Talks and seminars

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

 

Week 1 Monday
16 Jan.
2:00pm
PTCL		 Prof. Graham Worth- UCL, London
"Accurate simulations of non-adiabatic molecular dynamics:From grids to gaussian wavepackets"		 Theoretical Chemistry
(Prof. David Tew)
Week 1 Thursday
19 Jan.
2:00pm
ICL   

Prof. Natalie Fey - University of Bristol
https://feygroupchem.wordpress.com

“Decisions from Data – Predictions for Organometallic
Catalysis”

Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
(Prof. Jon Burton &          Prof. Michael Willis)
Week 2 Thursday
26 Jan.
2:00pm
ICL		 Dr. Garry Pairaudeau - Exscientia
“The future of patient centric AI driven drug discovery”		 Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
(Prof. Jon Burton &          Prof. Michael Willis)
Week 3 Monday
30 Jan.
2:00pm
PTCL		 Dr. Johan Runeson - University of Oxford
"Quantum nonadiabatic dynamics with classical trajectories"

 

 Theoretical Chemistry
(Prof. David Tew)
Week 3 Thursday
2 Feb.
2:00pm
ICL

Prof. Abraham Mendoza - Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) - Valencia
https://twitter.com/mendozalab
“Unlocking (Enantioselective) Carbon-Atom Insertion:
Redox-active Carbene Transfer and Surprises in Radical
Decarboxylative Coupling”

 Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
(Prof. Jon Burton &          Prof. Michael Willis)
Week 4 Thursday
9 Feb.
2:00pm
ICL

RSC Corday-Morgan Prize Lecture
Prof. Matthew Fuchter - Imperial college London
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/fuchter-group/ 
“Maximising light dissymmetry and handling directionality
in chiral organic materials”

 Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
(Prof. Jon Burton &          Prof. Michael Willis)
Week 5 Monday
13 Feb.
2:00pm
PTCL		 Prof. Matthew Foulkes - Imperial, UK
"Approximating Many-Electron Wave Functions with Neural Networks"

 

 Theoretical Chemistry
(Prof. David Tew)
Week 6 Thursday
23 Feb.
2:00 - 4:00pm
ICL

Pfizer symposium and 2nd year DPhil poster competition

Prof. Joanna McGouran - Trinity College, Dublin
https://joannamcgouran.wixsite.com/mysite/copy-of-profjoanna-mcgouran
“A radical approach to activity based protein profiling”

Prof. Louis Morril - Cardiff University
https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/themorrillgroup/lcm/
“Sustainable Methodologies for Synthesis”

Pfizer speaker
Title - TBA

4.15 - 6.15  Poster Session in the CRL Atrium, followed by prize giving and Reception

 Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
(Prof. Jon Burton &          Prof. Michael Willis)
Week 7 Monday
27 Feb.
2:00pm
PTCL		 Dr. Elke Fasshauer - Tübingen, Germany
Introduction to the Fascinating World of Electronic Decay Processes of Weakly Bound Systems   		Theoretical Chemistry
(Prof. David Tew)
Week 8

Monday and Tuesday
6 & 7 Mar.
3:00pm
ICL

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Robinson Lectures

Prof. Bert Meijer - Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology
https://www.meijerlab.nl/current-group-members/bmeijer/

Monday, 6th March
“Non-covalent synthesis of multicomponent supramolecular systems; chirality as a muse”

Tuesday, 7th March
“From supramolecular polymers to functional systems and
materials”

 Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
(Prof. Jon Burton &          Prof. Michael Willis)