Third National Crystallographic Symposium

Topics

• Crystal Growth and Ontogenia

• Mineral Structures

• Chemical Crystallography

• Nano- & Micro-sized materials

• Macromolecular crystallography

• Defects, microstructures and textures

• Structure-Properties relationship

• Experimental Techniques and Equipment

Instructions for manuscript preparation and submission

Speakers

Plenary sessions speakers:

Andrey Karshikoff, PhD
Institute of Molecular Biology - BAS, Department of Gene Regulations

What happens after X-ray structure is solved – lessons from protein ionisation equilibria.

Prof. Andrey Karshikoff, Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1985 from the Institute of Organic Chemistry, BAS. In his professional record follow 3 consecutive Alexander-von-Humboldt grants for postdoctoral studies in the Technical University Aachen and Max-Planck institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany; lector and Assoc. Prof. in the Department of Bioscience at Novum, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. He is the first to show theoretically that individual ionisable groups in unfolded proteins have distinguishable ionisation constants, later confirmed by experimental observations. He is the author of the Molecular electroporation hypothesis and solver of the three-dimensional Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations for ion flux through membrane channels as well as of the linearised Poisson-Boltzmann equation for multiple dielectric materials, used for protein-membrane complexes.

Annie Shoumkova, PhD

Institute of physical chemistry, BAS, Sofia
Synthesis of zeolite A from Bulgarian rice husk and waste aluminum

Ivan Tomov, PhD

Sofia, Bulgaria
Nullification of Extinction Effects in XRD Characterizations of Real Structure of Materials

Kamen Kamenov

Bruker AXS, Germany

Kiril Krezhov, PhD

Institute for nuclear research and nuclear energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria

Milen Gateshky, PhD

Panalytical

Dr. Milen Gateshky received his M.S. degree in Solid State Physics from Sofia University (1995) with a thesis on thermal properties of ternary chalcogenide glasses. His PhD in Materials Science and Technology (2003) is from the Department of Applied Physics of the University of the Basque Country - home of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server. Milen's thesis was dedicated to the experimental and theoretical study of the structural phase transitions occurring in a number of double perovskite oxides. After finishing his PhD he joined the Department of Physics of Central Michigan University as a postdoctoral associate (2004-2007). During this period his research was dedicated to structural studies of nanocrystalline materials with applications in electrochemical power sources, catalysts, functional ceramics, etc. He is also a Post-doctoral fellow of the Bragg Institute, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) were his focus was on 'Mineralogy at high temperatures and high pressures'. He is curently involved with PanAlytical V.B. software develepment.

Mois I. Aroyo, PhD

Dept. de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad del País Vasco, 48080 Bilbao, Spain

Prof. Mois I. Aroyo Structure relationships studies by the Bilbao crystallographic server

Prof. Mois Aroyo has obtained his Ms. & Ph.D. degrees Condensed Matter Physics from Sofia University, Faculty of Physics. In 1987 he is awareded an Alexander-von-Humboldt grant for postdoctoral studies, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Karlsruhe, DE.

He is amongst the creators of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server, at the Universidad del País Vasco. Prof. Mois Aroyo is a member of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography and amongst the organizers of Summer Schools on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography, on Fundamental Crystallography, MaThCryst Workshop on Crystallographic Software, the Online Edition of International Tables for Crystallography: databases etc.

Nikolay Georgiev, PhD

АСТЕЛ ЕООД

Научна апаратура с приложение в материалознанието.

Ognyan Petrov, PhD

Institute of mineralogy and crystallography, BAS, Sofia
Analysis of structure factors (F_hkl) of meaningful XRD diffraction intensities for chemical determinations after ion-exchange and isomorphic substitutions in crystal structures

Peter Tzvetkov

Institute of general and inorganic chemistry, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria

New perovskites-based PbBaFe_2-XMn_XO₅ (0≤X≤1.5)

Stephan Moreau, PhD

SETARAM, France

Thermal analysis, basic theory and applications to inorganic materials

Thomas Kerestedjian, PhD

Geological Institute, BAS
The thermal device of the image foil Guinier camera in the Geological Institute, BAS: Calibration and usage experience

Vesselin Tonchev, PhD

Institute of physical chemistry, BAS

Self-organization on Vicinal Crystal Surfaces with Competing Interactions: Kinetics of Pattern Formation