Photo Contest - Sponsored by Crystal Growth & Design

Submitted photographs will be displayed in a prominent location at the Meeting. To participate, submit photographs portraying scientific, technical or artistic aspects of crystals, crystal growth or characterization. A panel of judges will vote on the technical content, technical presentation, and aesthetic appeal of each entry.

Awards: Winners will be announced during the Banquet and Awards Ceremony. The winner will receive an award and a prize of $250, and the first and second runners up will receive awards. Photos entered could be selected to appear on the cover of Crystal Growth & Design in 2006 or 2007.

Rules:

Entries must be submitted electronically by email to the Crystal Growth & Design Editorial Office at crystal@bama.ua.edu, as a JPEG (.jpg) file. Please submit a photo with high resolution (approximately 1024 x 768 pixels) in order to be viewed full screen.
Entries should be clearly labeled with the following information: 1. Concise title with the submitters' name and affiliation should be at the top of the photo. 2. In a separate text or Word file, please submit a 25 to 75 word description of the technical significance of the entry.
An entry could be selected to appear on a cover of the American Chemical Society's journal Crystal Growth & Design. If you would like your entry to be considered for publication on the journal cover, please complete and sign the American Chemical Society's Copyright Transfer Form for Artwork/Photos (use attached PDF) for each submission. The completed and signed form must be faxed to the Journal's Editorial Office at (205) 348-0823. A photocopy of the photo must accompany the form. Electronic signatures are not acceptable. Changes/modifications/attachments to the form will disqualify the entry.

Photos should be submitted via email by June 23, 2005. Questions and comments can be sent to the Crystal Growth & Design Editorial Office at crystal@bama.ua.edu.

Structural Biology from all Angles

Judith Flippen-Anderson, flippen@rcsb.rutgers.edu

The Buerger Symposium honors Buerger Award recipient Helen M. Berman (Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, and Director of the RCSB PDB). The award recognizes her lifetime work in the pioneering development of information services for the global community of researchers who both produce and use macromolecular structural data. The symposium will focus on new and emerging technologies for determining biological macromolecular structures, on how the resultant data is used to further the understanding of molecular function and on the underpinnings of the bioinformatics framework that makes many of these studies possible.

The M.J. Buerger Award, was established in 1983 and first awarded in 1985. The triennial award is given in memory of Martin J. Buerger, Institute Professor Emeritus of M.I.T. and Univ. Professor Emeritus of the Univ. of Connecticut, a mineralogist who made major contributions to many areas of crystallography. The award recognizes established scientists who have made contributions of exceptional distinction in areas of interest to the ACA.

Speakers:

Helen Berman, Rutgers Univ.

Jordi Bella, Rutgers Univ.

Stephen Burley, SGX

Wah Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine

Paula Fitzgerald, Merck Research

Stephen Neidle, Univ. of London, UK

John Westbrook, Rutgers Univ.

Acknowledgement is made to Blake Industries and Merck Research Labs for support to this session.

The Development of Neutron Reflectometry and its Applications to Magnetism, SoftMatter, and Biology

Brian Toby, brian.toby@nist.gov

Julie Borchers, julie.borchers@nist.gov

The Warren Award session will honor Charles Majkrzak for his seminal contributions to the development of neutron reflectivity and for his pioneering work in the exploration of many issues in interface science using this technique. Dr. Majkrzak's unusual technical and scientific creativity have profoundly advanced neutron reflectometry, the theory for polarized neutron reflectometry, and have led to the development of important new methods of data analysis. The presentations will highlight a wide-range of research areas that utilize neutron reflectometry and that have emerged, in part, as a result of Dr. Majkrzak's scientific contributions.

Plenary Speaker

Charles Majkrzak, NIST

Theory and Instrumentation

Chair: Larry Passell, Brookhaven National Lab

Speakers:

Norm Berk , NIST

Roger Pynn, Indiana Univ.

Sunny Sinha, Univ of California, San Diego

Applications in Magnetism

Chair: John Ankner, SNS

Speakers:

Hartmut Zabel, Ruhr Univ., Germany

Philippe Mangin, Laboratoire Leon Brillouin, France

Mike Fitzsimmons, Los Alamos National Lab

Applications in Soft Matter

Chair: Sushil Satija, NIST

Speakers:

Tom Russell, Univ. of Massachusetts

Mark Foster, Univ. of Akron

Applications in Biology

Chair: Duncan McGillavery, Univ. of California, Irvine

Speakers:

Susan Krueger, NIST

Mike Kent, Sandia National Laboratory

Jarek Majewski, Los Alamos National Lab

Etter Early Career Award

Chad A. Haynes, cah@caltech.edu

Established in 2002, the Etter Early Career Award was developed to recognize outstanding achievement and exceptional potential in crystallographic research demonstrated by a scientist at an early stage of their independent career. Carrie Wilmot, Univ. of Minnesota, has been selected to receive the 2006 Award.

The award was established to honor the memory of Professor Margaret C. Etter (1943-1992), who was a major contributor to the field of organic solid-state chemistry. This session will highlight the research of up-and-coming crystallographers. Contributions that encompass all areas of crystallography are invited.

POSTER PRIZES

Oxford Cryosystems Prize. The Oxford Cryosystems Low Temperature Prize is awarded to any poster describing work in low temperature crystallography. The winner will receive a prize of two hundred and fifty pounds sterling donated by Oxford Cryosystems. Winners will be announced at the banquet on Wednesday, July 26. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission.

Pauling Prize. Graduate and undergraduate students only - no post-docs. Awarded to not more than five of the best student poster presentations. An additional Pauling Prize sponsored by the Canadian Division of the ACA and the Canadian National Committee of the IUCr, will be given to the highest ranked poster from a Canadian laboratory. Each award consists of $200, a complimentary banquet ticket, and a copy of Linus Pauling's "General Chemistry". Honorable mentions may also be awarded a complimentary banquet ticket. Winners will be announced at the banquet on Wednesday, July 26. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission.

Protein Data Bank Prize. The PDB Poster Prize is to recognize a student poster presentation involving macromolecular crystallography. The prize is open to graduate and undergraduate students only - no postdoctoral posters. The winner will be announced at the banquet and an announcement will appear on the PDB web site and in the PDB Newsletter. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission.

IUCR Prize. The Executive Committee is pleased to continue the series of IUCr awards to be presented at meetings of the regional affiliates and national crystallographic associations. The Award is complimentary online access to all IUCr journals for one year or a complimentary volume of International Tables or other IUCr publication. Eligibility will be the same as that for the Pauling Poster Prize. Winners will be announced at the banquet on Wednesday, July 26. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission.

The Journal of Chemical Crystallography Prize. The Journal of Chemical Crystallography proudly sponsors a prize to be awarded to the best student poster presentation in the area of chemical crystallography or small molecule structure determination and analysis at the ACA's Annual Meeting. The winner will receive a one-year subscription to the Journal of Chemical Crystallography and a $200 Springer book voucher. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission.

Crystal Growth & Design Prize. The Journal Crystal Growth & Design (http://pubs.acs.org/crystal/) from the American Chemical Society has kindly agreed to sponsor a Prize to be awarded to the best poster submitted to the Small Molecule Symposium (10.03) entitled "Supramolecular Chemistry: From Assembly to Structure and Function". Eligibility: Graduate and undergraduate students only. Please indicate your wish to be considered for this Prize with your abstract submission.

AIP Undergraduate Research Prize. The inaugural "Undergraduate Research Poster Prize" and "Undergraduate Research Presentation Prize", both sponsored by the American Institute of Physics through the Society of Physics Students, will be presented to undergraduate students at the ACA banquet. The winners will each receive $200 and a banquet ticket. Posters and oral presentations will be judged by committee, during the time the student is presenting his/her research. Presentations and posters will be judged on organization and clarity, presentation, and report of the research. To be eligible for these awards, the poster or oral presentation must describe research with a significant crystallographic component, students must demonstrate a command of the science, and students must have completed the majority of the work being presented. Please indicate your wish to be considered for either of these awards with your abstract submission.