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Gold: Faraday Discussion 152 – register now!

25 Mar 2011

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

Early bird registration and poster abstract deadline: 30 April 2011 – register today for discounted rates!

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

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Faraday Discussion 152: Gold – registration open

16 Mar 2011

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

Early bird registration and poster abstract deadline: 30 April 2011 – register today for discounted rates!

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

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Merry Christmas from Faraday Discussions!

24 Dec 2010

Important dates for 2011, take a look at next year’s Discussions:

Faraday Discussion 150: Frontiers in Spectroscopy
6 – 8 April 2011, Basel, Switzerland

Faraday Discussion 151: Hydrogen Storage Materials
18 – 20 April 2011, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

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

Faraday Discussion 153: Coherence and Control in Chemistry
25 – 27 July 2011, Leeds, UK

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

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

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year!

The Faraday Discussions team

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FD154: Ionic Liquids – Call for Abstracts

08 Oct 2010

Faraday Discussion 154: Ionic Liquids

22 – 24 August 2011

Belfast, UK

Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 22 October 2010

Submit yout abstract now to events@rsc.org

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).

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

Submit an abstract for an oral presentation by 22^nd October 2010 to events@rsc.org adding ‘FD154 abstract’ in the subject line.

For further information on attending Faraday Discussion 154, visit www.rsc.org/FD154.

Coherence and Control in Chemistry (FD153) – call for oral abstracts

04 Oct 2010

Faraday Discussion 153: Coherence and Control in Chemistry
25-27 July 2011, Leeds, UK

Extended oral abstracts deadline: 15th October 2010 – submit now

Speakers

•   Thomas Baumert (Introductory) Universität Kassel, Germany
•   Herschel Rabitz (Closing) Princeton University, USA
•   Valeria Kleiman University of Florida, USA
•   Spiridoula Matsika Temple University, USA
•   Dwayne Miller University of Toronto, Canada
•   Marcus Motzkus Universität Heidelberg, Germany
•   Kenji Ohmori Institute for Molecular Science Okazaki, Japan
•   Moshe Shapiro University of British Columbia, Canada
•   Albert Stolow Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences National Research Council, Canada
•   David Tannor Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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

Faraday Discussion 153 aims to assess recent progress in our general understanding of coherence and control in chemistry and to define new avenues for future research, building on the achievements of FD113, held 10 years ago in Leeds, which defined many areas of current activity in the field of molecular reaction dynamics and coherent control.

The current meeting will bring together experimentalists and theoreticians working in all areas of physics and chemistry who have an interest in probing and controlling chemical interactions at the quantum resolved level with the aim of defining the future challenges in this field.

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FD149: Analysis for healthcare diagnostics and theranostics

15 Sep 2010

Faraday Discussion 149 took place between the 6^th and the 8^th of September in Edinburgh, UK. The conference got off to a good start with a fascinating introductory lecture given by Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien. Over the following two days a whole range of different research topics were discussed including “Systems and devices to inform therapy”, “Towards real-time clinical measurement”, “High-throughput methods of analysis” and “Physical techniques for diagnostics”. All of these topics were well received by the delegates resulting in lively discussion and debate. Some of the notable speakers included Graham Cooks, Catherine Kendall, Wolfgang Schuhmann and Steffi Krause.

At the conference dinner, Roger Tsien was awarded the Spiers Memorial Award for his contributions to the creation of fluorescent proteins and their applications in chemistry, physics and the life sciences. Congratulations also go to Craig Auchinvole who won the poster prize for his display of new sensors for imaging redox-mediated biological processes. Also at the dinner, the Loving Cup was passed around in the traditional manner much to the amusement and bemusement of many of the attendees. The discussion closed with an insightful and thought provoking lecture from Pankaj Vadgama. All in all a successful discussion!

Jon Counsell

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Faraday Discussion 152: Gold – call for oral abstracts

19 Aug 2010

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

Submit your abstract for oral presentation by 10 September 2010

Invited 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

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Analysis for Healthcare Diagnostics and Theranostics conference

11 Aug 2010

Faraday Discussion 149: Analysis for Healthcare Diagnostics and Theranostics
6 – 8 September 2010
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Last chance to register!

The need in healthcare to detect biomolecular species such as proteins, oligonucleotides (DNA and RNA) and cells for diagnostics is driving the current development of physical techniques.

Themes of this meeting include:

Systems/Devices to Inform Therapy (SDIT)
Physical Techniques for Diagnostics (PTD)
High-Throughput Measurement and Analysis (HTMA)
Towards Real-time Clinical Measurement (TRCM)

For further information about about this meeting and to register, please visit the website.

Faraday Discussion 149 is organised by the Faraday Division in association with the Analytical Division.

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Wetting Dynamics – FD146 now published

10 Aug 2010

Faraday Discussions 146 now published online – view it here.

This exciting volume is on the topic of Wetting Dynamics of Hydrophobic and Structured Surfaces and focuses on a number of highly topical and controversial issues related to wetting and dewetting at hydrophobic surfaces.

The discussion includes many exciting contributions on this dynmaic topic including an Introductory lecture Exploring nanoscale hydrophobic hydration by Peter J Rossky and Closing remarks given by Frank H Stillinger.

In this volume the topics covered include:

Superhydrophobic Surfaces
Dynamic Transitions
Liquid-vapour Interfaces and Nanobubbles
Heterogeneous Surfaces

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