The 2019 BC Inorganic Discussion Weekend was held 10-11 May at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The plenary speakers were Brandi Cossairt (University of Washington), Jeff Warren (Simon Fraser University) and Ian Manners (University of Victoria).
The weekend kicked off on the Friday evening with the opening plenary and poster session, followed on Saturday with further plenary lectures, multiple student discussion groups and poster presentations finishing with a banquet Saturday night.
Dalton Transactions was pleased to sponsor two Outstanding Poster Presentation prizes.
The prizes were awarded to:
Aiko Kurimoto, The Berlinguette Group – University of British Columbia, with the poster entitled:
Deuteration of Alkynes using a Palladium Membrane Reactor
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Soumalya Sinha, The Warren Research Group – Simon Fraser University, with the posted entitled:
An Unexpected Solvent Effect in Electrocatalytic CO2-to-CO Conversion Revealed Using Asymmetric Metalloporphyrins
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| Aiko Kurimoto | Soumalya Sinha |
The winners each received a certificate and a RSC book voucher. A huge congratulations to Aiko and Soumalya from all of us here at Dalton Transactions!
You can find out more about the weekend over on their website and by searching #BCIDW on Twitter.
Li-Min joins us as an Associate Editor based at Nanjing University where she received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry in 1992. She then joined Nanjing University as a faculty member, and became a lecturer (1992-1997), associate professor (1997-2002) and professor (2002-present). She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich in Switzerland (1994-1996) and a visiting scholar at the University of Houston in the United States (1999-2000), ETH Zurich in Switzerland (2007) and Kyoto University in Japan (2012). She has published over 230 research papers.