Conveners
Joint PCCr2 + AfLS2 Plenary
- There are no conveners in this block
Joint PCCr2 + AfLS2 Plenary: Review of AfLS, LAAAMP and IUCr-Openlab
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Joint PCCr2 + AfLS2 Plenary
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Joint PCCr2 + AfLS2 Plenary: Sponsor presentations
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Joint PCCr2 + AfLS2 Plenary
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Joint PCCr2 + AfLS2 Plenary: Strategy Session I - Realising the Pan African Synchrotron
- Felix Dapare Dakora ()
Joint PCCr2 + AfLS2 Plenary: Strategy Session II : Realising the Pan African Synchrotron
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Joint PCCr2 + AfLS2 Plenary: AfCA: Progress in the constitution of the African Crystallographic Association
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Prof.
Tom Blundell
(Cambridge University)
30/01/2019, 09:00
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
Knowledge derived from genome sequences of humans and pathogens has the potential to accelerate diagnosis, prognosis and cure of disease. We are moving quickly into an era of precision medicine, not only in familial diseases where a mutation in a human gene is important, but also for understanding somatic mutations in cancer. Equally important, the genome sequences of pathogens, for example...
Prof.
Simon Connell
(University of Johannesburg)
30/01/2019, 16:30
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
The global science endeavor drives technological development, which has a large impact on socioeconomic development. There are however other benefits: such as the culture of enlightenment, the eradication of ignorance and prejudice, the promotion of large scale boundary-crossing collaborations and a real, fundamental appreciation of all diversity. In this context, large-scale research...
Prof.
Sekazi Mtingwa
(TriSEED Consultants, LLC (USA))
30/01/2019, 16:50
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
We describe a new initiative funded by a 3-year, 300K-Euro grant from the International Council for Science (ICSU) to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) in collaboration with over thirty partner organizations that include sixteen advanced light sources to enhance the utilization of advanced light sources and...
Dr
Michele Zema
(International Union of Crystallography)
30/01/2019, 17:10
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
The worldwide nature of the UN International Year of Crystallography 2014 has provided new opportunities to develop educational activities at all levels in parts of the world where crystallography is as yet a poorly developed science, and to set in motion new initiatives in capacity building and international cooperation. In this regard and to stimulate curriculum development, the IUCr and...
Prof.
Eric Collet
(Université de Rennes 1)
31/01/2019, 09:00
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
Ultrafast photoswitching in bistable crystals is associated with a complex transformation pathway, multiscale in nature, where both molecular electronic and structural reorganization and macroscopic transformation of the crystal have to be considered [1]. Time-resolved X-ray techniques developing at synchrotron and X-FEL allow for tracking such microscopic transformation on timescales spanning...
Dr
Daniel Nyanganyura
31/01/2019, 12:30
Gavin Vaughan
(M/Europe)
01/02/2019, 09:00
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
The well-established diffraction techniques of classical single crystal and powder diffraction have been hugely influential in the study of materials structure and of functional relationships to that structure. However, the characterization challenge for materials scientists is always to bring the conditions of our experiments as close as possible to the real conditions under which the...
Prof.
Simon Connell
(University of Johannesburg)
01/02/2019, 10:30
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
The African Light Source Foundation and the African Light Source Steering Committee has been active in unifying a broad global collaboration of stakeholders towards the common goal of a Light Source in Africa. The stakeholders are many, and their contributions have been given profile and recognised in this Conference. In addition, this conference has heard about the vast spread and also the...
Dr
Tshepo Ntsoane
(Necsa)
01/02/2019, 10:40
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
Over the last decade, the number of South African users accessing synchrotron facilities around the world has been steadily increasing with a significant fraction of the increase being early career scientists and students. In 2013, following a request by the synchrotron community, the South African government entered into a 5-year medium-term scientific relationship with the European...
Dr
Prosper NGABONZIZA
(Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research)
01/02/2019, 10:50
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
Explore possible partnership with other African Countries to get Full Member Status
Prof.
Edward Mitchell
(ESRF)
01/02/2019, 11:05
Synchrotron light sources arguably the means of our age for the ultimate characterisation of materials: such facilities provide the ability to visualise the atomic, nano-, and macro-structure of a huge range of materials and living matter, often under processing or end-use conditions and in real time. This capability lends itself to an equally wide range of industrial R&D problems which, in...
Dr
Sekazi Mtingwa
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Brookhaven National Laboratory& African Laser Centre)
01/02/2019, 11:25
Prof.
Richard Catlow
(University College London; Royal Society)
01/02/2019, 11:45
Prof.
Felix Dapare Dakora
(African Academy of Science)
01/02/2019, 12:00
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
Panel discussion, based on a panel consisting of a Chair and Panelists from the Key Note Speakers
Prof.
Robert Kingsford-Adaboh
(University of Ghana)
01/02/2019, 14:00
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
The PCCr2 Conference is now also reaching its end.
For a many years, including more recently in the planning stages of PCCr2, there was a vision of a large scale infrastructure for Africa. Indeed sessions with this focus were present in the PCCr2 early programme. It was therefore natural to partner with the AfLS2 Conference. At PCCr2, there has been an excellent spread of contributions, using...
Dr
Francesco Sette
(European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF))
01/02/2019, 14:15
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
The ESRF Upgrade Programme, started in 2009, and developed in two phases, is delivering a new
generation of beamlines and a new X-ray source with qualitatively improved performances compared to
what is available today.
With drastically increased brightness and coherence, the soon-coming ESRF Extremely Brilliant Source
(EBS) will open new opportunities for synchrotron users. I will review...
Dr
Nkem Khumbah
(Next Einstein Forum (NEF) and University of Michigan)
01/02/2019, 15:20
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
TBA
01/02/2019, 15:35
Common : PCCr2 and AfLS2
Oral Presentations
Pannel discussion
based on a panel consisting of a
Chair and
Panelists from the Key Note Speakers
