Hi Doeke It's run by a company called Allied Academies: https://crystallography.alliedacademies.com/2022 whose entry in Wikipedia is hardly encouraging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Academies . This article gives you a flavour of how they operate: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/predatory-conference-scammers-are-getting-smarter/3009263.article . The fabricated abstract on the use of "negative mass phlogiston" to power planes that was apparently unquestioningly accepted by reviewers for one of their Chemistry conferences (I kid you not) is worthy of an April Fools (though a little too obvious) ! Basically they just pocket the exorbitant registration fee.
I think steer well clear is the message! -- Ian On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 19:04, Doeke Hekstra <[email protected]> wrote: > hi everyone, > > Just wondering if any of you plan to attend the "2nd International > Conference on Crystallography, Spectroscopy, and Structural Chemistry” > scheduled for April 10-12, 2023 in Dubai, UAE. Is it a "real" thing? > > I'd ordinarily delete such an email without a thought, but they got me at > "Exploring New Techniques and Ideas in Crystallography” :) > > Best, Doeke > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a > mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are > available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
