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NIS Co-Chair report NIS Co-Chair report
NIS Co-Chair reportNIS Co-Chair report
NIS Co-Chair report
1) ICDD products and programs advertising:
- MSU-HTSC VII (Moscow, June 2004)lecture by Tim Fawcett and booth:
> 200 participants from 18 countries.
2-nd XRD Clinic at Moscow State University (July 2004)
- 10 attendees from cement and metallurgy companies- 1-st clinic was organized in June, 2003
Problems:
On-line patterns submission
Decrease of GiA funding (need explanations).
Next GiA – Novosibirsk, Fall 2005
Other activities:
- Lectures about ICDD products – October 2004, Moscow at the meeting of the Analytical Society of RAS,
- Meetings with grantees from St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow
- Meetings with representatives of “Burevestnik” and “SinTheta” Ltd.
Plans for 2005/20061) Advertising ICDD products at different meetings and conferences in NIS: in Lviv (September 2005), Novosibirsk (October 2005) etc.
2) Develop effective marketing ICDD products in Russia. Agreement between ICDD-”SinusTheta” and “Burevestnik”.
2) Recommend active powder diffractionists for the ICDD membership.
3) Facilitate Grant-in-Aid proposals from Russian scientific institutes.
4) Train diffractionists from various institutes.
5) 3rd XRD clinic in Russia at MSU (July 2005 for industrial companies).
6) GiA workshop in Novosibirsk/Krasnoyarsk in Fall 2005.
