For those staying in accomodation a distance away from the International Conference Centre (and as per being a tourist in any country or city), please read up on the local street-safety guide and tourist advice. Such a website explicitely exists for Durban, the "Durban Safety Guide":

• Durban Safety Guide: http://www.safety4all.co.za/
• Durban Safety Guide - Safety Tips: http://www.safety4all.co.za/tour_tips.htm
• Durban Safety Guide - Tourists: http://www.safety4all.co.za/tourists.htm
• Durban Safety Guide - Advice for Backpackers: http://www.safety4all.co.za/back_packers.htm
• Durban Safety Guide - the Tourist Support System and some general pointers: http://www.safety4all.co.za/winter.htm
• Durban Safety Guide - ATM Crime (minimizing your risks when using a Durban ATM): http://www.safety4all.co.za/atm.htm

Workshop Times

• Breakfast snacks (tea/coffea/pastries/sandwiches) - 8:00am to 9:00am

• Powder Diffraction session 1 (9:00am to 10:10am)
• Morning Tea and Coffee (10:10am to 10:40am)
• Powder Diffraction session 2 (10:40am to 12:00 midday)

• Lunch (12:00 midday to 1:30pm)

• Single Crystal session 1 (1.30pm to 3.00pm)
• Afternoon Tea and Coffee (2:50pm to 3:30pm)
• Single Crystal session 2 (3.30pm to 5:00pm)

(Morning tea/coffee: 10:10am to 10:40am)

• Powder Session 2a: (10:40am to 11:00am) - "Structure Solution using Direct methods" - EXPO Structure Solution Software - demonstrated by Martin Attfield, UMIST Centre for Microporous Materials, Department of Chemistry, UMIST, Manchester, UK
  [Martin Attfield's workshop notes on EXPO as a zipped Powerpoint PPT file] | [Martin Attfield's workshop notes on EXPO as a Acrobat PDF file]

• Powder Session 2b: (11:00am to 11:20am) - Structure Solution using real space methods and the FOX software - Vincent Favre-Nicolin - DRFMC/SP2M/Nano-structures et Rayonnement Synchrotron, CEA Grenoble, France
  [Vincent Favre-Nicolin's workshop notes on FOX as a zipped Open Office file] | [Vincent Favre-Nicolin's workshop notes on FOX as a Acrobat PDF file]

• Powder Session 2c: (11:20am to 11:40am) - Rietveld refinement of complex inorganic materials using Fullprof - Juan Rodriguez-Carvajal - Laboratoire Leon Brillouin (CEA-CNRS) and Service de Physique Statistique, Magnetisme et Supracondutivite Magnetisme et Diffraction Neutronique (CEA/DSM/DRFMC/SPSMS/MDN)
  [Juan Rodriguez-Carvajal's workshop notes on "Rietveld refinement of complex inorganic materials using Fullprof" (Extended version in tutorial form) as a PDF file] | [Some example files from the tutorial]

• Powder Session 2d: (11:40am to 12:00 midday) - Rietveld Structure Refinement of protein powder diffraction data using GSAS [CCP14 GSAS Resources] - Jon Wright - ESRF, Grenoble, France.
  [Jon Wright's workshop notes on refining proteins using GSAS as a zipped Powerpoint PPT file] | [Jon Wright's workshop notes on refining proteins using GSAS as a Acrobat PDF file]

(Lunch: 12:00 midday to 1:30pm)

Single Crystal - Afternoon

• Single Crystal 3a: (1:30pm to 1:50pm) - Using CCDs for visually finding tricky cells, supercells and incommensurate cells - "Precession Wallpaper or how to treat hexagonal structures with an incommensurate vector" (Refer: Twin analysis using combined Phi-Chi scans and Using the Nonius KappaCCD for twin analysis) - Rob W. W. Hooft - Bruker Nonius BV, Delft, The Netherlands.
  [Rob Hooft's workshop notes on Dirax as a zipped Open Office file] | [Rob Hooft's workshop notes on Dirax as a Acrobat PDF file]

• Single Crystal 3b: (1:50pm to 2:10pm) - Advanced absorption correction options using Platon and Euhedral - Martin Lutz, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  [Martin Lutz's workshop notes on Euhedral as a Acrobat PDF file]

• Single Crystal 3c: (2:10pm to 2:30pm) - Data processing of Bruker and Nonius CCD data using the WinGX Single Crystal suite, incorporating Sortav - Louis Farrugia - Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
  [Louis Farrugia's workshop notes on WinGX as a zipped Powerpoint PPT file] | [Louis Farrugia's workshop notes on WinGX as a Acrobat PDF file]

• Single Crystal 3d: (2:30pm to 2:50pm) - Structure Solution: Sir2002 - solving difficult structures - demonstrated by Lachlan Cranswick, National Research Council, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada
  [Lachlan Cranswick's workshop notes on Sir2002 as a zipped Powerpoint PPT file] | [Lachlan Cranswick's workshop notes on Sir2002 as a Acrobat PDF file]

(Afternoon tea/coffee: 2:50pm to 3:30pm)

• Single Crystal 4a: (3:30pm to 3:50pm) - Structure Solution: Dirdif - fragment searching to easily solve structures that direct methods won't - Bob Gould, Structural Biochemistry Unit ICMB, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
  [Bob Gould's workshop notes on Dirdif as a zipped Powerpoint PPT file] | [Bob Gould's workshop notes on Dirdif as a Acrobat PDF file]

• Single Crystal 4b: (3:50pm to 4:10pm) - Refinement on weak/problematic small molecule data using Shelxl97 - Alexander Blake, School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, UK
  [Alexander Blake's workshop notes on Shelxl97 as a zipped Powerpoint PPT file] | [Alexander Blake's workshop notes on Shelxl97 as a Acrobat PDF file]

• Single Crystal 4c: (4:10pm to 4:30pm) - Is the local geometry sensible?: Crystals to CCDC Mogul geometry validation - David Watkin, Chemical Crystallography, Oxford University, UK
  [David Watkin's workshop notes on Crystals as a zipped Powerpoint PPT file] | [David Watkin's workshop notes on Crystals as a Acrobat PDF file]

• Single Crystal 4d: (4:30pm to 4:50pm) - Is the structure kosher?: - non-trivial applications of Platon, Addsym and intra/inter-molecular validation - Ton Spek, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

• Closing Up: (4:50pm to 5:00pm)