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Physical Crystallography Group (PCG) & Structural Condensed Matter Physics (SCMP)

The PCG of the British Crystallographic Association (BCA) and the SCMP of the Institute of Physics (IoP) are two names for the same group. The aim of the group is to promote and support physical crystallography in all its current forms. We organise meetings and workshops, award a thesis prize every year and a lecture prize biennially. There is also limited funding to provide student bursaries to help towards the cost of attending international conferences.

The aim of this website is to provide information to our members and hopefully attract new members from the community. The site is in the form of a ‘wiki’, which allows users of the site to add their own content and comment on others. In this way it is hoped it will be a dynamic home for the physical crystallography community.

News

2024 PCG Winter Meeting

The 2024 PCG Winter meeting will take place as part of the ISIS Crystallography User meeting on 28-29th October 2024. This will be a bigger meeting than ever, as part of the celebrations of 40 years of ISIS, and will be joint with the Chemical Crystallography Group (CCG) of the BCA. For more information (including how to register) please see the meetings page

MRS Spring 2025 Symposium SU01: Solid Materials for Sustainable Cooling—Caloric Effects and Devices

We are pleased to announce the Call For Papers for the symposium on caloric materials to be held in Seattle 7-11 April. Please find more details at: https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/spring-meetings-exhibits/2025-mrs-spring-meeting/call-for-papers/detail/2025_mrs_spring_meeting/su01/Symposium_SU01

The website for submitting abstracts for both talks and posters is now open. We hope you will join us in Seattle to present your research on Calorics and ask that you also advertise the symposium to colleagues who may be interested. The deadline for abstract submission is October 17th.

It is also worth noting that there is a way for students to get reduced registration by acting as a symposium assistant or by blogging about the event. Should your student be interested, they will be able to apply via the MRS website. For more information they can look at the information available for the upcoming fall meeting: https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/fall-meetings-exhibits/2024-mrs-fall-meeting/student-opportunities

On behalf of the chairs: Helen Walker, Pol Lloveras, Anthony Phillips & Karl Sandemann

Jobs in Physical Crystallography

Assistant Professor in Condensed Matter Physics

Postdoc position in pressure-induced polymorphism in high entropy alloys

Please visit our new section Jobs in physical Crystallography

PCG-SCMP Portfolio

PCG-SCMP Portfolio

History of the PCG-SCMP Group

Please visit History of the PCG-SCMP Group for a brief history of the group