Crystallography

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The six lectures of this course will lay the foundations of crystallography, starting from group theory and symmetry as a concept, extending it to crystal families and space groups and applying it in diffraction principles and experimental techniques. Beyond these basics, more advanced discussion topics will be discussed according to the students’ preferences, among local structure analysis, magnetism in crystallography, incommensurate crystallography, phase transitions, mineralogy, and protein crystallography. The tutorials sessions will complement the lectures and help the students gain a deeper understanding of the topic and some methodological approaches to state- of-the-art problems that involve crystallography. Though the course will have a physical chemistry approach to the subject, crystallography is an inherently interdisciplinary field and students that are passionate about mathematics and physics are encouraged to join.