Program for the 63^rd Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference

November 3-5, 2005

Argonne National Laboratory

Thursday, November 3, 2005

Afternoon Session (IPNS - Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Building 360, Room L119)

Symposium A in Honor of Prof. Leroy Alexander

X-rays, Crystals, and a Life. Through the Looking Glass of Leroy Alexander

(J. Kaduk and R. von Dreele, Chairs)

G. Smith (Livermore, ret.)

C. Hubbard (Oak Ridge), Requirements for Accurate Residual Stress Analysis by the Neutron Diffraction Method

P. Whitfield (NRC Ottawa), Quantitative Rietveld Analysis of Powder Diffraction Data

P. Stephens (Stony Brook)

C. Burger (Stony Brook), Polymer Fiber Diffraction and Its Quantitative Analysis

Evening Session

Opening Reception and Poster Session

(IPNS, Building 360, Lobby)

Friday November 4, 2005

Full-Day Session (IPNS, Building 360, Room L119)

Symposium B

Frontiers in Neutron Scattering

(T. Koetzle and A. Schultz, Chairs)

A. Albinati (Milan), Studying the Co-ordination Chemistry of Hydrogen by Neutron Scattering

J. Eckert (Los Alamos), Hydrogen Bonding

M. Christensen (Århus), Neutron Investigations of Semi-Conducting Clathrates

J. Parise (Stony Brook), High-Pressure Applications

A. Podjarny (Strasbourg), Subatomic Resolution X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction Studies of Fully Deuterated Human Aldose Reductase Show Catalytic Proton (Deuterium) Channel

P. Thiyagarajan (Argonne), pH-Dependent Self-Assembly of Aβ Congeners into Fibrils and Charged Nanotubes

D. Worcester (Univ. Missouri and NIST), Grazing Incidence Neutron Diffraction from Lipid Bilayer Membranes

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Tours of APS – Advanced Photon Source and IPNS Facilities

Evening

Reception and Conference Banquet

(APS 5^th Floor)

Saturday, November 5, 2005

Morning Session (IPNS, Building 360, Room L119)

Lecture by Sidhu Awardee

…followed by…

Symposium C in Honor of Prof. Muttaiya Sundaralingam

Sunda’s Children of the 70s

(C. D. Stout, Chair)

J. Hogle (Harvard Medical School), On the Outside Looking in: A Multiscale Approach to Characterizing Poliovirus Cell Entry

E. Merritt (Univ. Washington), Protein Structures as Blurred Snapshots – Extracting Dynamic Information from a Static Experiment

J. Smith (Univ. Michigan), GM/CA Canted Undulator Beamlines for Macromolecular Crystallography

S. Sprang (Univ. Texas Southwestern Medical Center)

C. D. Stout (Scripps), Structure and Function of Transhydrogenase

Afternoon Session (IPNS, Building 360, Room L119)

Symposium D

Advances in Chemical Biology

(C. Ogata, Chair)

C. Eigenbrot (Genentech), Structure-Aided Design of a Selective Inhibitor

K. Allen (Boston Univ.), Phosphoryl Transfer in the HAD Enzyme Superfamily

B. Crane (Cornell), Protein Complexes that Mediate Bacterial Chemotaxis

K. Moffatt (Chicago), How Do Macromolecules Respond to Light?