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XII Meeting of the Mexican Society of Crystallography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2014

José Miguel Delgado
José Miguel Delgado*
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Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Química, Lab. de Cristalografía-LNDRX, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida 5101, Venezuela

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International Reports
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Powder Diffraction , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , December 2014 , pp. 407 - 409
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 2014 

The XII Meeting of the Mexican Society of Crystallography (SMCr) took place in the nice city of Villahermosa, Tabasco, from Sunday 4 to Thursday 8 of May 2014 at the Centro Internacional de Vinculación y Enseñanza (CIVE), of the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco. In the opening ceremony on Sunday evening, the Rector and other University officials welcomed the participants to the meeting (Figure 1). After the ceremony, Dr. William (Bill) Duax of Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute of Buffalo, New York, delivered the opening plenary lecture entitled “Essential Function and Ancient Origin of Ribosomal Protein S9”. Plenary lectures were also delivered by Sylvain Bèrnes of Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (México), Simon Billinge of Columbia University and Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA), Emilio Morán of Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), Adela Rodríguez of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (México), Anthony R. West of the University of Sheffield (UK), and Miguel Delgado of Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela) (Figure 2).

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(Color online) Dr. José Manuel Piña Gutiérrez (in the middle), Rector of the UJAT, presiding the opening ceremony.

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(Color online) Professors Gustavo Tavizón, Simon Billinge and José Alvaro (Pepe) Chávez before one of the oral presentations.

Other invited lecturers included Gerardo Aguirre Hernández (TECTIJUANA-México), Xim Bokhimi (UNAM-México), Daniel Chateignier (CRISMAT-ENSICAEN, France), María Eugenia Contreras (UMSNH-México), Luis Fuentes (CIMAV-México), Raúl García Llamas (UNISON-Mexico), Amador M. González (UPM-Spain), Víctor Manuel Malpica (UNAM-México), María Eugenia Mendoza (BUAP-México), María Elena Montero (CIMAV-México), Abel Moreno (UNAM-México), David Ríos Jara (IPICYT-México), David Romeu (UNAM-México), José Luis Ruvalcaba (UNAM-México), José G. Torres Torres (UJAT-Mexico), Rafael Villaurrutia (FEI Technology-México), and Patrick Woo (Hitachi-Canada) (Figure 3).

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(Color online) Participants of the XII Meeting of the Mexican Society of Crystallography.

Several courses and workshops on different interesting aspects were held during the week, early in the mornings before the oral scientific presentations. Among them were: Minerals Identification, Electron Microscopy in the Study of Cultural Heritage Materials, Electron Microscopy, Supramolecular Crystal Chemistry, Crystal Structure Refinement by the Rietveld Method, Gemology, The Structure–Property Relationships in Materials, and The Use of the Powder Diffraction File.

An important aspect of the meeting was that the majority of the attendees were graduate students and young scientists (Figure 4). They participated enthusiastically in the different workshops and courses. The evening poster sessions also provided the occasion for everyone to meet in a relaxed atmosphere and discuss the excellent multidisciplinary scientific program of the meeting.

Figure 4.

(Color online) Professors José Luis Ruvalcaba and Lauro Bucio with students and researchers from UNAM.

The Organizing Committee was chaired by José Alvaro Chávez Carvayar (President of the SMCr). The other members were Dr. José Gonzalo González Reyes (General Secretary of SMCr), María Elena Villafuerte Castrejón (Adjunt Secretary of SMCr), Jesús Arenas Alatorre (Treasurer of SMCr), José Reyes Gasga, and Gustavo Tavizón Alvarado. The active participation of Lauro Bucio, former President of the SMCr, in the organization of the meeting is worth mentioning. The local organizing committee was headed by Richart Falconi Calderón of Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (Figure 5).

Figure 5.

(Color online) The Temple of the Inscriptions at the Mayan City of Palenque.

Among the companies participating as exhibitors were SPECTRAMEX S.A. de C.V., FEI Company, Bruker Mexicana S.A. de C.V., Diffractia México S. de R.L. de C.V., Anton Paar, PANalytical, Agilent Technologies, JEOL, and Micra Nanotecnología S.A. de C.V.

Some of the attendees took the opportunity to visit the archaeological site of Palenque, in the nearby state of Chiapas, one of the wonders of the Mayan world.

The venue of the next meeting will be decided shortly. Several candidates are being considered. Among them are Mexico City and San Luis Potosí.

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Figure 1. (Color online) Dr. José Manuel Piña Gutiérrez (in the middle), Rector of the UJAT, presiding the opening ceremony.

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Figure 2. (Color online) Professors Gustavo Tavizón, Simon Billinge and José Alvaro (Pepe) Chávez before one of the oral presentations.

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Figure 3. (Color online) Participants of the XII Meeting of the Mexican Society of Crystallography.

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Figure 4. (Color online) Professors José Luis Ruvalcaba and Lauro Bucio with students and researchers from UNAM.

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Figure 5. (Color online) The Temple of the Inscriptions at the Mayan City of Palenque.