Program/Scientific Program
Keynotes

 

While services at this Congress are provided in English and French, the Scientific Program component is presented in English only.

 

Below is a list of the confirmed keynote speakers so far. . . more to come . . . Please note that the topics are also "tentative " and will be updated as we receive more information.

Morning sessions are - 08:30 - 09:15

Afternoon Sessions are - 16:45 - 17:30

 

Multiferroics
Date and Time: Wednesday August 6, AM
  • Tsuyoshi Kimura, Osaka University, Japan
 
HIV Structural Biology
Date and Time: Wednesday August 6, AM
  • Eddy Arnold, Rutgers University, USA
 
Charge Density and Chemical Bonding in Inorganic Materials
Date and Time: Wednesday August 6, AM
  • Wolfgang Scherer, University of Augsburg, Germany
 
Phonons and Phasons - From Modulated Structures to Quasicrystals
Date and Time: Wednesday August 6, PM
  • Marc de-Boissieu, CNRS, Grenoble, France
 
RNA-protein interactions, microRNA regulation, CRISPER regulation
Date and Time: Date and Time    Wednesday August 6, PM
  • John Helliwell
 
The World of Perovskites: Phase Transitions and Exotic Properties
Date and Time: Wednesday August 6, PM
  • Dhananjai Pandey, Banaras Hindu University, India
 
Precession Electron Diffraction
Date and Time: Thursday August 7, AM
  • Paul Midgley, University of Cambridge, UK
 
Macromolecular Ab Initio Phasing Enforcing Secondary and Tertiary Structure
Date and Time: Thursday August 7, AM
  • Isabel Uson,  Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, Spain
 
Characterization of Industrial Minerals
Date and Time: Thursday August 7, AM
  • John Evans, Durham University, UK
 
Crystal Engineering and Applications of Functional Metal-Organic Frameworks
Date and Time: Thursday August 7, PM
  • Xiao-Ming Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
 
Commensurate and Incommensurate Multiferroics: Structure and Properties
Date and Time: Thursday August 7, PM
  • Laurent Chapon, Institut Laue-Langevin, France
 
Mathematical Crystallography in the 21st Century
Date and Time: Friday August 8, AM
  • Marjorie Senechal, Smith College, USA
 
New Opportunities in Structural Biology with XFEL: From Sources to Structures
Date and Time: Friday August 8, AM
  • Soichi Wakatsuki, SLAC, Stanford University, USA
 
Impact of Crystallography on Design of Cathode Materials for Li-ion Batteries
Date and Time: Friday August 8, AM
  • Evgeny Antipov, Moscow State University, Russia
 
Low Voltage Microscopy of Carbon Materials
Date and Time: Friday August 8, PM
  • Ute Kaiser, Universität Ulm, Germany
 
The Expanding Scope of Crystallographic Representational Analysis
Date and Time: Friday August 8, PM
  • Branton Campbell, Brigham Young University, USA
 
Sixty Five Years of Magnetic Structures: Present and Future of Magnetic Crystallography
Date and Time: Saturday August 9, AM
  • Juan Rodriguez-Carvajal, Laboratoire Léon Brillouin. (CEA-CNRS)
 
Gjonnes Prize Lecture
The Large Angle Technique and Lattice Defect Identifications
Date and Time: Saturday August 9, AM
  • Michiyoshi Tanaka, Tohoku University, Japan
 
Applications of Small-angle Scattering to macromolecules and polymer physics
Date and Time: Saturday August 9, AM
  • Takehi Hashimoto, Kyoto University, Japan
 

Local atomic structure determination using focused electron beams

Date and Time: Saturday August 9, PM
  • Joanne Etheridge, Monash University, Australia
 
The Experience of "Voyage dans le cristal" Travelling Museum Exhibition
Date and Time: Saturday August 9, PM
  • Jean-Louis Hodeau, Institut NÉEL - CNRS, France
 
Insight from Energy Surfaces: Structure Prediction by Lattice Energy Exploration
Date and Time: Saturday August 9, PM
  • Graeme Day, University of Southampton, UK
 
Application of Direct Methods to Inorganic Materials Characterization
Date and Time: Sunday August 10, AM
  • Jordi Rius Palleiro, Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, Spain
 
Membrane Trafficking and SNARE Proteins
Date and Time: Sunday August 10, AM
  • Jennifer Martin, University of Queensland, Australia
 
The Potential of Future Light Sources to Explore the Structure and Function of Matter
Date and Time: Sunday August 10, AM
  • Edgar Weckert, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Germany
 
Defect Mastering - One of the Topic Challenges for Crystal Growth
Date and Time: Monday August 11, AM
  • Peter Rudolph, Crystal Technology Consulting, Berlin
 
Rationalising Molecular Crystal Structures using Hirshfeld Surfaces
Date and Time: Monday August 11, AM
  • Mark Spackmann, the University of Western Australia, Australia
 
Structural Biology of Epigenetics in Disease
Date and Time: Monday August 11, AM
  • Cheryl Arrowsmith, University of Toronto, Canada
 
The Future is Bright- Structural Biology at FELs
Date and Time: Monday August 11, AM
  • Ilme Schlichting, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
 
Combining Neutrons with High Performance Computing to Understand Complex Biological Systems
Date and Time: Monday August 11, PM
  • Paul Langan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
 
Polymorphism and Electronic Transformations of Deep Earth Minerals
Date and Time: Monday August 11, PM
  • Leonid Dubrovinsky, University of Bayreuth, Germany
 
Gjonnes Prize Lecture
A Convergence of Beauty and Utility
Date and Time: Tuesday August 12, AM
  • John Steeds, University of Bristol, UK
 
Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Channel and Transporter
Date and Time: Tuesday August 12, AM
  • Osamu Nureki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
 
Atomistic Modeling of Crystal Nucleation and Growth
Date and Time: Tuesday August 12, AM
  • Michele Parrinello, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland