BloemCrystSchool will cover the following topics:
- Introduction to group theory
- Crystallographic point groups
- Stereographic projection and the morphology of crystals
- Space groups
- Exercises on the space group diagrams from Volume A of the International Tables
- Fourier transforms and convolutions
- Scattering from an electron, an atom, a unit cell, a crystal
- Diffraction symmetry: Laue classes, Friedel's law, resonant scattering
- General, zonal and serial reflection conditions and their use to determine the space-group type
- Group-subgroup relations and their application to phase transitions
- Twins and modular structures
- Use of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server in the study of the structure and properties of crystals
A more detailed programme will be made available closer to the date.