Welcome to the webpage of the Canadian National Committee for Crystallography (CNCC)
News: CNCC Newsletter No 2, December 2009 (English) :
(Screen Res 2.6 Meg PDF File) |
(Print Quality 17 Meg PDF File) |
(Zipped 119 Meg MS-Word File).
This edition includes obituaries of Louis T. J. Delbaere (1943-2009) and Maria Przybylska (1923-2008).
Colour hardcopies of this newsletter have been mailed to Canadian base users
of crystallographic methods on our distribution list. If you are not on the distribution list and
wish to receive future newsletters, contact the CNCC to start receiving
them
Sad News:: Professor Louis T. J. Delbaere (1943-2009), Chair of the CNCC, passed away unexpectedly on Monday 5th October 2009.
An obituary is being organised for a CNCC newsletter to be mailed out in mid December.
An Obituary in the Globe and Mail
is reproduced here as well as an obituary in
CNCC Newsletter No 2, December 2009.
News: CNCC Newsletter No 1, September 2009 (English)
(Screen Res 5.5 Meg PDF File) |
(Print Quality 25 Meg PDF File) |
(Zipped 75 Meg MS-Word File).
Black/White hardcopies of newsletters are mailed to Canadian base users
of crystallographic methods. If you are not on the distribution list and
wish to receive future newsletters, contact the CNCC to start receiving
them
News: The IUCr photograph archive now includes a section
on Portraits of Canadian crystallographers
News: Successful CNCC bid for the IUCr 2014 congress to be in Montreal
Announcement from IUCr: International Tables Online available now
The Canadian National Committee for Crystallography is one of a number of Canadian
National Committees (CNC's) whose functions are to represent Canada internationally within
relevant international engineering, scientific and humanitarian organisations.
A poster describing crystallography and the CNCC can be downloaded as a
Small screen quality PDF (0.2 Meg), a
Press quality PDF (1.2 Meg) or a
Zipped Power Point File (29 Meg)
As is near identical to the equivalent Committees
on Crystallography of other nations, the CNCC exists to:
The Canadian National Committee for Crystallography is currently a Category III
Adhering-Body to the IUCr, thus has three delegates and three votes at
IUCr general assembly business meetings (as stated within section 5.5 of
the Statutes
and By-Laws of the International Union of Crystallography).
The Committee's primary functions are:
- To advise, and receive advisings and directives from
the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) on matters pertaining
to Canadian participation in the International Union
of Crystallography (IUCr).
- To inform crystallographers in Canada concerning the
activities of the IUCr.
- To nominate persons to represent the crystallographers in
Canada as delegates to the General Assemblies
of the IUCr.
- To provide information and guidance for such delegates
- To plan and sponsor scientific meetings in Canada as is consistent with the objectives of the
IUCr.
- To perform such other duties as are required of
national
committees of adhering countries under
the statutes of the IUCr.
- To take any other action directed toward the benefit and advancement of
the science of crystallography in Canada and throughout the world.
CNCC Mandate
More detailed information is listed on the CNCC Raison d'être page.
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