[GSAS-II] Last minute recruiting for the Would You Publish This? session at ACA2025

[Brown, Matthew]

Salutations all

I apologize for the possible misuse of the list, but I'm rather desperate as TODAY is the deadline for talk submissions. I'm the chair of the Would You Publish This session at the next American Crystallographic Assoc. Meeting this summer. I'm still two talks short. If anyone is going to the ACA this summer, can I bother you for a moment?

We are a fun educational session that doesn't count against your normal talk, so you can still submit talks to another session. Talks are only five minutes long. We are actively recruiting PXRD talks, as we are well aware that just as much can go wrong with a PXRD refinement as a SC-XRD one.

Our session description is below:

Is your structure too poor to publish? What compromises would you have to make to publish your "low quality" structure? Do you have some less then ideal powder data that you still think you can make something useful with? If you have ever asked yourself these questions, then share your problems, insights, structures, and advice with the crystallography community. This is a great opportunity for young crystallographers to share their work, where they can interact with a friendly audience, who with years of experience will provide constructive advice. Problems might include charge imbalance or other chemical issues, poor resolution or data completeness, complicated disorder, highly restrained models, unexplained residual electron density, suspicious of an incommensurate structure, etc. Talks in this session will be restricted to approximately 5 minutes in order to encourage audience participation and discussion. All talks will be selected from submitted abstracts. Those who submit abstracts to this session may still submit a second abstract to other sessions at no additional fee. This session is open to non-small molecule talks; Powder, protein and other types of crystallography are welcome!

Thank you so much for your time; I've never gotten to the last 24 hours and not gotten enough talks before. Usually I get at least three or four submitted in the last 48 hours. I've emailed almost everyone that has submitted a talk since 2018 and almost all the responses are that people aren't going to the conference this year.

--Dr. Storm Dragonson (Formerly Dr Matthew L. Brown)
University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus


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