Application procedure

Requests for IUCr sponsorship and nominal financial support for meetings are received and considered by the Sub-committee on the Union Calendar which makes recommendations to the Executive Committee.

Application forms are available from the Chair of the Sub-committee:

Professor D. Viterbo, DISTA, Università del Piemonte Orientale "A: Avogadro", Via V. Bellini 25/G, I-15100 Alessandria, Italy (email: davide.viterbo@mfn.unipmn.it).

The IUCr sponsors symposia and workshops on topics relevant to crystallography. There is a well defined procedure that should be followed when applying for sponsorship. The main rules are as follows:

• 1. Applications for sponsorship are considered if they are submitted at least nine months in advance of the date of the meeting. Applications will be considered by the Committee four times a year at the end of March, June, September and December. Applications for sponsorship should be timed accordingly. For example, for a meeting to be held in June an application should be submitted by September of the previous year at the latest.

• 2. Requests from satellite meetings must be submitted, and possible financial support requested, through the organising committee of the main meeting.

• 3. Meetings (other than satellite meetings) scheduled to be held within two months before or after an IUCr Congress will not be considered for sponsorship. For any meetings scheduled to be held between two and three months before or after a Congress, the application for sponsorship requires the approval of the Chair of the Congress Programme Committee. Meetings (other than satellite meetings) scheduled to be held, in the respective region, within two months before or after a meeting of a Regional Associate (American Crystallographic Association, Asian Crystallographic Association, European Crystallographic Association) will not be considered for sponsorship unless the application has received the approval of the Chair of the Programme Committee of the Regional Associate meeting.

• 4. IUCr sponsorship can only be given to meetings that are international in character and open to participants from all countries. The membership of the Programme Committee is a good indication of this.

• 5. Active crystallographers should be involved in the organisation of the conference and one or more sessions should deal with specific crystallographic topics. This does not automatically include any session on condensed matter physics, materials science or symmetry not related to crystallography. According to these criteria all meetings organised by IUCr Commissions automatically qualify.

• 6. The IUCr continues to support and uphold ICSU's policy of non-discrimination and adheres to its decisions and procedures concerning free circulation of scientists. Organisers of any meeting seeking IUCr sponsorship and support must assure the Sub-committee on the Union Calendar that the authorities of the country in which the meeting is to take place guarantee free entrance of bona fide scientists from all countries.

• 7. General financial support can be given to all meetings except those that form part of a continuing series. However, this restriction does not apply to schools or to meetings regularly organised by IUCr Commissions.

• 8. Explicit support from the relevant IUCr Commission(s) is strongly recommended for any meeting.

• 9. Travel support for young scientists is available for all meetings (including schools). This money should not be used for waiver of registration fees.

• 10. Consideration should be given as to whether the proposed meeting is appropriate in subject, form and timing with respect to other related meetings.

• 11. Except in special cases, IUCr funds should not be used to sponsor more than one event per year in the same location.

Sponsored meetings

Acting on the recommendations made by the Sub-committee on the Union Calendar, the following schools and meetings have been or are being sponsored by the IUCr, mostly with financial support.

International School on Crystal Growth: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications to Biological and Nano Crystals

Puebla, Mexico

BCA/CCG 10th Intensive Course in X-ray Structure Analysis

Durham, UK

RapiData 2005

Brookhaven, USA

Evolving Methods for Macromolecular Crystallography

Erice, Italy

Nancy 2005 International School on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography

Nancy, France

XVIIth International School on Physics and Chemistry of Condensed Matter and Vth International Symposium on Physics in Material Science: Materials in Transition

Bialowieza, Poland

VII Latin-American Workshop on Magnetism, Magnetic Materials and their Applications

Renaca, Chile

12-17 December 2005

African School and Workshop on X-rays in Materials: New Techniques and Practical Applications

Dakar, Senegal

9-13 January 2006

International Workshop on Crystal Growth and Characterisation of Advanced Materials

Chennai, India

25-29 January 2006

Fourth European Charge Density Meeting (ECDM-IV)

Brandenburg, Germany

23-28 April 2006

RapiData 2006

Brookhaven, USA

8-12 May 2006

Third Moroccan School of Crystallography

Agadir, Morocco

9-18 June 2006

Structure and Function of Large Molecular Assemblies

Erice, Italy

18-24 June 2006

International School on Biological Crystallization

Granada, Spain

Electron Crystallography School

Bangalore, India

26-30 June 2006

Fourth National Crystal Chemical Conference

Chernogolovka, Russia

Thirteenth International Conference on Small-Angle Scattering

Kyoto, Japan

ACA Annual Meeting

Honolulu, USA

23rd European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM-23)

Leuven, Belgium

Sagamore XV: Electron Charge, Spin and Momentum Densities

Warwick, UK

Structural Chemistry - Indaba 5

Kruger National Park, South Africa

IUCr Teaching Commission Intensive School on Single-Crystal X-ray Structural Analysis

Siena, Italy

Structural Analysis by X-ray Diffraction, Crystallography under Perturbation

Nancy, France

Tenth European Powder Diffraction Conference

Geneva, Switzerland

XX Conference on Applied Crystallography

Wisla, Poland

Workshop on Use of Monte Carlo Techniques for Design and Analysis of Radiation Detectors and Tenth International Symposium on Radiation Physics (ISRP-10)

Coimbra, Portugal

Aperiodic 2006

Miyagi, Japan

Crystallography at High Pressure

Dubna, Russia

Fundamentals of Modern Methods of Biocrystallography - BioCrys 2006

Oeiras, Portugal

Joint Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association and the Crystallographic Society of Japan

Tsukuba, Japan

Workshop on Synchrotron-Light Applications in Biological Materials

Cairo, Egypt

International School on Theoretical and Mathematical Crystallography

Havana, Cuba

BCA Intensive Course in X-ray Structure Analysis

Durham, UK

Latin American Workshop on Applications of Powder Diffraction and School on Methods of Powder Diffraction

Campinas, Brazil

RapiData 2007

Brookhaven, USA

6th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering (IXS2007)

Hyogo, Japan

Fifth International Conference on Solid State Crystals and Eighth Polish Conference on Crystal Growth (ICSSC-5 and PCCG-8)

Zakopane, Poland

Engineering of Crystalline Materials Properties: State-of-the-Art in Modelling, Design, Applications

Erice, Italy

Crystallization: Focus on Membrane Proteins

Erice, Italy

School and Workshop on X-ray Micro- and Nanoprobes: Instruments, Methodologies and Applications

Erice, Italy

Gordon Research Conference on Electron Distribution and Chemical Bonding

South Hadley, USA

First School on Materials Applications of the Organic Solid State (SMAOSS) and XVIII International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (XVIII-ICOSS)

Merida, Venezuela

XVI International Conference on Crystal Chemistry and Diffraction Studies of Minerals and Workshop "Minerals as Advanced Materials"

Miass and Apatity, Russia

ACA Annual Meeting

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

International Conference on Neutron and X-ray Scattering

Serpong and Bandung, Indonesia

13th International Summer School on Crystal Growth

Park City, Utah, USA

VIII Latin-American Workshop on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials and Their Applications (LAW3M)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

9th International Biology and Synchrotron Radiation Conference

Manchester, UK

ECM-24

Marrakech, Morocco

Symposium in Honour of Professor Dame Louise Johnson, FRS, DBE

Oxford, UK

Advanced Methods in X-ray Charge Density Analysis: Extracting Properties from a Multipolar Refinement

Martina Franca, Italy

Structure Elucidation by Combining Magnetic Resonance, Computation, Modelling and Diffraction (SMARTER)

Aveiro, Portugal

Advances in Crystallography at High Pressure at Large-Scale Facilities

Chilton, UK

Electron Microscopy and Multiscale Modelling

Moscow, Russia

II International Conference "Crystallogenesis and Mineralogy" and satellite meeting on Structural Chemistry of Inorganic Actinide and Lanthanide Compounds

St Petersburg, Russia

Quasicrystals - the Silver Jubilee

Tel Aviv, Israel

MSA-GS-ANL Short Course on "Amphiboles"

Rome, Italy