Workshop photos from Katherine's iPad

Photos taken with Katherine's iPad are available from the Picasa Web Album Cryst4Chem.

Katherine's Presentations

Please check back to this post regularly for pdf handouts of Katherine's presentations at this workshop. These include fundamentals, publication, fiber diffraction, crystallography across the sciences, teaching and pedagogy. Additional articles will also be available here.

Educational Reprints and Policy Documents

For those of you interested in crystallography education, this paper, which appeared in the October 2010 special issue of Journal of Applied Crystallography, describes efforts to incorporate crystallography into secondary curricula in the United States.

A second paper in the special issue describes using Web 3.0 technologies for education and training in crystallography.

The white paper on education and training in crystallography, to which Katherine referred in her opening session remarks, was produced by the United States National Committee for Crystallography and the American Crystallographic Association. It is found on the National Academies website here.

Lecture Material and Instrument Info (Rupp)

My lecture handouts (macromolecular crystallization, phasing, refinement, and validation) and some material about crystallization robots and cameras are available now as a zip file from

http://www.ruppweb.org/select/ccw_rupp.zip

The web site for the book I use as a basis for the lectures is

http:/www.ruppweb.org/

Best wishes, BR

Schedule Points

The "final" version of the schedule is here. Please note a few key points. The shuttle will depart Shilo Inn for the Cal Poly campus at 8AM each day except Sunday, which will be 11:30AM. Many who have cars have offered to drive, so a general meet up in the lobby is suggested. Autos should stop at the parking kiosk to purchase a pass ($5) and park in Lot J. If you are coming from another Cal State campus, Cal Poly will honor it.

We will convene each day, unless arranged and announced on the previous day, in Bldg 4, first floor (not lower level A) room 314. This is a classroom at the west end of the building in what resembles a rotunda. It is directly reached from the stairs where the shuttle will drop you off. If driving, park on the end of Lot J, closest to Camphor Lane. Cross the street and work your way as you wish to Bldg 4.

We will usually depart for dinner directly from campus, although the hotel is on the way to most restaurants.

Our opening dinner will be at the Pomona Valley Mining Company, and this dinner is generously sponsored by Bruker X-ray.

We will be providing meeting bags for toting around printed materials and handouts.

For the Foodies

Our tradition at Crystallography for Chemists is to take the workshop participants out to local restaurants each evening to sample local cuisines and build camaraderie. The tentative dinner schedule for those who would like to look up each of the restaurant menus is as follows:

Sunday - Pomona Valley Mining Company (sponsored by Bruker)
Monday - Acapulco (Mexican)
Tuesday - Peacock Garden (Indian)
Wednesday - D'Antonio's (Italian)
Thursday - TBD

Campus Map/Important Locations

The linked campus map is annotated to provide you with information about event locations for the workshop. Arrows point back towards Temple Ave and the Shilo Inn. On the map, Parking Lot J is indicated, where those of you driving to the workshop will park. Most of the workshop sessions will take place in Bldg 4. The shuttle stop is circled on Camphor Lane. If you walk up the stairs and down the hall to the west end of the bldg, you will arrive at the conference room 1-314, where talks involving the entire group will take place. The X-ray laboratory, and one of the computer labs, both located on the lower A-level of Bldg 4, are entered from the north side (walk down and around the loading dock). A second computer laboratory is located in Bldg 3, room 2029. This is easily accessed by walking across the plaza between Bldgs 3 and 4 to the west corridor of Bldg 3. Elevators and stairs lead between the levels of Bldg 4. Places to have lunch are highlighted in the Marketplace flanking the University Quad, the Bronco Student Center, and the Library (Starbucks). The University operates on a 4/10 schedule during the summer months, and eateries will be closed on the last day of the workshop. We will provide sandwiches for those attending on the last day. We will provide finger foods during the registration and introduction period on the first day. Mid-afternoon snacks will be provided each day. If you east breakfast, you are encouraged to do so at the hotel prior to driving over to campus or catching the shuttle. The hotel will alert you to shuttle pick-up time when you check in. If you are driving and can carpool attendees to the workshop during the week, as well as to dinner venues within a short distance of campus, please let us know.

Accommodations Update

We have reserved a block of rooms at the Shilo Inn, 3200 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, CA (909) 598-0073, which is very close to the Cal Poly Pomona campus. There is free shuttle service to and from the Cal Poly Pomona campus; breakfast is complimentary, as is airport transportation (Ontario Int'l, ONT, is preferred). You do not need to call the Shilo Inn and make a reservation, although you may wish to inform them of any late arrival. Your room will be reserved for you when you arrive.

Travel to California for the Workshop and Accomodations

There are four major airports within about 45 mile radius of Cal Poly Pomona. These include Los Angeles International Airport, Burbank Bob Hope Airport, Long Beach Airport, Orange County John Wayne Airport, and Ontario Airport. Kellogg West Conference Center on the Cal Poly campus has free shuttle service from Ontario Airport. All others must make arrangements for transportation to and from the various airports. Those whose rooms will be booked at the Shilo Hilltop Inn down the street can be picked up with the Kellogg shuttle, brought to campus, and returned to that hotel.  If you are amenable to sharing your contact information, we can distribute it to all the participants, and you can coordinate among yourselves to arrange transportation should you be arriving at similar times at the same airport.

NSF does not cover travel expenses. NSF covers your hotel accommodations while attending the workshop.  Accomodations will probably be split between Kellogg West and Shilo Inn. You will receive final confirmation from us. Please do not make reservations yourself. Double room occupancy will be fully covered by the NSF. If you prefer a single room, you are responsible for half the cost of the room. Incidentals will be charged to you, regardless. Both Kellogg and Shilo have restaurants, and campus food services will be open during the workshop week as well.

If you will be renting a car, again consider sharing if possible. Please let us know if you will be driving to campus with a rental car so we can alert University Parking Services and you do not get ticketed. This will also help us arrange transportation to various dinner venues throughout the workshop week.

Tentative Workshop Schedule

The tentative workshop schedule is now available as a pdf document at http://tinyurl.com/6j35cxv. Pending beam time availability at SSRL, the schedule may shift a bit, and we may also shift some instructors among sessions. Starting and ending times should remain unchanged, however, so you can make travel arrangements accordingly.

Crystallography for Chemists (and others!)

This is the blog page for Crystallography for Chemists (and others!), a five-day workshop at the Keck Center for Molecular Structure, Cal Poly Pomona. The objectives of Cryst4Chem are to familiarize faculty from predominantly undergraduate institutions with modern instrumentation and software commonly utilized for both small and macromolecular structure determination and analysis. We are sponsored by a National Science Foundation grant awarded to the Chemistry Collaborations, Workshops and Communities of Scholars consortium (http://www.ccwcs.org/content/ccwcs-communities).