Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Porphyrins In Discrete Metal-Mediated Assemblies

Professor Elisabetta Iengo.

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Organic Nanoionics in Polymers for Energy Conversion System

Prof. Manabu Tanaka, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Formulating protein behaviour in nanospace: Key to rational glue screening

Prof. Daishi Fujita, Kyoto University iCeMS Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences.

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Bridging Engineering and Education: Technologies for Enhanced Training Experiences

For online attendees, please register at: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87383429850

Professor Rami Ghannam, University of Glasgow.

Electrical Engineering Division Seminar Room, 9 J J Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Hosts: From Energy Intensive Separations to Sensors and Soft Robotics

Prof. Nivine Khashab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 14 December 2023, 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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthesis planning, mechanistic analysis and discovery of new reaction classes in the age of computers

Prof. Bartosz Grzybowski, UNIST, Republic of Korea.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 27 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Prof. Julio Lloret

Prof. Julio Lloret, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development of Solid-State Solar Thermal Fuels

Dr. John Griffin, Lancaster University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

‘Development of Intelligent Power Control Units for Next-Generation High-Speed EMU Traction System’

For online attendance register at: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84268115132

Dr Yunqing Hu, Times Electric UK Innovation Centre.

Electrical Engineering Seminar Room and Online (registration required).

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Little Solutions to Big Problems: How we use nanoporous materials to address sustainability challenges

Prof. Camille Petit,Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Surface analysis – elemental identification & quantification – challenges and opportunities

For online participation register at: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83201949436

Dr Babak Bakhit, University of Cambridge.

Electrical Engineering Seminar Room and Online (registration required).

Wednesday 27 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Diastereoselective self-assembly of low-symmetry metal-organic cages

Dr Jamie Lewis, University of Birmingham.

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

Wednesday 20 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Control: Strategic Uses of Carbon Nanohoops, Fluorinated Cyclohexanes and Organophosphates

Prof. Max von Delius, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Ulm University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 24 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Calibrate Weak Intermolecular Ligand Interactions on Nanoparticles via the Dynamic Volume of Chain Segments

Prof. Xueqian Kong, Institute of Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University .

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 20 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Introduction to Sony and its Academic Engagement Models

Dor online access, register at: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87291102784

Damjan Stamcar, Sony Technology Partnerships Europe.

Electrical Engineering Seminar Room and Online (registration required).

Wednesday 12 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Hetero-atomization of Bi-metals Ultrathin Nanostructure and Their Electro-catalytic Performance

For online access register at: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84125015974

Prof. Ming Wen School of Chemistry Science and Engineering, Tongji University, China.

EEDB Seminar Room, Electrical Engineering and Online (registration required).

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Colloidal nanocrystals to advance catalysis and energy technologies

Prof. Raffaella Buonsanti, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne .

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Semiconductor nanowires: harder, better, faster, stronger

For online access register at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84761376876.

Professor Hannah Joyce, University of Cambridge.

West Hub Lecture Theatre 2 and Online (registration required).

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Low-dimensional and van der Waals Meta-photonics

Register for online access at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/83490852601

Prof. Cheng-Wei Qiu, National University of Singapore.

EEDB Seminar Room, Electrical Engineering and Online (registration required).

Friday 09 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Light: Science and Applications - towards a top tier journal in optics and photonics

Dr Jingze Yuan, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP), Chinese Academy of Science.

EEDB Seminar Room, Electrical Engineering and Online (registration required).

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Molecular design approaches to organic semiconductors

Prof. Iain McCulloch, University of Oxford.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Research to Industrialization

Register for online access at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81017622955

Philip James, Haleon.

EEDB Seminar Room, Electrical Engineering and Online (registration required).

Wednesday 05 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

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Nanostructures for Energy and Sustainability

Prof. Amor Abdelkader, Prof. of Advanced Materials at the University of Bournemouth and Director at AC Super.

EEDB Seminar Room, Electrical Engineering and Online (registration required).

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Photosynthesis on an electrode

Dr Jenny Zhang, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Discovering New Materials By Combining Computation And Intelligent Mobile Robotic Chemists

Andrew I. Cooper, University of Liverpool.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

T-Shaped Transition Metal Complexes and their Metalloradical Nature

Prof. Lutz Gade, Heidelberg University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The unusual reactivity inside the supramolecular resorcinarene capsule catalyst – from terpene cyclizations to glycosylations

Prof. Konrad Teifenbacher, University of Basel.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

DetClip: Scalable Open-Vocabulary Object Detection via Fine-grained Visual-language Alignment

For online attendance register at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81023462406

Dr Wei Zhang, Huawei London Research Center.

EEDB Seminar Room, Electrical Engineering and Online (registration required).

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

X-ray and insitu transmission electron microscopy to study calcium phosphate nucleation from bioactive glass dissolution

For online attendance register at https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/83257312774

Dr Richard Langford, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

EEDB Seminar Room, Electrical Engineering and Online (registration required).

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Nanomechanics of materials used in flexible electronics

For online attendance register at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/88497036336

Dr Deepak Venkateshvaran Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

EEDB Seminar Room, Electrical Engineering and Online (registration required).

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Backscatter communication for the next billion devices

Talk is also presented online, register for online access at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/83658325679

Dr Michael Crisp, University of Cambridge.

EEDB Seminar Room, Electrical Engineering and Online (registration required).

Wednesday 17 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

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

'Material Futures'

Talk is presented in person at EEDB Seminar room or online, register for online access at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86477715606

Prof Stefan Hofmann, University of Cambridge.

Electrical Engineering, Department of Engineering - CGC Seminar Room, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA - and online.

Wednesday 13 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Holographic Flat Panel Display

Register at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/87915366720

Professor Hong-Seok Lee, Seoul National University.

Online (registration required).

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Consumer Healthcare - Finding Research that Changes the World

Talk is presented in person at CGC Seminar room or online, register for online access at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/88168435422

Tom Watt, Claudia Maw, Philip James. GSK Consumer Healthcare.

Electrical Engineering, Department of Engineering - CGC Seminar Room, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Developments in Smart Infrastructure and Construction

Register to attend at https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/83082076652

Dr Jennifer Schooling, Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction.

Online (registration required).

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

3D Printing and Biofabrication for Healthcare and Sustainability

Register to attend: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/87194557203

Dr Yan Yan Shery Huang, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Online (registration required).

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Semiconductor sensor and actuator technologies for augmented reality and human-machine interfaces

Register online at: http://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82279218918

Paul Heremans, IMEC and KULeuven.

Online (registration required).

Thursday 02 December 2021, 13:00-14:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

'Achieving High Performance Resistive Switching Through Careful Materials Selection and Engineering'

Register online at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89420580587

Professor Judith L MacManus-Driscoll, University of Cambridge.

Online (registration required).

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Platform strategy – how to win with platforms

Register online at: http://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82845790236

Dr Tero Ojanperä - Chairman&Co-Founder, Silo AI; Professor of Practise, Aalto University.

Online (registration required).

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Of Machines and Men

Register online at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/85186972602

Professor Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge.

Online (registration required).

Wednesday 22 September 2021, 13:00-14:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Designing augmented reality head up display from a human factor perspective

To register visit https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/85292612651

Valerian Meijering (Jaguar Land Rover).

Online.

Wednesday 25 August 2021, 13:00-14:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Power Electronics in Energy Conversion - Latest Advances

Register online at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwoc-2vqDIjE9yn18hprW_bhSmSFRZWk0uZ

Dr Teng Long, Department of Engineering, University of Cambidge.

Online.

Thursday 15 July 2021, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Final Year PhD Talks (by Hugh Ryan and Francesca Firth)

Hugh Ryan and Francesca Firth (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Zoom meeting (Meeting ID: 967 7032 7126 Passcode: 077949).

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

CAPE Symposium: Flexible Electronics for Healthcare

Register online now at https://eng-cam.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItcOmhpz8tE9dRGXaU8jk1f5sQzW8B8M72

see list of speakers above.

Online.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 13:30-16:00

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Controlling photonic properties from the micro to the macroscale

Final year PhD student talk

Clement Chan (Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Zoom meeting (Meeting ID: 944 5796 1273, Passcode: 773568).

Thursday 03 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Sony R&D research interest: Advanced Display and Photonics Technology

Koichi Amari and Klaus Zimmermann .

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82154076939.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Talks delivered by two final year PhD students

Taylor Uekert and Rajesh Jethwa (Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Universit of Cambridge.

Zoom meeting (Meeting ID: 933 8200 8737, Passcode: 991562).

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Light weight electronics with simplified architecture in automobile

Ashutosh Tomar, Jaguar Land Rover.

https://zoom.us/j/92924554238.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

GSK Consumer Healthcare: Present and Future areas of interest

Tom Watt, Angelos Echiadis. GSK Consumer Healthcare.

https://zoom.us/j/92806674651?pwd=aGt3MGJ4em44a2xlSmYybThSbjI3UT09.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

External talks

Electrochemical Technology for the Low Carbon Transition

Professor Nigel Brandon (Imperial College London).

Zoominar (registration required): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bp-icam-webinar-electrochemical-technology-for-the-low-carbon-transition-tickets-141658982831.

Thursday 25 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chemical reactivity in solution and under confinement – Applications and computational developments

Professor Fernanda Duarte (Hertford College, University of Oxford).

Zoom meeting ID: 920 8107 6877; Passcode: 119678.

Thursday 04 March 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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using CO2 to Your Advantage

Prof Matt Kanan (Stanford University, USA).

PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 04 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cancellation - Computational Modelling at the Interface of Physical Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry

This talk has been canceled.

Prof. Fernanda Duarte (Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Innovation in synthetic methodology through use of flow

Joint Materials/Synthesis RIG Seminar

Prof. Timothy Noël (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 02 March 2020, 15:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Designed Polynuclear Metal Compounds For the Activation of Small Molecules

Prof Leslie Murray (University of Florida, USA).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Friday 28 February 2020, 10:00-11:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Towards 3D characterization of nanomaterials under realistic conditions

Prof Sara Bals (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Bioinspired Nano- and Microstructured Surfaces: From Analysis and Replication to Applications

Prof. Dr. Hendrik Hoelscher (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Microstructure Technology, Germany).

PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 26 February 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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reversible Catalysis in Redox Matrices

Prof. Dr. Nicolas Plumeré (Department of Chemistry, University of Bochum).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 10:00-11:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Tuning Properties and Functionality in the Modulated Self-Assembly of Metal-Organic Frameworks

Prof. Ross Forgan (School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

High Frequency Dynamic Nuclear Polarization β-Amyloid, Membranes and the Magic Angle

Prof. Robert G. Griffin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Catalytic Conversion of Biomass and Platform Chemicals

Prof. Feng Wang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Friday 10 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Corrosion Studies on Copper-Coated Carbon Steel Containers for Used Nuclear Fuel

Prof. James J. Noël (The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

From molecular self-association to novel weapons in the fight against antimicrobial resistance

Dr Jennifer R. Hiscock (School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent).

PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 29 August 2019, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthesis and applications of mechanically chiral molecules

Prof. Steve Goldup (University of Southampton).

PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 28 August 2019, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Confined Electron Transfer for Premium Photocatalysis within Metal-Organic Architectures

Prof Chunying Duan (Dalian University of Technology, China).

PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Friday 09 August 2019, 11:00-12:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Overview of dense self-assembled collagen materials for tissue engineering and morphogenesis studies

Dr Nadine Nassif (CNRS, Collège de France, Sorbonne Université).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 17 July 2019, 11:00-12:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Aromatic foldamer based protein mimicry and recognition

Prof. Ivan Huc (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 04 July 2019, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

TBC

Dr. Wim L. Noorduin (AMOLF).

PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

TBC

Prof. Dr. Sven Schneider (Georg-August-Universität).

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

3D nanostructures for biosensing in living tissues

Dr. Francesco De Angelis, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia .

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

X-ray and light scattering in disordered textured systems: wood and cellulose nano-composites

Prof Yoshiharu Nishiyama (French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:30-14:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

DENdrimicelles Dendrimer-Encapsulated-Nanoparticle coacervate-core Micelles

Prof. Dr. Aldrik Velders (Wageningen University & Research).

PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Complex materials: A journey from disappearing ice phases and ‘pink’ phosphorus to stacking disordered silver iodide

Prof. Christoph G. Salzmann (University College London).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Oxidation catalysis imparted by donor-flexible ligands

Professor Martin Albrecht (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Bern).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Going green with black: On Biomass, Carbon and Clean Energy

Professor Magdalena Titirici (Imperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Surprises in the Self-Assembly of Particles in Spherical Confinement

Prof. Alfons van Blaaderen (Debye Institute for Nanomaterials, Utrecht University).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

In Situ Self-Assembly of Conjugated Polymers

Prof. Tae-Lim Choi (Seoul Natinoal University) .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 31 January 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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Hybrid molecular materials for water splitting applications

Antoni Llobet, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 29 November 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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

MAGNETIC BLOCKING AND LARGE COERCIVITY IN LANTHANIDE-BASED SINGLE-MOLECULE MAGNETS

Selvan Demir - University of Göttingen, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Bridging Molecular and Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis Through Graphite Conjugation

Prof. Yogesh Surendranath, MIT, Cambridge, USA.

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

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

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

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Self-assembling Organic Nanostructures for Solar Energy Conversion

Professor Michael R. Wasielewski, Northwestern University.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Lutz Gade, Heidelberg University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Lutz H. Gade, Heidelburg University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Novel proteins that orchestrate starch granule formation in plants

Dr. David Seung, John Innes Centre.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Biopolymers for photonics - painting opals with water and light

Prof. Fiorenzo Omenetto, Tufts University.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Ian Manners, University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

From binary anionic P4 analogs to ternary intermetalloid clusters

Stefanie Dehnen, Philipps University Marburg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Dr Ivana Evans (Durham University).

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

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

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University.

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

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Marco Abbarchi, Aix-Marseille Université.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Prof. Wolfram Jaegermann, TU Darmstadt.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

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

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cyclic Peptides: Building Blocks for Supramolecular Designs

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

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Networks, resilience and complexity

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Correlation between reflected and transmitted light in scattering media

Dr. Jacopo Bertolotti, University of Exeter.

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

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Prof. Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Naomi Halas, RICE University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Naomi Halas, RICE University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cellulose-based helical micro/nano filaments and films

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Prof. Michael Ward, University of Sheffield.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Biomimicry with Synthetic Receptors: Self-Assembly and Molecular Recognition

Richard Hooley, University of California.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Takuzo Aida, University of Tokyo .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Takuzo Aida, University of Tokyo .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Molecular Organisation: Working with Molecules on the Nanoscale

Prof. Neil Champness, University of Nottingham.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Interfacial Coordination Programming of 1D and 2D Materials

Prof. Hiroshi Nishihara, University of Tokyo.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Prof. Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Clare Grey, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Controlling Life with Photons

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Dr Mark D. Symes, University of Glasgow.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Prof. Sarah (Sally) Price, UCL.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Dr. Kazuyuki Takeda, .

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Prof. Mircea Dincă Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Biomineralization of nacre

Prof. Pupa Gilbert, University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Biogenic light induced tuneable photonic crystals

Dvir Gur - Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using Proteins to Prepare Functional Polymeric Nanomaterials

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 05 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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Molecular Electronics for Chemical Sensors

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Prof. Jean-François Masson, Université de Montréal.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Introduction to Huawei Technologies

Huawei R&D and Central Hardware Engineering Institute.

Electrical Engineering, Department of Engineering - Seminar Room 190 - 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 15:00-18:00

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Solar Powered CO2-to-Fuel

2015 Winner of the RSC Centenary Prize for defining work in nanomaterials

Prof. Geoffrey Ozin, University of Toronto.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Chemistry PhD students, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Photonics, Enabling the Next Revolutions

Carlos Lee, Director General EPIC – European Photonics Industry Consortium, 14 Rue de la Science, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

Electrical Engineering, Department of Engineering - Seminar Room - 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

Monday 12 October 2015, 14:00-16:00

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Evolution of Functionality of Porous Coordination Polymers

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

Professor Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

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

sc867's list

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Second Lewis Lecture

Professor Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

First Lewis Lecture

Professor Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nanomaterials Design for Electrochemical Technologies: Batteries and Electrocatalysts

Inaugural Schlumberger Lectures

Professor Yi Cui, Stanford University, USA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nanomaterials Design for Energy and Environment

Inaugural Schlumberger Lectures

Professor Yi Cui, Stanford University, USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cephalopod-derived Materials for Photonic and Protonic Devices

Informal Materials RIG seminar

Professor Alon Gorodetsky, University of California, Irvine.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chemical Adventures Using the Unified Principles of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis

Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas, Emeritus Professor.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Information Materials RIG seminar

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Hybrid pixel detectors - from hunting the Higgs Boson to medical X-ray imaging

Dr Michael Campbell (CERN).

Engineering Department - Lecture Room - LR0, Baker Building.

Monday 23 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Non lithium based technologies: walking on the sodium side

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

2nd BP Lecture 2014

Professor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Soft Matter Quasicrystals and Their Complex Cousins

First BP lecture 2014

Professor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Lewis Acids based on Aluminium and Phosphorus

Professor Drasko Vidovic, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

2D or not 2D? Two-dimensional nanostructures for sensing and solar energy conversion

Professor Bettina Lotsch, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitaet, Germany.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Disordered Photonics

Professor Diederik Wiersma, University of Florence.

Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 02 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reinventing Energy Storage in 2D: Nanosheets and Exfoliated Materials

Professor Bruce Dunn, UCLA.

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Jaguar Land Rover - Technology Trends and Future Direction

Dr Andrew Foster and Lee Skrypchuk (both from Jaguar Land Rover).

Engineering Department - Lecture Room - LR3 Inglis Building.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Functional Conjugated Polymers: Towards New Materials for Biomedical Applications

NZIC Easterfield Prize Lecture

Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic, .

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Werner Complexes: A New Class of Chiral Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysts for Enantioselective Organic Reactions"

RSC Organometallic Award 2013 Lecture

Professor John Gladysz, Texas A&M.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP Day 2014

Various.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 09:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Dripping, jetting, drips and wetting: the magic of microfluidics

Professor David A. Weitz, Harvard University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

The Self Learning Car

This is the first talk in the CAPE Lecture Series, to be held twice termly and organised by the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE). http://www-cape.eng.cam.ac.uk/

MSc Kris Kobylinski and Dr Thomas Popham, both from Jaguar Land Rover.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room - LR4.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development of visible light responsive photocatalysts for water splitting

Second Lewis Lecture 2014

Professor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Organic Photoredox Catalysis: Methods and Mechanistic Insight

Professor David Nicewicz, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solar-fuels production from water using photocatalysts

First Lewis Lecture 2014

Professor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Christian Doppler Symposium

Various.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 27 March 2014, 14:00-17:00

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

dsk26's list

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Fluorine as Key Element in buckyball chemistry and C-F bond activation

Professor Dieter Lentz, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Materials Synthesis and Interface Catalysis Using the Molecular Precursor Approach

Professor Dr. Matthias Driess, Technische Universitat Berlin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Coordination Clusters as Building Blocks for New Materials

Professor Annie Powell, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chiral Nematic Properties of Cellulosic Materials

Melville/Materials Seminar

Professor Derek G Gray, McGill University, Canada.

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Organometallic Reaction Chemistry and Catalysis in the Solid-State

Professor Andrew Weller, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 05 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Getting the most out of carbon sp2 and sp3 materials in sensing applications

Professor Julie Macpherson, Univeristy of Warwick.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nanotechnology for Medicine

BP Lectures 2013

Professor James Tour, Rice University, USA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Graphene Growth and Applications

BP Lectures 2013

Professor James Tour, Rice University, USA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 22 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Control over Cavity Size & Shape in Anion-binding Coordination Cages

Dr Guido Clever, University of Goettingen.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Boron Reagents in the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds

Dalton Young Researcher Award Lecture

Dr Rebecca Melen, University of Toronto.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 29 August 2013, 09:30-11:00

Organic Chemistry

"Porous Organic Cages - A Serious Alternative to Extended Framework Materials"

Professor Michael Mastalerz, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 August 2013, 14:00-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Douglas R MacFarlane, Monash University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanoresponsive Materials and Self-Healing Systems

2013 Melville Lectureship

Professor Jeffrey S Moore, University of Illnois.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Lewis Lectures 2013

Professor Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Lewis Lectures 2013

Professor Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry - Nano Puzzle and More

Professor Iris Oppel, RWTH Aachen University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP 3rd Years PhD Talks

Talks by 3rd Yr PhD students in the Materials RIG

various.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Biomimetic, bioinspired and biosynthetic catalysts for water-splitting

Dr Vincent Artero, CEA, Grenoble.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 21 March 2013, 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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

For Richer Pore: Porous Molecules and Materials Through Supramolecular Chemistry

Professor Mark MacLachlan, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Michael Graetzel, EPFL.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Ian Manners, University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Geoff Moore.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Assembly on Designer Templates

Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya, University of Tokyo.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 06 December 2012, 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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Christophe Coperet, ETH Zurich.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 15 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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

Prof Ming Jiang, Fudan University, Shanghai.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Stabilizing Proteins with Polymer Conjugates

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Departmental Lecture

Professor Andrea Ferrari, Department of Engineering.

Scott Polar Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Institute.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

RSC Marlow Award Lecture

Dr Sharon Ashbrook, University of St Andrews.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Tailored Polymers for Controlling Cell Signaling

Prof Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Physical properties of metal organic frameworks

Professor Anthony K Cheetham, Materials Science, Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Ulrich Schubert, Technical University of Vienna, Austria.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Inauguration of Christian Doppler Laboratory for Systainable SynGas Chemistry

Speaker to be confirmed.

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Artificial Leaf

Lewis Lectures 2012

Professor Dan Nocera, MIT.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Lewis Lectures 2012

Professor Dan Nocera, MIT.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP 3rd Years PhD Talks

3rd Year PhD Students.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Development of New Synthetic Methods and Fundamental Studies of Conjugated Polymers

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

Prof Christopher W Bielawski, University of Texas at Austin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Designing Functional Molecular Nanostructures

Professor Stefan Hecht (Humboldt University of Berlin).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthetic Molecular Systems (th)at Work

Professor Stefan Matile, University of Geneva.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

New Materials for Phosphorescent OLEDs and Polymer Photovoltaics

Please note the change in the time

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

RSC Lecture (Sustainable Energy Award)

Dr Ed Constable, University of Basel.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Materials/Synthesis Departmental Lecture

Dr John Sutherland, Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Stephen Skinner, ICL.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Jonas Peters, California Institute of Technology.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Light-Responsive Polymers and Composites for Biomedical Applications

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

New Methods of Bioanalysis using Functionalised Nanoparticles and SERS

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

Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Christopher Pickett, University of East Anglia.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Studies towards engineered wood and designed cell wall polymer interactions

Ms Emma-Rose Coad (University Of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Designing Artificial Light-harvesting Arrays for Solar Cells

Professor Anthony Harriman, Newcastle University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Water Photolysis in Biology: Photosystem II

Joint Materials/Biological Colloquia

Professor Bill Rutherford, Imperial College, London.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

Ms Enass Abo-Hamed (University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Coordination and activation of aminoboranes

Dr Simon Aldridge, University of Oxford.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

CPGS talks

Various.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Spin crossover complexes and macrocyclic single-molecule magnets

Professor Sally Brooker, University of Otago.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Networking the Self-assembled Cages

Professor Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

ac313's list

Molecular Simulations in Structure-Based Drug Design

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

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

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

Professor Lutz Gade, University of Heidelberg.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Soft and hard nanomaterials made by self-assmebly

Professor Ullrich Steiner, Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

Dr Jonathan Weaver, Imperial College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Molecules and nanostructures for solar energy conversion

Professor James Durrant, Imperial College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Anion Supramolecular Chemistry: Sensing and Materials

Professor Jonathan Steed, Durham University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Molecular Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly

Extra Inorganic Seminar

Professor Kay Severin, EPFL, Switzerland.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Design of New Catalytic Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry

Lewis Lecture 2011

Professor David Milstein, Weizmann Institute, Israel.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

RSC Organic Symposium at the University of Cambridge

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

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

Professor Robin Perutz FRS, University of York.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Noncovalent Nanostructures in Aqueous Medium: Robust yet Adaptive

Dr Boris Rybtchinski, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

Prof Fred Wudl, UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Tooling Up for Nanoworld: The Magic of Molecular Machines

Alex Hopkins Lecture 2011

Professor David Leigh, University of Edinburgh.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

Dr Karolina Wahlström, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Hydrogen Storage and Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Professor Jeffrey R Long, Berkeley, USA.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

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

Professor Roland Sigel, University of Zurich.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Structural Materials Seminar Series

Anisotropy, designing of the texture and mechanical properties of metal alloys

Prof. Eng. Carlo Mapelli, Department of Mechanics, Politecnico di Milano.

Department of Materials Science, Gordon Seminar Room.

Friday 25 February 2011, 11:00-12:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Engineering microenvironments to control cell fate and behaviour

Dr Chunming Wang, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

BP Day

3rd Year PhD students.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Structural Materials Seminar Series

In situ synchrotron X-ray characterisation of microstructure formation during solidification of Al-based alloys

Dr. Guillaume Reinhart, Institute Materiaux Microélectronique Nanosciences de Provence, Marseille.

Department of Materials Science, Gordon Seminar Room.

Friday 18 February 2011, 11:00-12:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Form Matters: Catalysis with "Butterflies"

Professor Hansjorg Grutzmacher, ETH Zurich.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

Dr Xian Jun Loh, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Structural Materials Seminar Series

Cracks, Interfaces and Environment - experiments on the nanoscale

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Horst Vehoff, Professur für Werkstoffwissenschaften und Methodik, Universität des Saarlandes.

Department of Materials Science, Gordon Seminar Room.

Friday 04 February 2011, 11:00-12:00

Inorganic Chemistry

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

Dr David Scheschkewitz, Imperial College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Structural Materials Seminar Series

Some Micromechanical Studies in Titanium

Dr. Angus Wilkinson, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

Department of Materials Science, Gordon Seminar Room.

Friday 28 January 2011, 11:00-12:00

Inorganic Chemistry

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

Professor Gillian Goward, McMaster University, Canada.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Catalytic Capsids: reactions in confinement

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

CANCELLED

Professor Mike Krische, University of Texas.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

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

RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award Lecture 2010

Professor Raymond Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

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

RSC award lecture - joint with Inorganic Chemistry

Professor Raymond Wong, RSC award lecture.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

POSTPONED TO LENT TERM

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

POSTPONED TO LENT TERM

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Exploring Ras Super-family Proteins : A Chemical Biology Approach

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

Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Inorganic 2nd Yr PhD Student Talks

University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

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

Dr Ian Bell, Merck, USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Systems chemistry – Teaching simple molecules to do complex things

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Novel Types of Organic Electronic Materials: Polyselenophenes and Oligofurans

Professor Michael Bendikov, Weizman Institute, Israel.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Organic Chemistry

No Strain, No Gain?: Lessons in Catalysis

Professor Mark Lautens, University of Toronto.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Organic Chemistry

Pfizer Graduate Symposium and talk

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

Dr Daffydd Owen, Pfizer Global Research & Development,.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Engineering microenvironments to control cell fate and behaviour

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Deformation of droplet/double emulsion in microfludics

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Monolithic Polymers: Innovations in Stationary Phase Technology for Separation Science

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis

Joint with Inorganic Chemistry

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

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

Professor Alex Dieter North Carolina State University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Structure-property relationships of molecular crystals

Professor Len Barbour, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Developing Catalytic Reactions One Step at a Time

Professor Jennifer Love, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

Prof Chuluo Yang, Wuhan University, China.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Tuning hierarchical structures with multiple hydrogen bonding interactions

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

The synthetic aspects of polyelectrolyte brushes

Miss Nan Cheng, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Smart and Flexible: Stimulus-responsive polymer brushes on elastic substrates

Mr Tim Kelby, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 15:30-16:00

Organic Chemistry

Exploring the evolutionary relationships and the reaction chemistry in a family of crucial biosynthetic aldolases

Professor Emily J Parker, University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

CANCELLED - Synthesis of Polymeric Probes to Control Cell Recognition and Signaling

Melville Lectureship Speaker

Prof Laura L Kiessling, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Designing metal containing anticancer drugs in the absence of a well defined target

THIS IS A CHANGE FROM THE ORIGINAL TIME

Professor Paul Dyson, EPFL.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 15:00-16:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Materials Chemistry and Climate Change

Professor Peter Bruce, University of St Andrews.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

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

Inaugural Lecture

Professor Clare Grey.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Organic Chemistry

Multicomponent approaches to organic synthesis and chemical biology

Jared Shaw.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

CANCELLED

Juan Granja.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Shedding Light on the Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Sunscreens

Dr Emily Balskus, Harvard Medical School.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 30 April 2010, 17:00-18:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Nanosized Clusters with Main Group elements as Ligands

Lewis Lecture

Professor Dieter Fenske.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 30 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

Joe Spencer Memorial Lectures

11.00 Prof Peter Leadley (Cambridge), 11.45 Dr Joseph Wright (UEA), 12.15 Dr Dieter Spiteller (MPI Jena), 1.45 Prof Timor Baasov (Technion, Isreal), 2.30 Dr Andrew Truman (Cambridge), 3.00 Prof David O'Hagan (St Andrews), 4.15 Prof Jin-Quan Yu (Scripps).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 23 April 2010, 11:00-18:00

Inorganic Chemistry

EPR spectroscopy of transition metal clusters and clusters-of-clusters

Professor Eric McInnes, University of Manchester.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 14:00-15:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Tailoring multivalent interactions in the design of biomaterials

Professor Kristi Kiick (Materials Science & Engineering, University of Delaware).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 21 April 2010, 11:00-12:00

Organic Chemistry

CANCELLED DUE TO AIR TRAVEL PROBLEMS

Emily Parker.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 April 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Structural biology of small RNA-mediated gene regulation and methylation-mark mediated epigenetic regulation

Dr, Dinshaw J. Patel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 25 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Inorganic Chemistry

What will a nanobot look like?

Alex Hopkins Lecture

Professor Tony Ryan.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 18 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Complex architecures of conjugated polymers via Suzuki and Kumada chain-growth polycondensations

Please note the venue is the Wolfson Lecture Theatre

Dr Anton Kiriy (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

BP Day

3rd Year PhD students.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 12:00-18:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Extended ß-Triketone Derivatives: Versatile Building Blocks for Metallosupramolecular Chemistry and Crystal Engineering

RSC Centenary Lecturer, 2009-2010

Professor Leonard Lindoy.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Colloidal forces – Tackling mechanics and interactions of complex particles using AFM/optics combination

Prof Andreas Fery, University of Bayreuth Department of Physical Chemistry.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Framework Materials: Fascinating Properties

Professor John Evans, University of Durham.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 14:00-15:30

Organic Chemistry

Chiral Carbenoids for Asymmetric Synthesis

Professor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 01 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Strong CH Hydrogen Bonds: The Newest Player in the field of Anion Receptors

Professor Amar Flood, University of Indiana.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Organic Chemistry

Sequencing genomes and sequences in the genome: from chemistry to medicine

Inaugural Professorial Lecture: in the presence of Marcus and Jennifer Smith

Professor Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Dynamics and Structure of Short Biopolymers Probed by Fluorescence

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Seminar

Professor Werner Nau (Jacobs University, Bremen).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Self-Assembly and Self-Sorting: How to Construct and Characterize Complex Architectures

Professor Christoph Schalley, Institut fur Chemie & Biochemie der Freien Universitat Berlin.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Semiconductor Block Copolymers for Organic Electronic Devices

Dr Michael Sommer (Melville Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Cyclodextrin Nanomachines at Work

Dr Roger Coulston (Melville Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

Development of New Methods for Catalytic C–H Functionalization: Critical Interplay between Catalyst Design and Mechanistic Analysis

Eli Lilley Lecture

Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Mighigan, USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Colourful chemistry with zwitterionic-type pi-ligands and their metal complexes

Professor Pierre Braunstein, University of Strasbourg.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

New Catalysis Concepts

Professor David W. C. MacMillan, Princeton University, USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 13 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Inorganic Chemistry

BP Day

3rd Year PhD students.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 07 January 2010, 13:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Designer Crystals: Bio-Inspired Approaches to Controlling Crystallisation

Professor Fiona Meldrum, University of Leeds.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 December 2009, 14:00-15:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Chemistry of Acenes - toward a Possible Poly(acene)

Dr Douglas Neckers.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

New Strategies for the Synthesis of Glycopeptides and Glycoproteins

Dr Richard Payne, University of Sydney.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

New Genetic Codes

Dr Jason Chin, University of Cambridge, MRC-LMB.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Binding Studies on CB[6] with a Series of 1-Alkyl-3-methylimidazolium Ionic Liquids

Miss Nan Zhao, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Polymeric building blocks for supramolecular complexation with cucurbit[8]uril

Mr Eric Appel, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-16:30

Inorganic Chemistry

The physical and chemical state of nanoparticulate catalysts during carbon nanotube and silicon nanowire CVD

Dr Stephan Hoffman, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Engineering.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Organic Chemistry

Metallonitrene/Alkyne Metathesis and Beyond: Transition Metal Catalyzed Oxidative Amination for Organic Synthesis

Professor Simon Blakey, Emory University, USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Microdroplets in Microfluidics: Towards Emulsion Crystals

Mr Wolfgang-Andreas Bauer, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Heterojunction Control of Organic & Hybrid Photovoltaic Semiconductor Devices

Miss Einat Elmalem, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-16:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Metal-organic frameworks for chemistry and medicine - Can we design them?

Professor Russell Morris, University of St Andrews.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Organic Chemistry

Adventures in conjugate addition chemistry: from alkene hydroacylation to protein bioconjugation

Professor Steve Caddick, UCL.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Functional Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly

Prof Kay Severin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

Design of chiral ligands for asymmetric copper-catalyzed reactions

Professor Alex Alexakis, University of Geneva.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Colloids, surfaces and reversible supramolecular interactions: Towards light-driven motion

Mr Feng Tian, University of Cambridge, Mellville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Determination of binding constants for cucurbit[8]uril complexes: differences in aqueous versus gas-phase binding

Mr Frank Biedermann, University of Cambridge, Meville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-16:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Probing the structure of organic-inorganic biocomposites

Dr Melinda Duer, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Organic Chemistry

Graduate Symposium plus Successful Drug Discovery and Development at Pfizer: Thanks to Organic Synthesis

Dr Dafydd Owen from Pfizer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 October 2009, 13:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Synthesis of Chiral Bidentate Phosphorous Ligands in the Form of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIP)

Miss Mei-Hsuan Tsai, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Synthesis and Isolation of cucurbit[n]uril: a supramolecular host

Mr Dezhi Jiao, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-16:30

Organic Chemistry

Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff - Route Selection using Kepner-Tregoe Decision Analysis

Dr Jeremy Parker from Astra Zeneca.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Turning Cavitands into Materials

Professor Enrico Dalcanale, University of Parma.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

The Many Faces of Heme in Biology

Professor Emma Raven, University of Leicester.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

New Motifs Blocks for Molecular Recognition: From DNA Bases and Protein-Surfaces to a-Helices and b-Sheets

Dr Andrew J Wilson (University of Leeds).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 08 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Halogen Bonding and Metal Ion Coordination in Supramolecular Complexes

Professor Kari Rissanen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 01 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Organic Chemistry

Atom Economic Transformations Catalysed by Low-Valent Cobalt Complexes

All Welcome

Professor Gerhard Hilt (Marburg University).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 24 September 2009, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Chirality in supramolecular polymers

Maarten Smulders, University of Technology, Eindhoven.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 September 2009, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Molecular Understanding, Design and Development of Zwitterionic-based Biomaterials

Prof Shaoyi Jiang, Boeing-Roundhill Professor of Chemical Engineering & Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 August 2009, 14:00-15:00

Organic Chemistry

Opportunities and Lessons in Chemistry and Biology Stemming from an Investment in Total Synthesis

Professor Andrew Phillips, University of Colorado.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 13 August 2009, 17:00-18:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Characterisation of Adhesion Phenomena & contact of surfaces by Soft Colloidal Probe – AFM

Johann Erath, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 04 August 2009, 15:00-16:00

Organic Chemistry

Recent advances in the area of asymmetric hydrogenation

Professor Xumu Zhang, Rutgers University, USA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 August 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Synthetic Peptides for DNA and Protein recognition

Professor Jose-Luis Mascarenas, University of Santiago de Compostela.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 22 July 2009, 11:00-12:00

Organic Chemistry

Chiral Proton Catalysis: The Development of New Reactions and Reagents for Alkaloid Synthesis

Professor Jeff Johnston, Vanderbilt University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 03 July 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

"Mechanisms, Structures and Chemical Informatics"

Dr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 June 2009, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Self-Assembled Soft Materials and the In Situ Synthesis of Nanoparticles

Dr George John, The City College of New York, CUNY.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 05 June 2009, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Electrochemical formation of responsive hydrogel films for bioanalytics

Dr. Johanna Bünsow, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

Synthesis of Bridged Natural Products

Speaker to be confirmed.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 01 June 2009, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Molecular tectonics: from building blocks to crystals

Professor M.W. Hosseini, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Universite de Strasbourg.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Matrix elasticity directs stem cell lineage – Better (polymeric) materials for Better biology

Melville Lecture

Professor Dennis Discher, Biophysical Eng. & Nanobiopolymers Lab, University of Pennsylvania.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

Merck Lectureship Talk 3 - Probing Intracellular Signalling Processes with Phosphatidyl Inositol Polyphosphates .

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 15 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Assembling and breaking: competitive interactions between polymer, drug and cyclodextrin

Dr Cecile Dreiss, Pharmaceutical Science Division, King's College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

Merck Lectureship Talk 2 - Pericyclic Reactions in the Synthesis of Medium Ring Ether and Piperidine Alkaloids of Biological Importance

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Merck Lectureship Talk 1 - Seeing the Light With Polymers

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Organometallic f-Element Chemistry and the Importance of Questioning Scientific Assumptions

RSC Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship

Professor William J Evans, University of California Irvine, USA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 May 2009, 11:00-12:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Boronic acid based materials for carbohydrate detection

Dr Tony James, University of Bath.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Model Chemistry, theoretical calculations and recent advances in understanding the chemistry of nitrogenase

Professor Dimitri Coucouvanis, University of Michigan.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Investigation of multivalent glycan interactions on functional surfaces

Dr Carlo Fasting, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Rapid and efficient production and oxidation of hydrogen by air-sensitive metalloenzymes: electrochemistry, mechanisms and implications for life and energy

Lewis Lecture

Professor Fraser Armstrong, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 14:00-15:30