The Chemistry Department Research Colloquium on Monday 20th April is by Georgina Ferry, noted author and broadcaster.
She will be speaking on the life and work of the pioneering biological crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin and the title of her talk is “I think with my hands”.
Chemistry LTG at 16:00
ALL WELCOME
Chemist and Outreach and Access Facilitator for the Faculty of Life Science, Dr Ben Littlefield, was on BBC Radio Berkshire over the weekend. He appeared on Matt Allwright’s Saturday Solution to talk about the ‘Science Slam’ event taking place in Reading that evening. If you missed it, you can listen again, about 1h09m in to the programme.
On Monday 23rd March the Chemistry Research Colloquium is by Dr. Silvia Díez-González, Imperial College London.
Her talk, “C-N Bond Forming Reactions with Copper Catalysts”, will be at 4pm in Chemistry LTG preceded by refreshments in the foyer at 3.40pm.
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Professor Mills received his OBE from the Queen during an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on March 6th. The OBE was awarded for Ian’s services to Chemistry and Metrology.
On Monday 16th March the Chemistry Research Colloquium is by Professor Paul Attfield, University of Edinburgh.
His talk “Chemistry on a background; new orders in simple solids”, will be at 4pm in Chemistry LTG preceded by refreshments in the foyer at 3.40pm.
ALL WELCOME
On Monday 9th March the Chemistry Research Colloquium is by Dr Rachel O’Reilly, University of Warwick.
Her talk “New directions in chemistry – taking inspiration from Nature”, will be at 4pm in Chemistry LTG preceded by refreshments in the foyer at 3.40pm.
ALL WELCOME
On Monday 2nd March the Chemistry Research Colloquium is by Dr Julia Weinstein, University of Sheffield.
Her talk “Light and transition metal complexes: from fundamentals to photocatalysis and imaging”, will be at 4pm in Chemistry LTG preceded by refreshments in the foyer at 3.40pm.
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At last Wednesday’s RSC Organic Section South and West Regional Meeting, Ashfaq Afsar won the Thieme Poster Prize for his poster entitled “Immobilisation of Bis(dimethyltriazinyl)phenanthroline (C1-BTPhen) on Magnetic Nanoparticles for Co-extraction of Americium (III) and Europium (III)”.
He also wins a year’s electronic access to Synfacts
Ashfaq receiving his certificate from the RSC Organic Section President, Professor Ray Jones.
Congratulations Ashfaq!
On Monday 23rd February the Chemistry Research Colloquium is by Professor Martin Schröder, University of Nottingham.
His talk “Supramolecular Chemistry of Porous Metal-Organic Materials: Substrate Storage and Separations”, will be at 4pm in Chemistry LTG preceded by refreshments in the foyer at 3.40pm.
ALL WELCOME
On Monday 16th February the Chemistry Research Colloquium is by Professor Alison Rodger, University of Warwick.
Her talk “Optical spectroscopy for biomolecule characterisation: pluses and minuses for fibres, membrane environments, and funny shapes”, will be at 4pm in Chemistry LTG preceded by refreshments in the foyer at 3.40pm.
ALL WELCOME