User Webinar: Unlock the Potential of the CSD to Teach Chemistry and Crystallography
Thursday, 6th of June, 3 pm (BST)
Over one thousand institutions worldwide already have access to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). However, with limited time to get to know the entire CSD portfolio, it can be hard to go beyond using it as a simple look-up tool. Coupled with this is the fact that crystallography receives very little attention in the university curriculum despite its position as a cornerstone of characterization in research.
This webinar is designed to enable you to learn from two distinguished academics in the US and see how they use the CSD to help educate undergraduates and postgraduates in chemistry, crystallography, and data science, and to get more value from the entire CSD portfolio.
Crystallography is distinguished by having curated and comprehensive databases, and the CSD is one of these trusted resources. In this webinar, we will see how the database and associated CSD software can be used not only as a readily accessible way of understanding and gaining experience in searching a scientific database but also provide a means of rapidly interrogating structure quality and re-interpreting models – essential skills for any fledgling structural scientist.
Speakers:
Diane Dickie – Senior Scientist for X-ray Diffraction and Crystallography at University of Virginia.
Judith Currano – Head of the Chemistry Library at the University of Pennsylvania.
Join us to learn more about:
- How the CSD can be used for education as well as research.
- What can students learn about databases from studying the CSD?
- What chemical and structural information is available in the CSD?
- How can the CSD teach students to critically evaluate data?
- Ways in which the CSD and CSD software can help students learn essential skills in structure determination.