Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd ČR

The 8th Conference on Aperiodic Crystals - Aperiodic 2015 - is organized under the auspices of the Commission on Aperiodic Crystals of the International Union of Crystallography, and will be held in the Brevnov monastery, Prague, Czech Republic from August 30 to September 4, 2015. The will be the eight of a series of events held triennially since the first Aperiodic in Les Diablerets in 1994. The aim of the conference is to bring together scientists dealing with all aspects of aperiodic crystals and related problems.

The series of International Conferences on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (FLC‘s) is devoted to basic and applied aspects of new self-assembling materials possessing chiral and polar structures and properties. These conferences have been organized in odd years in between International Conferences on Liquid Crystals.

With emerging of new microscopic techniques and their widespread use, appropriate sample preparation is still the crucial prerequisite for successful microstructural observation of bulk metallic samples. This involves the preparation of parallel planes with mirror-like surface or defined sample thickness reduction without damaging of surface layer for special applications. In order to demonstrate state-of-the-art development in this field, we organize a workshop in cooperation with Struers GmbH Praha and Carl Zeiss spol. s r. o.

The goal of ESS science symposia held in various European countries since 2011 is to explore scientific challenges brought by current construction of European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden. The symposium Future Engineering Diffraction Research in Materials Processing and Testing is organised by Czech-German team collaborating on the design and construction of new engineering beamline for ESS.