RC staff members Margarita Avdontceva and Taras Panikorovsky participated in the 8th European Conference on Mineralogy and Spectroscopy with oral presentations. Conference took place in Rome, Italy.
The meeting was attended by more than 100 scientists from Europe, Middle and Far East, Australia and USA (1st place Italy 40%, 2nd place Russia 19 %) specializing in crystallography, x-ray analysis, crystal chemistry, spectroscopy and material sciences. The first place among the participants of the conference took Italy (40 %), Russia – the second place (19 %). The participitation in the conference allowed to share experience with European colleagues, to study a new diffraction equipment which was presented by Bruker, to introduce Research centre for X – Ray diffraction studies and to show the recent results obtained by using RC equipment.
The joint scientific group at the Saint-Petersburg State University and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has recently published the results of the studies on the possible sources of prebiotic phosphorus at the times of the early Earth. The highlights of the findings have been presented at the regular SPSU Science lunch meeting held by Associate Prof. Dr. Sergey Britvin and the head of the Department of Crystallography Prof. Dr. Sergey Krivovichev. The scientists have pointed out that the current level of the studies in the mineralogy could not be imagined even a few years ago. The modern scientific equipment provided by the Scientific Park of SPSU is an absolutely essential requirement for the development of contemporary science.
RC staff members Margarita Avdontseva, Taras Panikorovsky and Andrei Zolotarev participated in the 21st General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Johannesburg 01.09.– 05.09. 2014,
where they presented reports of results investigations which performed by RC XRD equipment.
Reports are available in "Publications" section.
The deputy director of the Research Centre Gurzhiy V.V. took part at the 23d Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (Montreal, Canada, August 5-12, 2014), where he presented report on the results of work performed on the equipment of XRD RC.
It is worth noting that the Congress is held in an officially declared by UNESCO The International Year of Crystallography that commemorates not only the centennial of X-ray diffraction, which allowed the detailed study of crystalline material, but also the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals.
RC staff members Margarita Avdontseva, Daria Spiridonova and Taras Panikorovsky participated in the 3rd International Conference "Crystallogenesis and Mineralogy" (3rd International Conference on Crystallogenesis and Mineralogy, Novosibirsk 27.09. - 01.10., 2013), where they have presented reports on the results of investigations performed with the help of RC XRD equipment. Poster reports are available in the "Publications" section.
Today, the participants of the International Conference "Clays, clay minerals and layered materials-2013" held with the participation of St. Petersburg State University, visited the Research Centre for X-ray Diffraction Studies. Alexander Puchkov, the specialist from E-Globaledge Corporation, demonstrated the possibilities of hardware and software for X-ray diffraction analysis produced by Rigaku Company, and staff members of the XRD RC discussed with the guests directions of possible joint research.
