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Artificial Photosynthesis: Faraday Discussion 155
5 – 7 September 2011
Edinburgh, UK

Early bird registration and poster abstract deadline – 01 July 2011
Registration deadline – 05 August 2011

Submit a poster abstract for consideration or register for this exciting conference today!

Confirmed speakers

• Graham Fleming, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Sir Richard Friend FRS, University of Cambridge, UK
• Michael Graetzel, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Dirk Guldi, University of Erlangen , Germany
• Devens Gust, Arizona State University, USA
• Osamu Ishitani, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Tom Mallouk, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Stefan Matile, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Garry Rumbles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
• Stenbjörn Styring, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Licheng Sun, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

There is a growing conviction that the only real prospect for our long-term energy provision relies on the ability to collect and store sunlight in the form of chemical potential. The need for alternative fuels and reduction of excess carbon dioxide left over from our era of fossil fuel consumption, focuses the attention on the design of effective artificial photosynthetic systems. This is a growing global problem and it will soon become the dominant scientific issue.

Applying new knowledge to old problems: FD155 will focus on possible solutions to long-standing problems in the development of artificial synthesis. This topical and important area of science covers many disciplines. The combination of biology, chemistry, physics and theory makes for an exciting blend of discussion points.

Themes

• Electronic energy transfer
• Fuel production / carbon dioxide reduction
• Oxygen evolution
• Integrated photo-systems
• Electron transfer

Ionic Liquids: Faraday Discussion 154
22 – 24 August 2011
Belfast, UK

Early bird registration and poster abstract deadline – 17 June 2011
Registration deadline – 15 July 2011

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Themes:

• Thermodynamics and phase behavior of ionic fluids
• Microscopic and mesoscopic structure: experiments and simulations
• Transport and relaxation in ionic liquids
• Chemical reactivity and interfacial behavior

Confirmed Invited speakers:

• Austen Angell (Introductory) – Arizona State University, USA
• Ruth Lynden-Bell (Closing) – University of Cambridge, UK
• Pietro Ballone – Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
• Margarida Costa-Gomes – Université Blaise-Pascal, France
• Douglas MacFarlane – Monash University, Australia
• Edward Maginn – University of Notre Dame, USA
• Athanassios Panagiotopoulos – Princeton University, USA
• Alessandro Triolo – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
• Hermann Weingärtner – Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
• James Wishart – Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) are currently the focus of an intense research effort because of their remarkable potential for applications coupled to favourable environmental properties. The hybrid organic-ionic nature of RTILs and the resulting interplay between different intermolecular forces give rise to a complex phenomenology whose decoding requires the close integration of experimental, theoretical and computational methods.

Ionic liquids constitute a new and exciting playground for interdisciplinary research and this meeting will discuss fundamental experimental and theoretical aspects of the physical chemistry of RTILs. The Scientific Committee will be chaired by Professor Chris Hardacre (Queen’s University Belfast, UK).

Faraday Discussion 153: Coherence and Control in Chemistry
25-27 July, Leeds, UK

Registration deadline: 27 June 2011 – register today!

This Faraday Discussion aims to assess recent progress in our general understanding of coherence and control in chemistry and to define new avenues for future research.

The extensive programme of invited speakers (including Thomas Baumert and Herschel Rabitz) covers the following themes:

•    Electronic coherence in biological supramolecular assemblies
•    Non-adiabatic interactions and molecular coherent control
•    Strategies for coherent control
•    Applications of coherent control
•    Strong-field high harmonic generation and alignment control

Submit your poster abstract now!