Research Applications of the ICSD
6.	Research Applications of the PDF
7.	Data Mining and Knowledge Generation
8.	Bioinformatics: The Future

25	Industrial Crystallography
1.	Instrumentation and Techniques
2.	Stress-Strain Analysis
3.	On Line Diffraction Analysis
4.	Line Broadening
5.	Amorphous and SAS
6.	Microporous Materials
7.	Nanomaterials
8.	High Temperature Crystallography
9.	Thick Coatings
10.	Pharmaceutical Crystallography

26	Crystallographic Teaching
1.	Changes in Teaching Methods for the Future
2.	Maintaining Standards Despite Automation
3.	Cheap Computer Programs for Developing Countries
4.	Preparation for Publication; CIF Files: How Much?
5.	Crystallography on the World Wide Web

27	The History of Crystallography
1.	History of Crystallography

28	Art, Cultural Heritage and Crystallography
1.	Art, Cultural Heritage and Crystallography
2.	Crystallography and Art

29	Other Topics