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Welcome to the ECM 27
The Twenty Seventh European Crystallographic Meeting will be held in Bergen, organized by the
Norwegian Crystallographers in August 2012. This will be an excellent opportunity to meet again at
the European level, after the XXII IUCr meeting in Madrid, and following the ECM26 held in
Darmstadt. We welcome to Bergen all crystallographers and scientist related to Crystallography
and Crystal Growth to share with us scientific views on the new achievements of crystallography
and Crystal Growthon its many facets. This is also an excellent opportunity to strengthen the links
with the IUCr and the Regional Associations AsCa and ACA.
The Program Committee has organized a rich scientific program of Microsymposia and Keynote Lectures to show the growing scientific
leadership of the ECA Special Interest Groups and the transversality and networking activity of the General Interest Groups. At the
ECM27there will be commemorations of the important centennial for Crystallography; the Max Theodor Felix von Laue, Walter
Friedrich and Paul Knipping seminal experiments achieved by European Crystallographers. The 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry has
been awarded to Professor Dan Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals and a special symposium on quasicrystals is organized
with five invited speaker giving an overview of state of the art researches carried out in the field of quasicrystals. Danny himself will of
course also give a plenary talk on his work. The meeting will provide good opportunities to show the strength and leadership of
European Crystallography and his connection with society, all being the preamble of 2014 International Year of Crystallography. The UN
General Assembly decided to proclaim 2014 the International Year of Crystallography, on June 15 2012. The award ceremonies for the
European Crystallographic Association Prizes, sixth Max Perutz, awarded by Prof. Hartmut Fuess, and the fifth Erwin Felix Lewy Bertaut,
given to Dr. Pavel V. Afonine, will take place also at the ECM27.
Another important component of the meeting is the ECA Council where the councilors from 33 National Members get together
with the three Individual Members representative and the Corporate Associate Members representative to review the work of
the Association, elect members of the new Executive Committee and confirm the place for next ECMs.
I have had the opportunity to meet with the Norwegian organizers and visit the beautiful conference venue in Bergen. From
these experiences I can tell you that our Norwegian hosts have done everything to make the European Crystallographic
Meeting a success and make you feel at home in Bergen, so you can enjoy both the science at the Congress and the charm and
beauty of the city and all the Nordic Coast.
So everything is in place for a successful, well attended and well organized, European Crystallographic Meeting, and I am
happy to know that you are one of the many who accepted this invitation from the Norwegian Crystallographers to attend the
ECM27. I look forward to greet many crystallographers from all parts of the world in Bergen the 6th of August, to start
celebrating the Laue Centennial.
Santiago García-Granda
President
European Crystallographic Association
Karl Wilhelm Törnroos
Chairman of the ECM27
Carl Henrik Görbitz
Co-chairman of the ECM27
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