From lachlanc at magma.ca Tue Nov 20 03:39:32 2007 From: lachlanc at magma.ca (Lachlan Cranswick) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:39:32 -0500 Subject: CTEACH: IUCr Teaching Commission Newsletter on-line - November 2007 2nd edition Message-ID: <2.2.32.20071120033932.00c86798@mail.magma.ca> Hi All, A quick Email that the latest Teaching Commission Newsletter has been announced on the newsgroups using the following text. I will also be putting an article into the IUCr newsletter. Lachlan -------------- IUCr Teaching Commission Newsletter on-line - November 2007 2nd edition The 2nd issues of the IUCr Teaching Commission Newsletter is available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file via: http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/comm/cteach/newsletters/nov2007/ This edition has the theme: 'History of the ORTEP of the Year (OOTY) Award' including an overview article by the award's founder, Richard Harlow. The list of articles in this edition is given below. ================================================================== ================================================================== # The History of the ORTEP of the Year ("OOTY") Award. - Richard L. Harlow # Reprint of "Troublesome Crystal Structures: Prevention, Detection, and Resolution" [J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. 101, 327-339 (1996)] - Richard L. Harlow # Crystallographic Data Validation - Ten Years On. - Anthony Linden # An Online Course in X-ray Crystallography - Patrick J. Carroll # X-ray Safety for Analytical Instrumentation: It's what you cannot see or feel that will hurt you! - Joseph H. Reibenspies # Validation of a Complex Inorganic Crystal Structure using Bond Valence Restraints - Ivana Radosavljevic Evans # Teaching of Molecular Symmetry to Pakistani Students - Zia Khan # Teaching of Crystallography to Chemistry and Physics students in Pakistan - Zia Khan # Maximum Entropy Method - A Tool for Complete Structural Characterization of Crystalline Compounds - Roxana Flacau ================================================================== ================================================================== Call for Contributions to the Next Teaching Commission Newsletter The 3rd issue of the Teaching Commission Newsletter is expected to appear around August of 2009 (2008 being an IUCr congress year) with the primary theme to be determined. If no-one is else is co-opted, the newsletter will be edited by Lachlan Cranswick. Contributions would be also greatly appreciated on matters of interest. http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/comm/cteach/newsletters/ ================================================================== ================================================================== ----------------------- Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Contact outside working hours / Coordonnees en dehors des heures de travail: NEW E-mail / courriel: lc *at* bluehaze.com.au Home Tel: (613) 584-4226 ; Cell/mobile: (613) 401-6254 WWW: http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/ P.O. Box 2057, Deep River, Ontario, Canada, K0J 1P0 (please use clear titles in any Email - otherwise messages might accidentally get put in the SPAM list due to large amount of junk Email being received. If you don't get an expected reply to any messages, please try again.) (Essayez d'utiliser des titres explicites - sans quoi vos messages pourraient aboutir dans un dossier de rebuts, du fait de la quantite tres importante de pourriels recue. Si vous n'obtenez pas la reponse attendue, merci de bien vouloir renvoyer un message.)