欢迎关注IUCr Quantum Crystallography（量子晶体学）网络会议并参与调查

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Commission on Quantum Crystallography（量子晶体学委员会），是国际晶体学联合会（IUCr）的委员会之一，重在发展量子力学角度对晶体学的研究，经常举办国际性workshop和会议。这个委员会的研究领域和量子化学、第一性原理、波函数分析有密切联系，此委员会信息见https://www.iucr.org/resources/commissions/csmd。

有很多中国科学家通过我开发的Multiwfn波函数分析程序对晶体中的分子的电子结构、相互作用等方面做了研究，这引起了量子晶体学委员会主席Jean-Michel Gillet的注意。Jean-Michel Gillet之前和我通过邮件联络，他表示虽然有大量中国科学家都通过量子力学手段对晶体进行了研究，发表了诸多文章，但是量子晶体学委员会的活动却很少有中国人参与，委员会名单里目前也没有中国人，他非常希望能有中国科学家也参与量子晶体学委员会的活动中。

量子晶体学会近期预计举办的现场会议由于肺炎病毒的原因被迫取消，但Jean-Michel Gillet觉得举办会议的重要性很高，尤其是对于青年学者。于是他打算举办在线形式的量子晶体学会的会议，希望我将以下信息转发，让尽可能多的中国的研究者们看到。下面是邮件内容，希望广大通过量子力学、第一性原理、波函数分析研究晶体学的中国研究者们能仔细阅读。在线会议的时间和细节还没有定，Jean-Michel Gillet在邮件里提供了一个链接（见下文粗体蓝字的“following survey”）对参加者的情况进行初步统计，以便恰当安排会议的形式、费用等方面。希望有兴趣参加会议的同志们点击链接参与调查。这次会议的参加费用必定会远低于参加一般的大型国际会议，毕竟机票住宿都省了，办会成本也低，注册费应该不贵。

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Dear colleagues and friends,

I hope you are all healthy and safe, and making the best of the current situation.

You are now aware that the IUCr meeting in Prague has been postponed to a more appropriate date, hopefully, August 2021. Many other conferences for this spring, summer, and possibly autumn, have also been cancelled or rescheduled.

As chairman (and with the support) of the IUCr Quantum Crystallography commission, I believe that this unprecedented situation calls for action.

Allow me first to put forward a short-term proposition, drawn from the two beliefs outlined below.

Firstly, science should not be put on hold, and an essential part of its progress is fueled by exchanging ideas with peers. Such means is even more crucial for young researchers or graduate students. More often than not, they can only rely on a modest scientific network and have little opportunity to discuss their results with anyone else outside their immediate circle, sometimes even limited to their PhD adviser. To be even more specific, I believe the cancellation of this year's scientific meetings may be a significant handicap for students in the second half of their PhD work. I am therefore convinced that every scheduled event cannot be postponed by 365 days without causing significant harm. Something must be organised this summer so that (especially young) researchers can present and informally discuss their results with a large portion of the QCr community.

Secondly, the scientific community cannot exonerate itself from the worldwide effort to decrease global warming. I am not familiar with the detailed contribution to the total carbon footprint of the scientific community's air travel (although studies exist such as this one or that one). However, if the value is marginal on the absolute scale, it is also a matter of world-citizenship to show that everyone is doing their bit in the global effort.

Additionally, we are all experiencing increasing difficulty finding a decent travel budget each year so that members (especially the least experienced ones, and those who have officially retired) of our groups get a chance to attend the meetings, which are most relevant to their research subjects. This difficulty is not about to vanish. Moreover, I am not over-optimistic about a situation where money rains down on us in the next coming years.

Therefore, I think it is the right time to experiment with new ways to meet at a distance, to get together from afar, exchange in an informal manner through guided electrons instead of pure photons.

I believe, since the time slot for the IUCr meeting has already been defined and probably written down in everyone's diary, we could maintain a two-day (or three-day) light meeting at the end of August. We could have some kind of poster sessions where firstly each poster would be given a rapid live presentation time (say 3 min) in a plenary session. We could even have a book of abstracts for posters. Then the poster presenters would wait in a virtual room to present her/his work and exchange ideas with the participants. The participants would go from room to room to discuss with the presenters. Furthermore, we could have short talks (say 15 min) live, to keep it less formal. Additionally, I would like to set up a discussion meeting on a particular topic relevant to the future of QCr.

Posters and oral presentations could be collected in a book of abstracts hosted by our IUCr page to give it some sort of perennial trace and serve as a reference for the young colleagues who want to put this web-meeting in their CVs. No specific possibility has yet been explored but  it is worth considering publishing conference proceedings in a special issue of a journal to be defined.

We could even organise a stay-home-banquet event with one (or several) colleague playing live music. We already have a sponsor for three poster presentation prizes (book vouchers for World Scientific catalogue).

This would be a first attempt to overcome the current situation but could pave the way to transform a fraction of our traditional meetings to a less expensive, more sustainable format.

Since this is my last run as QCr commission chairman, I would feel terrible not having done my best to help attenuate the effect of the IUCr meeting adjournment.

In order to start organizing the event, I have hired a small team of students from my institution who are willing to build the online structure (nothing fancy but smooth and friendly) and then help the attendees during the conference.

Before we proceed any further we need to know how many participants/attendees are likely to show up. Therefore I kindly ask you to answer as soon as possible the following survey which is simply to help us with the scaling of the structure and decide whether or not it is worth the pain and money from our side. Feel free to transfer this email to any colleague with interest in QCr.

Speaking of money, I will do my best to keep the meeting as inexpensive as possible (the target is to keep it free of charge).

With my warm regards and best wishes for a brighter future

Jean-Michel

Yaqi

请问，不是研究晶体学的，可以投海报吗？

望月凝香

没有研究过这方面的内容，想知道这个领域主要研究的是什么？社长可以大致科普一下么？

sobereva

Yaqi 发表于 2020-5-26 09:28
请问，不是研究晶体学的，可以投海报吗？

我不是组织方，对于会议具体详情不太了解，可以发邮件问问主办者Jean-Michel Gillet（Jean-michel.gillet[at]centralesupelec.fr）

sobereva

望月凝香 发表于 2020-5-26 13:32
没有研究过这方面的内容，想知道这个领域主要研究的是什么？社长可以大致科普一下么？

和晶体沾边的各种形式的量子化学研究都算。

Yaqi

sobereva 发表于 2020-5-26 15:10
我不是组织方，对于会议具体详情不太了解，可以发邮件问问主办者Jean-Michel Gillet（Jean-michel.gillet ...

谢谢解答。

coolrainbow

我也收到过，不过我一直认为是骗子

sobereva

coolrainbow 发表于 2020-5-28 11:31
我也收到过，不过我一直认为是骗子

IUCr在晶体学界的影响力还是非常大的，出版了一堆知名晶体学期刊

bobosiji

"有很多中国科学家通过我开发的Multiwfn波函数分析程序对晶体中的分子的电子结构、相互作用等方面做了研究，这引起了量子晶体学委员会主席Jean-Michel Gillet的注意"
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