The first edition of the IUCr Teaching Commission newsletter is available on-line as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file via:
http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/comm/cteach/newsletters/june2006/ The theme of this edition is the "Teaching Crystallographic Fundamentals" ------------------------ The table of contents follow: # Siena 2006 : IUCr School on Basic Crystallography * Einstein's tongue for teaching crystallography to biologists - Philippe Dumas, Julien Vanwinsberghe and Vincent Cura * Crystallography Education and Training in the United States - Katherine A. Kantardjieff * Crystallographic Teaching in Pakistan - Zia Khan * A Guided Tour in Fourier Space - Fokke Tuinstra * The British Crystallographic Association Intensive Courses in X-ray Structural Analysis - David Watkin * Teaching of the Fundamentals of Crystallography - Dieter Schwarzenbach * Teaching Crystallography and Related Subjects at Novosibirsk State University, Russia - Elena Boldyreva * Crystallographic Teaching at the Laboratory of Inorganic Crystal Chemistry at Moscow State University, Russia - Evgeny Antipov * M.Sc. Crystallography at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK - Alan L. Mackay ! Addendum 1: reprint of webpages containing the (now defunct) Birkbeck College M.Sc. Crystallography Course Syllabus in its final form (taken from Jeremy Cockcroft's website) ! Addendum 2: mid 1950's (rejected) submission on crystallography by J.D. Bernal et al to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The article was rejected as too long but it embodied the syllabus and intention of the Birkbeck College M.Sc. course in crystallography. # Calls for contributions to Newsletter No. 2 ------------------------ -- ----------------------- Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Contact outside working hours / Coordonnees en dehors des heures de travail: NEW E-mail / courriel: lachlanc *at* magma.ca Home Tel: (613) 584-4226 Mobile/Cell: 613 401 3433 WWW: http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/ P.O. Box 2057, Deep River, Ontario, Canada, K0J 1P0 (please use clear titles in any Email - otherwise messages might accidentally get put in the SPAM list due to large amount of junk Email being received. If you don't get an expected reply to any messages, please try again.) (Essayez d'utiliser des titres explicites - sans quoi vos messages pourraient aboutir dans un dossier de rebuts, du fait de la quantite tres importante de pourriels recue. Si vous n'obtenez pas la reponse attendue, merci de bien vouloir renvoyer un message.)
