School on Static, Dynamic, Kinematic Aspects of Crystal and Molecular Structure, Erice, Italy; May 30-June 9, 1991

这项美国-意大利奖将支持一所国际学校——一个联合研讨会和研讨会会议——涵盖晶体和分子结构的静态、运动学和动态方面的最新进展，如晶体衍射、光谱和理论方法的研究。该学校于1991年5月30日至6月9日在西西里岛Erice的Ettore Majorana科学文化中心举行，由美国加州大学洛杉矶分校的Kenneth Trueblood教授和意大利博洛尼亚大学的Lodovico Riva di Sanseverino教授组织。预计将有来自十几个或更多国家的约120名与会者，其中绝大多数将是年轻的教职员工或最近获得高等学位的其他人。将有大约20个讲座和10个导师在研讨会和微型专题讨论会中提供帮助。在过去的二十年中，关于分子结构的精确和准确的信息的数量大大增加。这在很大程度上是由于晶体衍射中数据收集和分析的自动化和精度的提高，但在研究结构的其他实验技术方面也取得了重要进展。此外，理论已经发展到可以在与实验相当的水平上预测分子结构的某些细节的阶段。在晶体分子的运动学和动力学分析以及它们与相变和固相反应的关系方面也取得了进展。本学院旨在回顾过去的成就，目前的项目和未来的目标在晶体和分子结构的衍射和光谱方法的研究领域。特别强调的是分子和晶体中原子运动的描述和理解，与物理性质、化学反应性和相变相关，包括结构相关性（使用剑桥结构数据库的统计方法）、多态性和固态反应等主题。

This U.S.-Italy award will support an international school--a combined workshop and seminar meeting--covering recent advances in the understanding of static, kinematic and dynamic aspects of crystal and molecular structure, as studied by crystal diffraction, spectroscopic and theoretical methods. The school is being held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice, Sicily, from May 30 to June 9, 1991 and is being organized by Professor Kenneth Trueblood of UCLA for the U.S. side and Professor Lodovico Riva di Sanseverino of the University of Bologna for Italy. About 120 participants from a dozen or more countries are expected, the great majority of whom will be young faculty members or others who have recently received advanced degrees. There will be about 20 lectures and 10 tutors to help in workshops and microsymposia. During the last two decades, the amount of precise and accurate information about molecular structure has increased enormously. Much of this is the result of increased automation and precision of data collection and analysis in crystal diffraction, but there have also been important advances in other experimental techniques for studying structure. In addition, theory has progressed to a stage where some of the details of molecular structure can be predicted at a level comparable with that attained by experiment. There have also been advances in the analysis of the kinematics and dynamics of molecules in crystals, as well as in their correlation with phase transforma- tions and solid state reactions. The present school intends to review past achievements, present projects, and future goals in the realm of crystal and molecular structure studies by diffraction and spectroscopic methods. Particular emphasis will be placed on the description and understanding of atomic motion in molecules and in crystals, with relevance to physical properties, chemical reactivity, and phase transformations, including such topics as structure-correlation (using statistical methods with the Cambridge Structural Database), polymorphism, and solid-state reactions.