How we got the ECM29
Sometime in April 2011, the President of the Croatian Crystallographic Association, Prof. Stanko Popović, informed the members of the Croatian Crystallographic Association Board that the ECA (European Crystallographic Association) had offered us to present our candidacy for the organization of the 29th European Crystallographic Congress in Croatia. We were all a little hesitant. Organizing such […]
Mission HTCC2014 accomplished
The first CAC organized summer school in crystallography “Hot Topics in Contemporary Crystallography” was held in Šibenik, beach resort “Solaris” from May 10th to 15th, 2014. There were 27 participants at the school, coming from 14 countries (Slovenia, Serbia, Italy, Spain, UK, Germany, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Russian Federation, South Africa, Canada and Croatia) […]
2014 – World Year of Crystallography
The United Nations General Assembly, at its session of 15 July 2012, adopted a Resolution declaring 2014 the International Year of Crystallography. The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Croatia to the UN also lobbied for this decision, at the instigation and proposal of the Croatian Crystallography Professional Association. Such a decision by the General […]
The Beauty of the Crystal Faces 2014
The Croatian Association of Crystallographers (CAC) organized a crystal growth competition for elementary and secondary school students in 2014. The competition consisted of performing crystal growth (crystallization) of a given material provided to the competitors. The goal of the competition was to make the largest and most regular crystal possible within a defined time limit. […]