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News from the
U. S. National Committee for Crystallography (USNCCr)
There are 5 levels of membership in the IUCr. Which category
a country is eligible for is dependent upon the number of crystallographers
from that country who are listed in the World Directory. A greater
number of crystallographers entitles you to a higher category
of membership and more delegates to the General Congress and
Assemblies of the IUCr. Dues vary accordingly as well. As a category
5 member the US currently pays an annual subvention of 15000
Swiss Francs to the IUCr. We are also entitled to 5 delegates
to the Congress.
One of the functions of the USNCCr is to elect the US delegates
to the IUCr General Assembly. Delegates must be permanent residents
of the US who are currently or have recently been active in research
or education relating to crystallography, or widely known for
past achievements in crystallography. Except for the chair of
the delegation, which is the current chair of the USNNCr, one
does not have to be a sitting member of the USNCCr to be a delegate.
For Glasgow, the US delegates will be Judy Flippen-Anderson (Chair),
Abe Clearfield, Bill Duax, Marvin Hackert and Jim Kaduk. Alternates
are Robert Bryan, Jon Clardy, Connie Chidester, Jane Griffin
and Bob Sweet.
The USNCCr also sent recommendations to the IUCr Executive Council
for their consideration as nominees for the Executive Council
and for membership in the various IUCr commissions. In collaboration
with the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) and
NASA, the USNCCr travel grants sub-committee, chaired by Jane
Griffin, has been able to offer travel awards to enable a number
of graduate students and recent PhDs from the US to attend the
Glasgow Congress. More information on these awards will follow
in a later issue of the Newsletter.
The Committee will meet in Buffalo on Saturday, May 22,1999.
Joining the Committee will be the four members elected at the
end of 1998, Peter Buseck (Arizona State University), Ian Robinson
(University of Illinois), Cynthia Stauffacher (Purdue), and Tom
Terwilliger (Los Alamos). Robert Glaeser (Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory) will also be attending his first meeting as the Interdisciplinary
Committee representative from the Microscopy Society of America.
If there are any issues you feel the USNCCr should address please
contact the Chair (flippen@harker.nrl.navy.mil) or the Secretary
(kaduk@amoco.com).
Jim Kaduk Secretary/Treasurer
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The Annual
Industrial Physics Forum, Annandale, NJ, October 25-26, 1999
The 1999 annual Industrial Physics Forum for corporate and academic
leaders (formerly entitled the AIP Corporate Associates Meeting)
sponsored by the AIP Corporate Associates, the Industrial Physicist,
and the APS Forum for Industrial and Applied Physics will be
hosted by Exxon Research and Engineering Company October 25-26,
1999. The mission of the Corporate Associates program of the
American Institute of Physics is to serve the industrial physics
community by improving the effectiveness of people and organizations
in advancing corporate goals through the use of physics. As the
key event promoting this mission, the annual Industrial Physics
Forum brings together scientific leaders from industry, government,
and academia. Participants hear presentations by distinguished
speakers and have opportunites for informal interactions, fostering
better communication among all segments of the physics community.
The theme of this forum will be "Technological Innovations
for Energy in a World without Walls." There will be a Theme
Session including talks on markets and technology, resource exploration,
science and technological innovation in energy, ultra high strength
steel for gas pipelines, and physics at the interface with chemical
engineering; tours of Exxon R& D facilities; a Policy Session
on "Environmental Drivers and Technology" with talks
on resources and environment, CO2 management technology, and
innovation in ground transportation power plants; and the Frontiers
of Physics sessions featuring four talks about new physics research:
chemical physics of protein folding, quantum cascade lasers,
the accelerating universe, and self assembling systems.
For more information contact the AIP Corporate Associates program
by phone: 301-209-3135, by FAX: 301-209-3133, assoc@aip.org,
http://www.aip.org/aip/corporate/
National School
on Neutron and X-ray Scattering, Argonne, IL August 16-27, 1999
The main purpose of this school is to educate graduate students
in the utilization of neutron and X-ray facilities. Lectures,
tutorials and hands-on experiments in materials science and polymer
physics. Stipends for travel and lodging will be available. The
school will be held at Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass
Avenue, Argonne, Il 60439 USA.
For more information and an application, check our web site:
http://www.dep.anl.gov/nx/index.html
or e-mail at nxschool@dep.anl.gov
The School is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office
of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
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