4th Workshop on Structural Analysis of Aperiodic Crystals,
6-8 March 2003 in Bayreuth, Germany
Structural analysis of incommensurately modulated crystals and composite
crystals
{ Peter Daniels }
During March 6.-8. 2003 the fourth workshop about the 'Structural analysis
of incommensurately modulated crystals and composite crystals' was held
at the Laboratory
for Crystallography.
This workshop was made possible by the support of the German Crystallographic
Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallographie) and its special
interest group 'Aperiodic Crystals'.
We could welcome 42 paticipants from nine different countries in Europe
and the USA.
During the three days of this workshop lectures introduced the basic
elements of the theory needed to understand the atomic structure of aperiodic
crystals.
In the afternoons, the participants had the opportunity to practice the structural
analysis of incommensurate crystals with the computer program JANA 2000.
Several worked-out examples were provided, that treated different aspects
of structure solution and structure analysis.
Here selected 'real life' examples of different complexity and with different
problematic aspects could be solved using JANA2000.
The lectures and the practical courses were held in different buildings
(BGI and FAN) so that everybody also had the chance to get a closer look
at the campus.
The large number of participants and the spread of countries of origin
prove this kind of event to be of great interest.