Communications Committee Report 2006

The committee has produced two Web Watch columns for the Newsletter and has a third column in preparation. Highlights of the columns are the following:

Crystallography:

(IUCr) Crystallographic CourseWare: to assist people in learning crystallography: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?os0010

Crystallography Education Websites:http://www.hwi.buffalo.edu/ACA/CrystalEducationSites.html

Tutorial on symmetry and space groups: http://people.brandeis.edu/~foxman1/teaching/indexpr.html

IUCr Crystallographic Educational Resources:
http://www.iucr.org/cww-top/edu.index.html

Recommended crystallography teaching website by some crystallographers:
http://ruppweb.dyndns.org/

Teaching concept of unit cell and symmetry for all 17 2D space groups: http://marie.epfl.ch/escher/

How the structure of space determines the shape of things, e.g. lattice structure, polyhedral framework and crystal habit: http://www.polymorf.net/knowhere.html