Background and Scope
This 2-nd meeting of the Bulgarian Crystallographic community follows the first one, NCS'09 held in 2009 and is inspired by its success. The new NCS'10 signals the hope and ambition of the organizers, to turn the event into a long lasting tradition, already surpassing the national scale, with the annouced international participation.
Organization
The symposium will include three days of presentations and discussions, while giving the chance to see the crystal collection of "The Earth and Man National Museum" Sofia at the same time.
The Scientific program of the Second National Crystallographic Symposium includes
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Keynote invited lectures
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Plenary lectures
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Oral presentations
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Poster session
The event will start with an introductory invited talk presented by the NCS'09 chairman. Each session will be introduced through the presentations of invited speakers selected and will include a limited number of other oral presentations, selected by the Advisory Board. Most contributions will be directed for presentation in the event-wide poster session.
The Second National Crystallographic Symposium offers the opportunity for young scientists in various disciplines of Crystallography and Crystallochemistry to:
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present their research
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exchange new ideas during the planed round tables
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forge new frontiers in Crystallography and Crystallochemistry that will shape the science and technology of the future
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to participate in the open discussions
Outstanding presentations from young scientists in
all topics will be awarded.
Topics
- Crystal Growth and Ontogenia
- Inorganic and Mineral Structures
- Crystallography of Organic and Organometallic Compounds
- Crystallography of Nano and Micro- sized materials
- Macromolecular crystallography
- Structure-Properties relationship
- Defects, microstructures and textures
- Experimental Techniques and Equipment
- Scattering methods (x-ray, neutron, synchrotron ...)
- Solid-state spectroscopic methods (x-ray absorption spectroscopy, NMR, vibrational methods...)
- Microscopy (electron, near-field, ...)
- Numerical modeling including ab initio approaches.