Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"New guidelines for molecular materials design beyond the frontier orbital picture"

Dr Felix Plasser, Dept. of Chemistry, Loughborough University.

Dept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Enabling the first-principles modelling of electrochemical interfaces at the nanoscale"

Dr. Clotilde Cucinotta, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London.

Dept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Machine learning methods for finite-temperature full-quantum simulations: towards predictive modelling of condensed-phase interfaces"

Dr Venkat Kapil, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCL.

Dept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Marvellous metastabilities of battery cathode materials"

Dr Annalena Genreith-Schriever, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Dept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials

Dr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment).

Dept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials

Dr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment).

Dept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials

Dr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment).

Dept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials

Dr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment).

Dept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Macromolecular Engineering by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Center for Macromolecular Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Fundamentals and Recent Advances in Controlled Radical Polymerization

ProfessorKrzysztof Matyjaszewski, Center for Macromolecular Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Computational Chemistry Event

Dr Kadi Liis Sar, Dr Emma King-Smith, Dr Sam Niblett and Professor Angelos Michaelides.

Dept of Chemistry, BMS Lecture Theatre .

Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-16:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

From theoretical chemistry to integrated drug discover platforms. Methods and applications

Prof. Artem Cherkasov, University of British Columbia.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The shape of things to come

Professor Nicola Marzari, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI).

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 20 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Machine-learning-enabled discovery of extreme chemistry

Prof. Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 17 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Weakly Bound Molecular Materials: Competing Energy Scales, Quantum Effects and More

Dr Mariana Rossi, MPI.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 06 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Modernist Materials Synthesis: Finding Thermodynamic Shortcuts with Hyperdimensional Chemistry

Professor Jamie Neilson, Colorado State University .

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Exploring chemical reactivity in the age of automation and ML

Professor Fernanda Duarte, University of Oxford.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The Joy of Discovery - A Lecture in Memory of Alex Hopkins

Professor Ben Feringa.

BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 24 March 2023, 17:00-18:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

‘Machine-learning in chemistry from the bottom up’

Professor Michele Ceriotti, Institute of Materials, EPFL.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 21 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Mechanistic design, understanding, and multicatalysis in the development of catalytic chemical processes

Dr Pawel Dydio, University of Strasbourg.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 13 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Iron catalysed cyclotrimerisation: Reactions of alkynes and phosphaalkynes

Dr Ruth Webster, University of Bath.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 09 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Simplified Earth-abundant metal catalysis, C–H activation and transborylation

Dr Jamie Docherty, The University of Manchester.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The importance of fundamental hydrocarbons and their use in step economic total synthesis

Dr Madison Sowden, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany (formerly at Australian National University, Canberra).

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

Paul Walton, University of York.

BMS Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Gender Equity in Academia: Why and How

Prof. Paul Walton, University of York.

BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Protection against self-oxidation by copper oxygenases

Prof. Paul Walton, University of York.

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

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding and tuning the surface chemistry of perovskite oxides to activate oxygen exchange and water splitting

Prof Bilge Yildiz, MIT.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LR6.

Thursday 29 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Conjugated organic and carbon nitride photocatalysts for solar driven hydrogen synthesis: insights from time resolved spectroscopies

Prof James Durrant, ICL.

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Protein phase transitions in health and disease

Prof Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 31 August 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested in Reactors, and Understood In Silico

Prof Charlie Sykes, Tufts.

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 August 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Insights from Physical Chemistry into the Aerosol Route for Respiratory Disease Transmission

Prof Jonathan Reid, University of Bristol.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LR6.

Wednesday 20 July 2022, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Electrons in novel materials, water, and their interplay

Prof Mischa Bonn, MPI .

Cambridge University Engineering Department LR6.

Thursday 14 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Who gets to do research? - Equity in STEMM viewed through a funding lens

Materials RIG Seminar

Prof. Rachel Oliver (Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge).

Zoom meeting (Meeting ID: 937 3157 5068, Passcode: 994936).

Thursday 10 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Studies in Dexter Energy Transfer with Quantum Dot Donors

BP Sustainability Lecture 2021 (Webinar)

Prof. Emily Allyn Weiss, Northwestern University .

Department of Chemistry (Webinar registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dgeAAcB4S32rsR1o-_4kOw).

Thursday 14 January 2021, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

“It’s how you think, not what you think about”: a Career Spent at Interfaces

Athena SWAN Talk (Webinar)

Prof. Emily Allyn Weiss, Northwestern University .

Department of Chemistry (Webinar registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dgeAAcB4S32rsR1o-_4kOw).

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 15:30-16:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Colloidal Photocatalysis for Organic Synthesis and Energy Conversion

BP Sustainability Lecture 2021 (Webinar)

Prof. Emily Allyn Weiss, Northwestern University .

Department of Chemistry (Webinar registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dgeAAcB4S32rsR1o-_4kOw).

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

RSC Award Lecture: Title TBC

Prof. David Britt (U.C Davies, USA).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 21 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

CANCELLED: Alex Hopkins Lecture: the joy of discovery

Professor Ben Feringa, University of Groningen.

Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Friday 20 March 2020, 17:00-18:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Lewis Lecture (Part II): Title TBC

Prof. Andy Cooper (University of Liverpool).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Friday 13 March 2020, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Lewis Lecture (Part I): Title TBC

Prof. Andy Cooper (University of Liverpool).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor John Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-18:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds

Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The Risks of Climate Change: What is Plan B? Climate Repair

Professor Sir David King.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Small Things Make Big Differences

Athena SWAN Talk

Professor Catherine J. Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The Golden Road: Synthesis and Surface Chemistry of Gold Nanocrystals

BP Sustainability Lecture

Professor Catherine J. Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Are you interested in the Pharmaceutical industry as a profession after graduation?

Are you interested in the Pharmaceutical industry as a profession after graduation?

Novartis - Dr Adrian Clarke, Dr Chi Ming Cheung & Dr Aude Figuccia.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Biomolecular interactions in crowded cellular environments

Dr Yuji Sugita, Theoretical Molecular Science Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 12 September 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Quantum Chemistry in the Continuum"

Professor Anna Krylov, University of Southern California.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 September 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

“The crystallisation of organic molecules – a challenge to theory and experiment”

Prof Sarah (Sally) L Price, University College London.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 05 September 2019, 11:30-12:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

NEW drugs from OLD pathways - Teaching Nature New Tricks

Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol.

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

Monday 10 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Programming materials with classical conditioning algorithms

Prof. Olli Ikkala, Molecular Materials (Molmat) - Aalto University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 15:10-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Assembly of nano-polysaccharides and plant polyaromatics at interfaces

Prof. Orlando J. Rojas, Aalto University (Finland) & North Carolina State University (US).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 14:00-14:50

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Wood Hemicelluloses: Molecular Structure and Interactions in Woody Tissues

Prof. Francisco Javier Vilaplana Domingo, UNIVERSITETSLEKTOR.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 13:00-13:50

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

PROTAC-mediated Protein Degradation: A New Therapeutic Modality

Professor Craig Crews, Yale University..

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Alex Hopkins Lecture - ‘Is the Milky Way Special?’ Professor Chris Lintott

Professor Chris Lintott, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 22 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Switchable Polymerization Catalysis: Ordered Block Polymers from Monomer Mixtures

Prof. Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 15 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Catalytic Activation of Renewable Resources to make Polymers and Fuels

Prof. Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Lectures "Breakable and self-assembled materials: Synthesis and applications"

Professor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Lectures 2019 "Luminescent complexes: assemblies, sensing, towards artificial virus"

Professor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

SUPERCHIRALITY AND BLOCH SURFACE WAVES

Prof. Paolo Biagioni, Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano (IT).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Molecular Photosynthesis: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On

Professor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences).

Seminar Room, BP Institute.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Supramolecular Architectures for Artificial Photosynthesis

Professor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 15:45-16:45

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Athena SWAN Presentation

Professor Marcella Bonchio and Dr Emma Chapman.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Multicatalytic Transformations with and without Light

Professor Kirsten Zeitler, Institut für Organische Chemie, Universitat Leipzig..

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 19 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Metal-containing organic cages and macrocycles with open/close feature

Prof Shigehisa Akine (Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

2018 Merck Lectureship

Professor Sarah Reisman- Caltech.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 15:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Using Microwell Array Technology to Probe Chemistry and Biology at Their Fundamental Limits

Professor David R Walt, Harvard Medical School.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Functional Nanoparticles: A Pathway to Low Viscosity Nanofluids, High Graft Density Polymers and Other Fun Things

Prof. David Andrew Lewis, PhD, FRACI (Flinders centre for NanoScale Science and Technology, Flinders University) .

Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Prof. Silvia Marchesan, University of Trieste.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Stimuli Responsive Supramolecular Materials Formed from Host and Guest Polymers

Prof. Yoshinori Takashima (Osaka University, Japan).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Prof. Tomoki Ogoshi (Kanazawa University, Japan).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Prof. Yuuya Nagata (Kyoto University, Japan).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Polymer/clay nanocomposites: The catalytic effect of clay

Prof Miroslav Huskić (National Institute of Chemistry).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Professor Feihe Huang, Zhejiang University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Functionalization and Heteroleptic Assembly of Coordination Cages

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Molecular Imaging of Disease

Bruno Oliveira, Chemistry Dept, Cambridge.

Todd Hamied, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Polyaromatic Nanocapsules: from Strategic Synthesis to Host Functions

Professor Michito Yoshizawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Artificial Metalloenzymes: Challenges and Opportunities"

Professor Thomas Ward, University of Basel.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

David Chandler Linnett Memorial Symposium

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.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

INFRARED TRANSMITTING SILVER HALIDE FIBERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

What inspires us to learn?

Fun Man Fung, National University of Singapore.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Professor Erick M. Carreira, ETH Zürich.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

New Frontiers in Biocatalytic C-H Functionalization

Professor Greg Challis, University of Warwick.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Bonfires with a bang

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

Dr Andy Szydio.

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

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Professor Tom Cech, University of Colorado Boulder.

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

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Photosynthetic water oxidation - the substrates view

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

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

Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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)

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

Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry towards Adaptive Chemistry

Professor Jean-Marie Lehn.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Tuning charge transfer in low-dimensional nano carbons

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Recent Forays in Methods Development and Complex Molecule Synthesis

Professor Neil Garg, University of California, Los Angeles.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Merck, Sharp & Dohme Lecture

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Dr Eric Marsault, Univerisity of Sherbrooke.

Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Inhibition of Protein-Protein Interactions Using Biomimetic Approaches

Professor Andrew Wilson, University of Leeds.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

New Directions in Ni-catalyzed Cross Coupling

Professor Abigail Doyle, Princeton University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Informal Materials RIG Seminar

Dr. Vincent Artero, SolHyCat, Université Grenoble Alpes.

Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Molecular catalysis for the reduction of CO2 with Fe complexes

Informal Materials RIG Seminar

Prof. Marc Robert, Université Paris.

Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

CO2 + H2O + Sunlight → Chemical Fuels + O2

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Artificial photosynthesis—From catalysts to devices for water splitting

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Studying Interfacial Processes During Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

AFFINImeter.

Todd Hamied, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

A New Approach to Asymmetric Lewis Acid Catalysis

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

ITC Analysis company: AFFINImeter.

Todd Hamied, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Professor Steven Ley's 70th Birthday Symposium

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

BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Functional materials using metathesis initiators

Professor Robert Grubbs, Caltech.

BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Alumni Medal Ceremony and Talk

Dr Yusuf K Hamied.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Seeing the Invisible: Vibrational Imaging for Biology and Medicine

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Single Molecule Enzymology: Transcription against Supercoiling

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Prof. Volker Hessel, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Recipient of RSC Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award.

Prof Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry

Catalysts for CO2 reduction: from molecules to solids

Prof. Marc Fontecave, College de France.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Solar Powered CO2-to-Fuel”

Professor Geoffrey Ozin, University of Toronto.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Improving pharmaceutical manufacturability through crystal engineering

Professor Calvin Sun, University of Minnesota.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry

"Studies at the abiotic-biotic interface"

Prof. Carole Perry, Nottingham Trent University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

“The Molecular Recognition Toolbox”

Professor Chris Hunter.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Speaker to be confirmed.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Dr David Fairen-Jimenez (University of Cambridge).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Professor Robert Britton, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Professor Robert Bergman.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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Luminescent materials by controlling and managing self-assembly

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

RSC Easterfield Award Winner Lecture

Dr Bridget Stocker - RSC Easterfield Award Winner.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 06 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

“Development of new antibiotics by targeting essential enzymes in bacteria: structure-based design and simulation studies”

Dr Concepción González-Bello , Associate Professor, Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CIQUS), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The ups and downs of coenzyme A biosynthesis as an antimicrobial drug target

Professor Erick Strauss, Department of Biochemistry, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Professor Erick Strauss, Department of Biochemistry Stellenbosch University South Africa.

Department of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Amos B. Smith III - University of Pennsylvania .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Mike Krisches - University of Texas at Austin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Dynamol Symposium

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

TBC

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

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

'Chemistry of Oxygen Sensing in Animals'

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Exploring new chiral space in asymmetric catalysis"

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Coordination-Driven Capsules and Cages

Professor Paul Lusby, University of Edinburgh.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Prof. Peter Wolynes, Rice University.

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Band Gap Control in Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers via Lewis Acids

Dr Greg Welch, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Ultrafast Protein Folding"

Professor Eaton is this year's Alexander Todd Visiting Professor

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Professor Eaton is this year's Alexander Todd Visiting Professor

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Cognac and Armagnac - a scientific brandy tasting

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

Bruce Perry (Eaux de Vie Ltd, London).

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Conjugated Polyelectrolytes for Emerging Optoelectronic Devices and Bioelectronic Applications

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Multicomponent Block Polymers for Templating and Separations

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences

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

BP Institute, Madingley Road.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Multifunctional Polymer Films and Coatings

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Amphiphide Monolayers to study interfacial interactions

A Reception will follow this talk in the Todd Hamied Room

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Recharging the Planet: New Approaches for Optimizing the Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries and Fuel Cells

Inaugural Lecture

Professor Clare Grey, Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Chemistry.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 16:15-17:15