Session 1: Developments in Neutron Diffraction
1:30 – 5:00 PM,
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Paul Langan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, “Protein Crystallography with
Spallation Neutrons.”
Dean A. A. Myles, Center for Structural Molecular Biology, Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, “Protons in
Proteins: Hydrogen Atoms in Biological Function.”
Chick C. Wilson, University of Glasgow,
“New Instruments, New Science - Recent Developments and Applications in Single
Crystal Neutron Diffraction.”
Jason P. Hodges, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, “POWGEN3: A High Resolution Third Generation TOF Powder
Diffractometer Under
Construction at the SNS.”
Wim Klooster, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation,
“The New Quasi-Laue Diffractometer at the Australian Replacement Research
Reactor.”
Poster Session and Mixer, 8:00 – 10:00 PM
Session 2: Symposium to Honor Prof. R.F. Stewart
Bryan
Craven, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, “Uracil Revisited: X-ray and
Neutron Powder Diffraction Studies.”
Riccardo Destro, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, “Recent Work in Milano at T = 20
K.”
Pierre Becker, Ecole Centrale Paris, “A
Pseudo-Atomic Decomposition of the Density Matrix of Complex Systems. Modelling
Solids from a Set of Independent Experiments.”
Claude Lecomte, Université Henri Poincaré Nancy1, “Multipole Refinement and Electrostatics: from
Molecular Crystals to Proteins.”
Lee Brammer, University of Sheffield, “Electrostatic Interactions
of Halogens - A Guide to Supramolecular Assembly and Crystal Design.”
Lunch Break, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Robert F. Stewart, Carnegie Mellon University, “Reminiscences of Least-Squares.”
Yvon Le Page, National Research Council
of Canada, “Quantum Software Interfaced
with Crystal-Structure Databases: Tools, Results and Perspectives.”
G.V. Gibbs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University, “A comparison of experimental and theoretical bond
critical point properties for earth materials.”
Subramanyam
Swaminathan,
Brookhaven National Laboratory, “Structural Studies on the Catalytic Domains of
botulinum Neurotoxins.”
Nadrian C.
Seeman, New York University, “Not Merely the Secret of Life: DNA in Nanotechnology.”
Banquet and Awards Presentations, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Session 3: Protein Dynamics from Crystallography
9:00 – 12:00
AM, Saturday, October 30, 2004
Bi-Cheng Wang, University of Georgia, “Light When You Need it: SER-CAT Synchrotron
at the Advanced
Photon Source.”
Andrew Mesecar, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Structural Motions During the Catalytic
Cycles of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase and Phosphotriesterase Revealed by
monochromatic and Laue X-ray Crystallography.”
Gregory A. Petsko, Brandeis University, “The Role of Protein Dynamics in Enzyme
Catalysis.”
Keith Moffat, University of Chicago, “Signal Transduction by Blue Light
Photoreceptors Studied by Time-Resolved Crystallography.”
Wah-Keat Lee, APS, Argonne National
Laboratory, “Real Time Phase Enhanced
Radiography.”
PDS General Membership Meeting, 12:00 – 12:05 PM (Lecture
Hall)
Lunch Break, 12:05 – 1:30 PM
Sidhu Award Lecture at 1:30 PM, Saturday, October 30, 2004
Session 4: Synchrotron Applications and Optics
1:30 – 5:00 PM,
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Donald H. Bilderback, CHESS, Cornell University, “Optimizing Monocapillary
Optics for Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, Fluorescence Imaging, and
Spectroscopy Applications.”
Jonathan Lang, APS, Argonne National Laboratory, “Resonant Scattering and Absorption
Experiments Using Variably Polarized Synchrotron X-Rays.”
Ulrich Lienert, APS,
Argonne National Laboratory, “Recent Developments of High Energy Synchrotron Diffraction.”
Qun Shen, CHESS, Cornell University, “Recent Advances in Synchrotron X-ray
Optics and Applications.”
Daniel Häusermann, APS, Argonne National Laboratory, “HPCAT at the
Advanced Photon Source: An integrated approach
to high-pressure research using synchrotron radiation.”