Programme Polls

Closed - March 20, 1998. Total number of "voting" persons: 700

This should only help to the programme committee and does not have the most decisive role.
Emphasized topics - over 50 votes

1 - Materials Science (Structure in Physics and Technology)

Texture and Str ess Analysis 71
OD Structures and Polytypes 42
Aperiodic Crystals 59
Thin Films, Multilayers, Surfaces and Interfaces 122
Non-Crystalline Materials 49
Nanocrystalline Materials 91
Inorganic Compounds and Minerals 179
Intermetallic Compounds 59
Structure Solution from Powder Diffraction 144
Intercalated Structures 34
Phase Transitions 197
Martensitic Phase Transitions 55
Charge, Spin and Momentum Density 40
Ceramics 65
Composites 33
Conductive & Superconductive Materials 67
Optoelectronics 42
Defects, Microstructure 126
Quantitative Phase Analysis 80
Industrial Applications 68
Steel, Alloys, Processing 40
Fibre Diffraction 16

2 - Chemical Crystallography (Structural Chemistry

Intermolecular Interactions 89
Organic Chemistry 88
Inorganic Chemistry and Mineralogy 109
Organometalic Chemistry 62
Biologically Active Materials, Drugs 49
Polymer Chemistry - Synthetic Macromolecular 16
Solid State Chemistry - Reactions in Solids 135
Hydrogen Bonding - Regularities and Irregularities 125
Supramolecular Structures 72
Structure Determination from Powders 150
Structure Databases (Organics, Inorganics, Metals, Polymers) 86
Peptides & Antibiotics 50
Natural Products 24

3 - Bio-Macromolecular Crystallography (Structural Biology)

Ab-Initio Structure Determination of Macromolecules 86
Structure Refinement of Macromolecular Structures 94
NMR Determination of Macromolecular Structures 21
Protein Folding - Protein Design 53
Membrane Proteins 44
Immune System - Antibody, Complement, Receptors 24
Immunologically Active Macromolecules 15
Macromolecular Assemblies - Viruses 28
DNA/RNA 35
Enzymes 62
Structure Based Drug Design 81
Macromolecular Structure Databases(Proteins, DNA/RNA’s) 21
Bio-informatics (Sequence Databases, Homology) 15
Molecular Modelling and Dynamics 64
Crystallization of proteins and DNA 54

4 - Foundations of Crystallography

(Instrumentation, Experimental Techniques and Applications)

Single Crystal Diffractometry 167
Powder Diffractometry 194
Small Angle X-ray Scattering 59
Other X-ray Techniques 54
Synchrotron Radiation 156
Neutron Scattering 88
Electron Diffraction 58
Solid State NMR 47
Detectors & Data Processing 83
Low & High Temperature Attachments 76
High Pressure Crystallography 48
Graphics, Virtual Reality & Internet 92

(General Crystallography)

Symmetry 76
Computing Crystallography 115
Scattering Theory 59
Methods for Structure Determination 169
Methods for Structure Refinement 151
Crystal Growth 89
Instrumental Techniques 77
Teaching Crystallography 87
History of Crystallography 53