ECM-30 - European Crystallographic Meeting 2016 Bringing the Crystallographic Flame to Basel, Switzerland

摘要

After five years of preparation the European Crystallographic Meeting 2016 (ECM-30) finally saw the light on Sunday, August 28th, 2016 at five p.m. with close to 600 people attending the opening ceremony in the congress center of Basel, Switzerland. Entertained with chemical experiments and intermezzi of the alphorn trio Solodurum, and after the welcoming talks by Katharina Fromm and the Swiss State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation, Mauro Dell'Ambrogio, welcome messages from Hans-Peter Wessels from the Government of the Canton of Basel-City, Joel Mesot, Director of the Paul Scherrer Institute, Piero Macchi, President of the Swiss Society for Crystallography and Alessia Bacchi, President of the European Crystallographic Association were addressed to the delegates. Udo Heinemann, vice-president of the European Crystallographic Association (ECA), had the honor to hand over the 9th Max Perutz Prize of ECA to Vaclav Petricek from Prague for "his practical application of the theory of aperiodic and modulated structures in his computing system JANA". The welcome reception sponsored by the City of Basel allowed all participants to mix well with the numerous exhibitors and generous sponsors of the conference.