Transcript UK Co-Chair Report - International Centre for Diffraction Data

UK Regional Co-Chair
Report 2004
Dave Taylor
Last Years activities
 BCA
Spring Meeting
York University 15th – 17th April 2003
 Bede
User Meeting
Cambridge University 12th June 2003
 23rd
Durham Conference
15th – 18th September 2003
 BCA
Industrial Group Forum 2
 London 13th & 14th November 2003
BCA Spring Meeting - York
 16th
– 17th March 2003
– Shorter 3 day meeting still packed with
science!
 New

ICDD Booth
“ICDD Bursary” awarded to
– J PrakashaReddy National Chemical
Laboratory, India
BCA Spring Meeting – York in April
ICDD Bursary student
PrakashaReddy National Chemical Laboratory, India
BCA Spring Meeting - York
 John
Faber – Plenary Lecture
“ICCD's PDF-4 Databases: Search Indexes,
Full Pattern Analysis and Data Mining”
– To be published in “Crystallography Reviews”
– With a free copy to all BCA Members!
 Workshop
on Phase Identification
– Instructors: John Faber & Dave Taylor
– Included a hands on PC Session

David Rendle “Database Use in Forensic Analysis”
Bede User Meeting
 Cambridge
University 12th June 2003
 "The
Powder Diffraction File (PDF):
Recent Developments and Data
Mining.“ 30 minute presentation
– Advertised by Bede in 'Pharmaceutical
Technology Europe', at the BCA meeting
and the ACHEMA exhibition
23rd Durham Conference on X-ray
Analysis
This was the last Durham
conference!
PANalytical are reviewing training
objectives in support of their UK
customer base.
BCA Industrial Group Forum 2
London 13th & 14th November 2003
This two day meeting was well
received by delegates.
It included parallel Pharmaceutical
sessions and a
“Ron Jenkins Memorial Lecture”
“Ron Jenkins Memorial Lecture”
Introduced by Steve Norval,
ICI plc
Gordon Cressey
Presented:
“New developments in powder
diffraction at the Natural History
Museum: applications using fast
detectors and high brightness
sources”
I am grateful to ICDD member Steve who stepped in as a last minute
replacement for me to introduce the lecture.
A few familiar slides were slotted into Steve’s introduction!
Introduced Partnerships with the ICDD
Ron Introduced the CD Rom database format
91,787 Entries – ICDD Sources
54,378 Entries PDF-4/Full File
122,816 Entries PDF-4/Organics
3,990 Metals and Alloys in PDF-4/Full File
Initiated the Rapid growth of the
Powder Diffraction File (PDF)
Release 2001
PDF-2
136,895 Entries
Release 2002
PDF-2
148,379 Entries
90,000 Experimental
Entries
Now 272, 971 Entries – In 8 CD-ROM’s or 2 DVD’s
A Legacy of PDF Expansion
600000
Projected
Expansion
500000
400000
300000
Release 2003
~ 280,000 Entries
Release 2004
~ 346,000 Entries
200000
100000
* P D F -4/F ull F ile and P D F -4/O rganics
Entries
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Coming Year
 BCA
Spring Meeting
Manchester 5th – 8th April 2004
 BCA
Industrial Group meetings
 10th June 2004 Introduction to Powder
Diffraction, Manchester.
 24th June 2004, Pharmaceutical SIG
 4th November 2004, Autumn Meeting,
DIY Crystallography, London
BCA Spring Meeting - Manchester
5th – 8th April 2004
 Young Crystallographers satellite
 Exhibition Open Evening on Monday
 Lonsdale, Bragg, and Hodgkin Lectures
 Meeting theme – catalysis –

– Jim Kaduk - Plenary lecture.
Instrument Calibration - How to be a Star!
 “ICDD Bursary” to:
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– CARLOS LLEDO-FERNANDEZ – Durham
£230 covers registration, accommodation &
food!
Manchester
Exhibitors
Beevers Miniature Models
Bruker AXS Ltd
Crystal Impact Gbr
DataCentric Automation/Hamilton GB Ltd
Douglas Instruments Ltd
Fluidigm Europe
Genomic Solutions
HiltonBrooks Ltd
International Centre for Diffraction Data
International Union of Crystallography
MarResearch
Molecular Dimensions Ltd
Nextal Biotechnologies
Oxford Cryosystems
Oxford Diffraction Ltd
Oxford University Press
PANalytical Ltd
Perkinelmer LAS
Rigaku/MSC
Making it happen
Co-chairs rely on the valuable support
of ICDD staff to help promote ICDD
in the regions.
Thank you and keep up the good work.