CenTACat Seminar Schedule 2011-2012

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DATE	Thursday 31^st May 2012
SPEAKER	Professor Edward Maginn, University of Notre Dame, USA
SEMINAR TITLE	'Water and Ionic Liquids: Solvation, Hydration and Other Curious Phenomena'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm

DATE	Wednesday 30^th May 2012
SPEAKER	Professor David O'Hagan, University of St. Andrews
SEMINAR TITLE	'Vicinal C-F bonds and selectively fluorinated rings and things…'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm

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DATE	Wednesday 9^th May 2012
SPEAKER	Prof. W G (Bill) Graham, Physics and Astronomy, Queen's University Belfast
SEMINAR TITLE	"Plasmas in and on Liquids."
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm

DATE	Tuesday 3^rd April 2012
SPEAKER	Professor Tomislav Friščić - McGill University (RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Award)
SEMINAR TITLE	"Lazy Man's Chemistry - Low Energy Approaches to Chemical and Materials Synthesis"
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 3.30 pm

DATE	Monday 2^nd April 2012
SPEAKER	Professor Gordon Wallace - ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES), Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Australia
SEMINAR TITLE	"Organic Nanobionics" – towards a more effective integration of biology and electronics through the development of cytocompatible organic conductors.
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 2.00 pm

DATE	Friday 30^th March 2012
SPEAKER	Professor David Cole-Hamilton - University of St. Andrews
SEMINAR TITLE	"Catalytic Routes to Chemicals from Waste Bio-Derived Oils."
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 1.00 pm

DATE	Monday 26^th March 2012
SPEAKER	Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Manchester *(RSC Merck Award)*
SEMINAR TITLE	'Conformational Communication: From Atropisomers To Artificial Receptors'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm

DATE	Wednesday 14^th March 2012
SPEAKER	Dr Jeremy Parker, - AstraZeneca
SEMINAR TITLE	'Process Development and Route Selection: Art and Science'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm

DATE	Wednesday 29^th February 2012
SPEAKER	Professor Timothy C Gallagher, University of Bristol
SEMINAR TITLE	'Natural Products as Leads to Nicotinic Agonists. Exploring the Chemistry of Cytisine'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 3.00 pm

DATE	Wednesday 22^nd February 2012
SPEAKER	Professor Patrick Gunning, University of Toronto
SEMINAR TITLE	'Developing small molecule, non-phosphorylated inhibitors of STAT3 function for treatment of human cancers'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm

DATE	Wednesday 15^th February 2012
SPEAKER	Professor Fred Manby, University of Bristol (Corday- Morgan Prize)
SEMINAR TITLE	"Quantum chemistry in the condensed phase"
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB LG.024, 4.00 pm

DATE	Wednesday 1^st February 2012
SPEAKER	Professor Adam F. Lee , Cardiff University
SEMINAR TITLE	'Nanoengineering the Active Site in Heterogeneous Catalysis'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm

DATE	Wednesday 25^th January 2012
SPEAKER	Professor Jonathan Williams , University of Bath
SEMINAR TITLE	'Catalytic Syntheses of Amides'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 3.30 pm

DATE	Wednesday 18^th January 2012
SPEAKER	Professor Kenneth A. Dawson - University College Dublin (UCD)
SEMINAR TITLE	'Interactions of Nanoscale Objects with Living Organisms; Definitions of Nanoparticle in situ'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 3.00 pm

Thursday 5th January, 2012

2012 UK-Semiconductor Photochemistry Network 1 day meeting

Queen's University Belfast,
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

David Keir Room LG 111; 9-5 pm

Those who will be speaking include the following Professors:

Michael Hoffmann (CalTech)
David Ollis (North Carolina)
Ivan Parkin (UCL)
Mike Bowker (Cardiff Univ.)
Peter Robertson (RGU)
Tony Byrne (University Ulster)
Colin Boxall (Lancaster Univ.)
Richard Douthwaite (York University)

All QUB members of staff (and their research groups) are free to attend all talks
(non-QUB & non-UK-SPC members must pay a registration fee of £100).
If you wish to attend please inform the Network secretary
Ros Nimmo: roslyn.nimmo@strath.ac.uk; so we get the catering right.

DATE	Wednesday 14^th December 2011
SPEAKER	Dr Ian Aspinal, - Syngenta
SEMINAR TITLE	'Discovery and development of a new herbicide: the story of Bicyclopyrone '
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm

DATE	Wednesday 7^th December 2011
SPEAKER	Dr Magnus Walter, from Eli Lilly
SEMINAR TITLE	'Discovery of LY2216684: a novel selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor for depression and ADHD in phase 3 clinical trials'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm

DATE	Thursday 1^st December 2011
SPEAKER	RSC Evening talk by Professor Jack Pearce
SEMINAR TITLE	'Mines a Pint! - the Story and Tasting of some Ales'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB LG.111, 19.00 pm (nibbles and refreshments afterwards)

DATE	Wednesday 30^th November 2011 - Joint event
SPEAKER	Dr Malachy McCann, National University of Ireland, Maynooth *“ICI ANNUAL AWARD LECTURE”*
SEMINAR TITLE	'Syphilis, MRSA and Cancer - Cures Containing Metal Ions '
	*Followed by*
SPEAKER	Professor Lesley Yellowlees, University of Edinburgh "THOMAS ANDREWS ANNUAL LECTURE"
SEMINAR TITLE	'Powering ahead with solar energy'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB LG.111, at 2.30 pm & 4.00 pm respectively

DATE	Wednesday 23^rd November 2011
SPEAKER	Dr Arnaud Haudrechy, University of Reims, France
SEMINAR TITLE	'A stimulating concept in natural substances synthesis: The Claisen-Ireland/Metathesis strategy'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm

DATE	Wednesday 23^rd November 2011
SPEAKER	Professor Howell G M Edwards, University of Bradford
SEMINAR TITLE	tbc
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre tbc time 2.00 pm (tbc)

DATE	Wednesday 16^th November 2011
SPEAKER	Professor Matthew Davidson, University of Bath
SEMINAR TITLE	'Polymers from Renewable Resources: New Directions for Polylactide'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.403, 4.00 pm

DATE	Tuesday 25^th October 2011
SPEAKER	Dr Michael Pungente, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
SEMINAR TITLE	'Novel Nonviral Nucleic Acid Delivery Vectors'
ROOM / TIME	Lecture theatre DKB 01.028, 3.00 pm