Report of the Executive Committee for 2007
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<h2> 1. Meetings</h2> The IUCr sponsored the following meetings held during 2007: BCA Intensive Course in X-ray Structure Analysis, Durham, UK, 4 March - 2 April. Latin-American Workshop on Applications of Powder Diffraction and School on Methods of Powder Diffraction, Campinas, Brazil, 16-20 April. RapiData 2007, Brookhaven, USA, 22-27 April. 6th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering (IXS 2007), Hyogo, Japan, 7-11 May. Fifth International Conference on Solid State Crystals and Eighth Polish Conference on Crystal Growth (ICSSC-5 and PCCG-8), Zakopane, Poland, 20-24 May. Engineering of Crystalline Materials Properties: State-of-the-Art in Modelling, Design, Applications, Erice, Italy, 7-17 June. Crystallization: Focus on Membrane Proteins, Brookhaven, USA, 11-15 June. School and Workshop on X-ray Micro- and Nanoprobes: Instruments, Methodologies and Applications, Erice, Italy, 11-17 June. Gordon Research Conference on Electron Distribution and Chemical Bonding, South Hadley, USA, 1-6 July. First School on Materials Applications of the Organic Solid State (SMAOSS) and XVIII International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (XVIII-ICCOSS), 1-6 and 8-13 July. XVI International Conference on Crystal Chemistry and Diffraction Studies of Minerals and Workshop `Minerals as Advanced Materials', Miass and Apatity, Russia, 2-6 and 8-12 July. International School on Theoretical and Mathematical Crystallography, Havana,