Report of the Executive Committee for 2008

The IUCr sponsored the following meetings held during 2007: BCA Intensive Course in X-ray Structure Analysis, Durham, UK, 4 March – 2 April. Latin-American Workshop on Applications of Powder Diffraction and School on Methods of Powder Diffraction, Campinas, Brazil, 16– 20 April. RapiData 2007, Brookhaven, USA, 22–27 April. 6th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering (IXS 2007), Hyogo, Japan, 7–11 May. Fifth International Conference on Solid State Crystals and Eighth Polish Conference on Crystal Growth (ICSSC-5 and PCCG-8), Zakopane, Poland, 20–24 May. Engineering of Crystalline Materials Properties: State-of-the-Art in Modelling, Design, Applications, Erice, Italy, 7–17 June. Crystallization: Focus on Membrane Proteins, Brookhaven, USA, 11–15 June. School and Workshop on X-ray Microand Nanoprobes: Instruments, Methodologies and Applications, Erice, Italy, 11–17 June. Gordon Research Conference on Electron Distribution and Chemical Bonding, South Hadley, USA, 1–6 July. First School on Materials Applications of the Organic Solid State (SMAOSS) and XVIII International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (XVIII-ICCOSS), 1–6 and 8–13 July. XVI International Conference on Crystal Chemistry and Diffraction Studies of Minerals and Workshop ‘Minerals as Advanced Materials’, Miass and Apatity, Russia, 2–6 and 8–12 July. International School on Theoretical and Mathematical Crystallography, Havana, Cuba, 15–20 July. ACA Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, USA, 21–26 July. International Conference on Neutron and X-ray Scattering, Serpong and Bandung, Indonesia, 23–31 July. 13th International Summer School on Crystal Growth, Park City, USA, 5–11 August. VIII Latin-American Workshop on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials and Their Applications (LAW3M), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 12–16 August. 9th International Biology and Synchrotron Radiation Conference, Manchester, UK, 12–17 August. ECM-24, Marrakech, Morocco, 22–27 August. Symposium in Honour of Professor Dame Louise Johnson, FRS, DBE, Oxford, UK, 2–5 September. Advanced Methods in X-ray Charge Density Analysis: Extracting Properties from a Multipolar Refinement, Martina Franca, Italy, 3–6 September. Electron Microscopy and Multiscale Modelling, Moscow, Russia, 3–7 September. Structure Elucidation by Combining Magnetic Resonance, Computation, Modelling and Diffraction (SMARTER), Aveiro, Portugal, 6–7 September. Advances in Crystallography at High Pressure at Large-Scale Facilities, Chilton, UK, 6–9 September. Diffraction Analysis of the Microstructure of Materials, GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany, 7–9 October. Synchrotron Radiation and Neutrons for Cultural Heritage Studies, Grenoble, France, 8–12 October. Quasicrystals – the Silver Jubilee, Tel Aviv, Israel, 14–19 October. MSA-GS-ANL Short Course on ‘Amphiboles’, Rome, Italy, 29–31 October. Eighth Asian Crystallographic Association Conference (AsCA ’07), Taipei, 4–7 November.