CMGIP

Chairman

Katsuo TSUKAMOTO Institute of Petrology, Mineralogy, and Economic Geology Tohoku University, Aobaku, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan TEL +81-22-217-6601 FAX +81-22-217-6675

Vice-Chairman

Andreas LUTTGE Associate Professor Department of Earth Science, MS 126, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005-1892,U.S.A. Tel.: +1 (713) 348-6304 FAX: +1 (713) 348-5214 Andreas Luttge webpage

Secretary

Jeanne PAQUETTE Associate Professor of McGill University, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Frank Dawson Adams Building, 3450 University Street, Montreal, Qc, Canada H3A 2A7 phone: +1 (514)398-4402 fax: +1 (514)398-4680

IMA corresponding member

Sergey Krivovichev (since August 2010)

19^th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association "Expansion to Nano, Bio and Planetary Worlds", IMA2006-Kobe, Japan, July 23-28, 2006- Sponsoring of sessions by the IMA-CMGIP: 1. International Symposium on Calcite Growth & Interface Processes, Tohoku University (Japan) March 2007. Application of novel techniques for in-situ observation of crystal growth and nuclation. Conveners: Andreas Luttge, Rice Univ. and Katsuo Tuskamoyo, Tohoku Unib.

2. Texture formation and crystal growth in geosciences. Conveners: Michihiko Nakamura, Tohoku Univ., Tadao Nishiyama, Kumamoto univ., and Andrew Putnis, Univ. Münster. 3. Nuclation and aggregation of macro- to nano-materials. Conveners: Lukas Baumgartner, Univ.Lausanne, Masamichi Ishikawa, Tokyo Inst. of Technology.

2^nd International Conference on Crystallogenesis and Mineralogy

St Petersburg (Russia)(31 July - 5 August 2007), with the participation of IMA-CMGIP

Organization of the meeting on ’Interface Mineralogy’ (28-30 september 2005)

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CMGIP plans for participation in Meeting

The commission also wishes to bring to your attention the following events: 1) The 15^th International Conference on Crystal Growth (in conjunction with the 13^th Conference on Vapor Growth and Epitaxy) will be held on August 12 - 17, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Abstract submission will open on January 1^st, 2007.

2) An International Symposium on calcite growth and interface processes, organized by students and sponsored by Tohoku University, to be held before March 2007. Further details will follow.

3) The 2^nd International Conference on Crystallogenesis and Mineralogy will be held at the Department of Crystallography and Department of Mineralogy of Saint-Petersbourg State University. October 1-5, 2007. Registration will begin on October 1^st, 2006. Contact: KM2007@minsoc.ru for further information. Plans were also discussed for some future events:

4) We wish to identify researchers interested in organizing a session related to mineral interface processes at the upcoming Goldschmidt conferences. The 2007 meeting will be held in Cologne, Germany, August 19-24, under the theme "Atoms to Planets". The 2008 Goldscmidt conference ("From Sea to Sky") will take place in Vancouver, Canada, July 13-18.

5) Eugenio Scandale (U. Bari, Italy) offered to lead the planning of an international summer school on "Crystal Growth and Interface Processes" in 2007 or 2008 in Bari, Italy. The project would involve the publication of course notes/chapters as a volume in the EMU Notes series or the MSA Reviews in Mineralogy.

6) Andrew Putnis (U. Muenster, Germany) will act as liaison with the IGC 2008 meeting (Oslo) and organize a session on crystal growth.7) Plans for an eventual 2^nd International Symposium on Interface Mineralogy (2009?) were also considered. Andreas Luttge (Rice U., USA) offered to look into the logistics of holding such an event in Houston, USA.

See below for reports and member lists