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

Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 3 June 2011 – submit now

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

Faraday Discussions are a long-established series of meetings which provide a unique international platform for the exchange of views and newly acquired results in developing areas of physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry and chemical physics. The Discussion is a dynamic forum for developing and exchanging exciting new ideas, and both the papers and discussion will be published in a final printed volume.

We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation by 3 June 2011. We do hope that this conference is of interest to you and that you will attend this exciting Faraday Discussion next year. 

Submit your oral abstract for Faraday Discussion 156: Tribology

Faraday Discussion 152: Gold
4 – 6 July 2011, Cardiff, UK

Registration deadline: 3 June 2011 – register today so you don’t miss out on this dynamic conference!

FD152 will focus on the origins of high catalytic activity observed with gold nanoparticles. The aim is to bring together the catalysis and surface science communities with materials scientists and theoreticians, so that new insights can be gained.

Speakers:

• Professor Masatake Haruta (Introductory) – Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Professor Martyn Poliakoff (Closing) – University of Nottingham
• Dr Mathias Brust – University of Liverpool
• Professor Charlie Campbell – Universityof Washington
• Professor Cynthia Friend – Harvard University
• Professor Wayne Goodman – Texas A&M University
• Professor Peijun Hu – Queen’s University Belfast
• Professor Laura Prati – Universita degli Studi di Milano
• Professor Pekka Pyykko – University of Helsinki
• Professor Vincent Rotello -Universityof Massachusetts Amherst

Themes:

• Gold catalysis at the gas solid interface
• Gold catalysis and materials science
• Theoretical insights on gold catalysis
• Gold catalysis and enhanced selectivity