The 70th Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference will be held at SSRL between September 30th and October 2nd 2012 and will feature 2 full days of lectures and poster presentations. The conference starts with a welcome reception on September 30 and there will be a banquet on the evening of October 1st. The conference will precede the 2012 SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting and Workshops <http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/ssrl-lcls/2012/> October 3rd - 6th. Session topic include:
New Science with Femtosecond Diffraction Exciting Macromolecular Structures New Ideas in Crystallography, and Hybrid Methods in Macromolecular Crystallography There will be a Keynote Address to begin the Conference on Monday October 1st by Prof Brian Kobilka (Stanford University) on G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). All speakers and session topics can be found at this link: http://www.pittdifsoc.org/PDC_2012/schedule.htm Registration is now open (US$100 or US$20 for students and postdocs) and for those who register at least 2 weeks in advance you will receive a free ticket to the banquet. There will be an award for the best student poster so get your abstracts in nice and early. The abstract deadline has been extended to September 15. Please visit the website below to register and submit your abstract. http://www.pittdifsoc.org/PDC_2012/index.htm If you have not made your hotel reservations yet and would like to stay at the SLAC Guest House, please reserve your room soon. The SLAC Guest House will only hold the remaining rooms that have been blocked for the PDC and Users' Meeting through this week. Please specify 'Users12' or 'PDS 2012' to take advantage of discount rates for SLAC guests. Visit this link for more information about accommodation options: http://www.pittdifsoc.org/PDC_2012/accommodations.htm. --------------------- Clyde A. Smith, Ph.D. Senior Staff Scientist Stanford University Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab, MS 99 2575 Sand Hill Rd Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA ph (650)926-8544 fax (650)926-3292 cell (650)714-6001 smb.slac.stanford.edu
