Dear all
Those of you who attended the CCP4 Study "Weekend" at Warwick
University this week (either in vivo or in silico), and who stayed to
the end will remember Roberto Steiner's suggestion that some of the
younger members of the audience may wish to become involved in
software development themselves.
The IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Computing ("CompComm") will
be holding a Computing School immediately before the Madrid IUCr
General Assembly and Congress this August that is intended to expose
younger members of the Crystallographic community to the knowledge
and experience of senior developers across the whole science. CCP4BB
readers will possibly be most interested in those developers in
macromolecular crystallography; the following people in this field
have accepted our invitations to speak -
Paul Emsley
Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve
Garib Murshudov
George Sheldrick
Tom Terwilliger
There are many other speakers who will concentrate on their own
specialities (e.g. powder diffraction, small-molecule
crystallography), but who will offer food for thought for all.
The School is intended for prospective (or current...) developers,
not to help those people who just want to run the programs better.
Registration will be open to all, but priority will be given to
postgrads and postdocs; we hope to have a number of bursaries
available for applicants from less economically favoured regions.
We are still finalising items such as the registration fee, but I
expect to be able to make the website live by the end of January with
more comprehensive details.
Watch this space...
Harry
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Dr Harry Powell,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Hills Road,
Cambridge,
CB2 0QH
Treasurer British Crystallographic Association
Chairman ECA SIG9 (Crystallographic Computing)
Acting Chairman IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Computing
