The Yale University Department of Chemistry, in conjunction with Rigaku Americas Corporation, is pleased to announce the 2014 Yale-Rigaku Symposium on X-ray Diffraction, to take place on Friday, June 6, 2014, in Sterling Chemistry Laboratory on the campus of Yale University. Please join us for a day of stimulating talks, workshops, and networking. This event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required. Workshop attendees will enjoy breakfast and lunch, and an evening reception is open to all.

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.	Breakfast and registration: workshop attendees		Room 123, Class of 1954 Chemical Research Building
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Workshops	Single crystal workshop	Room 7, Kline Chemistry Laboratory
		Thin film workshop	Room 226, Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Workshop Attendees' Networking Lunch		Courtyard, Class of 1954 Chemical Research Building
12:30 p.m.- 1:00 p.m.	Registration for symposium		Room 160, Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
1:00 p.m. - 1:05 p.m.	Opening Remarks		Room 160, Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
1:05 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.	Investigating into the efficiency of nickel precatalysts for the Suzuki reaction: Why crystals are a girl's best friend Louise Guard, Yale University
1:20 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.	Hybrid Pixel Array Detectors in the Home Lab: Applications for Diffraction and SAXS on home X-ray Generators Michael Murray, Rigaku Americas Corporation
1:40 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.	Automating Advanced X-Ray Diffraction Techniques Aya Takase, Rigaku Americas Corporation
2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.	Marrying Molecules with Electronics Colin Nuckolls, Columbia University
2:50 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:10 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Iron-based N-N bond cleavage: Research that would go nowhere without X-ray crystallography Patrick Holland, Yale University
4:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.	Generalization of Single Crystal Matrix Isolation: From Optical Activity of Chiral Compounds to the Stabilization of Vaccines Bart Kahr, New York University
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.	Reception and Poster Session		Courtyard, Class of 1954 Chemical Research Building

• Registration, Class of 1954 Chemical Research Building, 350 Edwards St., New Haven, CT 06511
• Small Molecule Workshop, Kline Chemistry Laboratory, 255 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511
• Thin Film Workshop, Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center, 15 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511
• Networking Lunch, Class of 1954 Chemical Research Building, 350 Edwards St., New Haven, CT 06511
• Afternoon Presentations, Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, 225 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
• Reception, Class of 1954 Chemical Research Building, 350 Edwards St., New Haven, CT 06511

This event is co-sponsored by: