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PROGRAM

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MONDAY, 26 August

8:00 - 17:00

SATELLITE EVENTS

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13:00 - 16:30

REGISTRATION

DESK

OPEN​

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

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 CARRARESI

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ECA

ExComm 1

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16:30 - 17:30

REGISTRATION

DESK

OPEN

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MANTEGNA

PLATEA

ECM34 Opening

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 CARRARESI

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17:30 - 18:30

REGISTRATION

DESK

OPEN

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MANTEGNA

PLATEA

PLENARY 1

Kristina Djinovic

(EMBL Grenoble, FR)

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Order from Disorder:

Towards molecular architecture of the muscle Z-disk

 CARRARESI

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18:30 - 19:00

REGISTRATION

DESK

OPEN

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MANTEGNA

PLATEA

PERUTZ PRIZE

Mariusz Jaskólski

(Poznan, PL)

 

A path paved with crystals

 CARRARESI

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19:00 - 20:00

WELCOME COCKTAIL

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8:30 - 9:30​

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

KEYNOTE 1

Giovanna  Scapin

(NIS, US) 

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Structural Biology in Drug Discovery through the (orange) years

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Chair:

M. Bolognesi

 MANTEGNA 1

KEYNOTE 2 

Bernd Hinrichsen

 (BASF, DE) 

 

Reinventing the Role of Synchrotron Powder Diffraction

 

Chair:

C. Dejoie

 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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TUESDAY, 27 August

9:30 - 10:00​

POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK

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10:00 - 12:00​

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

MS-04

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AI, software developments and Machine learning applied to MX and CryoEM

 MANTEGNA 1

MS-15

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ED small waves, big ponds – Biomolecules and macromolecules

 MANTEGNA 2

MS-28

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Structural characterization of Energy Harvesting and Conversion Materials

 CARRARESI

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MS-18

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Crystal-chemistry of minerals in the Universe: genesis, phase stability, and planetological implications

 ANTENORE

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MS-37

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How to address questions, doubts and struggles of a young crystallographer

DONATELLO

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MS-23

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Future of light sources and XFEL

12:00 - 14:00​

LUNCH BREAK

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12:00 - 14:00​

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

VENDOR LECTURE MALVERN

PANALYTICAL

(12.00-12.30)

 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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ECA
COUNCIL 1

 ANTENORE

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Electron crystallography

CIF

DONATELLO

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14:00 - 16:00​

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

MS-11

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New trends in quantum crystallography

 MANTEGNA 1

MS-05

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Infectious and Neglected diseases​

 MANTEGNA 2

MS-41

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Approaches and tools for learning crystallography efficiently and avoiding misconceptions

 CARRARESI

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MS-32

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Advanced materials design with (co)crystal engineering: synthesis, crystal growth, structure and function

 ANTENORE

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MS-34

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Applications of 3D-PDF

DONATELLO

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MS-26

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Chirality: Meeting point of crystallography, chemistry and topology​

16:00 - 17:00

POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK

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16:00 - 17:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

GIG 01

 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

SIG 01

 CARRARESI

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SIG 02

 ANTENORE

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SIG 03

DONATELLO

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SIG 06

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17:00 - 18:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

KEYNOTE 3

Jean-Michel Gillet 

(Paris-Saclay University, FR)

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A quantum crystallographic journey to phase-space​

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Chair:

S. Garcia Granda

 MANTEGNA 1

KEYNOTE 4 

Henry

Chapman 

(Desy, DE) 

 

Serial crystallography and diffraction with X-ray pulses

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Chair:

J. Helliwell

 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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18:00 - 19:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

SCIENCE SLAM

 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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19:30 - 21:00

CONFERENCE CONCERT

WEDNESDAY, 28 August

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​8:30 - 9:30​

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

KEYNOTE 5

Bjørn Panyella Pedersen 

(Aarhus University, DK)

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Common themes of sugar transport from humans to plants

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Chair:

U. Heinemann

 MANTEGNA 1

KEYNOTE 6

Juan Manuel García-Ruiz 

(Donostia International Physics Center, SP)

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​On the Role of Silica in the origin of life and primitive life detection

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Chair:

G. Artioli

 MANTEGNA 2

KEYNOTE 7

Kamil Dziubek 

(University of Vienna, AT)

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Pressure-induced suppression of structural distortions manifested in group - subgroup relationships

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Chair:

R. Angel

 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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​8:30 - 9:30​

GIOTTO PLATEA

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MANTEGNA

PLATEA

KEYNOTE 1

Giovanna  Scapin

(NIS, USA) 

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Structural Biology in Drug Discovery through the (orange) years

 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

KEYNOTE2 

Bernd Hinrichsen

 (BASF, DE) 

 

Training Intelligence: High Throughput Experiments and the Future of Materials Discovery

 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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9:30 - 10:00​

POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK

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10:00 - 12:00​

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

MS-10

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Structural-based drug discovery

 MANTEGNA 1

MS-38

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Things we no longer need to know – or do we?

 MANTEGNA 2

MS-16

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Method development and instrumentation in the world of electron diffraction

 CARRARESI

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MS-19

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Advanced and new techniques to study inorganic and magnetic crystal structures

 ANTENORE

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MS-09

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Large assemblies - using X-rays, cryo-EM and Tomography

DONATELLO

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MS-29

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Structural characterization in Functional materials

12:00 - 14:00​

LUNCH BREAK

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12:00 - 14:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

VENDOR LECTURE BRUKER

(12.00-12.30)

 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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ECA PROGRAM MEETING

 ANTENORE

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CCM

Meeting of the Ad interim Commission on Crystallography of Materials 

DONATELLO

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14:00 - 16:00​

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

MS-20

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When can ED challenge XRD in small molecule crystallography?

 MANTEGNA 1

MS-03

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Serial crystallography and dynamics/room temperature

 MANTEGNA 2

MS-33

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Correlate molecular structure with materials properties

 CARRARESI

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MS-06

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Structural studies in Enzymology

 ANTENORE

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MS-12

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Correlation between quantum crystallography and crystal dynamics

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DONATELLO

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MS-24

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Advances in Powder Diffraction Instrumentation

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16:00 - 17:00

POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK

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16:00 - 17:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

GIG 02

 MANTEGNA 1

SIG 04

 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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SIG 09

 ANTENORE

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SIG 11

DONATELLO

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SIG 13

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17:00 - 18:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

KEYNOTE 8

Chiara Massera

(Parma University, IT)  

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Combining mechanochemistry and structural analysis for the design of nanocrystalline reticular materials

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Chair:

A. Bacchi

 MANTEGNA 1

KEYNOTE 9 

Anders Østergaard Madsen 

(Copenhagen University, DK)

 

Quantum crystallography for studying dynamics and disorder in crystals

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Chair:

M. Dakovic

 MANTEGNA 2

KEYNOTE 10 

Claudia Weidenthaler 

(Max Planck, Mülheim, DE)

 

In-situ diffraction: Elucidation of mechanochemical reactions of inorganic materials in a ball mill

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Chair:

D. Gatta

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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18:00 - 19:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

SHELDRICK PRIZE

Marta Morana

(Florence, IT)

 

Crystals under stress: from mineral inclusions to diamond anvil cells (and back)

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BERTAUT PRIZE

Daniel Mazzone

(PSI, CH)

 

Disentangling coupled degrees of freedom in quantum materials

 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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20:00 - 21:00

PUBLIC LECTURE

THURSDAY, 29 August

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x8:30 - 9:30​

 MANTEGNA PLATEA

KEYNOTE 11

Heike E. Riel 

(IBM, CH) 

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Chair:

A. Altomare

 MANTEGNA 1

KEYNOTE 12

Anthony Linden 

(Zurich University, CH) 

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The evolution of crystallographic software tools and their efficacy in teaching endeavours

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Chair:

A. Guerri

 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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9:30 - 10:00​

POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK

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10:00 - 12:00​

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

MS-17

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Minerals and inorganic materials: state of art and new perspectives

 MANTEGNA 1

MS-39

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Common mistakes and problems in using black boxes

 MANTEGNA 2

MS-31

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Noncovalent interactions in structure design

 CARRARESI

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MS-25

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In situ and Operando diffraction

 ANTENORE

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MS-22

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AI and Automation in data collection and processing

DONATELLO

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MS-01

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Nucleic acids - protein interactions

12:00 - 14:00​

LUNCH BREAK

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12:00 - 13:30

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

.VENDOR LECTURE RIGAKU

(12.00-12.30)

 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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ECA COUNCIL 2

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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13:30 - 14:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

.VENDOR LECTURE TESCAN

(13.30-14.00)

 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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ECA COUNCIL 2

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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14:00 - 16:00​

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

MS-36

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Crystallography and cultural heritage

 MANTEGNA 1

MS-07

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MX and cryo-EM membrane Protein structures

 MANTEGNA 2

MS-29/2

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Structural characterization in functional materials

 CARRARESI

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MS-35

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Methods for diffuse scattering analysis from powder and single-crystals

 ANTENORE

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MS-08

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Nucleation and crystal growth/Chaperones and crystallization

DONATELLO

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MS-13

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Molecular structure and chemical bonding in the view of quantum crystallography

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16:00 - 17:00

POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK

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16:00 - 17:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

SIG 05

 MANTEGNA 1

SIG 07

 MANTEGNA 2

SIG 12

 CARRARESI

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SIG 14

 ANTENORE

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SIG 15

DONATELLO

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GIG 03

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17:00 - 18:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

RIVA DI SANSEVERINO

PRIZE

Claire Murray

(DE)​

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Crystallography 

with the People

 MANTEGNA 1

KEYNOTE 13

Louisa Meshi

(Negev, IL)

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Comprehensive study of complex metallic and multi-component alloys using electron crystallography methods

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Chair:

M.Gemmi

 MANTEGNA 2

KEYNOTE

INCLUSION

Helena Butkiewicz

(University of Warsaw, PL)​

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Detecting the unseen: living with neurological disorder

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Chair:

P. Hans

 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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18:00 - 19:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

ERICE

CELEBRATION

 

MS-43

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“What I gained from Erice”

 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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19:30 - 22:00

CONFERENCE DINNER

FRIDAY, 30 August

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8:30 - 9:30

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

KEYNOTE 14

Pance Naumov

(NYU Abu Dhabi, AE)

 

Structural basis of mechanical properties and effects of molecular crystals

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Chair:

P. Bombicz

 MANTEGNA 1

KEYNOTE 15

Volker Kahlenberg 

(Innsbruck University, AT)

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Silico-Ferrites of Calcium and Aluminium (SFCAs) – complex cation substitutions, twinning, polysomatism and polytypism

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Chair:

G.Cruciani

 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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9:30 - 10:00​

COFFEE BREAK

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10:00 - 12:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

MS-30

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Porous functional materials

 MANTEGNA 1

MS-27

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High Pressure Crystallography: Exploring Structure and Method Development at Extreme Conditions

 MANTEGNA 2

MS-02

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Hot structures

 CARRARESI

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MS-21

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Electron diffraction joining forces with quantum crystallography towards materials science applications

 ANTENORE

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MS-40

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Techniques to discover polymorphism: mechanochemistry, crystal growth and others

DONATELLO

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MS-14

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Aperiodic order and complex superstructures

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12:00 - 12:30

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

KALMAN

PRIZE​​​

Piero Macchi 

(Politecnico di Milano, IT) 

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Quantum computing and crystallography

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 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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13:00 - 14:00​

LUNCH BREAK

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14:00 - 15:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

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 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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ECA

ExComm 2

 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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15:00 - 16:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

POSTER PRIZE

ECM Closing

 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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16:00 - 17:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

PLENARY 2

Jonathan Wright 

(ESRF Grenoble, FR)

 

Closing lecture of ECM / opening of EPDIC

 

Imaging single crystals in powder samples

 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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17:00 - 19:00

MANTEGNA

PLATEA

EPDIC18

Opening

 MANTEGNA 1

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 MANTEGNA 2

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 CARRARESI

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 ANTENORE

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DONATELLO

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