Re: Proposals for Florence-2005

[Harry Powell <hrp1000@cam.ac.uk>]

I'd agree with this in general. The imporatnat thing at the  moment is
to have the ideas and produce a working list.

My feeling is that it should be taken as a starting point - I doubt it
will be possible to include separate symposia on each topic. Based on
current implementations, it's relatively straightforward to combine some
sessions together; should we be thinking more about the target audiences
rather than the fine (or coarse!) distinctions between topics. 

For example, "high throughput" is currently a hot topic in macromolecular
crystallography, but is well-established in chemical crystallography
(through labs such as Mike Hursthouse's UK National Service). I'm not sure
these two areas necessarily lie together, and would probably draw
different audiences. Perhaps after this week's BCA meeting where "high
throughput" is a major theme I will be able to comment more knowledgeably! 

> I think Lachlan's  list is a good proposal, with a good mixture
> of "computing only" topics and topics related to other subjects
> (the need of setting up these MS in conjunction with other commissions
> should be stressed in our document to Carlo Mealli).
> I would also like to suggest to add an other MS dealing with
> "Advances in computational methods for  charge density studies".
> It is a world that the Computing Commission has rarely contacted.
> Finally I am afraid that it will be difficult to arrange both related
> MS  5 and 6.
> Best wishes
> Davide
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 1. Advances in computational methods for protein crystallography
> 2. Advances in computational methods for powder diffraction
> 3. Advances in computational methods for small molecule crystallography
> 4. Problems and solutions in programming robust CIF into crystallographic 
> software
> 5. Computational problems and solutions for quasicrystal crystallography
> 6. Advances in computational methods incommensurate structures
> 7. Computational solutions for high-throughput crystallography
> 7a. Innovations in computing and reporting for service based crystallography
> 8. Applying non-crystallographic algorithms to crystallography
> ??? - others?
> 
> 
> At 20.48 13/04/2003 +0100, a.l.spek wrote:
> >Dear All,
> >
> >         Prof. Carlo Mealli has sent out and urgent message to provide him
> >with suggestions for microsymposia for Florence 2005.
> >Please send your suggestions for computing related sessions to this list.
> >Hopefully, we can send our collection ito Prof Mealli in the week after
> >eastern.
> >
> >Ton Spek
> >Chairman Computing Commission
> >
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