International School on Fundamental Crystallography: Seventh MathCryst School in Latin America - PERU 2024

The International School on Fundamental Crystallography, a series of educational schools in Latin America, commenced seventeen years ago at the University of Havana, Cuba, and has been hosted biannually in various countries across the region, including Havana, Cuba, Montevideo, Uruguay, Uberlândia, Brazil, La Plata, Argentina, and Bogota, Colombia. The school has served as an important space for the training of Latin American graduate students in the field of crystallography.

The VII edition of the school, set to take place in Lima, Peru, in 2020, was postponed due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, at the request of the Peruvian academic community, the Commission on "Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography" of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) granted the Faculty of Physical Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, the opportunity to organize the International School on Fundamental Crystallography: Seventh MaThCryst School in Latin America, from August 12 to 16, 2024.

The school, designed for students from the region, aims to bring together crystallographers from various countries and promote graduate studies in this scientific field. Since its first edition, the school has experienced steady growth in the number of participating Latin American professors and students, thanks to financial support from important institutions such as the IUCr, CLAF, and other regional universities. It is noteworthy that this event has already been recognized as an official school of the IUCr.