Plenary Lectures
While services at this Congress are provided in English and French, the Scientific Program component is presented in English only.
| DAN SHECHTMAN | ||
| Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2011, for the Discovery of Quasicrystal | ||
| BIO | Professor Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals. He is a Distinguished Professor, The Philip Tobias Chair, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. Full Bio |  |
| ABSTRACT | Quasi-Periodic Crystals – a Paradigm Shift in Crystallography | |
| ROOM | 517bc | |
| DATE | Wednesday 6 August | |
| JUAN MANUEL GARCIA-RUIZ | ||
| From the Crystal to the Rose: The Route to Biomimetic Self-assembled Nanostructured Materials | ||
| BIO | Professor Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, a researcher and professor at the National Research Council (CSIC) at the University of Granada since 1990, is founder and director of the Laboratory for Crystallographic Studies and Principal Investigator of the Spanish Crystallization Factory. Full Bio | |
| ABSTRACT | From the Crystal to the Rose: The Route to Biomimetic Self-assembled Nanostructured Materials | |
| ROOM | 517bc | |
| DATE | Friday 8 August | |
| DAVE BISH | ||
| The First X-ray Powder Diffraction Measurements on Mars | ||
| BIO | Professor Bish is the Haydn Murray Chair of Applied Clay Mineralogy at Indiana University (Bloomington). His work concentrates on the application of crystal chemical and crystal structural fundamentals to geological, materials, and environmental problems. Full Bio
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| ABSTRACT | The first X-ray Diffraction Measurements on Mars | |
| ROOM | 517bc | |
| DATE | Saturday 9 August | |
| JIANWEI (JOHN) MIAO | ||
| Beyond Crystallography: Coherent Diffraction Imaging and Atomic Resolution Electron Tomography | ||
| BIO | Jianwei (John) Miao is Professor of Physics & Astronomy and the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. He received his Ph. D. in Physics, a M. S. in computer science, and an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1999. |
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| ABSTRACT | Beyond Crystallography: Coherent Diffraction Imaging and Atomic Resolution Electron Tomography | |
| ROOM | 517bc | |
| DATE | Tuesday 12 August | |