Invitation to the ICTP Colloquium by Prof. A.M Glazer on Tuesday 15 January at 16:30

[ICTP Director]

*_I_**_nvitation to the ICTP Colloquium_*

Dear All,

*ICTP is pleased to announce that the forthcoming ICTP Colloquium by 
Prof. A. M. Glazer, "Crystallography: Then, Now, and …..?", will take 
place on Tuesday 15 January 2019 at 16:30 hrs, in the Budinich Lecture 
Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP.*
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Biosketch: *Mike Glazer is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the 
University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at the University of 
Warwick. He was born on May 1st 1943. His PhD research between 1965 and 
1968 was under the supervision of Kathleen Lonsdale at University 
College London, working on the crystallography of organic mixed 
crystals. In 1968-1969, he was a Fellow at Harvard University, and then 
from 1969 to 1976 he was at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. In 
1976, he was appointed Lecturer in Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory 
Oxford and as an Official Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College Oxford. Mike 
Glazer's research has mainly been in understanding the relationship 
between physical properties of crystals and their structures. He is 
perhaps best known for his classification system for tilted octahedra in 
perovskites. He is also one of the co-founders of Oxford Cryosystems 
Ltd, which supplies the world market in low-temperature apparatus for 
crystallographers. He is currently Editor of the Newsletter of the 
International Union of Crystallography.

*Abstract: *The field of Crystallography is one of the oldest of 
scientific disciplines, and yet it continues to make important advances 
today and into the future. In this talk, Prof. Glazer will trace the 
history of some important ideas that have led to some basic 
understanding of the structures of crystals before experimental 
techniques evolved to enable these theories to be tested. In the 20th 
century, the discovery of X-ray diffraction by crystals has led to the 
formation of a whole new discipline, namely X-ray Crystallography. This 
discovery has since then expanded to include neutron and electron 
scattering and has increased our knowledge of materials and biological 
systems. As a result, many Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work 
relying on crystallographic studies. Over the last 100 years many new 
experimental techniques have arisen, including the use of synchrotron 
radiation, free electron lasers and very recently major advances in the 
use of electron microscopes.

More information is available at http://indico.ictp.it/event/8841/

The Colloquium will be livestreamed at ictp.it/livestream

Light refreshments will be served after the talk.

You are all very warmly invited to attend.

With best regards,

Office of the Director, ICTP