Regional Co-Chair s Report for the UK Ireland

Regional Co-Chair’s Report for the UK & Ireland David Rendle

Activities since March 2005 u BCA 2005 at Loughborough u BCA Industrial Group Autumn Meeting u ICDD products mini-survey (UK & Ireland)

BCA Spring Meeting 2005, Loughborough University April 12 th – 14 th, 2005

Highlights u In-situ and non-ambient crystallography (Plenary session) u XRF session (WDXRF & EDXRF) organized and chaired by Dave Taylor u ICDD booth u ICDD Bursary winner

ICDD Booth

ICDD Bursary Winner – Nicola S. Turvey (School of Life & Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham)

Bursary Certificate

BCA Industrial Group Autumn Meeting, October 18 th & 19 th, 2006 at Birkbeck College, London u Workshop - Patents in Crystallography u Patents & Crystallography in Industry u Crystallography in Industry

ICDD Products mini-survey u Contacted UK & Ireland users of ICDD products with 3 questions 1. Which ICDD product(s) do you have? 2. Are you happy with it/them? 3. What changes or improvements would you like to see?

Response to survey u Contacted a total of 64 users in the UK and Ireland (53 academic and 11 industrial users). u Received a total of 16 replies (13 academic and 3 industrial users).

1. Which ICDD products do you have? u 13 respondents have PDF-2 (from versions 1999 to 2005) u 3 have PDF-4

2. Are you happy with them? u 16 respondents said “yes” , with qualifying remarks such as: “very happy”, “essential to my work”, “it serves its purpose”, “generally happy” and “reasonably happy”.

3. What changes or improvements would you like to see? u Need some coaching with PCSIWIN (SIeve) and PCPDFWIN (DDview). Lack of tutorial help. Would appreciate a short User’s Guide in hardcopy form. Need a one-day UK based workshop(!). [3 respondents]

Question 3 continued u Unhappy with pricing and cost of updates. [7 respondents]

Question 3 continued u Site licence restricts use to one computer [2 respondents] u Why keep “O” quality data? u Why keep “deleted” data? u PCPDFWIN – search result lists phase ID, chemical name, formula, strongest lines & crystal system, but no quality mark.

Question 3 continued u Why is there no discount for ICDD members? u Would be helpful to be able to save data pattern in card format. u Would like search routines on unit cell (like ICSD Crystal Web). u More data on synthesis. u Web subscriber system needed.

Question 3 continued u Don’t like time-locked policy [2 respondents] u Rules on what constitutes an academic institute are inconsistent. u Would like ICDD educational products available on the Web. u Calculated data sets (70 -86) clutter up the database.

Forthcoming Activities u British Crystallographic Association (BCA) Spring Meeting at Lancaster University.

BCA Spring Meeting, Lancaster University, April 4 th – 6 th, 2006

Full day XRPD Workshop on Phase Identification Tutors: John Faber (Principal Scientist, ICDD), Dave Taylor & David Rendle. u History & structure of the Powder Diffraction File u Phase Identification u Advanced phase identification and quantitative analysis u Hands-on computer session.