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

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Friday, October 29, 2004

 

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.”