2009 ACA Meeting, July 25 - 30, 2009, Sheraton City Centre Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada : http://www.cins.ca/aca2009/
ACA2009 TorontoWelcome to the web site for the 2009 ACA meeting! (Click for a Satellite image of Toronto Sheraton City Centre Hotel (the site of ACA 2009 Meeting) via Google Maps/Google World) As of July 8th 2009: ACA 2009 Toronto Final Program Schedule (pdf) As of July 8th 2009: ACA 2009 Toronto Program At A Glance (pdf) 22nd July 2009 News flash: Please be aware that there is a strike underway of many City of Toronto workers. We do not anticipate that this will have a noticeable effect on most ACA activities, with the possible exception of any planned for city parks (eg. the Rigaku Fun Run). However, some common tourist activities may be affected, in particular ferry service to the Toronto Islands. Activities at Nathan Phillips Square outside city hall (across the street from the Sheraton) are mostly curtailed as are tours offered by the City. There may some picketing evident in the square outside city hall. The other potentially noticeable effect will be at garbage drop-off sites. There are none of these in smelling distance of the Sheraton. However, there have been incidents of illegal garbage dumping on some street corners, which may be evident in some areas (Chinatown). Keep an eye out for any updates posted in the registration area. VIA Rail, Canada's passenger rail service, is currently threatening to go out on strike as of Friday at noon. Any delegates planning to travel to Toronto by train may wish to investigate other options, in case there is no settlement by then. Other than that, we're ready to welcome you to Toronto! The weather has been pleasantly warm (high's in the 20-25deg C range, or 68-75deg F) though it may be slightly warmer with some showers during ACA week.
14th July 2009 News flash: To attendees who are Czech or Mexican citizens.: Canada has suddenly imposed requirements for citizens of the Czech Republic and Mexico to have Visas before arriving in Canada. Registrants should contact the Canadian Embassy in (respectively) Vienna or Mexico City immediately. The ACA is putting out inquiries to Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Canada but attendees should not count on a timely exception. See the following information:
You are cordially invited to attend the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association to be held July 25 - 30, 2009, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The workshops, scientific and poster sessions, as well as the exhibit show will be housed in the Toronto Sheraton City Centre Hotel (123 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 2M9, Canada). Note for attendees: Meeting bags will not be provided so bring a previous conference bag or backpack to Toronto "Chimo!" / GreetingsAs we approach the ACA 2009 Annual meeting, delegates may be curious about the situation regarding the H1N1 flu virus. Toronto, and Canada generally, have been affected no more severely, and perhaps less so (maybe due to improved awareness resulting from SARS), than comparable North American communities. Since the initiation of testing in March, there have been about 500 confirmed cases in all of Ontario, almost none of which have been severe enough to require hospitalization. The only associated death in Ontario was a patient with pre-existing medical problems. The symptoms in patients have been no worse, and usually milder, than the familiar seasonal flu strains. The incidence of new cases has tailed off considerably during the second half of May. If this trend continues, delegates should have no special concerns about traveling to Toronto. It is always advisable to follow common sense approaches to personal health in public places. Most prominent among these is frequent hand- washing. There have been suggestions to limit personal contact such as handshaking. We might suggest that delegates follow a traditional Inuit form of greeting called Chimo (from Bill Casselman's Canadian Word of the Day website): Chimo!(CHEE-mo) is a widespread and ancient Inuit greeting that may be accompanied by a gesture of salutation as well, namely moving the left hand in a circle on the area of the chest over the heart. Variants as heard by white explorers include teyma, tima, and timah. Some early explorers were told that chimo came from an Inuktitut root that meant 'trade, barter' and that the only greeting implied in the word when spoken to white southerners was 'let's trade.' Even if that is true, today chimo is exclusively a warm greeting and is used in our North as a toast before drinking. Looking forward to seeing you in Toronto! Chimo, eh! - David Rose, Jim Britten and Bob von Dreele Acknowledgements are made to the IUCr and ICDD for partial support of the student and young scientists travel fund. To Amgen for an educational donation. To Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc. for partial support of the poster sessions. To Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute for supporting the Handling Twinning in Macromolecular Crystallography by donating 30 laptops to the workshop and Dr Herbert E. Klei for financial support of the workshop. To Bruker AXS, Canadian Institute of Health Research Institute of Genetics, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, Hampton Research, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Health, Genentech, Ryonix, L.L.C. / Mar USA, Structural Genomics Consortium, Oxford Diffraction, Rigaku Corporation, Art Robbins Instruments, Pfizer Global Research & Development and Incoatec GmbH for general support of the meeting. Let's make ACA2009 climate neutral! There are several websites for making carbon offset contributions. Carbon offsets are easy to make and relatively inexpensive (an offset for a round-trip flight from Chicago to Toronto is about $15.00). Donations to http://carbonfund.org/ are tax deductible in the US. Planetair is a Canadian not-for-profit service offered by the Unisféra International Centre. Planetair helps individuals, corporations, and institutions to reduce their climate footprint. Other Canadian carbon offset sites can be found at http://www.carboncatalog.org/providers/canada/.
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