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Vacancies on Council for 2017
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 Members are encouraged to nominate colleagues or to offer their own services for one of the following roles, beginning in 2017:
- General Secretary (2017–22)
- Public Relations Officer (2017–22)
- 3 Ordinary members of Council (2017–19)
- 2 Custodian Trustees (2017-21)
- Distinguished Lecturer Coordinator (2017-19)
- Awards Committee Chair (2017-19)
Please send your (self-) nomination to Kevin Murphy (kevin@minersoc.org) before the end of June 2016.
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Focus on EMC2016 - Registration deadline looming!
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 The early registration and abstract deadline for EMC2016 has been extended to Friday, 13th May. Register now.
An example of one of the many sessions at this year's meeting:
Inclusions live in a different world from the rest of a rock! How to interrogate them will be the focus of session (P13) on "Inclusions in minerals as record of geological processes: new analysis methods and application" at EMC2016 in Rimini, Italy, September 11-15, 2016.
The aim of this session is to bring together a wide range of people working on fluid, solid and melt inclusions to demonstrate new analytical methods and results, to define the analytical challenges that remain, and to encourage new collaborations in the analysis of inclusion systems by complimentary methods. Our keynote talk will be given by Maria Luce Frezzotti (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy), on C speciation in fluids.
On Friday 16th September in Rimini, there will be an EMC satellite workshop to teach the principles of host-inclusion elasticity for solid inclusions, including how to perform calculations to determine inclusion pressures and entrapment conditions. Teachers include Prof. Lutz Nasdala
(Vienna) and ourselves. Further details and registration at www.mile-deep.org in the 'events' section.
Matteo Alvaro (Pavia)
Silvio Ferrero (Potsdam)
Ross Angel (Padova)
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Members who have not paid for 2016, please log in now at www.minersoc.org and pay your membership dues for this year. Thanks.
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AIC International Crystallography School 2016
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 Preparations for the AIC International Crystallography School 2016 “Polymorphism, stability and phase transitions in crystals: theory, experiments, applications” (Rimini, 7-11 September 2016; ) are well underway. Thanks to the generous contribution of the AIC and the many sponsors, the organizers will be able to support several participants with bursaries covering registration fee, travel and subsistence expenses. Grants include the IUCr Young Scientist Awards, two EMU grants for students with a mineralogical background, one Bruker grant reserved to students with some experience in structural characterization of pharmaceutical compounds, and many more. Apply for your bursary no later than 15 May.
Lecturers for AICS2016 include: Mois I. Aroyo (Bilbao), Tiziana Boffa Ballaran (Bayreuth), Michael A. Carpenter (Cambridge), Angelo Gavezzotti (Milano), A. Mike Glazer (Oxford), Lucia Maini (Bologna), Massimo Nespolo (Nancy) and Ian D. Williams (Hong Kong).
The programme is under constant development and updates are promptly made available on the web site. We strongly suggest all participants not to miss the pre-course “Fundamental toolkit for crystallographers”, held by M.I. Aroyo and M. Nespolo on 7 September. Please arrange your travel in order to be in Rimini on the 6th.
The School will close on the 11th at 1 pm, and everyone can then move to Palazzo dei Congressi for the EMC2016, which opens at 5 pm.
Please mark the important dates for AICS2016:
Bursary request: 15 May 2016
Notification of acceptance of bursaries: 29 May 2016
Registration and payment: 12 June 2016
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The IMA has established a committee to create an archive of all relevant documentation, including conference abstract volumes, minutes of meeting, etc. The chairman of the committee, Ekkehart Tillmanns, asks whether any member (or their institute's library) might have a copy of the Programme + Abstracts volume for the 1960 IMA meeting, held in Copenhagen? If you can help, please contact Prof. Tillmans by email.
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Mineralogical Magazine - recently published....
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The Slovak Clay Group, on behalf of the clay groups of Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany-Austria-Switzerland, Hungary and Poland, invites you to the 8th Mid-European Clay Conference, MECC2016, to be held on 4-8 July 2016 in Košice, Slovakia.
Detailed information on the important deadlines, conference fees, scientific and social programmes and field trips you will find on the conference homepage (http://mecc2016.sav.sk).
Please share this information with your colleagues who may also be interested. We look forward to meet you in Slovakia next year.
With best regards,
Jana Madejova
Conference chair
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Clay Minerals - recently published....
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The next Annual Meeting of The Clay Minerals Society will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, from 5th to 8th June 2016. Visit 
