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Annual Spring Meeting Summary
ICDD Spring Meetings
During the week of 22-26 March 2004, ICDD members gathered at the Newtown
Square Headquarters office for their spring meetings. This annual event
provided forums for scientists, representing a wide range of disciplines,
to discuss the business and technical aspects of the ICDD and the Powder
Diffraction File. Members, many of who represent leaders in the XRD &
XRF fields, also benefited from interactions with peers working in various
fields of materials characterization, often in environments similar to
their own.
ICDD's committees, subcommittees, task groups and directors met in
accordance with the following
schedule.
PLENARY SESSION, TOUR, & POSTER SESSION
This year's Plenary Session focused on Advanced Instrumentation. Many
thanks are extended to our plenary speakers for their contributions:
- Martijn Fransen, PANalytical, Almelo, The Netherlands:
Advanced Optics and Detection Systems, What Do They Offer the Research
Community?
- Bob He, Bruker AXS, Madison, WI: Two-dimensional X-ray
Diffractometer: Convention, Components and Configuration
- Hideo Toraya, Rigaku Corporation, Japan: A High-Performance Silicon
Photodiode Detector for Fast X-Ray Counting
- Pierre Villars, Materials Phases Data System (MPDS), Switzerland:
New Structural Prototyping System used by the LINUS PAULING FILE and
proposed for the Powder Diffraction File (PDF)
Following the plenary, members and guests were treated to a highlights
tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Built in 1876, this great art
institution is home to some of the most brilliant artistic achievements
known throughout the world. The guided tour offered a spectacular look at
a sampling of the over 300,000 works of art housed at the museum.
A technical poster session and accompanying reception completed
Tuesday's activities. The Best Western Hotel and Conference Center in
Concordville hosted ICDD's most successful Spring Meetings' poster session
to date. Approximately 30 posters were on display, allowing attendees yet
another venue to communicate their studies and exchange information with
fellow scientists. Watch for the publication of the poster abstracts in
the June issue of Powder Diffraction.
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEETING & THE ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS
The Technical Committee Meeting served as a summary of all subcommittee
activities and brought forth all motions requiring Board of Directors'
approval. The Regional Co-chairs also provided a summary of ICDD related
activities in their area of the world. Those reporting included: Shao Fan
Lin, China; Masatoma Yashima (for Nobuo Ishizawa), Eastern Pacific Rim;
David Rafaja, European Community; David Taylor, United Kingdom; James A.
Kaduk, North America; Evgeny Antipov, Newly Independent States; Brian H.
O'Connor, Indian Ocean Rim, and J. Miguel Delgado, South America. Minutes
of the individual subcommittee meetings will be posted on this site, as
they become available.
Camden Hubbard chaired the Annual Meeting of Members and provided a
summary of the Board of Directors' and headquarters' activities. Tim
Fawcett, Executive Director, reported on ICDD's strategic plans; Donna
Barry, standing in for Treasurer, Julian Messick, gave a review of the
financial status of the organization; Awards, Grant-in-Aid, Membership,
and Technical Committees, as well as the IXAS group, also reported. Terry
Maguire, Corporate Secretary, officially announced the results of the 2004
election of officers and directors. Cam Hubbard took this opportunity to
recognize several members who were named as award recipients.
AWARDS
Several awards were announced at the Annual Meeting of Members:
- Shao Fan Lin of the Nankai University, People's Republic of China
was recognized for his 17 years as a participant in the ICDD
Grant-in-Aid Program as he was named the 2004 Distinguished Grantee
recipient. Prof. Lin has published approximately 700 patterns in the
PDF. During the meeting, Prof. Lin presented a lecture on his research
work as reflected in his grant submissions, and the ICDD activities in
China from his perspective as the Technical Regional Co-chair for that
global area. Designed to provide high-quality reference XRD patterns
to the PDF, ICDD's Grant-in-Aid Program is open to all qualified
investigators in the X-ray diffraction field. The Program currently
supports 55 grant recipients located in 23 countries. - more
about Dr. Lin
- Following more than 30 years of service to the ICDD, Dr. Robert
Snyder, Georgia Institute of Technology, was named as the 2004
Distinguished Fellow. Dr. Snyder served the organization in various
capacities: as a member and leader on various committees,
subcommittees, task groups, and most recently as Chairman of the Board
of Directors. Over the years, he was often referred to as the
"ICDD ambassador to the world". Dr. Snyder's relentless
energy and vision served as catalysts in bringing a new dimension to
the PDF. In pursuing the goal of total pattern analysis, he acted as
the key visionary in the value of establishing agreements with major
database organizations, which have led to the increased size of the
PDF, as well as the added-value that these agreements brought to the
File. - more about Dr. Snyder
- The following two awards will be presented at the Plenary Session of
the 53rd Annual Denver X-ray Conference (DXC), being held in Steamboat
Springs, Colorado, on 4 August 2004:
- The 2004 McMurdie Award will be presented to Winnie
Wong-Ng. Dr.
Wong-Ng has made extensive and valuable contributions to the Powder
Diffraction File, mainly through her editorial work and her
contributions of reference patterns of high Tc-related phases to the
File.
- To recognize his unique and extremely valuable contributions to the
scope and breadth of the PDF, Robert Snyder will be named the
2004
Hanawalt Award recipient. Under Dr. Snyder's vision and leadership,
collaborative agreements were established with Fachsinformationzentrum
in Karlsruhe, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, and Materials
Phases Data System, leading to the tremendous growth of the PDF.
Further, these agreements have positioned the PDF to evolve as the
major tool for full pattern analysis in the decades to come.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: 2004-06
2004 marked an election year for the ICDD. The membership elected several
new directors, who joined those serving existing terms, to lead the
organization over the next 2 years. Congratulations to the 2004-2006 Board
of Directors:
Chairman - James Kaduk
Vice Chairman - Paolo Scardi
Treasurer - Julian Messick
Corporate Secretary - Terry Maguire
Executive Director - Timothy Fawcett
Chairman, Technical Committee - Raymond Goehner
Directors-at-Large, Board of Directors - Evgeny Antipov, Tom Blanton,
Herbert Goebel, Ting Huang, Daniel Louër
Past Chairman - Camden R. Hubbard |
The retiring members of the Board, Brian O'Connor, David Rendle, Robert
Snyder, and David Taylor, were recognized for generously sharing their
time and talents with the organization during their tenure.
ICDD also thanked the members who served on the election ballot but
were not elected: J. Miguel Delgado, Nobuo Ishizawa, Scott Misture, and
Dave Taylor.
As the new Board of Directors assumed office, one of its initial tasks
was to re-structure the committees and subcommittees. Click here to view
the new Technical Subcommittee rosters. ICDD is grateful to the Committee
and Subcommittee Chairs, whose terms were completed in March, for their
cooperative and successful efforts. The volunteer efforts and dedication
of our active members is crucial to our success in effectively serving the
scientific community.
MEMBERSHIP
Following recommendation from the Membership Committee and BoD approval,
twenty-eight applicants were elected to membership, adding to the existing
311 active members. ICDD welcomes its newest members, and looks forward to
their contributions:
- S.N. Achary, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India
- Nicholas Barbi, nSynergies, Inc., Yardley, PA, USA
- Martha Davidovich, Bristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
- Peter DeSanto, NIST, Berwick, PA ,USA
- Mark Dirken, PANalytical, EA Almelo, The Netherlands
- Camille Jones, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Walter Kalceff, University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway, Australia
- Pavel Karen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Philip Lightfoot, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews Fife, United
Kingdom
- J. David Londono, Dupont Central Research & Development,
Wilmington, DE, USA
- Michael Lufaso, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Thomasin C. Miller, X-ray Optical Systems, Inc., East Greenbush, NY,
USA
- Ellouze Mohamed, Faculte des Sciences de Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
- Conal Murray, IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
- Jeffrey Nicolich, PANalytical, Natick, MA, USA
- Ismail Cevdet Noyan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown
Heights, NY, USA
- Suminar Pratapa, Institute of Technology, Surabaya, Indonesia
- Murugan Ramalingam, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Lei Shi, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei Anhui,
People's Republic of China
- Valery Vlasenko, Rostov State University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
- Pamela Whitfield, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada
- Craig Williams, University of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, United
Kingdom
- Donald Windover, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Zhi Yang, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Yuegang Zhang, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
- Zeng, Weitao, Jilin University, Changechuni Jilin, People's Republic
of China
- Douglas Smith, Rochester, NY, USA
- Yucheng Lan, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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