Department of Chemistry

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Quantum Tunnelling Splittings in Water Clusters, from Ring-Polymer Instanton Theory

User Adam Reid, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 June 2013, 12:00-12:30

Approaching protein dynamics in the post-genome era

User Professor Modesto Orozco, Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona .

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 14:15-15:30

The assessment of global aerosol-cloud interactions – why is it so hard?

User Dr Philip Stier (University of Oxford).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 June 2013, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Experimental-Driven Metadynamics simulations

User Dr Carlo Camilloni (University of Cambridge).

Friday 07 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solid Liquid Crystals and Soft Motors

User Professor Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

How can we reduce the uncertainty in estimates of aerosol cloud forcing?

User Dr Kirsty Pringle (University of Leeds).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 June 2013, 14:15-15:30

"Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Influenza Virus Envelope: Complex Interplay between Membrane Proteins and Lipid Domains"

User Dr Daniel Parton, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

Calculations on Tunneling by Carbon Tell Experimentalists Where to Look and What to Look For

User Professor Wes Borden, Unversity of Texas.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

What can we learn about protein folding from atomistic simulations?

User Dr. Robert Best, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH.

Friday 24 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Why Does Cyclobutane-1,2,3,4-tetraone Have a Triplet Ground State

User Professor Wes Borden, University of North Texas.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Why Does Cyclobutane-1,2,3,4-tetraone Have a Triplet Ground State?

A TMI RIG Presentation

User Professor Wes Borden, Unversity of Texas.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

"Using computational methods to aid our understanding of ionotropic glutamate receptors at the molecular level"

User Dr Phil Biggin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

Molecular composition of biogenic secondary organic aerosols using ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry: linking laboratory and field studies

User Dr Ivan Kourtchev (University of Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Ionic Liquids - From DFT to CG Simulations

User Prof. Dr. Christian Holm, Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Friday 17 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mechanoresponsive Materials and Self-Healing Systems

2013 Melville Lectureship

User Professor Jeffrey S Moore, University of Illnois.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Urban street canyons: Coupling dynamics, chemistry and within-canyon chemical processing of emissions/Low-cost Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring: Personal Exposure Studies and High Density Network for Air Quality Assessment

User Dr Vivien Bright/Dr Olalekan Popoola (University of Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nucleic Acid-Modified Nanostructures as Programmable Atom Equivalents: Forging a New Periodic Table

Lewis Lectures 2013

User Professor Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University.

Friday 10 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

On ripples, rafts, and networks - insights from generic models

User Prof. Friederike Schmid, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Germany.

Friday 10 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Spherical Nucleic Acid (SNA) Nanostructures: Establishing a New Paradigm in Molecular Diagnostics and Intracellular Gene Regulation:

Lewis Lectures 2013

User Professor Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Numerically exact methods for nonequilibrium quantum impurity models

User Professor Eran Rabani, University of Tel Aviv.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Enzyme dynamics, conformations and catalysis

User Professor Adrian Mulholland, Centre for Computational Chemistry, Univeristy of Bristol.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 14:15-15:30

Climate and health impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol

User Dr Anja Schmidt (University of Leeds).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 April 2013, 14:15-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry - Nano Puzzle and More

User Professor Iris Oppel, RWTH Aachen University.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 16:30-17:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

BP 3rd Years PhD Talks

Talks by 3rd Yr PhD students in the Materials RIG

User various.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 10:15-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The weather and climate: emergent laws and multifractal cascades

This is a special additional talk taking place outside of term time.

User Professor Shaun Lovejoy (McGill University).

House Pfizer Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 April 2013, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Relationship between Greenhouse Gases and Global Temperature

This is a special additional talk taking place outside of term time.

User Prof Murry Salby (Macquarie University).

House Pfizer Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Diurnal ozone variations in the stratosphere revealed in observations from the Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) onboard the International Space Station (ISS)

This is a special additional talk taking place outside of term time.

User Takatoshi Sakazaki (Kyoto University).

House Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Biomimetic, bioinspired and biosynthetic catalysts for water-splitting

User Dr Vincent Artero, CEA, Grenoble.

Thursday 21 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric fractional release, lifetimes, and Ozone Depletion Potentials

User Dr Johannes Laube (University of East Anglia).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 March 2013, 14:15-15:30

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

TB or not TB

Physical chemistry Linnett lecture series

User Professor Richard Zare (Stanford University).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Searching for intermediates in liquid reactions

Physical chemistry Linnett lecture series

User Professor Richard Zare (Stanford University).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ageing of Atmospheric Aerosols

User Dr Christian Pfrang (University of Reading).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2013, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Driving self assembly and emergent behavior in particle suspensions with magnetic fields

Cancelled

User Dr James Martin (Sandia National Laboratories, USA).

Friday 08 March 2013, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Amos B. Smith III - University of Pennsylvania .

Thursday 07 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

"Evolution of Anion Relay Chemistry (ARC) Leading to Siloxane-Based Transfer Agents for Palladuim Cross-Coupling Reactions"

User Professor Amos B Smith - University of Pennsylvania.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 14:30-16:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Linnett Lecture: If you do not fail enough times, you can not possibly succeed

Linnett Lecture

User Professor Richard Zare (Stanford University).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Selective targeting of epigenetic effector domains of the bromodomain family

User Professor Stefan Knapp, Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford.

Monday 04 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

"Chromatin: An Expansive Canvas for Chemical Biology"

User Professor Tom Muir, Princeton University, USA.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 01 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

For Richer Pore: Porous Molecules and Materials Through Supramolecular Chemistry

User Professor Mark MacLachlan, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Brominated Ozone Depleting Substances: Halons and Very Short-Lived Substances (VSLS)

User Dr Claire Reeves (University of East Anglia).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 February 2013, 14:15-15:30

“Data Driven Molecular Design & Discovery”

User Dr Scott Lusher, Netherlands eScience Centre.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 11:00-12:00

"Thinking (and looking) out of the box - new tricks for molecular simulation and visualization"

User Dr Marc Baaden, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimque, Paris.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 14:15-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Light energy harvesting and charge carrier collection in mesoscopic solar energy conversion systems

User Professor Michael Graetzel, EPFL.

Monday 18 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Understanding uncertainty in computer simulations with an application in global aerosol modelling

User Dr Lindsay Lee (University of Leeds).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 February 2013, 14:15-15:30

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Pushing the frontiers of wavefunction based ab initio quantum chemistry

User Professor Frank Neese (Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Monday 11 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Hygroscopicity and Phase Transition of Several Kinds of Aerosols

User Dr Hai-Jie Tong (University of Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 February 2013, 14:15-15:30

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modeling of electrochemical interfaces at the atomic scale

User Professor Jan Rossmeisl (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Functional Nanomaterials via Crystallization-Driven "Living Self-Assembly"

User Professor Ian Manners, University of Bristol.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Unpicking the local structure of adsorbate molecules on surfaces atom by atom

User Professor Phil Woodruff, University of Warwick.

Monday 28 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Materials Project for Accelerated Materials Design

User Dr Kristin Persson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

Friday 18 January 2013, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Theory, Dynamics, and Mechanisms of Cycloadditions

RSC Robert Robinson award Lecture

User Professor Kendall Houk (University of California, Los Angeles).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Thursday 17 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Allostery and Conformational Control in Signaling: The Ubiquitin E3 Ligases

User Dr Ruth Nussinov. Professor, Department of Human Genetics, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Senior Principal Scientist and Principal Investigator at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Frederick, MD.

Monday 14 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Geoff Moore.

Monday 14 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Aerosols and global biogeochemical cycles - tiny particles links the atmosphere with the ocean

User Dr Zongbo Shi (University of Birmingham).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 January 2013, 14:15-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supramolecular Assembly on Designer Templates

User Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya, University of Tokyo.

Thursday 06 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Lucy Carpenter (University of York).

Monday 03 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Heat dissipation in nanoscale interfaces and thermodynamic efficiency of molecular machines

User Dr Fernando Bresme (Imperial College).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

"Formation of C-C Bonds via Catalytic Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation"

User Professor Mike Krisches - University of Texas at Austin.

Monday 26 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Influence of the Topology of Single-Stranded RNAs on their Assembly in Viruses and Virus-like Particles

User Professor Paul van der Schoot (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Watching Single Molecules

User David Klenerman (University of Cambridge).

Monday 19 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric science and policy - the challenge of making them consistent

User Prof. Martin Williams, Kings College London.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 November 2012, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Py-Im Polyamides – from DNA Recognition to In Vivo Experiments"

User Dr Jevgenij A. Raskatov, California Institute of Technology.

Friday 16 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Controlled functionalization of surfaces: supported single-site catalysts and beyond

User Professor Christophe Coperet, ETH Zurich.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Selective adsorption of ions to aqueous interfaces and its effects on evaporation rates

RSC Faraday Lecture

User Professor Richard Saykally (University of California, Berkeley).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The upper troposphere/lower stratosphere and its role in chemistry-climate coupling

User Dr Michaela Hegglin, University of Reading.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 November 2012, 14:15-15:30

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

On the origin of 2D electron gases in oxide heterostructures and similar systems: the physics and the chemistry of it

User Emilio Artacho (CIC nanoGUNE Consolider and Cavendish Laboratory).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The reaction of halogen oxides (BrO and ClO) with CH3O2; laboratory based temperature dependent kinetic and product studies.

Note unusual time

User Dr Kimberley Leather, University of Manchester.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 05 November 2012, 15:15-16:30

"The mechanisms of solute flux through membrane channels from multi-microsecond equilibrium simulations"

User Dr Martin Ulmschneider, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 14:15-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dynamol Symposium

User Jeremy Sanders, Fraser Stoddart, Christoph Schalley and Rafal Klajn.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 13:00-19:00

BP Lectures 2012

Functionalized Antibodies

User Professor Akira Harada, Osaka University, Japan.

House BP Institute.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 11:30-12:30

BP Lectures 2012

Polyrotaxanes and Supramolecular Catalysis

User Professor Akira Harada, Osaka University, Japan.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

BP Lectures 2012

Macroscopic Self-Assembly and Self-Healing through Molecular Recognition

User Professor Akira Harada, Osaka University, Japan.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Nocturnal Chemistry in the Troposphere: Laboratory and Field Studies.

User Dr Mingjin Tang, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 October 2012, 14:15-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo for strongly correlated systems

CPGS talk

User Robert Thomas (CUC3).

Friday 19 October 2012, 12:30-13:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Investigating tunneling rates using instanton theory

CPGS talk

User Conan Zhang (CUC3).

Friday 19 October 2012, 12:00-12:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

1st Year CPGS talks

User Sarah Connors, Antara Banerjee and Ewa Bednarz.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 15 October 2012, 14:15-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sequence-based predictions of secondary structure populations in disordered proteins

CPGS talk

User Pietro Sormanni (CUC3).

Friday 12 October 2012, 12:30-13:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Quantum transition state theory?

CPGS talk

User Tim Hele (CUC3).

Friday 12 October 2012, 12:00-12:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Food Detectives - Some curious cases with a chemical twist

User Dr Ellen Norman, Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL).

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 19:00-20:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Model potential approaches for treating excess electrons interacting with water clusters and fullerenes

User Professor Ken Jordan (University of Pittsburgh).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 03 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Biomass and Black Carbon particles over Peninsular India: How are they affecting precipitation over the region?

User Prof Satyajit Ghosh, VIT University, India and Leeds University, U.K..

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 September 2012, 14:15-15:30

Successes and challenges in the prediction of P450 mediated drug metabolism

User Professor Patrik Rydberg, University of Copenhagen, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology.

Tuesday 04 September 2012, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Clusters in the bulk - the topological cluster classification

Note unusual day and time

User Dr Paddy Royall (University of Bristol).

Monday 30 July 2012, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Hybrid Inclusion Complex (HIC) and its Key Role in Constructing New Polymeric Materials

User Prof Ming Jiang, Fudan University, Shanghai.

Monday 16 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Self-assembly in simple colloidal systems

Note slightly earlier time

User Prof. Vinothan Manoharan (Department of Physics, Harvard).

Friday 13 July 2012, 11:30-12:30

"Entropy and order parameters from ensembles generated by computer simulations"

User Profressor Klaus Liedl, University of Innsbruck.

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Wednesday 27 June 2012, 15:15-16:30

Dynamics of Biomolecules: from the Glass Transition to Drug Design

User Prof. Jeremy Smith, Oak Ridge National Lab.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 20 June 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry.

"Dynamics of Biomolecules: from the Glass Transition to Drug Design"

A joint Theory/UCC talk as part of the TMI Research Interest Group

User Professor Jeremy C Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 June 2012, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The initiator full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo method and its application to molecular systems

Thesis seminar

User Deidre Cleland (CUC3).

Friday 15 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

"Molecular Behaviour in Small Spaces"

User Professor Julius Rebek, Jr., Ph.D - Director, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 17:00-18:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum Chemical Topology: constructing a novel force field with malleable atoms

User Prof. Paul Popelier, University of Manchester.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stabilizing Proteins with Polymer Conjugates

User Prof Heather D Maynard, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

TBC

User Professor Andrea Ferrari, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:30

House Scott Polar Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Institute.

Title to be confirmed

Departmental Lecture

User Professor Andrea Ferrari, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling isocyanic acid (HNCO): Tropospheric distribution, budget, and identification of regions with potential health impacts

User Dr Paul Young, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 May 2012, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

investigating Disorder in Solids: Multinuclear Solid-State NMR and First-Principles Calculations

RSC Marlow Award Lecture

User Dr Sharon Ashbrook, University of St Andrews.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Regenerating organs and other small challenges

[extra seminar]

User Prof. Molly Stevens, Imperial College.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Monday 21 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Microwave remote sensing of volcanic ash clouds.

User Dr Mario Montopoli, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 May 2012, 14:15-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Molecular mechanisms of O-GlcNAc signalling"

User Professor Daan van Aalten, FRSE, Associate Dean, Division of Molecular Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.

Friday 18 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tailored Polymers for Controlling Cell Signaling

User Prof Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanistic Characterization of Homogeneous Catalytic Processes for Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction

User Prof. Christopher Cramer, University of Minnesota (TBC).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Insights into Proteasome Function: From Protein Degradation to Cancer Therapy

User Alfred Lewis Goldberg, Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 10:30-12:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Conformational Telecommunication: From Atropisomers towards Artificial Receptors"

User Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Manchester.

Monday 14 May 2012, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling and data assimilation of reactive gases at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

User Dr Johannes Flemming, ECMWF.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 May 2012, 14:15-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Protein Structures and Assemblies by Rational Design

User Dek Woolfson, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol.

Friday 11 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Statistical mechanics of systems with long-range interactions

User Prof. Yan Levin (Instituto de Física, UFRGS Brazil).

Friday 11 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

The Inner Beauty of Crystals

SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc

User Ian Mercer, Geological Museum, London (retired).

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 19:00-20:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Physical properties of metal organic frameworks

User Professor Anthony K Cheetham, Materials Science, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Exploring quantum tunnelling in water clusters using the instanton method

Thesis seminar

User Jeremy Richardson (University of Cambridge).

Friday 04 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Topological Ring-Currents in Conjugated Systems

User Dr Roger Mallion, School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mechanistic and structural studies on thiamin biosynthetic enzymes

User Professor Tadgh P. Begley, D. H. R. Barton and Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry, Texas A&M University.

Monday 30 April 2012, 17:00-18:00

"Accelerated C-H Activation: A Shortcut to Molecular Complexity from Chemical Feedstock"

User Professor Jin-Quan Yu, The Scripps Research Institute.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 27 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Metal Oxide Clusters Capped with Organic Ligands: Formation and Building Blocks for Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials

User Professor Ulrich Schubert, Technical University of Vienna, Austria.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Structures and Transformations of DNA-mediated Nanoparticle Assemblies: from Principles to Materials

User Dr Oleg Gang, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 14:15-15:15

Inauguration of Christian Doppler Laboratory for Systainable SynGas Chemistry

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 12:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Utilizing Supramolecular Chemistry in Polymeric Systems: A Route to Dynamic, Adaptive Materials

User Prof Stuart J Rowan, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

Tuesday 24 April 2012, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Future methane, OH, and their uncertainties.

User Dr Christopher D Holmes, University of California, Irvine.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 17 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dynamic order-disorder transitions in a system of self-propelled particles

User Dr Vladimir Lobaskin (University College Dublin).

Friday 13 April 2012, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Lucy Carpenter (University of York).

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 04 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

"New catalytic reactions designed for the efficient synthesis of natural products"

User Professor Tim Donohue, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Monday 02 April 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Catalytic MetalloDrugs – New Therapies for Old Problems

User Professor James Cowan, Ohio State University.

Friday 30 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

"Aromatic Ions as a Design Element in Catalysis"

User Professor Tristan Lambert, Columbia University, USA.

Thursday 29 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Theory and Simulation of Biomolecular Systems: Surmounting the Challenge of Bridging the Scales

Note unusual day

User Prof. Greg Voth, University of Chicago (CCP5 Lecturer).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Monday 19 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Understanding the Action of Proteins

Note unusual day

User Prof. Peter Bolhuis, University of Amsterdam (CCP5 Lecturer).

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Artificial Leaf

Lewis Lectures 2012

User Professor Dan Nocera, MIT.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

'Personalized Energy for 1 (x 6 Billion): A Solution to the Global Energy Challenge

Lewis Lectures 2012

User Professor Dan Nocera, MIT.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

'Chemistry of Oxygen Sensing in Animals'

User Prof. Christopher Schofield, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Monday 12 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Towards national emissions verification for non-CO2 greenhouse gases

NOTE Early start

User Dr Matthew Rigby, University of Bristol.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Isotope fractionation in nitrous oxide and CFC-12 reflects stratospheric chemistry and transport rates

User Dr Jan Kaiser, University of East Anglia.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 09 March 2012, 14:15-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Predicting protein-peptide and protein-chemical interactions using biological networks

Biological RIG seminar

User Robert B. Russell, Professor Protein Evolution, CellNetworks, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Friday 09 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

BP 3rd Years PhD Talks

User 3rd Year PhD Students.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 13:00-18:30

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

How entropic forces can drive chromosome organisation

User Prof. Bela Mulder, FOM Institute AMOLF.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

"Natural Products, Synthetic Catalyst and Unnatural Products"

User Professor Scott Miller, Yale University.

Monday 05 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Development of New Synthetic Methods and Fundamental Studies of Conjugated Polymers

website: http://www.cm.utexas.edu/christopher_bielawski

User Prof Christopher W Bielawski, University of Texas at Austin.

Friday 02 March 2012, 15:00-16:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Future perspectives of metal compounds in cancer therapy

User Professor Bernhard Keppler, University of Vienna.

Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Designing Functional Molecular Nanostructures

User Professor Stefan Hecht (Humboldt University of Berlin).

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere and it's role in Climate.

User Dr Andrew Gettelman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 February 2012, 14:15-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

RSC Prize Lecture

User Dr G Marius Clore, National Institutes of Health, USA.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synthetic Molecular Systems (th)at Work

User Professor Stefan Matile, University of Geneva.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The early stages of biomimetic calcium phosphate formation: amorphous phases and pre-nucleation complexes

User Dr Nico A.J.M.Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Exploring new chiral space in asymmetric catalysis"

User Prof. Ben Feringa, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Groningen.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 16:45-17:45

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mechanical Atom Manipulation: Towards a Matter Compiler

User Professor Philip Moriarty, University of Nottingham.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 16:15-17:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Self-assembly and cryo-TEM in the study of bioinspired hybrid materials"

User Dr Nico A.J.M. Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 15:45-16:45

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Materials for Phosphorescent OLEDs and Polymer Photovoltaics

Please note the change in the time

User Dr Youtian Tao, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Free Energy Landscape Analysis of Complex Dynamics: From Protein Folding to Chess and Biomarkers.

User Dr Sergei Krivov, University of Leeds.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Light-in, Light-out - the yin and yang of sustainable materials chemistry

RSC Lecture (Sustainable Energy Award)

User Dr Ed Constable, University of Basel.

Friday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Molecular Model Solutions

SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc

User Dr Jonathan Goodman, Chemistry.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 19:00-20:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

From Fragments and Hot-Spots to Novel Lead Structures

User Professor Dr Gerhard Klebe, Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Philipps-University Marburg.

Friday 03 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

What could materials chemistry do for anti-inflammatory therapies. Oxidation-sensitive polymers and other examples.

User Prof Nicola Tirelli, FRSC, School of Biomedicine and School of Materials, University of Manchester.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Crystal energetics through quantum embedding

User Prof. Fred Manby, University of Bristol.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Lessons from Yeast: Drug Uptake and Systems Biology

User Dr Paul D Dobson, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 14:00-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Exploiting Cryptic Biosynthetic Pathways in Microorganisms

Joint Biological and Synthesis Seminar

User Prof. Dr. Christian Hertweck, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, HKI, Jena, Germany.

Friday 27 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Origins of life chemistry - reconciling the iron-sulfur and the RNA worlds

Materials/Synthesis Departmental Lecture

User Dr John Sutherland, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Electrostatics and soft matter: from star-branched polyelectrolytes to patchy colloids

User Prof. Christos Likos, University of Vienna.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sampling rare events in non-stationary dynamics

User Dr Josh Berryman (University of Luxembourg).

Friday 20 January 2012, 12:00-13:00

Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of botany and medicine

SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Group and RSC's Mid-Anglia Section

User Dr Alison Foster, Director, Oxford University Botanic Garden.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 19:00-20:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Novel complex fast ion conductors: challenges for crystallographers and spectroscopists!

User Professor Stephen Skinner, ICL.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Small Molecule Control of Intracellular Protein Levels

Joint Synthesis/Biological RIG Colloquium

User Prof. Craig M. Crews, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, Dept. of Pharmacology & Dept. of Chemistry, Yale University.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanostability of proteins and virus capsids

User Prof. Marek Cieplak, Polish Academy of Sciencies.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Anatomy of ice cores: continuous-flow chemical analysis of polar ice cores

User Dr. Ailsa Benton (British Antarctic Survey).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 January 2012, 14:15-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mechanisms matter: understanding and optimizing drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis

Joint Biological/Synthetic RIG Seminar

User Dr Clifton E. Barry III, Tuberculosis Research Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD.

Monday 09 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Geoengineering Mini Symposium.

Note unusual time and location

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Coordination-Driven Capsules and Cages

User Professor Paul Lusby - University of Edinburgh.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 09 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Coordination-Driven Capsules and Cages

User Professor Paul Lusby, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 09 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Modeling a single-site spring-like hypothesis for Fe-mediated N2 reduction

User Professor Jonas Peters, California Institute of Technology.

Thursday 08 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Venue to be confirmed.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Jonas Peters, California Institute of Technology.

Thursday 08 December 2011, 00:00-00:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Electrostatic interactions in binary liquids

CPGS talk.

User Alexandra Dobrinescu (CUC3).

Friday 02 December 2011, 12:00-12:30

Is Water H20?

SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc

User Professor Hasok Chang, History & Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 01 December 2011, 19:00-20:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Light-Responsive Polymers and Composites for Biomedical Applications

User Professor Jason A Burdick, (Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/directory/profile.php?ID=13.

Thursday 01 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

DNA-DNA electrostatic helix specific interactions and their possible role in supercoiling

User Dr Dominic Lee, Imperial College London.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

New Methods of Bioanalysis using Functionalised Nanoparticles and SERS

User Professor Duncan Graham (University of Strathclyde ) http://www.chem.strath.ac.uk/people/academic/duncan_graham.

Monday 28 November 2011, 14:30-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A novel satellite mission concept for upper air water vapour, aerosol and cloud observations using Integrated Path Differential Absorption LiDAR Limb Sounding

User Alex Hoffman, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Expanding the central dogma

User Professor Philipp Holliger, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Friday 25 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Self assembly of DNA coated colloids

CPGS talk

User Matthew Llewellyn-Jones (CUC3).

Friday 25 November 2011, 12:30-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Characterisation of RNA dynamics using restrained MD simulations

CPGS talk

User Aditi Borkar (CUC3).

Friday 25 November 2011, 12:00-12:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

From Nuclear Fuels to CO2 Activation at Uranium Complexes - Chemistry Between Phobia & Enthusiasm

User Prof. Dr Karsten Meyer, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

How fast folding proteins fold

User Prof. Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, University of Copenhagen.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

'The Chemistry of Genome Maintenance'

User Prof. Dr Thomas Carell - Chemical Science Lecturer.

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 16:50-17:35

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

'The Chemistry of Genome Maintenance'

User Professor Thomas Carell -Chemical Science Lecturer.

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 16:50-17:35

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sialidases in respiratory disease

User Prof Garry Taylor FRSE, Head of the School of Biology, BSRC, University of St Andrews.

Friday 18 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Improving i-FCIQMC: Reducing the cost using biased sampling

CPGS talk

User Catherine Overy (CUC3).

Friday 18 November 2011, 12:30-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Rhodanese folding within the GroEL chaperonin cavity

CPGS talk

User Anshul Sirur (CUC3).

Friday 18 November 2011, 12:00-12:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dielectric response of interfacial water

Note unusual day and time.

User Douwe Jan Bonthuis (Technische Universität München).

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling the living world?

Note unusual day and time

User Dr Mike Harfoot, United Nations Environment Programme - WCMC.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The role of glassy aerosol in cirrus ice cloud formation

User Theodore Wilson, University of Leeds.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 November 2011, 14:15-15:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Linnett Lecture: "Beyond Landscapes--the Far-from Equilibrium Cell"

User Prof. Peter Wolynes, Rice University.

Friday 11 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Melville Lecturer 2011 - Development of New Routes to Benign Polymeric Materials

User Prof Geoffrey Coates, Cornell University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Simulation and modeling of materials with atomic detail at IBM: From biophysics to high-tech application

User Prof. Glenn Martyna, IBM T.J. Watson Laboratory.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chemistry and Elecrochemistry related to the active sites of[FeFe]- and [Fe]-hydrogenases

User Professor Christopher Pickett, University of East Anglia.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Linnett Lecture: "The Theory of the Structural Glass Transition"

Joint Theory/Biological Seminar

User Prof. Peter Wolynes, Rice University.

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Linnett Lecture: "Recent Successes of the Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding"

Joint Theory/Physical Seminar

User Prof. Peter Wolynes, Rice University.

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Theoretical insights into co-translational folding: From pathways to proteomes

User Dr Edward O'Brien.

Friday 04 November 2011, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

[2+2]-Photocycloaddition reactions: New selectivity patterns and synthetic applications

User Professor Thorsten Bach, Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Studies towards engineered wood and designed cell wall polymer interactions

User Ms Emma-Rose Coad (University Of Cambridge).

Thursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-16:30

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Linnett Lecture: "Landscapes of Matter, Energy and Life"

User Prof. Peter Wolynes, Rice University.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Quantum Tunnelling Splittings from Ring-Polymer Instanton Theory

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

User Adam Reid (CUC3).

Friday 28 October 2011, 12:30-13:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Ring Polymer Tunnelling Rates and the Connection with Instanton Theory

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

User Adrian Hemmen (CUC3).

Friday 28 October 2011, 12:00-12:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Designing Artificial Light-harvesting Arrays for Solar Cells

User Professor Anthony Harriman, Newcastle University.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Understanding interactions in complex systems: from quantum interpretative techniques to polarizable force fields.

User Prof. Jean-Philip Piquemal, UPMC, Sorbonne Universités.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Timescales of chemical reactions

Joint with Phys. Chem. (NOTE unusual date and place)

User Prof Michael Pilling, University of Leeds.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 16:15-17:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Timescales of chemical reactions

User Prof. Mike J Pilling CBE, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 16:15-17:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

Joint Materials/Biological Colloquia

User Professor Bill Rutherford, CEA, France.

Friday 21 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Water Photolysis in Biology: Photosystem II

Joint Materials/Biological Colloquia

User Professor Bill Rutherford, Imperial College, London.

Friday 21 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Cooperative dynamics in supercooled liquids

Note unusual venue.

User Dr Jacob Stevenson (CUC3).

Friday 21 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dynamic heteroogenized metal nanoparticles by CB[n] assembly in water: from synthesis to application

User Ms Enass Abo-Hamed (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Coordination and activation of aminoboranes

User Dr Simon Aldridge, University of Oxford.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Erick Carreira, ETH- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Switzerland.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Erick Carreira, ETH- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Switzerland.

Monday 17 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Second Year PhD Presentations - II

User James Keeble (University of Cambridge), Matthew McLeod (University of Cambridge) and Pete Gallimore (University of Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Can hydrophobic surfaces catalyze unfolding?

Note unusual venue.

User Dr Patrick Varilly (CUC3).

Friday 14 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Science in the House of Commons (PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME 19:45)

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

User Dr Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge.

House Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 19:45-20:45

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

CPGS talks

User Various.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 10:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Conformational dynamics of single protein molecules under load

Joint Theory/Biological Seminar

User Prof. Matthias Rief, Technische Universität München.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Second Year PhD Presentations - I

User Oliver Squire (University of Cambridge), Pete Gallimore (University of Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mapping the phase behavior of protein interactions in multicomponent solutions

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

User William Jacobs (CUC3).

Friday 07 October 2011, 12:00-12:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling changes in the global methane hydrate inventory

User Stephen Hunter, University of Leeds.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Reaction Design and Catalysis with Aromatic Ions

User Professor Tristan Lambert, Columbia University, USA.

Thursday 22 September 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry.

"New Developments in Semiempirical MO Theory for Drug and Materials Design"

This Lecture is part of Professor Clark's MGMS Lecture tour

User Professor Tim Clark, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Thursday 22 September 2011, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tunneling transport in conductor-insulator composites and the role of microstructure

User Dr Claudio Grimaldi (EPFL, Switzerland).

Friday 16 September 2011, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratosphere-Troposphere interaction and climate prediction.

User Dr Adam Scaife, Met Office Hadley Centre..

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 16 September 2011, 11:30-12:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Spin crossover complexes and macrocyclic single-molecule magnets

User Professor Sally Brooker, University of Otago.

Monday 11 July 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Networking the Self-assembled Cages

User Professor Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo.

Friday 08 July 2011, 14:00-15:00

ac313's list

Molecular Simulations in Structure-Based Drug Design

User Dr Julien Michel, Royal Society University Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 07 July 2011, 15:30-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Controlling bacterial motors

User Prof. Berenike Maier (Univeristy of Cologne).

Friday 24 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Identification of Active Species and Reaction Pathways in Molecular Catalysis: Recent Case Histories

User Professor Lutz Gade, University of Heidelberg.

Thursday 23 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

Note unusual day

User Dr Neil Harris.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 21 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Proton-coupled electron transfer from ab initio molecular dynamics

User Dr Jun Cheng (CUC3).

Friday 17 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Predicting the Folding Behavior of Proteins with a Simple Statistical Model: from qualitative to quantitative descriptions

User Dr Pierpaolo Bruscolini, University of Zaragoza.

Wednesday 15 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Cluster Move Monte Carlo: as good as it sounds?

User Mr Thomas Ouldridge (University of Oxford).

Friday 10 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Soft and hard nanomaterials made by self-assmebly

User Professor Ullrich Steiner, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

What's wrong with density-functional theory?

User Professor Nicola Marzari, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 08 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Key macromolecules in bacterial infections: a structural perspective

User Dr. Rita Berisio, Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging, Italian National Research Council..

Wednesday 08 June 2011, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling organic aerosol: sensitivities and simplifications

Note unusual day

User Prof Gordon McFiggans, University of Manchester.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 07 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Responsive polymer-stabilised droplets and the 3D structuring of liquids

User Dr Jonathan Weaver, Imperial College London.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecules and nanostructures for solar energy conversion

User Professor James Durrant, Imperial College London.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Australian HFC, PFC and SF6 emissions: atmospheric verification

Note unusual day and time

User Dr Paul Fraser, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 June 2011, 15:30-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Simulations of ionic liquids for energy applications

User Professor Mathieu Salanne, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

Wednesday 01 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Manipulating protein aggregation in the nervous system

User Prof Michael Cheetham, Division of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, UCL.

Wednesday 01 June 2011, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Hard sphere crystal growth

User Dr Michiel Hermes (University of Utrecht).

Friday 27 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Exploring free-energy landscapes

User Professor Daan Frenkel FRS, Cambridge University Centre for Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

The power of coarse-graining in biomolecular simulations

User Professor Siewert-Jan Marrink, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Anion Supramolecular Chemistry: Sensing and Materials

User Professor Jonathan Steed, Durham University.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

"Manipulating dynamics: Galilean-invariant friction and stochastic thermostats"

User Professor Herman Berendsen, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute.

Wednesday 18 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

"Molecular dynamics beyond molecules: principles for coarse-graining"

User Professor Herman Berendsen, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute.

Tuesday 17 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CANCELLED ##### Air Pollution and health: myths and realities #######

Unfortunately this seminar has been canceled but will be rescheduled for next term.

User Prof Jon Ayres, Director of Institue of Occupational and Environmental Medicene, University of Birmingham.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly

Extra Inorganic Seminar

User Professor Kay Severin, EPFL, Switzerland.

Monday 16 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Design of New Catalytic Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry

Lewis Lecture 2011

User Professor David Milstein, Weizmann Institute, Israel.

Friday 13 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Band Gap Control in Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers via Lewis Acids

User Dr Greg Welch, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stimuli-responsive macromolecules: polymer-protein bioconjugates and sugar-responsive micelles

User Prof. Brent S. Sumerlin, Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Soft matter physics and bacteria

User Professor Gerard Wong, UCLA and the University of Illinois.

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric bromine: from tropics to polar regions

User Dr. Xin Yang ( Centre for Atmospheric Science).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

RSC Organic Symposium at the University of Cambridge

User Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn University of Bristol - Dr Matthew Clarke University of St Andrews - Professor Dieter Enders RWTH-Aachen.

Monday 09 May 2011, 14:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The role of particle size and shape in highly size-asymmetric mixtures

User Dr Douglas Ashton (University of Bath, Department of Physics).

Friday 06 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

A transition metal chemist's view of C-H and C-F bond activation

User Professor Robin Perutz FRS, University of York.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Very narrow lasers to measure wide lines: Frequency comb-referenced determination of pressure broadening, narrowing and shifts for remote sensing

User Professor Trevor Sears, Brookhaven National Laboratory & Stony Brook University NY.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Primo Levi’s Lesson: a Bridge between Chemistry and Literature

User Professor Luigi Dei Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” University of Florence via della Lastruccia, 3 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze) - Italy.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Noncovalent Nanostructures in Aqueous Medium: Robust yet Adaptive

User Dr Boris Rybtchinski, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Room 357, Department of Chemistry.

Self-assembly and hydrodynamics of Janus particles

Note unusual venue. This talk is on Good Friday and the building will be single-locked. Anyone without access who wishes to attend should contact Mark Miller (mam1000).

User Prof. Erik Luijten (Northwestern University, USA).

Friday 22 April 2011, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

An Ising-like Model for Protein Folding

User Dr William Eaton, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, USA.

Wednesday 20 April 2011, 14:15-15:15

RSC South East England Regional Meeting

Single Molecule Spectroscopy of Biological Systems

User Please see abstract for details.

House Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 April 2011, 09:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Ultrafast Protein Folding"

Professor Eaton is this year's Alexander Todd Visiting Professor

User Professor William Eaton, NIH Distinguished Investigator Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethseda.

Thursday 14 April 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The theory of single molecule force and fluorescence spectroscopy

User Dr Attila Szabo, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, USA.

Wednesday 13 April 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

“Physical chemistry and searching for a cure for sickle cell disease”

Professor Eaton is this year's Alexander Todd Visiting Professor

User Professor William Eaton, NIH Distinguished Investigator Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethseda.

Monday 11 April 2011, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Allostery and intrinsic disorder mediate transcription regulation by conditional cooperativity

User Abel Garcia-Pino,University of Brussels, Belgium.

Friday 08 April 2011, 01:00-02:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

RSC Faraday Lecture

The Molecular Dance in Surface Reactions Followed a-Molecule-at-a-Time by STM

User Professor John Polanyi, University of Toronto.

Thursday 07 April 2011, 16:15-17:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Generalized-ensemble algorithms: efficient conformational sampling techniques for biomolecular simulations

User Professor Yuko Okamoto, Nagoya University, Japan.

Wednesday 06 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Diels Alder Polymers with Unusual Properties: Re‐Mending and Shape Memory

User Prof Fred Wudl, UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Monday 04 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tooling Up for Nanoworld: The Magic of Molecular Machines

Alex Hopkins Lecture 2011

User Professor David Leigh, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 25 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Creating novel proteins by selection and design

User Lynne Regan, Yale University.

Tuesday 22 March 2011, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Quantum nuclear effects on the dynamics and spectroscopy of large molecules in the gas phase. Are they really important?

User Dr Florent Calvo, University of Lyon.

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Modular protein-nucleic acid interactions in the FBP family

User Andres Ramos, NIMR MRC.

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Modelling synthesis and catalytic applications of doped AlPOs

Inorganic/Theoretical Joint Seminar

User Dr Furio Cora, University College London.

Monday 14 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Modelling synthesis and catalytic applications of doped AIPOs

User Dr Furio Cora.

Monday 14 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Real-time measurements of volatile organic compounds by CIR-ToF-MS

User Dr Iain White, University of Leicester.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Physical Chemistry Graduate Seminar

User David Madden, Matthew Ashford, Isabella Stocker.

Friday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Benchmark studies of ring polymer molecular dynamics rate theory

Thesis seminar

User Thomas Stecher (CUC3).

Friday 11 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Development and characterization of protecting groups that enhance the solubility of synthetic peptides

User Dr Karolina Wahlström, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Hydrogen Storage and Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal-Organic Frameworks

User Professor Jeffrey R Long, Berkeley, USA.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

Accurate and efficient calculation of electronic energies through explicitly-correlated wave functions

User Dr David Tew, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

TBC

User Nobu Tokuriki, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge..

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 10:30-11:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Vehicle exhaust nanoparticles: sources and control.

User Dr Martyn Twigg - previously Chief Scientist of Johnson Matthey.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

"Bioactivity Mapping of Chemical Space"

User Dr Jordi Mestres, IMIM, Barcelona Biomedical Reseach Park.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

On trends and feedbacks in the Contemporary Global Carbon Cycle

User Prof Emanuel Gloor, University of Leeds.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Calculating acidity constants of manganese oxide

CPGS talk

User John Kattirtzi (CUC3).

Friday 04 March 2011, 12:00-12:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supramolecular Polymers with Hydrogen Bonding: From Morphology to Structural Control and Use

User Professor Wolfgang Binder (Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg).

Thursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Influencing Folding and Structure of Large RNAs by Metal Ions: Moving from Bulk to the Single Molecule Level

User Professor Roland Sigel, University of Zurich.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Quality control in the IgM factory: the many roles of ERp44

User Roberto Sitia, San Raffaele Hospital, MILAN.

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 10:30-11:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

What surfactants do at interfaces

User Professor Robert Thomas, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

What we don't know about nano-assembly for nanomaterials

User Prof. Jeremy Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge).

Friday 25 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Engineering microenvironments to control cell fate and behaviour

User Dr Chunming Wang, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

BP Day

User 3rd Year PhD students.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 13:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Dominant reaction pathways of macromolecules: from classical to quantum mechanical calculations

User Dr Pietro Faccioli, University of Trento.

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Fabio Falsone, University of Graz, Austria.

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Neurotransmitter transporters: from ligand-based to systems chemical biology approaches

User Professor Olivier Taboureau, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark.

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Isotopic constraints on atmospheric methane sources

User Dr Rebecca Fisher, Royal Holloway University of London.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Form Matters: Catalysis with "Butterflies"

User Professor Hansjorg Grutzmacher, ETH Zurich.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

The PhaseChip: manipulating phase diagrams with microfluidics

User Professor Seth Fraden, Brandeis University.

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Applications of single molecule fluorescence to biology

User Prof. David Klenerman, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Probing nanostructures and optoelectronic properties of plastic solar cells by scanning probe microscopy

User Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Solar Effects on the Polar Atmosphere: The Role of Energetic Particle Precipitation

User Dr Annika Seppälä, BAS.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Andreas Ramos, NIMR, London.

Monday 14 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Matching theory and experiment in primary peptide folding

User Dr David de Sancho (CUC3).

Friday 11 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stimuli-responsive biodegradable poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate]-based copolymers for drug delivery and tissue engineering

User Dr Xian Jun Loh, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Under pressure: quasi-high pressure effects in nano-pores

User Professor Keith Gubbins, North Carolina State University.

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Structural insights into the initiation of DNA synthesis in eukaryotic replication

User Dr. Luca Pellegrini, Department of BIochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Toxicity from Predicting Chemistry - Categories, Read-Across and Integrated Testing Strategies

User Professor Mark Cronin, Liverpool John Moores University.

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Assessing air quality forecasts using a new evaluation technique

User Dr Helen Dacre, University of Reading.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stable Silicon Clusters with Partial Substitution – Exploring the SI6R6 Potential Energy Surface Experimentally

User Dr David Scheschkewitz, Imperial College London.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

New correlations in Material Arrest and Failure: Insight from Colloidal Glasses

User Dr Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Andras Malnasi-Csizmadia, Department of Biochemistry Eötvös University, Budapest.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Influences of microphysical processes on atmospheric humidity: observations and model results

User Dr Jonathon Wright, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 31 January 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Studies of Ion Mobility in Materials for Alternative Energy Applications Using Solid-State NMR

User Professor Gillian Goward, McMaster University, Canada.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Geometrical aspects of hydrophobic hydration

User Dr Joachim Dzubiella, Technische Universität München.

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Robert Best, University of Cambridge..

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ground-based and aircraft LIF systems using thermal dissociation techniques: instrument description and field campaigns results

User Dr Piero Di Carlo, CETEMPS-University of L'Aquila (Italy).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 January 2011, 14:15-15:15

Cognac and Armagnac - a scientific brandy tasting

To reserve a ticket or for more information please contact: John O'Toole T: 01223 894174 E: john.otoole9@btopenworld.com

User Bruce Perry (Eaux de Vie Ltd, London).

Thursday 09 December 2010, 19:00-21:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Refining force fields for atomistic simulations of protein folding

User Robert Best (CUC3).

Friday 03 December 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Catalytic Capsids: reactions in confinement

User Prof. Dr. Jeroen J.L.M. Cornelissen, Laboratory for Biomolecular Nanotechnology, University of Twente.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

CANCELLED

User Professor Mike Krische, University of Texas.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Giovanni Bussi, Statistical and Biological Physics Sector, SISSA, Trieste.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Structural Ensembles of Small Peptides - An NMR Perspective

User Dr. Stephan Schwarzinger Institute of Biopolymers, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Conservation in realistic simulations of composition beyond the mixing timescale

User Dr John Methven, University of Reading.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Metallopolyynes and Metallophosphors: Multifunctional Materials with Emerging Applications in Optical Devices RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award Lecture 2010

RSC award lecture - joint with Inorganic Chemistry

User Professor Raymond Wong, RSC award lecture.

Monday 29 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Metallopolyynes and Metallophosphors: Multifunctional Materials with Emerging Applications in Optical Devices

RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award Lecture 2010

User Professor Raymond Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Monday 29 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Coarse-grained and all-atom simulations of protein folding dynamics

User Dr Robert Best (CUC3).

Friday 26 November 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

POSTPONED TO LENT TERM

User Dr Karolina Wahlstrom, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

POSTPONED TO LENT TERM

User Dr Xian Jun Loh, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-16:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Conjugated Polyelectrolytes for Emerging Optoelectronic Devices and Bioelectronic Applications

User Professor Gui Bazan, Department of Materials Engineering and Chemistry & Biochemistry University of California, Santa Barbara.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Quantum dynamics of chemical reactions

Royal Society of Chemistry Liversidge Lecture

User Professor David Clary FRS, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Designing protein polymerases for unnatural nucleic acids

User Vitor Pinheiro MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

"Visualising and Predicting Organic Reactivity"

User Dr Scott L Cockroft, Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

High-Resolutin Spectroscopic Studies of Molecular Complexes of Atmospheric Interests.

User Dr Bin Ouyang, CAS Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Protein folding landscapes by means of metadynamics simulations

User Dr Alessandro Barducci (ETH Zürich).

Friday 19 November 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

Exploring Ras Super-family Proteins : A Chemical Biology Approach

User Dr Debapratim Das, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 15:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Inorganic 2nd Yr PhD Student Talks

User University of Cambridge.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 10:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

From coarse-grained models of fibril formation to atomistic details of potential inhibitors

User Prof. Amedeo Caflisch Department of Biochemistry, the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Title: From coarse-grained models of fibril formation to atomistic details of potential inhibitors

Joint Theoretical/Biophysical Colloquium *** NOTE: UNUSUAL TIME: 10:30 AM ***

User Amedeo Caflish, University of Zurich.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

“Accurate in-silico predictions can halve costs for experimental ADME Tox studies”

User Dr Igor Tetko, Institute for Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, Neuherberg.

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Discovery of Orally Bioavailable CGRP Receptor Antagonists: From Concept to Clinical Efficacy

User Dr Ian Bell, Merck, USA.

Monday 15 November 2010, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Reconciling top-down versus bottom-up isoprene emissions from the Amazon Basin

User Dr Michael P. Barkley, University of Leicester.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 15 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Multicomponent Block Polymers for Templating and Separations

User Professor Marc Hillmyer Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota.

Friday 12 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Direct computation of packing entropy of granular materials

CPGS talk

User Daniel Asenjo (CUC3).

Friday 12 November 2010, 12:30-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chemical shift prediction for protein side-chains: from protein skeleton into the skin

CPGS talk

User Aleksandr Sahakyan (CUC3).

Friday 12 November 2010, 12:00-12:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Systems chemistry – Teaching simple molecules to do complex things

User Prof Douglas Philp, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Novel Types of Organic Electronic Materials: Polyselenophenes and Oligofurans

User Professor Michael Bendikov, Weizman Institute, Israel.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

House BP Institute, Madingley Road.

Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences

User BP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

House BP Institute, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences

User BP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Multifunctional Polymer Films and Coatings

User BP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Multifunctional Polymer Films and Coatings

User BP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Metal-mediated molecular traps and junctions: a computational design

User Dr Fedor Naumkin, University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases: Possible Origins and Molecular Mechanisms Leading to the Evolution of Enhanced Catalytic Activity, Specificity, and Allostery

User Dr. Charles Carter University of North Carolina, NC, USA.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 10:30-11:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Amphiphide Monolayers to study interfacial interactions

A Reception will follow this talk in the Todd Hamied Room

User BP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Amphiphide Monolayers to study interfacial interactions

There will be a reception following this lecture in the Todd Hamied.

User BP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

'“Multi-Scale Methods for the Investigation of Biological Structures and Processes”

User Professor Marcus Elstner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Constraining the secondary organic aerosol budget and the impact of soot aerosol on cloud albedo

User Dr Dominick Spracklen.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

No Strain, No Gain?: Lessons in Catalysis

User Professor Mark Lautens, University of Toronto.

Monday 08 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Gaussian Approximation Potentials: quantum mechanical accuracy without electrons

User Dr Gabor G. Csányi, Engineering Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Host matrix-pathogen interactions and redox sensing; tandem beta-zippers and "inside-out" protein-protein recognition.

User Dr. Jennifer Potts University of York.

Wednesday 03 November 2010, 10:30-11:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supramolecular Approaches to Stimuli-Responsive Materials: From Sea Cucumbers to Self-Healing Films

User Professor Stuart Rowan, Kent Hale Smith Professor, Case Western University.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

No Seminar This Week

User .

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 01 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Pfizer Graduate Symposium and talk

Graduate speakers: Mr Pawel Sledz (Abell Group), Mr Mike Housden (Paterson Group), Mr Michael Cooke (Gaunt group)

User Dr Daffydd Owen, Pfizer Global Research & Development,.

Monday 01 November 2010, 13:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Use of Cucurbit[8]uril for Gold Nanoparticle Self-Assembly in Water

User Mr Sam Jones, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Towards the syntheses of chiral bidentate ligands in the form of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers

User Miss Anna Andreou, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Computational analysis of protein-protein interactions: from specific effects to protein ecology

User Dr Bojan Zagrovic, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna.

Wednesday 27 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Skeletal diversity in sesquiterpenes from the perspective of a cyclizing carbocation

User Dr. Paul O'maille John Innes centre, Norwich, UK.

Wednesday 27 October 2010, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Exploring chemico-biological interactions using connectivity mapping

User Dr Timothy Gant, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester.

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Optical Absorptivity versus Molecular Composition of Model Organic Aerosol Matter

User Dr Angela-G. Rincon-Benavides.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Engineering microenvironments to control cell fate and behaviour

User Dr Chunming Wang, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Deformation of droplet/double emulsion in microfludics

User Mr Shaohua Ma, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Continents, islands, and archipelagos: simulations of human microbial biodiversity and biogeography

User Dr Patrick Warren, Unilever R & D Port Sunlight.

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular Biological and Molecular Genetic studies of the Mechanisms Underlying Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease

User Prof. Peter Hyslop Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 10:30-11:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"From clays to the cytosol - approaches for characterising soft matter"

User Professor Athene Donald ( Director, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory).

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

The bacterial outer membrane: capturing the details with molecular dynamics simulations

User Dr Syma Khalid, School of Chemistry, University of Southampton.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The reactivity, hygroscopicity and volatility of atmospheric aerosols

User Dr Francis Pope (University of Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monolithic Polymers: Innovations in Stationary Phase Technology for Separation Science

User Dr Zarah Walsh, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Todd Hamied Room, Dept. of Chemistry.

Application of Informatics within Unilever

User Dr Ian Stott, Informatics & Maths Leader, Unilever R & D, Port Sunlight.

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Far-from-equilibrium magnetic suspensions: nontrivial dynamic patterns and self-assembled swimmers

User Dr Alexey Snezhko, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

From conformational chaos to robust regulation: the structure and function of a multi-enzyme machine from RNA metabolism

User Prof. Ben Luisi Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric Reactions of Peroxy Radicals – Key Intermediates in Ozone Formation and Loss

NOTE unusual DAY and LOCATION Joint with Physical Chemistry

User Dr Geoff Tyndall, NCAR Colorado USA.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Recent evidence concerning road vehicle emissions of nitrogen oxides

NOTE unusual DAY and LOCATION

User Dr David Carslaw (Kings College London).

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 08 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo study of the uniform electron gas

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

User James Shepherd (CUC3).

Friday 08 October 2010, 12:30-13:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Spin in Fermion Monte Carlo

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

User Simon Smart (CUC3).

Friday 08 October 2010, 12:00-12:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis

Joint with Inorganic Chemistry

User Professor Joost Reek, Van t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Amsterdam..

Thursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis

User Professor Joost Reek, Van t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Amsterdam.

Thursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

LeuRS Synthetase: An example of water-mediated editing reaction in a hybrid RNA/protein system

User Dr Mauro Boero, University of Strasbourg, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Materiaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS).

Wednesday 06 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Membrane activation of the adaptor complex AP2 in clathrin-mediated endocytosis

User Dr. Phil Evans MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Wednesday 06 October 2010, 10:30-11:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CAS Second year student talks

User Gregor Stewart, Zadie Stock and Steve Fuller.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Small Molecules and Light as Tools for the Regulation of Biological Processes

User Professor Alex Dieter North Carolina State University.

Friday 01 October 2010, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Electrostatic Interaction between randomly charged objects

User Dr Ali Naji (DAMTP).

Friday 01 October 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Diffusion and viscosity in complex liquids at all length scales

User Prof. Robert Holyst (University of Warsaw, Poland).

Friday 24 September 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Structure-property relationships of molecular crystals

User Professor Len Barbour, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Wednesday 22 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Past, present, and future of semiempirical methods

User Dr James J P Stewart, Stewart Computational Chemistry, Colorado Springs, USA.

Thursday 16 September 2010, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Understanding and using the tropopause: trends and characterization

User Dr. Juan Anel, Environmental Physics Laboratory, Facultade de Ciencias de Ourense, Universidade de Vigo, Spain..

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 14 September 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Developing Catalytic Reactions One Step at a Time

User Professor Jennifer Love, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Friday 10 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Organic Host Materials for Highly Efficient Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

User Prof Chuluo Yang, Wuhan University, China.

Tuesday 07 September 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Challenges in rational computer aided enzyme design

User Professor Arieh Warshe, University of Southern California.

Thursday 02 September 2010, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Observing atmospheric transport and mixing using the world's smallest controllable balloon

User Paul Voss, Smith College, USA.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 27 August 2010, 11:00-12:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Macromolecular Self-Assembly through Cucurbit[8]uril Ternary Complexes

User Mr Urs Rauwald, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 01 July 2010, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

In Silico Drug discovery and molecular library focusing

User Professor Amiram Goldblum, The Institute of Drug Research, Faculty of Medicine The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Wednesday 30 June 2010, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Observations and Simulations of Borneo Vortex

User Prof. Azizan Abu Samah, IOES, Univ of Malaya.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 June 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Self-organization of inorganic nanostructures: A polymer scientist approach

User Prof. Eugenia Kumacheva (University of Toronto).

Friday 18 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINARS - Kristine Liao, ,Juzheng Frank Huang, Chenguang Sun & Mark Eddleston

3:30 pm Refreshments in Foyer prior to Talks for Attendees ONLY

User University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 June 2010, 16:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Variability of the winter stratosphere: the sudden stratospheric warming of 2009

Note unusual time and day

User Dr Yvonne Hinssen, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University.

Tuesday 15 June 2010, 10:30-11:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Regulation of amyloid self-assembly under partially denaturing solution conditions

Note change of day and time

User Prof Martin Muschol (University of South Florida).

Thursday 10 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Lewis acid-base pairs and host-guest interactions: towards dynamic functional materials

User Mr Nicolas Nouvel, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 15:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Simulation studies of the phase behaviour of colloidal dispersions

User Professor Nigel Wilding, University of Bath.

Wednesday 09 June 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

JOINT PHYSICAL / INORGANIC LECTURE - “Can materials make a difference to our sustainable energy future?"

User Professor Peter Edwards - University of Oxford.

Tuesday 08 June 2010, 16:15-17:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Organic Aerosol: A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma

Note unusual time and unusual location

User Prof. Colette Heald, Colorado State University..

Tuesday 08 June 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

In search of biaxial fluid phase in mixtures of rod and plate like molecules

User Professor George Jackson, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 02 June 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Superfluid helium nanodroplets: applications and opportunities in chemistry"

User Professor Andrew Ellis - University of Leicester.

Tuesday 01 June 2010, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chiral Azopolymers and Azobenzene-Containing Linear-Dendritic Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Optical Properties

User Dr Jesus del Barrio, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 17:00-17:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuning hierarchical structures with multiple hydrogen bonding interactions

User Mr Adam Celiz, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The synthetic aspects of polyelectrolyte brushes

User Miss Nan Cheng, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Smart and Flexible: Stimulus-responsive polymer brushes on elastic substrates

User Mr Tim Kelby, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 15:30-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Quantum Dynamics of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting: Excitation Energy Transfer in Nano Bio Structures

User Professor David Coker, University College Dublin.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Exploring the evolutionary relationships and the reaction chemistry in a family of crucial biosynthetic aldolases

User Professor Emily J Parker, University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand.

Monday 24 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Understanding The Adverse Health Effects of Air Pollution One Particle at a Time

User Dr Allen Haddrell, University of Bristol.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Critical depletion

User Prof Roberto Piazza (Politecnico di Milano).

Friday 21 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

CANCELLED - Synthesis of Polymeric Probes to Control Cell Recognition and Signaling

Melville Lectureship Speaker

User Prof Laura L Kiessling, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Designing metal containing anticancer drugs in the absence of a well defined target

THIS IS A CHANGE FROM THE ORIGINAL TIME

User Professor Paul Dyson, EPFL.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 15:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Symmetry, equivalence and molecular self-organisation

User Dr Jack Douglas, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST).

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Electrochemistry in Small Spaces- X-ray Synchrotron Radiation Studies of Pitting Corrosion"

User Professor Trevor Rayment - Diamond Synchrotron.

Tuesday 18 May 2010, 16:15-17:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interactions between the OH radical and atmospheric gases

User Dr Craig Murray, University of Bristol.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Computing the energetic component of the symmetry factor

Thesis seminar

User Christof Drechsel-Grau (CUC3).

Friday 14 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Materials Chemistry and Climate Change

User Professor Peter Bruce, University of St Andrews.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Surface properties of amorphous silica from a reactive force field model

User Professor Pietro Ballone, Queen's University Belfast.

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Recharging the Planet: New Approaches for Optimizing the Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries and Fuel Cells

Inaugural Lecture

User Professor Clare Grey, Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Chemistry.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 16:15-17:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Recharging the Planet: New Approaches for Optimizing the Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries and Fuel Cells

Inaugural Lecture

User Professor Clare Grey.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 16:15-17:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

INAUGURAL LECTURE - "Recharging the Planet: New Approaches for Optimizing the Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries and Fuel Cells"

Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Inorganic Chemistry

User Professor Clare P Grey - University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 16:15-17:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Multicomponent approaches to organic synthesis and chemical biology

User Jared Shaw.

Monday 10 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

CANCELLED

User Juan Granja.

Monday 10 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

No talk this week

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 May 2010, 10:30-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

E. coli superdiffusion and chemotaxis

User Dr Franziska Matthäus (University of Heidelberg).

Friday 07 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Antarctic Ozone Hole: Then and Now

Day Meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Wolfson Lecture Theater, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 07 May 2010, 10:30-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Symposium on 25th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Ozone Hole

UKAS - The Antartic Ozone Hole: Then and Now

User Paul Crutzen-Nobel Prize winner, David Fahey-NOAA, Archie McCulloch-formerly ICI, Michael McIntyre-University of Cambridge, Jean-Pierre Pommere.

Friday 07 May 2010, 10:30-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Free Energy methods to study complex biological phenomena

User Dr Francesco Gervasio, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Shedding Light on the Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Sunscreens

User Dr Emily Balskus, Harvard Medical School.

Friday 30 April 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nanosized Clusters with Main Group elements as Ligands

Lewis Lecture

User Professor Dieter Fenske.

Friday 30 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo

Thesis seminar

User George Booth (CUC3).

Friday 30 April 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Anomalous Liquids

User Professor Giancarlo Franzese, University of Barcelona.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Polar Ozone – open issues and first results from RECONCILE

User Dr Marc von Hobe, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Joe Spencer Memorial Lectures

User 11.00 Prof Peter Leadley (Cambridge), 11.45 Dr Joseph Wright (UEA), 12.15 Dr Dieter Spiteller (MPI Jena), 1.45 Prof Timor Baasov (Technion, Isreal), 2.30 Dr Andrew Truman (Cambridge), 3.00 Prof David O'Hagan (St Andrews), 4.15 Prof Jin-Quan Yu (Scripps).

Friday 23 April 2010, 11:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

EPR spectroscopy of transition metal clusters and clusters-of-clusters

User Professor Eric McInnes, University of Manchester.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tailoring multivalent interactions in the design of biomaterials

User Professor Kristi Kiick (Materials Science & Engineering, University of Delaware).

Wednesday 21 April 2010, 11:00-12:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

"Modelling (skin) lipid bilayers"

User Dr Massimo Noro, Unilever Discover, Port Sunlight.

Tuesday 20 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

CANCELLED DUE TO AIR TRAVEL PROBLEMS

User Emily Parker.

Monday 19 April 2010, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Flight measurements of lightning produced NOx during the ACTIVE campaign

User Lorenzo Labrador, University of Manchester.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

House U202, Department of Chemistry.

Recent developments in multireference quantum chemistry

Note late change of venue

User Dr Yuki Kurashige (Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan).

Friday 16 April 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Structural biology of small RNA-mediated gene regulation and methylation-mark mediated epigenetic regulation

User Dr, Dinshaw J. Patel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

Thursday 25 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

What will a nanobot look like?

Alex Hopkins Lecture

User Professor Tony Ryan.

Thursday 18 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Complex architecures of conjugated polymers via Suzuki and Kumada chain-growth polycondensations

Please note the venue is the Wolfson Lecture Theatre

User Dr Anton Kiriy (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.).

Thursday 11 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

BP Day

User 3rd Year PhD students.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 12:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Electrostatic interactions between macromolecules in the weak and strong coupling limit

User Professor Rudolf Podgornik, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenija.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Gas Phase Inorganic Chemistry"

User Professor Tony Stace, FRS - University of Nottingham.

Tuesday 09 March 2010, 16:15-17:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Extended ß-Triketone Derivatives: Versatile Building Blocks for Metallosupramolecular Chemistry and Crystal Engineering

RSC Centenary Lecturer, 2009-2010

User Professor Leonard Lindoy.

Monday 08 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Constraints on Atmospheric CO2 from other Trace Species

User Dr Parvadha Suntharalingam, Laboratory for Global Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 March 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

"New approaches to virtual screening of molecules and reactions"

User Professeur Alexandre Varnek, Faculté de Chimie, Université de Strasbourg,.

Monday 08 March 2010, 12:00-13:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

"Precise Distance Measurements in Complex Biological Systems"

User Professor Garland Marshall, Centre for Computational Biology, Washington University.

Friday 05 March 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Responsive smart materials from jammed, thick and slow matter

User Dr Emanuela Del Gado (ETH Zurich).

Friday 05 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Colloidal forces – Tackling mechanics and interactions of complex particles using AFM/optics combination

User Prof Andreas Fery, University of Bayreuth Department of Physical Chemistry.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Framework Materials: Fascinating Properties

User Professor John Evans, University of Durham.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

The interfacial tension of nanoscopic oil droplets in water is hardly influenced by SDS surfactant

User Dr Sylvie Roke, Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

TILDEN LECTURE - "Chemical reaction dynamics - from the gas phase to solution"

User Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing – University of Bristol.

Tuesday 02 March 2010, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

"Chemical Biology and Chemogenomics in Drug Discovery"

User Professor Hugo Kubinyi, Weisenheim am Sand.

Tuesday 02 March 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chiral Carbenoids for Asymmetric Synthesis

User Professor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol.

Monday 01 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Pinatubo and UKCA hindcasts

User Dr Paul Telford, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 01 March 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Computing absolute free energies of disordered structures by molecular simulation

User Prof Tanja Schilling (University of Luxembourg).

Friday 26 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Strong CH Hydrogen Bonds: The Newest Player in the field of Anion Receptors

User Professor Amar Flood, University of Indiana.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Excursions on permutationally invariant high dimensional potential energy surfaces

User Professor Joel Bowman, Emory University.

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sequencing genomes and sequences in the genome: from chemistry to medicine

Inaugural Professorial Lecture: in the presence of Marcus and Jennifer Smith

User Professor Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge.

Monday 22 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

No talk this week

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Water: from bulk to interfaces

User Prof Giancarlo Franzese, Department of Physics, University of Barcelona.

Friday 19 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dynamics and Structure of Short Biopolymers Probed by Fluorescence

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Seminar

User Professor Werner Nau (Jacobs University, Bremen).

Thursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Self-Assembly and Self-Sorting: How to Construct and Characterize Complex Architectures

User Professor Christoph Schalley, Institut fur Chemie & Biochemie der Freien Universitat Berlin.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Fluctuation induced forces: The critical Casimir effect

User Professor Clemens Bechinger, Universität Stuttgart.

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Impacts of different transport modes on the global atmosphere: present and future.

User Dr Olivier Dessens, Dept. Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 15 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

RSC AWARDS SYMPOSIUM - "Designing New Materials: Processes and Applications"

User Dr Oren Scherman, Dr Terry McGrail, Professor Andrew Cooper, & Professor Stephen Yeates.

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 14:15-18:00

House Venue to be confirmed.

No Lecture as Royal Society of Chemistry Meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 00:00-00:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Diamond Chemical Vapour Deposition"

User Professor Mike Ashfold, FRS - University of Bristol.

Tuesday 09 February 2010, 16:15-17:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

No talk this week

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

CANCELLED

User Prof Alenka Luzar (Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA).

Friday 05 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Semiconductor Block Copolymers for Organic Electronic Devices

User Dr Michael Sommer (Melville Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 04 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

New Approaches to Conformation Dynamics of Biomolecules

User Dr Frank Noé, Freie Universität Berlin.

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Detection and Attribution of changes in European Temperature and Precipitation

Note unusual time

User Prof. Simon Tett, School of Geosciences, The University of Edinburgh.

House U202, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 02 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Painleve condensation, counter-ion condensation and Coulombic elasticity of biopolymers

User Prof Emmanuel Trizac (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Université Paris-Sud, France).

Friday 29 January 2010, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Cyclodextrin Nanomachines at Work

User Dr Roger Coulston (Melville Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Dynamically-coupled Enzyme Catalysis: Insight from Simulation

User Professor Mike Sutcliffe, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Development of New Methods for Catalytic C–H Functionalization: Critical Interplay between Catalyst Design and Mechanistic Analysis

Eli Lilley Lecture

User Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Mighigan, USA.

Monday 25 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Colourful chemistry with zwitterionic-type pi-ligands and their metal complexes

User Professor Pierre Braunstein, University of Strasbourg.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Water and Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics in Aqueous Solutions

User Dr Damien Laage, Ecole Normale Supérior Paris.

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Real-time imaging of catalytic action with nanoscale resolution"

User Professor Norbert Kruse - Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Tuesday 19 January 2010, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Machine like functions at the molecular level

User Prof. Dr. Rainer Herges, Otto-Diels-Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität zu Kiel.

Tuesday 19 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Analysis of clouds and cloud-aerosol interactions with satellite data and general circulation models

User Dr Johannes Quaas, Max Planck Institut fur Meteorologie, Germany.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Catalysis Concepts

User Professor David W. C. MacMillan, Princeton University, USA.

Wednesday 13 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Ions at Aqueous Interfaces: From Water Surface to Hydrated Proteins

User Professor Pavel Jungwirth, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Wednesday 13 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chaperonin-assisted protein folding: "The peculiar case of the bacteriophage T4 major capsid protein"

Note unusual day and time

User Prof Saskia van der Vies (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

Tuesday 12 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

MCM Box Modelling of the OP3 Aircraft Campaign

User Mr Daniel Stone, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 12 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

BP Day

User 3rd Year PhD students.

Thursday 07 January 2010, 13:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Designer Crystals: Bio-Inspired Approaches to Controlling Crystallisation

User Professor Fiona Meldrum, University of Leeds.

Thursday 10 December 2009, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chemistry of Acenes - toward a Possible Poly(acene)

User Dr Douglas Neckers.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Beyond the local approximation: wave-function based correlated methods for solids

User Professor Georg Kresse, Universität Wien.

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

BOURKE LECTURE - "Vibrational Spectroscopy of Gas-Phase Biomolecular Ions: From Amino Acids to Helical Peptides and Beyond"

Home Page: ttp://isic2.epfl.ch/page61420.html

User Professor Thomas Rizzo - Ècole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne.

Tuesday 01 December 2009, 16:15-17:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Convective Troposphere to Stratosphere Transport in the tropics. How important at the global scale?

User Jean-Pierre Pommereau.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 01 December 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Strategies for the Synthesis of Glycopeptides and Glycoproteins

User Dr Richard Payne, University of Sydney.

Monday 30 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

UKCA: NOT the United Kingdom Cheerleading Association

User Dr Luke Abraham, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Long Range Magnetic Interactions in Pure Carbon Materials

User Professor Nicholas M Harrison, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

GRADUATE SEMINARS AFTERNOON

Refreshments served in the Todd Hamied Room at 5.35pm for all attendees AFTER the Graduate Seminars

User 14:30 Introduction and Easter Term Lowry Prize, 14:35: Tej Bhinde, 15:05: Seung Yeon Lee, 15:35: Alex Ievins, 16:05 Tea & Coffee in Foyer, 16:35: Ailsa K Benton,17:05 Luke Knowles.

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 14:30-17:35

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

"Cheminformatics and Metabolism research and services at the European Bioinformatics Institute"

User Dr Christoph Steinbeck Head,Chemoinformatics & Metabolism, EBI.

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Genetic Codes

User Dr Jason Chin, University of Cambridge, MRC-LMB.

Monday 23 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Changes in tropospheric ozone: anthropogenic emissions, meteorology and long-range transport

User Dr Oliver Wild, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Modelling bacterial populations in changing environments

User Dr Rosalind Allen (Department of Physics, University of Edinburgh).

Friday 20 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Binding Studies on CB[6] with a Series of 1-Alkyl-3-methylimidazolium Ionic Liquids

User Miss Nan Zhao, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Polymeric building blocks for supramolecular complexation with cucurbit[8]uril

User Mr Eric Appel, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The physical and chemical state of nanoparticulate catalysts during carbon nanotube and silicon nanowire CVD

User Dr Stephan Hoffman, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Engineering.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

House Seminar at BP Institute, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

BP LECTURE 3 - "High-throughput Applications for Heterogeneous Catalysis"

User Professor Avelino Corma Canos - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia ().

Thursday 19 November 2009, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interpreting recent changes in atmospheric methane using satellite observations of gravity

Note unusual day

User Professor Paul Palmer, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Modeling Protein Aggregation

User Professor Srikanth Sastry, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.

Wednesday 18 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

BP LECTURE 2 - "Towards a Rational Design of Inorganic Molecular Sieves"

User Professor Avelino Corma Canos - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia ().

Wednesday 18 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

BP LECTURE 1 - "Materials Design for Single and Multiple Site Catalysis"

A Wine Reception will be held in the Todd Hamied Room to conclude the first lecture

User Professor Avelino Corma Canos - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Crawling Across the Web of Chemistry Using ChemSpider

User Dr Antony Williams, VP Strategic Development, ChemSpider, RSC, Wake Forest USA.

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Metallonitrene/Alkyne Metathesis and Beyond: Transition Metal Catalyzed Oxidative Amination for Organic Synthesis

User Professor Simon Blakey, Emory University, USA.

Monday 16 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Soft effective segment representation of polymer solutions in the semi-dilute regime: homopolymers, diblocks and other applications

Ph.D. thesis presentation. Note unusual venue.

User Barbara Capone (CUC3).

Friday 13 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Microdroplets in Microfluidics: Towards Emulsion Crystals

User Mr Wolfgang-Andreas Bauer, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Heterojunction Control of Organic & Hybrid Photovoltaic Semiconductor Devices

User Miss Einat Elmalem, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Metal-organic frameworks for chemistry and medicine - Can we design them?

User Professor Russell Morris, University of St Andrews.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Explicit and implicit microion representations of dispersions of oppositely charged nanoparticles: expectations and surprises

User Professor Jean-Pierre Hansen FRS, Emeritus 1968 Professor of Chemistry, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

LEVERHULME VISITING PROFESSOR - “The Flexibility Window in Materials”

Home Page: http://biophysics.asu.edu/CBP/person.php?ID=2

User Professor Michael F Thorpe – Arizona State University.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

"Adventures with Field Points: virtual screening, scaffold-hopping and beyond"

User Dr Caroline Low, Drug Discovery Centre, ICL.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Adventures in conjugate addition chemistry: from alkene hydroacylation to protein bioconjugation

User Professor Steve Caddick, UCL.

Monday 09 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Mechanisms for the land/sea warming contrast exhibited by simulations of climate change

User Dr Manoj Joshi, NCAS Climate, University of Reading.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stabilizing ordered bicontinuous phases in diblock copolymer systems

Note late change of venue

User Dr Francisco Martinez (CUC3).

Friday 06 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Functional Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly

User Prof Kay Severin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne).

Thursday 05 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

JOINT COLLOQUIUM WITH THEORY SECTOR "Hydrogen bonding structure and ultrafast dynamics of bulk, interfacial, and confined water"

Tea and biscuits will be served in the entrance foyer at 3.30pm AFTER seminar (Home Page: http://www.chem.wisc.edu/~skinner/)

User Professor James L Skinner - University of Wisconsin.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Hydrogen bonding structure and ultrafast dynamics of bulk, interfacial, and confined water

(Joint Theory/Physical Seminar)

User Professor James L Skinner, University of Wisconsin.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

We regret that this talk has been cancelled "Structure and function of membrane transporters"

User Professor So Iwata, David Blow Chair of Biophysics, Imperial College London.

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Design of chiral ligands for asymmetric copper-catalyzed reactions

User Professor Alex Alexakis, University of Geneva.

Monday 02 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Elusive HO3 Radical: Kinetics of formation, thermochemistry and atmospheric role

User Prof. Ian Smith, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Gas diffusion in the [NiFe]-hydrogenase

M.Phil. thesis presentation. Note unusual venue.

User Po-hung Wang (CUC3).

Friday 30 October 2009, 12:25-12:50

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

FCIMC, naturally

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

User Deidre Cleland (CUC3).

Friday 30 October 2009, 12:00-12:25

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Colloids, surfaces and reversible supramolecular interactions: Towards light-driven motion

User Mr Feng Tian, University of Cambridge, Mellville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Determination of binding constants for cucurbit[8]uril complexes: differences in aqueous versus gas-phase binding

User Mr Frank Biedermann, University of Cambridge, Meville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Probing the structure of organic-inorganic biocomposites

User Dr Melinda Duer, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Single-molecule force spectroscopy: theory, analysis, interpretation

User Professor Olga K Dudko, University of California at San Diego.

Wednesday 28 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

“Switchable and Sensory Interfaces: molecular scale analysis and near field chemistry”

Home Page: http://davisgroup.uk.net/

User Dr Jason Davis - University of Oxford.

Tuesday 27 October 2009, 16:15-17:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CHARACTERISATION AND TRANSPORTATION OF ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS: THE URBAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE BURNING OF BIOMASS

User Dr Ana Calvo, Department of Applied Chemistry and Physics, Universidad de León.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Graduate Symposium plus Successful Drug Discovery and Development at Pfizer: Thanks to Organic Synthesis

User Dr Dafydd Owen from Pfizer.

Monday 26 October 2009, 13:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synthesis of Chiral Bidentate Phosphorous Ligands in the Form of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIP)

User Miss Mei-Hsuan Tsai, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synthesis and Isolation of cucurbit[n]uril: a supramolecular host

User Mr Dezhi Jiao, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Incorporation of electronic quantum effects in molecular simulations: Applications of QM/MM Models in Solution Chemistry

User Dr Thomas Hofer, University of Innsbruck.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY SYMPOSIUM

Refreshments served in the Todd Hamied Room at 5.30pm for all attendees

User Professor John Pyle, Professor Stephen Elliott, Professor David Klenerman, Dr Stephen Jenkins, Dr Graeme Day, Professor Rod Jones.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 15:00-17:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff - Route Selection using Kepner-Tregoe Decision Analysis

User Dr Jeremy Parker from Astra Zeneca.

Monday 19 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

An Isoprene Mechanism Intercomparison

User Dr Alex Archibald, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Design of protein sequences with funneled free energy landscapes using a coarse-grained caterpillar model

Note unusual venue

User Dr Ivan Coluzza (National Institute for Medical Research, London).

Friday 16 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Turning Cavitands into Materials

User Professor Enrico Dalcanale, University of Parma.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

The Many Faces of Heme in Biology

User Professor Emma Raven, University of Leicester.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Pacific Greenhouse Gases Measurement Project

Note unusual day and time

User Prof. Kuo-Ying Wang.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Coarse-grained simulations of DNA nanodevices, the self-assembly of virus-like objects and the evolution of protein complexes

User Dr Jonathan Doye, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

"Calculating selectivities in homogeneous catalysis"

User Professor Per-Ola Norrby, Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg,.

Tuesday 13 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Transport and processing of ozone in the West African monsoon

User Michelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Ring-polymer transition-state theory

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

User Jeremy Richardson (CUC3).

Friday 09 October 2009, 12:25-12:50

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Coarse-grained modelling of biological and biomimetic surfactants

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

User Craig Kitchen (CUC3).

Friday 09 October 2009, 12:00-12:25

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Motifs Blocks for Molecular Recognition: From DNA Bases and Protein-Surfaces to a-Helices and b-Sheets

User Dr Andrew J Wilson (University of Leeds).

Thursday 08 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Computational Studies of Structures and Dynamics of Aqueous Interfaces using Polarizable Potential Models

User Dr Liem Dang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Computing absolute free energies of disordered structures by molecular simulation

CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS

User Dr Tanja Schilling (Department of Physics, University of Mainz).

Friday 02 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Halogen Bonding and Metal Ion Coordination in Supramolecular Complexes

User Professor Kari Rissanen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Thursday 01 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Estimating baseline trends and regional emissions from surface observations

Note unusual time

User Dr Alistair Manning, Met Office.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 25 September 2009, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Atom Economic Transformations Catalysed by Low-Valent Cobalt Complexes

All Welcome

User Professor Gerhard Hilt (Marburg University).

Thursday 24 September 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chirality in supramolecular polymers

User Maarten Smulders, University of Technology, Eindhoven.

Thursday 10 September 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular Understanding, Design and Development of Zwitterionic-based Biomaterials

User Prof Shaoyi Jiang, Boeing-Roundhill Professor of Chemical Engineering & Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle.

Wednesday 26 August 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Opportunities and Lessons in Chemistry and Biology Stemming from an Investment in Total Synthesis

User Professor Andrew Phillips, University of Colorado.

Thursday 13 August 2009, 17:00-18:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Characterisation of Adhesion Phenomena & contact of surfaces by Soft Colloidal Probe – AFM

User Johann Erath, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Tuesday 04 August 2009, 15:00-16:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Recent advances in the area of asymmetric hydrogenation

User Professor Xumu Zhang, Rutgers University, USA.

Monday 03 August 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Room U2 02, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Theoretical and Experimental Studies on Reactions of Organoboranes

User Dr Silvina Pellegrinet (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina).

Friday 24 July 2009, 09:00-10:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synthetic Peptides for DNA and Protein recognition

User Professor Jose-Luis Mascarenas, University of Santiago de Compostela.

Wednesday 22 July 2009, 11:00-12:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

“Non Linear Microscopy: from morpho-functional imaging and manipulation to structural dynamics"

User Professor Francesco Pavone, Università di Firenze, Italy.

Monday 13 July 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dynamics of a bacterium moving by chemotaxis in its own secretion

Extra seminar

User Dr Ankush Sengupta (Institute for theoretical physics, University of Duesseldorf).

Friday 10 July 2009, 12:00-13:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chiral Proton Catalysis: The Development of New Reactions and Reagents for Alkaloid Synthesis

User Professor Jeff Johnston, Vanderbilt University.

Friday 03 July 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Towards realistic computer modeling of large condensed molecular systems

User Dr Maxim Fedorov (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig).

Wednesday 01 July 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Mechanisms, Structures and Chemical Informatics"

User Dr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

Monday 22 June 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Physical theory of vaccine design for influenza and dengue fever

Note unusual day and time

User Professor Michael W Deem (Rice University, USA).

Tuesday 16 June 2009, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Using single-molecule manipulation to probe the dynamics of protein and DNA molecules

Note unusual day and time

User Professor Ching-Hwa Kiang (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, USA).

Monday 15 June 2009, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Birth of a liquid droplet

User Professor Hans-Hennig von Gruenberg (University of Graz).

Friday 12 June 2009, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

DOAS studies of volcanic emissions

User Dr Vitchko Tsanev, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Self-Assembled Soft Materials and the In Situ Synthesis of Nanoparticles

User Dr George John, The City College of New York, CUNY.

Friday 05 June 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The ultimate mesoscopic LEGO: complex self-assembly from anisotropic building blocks

Thesis presentation

User Szilard Fejer (CUC3).

Friday 05 June 2009, 12:00-13:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Electrochemical formation of responsive hydrogel films for bioanalytics

User Dr. Johanna Bünsow, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synthesis of Bridged Natural Products

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 01 June 2009, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Assessing the longwave radiative effect of Saharan dust using

User Dr Helen Brindley, Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College, London..

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 01 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular tectonics: from building blocks to crystals

User Professor M.W. Hosseini, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Universite de Strasbourg.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Nanofluidics

User Professor Nick Quirke, Nano-bio Physics, University College Dublin.

Tuesday 26 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Matrix elasticity directs stem cell lineage – Better (polymeric) materials for Better biology

Melville Lecture

User Professor Dennis Discher, Biophysical Eng. & Nanobiopolymers Lab, University of Pennsylvania.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ocean iron-fertilisation by volcanic ash

User Baerbel Langmann, Institute of Geophysics, University of Hamburg.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 20 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Probing the Nature of Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by Transitional Metal Bifunctional Catalysts

User Professor Ming Lei, Beijing University of Chemical Technology.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 09:30-10:30

Continuous wave cavity ring down spectroscopy - sensing of atmospheric trace gases

User Dr Manik Pradhan, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Merck Lectureship Talk 3 - Probing Intracellular Signalling Processes with Phosphatidyl Inositol Polyphosphates .

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

User Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Friday 15 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Assembling and breaking: competitive interactions between polymer, drug and cyclodextrin

User Dr Cecile Dreiss, Pharmaceutical Science Division, King's College London.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Merck Lectureship Talk 2 - Pericyclic Reactions in the Synthesis of Medium Ring Ether and Piperidine Alkaloids of Biological Importance

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

User Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Room U2 02, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

“SORD and open access for academics to chemical reaction data”

User Dr Dick Wife, SORD.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

“Capturing process: In silico, in laboratorio, and all the messy in-between”

User Dr Cameron Neylon, University of Southampton.

Tuesday 12 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Merck Lectureship Talk 1 - Seeing the Light With Polymers

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

User Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Monday 11 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere: From Birmingham to Borneo

User Dr Jacqueline Hamilton, Department of Chemistry, University of York..

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Organometallic f-Element Chemistry and the Importance of Questioning Scientific Assumptions

RSC Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship

User Professor William J Evans, University of California Irvine, USA.

Monday 11 May 2009, 11:00-12:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Simulations of self-assembling synthetic proteins

User Dr Peter Bolhuis (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

Friday 08 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Boronic acid based materials for carbohydrate detection

User Dr Tony James, University of Bath.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Model Chemistry, theoretical calculations and recent advances in understanding the chemistry of nitrogenase

User Professor Dimitri Coucouvanis, University of Michigan.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

“Noise and the accurate determination of microbial diversity from pyrosequencing data”

User Dr Christopher Quince, University of Glasgow.

Wednesday 06 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Fun and controversy in modelling polarons

User Prof Alexander Shluger (University College London).

Friday 01 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Investigation of multivalent glycan interactions on functional surfaces

User Dr Carlo Fasting, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Rapid and efficient production and oxidation of hydrogen by air-sensitive metalloenzymes: electrochemistry, mechanisms and implications for life and energy

Lewis Lecture

User Professor Fraser Armstrong, University of Oxford.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 14:00-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sustainability Through the Confluence of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis

Talk of interest to all branches of chemistry

User Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sugars and Enzymes

User Professor Ben Davis, University of Oxford.

Monday 27 April 2009, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Lucy Carpenter, Department of Chemistry, University of York.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 April 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Construction Principles in the Development of New Molecular Catalysts

User Dr Lutz Gade, University of Heidelberg.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 15:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

"Sense and Non-Sense in Drug Discovery"

User Professor Tudor Oprea, University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

Wednesday 22 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

New Anion Receptors and Transporters

User Professor Phil Gale, University of Southampton.

Tuesday 21 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

SCI Graduate Symposium

More details to be confirmed nearer the time

User SCI Graduate Symposium speakers to be confirmed.

Monday 20 April 2009, 13:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Quantum computers for chemistry: Correlated quantum systems, chemical reaction dynamics, and exploring classical potential energy surfaces

User Prof Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Department of Chemistry, Harvard).

Friday 17 April 2009, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Asymmetric Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles using Sulfinimines

User Professor Franklin Davis, Temple University, Philadelphia USA.

Wednesday 15 April 2009, 17:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Amino Acid Promoted Ullman Reactions and their Applications in Organic Synthesis

User Professor Dawei Ma, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry.

Friday 03 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Uranium Sandwiches: Activating Small Molecules with Uranium Petalene and Cyclooctatetraene Complexes

User Dr Geoff Cloke, University of Sussex.

Thursday 02 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

The Baeyer Villiger Reaction: Ionic or Neutral

User Professor Nelaine Mora-Diez, Thompson Rivers University.

Thursday 02 April 2009, 11:00-12:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

From Polyoxometalate-based building blocks to Functional Nanoclusters, Frameworks and Self-Fabricating Materials

User Professor Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow.

Thursday 26 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Quantum cascade laser heterodyne radiometry for atmospheric sounding: application to atmospheric ozone monitoring

User Dr Damien Weidmann, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

House BAS room 330b.

Tuesday 24 March 2009, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Chemistry saves lives

User Dr Tony Wood, Vice President and Worldwide Head of Medicinal Chemistry at Pfizer.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ozone Depletion: Science and Scientific Assessments

User Dr Keynyn Brysse, Princeton University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Redox chemistry of diamond

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

User Dr Katherine Holt (University College London).

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Investigating natural impacts on atmospheric composition and climate in the remote troposphere

User Dr Steve Arnold, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

User Rachel Pike, Amy Stevens.

Tuesday 03 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Decadal variability of tropospheric ozone

User Dr Martin Schultz, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany,.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 03 March 2009, 10:15-11:15

Air Quality in the 21st Century - How Important are SOA?

User Dr Gerd Folberth, Met Office.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

User Neil Dickson, Tamsin Phillips.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Deep convective parameterization: Some issues (and some solutions?)

User Dr Bob Plant, University of Reading.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

User Andrew Cassidy, Paul Dunne.

Tuesday 17 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

It's not (all) --rocket-- atmospheric science

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

User Professor John Pyle (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Reactive nitrogen in the environment: Single plume, landscape and UK-scale assessment methods

User Dr Christine Braban, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Formation and Transformation of Secondary Organic Aerosol

User Prof. Urs Baltensperger, Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerlzand..

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Density functional simulation of a fast-ion conducting glass

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

User Professor David Drabold (Ohio University).

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Bionanoscience

User Professor Gil Lee – University College Dublin.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Troposphere-to-stratosphere exchange: constraints by water vapour

User Yu Liu, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Single-Molecule Magnets and Magnetic Refrigerants

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/inorg.html

User Professor Euan Brechin (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 22 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Understanding glass transition on the basis of elastic interactions in a liquid

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/theo.html

User Professor Kostya Trachenko (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

How physics can be applied to biological problems

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

User Dr Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 20 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Measurements of OH and HO2 in the Tropics

User Dr Lisa Whalley, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Finding the Needle in a Haystack and From Bathtubs to Pipes

User Dr David Ager (DSM, Raleigh-Durham, USA).

Monday 15 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Technomimetic Nanomachines: A wheelbarrow and a molecular motor

User Gwenael Rapenne (University of Toulouse).

Thursday 11 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Designing screens and screening designs: from catalytic antibodies to peptide dendrimer enzyme models

User Jean-Louis Reymond (University of Berne).

Monday 08 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nano-sized architectures: folding, metal coordination and assembly

User Dr Ivan Huc (Bordeaux University).

Thursday 04 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Exchange and Dynamic Correlation

User Professor Nicholas Handy FRS (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Nitrogen and oxygen isotopic constraints on the budget of NOx and nitrate in polar regions

User Dr Samuel Morin of Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geohysique de l'Environnement, Grenoble, France.

House Room 307, British Antarctic Survey.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 11:00-12:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Preparation and Properties of Pharmaceutical Cocrystals

GRADUATE SEMINARS

User Shyam Karki.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Non-covalent interactions: insight into solvation, bio-molecular structure and drug action

User Dr James Platts, Dept. of Chemistry, Cardiff University.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Finding new radicals and new electronic states in complex environments

User Dr Timothy Schmidt (University of Sydney).

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

A simple model of molecular conduction and a new use for characteristic polynomials

User Professor Patrick Fowler (University of Sheffield).

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Insights in heterogeneous catalysis mechanisms from DFT calculations

User Dr Philippe Sautet (ENS, Lyon).

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Infinitesimal Rigidity and Graph Clustering across Time-scales: Coarse-graining biomolecular assemblies from the bottom-up

User Dr. Sophia Yaliraki, Dept. of Chemistry, Imperial College London.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Biomimetic Organocatalysis: From Concepts to Applications

User Professor Magnus Rueping (University of Frankfurt, Germany).

Monday 24 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Pre-industrial changes in atmospheric methane: is it possible to differentiate between changes in sources and changes in sinks?

User Dr James Levine, British Antartic Survey, Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Controlled redox and activation reactions in organometallic f-block complexes

User Dr Polly Arnold (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 20 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Multiscale modelling of catalytic nanoparticles for CNT synthesis

User Dr James Elliot (Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chemical Activity on Graphene Under Stress

User Dr Pedro de Andres (CSIC, Madrid).

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Molecular flexibility and recognition in proteins and nucleic acids

User Dr. Charles Laughton, School of Pharmacy, The University of Nottingham.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Epoxide-Opening Cascades

ELI LILLY LECTURE

User Professor Tim Jamison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA).

Monday 17 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Measured Optical Properties of Aerosols

User Dr Dan Peters, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Intermolecular Coulombic Decay and Ultrafast Energy Transfer

User Professor Lorenz Cederbaum (University of Heidelberg).

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Accelerating Chemistry & Biology: Intelligent Microfluidics

User Professor Andrew de Mello (Imperial College).

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Progress Toward a Synthesis of Phomactin A

User Professor Richard Hsung (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA).

Monday 10 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Size resolved modelling of UTLS aerosol

User Dr Rene Hommel, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Making semiconducting polymers - the long and the short of it

User Professor Michael Turner (University of Manchester).

Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

CPGS Talks

User CPGS Talks.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Non-equilibrium phase transitions in complex systems

User Dr Sergei Taraskin (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Predicting Molecular Properties: the Role of Data Visualisation and Feature Selection

User Prof. Ian Nabney, Neural Computing Research Group, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Atmospheric Aerosols: Their Effect on Climate and on Human Health

User Dr Markus Kalberer (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Search for New Antibacterials Using Diversity-Oriented Synthesis

User Dr David Spring (University of Cambridge).

Monday 03 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Optical control and characterisation of aerosol particles

User Dr Jon Wills, University of Bristol.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Effects of surface chemistry on epidermal stem cell differentiation

User Miss Britta Trappmann (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stimuli-Responsive Materials - Aqueous Phase Cucurbituril Assemblies

User Mr Jameel Zayed (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Selective Molecular Transformations Using Organic Superbases

User Professor Yoshinori Kondo (Tohoku University).

Thursday 30 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Cold Molecules: Production and Control

User Professor Jeremy Hutson (University of Durham).

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Particle Engineering: Role of Surface Chemistry

User Dr Jerry Heng (Imperial College).

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Spectroscopic studies of the chlorine monoxide dimer (ClOOCl)

User Isla Young, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A brief introduction to Astrochemistry

User Dr Valentine Wakelam, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France..

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Hierarchical self-assembly in aqueous media

User Mr John Lee (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Droplet-interface Bilayers Formation in Microfluidic Devices

User Mr Yunpeng Bai (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Entropy as an ordering force

Inaugural Lecture

User Professor Daan Frenkel FMRS (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 22 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Uncertainties in estimates of the aerosol radiative effects – Efficiency of primary and secondary aerosols.

User Dr Philip Stier.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

New Bond Activations at Transition Metal Centers: Fundamental Studies and Applications to Catalysis

User T. Don Tilley (University of California at Berkeley).

Monday 20 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Modern Medicinal Chemistry in the Hit to Lead Arena

PFIZER GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

User Dr Dafydd Owen (Pfizer Global Research & Development, Sandwich, UK).

Friday 17 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nanoimprinting Functional Polymers

User Miss Jo Slota (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Catalytic Interfaces for Organic Synthesis in Microdroplets

User Miss Ashleigh Theberge (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dynamics on the way to forming glass: past, present and future

User Professor David Chandler (University of California at Berkeley).

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Protein Structure Bioinformatics as One Tool to Improve Human Health

User Prof. Gert Vriend, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Quantum transitions in Lennard-Jones clusters

User Professor Vladimir Mandelshtam (University of Southern California).

Wednesday 08 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Representation and predictive modeling of complex biomolecular datasets

User Prof. Alexander Tropsha, School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Friday 26 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric complexity or scale by scale simplicity?

User Shaun Lovejoy, McGill University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 19 September 2008, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The TES instrument on NASA Aura.

User Dr Annmarie Eldering, JPL.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 18 September 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

"Atmospheric ozone: chemistry/climate interactions in the troposphere and stratosphere" AND "Understanding the relation between V(PSC) and Arctic ozone loss"

User Prof. John Pyle & Dr. Neil Harris, CAS.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Data fusion and the reconstruction of the 20th century temperature record

User Dr Julian Hill, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 20 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Mr Luis Fidalgo (University of Cambridge – Melville Laboratory).

Thursday 12 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Molecular Informatics for Drug Discovery

User Prof. Jacob de Vlieg, Organon.

Tuesday 10 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Probing the internal structure of polymer brushes

User Mr Ron Oren (University of Cambridge – Melville Laboratory).

Thursday 05 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Web-based Experiments with Earth System Models of Different Complexity used for Education at Freie Universität

User Dr Ingo Kirchner (Freie Universtät Berlin, Germany).

House Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 10:00-11:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Protein structure bioinformatics as one tool to improve human health

User Prof. Gert Vriend, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences.

Tuesday 03 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Blowing snow and bromine explosion- a model study

User Dr. Xin Yang, Centre for Atmospheric Science.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: New Applications in Materials Chemistry

User Dr Chris Bielawski (University of Texas, Austin, Texas).

Thursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Understanding 20th century surface temperature variability

User David W J Thompson, Colorado State University.

House Meeting Room 2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission

User Dr. Hartmut Boesch, University of Leicester.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dynamic Self-Assembly of Macromolecules and Small Molecules

User Professor Sam Stupp, The Stupp Laboratory at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

Friday 16 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Quantum and classical partition functions of water from computer simulation

User Dr. Richard Henchman, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester.

Friday 16 May 2008, 15:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Chemistry, Structure and Function of the DNA Quadruple Helix

User Prof Shankar Balasubramanian (University of Cambridge – Department of Chemistry).

Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Surface modification of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) via self-organization of vinyl-terminated small molecules

User Ms Maaike van Poll (University of Cambridge – Melville Laboratory).

Thursday 01 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Developing Quantum Topological Molecular Similarity (QTMS)

User Dr. Paul Popelier, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester.

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

User Prof. David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Simultaneous determination of protein structure and dynamics

User Dr Michele Vendruscolo (University of Cambridge – Department of Chemistry).

Thursday 24 April 2008, 16:00-17:00

Using Ontology to Classify Members of a Protein Family

User Dr. Robert Stevens, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester.

Monday 14 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Translating Chemogenomics into Medicinal Benefit

User Prof. Andrew Hopkins, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

"Isoprene and biofuels: Sensitivity studies in a global chemistry-climate model" (Rachel) / "Emissions, transport and deposition of volcanic aerosol in the troposphere" (Jane)

User Evgenia Ilyinskaya, Dept. of Geography, and Rachel Pike, CAS.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 March 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Biomimetic self-assembly of block copolymers: polypeptide-based vesicle as synthetic model of viral capsid

User Prof Sebastien Lecommandoux.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Protein folding - going in the right direction

User Dr. Charlotte Deane, Dept. of Statistics, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Parameterisations of Heterogeneous Atmospheric Reactions: Recent work of the IUPAC Kinetics Data Evaluation Panel

User Dr. R. A. Cox, CAS, Chairman, The IUPAC Subcommittee for Kinetics Data Evaluation for Atmospheric Chemistry.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 March 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Oligomerization-deoligomerization synthetic strategy and cucurbituril

User Dr Li Liu, University of Cambridge - Melville Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Producing a nudged version of the UKCA

User Dr. Paul Telford, CAS.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Casting Nanostructures for NanoPhotonics

User Prof Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge - NanoPhotonics Centre.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

Analysis of Antibody Sequence and Structure

User Dr. Andrew Martin, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Part III student talks

User Clare Davis , Colin Berkley, Joe Moed , Peter Smith , Lee Harper , Lay May Leow.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Functional Amphiphilic Block Copolymers prepared via Ring Opening metathesis Polymerization

User Dr Kurt Stubenrauch, University of Cambridge - Melville Laboratory.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

New Perspectives on Linkages between Ozone Depletion and Climate Change

User Dr Susan Solomon, Aeronomy Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

QM to QSAR

User Prof. Jonathan Hirst, School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham.

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Design of New Generations of "Smart" Materials using Controlled Radical Polymerizations Techniques

User Dr Jean-Francois Lutz, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Antarctic ozone hole: review and update

User Prof. Susan Solomon, NOAA/ERL, Chemical Sciences Division.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition

User Dr Susan Solomon, Aeronomy Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado.

House Scott Polar Research Institute.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Moving microdroplets: Techniques for manipulating picolitre droplets in microchannels

User Dr Graeme Whyte, University of Cambridge - Melville Laboratory.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A new chemiluminescent technique for ozone observations

User Dr. Jim B. McQuaid, University of Leeds.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 January 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

DNA Block Copolymers: Programmable Macromolecular Amphiphiles

User Prof Dr Andreas Herrmann, University of Groningen - Polymer Chemistry and Bioengineering.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Using DOAS to study tropospheric chemistry: From volcanoes to airports

User Dr V. Tsanev, CAS.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 December 2007, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supramolecular Polymers Bearing Self-Complementary Hydrogen Bonding End-Groups

User Adam Celiz, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory.

Thursday 06 December 2007, 16:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nanoimprint lithography for application in polymer electronics

User Ximin He, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory.

Thursday 06 December 2007, 16:00-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Significance of deep tropical storms as agents of stratosphere-troposphere exchanges: Insights from high-resolution numerical simulations

User Dr Charles Chemel , Centre for Atmospheric & Instrumentation Research, University of Hertfordshire.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 December 2007, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Coordination polymers, metallo-gels and discrete metallo-supramolecular assemblies with cyclotriveratrylene-based or flat tripodal ligands

User Dr Michaele J Hardie, University of Leeds.

Thursday 29 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The ultraviolet absorption spectrum of chlorine peroxide (ClOOCl) and implications for polar ozone chemistry

User Dr Francis Pope (University of Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Functionalized cucurbiturils and their applications

User Professor Kimoon Kim, Center for Smart Supramolecules, Pohang University of Science & Technology.

Monday 26 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Bio-inspired nanomaterials for sensing and regenerative medicine

User Dr Molly M Stevens, Imperial College, London.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Climate change and the trillion-dollar millennium mathematics problem

User Tim Palmer (ECMWF).

House MR15, CMS.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Aviation and climate

Joint seminar with the Institute for Aviation and the Environment

User Dr. Piers Forster, Univeristy of Leeds.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Studying lightning-produced nitrogen oxides; methods and uncertainties

User Dr. Lorenzo Labrador, University of Manchester.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Design and synthesis of new biocatalysts

User Professor Ehud Keinan, Scripps Research Institute, California and The Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Instiitute of Technology.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The observed trend in the Southern Annular Mode: is it the ozone hole or is it greenhouse gases?

User Dr Howard Roscoe, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Cucurbituril meets polymer: Be my guest!

User Urs Rauwald, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:30-17:00