Department of Chemistry

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Leveraging Dispersion and Electrophilicity in Catalysts for Challenging Coupling Reactions

User Professor Brad Carrow, Princeton University..

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Constant-Uncertainty Molecular Dynamics - A New Method for Approximating Quantum Dynamics?

First Year PhD Report

User Sundeep Popat, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 14:40-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Symmetry in Multiple Hartree–Fock Self-Consistent-Field Solutions of Transition-Metal Complexes

First Year PhD Report

User Bang Huynh, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 14:15-14:35

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The Mechanics of DNA and its Assemblies: From Twist-Bend Coupling to Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

User Professor Jonathan Doye, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

The role of chirality on the assembly of short peptides into supramolecular hydrogels

User Prof. Silvia Marchesan, University of Trieste.

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 11:30-12:00

Stimuli Responsive Supramolecular Materials Formed from Host and Guest Polymers

User Prof. Yoshinori Takashima (Osaka University, Japan).

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 11:00-11:30

Pillar-Shaped Macrocyclic Compounds "Pillar[n]arenes": from Simple Molecular Receptors to Bulk Supramolecular Assemblies

User Prof. Tomoki Ogoshi (Kanazawa University, Japan).

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 10:30-11:00

Development of New Chirality-switchable Functional Materials Based on the Solvent-dependent Helix Inversion of Poly(quinoxaline-2,3-diyl)s

User Prof. Yuuya Nagata (Kyoto University, Japan).

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 10:00-10:30

Polymer/clay nanocomposites: The catalytic effect of clay

User Prof Miroslav Huskić (National Institute of Chemistry).

Friday 28 September 2018, 10:00-11:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Optimizing the Ordered Self-Assembly of Soft and Hard Nanoscale Building Blocks: Pure Components and Alloys

User Professor Fernando Escobedo, Cornell University.

Thursday 30 August 2018, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Catalyst design for energy and environmental applications

User Dr Muhammad Zaheer.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 August 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nanostructures Prepared from Self-Assembly of Pillararene-Based Macrocyclic Amphiphiles and Supramolecular Amphiphiles

User Professor Feihe Huang, Zhejiang University.

Tuesday 24 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Asymmetric Radical Transformations (Arts) via a Copper-catalyzed Radical Relay

User Professor Guosheng Liu, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China.

Thursday 19 July 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

From new dynamically self-assembling materials to chemical reactivities in confined environments

User Professor Rafal Klajn (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) .

Thursday 19 July 2018, 14:00-15:00

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

Bridging Molecular and Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis Through Graphite Conjugation

User Prof. Yogesh Surendranath, MIT, Cambridge, USA.

Monday 25 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Functionalization and Heteroleptic Assembly of Coordination Cages

User Prof. Dr. Guido Clever (Anorganische Chemie, Technische Universität Dortmund).

Monday 11 June 2018, 10:00-11:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Designing a strategy for merging atmospheric chemistry models and measurements: Going after what matters

Please note, venue and time.

User Prof. Michael Prather, Earth system Science Dept, UC Irvine.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Molecular Imaging of Disease

User Bruno Oliveira, Chemistry Dept, Cambridge.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Atomistic graph partitioning across scales: from molecules to precision healthcare

User Professor Sophia Yaliraki, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

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

Aqueous Catalysis: From Fundamental Water Oxidation to the Commercialisation of Hydrothermal Biomass Upgrading

User Prof. Thomas Maschmeyer, Australian Institute of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 15:30-16:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

From kB to kB: Universal and Efficient Entropy Estimation using a Compression Algorithm

User Professor Roy Beck-Barkai, Tel-Aviv University.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Multicomponent Reactions in Peptide and Protein Chemistry

User Prof Daniel García Rivera from the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Havana (Cuba).

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Atmospheric research from the molecular to city scale

User Dr Francis Pope, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Selected CI and Jastrow-free QMC methods for Chemistry

User Dr Pierre-Francois Loos, Université de Toulouse.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The search for signs of ozone recovery

User Dr James Keeble, Cambridge University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Using Sequence Data to Probe the Determinants of Higher Order Structure in Fibrallar Collagens

First Year PhD Report

User Anna Puszkarska, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:40-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

How can we understand Quantum Rate Theory with the help of Matsubara Dynamics?

First Year PhD Report

User Eszter Pós, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:15-14:35

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

What are Extrasolar planets made of? Molecular line lists for hot atmospheres.

User Professor Jonathan Tennyson, University College London.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Polyaromatic Nanocapsules: from Strategic Synthesis to Host Functions

User Professor Michito Yoshizawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Friday 27 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Symmetry, Degeneracy, and Strong Correlation

User Professor Gustavo E. Scuseria, Rice University.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Artificial Metalloenzymes: Challenges and Opportunities"

User Professor Thomas Ward, University of Basel.

Monday 16 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

David Chandler Linnett Memorial Symposium

User Dr Céline Merlet, Prof. Christoph Dellago, Prof. Iris Antes, Prof. Juan P. Garrahan, Dr Lester Hedges, Prof. Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Prof. Berend Smit, Dr Benjamin Rotenberg, Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Dr Ulf Pedersen.

Friday 13 April 2018, 11:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

INFRARED TRANSMITTING SILVER HALIDE FIBERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

User Prof. Abraham Katzir, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University.

Tuesday 03 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Cycloadditions via TMM-Pd Intermediates: New Strategies for Asymmetric Induction and Total Synthesis

User Professor Barry Trost, Stanford University.

Friday 23 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Self-assembling Organic Nanostructures for Solar Energy Conversion

User Professor Michael R. Wasielewski, Northwestern University.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Source-and-Sink Models for Molecular Conduction

User Professor Patrick Fowler, Unitversity of Sheffield .

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Aromatic foldamers: mastering molecular shape

User Professor Ivan Huc, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Modelling diffusion-osmosis

First Year PhD Report

User Simon Ramirez Hinestrosa, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 14:55-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Depolarising Polar Surface Simulations

First Year PhD Report

User Thomas Sayer, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 14:35-14:55

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Extracting Adverse Drug Events from Spontaneous Reporting Data for Understanding Drug Side Effects

First Year PhD Report

User Ines Smit, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 14:15-14:35

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Perylene-Based Poly(N-Heterocycles): Organic Semiconductors, Biological Fluorescence Probes and Building Blocks for Molecular Surface Networks

User Professor Lutz Gade, Heidelberg University.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Identification of Active Species and Mechanistic Pathways in the Enantioselective Catalysis with 3d Transition Metal Pincer Complexes

User Professor Lutz H. Gade, Heidelburg University.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Methane and the Paris Agreement

User Professor Euan Nisbet, Royal Holloway and NERC Project MOYA.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Efficient Storage Mechanisms for Building Better Supercapacitors

User Professor Mathieu Salanne, Sorbonne Université.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

Novel proteins that orchestrate starch granule formation in plants

User Dr. David Seung, John Innes Centre.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 09:00-10:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Emissions and Chemistry of air pollution in London and Beijing: a tale of two cities.

User Professor James Lee, University of York.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

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

Biopolymers for photonics - painting opals with water and light

User Prof. Fiorenzo Omenetto, Tufts University.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Second Harmonic Scattering: Atomistic Simulation and Machine Learning

User Dr David M. Wilkins, Laboratory of Computational Science and Modelling, EPFL.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Electron Catalysis

User Prof Armido Studer, Organisch-Chemisches Institut, WWU Münster.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 15:00-16:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Time Reversal Symmetries and the Simulation of Charge Transport in an External Magnetic Field

User Dr Sara Bonella, EPFL.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Fundamental Limits to Volcanic Cooling and its Implications for Past Climate on Earth

User David Wade, Cambridge University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 05 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Stokes-Smoluchowski-Einstein-Langevin Theory for Active Colloidal Suspensions

User Dr. Ronojoy Adhikari, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

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

Functional Nanoscale and Hierarchical Materials by Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly

User Professor Ian Manners, University of Bristol.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation

User Dr Karel Proesmans, University of Hasselt.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ambient air quality and human health in India

User Luke Conibear, University of Leeds.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Catalytic Chirality Generation: New Strategies for Organic Synthesis

User Professor John Bower, University of Bristol.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

From binary anionic P4 analogs to ternary intermetalloid clusters

User Stefanie Dehnen, Philipps University Marburg.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Big Molecules and Small Particles

User Professor Lennart Lindfors, University of Gothenburg.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

Improving the Prediction of In vivo Drug Activity

User Peter Tonge, Institute for Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery, Stony Brook University USA.

Tuesday 16 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

What inspires us to learn?

User Fun Man Fung, National University of Singapore.

Friday 15 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Organic Electronics for Monitoring and Hosting of 3D Cell Biology Models

User Dr. Róisín M. Owens, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 December 2017, 14:30-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stereodivergent Catalysis, Strategies and Tactics Towards Secondary Metabolites as enabling tools for the Study of Natural Products Biology

User Professor Erick M. Carreira, ETH Zürich.

Thursday 07 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Covalent and Non-Covalent Interactions in Molecular Systems

User Professor Alexandre Tkatchenko, University of Luxembourg.

Wednesday 06 December 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Frontiers in Biocatalytic C-H Functionalization

User Professor Greg Challis, University of Warwick.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Nuclear Quantum Effects in Water Reorientation & Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics

User Professor James T. (Casey) Hynes.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Assembly Line Synthesis

User Professor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol.

Monday 27 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

House TCM Seminar room (530), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Halide Double Perovskites: The search for environmentally benign alternatives to the lead-based materials

User Patrick M. Woodward, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio State University.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 15:30-16:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Slimming Down Through Frustration

User Dr Martin Lenz, Université Paris-Sud.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Dual air quality benefit of SO2 emission controls by decreasing sulfate and biogenic secondary organic aerosol

User Dr Eloïse Marais, University of Birmingham.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar

User Dr Katrine Qvortrup & Dr Claudio Bomio.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 16:00-18:00

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

Solid State Seminar Series: "Oxide Ion Conductors for Energy Applications: Structure and Dynamics"

User Dr Ivana Evans (Durham University).

Thursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-16:00

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

Solid State Seminar Series: "Crystal structure prediction for next-generation battery anodes"

User Matthew Evans (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 16 November 2017, 15:00-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The Challenges to Theory of Predicting the Crystallisation of Organic Molecules

User Professor Sally Price, University College London.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

Bonfires with a bang

Warning: There will be smoke, bright flashes and loud bangs!

User Dr Andy Szydio.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Quantum Machine Learning

User Professor Anatole von Lilienfeld, University of Basel.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Using past decadal temperature changes to understand present and future climate

User Dr Andrew Schurer, University of Edinburgh.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

On-The-Fly AB Initio Semiclassical Dynamics for Computing Vibrationally Resolved Electronic Spectra

User Professor Jiří Vaníček (EPFL, Lausanne).

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Throwing light on organocatalysis: new opportunities in enantioselective synthesis

User Professor Paolo Melchiorre, ICIQ.

Monday 30 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Liquid State Theory Meets Deep Learning and Molecular Informatics

User Dr Alpha Lee, University of Cambridge, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Detailed Modelling of Organic Chemistry in the Atmosphere – Recent Advances (and Limitations)

User Dr Peter Brauer, University of York.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

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

Predicting and designing the self-assembly of colloidal particles: a computer game

User Professor Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University.

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Predicting and Designing the Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles: A Computer Game

Formal Materials - Theory Seminar

User Professor Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University.

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Computing and Understanding the Ro-Vibrational Spectrum of CH5+

User Professor Tucker Carrington, Queen's University.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

Shedding some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe: Ribozymes, Telomerase and Regulating Epigenetics

2017 Herchel Smith Lecture given by Nobel Laureate Professor Tom Cech

User Professor Tom Cech, University of Colorado Boulder.

Monday 16 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Self-assembly of Si- and SiGe-based dielectric Mie resonators via templated solid-state dewetting

User Marco Abbarchi, Aix-Marseille Université.

Friday 13 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Holomorphic Hartree-Fock Theory: Exploiting Multiple SCF Solutions for Non-Orthogonal Configuration Interaction

1st Year PhD Report

User Hugh Burton.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:40-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Mean-Fielding in Path-Integral Simulations of Quantum Condensed Matter Systems

1st Year PhD Report

User George Trenins.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:15-14:35

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Deciphering the human microbiota with chemistry

User Professor Emily Balskus, Harvard University.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CPGS Seminars

User Andrea di Antonio and Anika Krause, Cambridge University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

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

The artificial leaf for efficient generation of solar fuels: involved elementary steps and material's design

User Prof. Wolfram Jaegermann, TU Darmstadt.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

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

BP KEYNOTE LECTURE: Importance of C-O Bond Activation for CO2/COUtilization - An Approach to Energy Conversion and Storage

User Yuhan Sun, CAS Key Lab of Low-Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai..

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

First Principles Monte Carlo Simulations of Phase, Sorption, and Reaction Equilibria

User Professor Ilja Siepmann (University of Minnesota).

Friday 22 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Learning and Applying Nature's Biosynthetic Logic

User Prof. Bradley S. Moore, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego.

Thursday 14 September 2017, 14:00-16:00

House Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

Photosynthetic water oxidation - the substrates view

For more information, please contact Dr. Erwin Reisner (reisner@ch.cam.ac.uk)

User Prof. Johannes Messinger, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden.

Wednesday 13 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

First Principles Monte Carlo Simulations of Phase, Sorption, and Reaction Equilibria

User Professor Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota.

Monday 11 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

Manufacturing of designed nanomaterials

If you would like more information regarding Dr. Torrente's talk, please contact Dr. Erwin Reisner (reisner@ch.cam.ac.uk)

User Dr. Laura Torrente Murciano, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

Registration essential: £110 (3-5 Sept) http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/pfei/registration

User Keynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

House McGrath Centre.

Tuesday 05 September 2017, 09:00-18:00

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

Registration essential: £110 (3-5 Sept) http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/pfei/registration

User Keynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

House McGrath Centre.

Monday 04 September 2017, 09:00-18:00

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

Registration essential: £110 (3-5 Sept) http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/pfei/registration

User Keynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

House McGrath Centre.

Sunday 03 September 2017, 16:00-18:00

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

Cyclic Peptides: Building Blocks for Supramolecular Designs

User Professor Juan R. Granja - University of Santiago de Compostela .

Tuesday 22 August 2017, 14:00-15:00

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

Networks, resilience and complexity

User Professor Gabriel Cwilich, Yeshiva University, New York, USA.

Tuesday 15 August 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Rational Metallodrug Development: Novel Pharmacophores and Mode of Action Investigations

User Christian G Hartinger, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Friday 14 July 2017, 14:00-16:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sulfur Chemistry for Biology and the Environment

User Dr Justin Chalker.

Thursday 13 July 2017, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Applications of the (4+3) cycloaddition of Epoxy Enolsilanes to the synthesis of cortistatin A and himandrine

User Professor Pauline Chiu, Hong Kong University.

Monday 10 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Correlation between reflected and transmitted light in scattering media

User Dr. Jacopo Bertolotti, University of Exeter.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 15:30-16:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

Alternative Approaches to Chemical Risk Assessment: Assays, Databases, Models

Dr Richard Judson is a research chemist at the US EPA's National Center for Computational Toxicology. His research involves the development of databases and computer models to predict toxicological effects across a wide variety of chemicals.

User Dr Richard Judson, EPA National Centre for Computational Toxicology.

Monday 26 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Unlocking new potentials: Incorporating atomic-level anisotropy and improved radial dependencies into simple intermolecular force fields

User Mary Van Vleet, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Friday 23 June 2017, 12:00-12:40

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry towards Adaptive Chemistry

User Professor Jean-Marie Lehn.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Theory RIG Informal Symposium

User Fredrik Svensson, Laura Mitchell & Brian Ng.

Monday 12 June 2017, 16:00-19:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

What has the Antarctic ozone hole to do with biological evolution?

User Prof Michael Edgeworth McIntyre (University of Cambridge).

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

Disorder by Design

User Prof. Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Joost Reek, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuning charge transfer in low-dimensional nano carbons

User Prof. Dirk Guldi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric ozone in the Earth system

User Fernando Iglesias Suarez, Lancaster University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Coordination Self-Assembly: From the Origins to the Latest Advances

User Prof. Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tropospheric ozone: Short-lived climate forcer

User Dr Richard Derwent, rdscientific.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 15 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Recent Forays in Methods Development and Complex Molecule Synthesis

User Professor Neil Garg, University of California, Los Angeles.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Merck, Sharp & Dohme Lecture

User Professor Stephen Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr Richard Tillyer, Merck.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:30-16:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Prebiotic Chemistry on Other Worlds

User Paul B. Rimmer (University of Cambridge).

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

The Entropy Production Paradox: The Mysterious World Between Diffusion and Waves.

User Professor Christopher Essex, University of Western Ontario.

Monday 01 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

2017 Lord Lewis Lecture (II) Plasmonics for sustainability: harvesting light energy for new solar applications

User Professor Naomi Halas, RICE University.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

2017 Lord Lewis Lecture (I) Sustainable plasmonics: abundant materials for modular photocatalysis

User Professor Naomi Halas, RICE University.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Enzyme Catalysis, Inhibition & Resistance: A Design Perspective

User Professor Bruce Tidor, MIT.

Friday 21 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Design and use of chemical tools to modulate gene expression in cancer cells based on the targeting of DNA methyltransferase

User Paola B. Arimondo, CNRS Pierre Fabre Laboratories, Toulouse France Overseas Fellow Churchill College, Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Cellulose-based helical micro/nano filaments and films

User Prof. Maria Helena Figueiredo Godinho, Universidad Nova de Lisboa.

Tuesday 11 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Using and Developing the Weather Research and Forecasting model with Chemistry (WRF-Chem)

User Dr Scott Archer-Nicholls, Cambridge University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

RSC Prizewinner's seminar: Self-assembed coordination cages: host-guest chemistry and functional behaviour

User Prof. Michael Ward, University of Sheffield.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Studies on the Molecular Recognition of aminoglycoside antibiotics by nucleic acids and proteins

User Juan Luis Asensio, Instituto de Química Orgánica General, Madrid.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A comprehensive model analysis of the UK atmospheric composition and air-surface exchange of pollutants

User Dr Massimo Vieno, CEH, Edinburgh.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Late-Stage Fluorination for PET Imaging

User Professor Tobias Ritter, Max Planck Institute.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

Understanding SAR of the apelins and how it impacts patho-physiology

User Dr Eric Marsault, Univerisity of Sherbrooke.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Electron cryomicroscopy of biological structures: overcoming the barriers to further progress.

User Richard Henderson, MRC lab.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Modeling the Physical Multi-Phase Interactions of HNO3 Between Snow and Air on the Antarctic Plateau (Dome C) and coast (Halley)

User Hoi Ga Chan, British Antarctic Survey.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

New Developments in Climate Observations

User Prof Stephen Briggs, European Space Agency.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Counter-ions and Cascades

User Professor Martin Smith, University of Oxford.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Global modelling of tropospheric halogens and their impacts on air quality and climate

User Dr Tomás Sherwen, University of York.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Biomimicry with Synthetic Receptors: Self-Assembly and Molecular Recognition

User Richard Hooley, University of California.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interaction between gaseous halogen oxides and other radical families

User Dr David Rowley, University College, London.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Melville Lecture 2: Rational Strategy for Chain-Growth Supramolecular Polymerization

User Professor Takuzo Aida, University of Tokyo .

Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

First-principles simulation of electrochemical reactions at solid-liquid interface

User Dr Minoru Otani, National Institute of Advanced Inductrial Science and Technology (AIST).

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Melville Lecture 1: Stimuli-Responsive Smart Soft Materials abricated under Nonequilibrated Conditions

User Professor Takuzo Aida, University of Tokyo .

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Inferring causality in the atmosphere - constraining aerosol-cloud interactions from observations

User Edward Gryspeerdt, Imperial College, London.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Inhibition of Protein-Protein Interactions Using Biomimetic Approaches

User Professor Andrew Wilson, University of Leeds.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Halocarbons in Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology: New opportunities and challenges

User Pierangelo Metrangolo, Politecnico di Milano.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 31 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Air Pollution and Human Health (APHH) in a Chinese Megacity (Beijing): campaign overview

User Dr Lekan Popoola.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 January 2017, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis

User Professor Robert Knowles, Princeton University.

Monday 23 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular Organisation: Working with Molecules on the Nanoscale

User Prof. Neil Champness, University of Nottingham.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Ultrafast optical spectroscopy: from new tools to insights into printable photovoltaic materials

User Justin Hodgkiss, RSC Easterfield Prize Winner 2016.

Tuesday 17 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New Directions in Ni-catalyzed Cross Coupling

User Professor Abigail Doyle, Princeton University.

Friday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Label-free detection mechanism for carbon nanoparticles using non-linear optical excitation

User Dr. Christian Steuwe, Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, University of Leuven.

Friday 13 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Directed self-assembly of Janus rods

User Professor Dirks Aarts ( Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford).

Tuesday 10 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Interfacial Coordination Programming of 1D and 2D Materials

User Prof. Hiroshi Nishihara, University of Tokyo.

Thursday 08 December 2016, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

How will the storm tracks change? High resolution studies of the future of extratropical storm tracks

User Walter Robinson, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

RSC Prizewinner's seminar - From the Digitisation of Matter to Chemical Cybernetics

User Prof. Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Symposium

User Fatima Baldo & Nadia Petersen.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Inside a Collapsing Bubble: Sonochemistry and Sonoluminescence

User Prof Kenneth S Suslick, Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Impacts of tropical UTLS ozone feedback on surface climate change projections

User Dr Peer Nowack, Cambridge University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Network Properties of Atomic Clusters

Thesis Seminar

User John Morgan (University of Cambridge).

Friday 25 November 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Unorthodox Interactions at Work

User Professor Stefan Matile, University of Geneva.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Synthetic ligands for the interception of bacterial communication – New languages, new outcomes

User Professor Helen Blackwell, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Variability of the Indian Summer Monsoon during the past 6000 years

User Daniel Befort, University of Birmingham.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Development of the first proteochemometric model to understand the selectivity of bromodomains for small molecule inhibitors

1st Year PhD Report

User Kathryn Giblin (University of Cambridge).

Friday 18 November 2016, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Insights into compound mode-of-action by exploring gene expression space

1st Year PhD Report

User Benjamin Alexander-Dann (University of Cambridge).

Friday 18 November 2016, 12:00-12:20

House Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

Artificial photosynthesis: From bio-inspired H2-evolving catalysts to photoelectrode materials

Informal Materials RIG Seminar

User Dr. Vincent Artero, SolHyCat, Université Grenoble Alpes.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 14:30-16:00

House Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular catalysis for the reduction of CO2 with Fe complexes

Informal Materials RIG Seminar

User Prof. Marc Robert, Université Paris.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 14:30-16:00

Using redox mediators for Li-O2 and Li-S batteries and Li recycling

User Prof Nuria Garcia-Araez, University of Southampton.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

CPGS seminars

User Jake Smith, Conor Bolas, Amy King.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mapping the molecular landscape of disease

1st Year PhD Report

User Erin Oerton (University of Cambridge).

Friday 11 November 2016, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Lattice models for DNA origami self-assembly

1st Year PhD Report

User Alexander Cumberworth (University of Cambridge).

Friday 11 November 2016, 12:00-12:20

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar

User Dr Michael Taylor, Dr. Matthew Langton, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Self-assembly of jammed heterogeneous colloidal shells by combining electrohydrodynamics and dielectrophoresis

User Prof. Jon Otto Fossum, Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Thursday 10 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

New approaches to imaging angiogenesis and oxidative stress in living systems.

User Sarah Bohndiek (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Comprehensive laboratory studies of hydrocarbon oxidation mechanisms

User Dr Max McGillen, Bristol University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Predictive Multiscale Modelling: Multidisciplinary Challenges for the Future of Computational Chemistry

User Dr. Judith B. Rommel (University of Cambridge).

Friday 04 November 2016, 12:00-12:40

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Direct Detection of Criegee Intermediates and Reaction Products Using Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy

For details of this seminar, please contact Dr Ferracci as above

User Dr Dan Stone, University of Leeds.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 31 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stochastic Coupled Cluster in Model Solid Systems

1st Year PhD Report

User Verena Neufeld (University of Cambridge).

Friday 28 October 2016, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synthesis and Analysis of Nanobody Sequence and Structure Data

1st Year PhD Report

User Laura Mitchell (University of Cambridge).

Friday 28 October 2016, 12:00-12:20

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

From radical cascades to metal-free C-H couplings: New methods for target synthesis

User Professor David Procter, University of Manchester.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

BP Keynote Lecture: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery and supercapacitor technologies function

User Professor Clare Grey, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 03:00-04:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interactions of HOx with aerosols; Nitric acid-HONO-NOx cycling via particulate nitrate photolysis

User Daniel Moon and Dr Chunxiang Ye, University of Leeds.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Hadean, pre-biotic Photosynthesis and Enzyme-like Heterogeneous Catalysts: Mimicking a state we do not know

User Prof. Markus Antonietti, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 15:30-16:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Controlling Life with Photons

User Guglielmo Lanzani, Center for Nano Science and Technology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia & Dep.of Physics, Politecnico di Milano .

Thursday 20 October 2016, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

'Exposure Track' -The Impact of Mobile Device Based Mobility Patterns on Quantifying Population Exposure to Air Pollution

User Dr Marguerite Nyhan, Havard University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

National air quality monitoring network and model forecast in China: current status, perspectives and challenges

For details of this seminar, please contact Bin Ouyang, details above

User Xiaoyan Wang and Wei Wang, China National Environment Monitoring Centre.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Applying Stochastic Coupled Cluster Theory to the Solid State

1st Year PhD Report

User Charlie Scott (University of Cambridge).

Friday 14 October 2016, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Energy Landscape Landscaping

1st Year PhD Report

User Konstantin Roeder (University of Cambridge).

Friday 14 October 2016, 12:00-12:20

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Studies on Enzymatic Catalysis of Polar Reactions: Proton Transfer, Hydride Transfer and Decarboxylation

User Professor John P. Richard, University at Buffalo.

Monday 10 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Stochastic Coupled Cluster Theory

User Alex Thom (University of Cambridge).

Friday 07 October 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Computers helping chemists: a toolkit for a ChemBio lab

User Gonzalo JIMÉNEZ-OSÉS, University of La Rioja.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Materials and devices for electrochemical water splitting: a fresh look at some old catalysts and some new(er) catalysts for old applications

User Dr Mark D. Symes, University of Glasgow.

Tuesday 27 September 2016, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

A model for super El Ninos

User Dr Saji Hameed, University of Aizu, Japan.

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 September 2016, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: A community-wide effort to quantify tropospheric ozone in a rapidly changing world

Note unusual time

User Dr Owen Cooper, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 02 September 2016, 11:00-12:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Quantum dynamics in condensed phase using the non-perturbative hierarchical equations of motion approach

User Qiang Shi, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Tuesday 30 August 2016, 12:00-13:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Is the crystallisation of pharmaceutical molecules controlled by thermodynamics or kinetics?

User Prof. Sarah (Sally) Price, UCL.

Thursday 04 August 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Stereocontrolled Cyclizations for Complex Molecule Synthesis

User Professor Alison J. Frontier, University of Rochester, USA.

Tuesday 12 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Decorating the room at the bottom – designer nanomaterials for catalytic renewables conversions

User Prof. Anthony Masters, The School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Australia.

Monday 11 July 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

CO2 + H2O + Sunlight → Chemical Fuels + O2

User Prof. Peidong Yang, Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA.

Thursday 07 July 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Aerobic Oxidation Reactions for Organic Chemical Synthesis

User Professor Shannon S. Stahl, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Wednesday 06 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Exploration of Cooperative Asymmetric Catalysts Toward Efficient Synthesis of Therapeutics

User Dr Naoya Kumagai, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo.

Wednesday 06 July 2016, 15:15-16:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Artificial photosynthesis—From catalysts to devices for water splitting

User Professor Licheng Sun, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Friday 01 July 2016, 15:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Studying Interfacial Processes During Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction

User Dr Alexander Cowan, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool.

Friday 01 July 2016, 15:00-17:00

The origin of anomalously high melting temperatures in gallium clusters

User Nicola Gaston, University of Auckland.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Wednesday 29 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

Laboratory Studies of Criegee Intermediate Reactions

User Rabi Chhantyal Pun, Bristol University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Unusual NMR experiments using home-made and open-resource systems

User Dr. Kazuyuki Takeda, .

Thursday 16 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Teaching Sponges New Tricks: Catalysis and Charge Transport in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks

User Prof. Mircea Dincă Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Monday 13 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Semi-stochastic and excited-state approaches in FCIQMC

User Nicholas Blunt (Chemistry).

Friday 10 June 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Informal TMI RIG Seminar

User Patrick Lewis, Chongli Qin & Dr Nitin Sharma.

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Imaging organic aerosols

User Dr Francis Pope, Birmingham University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Theoretical advances in aqueous ion solvation: Charge asymmetry

User Dr Stephen J. Cox - University of California, Berkeley, College of Chemistry.

Friday 03 June 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

How bonding topology affects polyacene spectra: design principles for singlet fission chromophores

User Timothy Hele.

Friday 27 May 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Biomineralization of nacre

User Prof. Pupa Gilbert, University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

De novo Design of Transmembrane Helix-Helix Interactions in Membrane Proteins

User Dr Anne Dixon, University of Warwick.

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Is the mid-latitude winter storm frequency predictable?

User Dr Gregor Leckebusch, University of Birmingham.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Simple microscopic models of complex systems

User Professor Jeremy Schofield (University of Toronto).

Friday 20 May 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Biogenic light induced tuneable photonic crystals

User Dvir Gur - Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Reprogramming the Genetic Code

User Dr Jason Chin, Centre for Chemical & Synthetic Biology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Extending the Range of the Glassy State: Novel properties and applications exploiting non-crystallinity

User Professor Lindsay Greer ( Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy).

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synthetic, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry in the Smith Group at the University of Pennsylvania

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

Monday 16 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The annual cycle in tropical lower stratospheric temperatures

User Dr Alison Ming, Cambridge University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

NEW ADVANCES IN ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY: GOING FAR BEYOND TRADITIONAL ANALYSIS WITH AFFINIMETER

User AFFINImeter.

Monday 16 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

In-Silico Prediction of Bioactive Small Molecules

User Avid Afzal (University of Cambridge).

Friday 13 May 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

A New Approach to Asymmetric Lewis Acid Catalysis

User Prof. Dr. Benjamin List, Max-Planck-Institute, Mülheim.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Using Proteins to Prepare Functional Polymeric Nanomaterials

User Prof. Nico Bruns, Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Developing a unified framework for modelling (exo)planets

User Nathan Mayne, University of Exeter.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 May 2016, 14:00-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

DFT study of oxygen vacancies in pure and doped ceria for chemical looping reforming

User Dr Rachel Kerber (Grey Group).

Friday 06 May 2016, 12:00-12:40

Melville Laboratory Seminars

“TRANSLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL CHEMISTRY TO FUNCTIONAL NANOSCOPIC MACROMOLECULES DESIGNED FOR ADVANCED APPLICATIONS”

User Karen L. Wooley, W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

NEW ADVANCES IN ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY: GOING FAR BEYOND TRADITIONAL ANALYSIS WITH AFFINIMETER

User ITC Analysis company: AFFINImeter.

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Thursday 05 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

“NATURAL PRODUCT-BASED ENGINEERING POLYMERS: A SPECIAL EMPHASIS TOWARD (DEGRADABLE) MATERIALS FOR ORTHOPEDIC, DRUG DELIVERY AND OTHER APPLICATIONS”

User Karen L. Wooley, W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular Electronics for Chemical Sensors

User Prof. Timothy M. Swager, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Friday 29 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Designing “Materials that Compute”: Exploiting the Properties of Self-oscillating Polymer Gels

User Prof. Anna C. Balazs, University of Pittsburgh.

Friday 29 April 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

2016 Lord Lewis Lecture: Dynamic Particles for Biological and Chemical Sensing

User Prof. Timothy M. Swager, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Iodine compounds in polar regions and their relevance to regional aerosol & climate.

User Dr Howard K Roscoe, British Antarctic Survey.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 April 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mechanism-of-action analysis of structurally and biologically similar compounds

2nd year PhD Talk

User Azedine Zoufir.

Friday 22 April 2016, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Assessment of broad-spectrum in vitro screening for toxicity profiling: Bioactivity space of target focussed and phenotypic assays

2nd year PhD Talk

User Samar Mahmoud.

Friday 22 April 2016, 12:00-12:20

Shedding new light on photochemistry in nature: from biological motifs to photoactive protein chromophores

User Professor Helen Fielding, University College London.

Tuesday 19 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Tissue-like materials from communicating droplet networks

User Professor Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 12 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

House BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Professor Steven Ley's 70th Birthday Symposium

User Professor D. Enders, Professor M. Gaunt, Professor D. MacMillan, Professor R. Grubbs.

Friday 08 April 2016, 09:00-17:00

House BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Functional materials using metathesis initiators

User Professor Robert Grubbs, Caltech.

Thursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

Studying membrane bioactivity with super-resolution optical microscopy

User Professor Christian Eggeling, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford.

Tuesday 05 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

CANCELLED Directed self-assembly of Janus rods

User Professor Dirks Aarts ( Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford).

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 22 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Stratospheric Sulfur Geoengineering – Benefits and Risks

NOTE UNUSUAL START TIME

User Professor Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 March 2016, 11:30-12:45

Melville Laboratory Seminars

The EvoDevo and Physics of Skin Appendages and Skin Colours in Vertebrates

User Prof. Michel C. Milinkovitch, Laboratory of Artificial & Natural Evolution (LANE), Dept of Genetics & Evolution, University of Geneva and SIB (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics). .

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 March 2016, 10:00-11:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Alumni Medal Ceremony and Talk

User Dr Yusuf K Hamied.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 15:00-16:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Pfizer Chemical and Biological Synthesis and Catalysis Symposium

User Professor Edward Anderson.

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 12:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Pushing the Envelope – Advancing Atmospheric Observations using Aerial Robotics

User Dr Rick Thomas, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Active Pressure

User Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP).

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Active Pressure

User Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP).

Friday 04 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Computer-Aided Rational Drug Design for Alzheimer’s Disease

User Professor Donald F. Weaver, University of Toronto.

Friday 04 March 2016, 12:00-12:50

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

An In Silico High Throughput Screening Strategy to Identify Putative Disease Modifying Agents for Chronic Neurological Disorders

User Professor Donald F. Weaver, University of Toronto.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Plasmonic nanobiosensors: From therapeutic drug monitoring to optophysiology of live cells

User Prof. Jean-François Masson, Université de Montréal.

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Association between health responses and indoor air quality in London primary classrooms

User Dr Lia Chatzidiakou.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Association between health responses and indoor air quality in London primary classrooms

User Dr Lia Chatzidiakou.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Collaborative Approach for C-H Functionalization

User Professor Huw Davies, Emory.

Friday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Computing Cycloisomerizations - Understanding Unusual Regioselectivities and Designs for Optimal Stereoselectivities

User Professor Robert Paton, University of Oxford.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Probing gene control at the molecular stage

User Professor Mark C. Leake, University of York.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

The Tangled World of Reactive Oxygen Species: the Search for the Bad Actors in Ambient Particles

User Prof Suzanne Paulson, UCLA.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Seeing the Invisible: Vibrational Imaging for Biology and Medicine

User Prof. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie - Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University.

Friday 19 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Analysis of bonding patterns and reactivity in molecular systems exhibiting partial biradical character

User Dr. Sotiris Xantheas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Friday 19 February 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Single Molecule Enzymology: Transcription against Supercoiling

User Prof. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie - Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry

Intensified-Process Integration at All Scales – flow reactor networks and end-to-end intensified chemical plants

User Prof. Volker Hessel, Eindhoven University of Technology.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Including Quantum effects into Molecular Simulation.

User Dr Jens Poulsen, University of Gothenburg.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Linnett Lecture - Life at the Single Molecule Level: Single Cell Genomics

User Prof. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A marine biogenic source of atmospherically relevant ice nucleating particles

User Dr Theo Wilson, University of Leeds.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 15 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ExoMol project: Molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres

User Sergey Yurchenko.

Friday 12 February 2016, 12:00-12:40

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

El Niño 2015/16: the kid is back

User Eric Guilyardi, University of Reading.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Small is beautiful: low cost air quality sensors and sensor networks show what they can do

User Professor Rod Jones, University of Cambridge.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Laboratory studies of halogen oxide radical reactions and sensor development for reactive gases

User Dr Valerio Ferracci, Cambridge University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 01 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Using explicit correlation with FCIQMC

Thesis Seminar

User Jennifer Kersten.

Friday 29 January 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor John Sutherland, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Extracting policy relevant findings from air pollution monitoring networks

User Dr Gary Fuller, King's College London.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 January 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Phase Behavior of Deeply Supercooled Water: a Computational Perspective

Note unusual time

User Pablo Debenedetti (Professor in Engineering and Applied Science and Dean for Research of Princeton University).

Friday 22 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Variability of the polar stratospheric vortex and its impact on surface climate patterns

Note unusual time and place

User Aditi Sheshadri, Columbia University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Highly accurate electronic wavefunctions for large molecules. Does density functional theory have a future?

User Dr David Tew ( University of Bristol).

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Recent advances in knowledge of the kinetics and mechanism of Criegee Intermediates as tropospheric oxidizing species

NOTE SLIGHTLY LATER START TIME

User Dr R.A. Cox, Cambridge University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 January 2016, 14:30-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Atom Tunnelling as a General Phenomenon in Chemistry: from the Interstellar Medium to Enzymes

User Johannes Kaestner (Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart).

Friday 15 January 2016, 12:00-12:40

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Title to be confirmed

Recipient of RSC Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award.

User Prof Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry

Catalysts for CO2 reduction: from molecules to solids

User Prof. Marc Fontecave, College de France.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 14:30-15:30

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

This talk has been postponed

User Marc Robillard, CEO of TagWorks.

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop

User Roberto Cingolani, Erwin Reisner, Pierre Emannuel Fayemi, Danilo De Rossi, Carlos Rego.

Tuesday 15 December 2015, 09:00-13:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop

User Thomas Speck, Ryad Benosman, Carlos Saez, Theresa Millard, Iain Valentine.

Monday 14 December 2015, 14:00-18:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nanostructures for Energy Conversion: From Metal Oxides to Electroactive Covalent Organic Frameworks

User Prof. Thomas Bein, Department of Chemistry and Center for NanoScience (CeNS), University of Munich (LMU), Germany.

Thursday 10 December 2015, 14:30-15:30

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

The nature of chemistry publishing

User Dr Stuart Cantrill, Chief Editor of Nature Chemistry.

Wednesday 09 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Shining new light on chemistry and biology with inteferometric scattering microscopy

User Professor Philipp Kukura ( Dept of Chemistry, University of Oxford ).

Tuesday 08 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Disordered Hyperuniform Many-Particle Systems: New States of Amorphous Matter

User Salvatore Torquato Dept. of Chemistry, Dept. of Physics, Materials Institute and Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton University.

Monday 07 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CPGS Seminars

User Steve Campbell, Cameron Rae, David Wade.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 December 2015, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Vortex splitting in the stratosphere by sub planetary-scale cyclogenesis in the troposphere, and some other thoughts about the dynamics of stratospheric sudden warmings

User Professor Alan O'Neill, Reading University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Linked Coupled Cluster Monte Carlo

2nd Year PhD Talk

User Ruth Franklin.

Friday 27 November 2015, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Modelling Collective Behaviours of Bacterial Colonies

2nd Year PhD Talk

User Matthew Griffiths.

Friday 27 November 2015, 12:00-12:20

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

Uncovering the mechanisms of Protein O-Glycosylation

User Dr Ramon Hurtado-Guerrero, University of Zaragoza.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Ultrafast infra-red spectroscopy as a probe of chemical reaction mechanisms.

User Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing – University of Bristol.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR): New Paradigms for Next Generation Energy Storage

User Prof George Crabtree, Director, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Monday 23 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ozone-alkene reactions: The role of trees in atmospheric chemistry

User Dr Michael Newland, University of East Anglia.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

How does Evolution affect Protein Structure Prediction?

2nd Year PhD Talk

User Emmy Qin.

Friday 20 November 2015, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Atomistic and Locally Rigidified Energy Landscapes for Protein Folding

2nd Year PhD Talk

User Jerelle Joseph.

Friday 20 November 2015, 12:00-12:20

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Mechanistically Playful Metals

User Professor Cristina Nevado, University of Zurich.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Using computer simulations to understand how epigenetic marks control the organisation of the genome at the nanoscale

User Rosana Collepardo, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Urban Air Quality: An Increasing Challenge for Public Health

User Professor Frank Kelly, King's College London.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CCFCS event

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 16 November 2015, 14:15-17:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Exact Functional

User Aron Cohen (University of Cambridge).

Friday 13 November 2015, 12:00-12:40

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Adventures in Organometallic Catalysis - Computation and Experiment

User Professor Franziska Schoenebeck, RWTH Aachen University.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Solar Powered CO2-to-Fuel”

User Professor Geoffrey Ozin, University of Toronto.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Upside Down and Inside Out: The Biomechanics of Cell Sheet Folding

User Ray Goldstein, DAMTP, Cambridge University.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Improving pharmaceutical manufacturability through crystal engineering

User Professor Calvin Sun, University of Minnesota.

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry

"Studies at the abiotic-biotic interface"

User Prof. Carole Perry, Nottingham Trent University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Michael Willis, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Introduction of a Portable and Automated On-Line Instrument to Measure Health-Relevant Aerosol-Bound Reactive Oxygen Species

User Dr Daniel Lienhard, Francis Wragg.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 02 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

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

Sugars and Proteins

User Professor Ben Davis ( University of Oxford).

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Dynamics of Airborne Droplets

Joint RIG seminar - note unusual time and place

User Professor Jonathan Reid, Bristol University.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 16:00-17:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Quantum Monte Carlo without breaking the bank?

User Robert Thomas.

Friday 23 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Heavy mice and lighter things: a chemistry approach to understanding the structure and roles of the extracellular matrix.

User Prof. Melinda Duer, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Radiative heating of the tropical lower stratosphere under climate change

Note unusual time

User Dr Peter Hitchcock, Cambridge University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supercooled Dynamics and Potential Energy Landscape of a Molecular Glass-Former

1st Year PhD Talk

User Sam Niblett.

Friday 16 October 2015, 12:20-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Novel Ways of Understanding Chemical Space Applied to Screening Library Design

1st Year PhD Talk

User Stephanie Ashenden.

Friday 16 October 2015, 12:00-12:20

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

“The Molecular Recognition Toolbox”

User Professor Chris Hunter.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Synthesis RIG Graduate Symposium

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 14:15-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Investigating Southern Hemisphere stratospheric ozone change and associated impacts on dynamics and climate

Note unusual time and place

User Kane Stone, University of Melbourne.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 11:00-12:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Rapid Identification of cyclic peptide inhibitors of protein-protein interactions

User Prof. Ali Tavassoli, University of Southampton.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Hierarchical propagation of chirality through reversible polymerization: the cholesteric phase of DNA oligomers

User Cristiano De Michele, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

BP Keynote Lecture: "Multiscale-Multimodal Imaging: Shining a light on materials behaviour”

User Prof. Phil J. Withers, International Centre for Advanced Materials .

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

2015 Materials RIG BP Day: Talks by 3rd year PhD students and Poster presentations by 2nd year PhD students

User Chemistry PhD students, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 11:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interplay of Diffusivity and Reactivity in Organic Aerosol Ageing

User Dr Sarah Steimer, Cambridge University.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sampling of RNA folding pathways

User Tristan Cragnolini.

Friday 09 October 2015, 12:00-12:40

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Development of Novel C-H Bond Transformations and Its Application to the Synthesis of Organic Functional Molecules

User Professor Yoichiro Kuninobu, The University of Tokyo.

Wednesday 16 September 2015, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Up in the Air, Down Under – Atmospheric Research in Wollongong, Australia

User Clare Murphy, University of Wollongong.

House Room U202, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 16 September 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mass Spectrometry in Structural Biology

User Dr Dijana Matak-Vinkovic, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 September 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Using Surfaces to Direct Microphase Separation

User Clarion Tung (Department of Chemistry, Columbia University).

Friday 11 September 2015, 13:30-14:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"Investigating Interactions" - Symposium celebrating the research career of Professor Jeremy Sanders

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 04 September 2015, 10:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Studies towards Assessing the Effects of Aviation on Climate and Air Quality

User Dr Arezoo Khodayari, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 05 August 2015, 15:00-16:00

Evolution of Functionality of Porous Coordination Polymers

2013 winner of RSC de Gennes Prize for outstanding & exceptional work in the field of Materials Chemistry

User Professor Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Friday 24 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

Measurement strategies, composition and chemistry of secondary organic aerosols

User Thorsten Hoffmann (Mainz).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 21 July 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Silicon Tether Motif in C-H Functionalization Reactions

User Professor Vladimir Gevorgyan.

Wednesday 24 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Crystallography & Compchem Hack Weekend 20/21 June

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Saturday 20 June 2015, 09:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Global modelling of lightning and its impact on tropospheric ozone chemistry

User Declan Finney (Edinburgh).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 15 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Self-assembled functional materials. Adsorption processes in metal-organic frameworks

User Dr David Fairen-Jimenez (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 11 June 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Enhancing classical and quantum molecular simulations with colored noise

User Michele Ceriotti, EPFL.

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mechanisms of microbial elemental sulfur reduction at the community, cellular and enzymatic levels

Informal Chemical Biology Lecture

User Professor E J Crane (III), Pomona College, Claremont, California.

Monday 08 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Source apportionment of wide range particle size spectra and black carbon collected at an International Airport

User Dr Mauro Masiol (Birmingham).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Idioms of sustainability in ancient Anuradhapura

User Dr Sat Ghosh.

Monday 08 June 2015, 11:30-12:30

How to beat biology: fine-tuning mechanical and structural properties on the macroscale through programmable nanomaterials

User David Smith, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig..

Friday 05 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

Modeling embryonic patterning with human embryonic stem cell colonies

User Eric Siggia, Rockefeller University.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

Mobile measurements: urban NO2 and coastal iodine

User Dr Steve Ball (Leicester).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 01 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Density Embedding Methods: Quality Control and Efficiency for Large Metal Clusters

User Dr. Judith B. Rommel, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 29 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Robert Britton, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Friday 29 May 2015, 14:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Natural and not so natural Products: From Bed Bug Communication to New Strategies for Drug Synthesis

User Professor Robert Britton, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Friday 29 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Back to basics: fundamentals forces in protein structure, design & interactions

User Dek Woolfson, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

The stress ensemble for granular packings

User Silke Henkes, University of Aberdeen.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Friday 22 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Are strong volcanic eruptions important for decadal climate predictions? A historical perspective based on MPI-ESM ensemble simulations

User Davide Zanchettin (University of Venice).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

DE NOVO PROTEINS: MYTH OR MYSTERY?

User Erich Bornberg-Bauer, The Westfalian Wilhelms University of Münster.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Harnessing the Power of Non-Covalent Interactions for Organocatalysis

User Professor Steven Wheeler, Texas A&M University.

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 16:00-18:00

Modeling Molecular Solvation using Multiscale Continuum Theory and Fast Computational Algorithms

User Jaydeep Barchan, Northeastern University.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Monday 18 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

A study of aerosol impacts on clouds and precipitation development in a large winter cyclone

User Greg Thompson (NCAR).

Monday 18 May 2015, 11:00-12:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Selective Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions in Water-Soluble Host-Guest Supramolecular Systems

User Professor Robert Bergman.

Friday 15 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

sc867's list

Luminescent materials by controlling and managing self-assembly

User Professor Luisa De Cola - University of Strasbourg, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Towards Artificial Living Materials

User Michael Brenner, Harvard University.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

Role of Pair and Higher Order Correlations in Entropy and Dynamics of Glass Forming Systems

User Sarika Bhattacharyya, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Monday 11 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

Modelling aerosol impacts on climate, urban environment and human health

User Dr Christina Mitsakou (Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

Hydrogel-Actuated Integrated Responsive Systems (HAIRS): Moving Towards Adaptive Materials

Second Lewis Lecture

User Professor Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard.

Friday 08 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry.

Natural Nanotechnology (aka Can iPods Grow on Trees?)

User Chris Forman, University of Cambridge.

Friday 08 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Multifunctionality of Liquid-filled Porous Materials: From Encryption to Anti-Fouling

First Lewis Lecture

User Professor Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Colloidal Structures from Unexpected Interactions: From Dielectric Many-Body Effects to Non-Equilibrium Phase Behaviour

User Erik Luijten, Northwestern University.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

"Discovery of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Prolyl Hydroxylase 1-3 (HIF-PHD1-3) Inhibitor for the Treatment of Anemia"

User Dr Petr Vachal, Merck.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 14:30-16:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Multiscale modelling of polymers at the soft-bio interface

User Paola Carbone, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

In Silico Therapeutic Antibody Design

User Charlotte Deane, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 15:30-16:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Exploitation of fundamental and biomedical functions of clathrin-independent endocytosis

User Prof. Ludger Johannes, Institute Curie.

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling individual convective clouds

User Leif Denby (Geography, Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 April 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry.

How to combine quantum Boltzmann statistics with classical mechanics

User Tim Hele, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 April 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Thermostabilisation of G protein-coupled receptors to facilitate structure determination

User Chris Tate, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: New Avenues in Synthesis and Metal-free Catalysis

User Professor Doug Stephan.

Tuesday 21 April 2015, 16:00-18:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

“Cu-Catalysed Reactions: Asymmetric Catalysis, Carbohydrate Derivatisations, and C-H Functionalization”

User Professor Motomu Kanai, The University of Tokyo.

Friday 17 April 2015, 16:00-18:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nanomaterials Design for Electrochemical Technologies: Batteries and Electrocatalysts

Inaugural Schlumberger Lectures

User Professor Yi Cui, Stanford University, USA.

Friday 27 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

"A Common Platform to Enable Nanoscale Synthesis"

User Dr Timothy Cernak, Merck.

Thursday 26 March 2015, 16:00-18:00

Nanomaterials Design for Energy and Environment

Inaugural Schlumberger Lectures

User Professor Yi Cui, Stanford University, USA.

Thursday 26 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Anticancer Discovery from Simple and Complex Compounds

User Professor Paul Hergenrother .

Tuesday 24 March 2015, 16:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Smoke and mirrors: Infrared spectroscopy and radiometry for the study of biomass burning emissions

User Tom Smith (KCL).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

TBC

User Prof. Edward Tate, Imperial College.

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Synthetic Methodology Emerging from Activation of Si-H and B-H Bonds

User Professor Martin Oestreich.

Tuesday 17 March 2015, 16:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Glasses in the sky: What's (not) going on inside atmospheric aerosol particles?

User Dr Daniel Lienhard (Chemistry, Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Solving the Hartree-Fock equations using the finite element method

User Michael Herbst.

Friday 13 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

‘Pfizer Chemical and Biological Synthesis and Catalysis Symposium 2015’ (students from both the Biological and Synthetic RIGS will be interested in this Symposium)

User Professor Edward Tate.

Friday 13 March 2015, 09:00-17:00

Cephalopod-derived Materials for Photonic and Protonic Devices

Informal Materials RIG seminar

User Professor Alon Gorodetsky, University of California, Irvine.

Monday 09 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Neurotransduction mechanism via GPCRs: alpha helix, the smallest spring in nature

User Sinisa Vukovic, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Cross Coupling 2.0

User Professor Jeffrey Bode.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-18:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Slow dynamics in self-assembly and protein folding

User Rob Jack, University of Bath.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Chemical Adventures Using the Unified Principles of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis

User Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas, Emeritus Professor.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Inter-hemispheric symmetry or asymmetry in variations of tropical rainbelt during the last glacial cycle? perspectives from a climate model-data comparison

User Dr Joy Singarayer (Reading).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Quantifying the Entropy of Binding for Water Molecules In Protein Cavities by Computing Correlations

User David Huggins, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

The Interplay of X-ray Spectroscopy with Functional Materials - Addressing Scientific Issues with Synchrotron Capabilities

Information Materials RIG seminar

User Professor Tsun-Kong Sham, Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Canada.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

How cells get to be the right size and put things at the right place inside them

User Martin Howard, John Innes Centre.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

A back-stage tour of polymer phase behavior with self-consistent field theory

User Nicholas Tito, University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Non lithium based technologies: walking on the sodium side

User Dr Rosa Palacin, CSIC, Inst Ciencia Mat Barcelona, Spain.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Nested Sampling for bulk materials

User Gabor Csanyi, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Long-term trends in ozone concentrations in the UK: local, regional and global influences

User Dr Mike Jenkin.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Quasicrystals, Charge Ordering and the Quantum Hall Effect

User Felix Flicker, University of Bristol.

Friday 13 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Modelling by Natural Moves

User Peter Minary, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

"Ni-catalyzed Functionalization of Carbon Dioxide and C-O Bonds"

User Professor Rubén Martín Romo.

Monday 09 February 2015, 16:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Steps towards understanding tropospheric composition variability

User Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis (Imperial College).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Nanoparticle growth and Ostwald ripening: aggregate growth, size distributions, and the breakdown of scaling

User Prof. Dr. Juergen Vollmer, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Goettingen, Germany.

Friday 06 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Sampled Energy Landscapes: Analysis and Comparison

User Frederic Cazals, Inria Sophia-Antipolis, Algorithms-Biology-Structure.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

How well do we know halogen chemistry in the Marine Boundary Layer?

User Dr Roberto Sommariva (Leicester).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Reconsidering old questions with new simulation techniques: Fluctuations and Frank constants in polymeric liquid crystals

User Dr. Kostas Daoulas, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany.

Friday 30 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Metal-Organic Nontrivial Molecules: From Structure to Application

User Professor Ali Trabolsi .

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:00-18:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

MOLECULAR STRUCTURES AND MACHINERY FROM DNA: SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY FROM THE BOTTOM UP

User Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Volcanic outgassing

User Dr Marie Edmonds (Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Computer simulations of thermally induced electric fields in water.

User Peter Wirnsberger, Deparment Chemistry, University of Cambridge (Frenkel Group).

Friday 23 January 2015, 12:00-12:45

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Catalysis on Steroids: A Journey into an Enzyme’s Active Site

User Stephen Fried, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The air we breathe - the role of atmospheric sciences in identifying the health impacts of air

User Dr Ben Barrat (KCL).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Application of normal forms and TST to the reaction dynamics of quantum wave packets

User Dr. Andrej Junginger, University of Stuttgart, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Stuttgart, Germany.

Friday 16 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chemistry of mineral dust aerosols and its roles in direct and indirect radiative effects

User Mingjin Tang (Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 December 2014, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

GPU acceleration of basin hopping global optimisation: towards a fast and accurate method of predicting binding free energies of macromolecules

User Rosemary G. Mantell, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge (Wales' group).

Friday 05 December 2014, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Achieving new reactivity and selectivity using transition metal catalysis

User Professor Michael Willis, University of Oxford.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry Graduate Seminars

User Grad speakers to be confirmed.

Monday 01 December 2014, 15:30-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Digital Discovery and Design: the new age of materials on demand

2nd BP Lecture 2014

User Professor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Soft Matter Quasicrystals and Their Complex Cousins

First BP lecture 2014

User Professor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Dynamical and microphysical processes controlling the persistence of low level Arctic mixed-phase clouds

User Dr Julien Savre (Geography, University of Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Exotic morphologies of highly charged solvated macromolecules

User Prof. Styliani Constas, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario London, ON N6A 5B7 CANADA.

Friday 21 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Boron based dynamic bonding: an emerging construction tool for Chemical Biology

User Professor Pedro Gois, Lisbon University.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Lewis Acids based on Aluminium and Phosphorus

User Professor Drasko Vidovic, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Harvesting "blue" energy from mixing river- and sea water with supercapacitors

User Professor Rene van Roij (Utrecht University).

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

RSC Lecture

User Professor Eric Bakker, University of Geneva.

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Monday 17 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Towards an understanding of the evolution of sea ice extent around the Antarctic Peninsula using the James Ross Island ice core.

User Dr Ailsa Benton (BAS).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Electric double layers at metal oxide water interfaces and their effect on electrocatalysis.

User Prof. Michiel Sprik, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambirdge.

Friday 14 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Density functional theory for molecules in magnetic fields

User Dr Andy Teale (University of Nottingham).

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Alkaloid biosynthesis and engineering

User Professor Sarah O'Connor, John Innes Centre.

Monday 10 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Various talks from 1st years

User 1st year PhD CPGS talks.

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Entropic Utopia: Shaping disorder for targeted self-assembly

User Pablo F. Damasceno, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Friday 07 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Chemistry at Mesoscopic Regime Connecting the Molecular and the Real World

User Professor Eiichi Nakamura, The University of Tokyo.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 16:00-18:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

How does bacterial growth state affect the efficacy of antibiotic treatment?

User Dr Rosalind Allen (University of Edinburgh).

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CCfCS IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report Symposium

User Professor Eric Wolff, Professor Douglas Crawford-Brown, Professor David MacKay.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 03 November 2014, 14:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Synthetic RIG Graduate Symposium

User Dr Gonçalo Bernardes, Philip Murray, Terence Kwan, Dean Holt, Alex Stross.

Friday 31 October 2014, 14:00-18:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

High-dimensional surprises near the glass and the jamming transitions

User Prof. Patrick Charbonneau, Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0354.

Friday 31 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Molecular random tilings

User Professor Juan Garrahan (University of Nottingham).

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Why UK urban air quality has not been improving as it should

User Dr James Tate (University of Leeds).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

House Scott Polar Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Packing polyhedra: from ancient math to advanced materials

User Dr. Daphne Klotsa, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

2D or not 2D? Two-dimensional nanostructures for sensing and solar energy conversion

User Professor Bettina Lotsch, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitaet, Germany.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Iodine chemistry in the marine troposphere

User Dr Alfonso Saiz-Lopez (CSIC).

Thursday 16 October 2014, 11:30-12:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Computational analyses of RNA repeat expansions causing genetic disease

User Dr. Ilyas Yildirim, Deparment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 10 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Chemistry.

Disordered Photonics

User Professor Diederik Wiersma, University of Florence.

Thursday 02 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

House Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Reinventing Energy Storage in 2D: Nanosheets and Exfoliated Materials

User Professor Bruce Dunn, UCLA.

Thursday 10 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre Department of Chemistry Lensfield Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3RA.

Interacting with Protein Interactions

"Special Event" Cambridge Cheminformatics Network Meetings

User Professor Arthur J Olson, Departmen of Interactive Structure & Computational BIology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA.

Wednesday 09 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Inclusion of mountain wave-induced cooling for the formation of polar stratospheric clouds in a chemistry climate model

User Andrew Orr (BAS).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 June 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Synergism between Theory and Experiments in Asymmetric Catalysis: Transition State Modeling for Rationalizations and Catalyst Design

User Professor Raghavan B. Sunoj, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 14:15-15:45

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Our current understanding of solar irradiance and its effect on stratospheric ozone

User Dr William Ball (Imperial).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 June 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular origins of "internal friction" in protein folding

User Dr. David de Sancho, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 13 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Renormalization of myoglobin–ligand binding energetics by quantum many-body effects

User Dr. Cedric Weber (Kings' College, London).

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Functional Conjugated Polymers: Towards New Materials for Biomedical Applications

NZIC Easterfield Prize Lecture

User Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic, .

Monday 09 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Influence of Anthropogenic Aerosol on Multi-Decadal Variations of Climate

User Dr Laura Wilcox (Reading).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 June 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chaperone-guided protein folding at the single-molecule level

User Prof. Sander Tans, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Friday 06 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

RSC Easterfield Award Winner Lecture

User Dr Bridget Stocker - RSC Easterfield Award Winner.

Friday 06 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Variability in upwelling in the tropical lower stratosphere: effects on tracers and dynamical forcing

User Marta Abalos (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (CNRS/IPSL)).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 15:30-16:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"CADD & ENAC - A bad hand at Scrabble..?"

Please note that the date of this seminar has been changed

User Dr Peter Hunt, Optibrium Ltd.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 14:15-15:45

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ammonia emissions from seabirds

User Dr Stuart Riddick (Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 June 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thermodynamics of Dissipative Self-Assembly

User Dr. ing. Ger J. M. Koper, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Friday 30 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Methyl halide emissions from tropical plants in Southeast Asia

User Dr Takuya Saito (National Institute for Environmental Studies) .

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Chemical applications of Density Matrix Renormalization Group

User Dr. Sandeep Sharma, Princeton University.

Friday 23 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Faceting of multicomponent elastic vesicles

User Dr Rastko Sknepnek (University of Dundee).

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Werner Complexes: A New Class of Chiral Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysts for Enantioselective Organic Reactions"

RSC Organometallic Award 2013 Lecture

User Professor John Gladysz, Texas A&M.

Monday 19 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

“Development of new antibiotics by targeting essential enzymes in bacteria: structure-based design and simulation studies”

User Dr Concepción González-Bello , Associate Professor, Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CIQUS), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Monday 19 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Middle infrared tunable laser spectroscopy for molecular sensing: from space to terrestrial applications

User Dr Damien Weidmann (STFC).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 May 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Chirality in NMR Spectroscopy

User Professor David Buckingham FRS (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

BP Day 2014

User Various.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 09:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Thin Blue Line: Observing Earth’s Atmosphere

User Sam Illingworth (Manchester Metropolitan University).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 May 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Dripping, jetting, drips and wetting: the magic of microfluidics

User Professor David A. Weitz, Harvard University.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Generalizing Euclidean distance to understand polymer uncrossing and knotting: A physicist’s foray into protein folding

User Professor Steven Plotkin (The University of British Columbia).

Thursday 08 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Defra’s air quality modelling intercomparison project

User Dr Michelle Cain (Cambridge).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Visualization of Chemical Space for Medicinal Chemists

User Dr Peter Ertl, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Drug Discovery Today – Inventing new medicines through a complex interplay of diverse scientific disciplines with medicinal chemistry at the core

User Dr Roger Norcross, Hoffmann-La-Roche, Basel.

Friday 02 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Embedded correlation within strongly correlated materials

User Dr. George Booth, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 02 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Development of visible light responsive photocatalysts for water splitting

Second Lewis Lecture 2014

User Professor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Organic Photoredox Catalysis: Methods and Mechanistic Insight

User Professor David Nicewicz, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Solar-fuels production from water using photocatalysts

First Lewis Lecture 2014

User Professor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo.

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

"Rearrangement Reactions and Their Applications in Natural Product Synthesis"

All Welcome

User Professor Yongqiang Tu, Lanzhou University .

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 11:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Air quality and climate impacts of the transport sector: planes, trains and automobiles

User Marc Stettler (University of Cambridge).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 April 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

"From fragments to target-selective ligands by reaction-driven de novo design"

User Professor Gisbert Schneider. Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences ETH Zurich.

Monday 28 April 2014, 14:15-15:30

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

Catalytic Atom Transfer and Bond Activation Methods Based on P(III)↔P(V) Cycling

User Professor Alex Radosevich, Penn State University, USA.

Thursday 10 April 2014, 16:00-19:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Asymmetric Organocatalysis – Challenges and Innovations

User Prof Paolo Melchiorre, ICIQ Prof Alan Armstrong, Imperial College London Prof Nicholas Tomkinson, University of Strathclyde Dr Paul Alsters, DSM Pharma Products Prof Karl Anker Jørgensen, Aarhus University.

Friday 04 April 2014, 10:30-18:00

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

From Molecules to Microelectrode Arrays: Using Electrochemistry to Solve Problems of Structure and Location

User Professor Kevin Moeller, University of Washington, St Louis, USA.

Thursday 03 April 2014, 16:00-19:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Christian Doppler Symposium

User Various.

Thursday 27 March 2014, 14:00-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Odorant space: From chemistry to physiology

User Dr Michael Schmuker, Neuroinformatics & Theoretical Neuroscience, Freie Universität Berlin.

Tuesday 25 March 2014, 14:15-15:45

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Clustering, Phase Separation and Tricriticality of an Ultrasoft Model of Polyelectrolytes

User Professor Jean-Pierre Hansen.

Friday 21 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The ups and downs of coenzyme A biosynthesis as an antimicrobial drug target

User Professor Erick Strauss, Department of Biochemistry, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Tuesday 18 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

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The ups and downs of coenzyme A biosynthesis as an antimicrobial drug target

User Professor Erick Strauss, Department of Biochemistry Stellenbosch University South Africa.

House Department of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

VOC measurements on board the Zeppelin NT during the PEGASOS campaigns 2012

User Julia Jaeger (Forschungszentrum Jülich).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 March 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Computer simulation of peptide adsorption

User Professor Michael Allen (University of Warwick).

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 14:15-15:15

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Fluorine as Key Element in buckyball chemistry and C-F bond activation

User Professor Dieter Lentz, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Monday 10 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Urban boundary layers - investigating urban flows from building to city scale

User Janet Barlow (University of Reading).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 March 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Folding of RNA tetraloop hairpins using Discrete Path Sampling

User Debayan Chakraborty, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK.

Friday 07 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Radical recycling from VOC oxidation in clean-air

User Dr Terry Dillon (University of York).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 March 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Protein-Ligand Binding by Free Energy Simulations: Issues, Successes and Failures

Please note the change of date, one week earlier than originally planned

User Professor Jonathan Essex, University of Southampton.

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 14:15-15:45

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Importance and Application of Chemical Activation in Atmospheric Chemistry

Note this is a joint CAS/Phys Chem RIG seminar.

User Prof Paul Seakins (University of Leeds).

House Pfizer Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

(Photo)electrocatalysis: Theory and Mechanisms of Charge Transfer at Metal Surfaces

User Professor Emily Carter (Princeton University).

Monday 17 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Reactive halogens in the polar boundary layer and volcanic plumes - Implications for O3, CH4 and mercury

User Prof Roland von Glasow (UEA).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 February 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Materials Synthesis and Interface Catalysis Using the Molecular Precursor Approach

User Professor Dr. Matthias Driess, Technische Universitat Berlin.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Quantum Mechanics without Wavefunctions

User Professor Emily Carter (Princeton University).

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Running Combustion Backwards: Fuels from Sunlight, From First Principles

The Linnett Lecture

User Professor Emily Carter (Princeton University).

Tuesday 11 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Representing Model Uncertainty in the ECMWF Convection Scheme

User Dr Hannah Arnold (University of Oxford).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 February 2014, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The changing methane budget: Arctic to Tropics

User Prof Euan Nisbet (Royal Holloway).

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 February 2014, 14:15-15:30

House Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

High-dimensional random landscapes and random matrices

User Prof. Yan Fyodorov, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Friday 31 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Multiscale modelling and mutation approaches to thermal functional dynamics in proteins

User Professor Tom McLeish (Durham University).

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 14:15-15:15