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Crystallographers offer meetings within meetings

AUG 01, 1969
The Eighth Crystallography Congress, meeting this month in the US, offers every type of communication from crowded formal sessions to spontaneous gatherings by handfuls of specialists. Electronic communications will help participants get the most out of the meeting.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3035734

Walter C. Hamilton

THE US PLAYS HOST again this month to the General Assembly and Congress of the International Union of Crystallography after an interval of 21 years. The program and structure of this, the eighth meeting, reflect the broad interdisciplinary character of crystallography. Biological crystallographers have their turn first at Buffalo (see box on page 25 for meeting schedule) for a topical meeting on biologically important substances. This specialized meeting is followed by ten days at Stony Brook, during which many small meetings‐within‐meetings will be held on “Frontier Topics of Crystallography” (see PHYSICS TODAY, July, page 117 for list). More specialized symposia follow at Stony Brook and at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the meeting is topped off by a tour of scientific laboratories in the Washington, D.C. area.

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Walter C. Hamilton. Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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Volume 22, Number 8

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