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We are looking forward to welcoming everyone to the upcoming PCCP Asian Symposia which will take place on 28th September in Beijing, China, 1st October in Tsukuba, Japan and 4th October in Seoul Korea.

You can find out more details about the Schedules of each symposium by following the links below.

PCCP-ICCAS Symposium: Frontiers of physical chemistry
Friday 28^th September 2012
09:30 – 16:30
Lecture Theatre, Ground floor, Building One, Institute of Chemistry of Chinese Academy of Science (ICCAS), Beijing

PCCP-ICCAS Symposium Schedule

PCCP-MANA symposium on Nanotechnology, Materials and Physical Chemistry
Monday 1^st October 2012
09:40 – 16:10
WPI-MANA Auditorium, Namiki, NIMS, Tsukuba

PCCP-MANA Symposium schedule

PCCP-KCS Symposium on Interfaces in Physical Chemistry
Thursday 4^th October 2012
09:40 – 17:50
Mogam Hall, Building 500, Seoul National University

PCCP-KCS Symposium schedule

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is delighted to announce the upcoming series of Asian Symposia taking place in China, Japan and Korea.

PCCP-ICCAS Symposium: Frontiers of physical chemistry
Friday 28th September 2012
09:30 – 16:30
Lecture Theatre, Ground floor, Building One, Institute of Chemistry of Chinese Academy of Science (ICCAS), Beijing

PCCP-MANA symposium on Nanotechnology, Materials and Physical Chemistry
Monday 1st October 2012
09:40 – 16:10
WPI-MANA Auditorium, Namiki, NIMS, Tsukuba

PCCP-KCS Symposium on Interfaces in Physical Chemistry
Thursday 4th October 2012
09:40 – 17:50
Mogam Hall, Building 500, Seoul National University

The scientific programme at each event will features a series of world-class speakers both international and local:

• Prof Katsuhiko Ariga, National Institute for Materials Science
• Prof Kai Wu, Peking University
• Prof Graham Hutchings, Cardiff University
• Prof Can Li, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
• Prof Buxing Han, ICCAS
• Prof Eiichi Nakamura, University of Tokyo
• Prof Hiroshi Nishihara, University of Tokyo
• Prof David Nesbitt, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Prof Minghua Liu, ICCAS
• Prof Marie-Paule Pileni, University Pierre & Marie Curie
• Prof Kazuhiko Maeda, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Prof Jinhua Ye, MANA
• Prof Takayoshi Sasaki, MANA
• Prof Mitsutoshi Masuda, AIST
• Prof Yukio Nagasaki, MANA and University of Tsukuba
• Prof Dongho Kim, Yonsei University
• Prof Sang Bok Lee, University of Maryland
• Prof Byung Hee Hong, Seoul National University
• Prof Zee Hwan Kim, Korea University

All three events are free to attend and we look forward to welcoming you to these exciting meetings.

There is still just time to submit your poster abstract to the 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC 21) but don’t delay.

The deadline date of 13 July is for both poster abstracts and early bird registrations.

Why join ICPOC21?

 This meeting is organised by the Organic Division of the RSC on behalf of IUPAC. In addition to outstanding plenary sessions, there will be three parallel sessions over the five days comprising invited lectures and contributed talks, as well as poster sessions.

 Key topics that will be covered in the meeting include:

• Physical underpinnings
• Mechanism and Catalysis
• Supramolecular and Systems Chemistry

A broad range of scientists from across the whole community who share a quantitative perspective on chemistry will be there, providing an opportunity to discuss and celebrate the current status, development, and the future of physical organic chemistry.

Make sure you are one of them! Don’t miss the poster abstract submission and early bird registration deadline – 13 July 2012.

Registration for 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC 21) is now open!

Be sure of your place at this key event to discuss the current state of the art, the development and the future of physical organic chemistry – and also benefit from the fantastic savings currently available:

You can also have your own poster abstract space at the meeting – submit your abstract

Registration is quick and simple via our online booking system

Don’t miss the early bird registration, poster abstract submission and bursary application deadline of 13 July 2012

We would like to thank Syngenta and Oxford University Press for their sponsorship of ICPOC21.

PCCP Deputy Editor Jane Hordern will be attending the Bunsentagung 2012 meeting in Leipzig, Germany later this month.  If you are also attending, do please visit our stand – we’d love to see you and get your feedback.

 PCCP activities with DBG and Bunsentagung:

• Hauptthema themed issue: PCCP has just published a great issue on Interfaces of Ionic Liquids to accompany this year’s meeting – free copies will be available at our stand.

• PCCP Prizes: For the 6^th consecutive year PCCP is proud to sponsor Poster Prizes and “hot topic” awards at the Bunsentagung, rewarding outstanding research from younger scientists.

• Co-Owner of PCCP: PCCP is co-owned by 18 national Societies including the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie. Every time a paper by a German author is published in PCCP, the DBG receives a financial royalty from the journal. We are proud of PCCP’s strong and historic links with German research.

•  Board Members: Germany is very well represented on PCCP’s Boards. We are delighted to announce Frank Neese as Associate Editor, and privileged to have Stefan Grimme, Wolfgang Lubitz, Manfred Martin, Gerard Meijer, Helmuth Möhwald, Joachim Sauer, Ferdi Schüth, Martin Suhm, Jürgen Troe and Hans-Joachim Werner on our Editorial and Advisory Boards.

PCCP has a large and truly international readership, which spans many communities across physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry. 

 We publish insightful research of the highest quality – we invite you to submit your latest work today.

Good news!

There’s still a chance to submit your oral abstract to ICPOC21: 21^st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry to be held 9 – 13 September 2012 at Durham University.

The Scientific Committee is currently reviewing all submissions, and has agreed to accept contributions up to Friday 13 April to allow for the Easter holiday break.

Why join ICPOC21?

This meeting is organised by the Organic Division of the RSC on behalf of IUPAC. In addition to outstanding plenary sessions, there will be three parallel sessions over the five days comprising invited lectures and contributed talks, as well as poster sessions.

Key topics that will be covered in the meeting include:

• Physical underpinnings
• Mechanism and catalysis
• Supramolecular and systems chemistry

A broad range of scientists from across the whole community who share a quantitative perspective on chemistry will be there, providing an opportunity to discuss and celebrate the current status, development, and the future of physical organic chemistry.

Make sure you are one of them! Don’t miss the oral abstract submission deadline – 13 April.

Early bird registration and poster deadline: 3 February 2012 – register today!

Faraday Discussion 156: Tribology
2 – 4 April 2012 
Southampton, UK

Tribology is the essential science of all interacting surfaces in relative motion and affects our lives in many direct ways.

Tribology: FD156 will focus on advanced computational and experimental tribology, providing a forum for chemists, physicists, theoreticians, engineers and biomedical researchers within these themes:

• Future lubricated systems 
• Smart tribological surfaces 
• Predictive modelling 
• Biotribology       

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Professor Duncan Dowson (Introductory) – University of Leeds, UK
• Professor Nicholas Spencer (Closing) – ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Professor Jean-Michel Martin – Ecole Centrale De Lyon, France
• Dr Ian Taylor – Shell Global Solutions, UK
• Professor Jacob Klein – Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• Dr Liliane Léger – NRS & Université Paris-Sud 11, France
• Professor Pwt Evans – Cardiff University, UK
• Professor Roland Larsson – Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
• Professor John Fisher – University of Leeds, UK
• Professor Greg Sawyer – University of Florida, USA

Tribology: Faraday Discussion 156
2 – 4 April 2012
University of Southampton, UK

We know a very busy festive season is coming up shortly so this is a gentle reminder that you haven’t taken any action yet about attending Tribology : FD156.

Poster abstract and bursary applications are now invited, and registration is open.

Chemists, physicists, theoreticians, engineers and biomedical researchers will all benefit from joining this forum for exploring advances in all the diverse aspects of experimental techniques which bear directly on the topic of tribology.

To keep up with the way tribology directly affects our lives you need to be part of our wide-ranging discussion. So please don’t miss out – act now before the end of year rush.

P.S. Don’t forget that registering early lets you make savings!