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Bob Cernik, "CPD Chairman's Message"

Brett Hunter, "Rietica - A visual Rietveld program."

Lachlan Cranswick, "Guest Editor's Comments"

Fujio Izumi, "Recent Advances in the Rietveld-Analysis Program Rietan"

Kern Arnt-Andreas, "EPDIC6 Workshop Announcement on Fundamental Parameter Approach"

James Kaduk, "Solving Crystal Structures Ab Initio Using Powder Diffraction Data"

Jean-Francois Bérar & Gianguido Baldinozzi, "Xnd code: from X-ray laboratory data to incommensurately modulated phases. Rietveld modelling of complex materials."

Werner Kraus & Gert Nolze, "PowderCell as teaching tool"

Joerg Bergmann, Peter Friedel & Reinhard Kleeberg, "BGMN - a new fundamental parameters based Rietveld program for laboratory X-ray sources, it's use in quantitative analysis and structure investigations."

Armel Le Bail, "50 Years of Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction - Some Statistics"

Norman Binsted, Maria Pack, Mark Weller, and John Evans, "The Southampton Combined EXAFS and Powder Diffraction Program"

Matteo Leoni and J. Ian Langford, "Line Profile Analysis and the Rietveld Method: crossing paths?"

Bryan Chakoumakos, "Call for Proposals for Time on the Oak Ridge High Flux Isotope Reactor"

Hugo Mändar and Toivo Vajakas, "AXES - a software toolbox in powder diffraction"

Daniel Chateigner, "Practical experience of BEARTEX, the Berkeley texture package"

Pablo Moscato, "Memetic Algorithms for molecular conformation and other optimization problems"

Alan Coelho, Kern Arnt-Andreas, and Bob Cheary, "A Fundamental Parameters Convolution Based Approach to Synthesizing Line Profiles"

Roland Olsson, "Computer programming and mathematical modeling using evolutionary computation"

David Cox and Peter Stephens, "Workshop on Using Powder Data to Solve Crystal Structures, May 18th, 1998, Brookhaven National Laboratory"

Juan Rodríguez-Carvajal & Thierry Roisnel, "FullProf.98 and WinPLOTR New Windows 95/NT Applications for Diffraction"

Lachlan Cranswick, "CCP14 (Collaborative Computational Project Number 14 for Single Crystallography and Powder Diffraction)"

Ian Swainson and Bruce Torrie, "3rd Canadian Powder Diffraction Workshop"

Gordon Cressey & Meryl Batchelder, "Dealing with Absorption and Microabsorption in Quantitative Phase Analysis"

Brian Toby, "GUI-based tools for Powder Diffraction Analysis Using Tcl/Tk"

Syb Gorter & Deane K. Smith, "World Directory of Powder Diffraction Programs"

Steffen Weber, "Aspects on using Java in crystallography"

S. P. Sen Gupta "ISPD'98 : An International School on Powder Diffraction"

What's On

Kenneth Harris, Roy Johnston and Benson Kariuki, "Evolving Techniques in Powder Structure Solution -- an Introduction to the Genetic Algorithm"

The next issue of the CPD Newsletter will be edited by S. P. Sen Gupta to appear in late 1998. He would greatly appreciate contributions from readers on matters of interest to the powder diffraction community, e.g. meeting reports, future meetings, developments in instruments, techniques and computer programs and news of general interest. Please send articles and suggestions directly to him (address is Prof. S. P. Sen Gupta, I.A.C.S., Jadavpur, Calcutta, 700 032, India; Fax : +91-033-4732805; E-mail: msspsg@iacs.ernet.in)