The Gregori Aminoff Prize is intended to reward a documented, individual contribution in the field of crystallography, including areas concerned with the dynamics of the formation and dissolution of crystal structures.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the Gregori Aminoff Prize in crystallography 2025 to Professor Simon Billinge, Columbia University, USA. He received the Prize for his decisive contribution to the further development of the pair distribution function, a tool that is widely used in materials science.
Programme
13.00
Welcome remarks
13.10
Watching real materials in action: everything, everywhere, all at once
Aminoff Prize Laureate Simon J.L. Billinge, Professor of Materials Science and of Applied Physics and of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University.
14.05
Local view of matter
Professor Takeshi Egami, UT-ORNL Distinguished Scientist/Professor of Materials Science and Physics, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
14.50
Neutron total scattering and short range order in the solid state
Katharine Page, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee and Joint Faculty, Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
15.35
Coffee break
16.00
In situ X-ray scattering studies of nanocrystal nucleation and growth
Professor Bo Brummerstedt Iversen, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
16.45
Title TBA
Professor Arkadiy Simonov, SNSF Professor at the Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
17.30
Summary and end of the Aminoff Prize Symposium
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Photo: Timothy Lee/Columbia Engineering.
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