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The 17th Bruker-Nonius CCD Users Group Meeting

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Meeting Program | Speakers and Attendees | Accommodation | Workshops | Registration | Transportation

Meeting Program (available as pdf)

To view speaker presentations check out the Speakers and Attendees page

If you are staying at any of the designated hotels - it's a good idea to call your venue ahead of time to schedule pick-up - the hotels have a limited number of drivers and shuttles. For the phone numbers check the Accommodation page.

Sunday, May 31 2009
4:30 PM The bus shuttles depart from the Quality Inn and Suites Inn.
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 Quality Inn and Suites.
Monday, June 1, 2009
 
Morning sessions at the BioTechnology Center – next to Bruker-AXS
7:45 AM Coffee at the Bruker-AXS foyer
8:00 AM Registration
8:20 AM Ilia Guzei. Preliminary remarks.
8:25 AM Roger Durst. Welcome to the meeting.
8:30 AM Sue Byram. What's new at Bruker.
9:00 AM Bruce Noll. "SMART  X2S benchtop  overview and results".
9:30 AM Michael Ruf. "High intensity sources for Chemistry eg ULTRA (Mo TXS) and QUAZAR (Mo ImuS, Cu IMuS)".
10:00 AM Coffee break
10:30 AM Allen Oliver. "SCrALS: A collaborative project for synchrotron-based chemical crystallography"
11:00 AM Paula Piccoli. "Practical Neutron Diffraction for Chemical Crystallography."
11:30 AM Sergey Lindeman. "Glory and hypocrisy of CheckCIF".
12:00 PM Lunch at Bruker-AXS: Barbeque. 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 & Holger Cordes. "Ab-initio structure determination from powder X-ray diffraction using TOPAS". 2 hours long.
BTC - 216/7 Peter Mueller. "Refinement of Whole Molecule Disorder".
Bruker-Mendota Victor Young. "A Twinning Primer".
Bruker-Waubesa Charles Campana."New options in APEX2 for processing modulated structures"
3:20 PM break
3:30 PM Workshop sessions at Bruker-AXS and BioTechnology Center in the adjacent building
BTC 216/217 Peter Mueller. "Refinement of Whole Molecule Disorder".
Bruker-Mendota Victor Young. "A Twinning Primer".
Bruker-Waubesa Charles Campana."New options in APEX2 for processing modulated structures".
4:30 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, June 2, 2009
 
Morning sessions at the BioTechnology Center – next to Bruker-AXS
8:45 AM Coffee at the Bruker-AXS foyer
9:00 AM Joel Mague. "Lanthanide Carboxylate Complexes; Linear and Layer Structures".
9:30 AM Masaki Kawano. "Ab initio powder structural determination of coordination networks".
10:00 AM Marilyn Olmstead. "What's Hot when Cool? Observations on Data Collection at He Temperatures."
10:30 AM Coffee break
11:00 AM Nigam Rath. "Crystallography experiments for Undergraduate Organic Laboratory".
11:30 AM John Berry. "Metal Atom Disorder in Heterometallic Systems".
12:00 PM Lunch at Bruker-AXS:: pizza.
2:00 PM Workshop sessions at Bruker-AXS
Bruker-Monona Nattamai Bhuvanesh & Holger Cordes. "Ab-initio structure determination from powder X-ray diffraction using TOPAS". 2 hours long.
Bruker-Mendota Victor Young. "A Twinning Primer".
Bruker-Waubesa Charles Campana."New options in APEX2 for processing modulated structures"
4:00 PM Meeting ends.

Transportation Info

The meeting will take place in Madison, WI. The official meeting hotel is The Quality Inn & Suites (608-274-7200). The reception dinner will be on UW-Madison campus, all other activities will be at Bruker-AXS, 5465 East Cheryl Parkway, Madison WI.

The shuttle at the The Quality Inn & 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. Here is the bus schedule:

05/31/09 - Hotel to Chemistry Building Downtown (1101 University Ave)-4:30 PM.
05/31/09 - Pyle Alumni Lounge (702 Langdon St) to Hotel - 9:30 PM.
06/01/09 - Hotel to Bruker in the morning - 7:30 AM (Ilia) and 8:00 AM (hotel).
06/01/09 - Bruker to Hotel/Campus-5:00 PM.
06/02/09 - Hotel to Bruker in the morning - 8:20 AM (Ilia) 8:20 AM (hotel).
06/02/09 - Bruker to Airport (by way of hotel just in case) - 3:30 PM.


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.