The 15th Bruker-Nonius CCD Users Group Meeting
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Meeting Program | Speakers and Attendees | Accommodation | Workshops | Registration
Meeting Program
(Speaker Presentations are now available on-line)
(also available as a PDF file updated on September 11, 2007)
| Sunday, September 16, 2007 |
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| 4:30 PM | The bus shuttles depart from the Candelwood Suites hotel.. | |
| 5:00 - 6:00 PM | Optional Tour of the Chemistry Department - Ilia Guzei, Larry Dahl, and John Berry will show you the Department and X-ray Facility. (Directions to the department) | |
| 6:00 - 10:00 PM | Reception Dinner at the Pyle Alumni Lounge (UW-Madison). Walking distance from the Chemistry Department to the Pyle Center at 702 Langdon Street. (Directions) | |
| 10:00 PM | The bus shuttles will take you back to the hotel. | |
| Monday, September 17, 2007 |
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Morning sessions at the BioTechnology
Center – next to Bruker-AXS |
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| 7:45 AM | Coffee and pastries at the Bruker-AXS foyer | |
| 8:00 AM | Registration | |
| 8:25 AM | Ilia Guzei. Welcome to the meeting. | |
| 8:30 AM | Sue Byram. What's new at Bruker. | |
| 9:00 AM | Michael Ruf. APEX II ULTRA - Precision and Accuracy. | |
| 9:30 AM | Eric Hovestreydt. X-ray Sources in Focus. | |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 AM | Charles Campana. Diagnosis and Treatment of Problem Structures. | |
| 11:00 AM | Marilyn Olmstead. Application of FRAG in structure refinement. | |
| 11:30 AM | Phillip Fanwick. Programs and Procedures in the Crystallography Laboratory at Purdue. | |
| 11:50 PM | John Desper. Analysis of multi-residue, Z'>1 structures in a multi-instrument, multi-user laboratory. | |
| 12:20 PM | Lunch at Bruker-AXS: Lasagna, spaghetti pie, cheese ravioli (vegetarian dish), salad, bread and dessert (sheet cake). | |
| During lunch time there will be facility and lab tours in the Bruker-AXS building.You can schedule a one-on-one session with a particular Bruker specialist - to do so e-mail Sue Byram directly in advance. | ||
| 2:30 PM | Workshop sessions at Bruker-AXS and BioTechnology Center in the adjacent building | |
| Bruker-Monona | Nattamai Bhuvanesh. Indexing Powder Patterns with Topas-I. | |
| BTC 216/217 | Peter Mueller. Refinement of Difficult Structures. | |
| Bruker-Mendota | George Sheldrick. Recent developments in SADABS and TWINABS. | |
| Bruker-Waubesa | Charles Campana. Demonstration of the PhaseID module and other powder diffraction applications. | |
| 3:30 PM | break | |
| 3:40 PM | Workshop sessions at Bruker-AXS and BioTechnology Center in the adjacent building | |
| Bruker-Monona | Nattamai Bhuvanesh. Indexing Powder Patterns with Topas-I. | |
| BTC 216/217 | Peter Mueller. Refinement of Difficult Structures. | |
| Bruker-Mendota | George Sheldrick. Recent developments in SADABS and TWINABS. | |
| Bruker-Waubesa | Charles Campana. Demonstration of the PhaseID module and other powder diffraction applications. | |
| 4:40 PM | break | |
| 5:00 PM | Poster session at Bruker-AXS | |
| 6:00 PM | Informal dinner plans - see the PDF file for the list of nearby restaurant | |
| Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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Morning sessions at the BioTechnology
Center – next to Bruker-AXS |
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| 7:45 AM | Coffee and pastries at the Bruker-AXS foyer | |
| 8:00 AM | George Sheldrick. "Discussion of possible future developments in SHELX/SHELXTL". I would make some introductory comments and then invite suggestions from the participants that could turn into a general discussion. | |
| 8:30 AM | Sergey Lindeman. Avoiding some experimental/computational stereotypes in small-molecule X-ray crystallography. | |
| 9:00 AM | Larry Falvello. Molecules That Change Shape and Molecular Crystals That Change Phase and Composition. | |
| 9:30 AM | Joseph Reibenspies. Multi-tasking on a Three-circle X-ray Diffractometer. | |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 AM | Glenn Yap. Confined sterics: Crystallography education in a service laboratory and coordination compound bond angles. | |
| 11:00 AM | Håkon Hope. Cryocrystallography in the 5-20 K range. | |
| 11:30 AM | Bruce Foxman. Radiation-Induced Single Crystal Transformations: Discovery, Twinning and Mechanistic Experiments. | |
| 12:05 PM | Larry Dahl. Take-home messages reflecting a) 50-year chemical crystallographic course and b) recent crystal structure/composition analysis of icosahedral-bonding 165 metal-atom four-shell carbonyl/triphenylphosphine Pd-Pt cluster of cubic 2/m-3(Th) site symmetry. | |
| 12:45 PM | Cookout at Bruker-AXS: Burgers, brats, steak, chicken, veggie burgers, broccoli salad, coleslaw, and dessert. | |
| 2:30 PM | Workshop sessions at Bruker-AXS | |
| Bruker-Monona | Nattamai Bhuvanesh. Indexing Powder Patterns with Topas-I. | |
| BTC 216/217 | Peter Mueller. Refinement of Difficult Structures. | |
| Bruker-Mendota | George Sheldrick. Recent developments in SADABS and TWINABS. | |
| Bruker-Waubesa | Charles Campana. Demonstration of the PhaseID module and other powder diffraction applications. | |
| 3:30 PM | Meeting ends. | |
The shuttle at the Candlewood Suites will drop off/pick up guests at the hotel. Ilia Guzei will be driving a 14-passenger bus as well but those of you who arrive by car may have to drive on your own.
09/16-Hotel to Chemistry Building Downtown (1101 University
Ave)-4:30 P.M.
09/16-Pyle Alumni Lounge to Hotel -10:00 P.M.
09/17-Hotel to Bruker in the morning - 7:30 AM.
09/17-Bruker to Hotel/Campus-6:00 P.M.
09/18-Hotel to Bruker in the morning - 7:30 A.M.
09/18-Bruker to Airport (by way of hotel just in case)-4:00 P.M.
Please arrange all other pick ups/drop offs from the airport with the hotel
front desk.
Directions to the Chemistry Department and Pyle Alumni Lounge (Reception dinner location)
In the upper right corner of this link there is campus map in the pdf format. The entrance to the Chemistry Department is on Charter Street between Johnson and University, building code 25 on the map. Pyle Alumni Lounge (code 102) is located within walking distance at 702 Langdon Street.