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The
Pittsburgh Diffraction Society
This society was formed to promote crystallography and crystal
diffraction. Its chief function is to sponsor the annual Pittsburgh
Diffraction Conference, which includes making the Sidhu Award
and the Chung Soo Yoo Award (see the accompanying announcement
for the 1999 PDC). In recent years, the location of the Conference
has alternated between Pittsburgh and some other city. Thus the
PDC has been held in Buffalo, Toronto, West Lafayette, Columbus,
Charlottesville, Huntsville and Akron and it returns to Columbus
this year. The Board of the Society welcomes proposals from outside
Pittsburgh to hold the next "away" Conference which
will be in the Fall, 2001.
Attendees at each Conference become members of the Pittsburgh
Diffraction Society because the conference registration fee includes
the annual $5 dues for the Society. Life membership is available
for a $100 tax free deductible donation to the Society. The Board,
elected by the membership, presently consists of John Woolcock
(President), Steven Geib (Past President), Bryan Craven (President-elect),
Ryonosuke Shiono (Secretary), Jaime Abola (Treasurer) and Jayne
Giniewicz (Member-at-large).
For further information see the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society
homepage at http://www.pitt.edu/~geib/pds.html.
Contributors
to this Issue
AIP FYI News, Lee Brammer, Abe Clearfield, Marcia Colquhoun,
Bryan Craven, Frank Fronczek, Travis Gallagher, John Huffman,
Jim Kaduk, Margaret Kastener, Jeanette Krause-Bauer, Gary Newton,
Patricia O'Rourke, Mark Pressprich, Frank Rotella, Catherine
Schein, Joe Schrag, Bill Stallings, Richard Staples, Ron Stenkamp,
Jill Trewhella, Victor Young, Jr. and Christine Zardecki.
Photos: Judy Flippen-Anderson, Brian Fox, Catherine Schein,
and Christine Zardecki
Cover graphics: John Helliwell, James Raftery and Jeff Deschamps
The Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference,
1999
The 57th annual conference will be held on October 21, 22 and
23 at the University Parke Hotel located on the outskirts of
the Ohio State University campus at Columbus, Ohio. This year,
the conference will honor Muttaiya Sundaralingam, Professor of
Chemistry and Eminent Scholar at Ohio State University. The occasion
marks the 40th anniversary of his arrival in Pittsburgh to begin
his graduate studies in X-ray crystallography. Since then he
has made many contributions to our understanding of structure
and function in nucleic acids and proteins, at first with small
molecules and then with macromolecules
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Muttaiya Sundaralingam
The scientific program will begin after lunch on Thursday, October
21 with a symposium entitled "Physical Properties of Protein
Crystals" being organized by George DeTitta. Topics will
include X-ray topography, X-ray rocking curves and also atomic
force microscopy of protein crystals. The symposium will conclude
on Friday morning.
The Sundaralingam symposium "From Nucleic Acids to Proteins",
will begin on Friday afternoon and will continue all Saturday.
The program is being organized by Martin Caffrey and Bryan Craven.
Speakers will include Helen Berman, Richard Dickerson, Herbert
Hauptman, John Rosenberg, Janet Smith, David Stout, Bi-cheng
Wang, Eric Westhof, N. Yathindra and also our honoree.
A poster session, chaired by Patrick Woodward, will be held
on Thursday evening together with a mixer. Posters will be on
display thereafter. The Chung Soo Yoo Award ($200) will be made
to the student who presents the best poster. Student candidates
must be present to meet the judges on Thursday evening.
The Sidhu Award will be presented for the best contribution to
crystallography or diffraction by an investigator who obtained
the PhD after October 1, 1994. Nominations, including the candidate's
cv and most noteworthy reprints, must be forwarded by October
1, 1999 to Bryan Craven, Chemistry Department, Indiana University
of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705. The Award carries a prize
of $500. The Awardee also presents a lecture at the conference.
The conference dinner will be at the Fawcett Center on Friday
evening. George Jeffrey will be master of ceremonies.
Accommodations are available at the University Parke Hotel
(1-800-277-6158) at $62/day, the nearby Ramada Inn (614-267-7461)
at $79/day and at the Fawcett Center (1-800-637-2316) about a
mile away at $75/day (tax exempt). The former two rates do not
include 15.75% Ohio tax.
For further information, consult the Pittsburgh Diffraction
Society website at http://www.pitt.edu/~geib/pds.html,
or inquire from craven@grove.iup.edu.
Bryan Craven
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