Welcome Note

Dear colleagues,

The European Powder Diffraction Conference EPDIC 12 will be held in the city of
Darmstadt from 27 to 30 August 2010.

With one day overlap the European Crystallographic Meeting ECM 26 is taking place at the same venue (29 August to 2 September 2010).

We cordially invite you to attend these manifestations of Crystallography in Europe. The EPDIC meeting will follow the established successful scheme with plenary lectures and 17 microsymposia introduced by keynotes. Submitted contributions will be presented either orally in a session (if selected by the chair) or during the poster sessions.

A commercial and scientific exhibition will complete the program. Topics covered
are instruments and methods on one side and materials on the other.
The European Crystallographic Meeting ECM 26 organized by ECA includes structural crystallography from the miniscule to macromolecular dimensions.

The program is composed in 16 keynotes, 47 microsymposia and poster exhibitions. The commercial exhibition will take place during both events (27 August to 2 September 2010).

Please submit your abstracts in English at our congress website before
April 30, 2010 and state the related microsymposium.

Contributions may be submitted for publication in a book of proceedings.
As an incentive to participate in both conferences a reduced fee is offered to
delegates.

We are looking forward to meeting many of you in Darmstadt.

Professor Paolo Scardi
EPDIC Chairman

Professor Hartmut Fuess
Chair of ECM26 and EPDIC12

Professor Santiago Garcia-Granda
President of ECA