Talks and seminars

All talks and seminars will take place in person, unless otherwise stated. They are open to all.

 

Week 1 Monday
22 April
2:00pm
PTCL		 Dr. Igor Roncevic - University of Oxford
"Anti-aromaticity and electronic structure: from cyclocarbons to porphyrin nanostructures"

Theoretical Chemistry Seminars
 (Prof. David Tew)
Week 1 Monday
22 April
2:00pm
Simpkins
Lee LT*

Prof. Philip Pearce - University College London
"Pattern formation by living droplets in chemoattractant gradients."
 

* Simpkins Lee lecture theatre, Beecroft building

 Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces Seminars
(Prof. Dirk Aarts, Prof. Susan Perkin, Prof. Alexander Mietke and Prof. Julia Yeomans)
Week 1 Tuesday
23 April
3:30pm
PTCL

Prof. Jon Doye - University of Oxford
"Using protein structure prediction methods to explore the structural diversity of S-layers in bacteria and archaea."

 Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces Seminars
(Prof. Dirk Aarts, Prof. Susan Perkin, Prof. Alexander Mietke and Prof. Julia Yeomans)
Week 1 Thursday
25 April
2:00pm
ICL

Prof. Donna Blackmond - The Scripps Research Institute, California, USA
https://www.scripps.edu/blackmond/
"Chemical and Physical Models for the Emergence of Biological Homochirality"

 Organic Chemistry and Chemical; Biology Colloquia (Prof. Yujia Qing and Prof. Harry Anderson)
Week 2 Thursday
2 May
2:00pm
ICL		 Prof. Dominik Lungerich - Yonsei University, ROK
https://www.lungerichlab.com
"Cinematic Chemistry - Molecular Reactions Induced by Electron Beams"		 Organic Chemistry and Chemical; Biology Colloquia (Prof. Yujia Qing and Prof. Harry Anderson)
Week 3 Monday
6 May
2:00pm
PTCL		 Prof. Paola Carbone - University of Manchester
"Thermodynamics of the electrolyte/carbon interface"		   Theoretical Chemistry Seminars
   (Prof. David Tew)
Week 3

Wednesday & Thursday
8 & 9 May
2:00pm
ICL

Vertex Third Year Graduate Symposium

Schedule to be circulated

 Organic Chemistry and Chemical; Biology Colloquia (Prof. Yujia Qing and Prof. Harry Anderson)
Week 4      
Week 5

Tuesday
21 May
3:00pm
PTCL

 

 Prof. Daan Frenkel - University of Cambridge
"Surely, this has been done long ago..."		 Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces Seminars
(Prof. Dirk Aarts, Prof. Susan Perkin, Prof. Alexander Mietke and Prof. Julia Yeomans)
Week 5 Monday
20 May
2:00pm
Simpkins Lee LT*

Dr. Izaak Neeri - King's College London
"Liquid Hopfield model:retrieval and localization in heterogeneous liquid mixtures."
 

* Simpkins Lee lecture theatre, Beecroft building

 Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces Seminars
(Prof. Dirk Aarts, Prof. Susan Perkin, Prof. Alexander Mietke and Prof. Julia Yeomans)
Week 5 Monday
20 May
2:00pm
ICL		 Prof. M. Kevin Brown - Indiana University - USA
https://kbrown.lab.indiana.edu
"Building Bonds with Boron"		 Organic Chemistry and Chemical; Biology Colloquia (Prof. Darren Dixon)
Week 5

Tues - Thurs.
21-23 May
2:00pm
ICL

ANDREW DEROME MEMORIAL LECTURES

Prof. Abigail Doyle - University of California, LA
https://doyle.chem.ucla.edu
22 May - "Nickel Photocatalysis"
23 May - "Enabling Chemical Synthesis with Machine Learning"

 Organic Chemistry and Chemical; Biology Colloquia (Prof. Yujia Qing and Prof. Harry Anderson)
Week 6 Thursday
16 May
2:00pm
ICL

Prof. Mike Gagne - University of North Carolina
https://gagnegroup.web.unc.edu
"New/Old copper catalysts for Heterolytic  TMS-X activation catalysis"

 Organic Chemistry and Chemical; Biology Colloquia (Prof. Yujia Qing and Prof. Harry Anderson)
Week 7 Monday
3 June
2:00pm
Simpkins Lee LT*

Dr. Sarah Loos - University of Cambridge
"Title - tbc"
 

* Simpkins Lee lecture theatre, Beecroft building

 Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces Seminars
(Prof. Dirk Aarts, Prof. Susan Perkin, Prof. Alexander Mietke and Prof. Julia Yeomans)
Week 7

Thursday
6 June
2:00pm
ICL

 Prof. Nicholas Ball - Pomona University - California
https://www.theballlab.com
"Synthetic Strategies toward Fluorosulfurylation of Organic Molecules and Sulfur-Fluoride exchange (SuFEx)"		 Organic Chemistry and Chemical; Biology Colloquia (Prof. Mike Willis)
Week 8      
Week 9 Monday
17 June
2:00pm
Simpkins Lee LT*

Dr. Matthias Merkel - CENTURI Marseille
"Title - tbc"

 

* Simpkins Lee lecture theatre, Beecroft building

 Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces Seminars
(Prof. Dirk Aarts, Prof. Susan Perkin, Prof. Alexander Mietke and Prof. Julia Yeomans)