Prediction-Led Discovery of Functional Molecular Organic Crystals

RSC 2023 Corday-Morgan Prize Winner

Prof Graeme Day, University of Southampton.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 15:15-16:15

Chaperone-mediated neuroprotection against protein aggregation

Prof Cláudio M. Gomes, University of Lisbon.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 October 2024, 14:30-15:30

Droplet Microfluidics for Biophysics and Biotechnology

David Weitz, Harvard University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 24 July 2024, 14:00-15:00

Curious Electrostatics in Concentrated Electrolytes

Prof Susan Perkin, University of Oxford.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 11:00-12:00

In-situ Liquid TEM: Imaging Iron Corrosion

Surabhi Agrawal, University of Cambridge.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 11:30-12:00

Air pollution and climate change in the UK: A future perspective and open questions

Dr Alex Archibald, University of Cambridge.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 11:00-11:30

Modelling Some of the Environmental Impacts of a Hydrogen Economy

Prof John Pyle, University of Cambridge.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 11:30-12:00

Imaging the First Events in T-Cell Activation

Markus Koerbel, University of Cambridge.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 11:00-11:30

Using the Analytical Power of Surface Science for “New” Challenges

Prof Giovanni Costantini, University of Warwick.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

Investigating Disorder in Solids using NMR Spectroscopy, Isotopic Enrichment and First-Principles Calculations

Prof Sharon Ashbrook, University of St Andrews.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

Ice and Surface Chemistry in Space

Prof Wendy Brown, University of Sussex.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

Designing brighter dyes for advanced fluorescence microscopy

Dr Luke Lavis, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 23 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Liquid microjet photoelectron spectroscopy

Prof Helen Fielding, Department of Chemistry, University College London.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Physical RIG, Internal Speakers

Alex Fellows & Dr Lucien Weiss & Dr Hans de Leeuw, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Methods for rapid 3D fluorescence microscopy

Dr Reto Fiolka, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Molecular Tools for Imaging and Controlling Complex Biological Systems

Prof Ed Boyden, MIT.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Physical RIG, Internal Speakers

Dr Thomas Aubry & Sabine Matysik & Ezra Bruggeman, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Covariance-map imaging: a new tool for chemical dynamics studies

Prof Claire Vallance, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Physical RIG, Internal Speakers

Dr John Danial & James Weber & Dr Mike Casford, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

via zoom - please contact David Madden for the zoom link.

Tuesday 19 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospherically significant reactions of Criegee intermediates

Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing, University of Bristol.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Single-Molecule Spectroscopy with Catalysts, Conductive Polymers, and Optical Microresonators

Professor Randall Goldsmith, University of Wisconsin Madison.

Pfizer LT.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Disorder by Design

Prof. Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford.

Pfizer LT.

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

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

Richard Henderson, MRC lab.

Pfizer LT.

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

Halocarbons in Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology: New opportunities and challenges

Pierangelo Metrangolo, Politecnico di Milano.

Pfizer LT.

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

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

Justin Hodgkiss, RSC Easterfield Prize Winner 2016.

Pfizer LT.

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

Directed self-assembly of Janus rods

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

Pfizer LT.

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

Inside a Collapsing Bubble: Sonochemistry and Sonoluminescence

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

Pfizer LT.

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

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

Prof Nuria Garcia-Araez, University of Southampton.

Pfizer LT.

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

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

Sarah Bohndiek (University of Cambridge).

Pfizer LT.

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

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

Dr Anne Dixon, University of Warwick.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

Pfizer LT.

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

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

Professor Helen Fielding, University College London.

Pfizer LT.

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

Tissue-like materials from communicating droplet networks

Professor Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford.

Pfizer LT.

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

Studying membrane bioactivity with super-resolution optical microscopy

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

Pfizer LT.

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

CANCELLED Directed self-assembly of Janus rods

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

Pfizer LT.

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

Probing gene control at the molecular stage

Professor Mark C. Leake, University of York.

Pfizer LT.

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

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

Professor Rod Jones, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer LT.

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

Shining new light on chemistry and biology with inteferometric scattering microscopy

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

Pfizer LT.

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

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

Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing – University of Bristol.

Pfizer LT.

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

Urban Air Quality: An Increasing Challenge for Public Health

Professor Frank Kelly, King's College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry Graduate Seminars

Grad speakers to be confirmed.

Pfizer LT.

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

RSC Lecture

Professor Eric Bakker, University of Geneva.

Pfizer LT.

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

Physical Chemistry

Ionic Liquids: Applications in the Chemical-, Electro- and Bio- Sciences

Douglas R. MacFarlane Australian Centre for Electromaterials Science Monash University, Victoria, Australia.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 16 July 2013, 12:00-13:00

Physical Chemistry

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

Professor Phil Woodruff, University of Warwick.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Title to be confirmed

Dr Lucy Carpenter (University of York).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Watching Single Molecules

David Klenerman (University of Cambridge).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Mechanical Atom Manipulation: Towards a Matter Compiler

Professor Philip Moriarty, University of Nottingham.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Timescales of chemical reactions

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

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

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

RSC Faraday Lecture

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

Professor John Polanyi, University of Toronto.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Modelling synthesis and catalytic applications of doped AlPOs

Inorganic/Theoretical Joint Seminar

Dr Furio Cora, University College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Physical Chemistry Graduate Seminar

David Madden, Matthew Ashford, Isabella Stocker.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Vehicle exhaust nanoparticles: sources and control.

Dr Martyn Twigg - previously Chief Scientist of Johnson Matthey.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

What surfactants do at interfaces

Professor Robert Thomas, University of Oxford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Isotopic constraints on atmospheric methane sources

Dr Rebecca Fisher, Royal Holloway University of London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences

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

BP Institute, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

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

Physical Chemistry

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

Physical Chemistry

Amphiphide Monolayers to study interfacial interactions

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

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

Physical Chemistry

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

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

NOTE unusual DAY and LOCATION Joint with Physical Chemistry

Dr Geoff Tyndall, NCAR Colorado USA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Redox chemistry of diamond

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

Dr Katherine Holt (University College London).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

Rachel Pike, Amy Stevens.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

Neil Dickson, Tamsin Phillips.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

Andrew Cassidy, Paul Dunne.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 17 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

It's not (all) --rocket-- atmospheric science

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

Professor John Pyle (University of Cambridge).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Density functional simulation of a fast-ion conducting glass

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

Professor David Drabold (Ohio University).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Bionanoscience

Professor Gil Lee – University College Dublin.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

How physics can be applied to biological problems

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

Dr Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 20 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Preparation and Properties of Pharmaceutical Cocrystals

GRADUATE SEMINARS

Shyam Karki.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Finding new radicals and new electronic states in complex environments

Dr Timothy Schmidt (University of Sydney).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Insights in heterogeneous catalysis mechanisms from DFT calculations

Dr Philippe Sautet (ENS, Lyon).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Chemical Activity on Graphene Under Stress

Dr Pedro de Andres (CSIC, Madrid).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Accelerating Chemistry & Biology: Intelligent Microfluidics

Professor Andrew de Mello (Imperial College).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry

Atmospheric Aerosols: Their Effect on Climate and on Human Health

Dr Markus Kalberer (University of Cambridge).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Particle Engineering: Role of Surface Chemistry

Dr Jerry Heng (Imperial College).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 14:15-15:15