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PCCP is pleased to anounce that Ab initio or Car-Parrinello Molecular Dynamics (CPMD) will host its annual conference at the University of Chicago, 18-20 May 2016.

Topics and discussion will include the latest AIMD developments, encompassing electronic structure and sampling advances; AIMD applications in physics, chemistry and materials science; and large scale simulations on high performance architectures.

Partial List of Invited Speakers

(*) to be confirmed

Please see the webpage for further details.

Green Chemistry are pleased to support the 7th International Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics and Chemistry IMAMPC which will take place in Le Havre, France, 27 – 30 June 2016 . The meeting will promote high-quality research carried out by early career scientists, in order to highlight their contributions to the field. Many of the participants will expose their research work for the first time.

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PCCP was pleased to support the 2016 Royal Australian Chemical Institute Physical Chemistry Meeting, held February 2-5, 2016 at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

The RACI Physical Division spans all aspects of physical and theoretical chemistry, including mass spectrometry, optical spectroscopy, surface chemistry, condensed phase chemical physics, chemical kinetics, biophysical chemistry and theoretical and computational chemistry. The Division was established in 1974. Regular stand-alone Physical Chemistry Divisional conferences started as the Australian Conference on Chemical Reaction Dynamics in 1983, before broadening to their current form, covering all aspects of Physical Chemistry in 1995.

The aim of the conference was to gather physical chemists from Australia and abroad to discuss their latest research.  The conference featured presentations from renowned plenary and keynote speakers from Australia and abroad, with speakers  from University of Notre Dame, University of Toronto, Imperial College, London,  Massey University and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg.

The winners of the PCCP Poster Prizes were as follows;

Jennifer Morton PhD Student Australian National University Poster Title: Application of Magnetic Circular Dichroism spectroscopy to the study of the OEC in Photosystem II from cyanabacteria

Michael Scholz, PhD Student University of Melbourne. Poster Title: Collisional activation of ions in a ion mobility-mass spectrometer

Patrick Tapping, PhD Student University of Adelaide. Poster Title: A Molecular Understanding of Photochemical Upconversation

This, the first event of the newly formed ECS North West UK Student Chapter successfully took place on the 9th February 2016.

It was founded with the intention of providing a student organised forum to improve links between researchers in electrochemistry within institutions in the North West of the UK. PCCP were pleased to award poster prizes for the event to Matej Velicky from the University of Manchester and Christopher Sole from the University of Liverpool.

From left to right: Christopher Sole, John Griffin, Matej Velicky and Patrick Unwin

Inaugural ECS North West UK Symposium