
The Annual ICDD Spring Meetings
Monday, 20 March – Friday, 24 March 2023
ICDD Headquarters, Newtown Square, PA, USA
A Hybrid Event
2023 Spring Meeting Schedule
Time (EDT) | Committee/ Subcommittee |
Chairman/ BoD Liaison |
Meeting Room |
---|---|---|---|
Thursday – Monday, 16-20 March | |||
9:00 am – 5:00 pm | Task Group: Metals & Alloys | P. Wallace | Conf. Rm. B |
Friday – Monday, 17-20 March | |||
9:00 am – 5:00 pm | Task Group: Zeolites | S. Quick | Conf. Rm. B |
Monday, 20 March | |||
9:30 am – 10:00 am | Membership Committee | R. Shpanchenko | Board Room |
10:00 am – 11:00 am | Awards Committee | G. McCarthy | Board Room |
11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Grant-in Aid Committee | F. Rotella | Conf. Rm. A |
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch | Lounge/Conf. Rm. A/Patio | |
1:00 pm – 2:45 pm | Marketing Subcomm. (Closed at 1:45) | B. Wheaton | Conf. Rm. A |
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm | Finance Comm. (Closed -Finance & BoD only) | J. Kaduk | Conf. Rm. A |
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Board of Directors | E.A. Payzant | Board Room |
6:00 pm – TBD | BoD Dinner | E.A. Payzant | To be determined |
Tuesday, 21 March | |||
9:00 am – 12:00 pm | Plenary Session | E.A. Payzant/T. Blanton | Conf. Rm. A |
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch | Lounge/Conf. Rm. A/Patio | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Powder Diffraction Journal – Status & Future – open to all | C. Hubbard | Board Room |
1:30 pm – TBD | Social event, Poster Session & Dinner | To be determined | |
Wednesday, 22 March | |||
8:00 am – 9:00 am | Long Range Planning Committee | J.M. Delgado | Board Room |
9:00 am – 10:00 am | PDF Editorial Staff Subcommittee | S. Kabekkodu/J. Kaduk | Conf. Rm. A |
9:00 am – 10:00 am | Scholarship Committee | S. Quick | Board Room |
10:00 am – 11:00 am | X-ray Diffraction Methods Subcommittee | C. Gilmore/T. Ida | Conf. Rm. A |
10:00 am – 11:00 am | X-ray Fluorescence Subcommittee | M. Rodriguez/C. Segre | Conf. Rm. B |
11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Metals & Alloys Subcommittee | P. Wallace/E.A. Payzant | Conf. Rm. A |
11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Synchrotron & Neutron Scatt. Mthds. Sub. | R. Papoular/P. Whitfield | Conf. Rm. B |
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch | Lounge/Conf. Rm. A/Patio | |
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Ceramics Subcommittee | T. Siegrist/W. Wong-Ng | Conf. Rm. A |
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Polymers Subcommittee | L. Liu/J. Kaduk | Conf. Rm. B |
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Minerals Subcommittee | A. Roberts/C. Greenwood | Conf. Rm. A |
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Electron Diffraction Subcommittee | A. Bruma/M. Leoni | Conf. Rm. B |
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Micro and Meso Subcommittee | C. Crowder/M. Leoni | Conf. Rm. B |
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Non-Ambient Diffraction Subcommittee | B. Wheaton /R. Dinnebier | Conf. Rm. B |
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Organic & Pharmaceutical Subcommittee | G. Stephenson/G. Delgado | Conf. Rm. A |
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Education Subcommittee | N. Wonderling/C. Segre | Conf. Rm. A |
Thursday, 23 March | |||
8:30 am – 9:30 am | New Features Demonstration | J. Blanton/S. Weber | Conf. Rm. A |
9:30 am – 12:30 pm | Technical Committee | R. Dinnebier | Conf. Rm. A |
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch | Lounge/Conf. Rm. A/Patio | |
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Annual Meeting of Members | E.A. Payzant | Conf. Rm. A |
4:30 pm – TBD | BoD Dinner | E.A. Payzant | To be determined |
Friday, 24 March | |||
8:00 am – 5:00 pm | Board of Directors | E.A. Payzant | Board Room |
**Schedule Subject to Change. Current as of 26 January 2023.

Evgeny Blokhin
Materials Platform for Data Science, Estonia, and Tilde Materials Informatics, Germany
Evgeny received his degree in Quantum Chemistry at the St. Petersburg State University, Russia, in 2009, followed by a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany. He spent about two years in a post-doctoral position, working as the Lead Software Developer on the collaboration of Fritz Haber Institute & Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, titled “NoMaD: Novel Materials Discovery”. He is currently the Director and Founder of Materials Platform for Data Science, a scientific consulting and sales firm, and is also a consultant for Tilde Materials Informatics in Munich, Germany, working on computational materials science and software development.
His scientific publications include:
- Andersen, Armiento, Blokhin, et al., OPTIMADE, an API for exchanging materials data, Nature Scientific Data, 8, 217 (2021)
- Blokhin, Villars, The PAULING FILE Project and Materials Platform for Data Science: From Big Data Toward Materials Genome. In: Andreoni, Yip, Handbook of Materials Modeling, Springer (2018)
- Blokhin, Evarestov, Gryaznov, Kotomin, Maier, Theoretical modeling of antiferrodistortive phase transition for SrTiO3 ultrathin films, Phys. Rev. B 88, 241407 (2013)
Evgeny is multilingual and speaks German, French, Russian, Turkish, and English.
Plenary Abstract: Materials Data Curation and Delivery at Scale: Materials Platform for Data Science
Additional speakers to be announced.
More information coming soon.
Host Hotel:
Best Western Plus Concordville Hotel
Group rate of $129/night plus tax (6% PA State Occupancy Tax and 3% County Tax).
If making your own reservation, please mention group name “ICDD Annual Meeting”. Rate includes a Full Hot Breakfast and Deluxe Continental Breakfast.
Hotel Address: 675 Conchester Highway, Glen Mills, Pennsylvania,19342, USA
Toll Free Phone Number (US & Canada)
1(800) 780-7234
Hotel Direct Phone Number
(610) 358-9400
Check-In: 4:00 pm Eastern Time
Check-Out: 11:00 am Eastern Time
Directions between ICDD and the Best Western Plus Concordville Hotel :
Directions to ICDD from the Best Western Plus Concordville Hotel
1. Turn right onto Baltimore Pike / US-1 (0.4 Mi ) – 0.4 Mi Total
2. Turn left onto Thornton Rd. (1.5 mi ) – 1.9 Mi Total
3. Turn right onto Glen Mills Rd. (2.4 Mi ) – 4.3 Mi Total
4. Turn slight left onto Creek Rd. (0.4 Mi ) – 4.7 Mi Total
5. Take the 2nd right onto Gradyville Rd. (5.1 Mi ) – 9.8 Mi Total
6. Turn left onto Bishop Hollow Rd. (0.9 Mi ) – 10.7 Mi Total
7. Take the first left onto Campus Blvd. (0.1 Mi ) – 10.8 Mi Total
8. ICDD, 12 Campus Blvd. is on the left.
Directions to the Best Western Plus Concordville Hotel from ICDD
1. Turn right onto Campus Blvd. (0.1 Mi ) – 0.1 Mi Total
2. Turn right onto Bishop Hollow Rd. (0.9 Mi ) – 1.0 Mi Total
3. Turn right onto Gradyville Rd. (5.1 Mi ) – 6.1 Mi Total
4. Turn left onto Creek Rd. (0.4 Mi ) – 6.5 Mi Total
5. Turn left onto Glen Mills Rd. (2.4 Mi ) – 8.9 Mi Total
6. Turn left onto Thornton Rd. (1.5 Mi ) – 10.4 Mi Total
7. Turn right onto Baltimore Pike / US-1 (0.4 Mi ) – 10.8 Mi Total
8. The Best Western is on your left.