5.INTERNATIONAL UNION OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (IUCr)

Introduction

The Union was admitted to ICSU in April,1947. Since its formation, The Union has remained a focal point for international cooperation in crystallogrphy. It has 17 Commissions, which are concerned with either a principal publishing activity or a major topic or field of concern to crystallographers. The second groupof Commissions organise many international projects concerned with the establishment of internationally acceptable standards or methods of procedure. Also they organise specialist meetings or short courses of instructions for young scientists. IUCr has following objectives:

-to promote international cooperation in crystallography to contribute to the advancement of all aspects of crystallography;

-to promote international publication of crystallographic research;

-to facilitate  standardization of methods, units, nomenclature and symbols used in crystallography and

-to form a focus for the relations of crystallography to other sciences.

Secretariat:MH Dacombe, Executive Secretary IUCr,IUCR Secretariat, 2 Abbey Square,Chester CH1 2 HU UK

Fax(44 1244) 344843,E.mail: execsec@iucr.org, http://www.iucr.org

Subscription:SF 3000(2002)   Category:II (3 units)

Voting rights:2

No. of Commissions:17  

No. of Scientific Associates:2 (IOCG,ICDD)

No. of Regional Associates:3 (ACA, AsCA,ECC)

Positions in IUCr

1. Ramaseshan, Vice President IUCr, 1982-84

2. M.Vijayan, Chairman, IUCr Commission on Biological Macromolecules, 1994-99

3. R.Chidambaram, Vice-President, IUCr, 1997-99,

Member, Executive Committee,IUCr, 1991-96

4. Krishan Lal, General Secretary & Treasurer AsCA, 1997-99

XVII IUCr. General Assembly and International Congress of Crystallography at Seattle, USA from 8-17 August 1996:

1. Krishan Lal FNA                            

2. V.Pattabhi Madras University Madras      

3. Dhananjay Pandey BHU Varanasi             

4. PN Kotru Jammu Univ.Jammu               

5. M.Ramandham BARC Bombay                    

6. GC Trigunayat Delhi University              

7. MK Sanyal FNA                              

8.S.Ramkumar IISc. Bangalore                

XVIII IUCR General Assembly at Glasgow, Scotland, U.K from 4-13 August,1999.

1. O.N.Srivastava, FNA :

2. Krishan Lal, FNA:

3. J.K.Dattagupta, SINP, Calcutta:

4. M.Vijayan, FNA:

5. S.P.Sengupta, IACS, Calcutta:

6. Prof.G.C.Trigunayat, Univ.of Delhi:

7. A.Mukhopadhyay, Jadavpur Univ.,Calcutta:

8. Dr.K.A.Nirmala, Bangalore Univ.,

9. M.K.Sanyal, SINP, Calcutta:

10.Swapan Kr Pradhan,Univ.of Burdwan :

11.Niranjana Goswami, NPL, New Delhi:

XIX Congress and General Assembly of IUCr at Geneva, Switzerland during 6-15 August,2002.

1.      Dr.S.K.Sikka, FNA :

2.      Prof.M.Vijayan, FNA :

3.      Prof.M.R.N.Murthy, FNA:

4.      Prof.V.R.Pedireddi, NCL, Pune:

5.      Dr.M.V.Hosur, FNA :

6.      Dr.P.Chakrabarti, Bose Instt, Kolkata:

7.      Dr.Dhananjai Pandey, BHU, Varanasi :

8.      Dr.Ashwini Kumar Nangia, Univ.of Hyderabad :

9.      Dr.S.Mazumdar, BARC, Mumbai:

Seminar/Symposia

International Seminar on Macromolecular Crystallographic Data at SINP, Calcutta, November 16-20,1995.

International School on Powder Diffraction at IACS, Calcutta during 13-15 October,1998.

Asian Crystallography Meeting (AsCA 2001) is scheduled to take place at Bangalore during 18-25 November,2001.

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