Laser

Group Meetings

Autumn 2026

“Exact-Factorization-Based Theory Development for Nonadiabatic Dynamics” – Chen Li Friday, 25th September 2026, TBC, 4:00 PM
“Ultrafast Dynamics in Dichloroindophenol” – Caleb Jordan Friday, 2nd October 2026, TBC, 4:00 PM
“Exploring the Role of Stabilized Criegee Intermediates in Atmospheric Organic Particle Formation” – Saurabh Khodia Friday, 9th October 2026, TBC, 4:00 PM
“TBC” – Katy Chubb Friday, 16th October 2026, TBC, 4:00 PM

 

Winter and Spring 2026

“Single-determinant ansätze for configuration interaction with a quantum computer” – Freddie Burns Friday, 16th January 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Photophysics and photochemistry of polyacenes for singlet fission” – Alex Stuart Friday, 23th January 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“A journey with excited states” – Elise Lognon Friday, 6th February 2026, SM2 Ada Lovelace building, 4:00 PM
“Fresh Data Friday” – Deborin Ghosh, Meiyue Liu, Caleb Jordan, Tom Oliver Friday, 13th February 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
Master Students Presentations Friday, 20th February 2026, 9:30 – 12:00 Room 1.68 Queens Building, 15:00-17:00 SM2 Lecture Theatre Ada Lovelace Building PM
“2-formylpyrrole, Episode II: Now it’s personal” – Javier Carmona Garcia Friday, 13th March 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Ultrafast Multidimensional Spectroscopies: A Window into Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer and its Control” – Ricardo Fernandez-Teran Friday, 20th March 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Conformation As A Control Knob: Ultrafast Dynamics In Solvent-Switchable PDI Dimers” – Giovanni Bressan Friday, 27th March 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Environmental impacts of hydrofluorocarbons replacements: Are HFOs a Sustainable Long-Term solution?” – Maria Garavagno Friday, 10th April 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Nonadiabatic tunnelling with instanton theory” – Imaad Ansari Friday, 17th April 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“A New Paradigm for Light-Driven Rotary Molecular Motion” – Juliette Gregg Friday, 24th April 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Compact organic crystal growth for molecular single photon sources” – Granthick Barua Friday, 1th May 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Mechanistic insights into inverted singlet-triplet gaps in organic molecules” – Maria Sandoval Salinas Friday, 8th May 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Fresh produce Friday: Photoinduced Dynamics of Pumpkin and Sandwich compounds” – Jacob Jones Friday, 15th May 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Every nitrophenol under the sun” – Hallam Greene Friday, 22th May 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“On the role of vibrational-electronic couplings in dictating the ultrafast photophysics of molecular dyads” – Sanjoy Patra Friday, 19th June 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Photocatalysis: Controlling Spin Orbit Coupling and Intersystem Crossing in Carbene-Metal-Amides” – Thabassum Nattikallungal Friday, 3rd July 2026, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Quantum dynamics of floppy molecular systems: numerical developments and illustrations” – David Lauvergnat Thursday, 16th July 2026, W415, 2:00 PM

 

Autumn 2025

Presentation Date/Venue
“Intersystem crossing dynamics for molecules using multiple spawning” – Vera Brieskorn Friday, 26th September 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Using FUN MATHS in Chemistry“ – Andrew McCluskey Friday, 3rd October 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Fresh Data Friday” – Jacob Jones, Javier Carmona García, Tom Romain, Vera Brieskorn, Daniel Hollas Friday, 10th October 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“A small contribution towards the understanding of ultrafast photochemical dynamics in complex environments“ – Federico Hernández Friday, 17th October 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Lost in translation rotation: How does benzene spin and why should I care?“ – Harry Richardson Friday, 24th October 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Unravelling the Ultrafast Photochemistry of DDQ: From Excited-State Dynamics to Benzylic C(sp³)-H Functionalisation“ – Deborin Ghosh Friday, 31th October 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Molecular spectroscopy via nonlinear, quantum, and coherent interference“ – Alex Clark Friday, 7th November 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Simulating core X-ray photoelectron spectra for dummies“ -Matthew Ludwig Friday, 14th November 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Insight into aqueous interfaces through machine-learned atomistic simulations“ – Christoph Schran Friday, 21st November 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Towards the accurate description of dark transitions in carbonyl compounds at and beyond the Franck-Condon point“ – Jasmine Bone Friday, 28th November 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Photochemistry of Pyruvic Acid in Bulk Solutions & TCSPC with Microdroplets“ – Tony Kao Friday, 5th December 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Fresh Data Friday” – Jasmine Bone, Matthew Hall, Hallam Greene, Freddie Burns Friday, 12th December 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM

 

Winter and Spring 2025

Presentation Date/Venue
“Long-range dipole-dipole interaction: Ammonia – ammonia vs NO – ammonia” – Yao Chang Friday, 24th January 2025, W415, 4:00 PM
 “Time-Resolved Electronic and Vibrational Probes of Riboflavin Excited State Dynamics in Solution” – Meiyue Liu Friday, 7th February 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
 Master Students Presentations – Massimo di Lecce, Tom Baulkwill and Cara Woods Friday, 14th February 2025, Queens Building 1.15 SLT, 3:00 PM
 “Two-dimensional electronic spectra from trajectory-based dynamics: an improved pure state Ehrenfest method” – Anina Lieberherr Friday, 21st February 2025, W415, 4:00 PM
“Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: Molecular Movies behind-the-scenes” – Pedro Nunez Friday, 28th February 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Laboratory measurements of stabilized Criegee intermediate reactions with esters using cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS)” – Saurabh Khodia Friday, 7th March 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Coulomb Explosion Imaging of Small Molecules” – Sam Arrowsmith Friday, 21st March 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Why, what, how, where and when terahertz?” – Tom Romain Friday, 28th March 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Ultrafast excited-state dynamics of vanillin in solution” – Louis Jakobson Friday, 4th April 2025, TBA, 4:00 PM
“Journey through COSMOS: Developing a software platform for quantum dynamics” – Daniel Hollas Friday, 25th April 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Machine learning potentials for modelling chemical reactivity in solution” – Veronika Juraskova Friday, 2nd May 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Molecular Simulations on Quantum Computers: From Fundamentals to Experimental Demonstrations” – Karl Michael Ziems Friday, 9th May 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Quantum Computing for Photochemistry?” – Freddie Burns Friday, 30th May 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Radical editing: Mechanistic investigations of photochemical rearrangements of enolates” – William Terry-Wright Friday, 20th June 2025, W415, 4:00 PM
“Combining Experiment and Theory to Uncover the Design Principles of Light Harvesting in Photosystem II” – Johanna Hall Friday, 1st August 2025, LT4, 4:00 PM

 

Autumn 2024

Presentation Date/Venue
“Sulfine: An Exotic Criegee Intermediate” – Yorick Lassmann Friday, 13th Sept 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“A quantum computing overview: from fundamentals to applications in chemistry” – Emanuele Marsilli Friday, 20th Sept 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Revisiting the description of conical intersections between electronic states with LR-TDDFT and ADC(2) (The saga continues…)” – Jack Taylor Friday, 27th Sept 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Relaxation Pathways of Near-UV Excited Nitroaromatics in Aqueous Solution.” – Hallam Greene Friday, 4th Oct 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Environmental impact of  hydrofluorocarbons replacements” – Maria Garavagno Friday, 18th Oct 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“A New Paradigm for Light-Driven Rotary Molecular Motors” – Juliette Gregg Friday, 25th Oct 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Symmetry Breaking Charge-Transfer in a Synthetic Lectin” – Jacob Jones Friday, 1st Nov 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Atmospheric chemistry of mercury induced by sunlight: Quantum-chemical modelling and environmental implications” – Javier Carmona Friday, 15th Nov 2024, WS402, 4:00 PM
“Using Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy to Probe Ultrafast Dynamics and Vibronic Structure” – Caleb Jordan Friday, 22nd Nov 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Multiscale simulations of de novo designed photoreceptor proteins” – Aditya Gopalakrishna Friday, 29th Nov 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Ultrafast Photochemical Behaviour of Photocatalyst DDQ for Benzylic C(sp³)-H Functionalisation” – Deborin Ghosh Friday, 6th Dec 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM

Spring 2024

Presentation Date/Venue
“Shining light on single particles: from high time resolution to high throughput” – Joseph Beckwith Friday, 2nd February 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
Master’s Students Presentations – Marco Barnfield, Pablo Graf Rubia, Barnabas Balega, Kon Nomerotski, Olivia Shaw, Imi Waller, Sam Stringer, Anna Worsley, Charlotte Hackett Friday, 16th February 2024, BIOMEDICAL BLDG C42, 12:30 PM
“X-ray absorption spectroscopy setup to study a broad range of ultrafast chemical dynamics” – Jacob Lee (Imperial College London) Friday, 22nd March 2024, WS402, 4:00 PM
“2DES – part 1” – Camilla Gajo Friday, 26th April 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Time-dependent study of light-induced hapticity changes in [RuCpBz]+ ”– Vera Brieskorn Friday, 10th May 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Laser spectroscopic measurement of excited state energy barriers in biomolecular analogues” – Saurabh Khodia Friday, 24th May 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Quantifying electrostatic interactions using spectroscopy and Molecular dynamic simulations” – Somnath Kashid Friday, 31st May 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Modelling photophysics and photochemistry in molecular crystals” – Federico Hernandez Friday, 7th June 2024, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Solvent Dependant Excited State Dynamics of 1,6-Diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene” – Olivia Hawkins Friday, 21st June 2024, W415, 4:00 PM

Autumn 2023

Presentation Date/Venue
“Controlling Coulombic Interactions for Next Generation Optoelectronic Devices” – Mike Price Friday, 15th Sept 2023, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Using Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy to Investigate Framework Lability of Zeolites” – Meiyue Liu

“Biomineralization in Coccolithophores – an X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Study at Diamond Light Source” – Hallam Greene

Friday, 20th Oct 2023, W415, 4:00 PM
“Time-resolved Photochemistry of Organic Solutes in Aqueous Microdroplets” – Conlan Broderick

“Building a prism compressor at the Alvra endstation at SwissFEL” – Jacob Jones

Friday, 27th Oct 2023, LT4, 4:00 PM
“On the description of conical intersections between excited electronic states with LR-TDDFT and ADC(2)” – Jack Taylor Friday, 3rd Nov 2023, W415, 4:00 PM
“What Controls the Quality of Photodynamical Simulations?” – Jiri Janos Friday, 17th Nov 2023, W415, 4:00 PM
“The wavelength and pH dependent optical properties of 4-nitrocatechol” – Jamie Knight Friday, 24th Nov 2023, W415, 4:00 PM
“Exploring the Dynamics of Photoinduced Bond Cleavage in Nitroaromatic Phototriggers” – Will Whitaker Friday, 1st Dec 2023, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Gas Phase Electronic Spectroscopy of Ionic Carbon Chains, Rings, Fullerenes and Analogues” – Johanna Rademacher Friday, 8th Dec 2023, LT4, 4:00 PM

Spring 2023

Presentation Date/Venue
“Spectroscopic Insights into the Effect of Atomic Nanowire Infiltration on the Performance of Semiconducting and Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes” – Eric Hu Friday, 27th January 2023, LT4, 4:00 PM
 “Conical intersections: (partly) a challenge for linear-response time-dependent density functional theory” – Jack Taylor Friday, 3rd February 2023, LT4, 4:00 PM
 Master Students Presentations – Annabel Broome, Alex Hannon, Julien Astier Friday, 17th February 2023, LT3, 3:00 PM
 “Lost and Bound: Modelling Molecular Anions” – Cate Anstöter Friday, 17th March 2023, LT3, 4:00 PM
“Extending the applicability of the multiple-spawning framework for nonadiabatic molecular dynamics” – Yorick Lassmann Friday, 24th March 2023, WS402, 4:00 PM
“Multiscale simulations and design of photoresponsive proteins” – Aditya Gopalakrishna Rao Friday, 5th May 2023, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Is Nile Red a two state system?” – Dasha Shchepanovska Friday, 19th May 2023, W415, 4:00 PM
“An inversion method for recoil-frame covariance maps” – David Heathcote Friday, 26th May 2023, W415, 4:00 PM
“Label-free observation of individual solution-phase molecules” – Lisa-Maria Needham Friday, 9th June 2023, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Peptides to proteins: rationally seeded design of protein scaffolds for photocatalysis” – Rokas Petrenas Friday, 16th June 2023, W415, 4:00 PM
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm: “Bio-Inspired Chromophore-Protein Assemblies for Solar Energy Conversion” – Iker Lamas Frejo

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm: “Vibronic Coherence Drives Multiple Energy Transfer Pathways in Photosystem II Core Antennae” – Dominik Bäuerle

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Tea break (Chemistry coffee room)

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm: “New chemical reactions in the atmosphere: experiment, theory and modelling” – Scott Kable

Friday, 23rd June 2023, W415, 2:00 PM
Meghan Oddy Wednesday, 28th June 2023, LT4, 4:00 PM
“ATMOSPEC: ab initio UV/Vis spectroscopy made easy” – Daniel Hollas Friday, 14th July 2023, W415, 2:00 PM

 

Autumn 2022

Presentation Date/Venue
“On the photochemistry of pyruvic acid and pyruvate” – Lewis Hutton Friday, 23rd September 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM

 

 No presentation Friday, 30th September 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM

 

“AIMSWISS – The right way to hop” – Yorick Lassmann Friday, 7th October 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Elucidating the Photodynamics of Thioxanthone Energy Transfer in Organic Synthesis” – Wade Petersen Friday, 14th October 2022, LT2, 4:00 PM
 “Evaluating TADF Emitters for Organic Photocatalysis Applications” – Will Whitaker Friday, 21st October 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM
“An Efficient Protocol for Large Biochromophore Excited States” – Oliver Feighan Friday, 28th October 2022, W415, 4:00 PM
 “Hot Carrier Cooling Dynamics in Lead Halide Perovskite Nanomaterials” – Ben Carwithen Friday, 4th November 2022, W415, 4:00 PM
“Exploring the excited state dynamics of tryptophan with transient absorption spectroscopy” – Rhea Kumar Friday, 11th November 2022, LT3, 4:00 PM

 

“Predicting rate constants of photo physical molecular processes via static non-adiabatic calculations” – Harry Stroud Friday, 18th November 2022, W415, 4:00 PM

 

“Classification of Doubly Excited Molecular Electronic States” – Mariana Telles do Casal Friday, 25th November 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM

 

“Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy of Surfaces and Hydrated Electrons” – Caleb Jordan Friday, 2nd December 2022, W415, 4:00 PM

 

“Shedding light on the dual fluorescence of Nile Red” – Camilla Gajo Friday, 9th December 2022, W415, 4:00 PM

 

“A time-resolved solvent dependent spectroscopic study of the N-methyl oxindole class of overcrowded alkene motors” – Connah Harris Friday, 16th December 2022, W415, 4:00 PM

 

Spring 2022

 

 

 

Presentation Date/Venue
“Ligand Dynamics Timescales Identify the Surface-Ligand Interactions in Thiocyanate-capped Cadmium Sulfide Nanocrystals’” – Dr. Deborin Ghosh 

 

Friday, 8th April 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM

 

“Investigating the excited state dynamics of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene using time correlated single photon counting, part 2 ” – Olivia Hawkins

 

Thursday, 14th April 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM

 

“Observing the Photoredox-Catalysed Mechanism for the Formation of α-Tertiary Amines with Transient Absorption Spectroscopy” – Georgia Thornton

 

Friday, 29th April 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Towards automated calculations of photoabsorption cross-sections” – Dr. Daniel Hollas

 

Friday, 6th May 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Investigating in silico the sunlight-triggered excited-state dynamics of transient atmospheric molecules” – Dr. Antonio Prlj

 

Friday, 13th May 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Understanding the DPH fluorescence mechanism from a theoretical perspective” – Dr. Dasha Shchepanovska

 

Wednesday, 1st June 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM
“Ultrafast Photoinduced Through-Space Electron Transfer Dynamics” – Dr. Ravi Kumar Venkatraman

 

Friday, 10th June 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM
“A Theoretical Perspective on the Actinic Photochemistry of 2-hydroperoxypropanal” – Emanuele Marsili  Wednesday, 15th June 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM

 

Autumn 2021

 

 

Presentation Date/Venue
“Single particle CRDS measurements of absorbing aerosol particles” – Jamie Knight

 

Friday, 29th October 2021, 4:00 PM

 

“Ultrafast Spectroscopic Study of Overcrowded Alkene Molecular Motors Based on an Oxindole” – Connah Harris

 

Friday, 12th November 2021, 4:00 PM

 

“Exploring the photophysics of organic photocatalysts using transient vibrational absorption spectroscopy” – Will Whitaker

 

Friday, 26th November 2021, 4:00 PM
“Observing the Photocatalysed Mechanism for the formation of α-Tertiary Amines with Ultrafast Spectroscopic Techniques” – Georgia Thornton

 

Postponed – Friday, 3rd December 2021, 4:00 PM

 

“Life Post-Bristol: Adventures Down the Electromagnetic Spectrum” – Dr. Rebecca Ingle (University College London)

 

Friday, 10th December 2021, 4:00 PM

Spring/Summer 2021

Presentation Date/Venue
“Solvent Influences on Photodynamic of a Sunscreen Molecule DHHB” – Tony Kao

 

Friday, 5th February 2021, 4:00 PM

 

“Exploring enhanced photoprotection on natural photonic chloroplasts” – Fabiola Cardoso Delgado

 

Friday, 19th February 2021, 4:00 PM

 

“Investigating photoactive molecules using gas-phase ion spectroscopy” – Dr. Michael Scholz (University College London)

 

Friday, 5th March 2021, 4:00 PM

 

“When two become one: triplet-pair states in (hetero)acenes” – David Bossanyi (University of Sheffield)

 

Friday, 12th March 2021, 4:00 PM

 

“Investigating DPH fluorescence in different environments” – Olivia Hawkins

 

Friday, 19th March 2021, 4:00 PM

 

“A study on the dynamics of phycocyanobilin in solution and protein environments” – Camilla Gajo

 

Friday, 26th March 2021, 4:00 PM

 

“Molecular tuning of charge dynamics in small-molecule organic photovoltaics” – Rhea Kumar (Imperial College London)

 

Friday, 23rd April 2021, 4:00 PM
“Coulomb Explosion Imaging of CH3I and CF3I: A Progress Report” – Dr. Stuart Crane (Heriot-Watt University)

 

Friday, 30th April 2021, 4:00 PM

 

“Dalian 2019: Exploring all product channels in the photodissociation of state-selected H2S molecules” – Prof. Mike Ashfold

 

Friday, 14th May 2021, 4:00 PM

 

“Methods for simulating ionisation in aqueous solutions” – Dr. Alice Henley (University College London)

 

Friday, 28th May 2021, 4:00 PM

 

Autumn 2020

 Presentation Date
“Investigating Diketopyrrolopyrrole Photochemistry” – Dr. Daniel Polak  Friday, 9th October 2020, 4.00 PM
“Coulomb Explosion Imaging of Methyl Iodide: A Ground and Excited State Study” – Dr. Stuart Crane   Friday, 30th October 2020, 4.00 PM
“Dynamics of Ylide Solvation by Hydrogen-Bond Donors” – Ryan Phelps   Friday, 6th November 2020, 4.00 PM
 “Excited-state reordering of acetophenone by alkali-metal ions in solution” – Dr. Patrick Robertson   Friday, 13th November 2020, 4.00 PM
“Coulomb explosion imaging of water in the quasi impulse limit” – Dr. Ruaridh Forbes (Stanford University)   Friday, 20th November 2020, 4.00 PM
“Unquenching a quencher: novel mutant fluorescent reaction centres for energy transfer in biohybrid materials” – Giordano Amoruso    Friday, 27th November 2020, 4.00 PM
“Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of the Electron Transfer Step in the Photochemically Activated Polymerizations of N-ethylcarbazole and 9-phenylcarbazole’” – Georgia Thornton   Friday, 4th December 2020, 4.00 PM
“Mapping the photochemical 1,2-metalate rearrangement with TVAS” – Luke Lewis-Borrell   Friday, 11th December 2020, 4.00 PM

Spring 2020

Presentation Date/Venue
“Making Sense out of Gibberish or How to Assign a Complex Spectrum” – Dr Colin Western Friday, 17th January 2020, 4:00 PM, W415
“Master Students Presentations” Friday, 21st February 2020, 2:00-5:00 PM, W415
“Experimental and Computational Investigation of Inelastic and Reactive Scattering Dynamics”-  Fred Cascarini Friday, 28th February  2020, 4:00 PM, W415
“Advanced Copolymer Analysis by Mass Spectrometry”-  James Town (University of Warwick) Friday, 6th March 2020, 4:00 PM, WS402
“’Advanced Solutions: Searching for Spectroscopic Insights into Molecular Design”- Dr Joe Beames (University of Cardiff) Friday, 13th March 2020, 4:00 PM, W415

Autumn 2019

Presentation Date/Venue
“Ultrafast Dynamics of Biomolecular Systems” – Marta Duchi

 

Friday, 4th October 2019, 4:30 PM, W415

 

“Photochemistry of a Sunscreen Molecule- Hexyl diethylaminohydroxybenzoylbenzoate” – Tony Kao

 

Friday, 11th October 2019, 4:30 PM, W415

 

“A Photoredox Polymerisation Study of N-ethylcarbazole Using Transient Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy”– Georgia Thornton

 

Cancelled

 

“What Mike did at FERMI (or Studying Ring-Opening in Gas Phase)?”– Mike Ashfold

 

Friday, 25th October 2019, 4:00 PM, W415

 

“The Surface Properties of Atmospheric Aerosol: Composition, Clouds, and Climate”– Dr Bryan Bzdek (University of Bristol)

 

Friday, 1st November 2019, 4:00 PM, W415

 

 

“Comparing dynamic and kinetic approaches in atmospheric photodissociation” – Darya Shchepanovska (University of Bristol)

 

Friday, 8th November 2019, 4:00 PM, W415

 

“Investigating the Intermediate Triplet-Pair States in Singlet Fission” – Daniel Polak

 

Friday, 15th November 2019, 4:00 PM, W415

 

“A Photoredox Polymerisation Study of N-ethylcarbazole Using Transient Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy”– Georgia Thornton

 

Thursday, 21st November 2019, 4:00 PM, W415
“Dimensionality Reduction of Reaction Coordinates and Trajectories” – Dr Stephanie Hare (University of Bristol)

 

Friday, 29th November 2019, 4:00 PM, W415

 

“How can Transient Absorption Spectroscopy Inform the Rational Design of Organic Reactions?” – Luke Lewis-Borrell

 

Friday, 6th December 2019, 4:00 PM, W415

 

“Coloumb Explosion Imaging: A Tool for Molecular Structure Determination” – Dr Stuart Crane

“Simulating Coulomb Explosion Dynamics” – Lingfeng Ge

 

Friday, 13th December 2019, 4:00 PM, LT4

 

Spring/Summer 2019

Presentation Date/Venue
“Alternative Excitation Mechanisms within MW-activated plasmas relevant to the Chemical Vapour Deposition, hydrogen termination and etching of Diamond”
– Ed Mahoney
Friday, 8th February 2019, 4:30 PM, W415
“Unravelling the Mechanism of Organocatalysed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerisation (O-ATRP) with Ultrafast Spectroscopy”– Luke Lewis-Borrell“Exploring Structure-Dynamics of Sunscreen Filters in the Gas-Phase and Photoredox Reaction Mechanisms in the Solution-Phase Using Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy”
– Georgia Thornton
Friday, 15th February 2019, 4:30 PM, W415
“Triplet and CT States in organic photovoltaics”
– Dr. Tracey Clark (University College London)
Friday, 22nd February 2019, 4:30 PM, W415
“Final year Practice Talks”
– Laser Group Students (Ben, Becky, McKenzie, Tom, Sabreenna, Joe, and Nicholas)
Friday, 8th March 2019, 2:00 – 5:30 PM, QUEENS BLDG 1.18 LT
Attend “Final Year Talks”
– Laser Group Students
Friday, 15th March 2019, 9 AM – 3.35 PM, LT4
“Tunable Fluorescent Carbon Dots for Digital Display Technologies”– Teo Garcia Millan 

“Enhanced Light Harvesting in Photonic Chloroplasts”
– Fabiola Delgado Cardoso

Friday, 22nd March 2019, 4:45 – 5:45 PM, W415
“Excited State Intersystem Crossing Dynamics: From Fundamentals Simulations to Molecular Design”
– Dr. Thomas Penfold (Newcastle)
Friday, 29th March 2019, 4:30 PM, E204
“Following ESPT using ultrafast dynamics”
– Giordano Amoruso
Monday, 1st April 2019, 4:30 PM, WS402
“Nonlinear spectroscopy of aqueous systems: the presence of long-range orientational order in water and its consequences for macroscopic properties”
– Jan Dedic (EPFL Lausanne)
Friday, 12th April 2019, 4:30 PM, W415
“Controlled Ion-Radical Chemistry”
– Prof. Heather Lewandowski (JILA)
Friday, 3rd May 2019, 4:30 PM, W415
“Linear and non-linear spectroscopy using quantum photons: Make Light Quantum Again”
– Prof. Eric Bittner (University of Houston)
Friday, 10th May 2019, 4:30 PM, W415
“Competitive photochemical pathways of ethyl diazo acetoacetate – Probing the unique reactivity of carbonyl carbene intermediates”
– Ryan Phelps
Friday, 17th May 2019, 4:30 PM, W415
“Mitch Quinn Symposium”
– Fred Cascarini, Dr. Xu-Dong Wang, and Dr. Patrick Robertson
Friday, 24th May 2019, 4:30 – 5:45 PM, LT4
“Temperature and Pressure Dependence of the Kinetics of the CH2OO + CH3O2 Reaction”
– Dr. Rabi Chhantyal Pun
Friday, 14th June 2019, 4:30 – 5:00 PM, W415

Autumn/Winter 2018

Presentation Date/Venue
“Ultrahigh-density spin-polarized H and D observed via magnetization quantum beats”
– Prof. Peter Rakitzis (FORTH IESL, Greece)
Thursday, 6th September 2018, 4:30 PM, LT3
“Infrared Spectral Signatures as a Probe for Hydrogen Bonding and Conformation”
– Dr. Patrick Robertson
Friday, 28th September 2018, 4:30 PM, W415
“A tale of two triplets: Finding and exploiting mixed states for singlet fission and beyond”
– Dr. Andrew J. Musser (University of Sheffield)
Friday, 5th October 2018, 4:30 PM, WS402
“Dissociative Electron Attachment to CO2”
– Dr. Xu-Dong Wang
Friday, 12th October 2018, 4:30 PM, W415
“Criegee Intermediate-Carboxylic Acid Reactions, A Potential Source for Secondary Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere”
– Dr. Rabi Chhantyal Pun
Friday, 19th October 2018, 4:30 PM, W415
“Photodissociation Dynamics of Methimazole”
– Dr. Graham Cooper
Friday,  26th October 2018, 4:30 PM, W415
“Ultrafast Microspectroscopy of Nanoscopic and Nanostructured Materials Towards Super-Resolution Imaging of Charge-Carrier Dynamics”
– Dr. Christoph Schnedermann (University of Cambridge)
Friday, 2nd November 2018, 4:30 PM, W415
“Molecular Dynamics with a Soft Thermal-Desorption Source”
– Dr. Stuart Crane
Friday, 9th November 2018, 4:30 PM, WS402
“Solvation State Selective Photochemistry on Benzophenone”
– Dr. Ravi Kumar Venkatraman
Friday, 16th November 2018, 4:30 PM, 1.58 Queens Building

Spring/Summer 2018

Presentation Date/Venue
“Thoughts on hydrocarbon photochemistry”
– Prof. Mike Ashfold FRS
Friday, 12th January 2018, 4:30 PM, W415
“Chemistry in space: part of the final frontier”
– Dr. Kelvin Lee (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Friday, 19th January 2018, 4:30 PM, E204
“Molecular Astronomy: Cool stars and exoplanets”
– Prof. Peter Bernath (Old Dominion University)
Tuesday, 23rd January 2018, 4:30 PM, W415
Introductory Graduate Student Talks
– Tony Kao & Ryan Phelps
Friday, 2nd February 2018, 4:30 PM, WS402
“Controlling electron transfer: insight from non-adiabatic calculations”
– Dr. Theo Keane (University of Sheffield)
Friday, 9th February 2018, 4:30 PM, Queens BLDG 1.58
“Final year practice presentations”
– Laser group project students
Friday, 16th February 2018, 2:30 PM – 5:00 pm, Biomedical BLDG F40
“TBA”
– Dr. Olof Johansson (University of Edinburgh)
Friday, 23rd February 2018, 4:30 PM, Queens BLDG 1.58
Meeting Cancelled Friday, 9th March 2018
“Two-dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy from the Visible to the Ultraviolet”
– Prof. Giulio Cerullo (Politecnico di Milano)
Friday, 16th March 2018, 4:30 PM, TBA
“Chris Hansen Farewell Lecture”
– Matt Bain
Friday, 23rd March 2018, 4:30 PM, TBA
“Unexplored world of excited states of molecular anions”
– Dr. Vaibhav Prabhudesai (TIFR, Mumbai)
Tuesday, 17th April 2018, 4:30 PM, LT4
“Surface Functionalization Significantly Changes the Physical and Electronic Properties of Carbon Nano-dots”
– Tom Swift
Friday, 20th April 2018, 4:30 PM, W415
“Understanding Gas-Particle Partitioning in Atmospheric Aerosol: Single Particle and Computational Approaches”
– Stephen Ingram
Friday, 27th April 2018, 4:30 PM, W415
“ChemDyME: Towards Automating Reaction Discovery and Kinetics”
– Dr. Robin Shannon
Friday, 04 May 2018, 4:30 PM, W415
“Hygroscopic Response of Increasingly Complex Organic Mixtures”
– Aleks Marsh
Friday, 11th May 2018, 4:30 PM, W415
Cancelled Friday, 18th May 2018
“Charge transfer dynamics and vibrational wave packets explored with ultrafast techniques”
– Marta Duchi
Friday, 25th May 2018, 4:00 PM, LT4
“Impact of solvation on benzophenone photochemistry; Non-Born-Oppenheimer Electronic-Vibrational Structure”

– Callum and Dasha (CCC)

Friday, 1st June 2018, 4:30 PM, LT4
“Ultrafast nuclear dynamics of tetraphenylethylene from femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy”
– Dr. Surajit Kayal (University of Nottingham)
Friday, 8th June 2018, 4:30 PM, WS402
“Is the Simplest Chemical Reaction Really So Simple?”
– Dr. Mahima Sneha
Friday, 15th June 2018, 4:30 PM, 1.58 Queens Building
“Functional Group Effects on Reaction Mechanisms in Biofuel Oxidation”
– Dr. Brandon Rotavera (University of Georgia)
Monday, 06th August 2018, 1:00 PM, LT4

Autumn/Winter 2017

Presentation Date/Venue
“Emerging Techniques in Chemical Dynamics Mini-Symposium”
– Prof. Arthur Suits (University of Missouri)
– Dr. Chris Hansen (University of Bristol)
– Dr. Aditi Bhattacherjee (University of Bristol)
– Prof. Daniel Rolles (Kansas State University)
– Dr. Michael Burt (University of Oxford)
Friday, 22nd September 2017, 12:30 PM, West Foyer/LT4
“Excited State Embedding”
– Dr. Simon Bennie (Centre for Computational Chemistry)
Friday, 29th September 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“Laser group update”
– Matt Bain, Fred Cascarini, Dr. Mitch Quinn, Dr. Chris Hansen
Friday, 13th October 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“Quadrupole Coupling in Microwave Spectroscopy of Halogenated Azoles”
– Dr. Graham Cooper
Friday, 20th October 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“High Resolution Imaging of Resonances
in Low-Energy Molecular Scattering”

– Tim de Jongh (Radboud University)
Friday, 27th October 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“Ben Truscott Memorial Lecture”
– Ed Mahoney
Friday, 3rd November 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“Ultrafast characterization of semiconductor nanocrystals by means of coherent multidimensional spectroscopies”
– Giordano Amoruso“Separation and characterisation of three isomers of toluidine with differential ion mobility spectrometry and infrared multi-photon dissociation spectroscopy”
– Lingfeng Ge
Friday, 10th November 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“Catanionic complex formation at air-water interface: A VSFG Study”
– Dr. Ankur Saha (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre , Mumbai)
Friday, 17th November 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“The last stand of the 9th harmonic”
– Dr. Chris Hansen“3D Imaging of H2 from H2CO: Looking for vector correlations in the ion cloud”
– Dr. Mitchell Quinn
Friday, 24th November 2017, 4:30 PM, Queen’s 1.68
“Intermolecular hydrogen bonding in the ground and excited electronic states of aromatic ketones: Implication for its photo-physics/chemistry”
– Dr. Ravi Venkatraman
Friday, 1st December 2017, 4:30 PM, W415

Winter/Spring 2017

Presentation Date/Venue
“Steady state properties in photosynthesis antennas”
– Clem Stross (Centre for Computational Chemistry)
Friday, 10th February 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“TBA”
– Rhea Kumar
Friday, 17th February 2017, 2:30 PM, E204
“An investigation of the temperature dependence of reaction rate coefficients for Criegee intermediates with alcohols and sulphides”
– Laura McMahon
“Multi-mass imaging of photodissociation dynamics”
– Emma Elsdon
“Ultrafast photochemical dynamics of organic photoredox catalysis”
– Harvey Dale
“TBA”
– Matthew Bone
“TBA”
– Luke Carter
Friday, 24th February 2017, 2:30 PM, E204
“TBA”
– Chay Hale
“TBA”
– Emma Goodband
“TBA”
– Leana Aristodemou
“Simulating the iodine spectrum using AUTOFIT in PGOPHER”
– Li Xian Tan
“Explaining Intersystem Crossing in 2-Thiouracil: Insights from Ultrafast Absorption Spectroscopy”
– Matt Milner
“Electron induced chemistry in cold molecular films”
– E. Krishnakumar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
Friday, 10th March 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“Developing sustainable materials for thin film photovoltaics”
– Devendra Tiwari
Friday, 24th March 2017, 4:30 PM, QUEENS BLDG 1.58
“Solvent effects on photochemistry and photophysics of aromatic carbonyls: A Raman and computational study”
– 
Ravi Kumar Venkatraman
Friday, 7th April 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“Time-resolved photoelectron imaging as a probe of ultraviolet relaxation dynamics”
– David Townsend (Heriot-Watt University)
Friday, 21st April 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“Isomerisation, fragmentation, and decomposition of retinal protonated Schiff base”
– Neville Coughlan (The University of Melbourne)
Friday, 28th April 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“On the quest for the ideal sunscreen: The methyl and menthyl anthranilate saga”
– Natércia d. N. Rodrigues (University of Warwick)
“The potential of enhancing charge-transfer complex formation via biomimetic solvent driven self-assembly”
– Victor Quan (University of Warwick)
Friday, 5th May 2017, 4:30 PM, E204
“Time-resolved electroabsorption spectroscopy study of carrier dynamics within Lead trihalide perovskite thin-films”
– Marine Bouduban (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Friday, 12th May 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“Fresh Data Friday”
– Matt Bain, Marta Duchi & Victoria Taylor
Friday, 19th May 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“Products of Criegee Intermediate Reactions with NO2”
– Rebecca Caravan (Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories)
Friday, 26th May 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“Latest developments in understanding the plasma processes in analytical glow discharge optical emission and mass spectrometry”
– Sohail Mushtaq
Friday, 2nd June 2017, 4:30 PM, WS402
“Femtosecond X-ray Transient Absorption – A Universal Probe of Photoexcited Molecular Dynamics”
– Aditi Bhattacherjee
Friday, 9th June 2017, 4:30 PM, W415
“Interaction of Electromagnetic Radiation with Nanoclusters: Some Surprising Results”
– Rajesh K. Vatsa (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India)
Friday, 23rd June 2017, 4:30 PM, TBA

Autumn/Winter 2016

Presentation Date/Venue
“Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion”
– Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Friday, 23rd September 2016, 4:00 PM, LT3
“Optical emission spectroscopy of microwave-activated CH4/H2 plasmas used for CVD diamond growth”
– Ed Mahoney
Friday, 30th September 2016, 4:30 PM, W415
“2DIR spectroscopy of coherent energy transfer and intersystem crossing in metal complexes”
– Hugo Marroux
Friday, 21st October 2016, 4:30 PM, W415
“Kinetic Studies of Criegee Intermediate Reactions using Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy”
– Marta Duchi

“Organic electronic devices via solution processing and dynamic holographic assembly”
– Victoria Taylor
Friday, 28th October 2016, 4:30 PM, W415
“Using Molecular Dynamics simulations to study ion-molecule reactions in Coulomb crystals”
– Fred Cascarini
Thursday, 3rd November 2016, 4:00 PM, WS402
“TBA”
– Ashley Beckstead (Montana State)
Friday, 18th November 2016, 4:30 PM, W415
“Nonadiabatic effects in atmospheric chemistry and a soupçon of Exact Factorization”
– Basile Curchod
Friday, 25th November 2016, 4:30 PM, W415

Spring/Summer 2016

Presentation Date/Venue
“N2O4 Photodissociation in Solution”
– Philip Coulter
Friday, 15th April 2016, 4:30 PM, E204
“TBA”
– Clem Stross
Friday, 22nd April 2016, 4:30 PM, E204
“Probing molecular dynamics on ground and electronically excited states”
– Daniel Murdock
Friday, 29th April 2016, 4:30 PM, E204
“Unravelling molecular collisions”
–
Jolijn Onvlee (University of Nijmegen)
Friday, 6th May 2016, 4:30 PM, E204
“Multi-mass Imaging as a tool to understand the ionisation dynamics of gas phase molecules: An application of the PImMS 2 sensor”
– Hansjochen Koeckert (University of Oxford)
“Infrared Photodissociation Spectroscopy of Metal Carbon Dioxide Complexes”
– Ethan Cunningham (University of Oxford)
“Microscope-mode Mass Spectrometry of Samples using the PImMS Camera”
– Robert Burleigh (University of Oxford)
Wednesday, 11th May 2016, 4:30 PM, E204
“Ultrafast photo-induced molecular transformations in multidimensional potential energy landscapes: From the gas phase into solution and complex environments”
– Friedrich Temps (University of Kiel)
Friday, 20th May 2016, 4:30 PM, W415
“Photodissociation of Vinylbromide”
– Shubhrangshu Pandit
Friday, 27th May 2016, 4:30 PM, E204
“The Pilgrim’s Progress: towards the New Jerusalem of Reaction Dynamics”
– Balázs Hornung
Friday, 3rd June 2016, 4:30 PM, WS402
“Peeking behind the curtain of the total phenomenological rate constant”
– Max McGillen
Friday, 10th June 2016, 4:30 PM, QUEENS BLDG 1.58
“Atmospheric field measurements and low-temperature kinetics studies of the hydroxyl radical”
– Dwayne Heard (University of Leeds)
Friday, 17th June 2016, 4:30 PM, WS402
“A Side Story about an Accelerator for Tyre Vulcanization”
– Daisuke Koyama
Friday, 24th June 2016, 4:30 PM, E204
“Unimolecular Photodissociation of Small Aldehydes”
– Mitch Quinn
Friday, 1st July 2016, 4:30 PM, WS402
“Laboratory Studies of Criegee Intermediate Reactions”
– Rabi Chhantyal Pun
Friday, 15th July 2016, 4:30 PM, E204
“TBA”
– Adam Trevitt (University of Wollongong)
Friday, 22nd July 2016, 4:30 PM, W415

Autumn/Winter 2015/2016

Presentation Date/Venue
“Rotational polarisation effect in the inelastic collisions of NO(X) and Ar”
-Dr. Balazs Hornung
Friday, 17 January 2014, 4:30PM WS402
Break for folks at RAL 24 Jan – 10 Feb
LABview workshop
Tutorial worksheet PDF:  LABviewTutorial
Labview library:  LABview_Tutorial
Example data file:  LabviewDataset
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 10:00-12:00 AM, QUEENS building room 1.19
“Something about Phenol, Probably”
– Dr. Dave Hadden, Heriot-Watt University
“Something about Catechol, Probably”
– Mitch Horbury, University of Warwick
Friday, 14 Feb, 4:30PM WS402
“Pulsed laser deposition of SrTiO3 heterostructures – approaching the 2D limit”
– Dr. Chris Bell, Senior Lecturer in Physics at Bristol
Friday, 28 Feb, 4:30PM WS402
“Ultrafast Deactivation Dynamics of Structurally Modified and Hydrogen-Bonded DNA Building Blocks”
– Dr. Katharina Röttger
Friday, 7 Mar, 4:30PM WS402
“Something about Conical Intersections, Probably”
– Dr. Tolga Karsili
“Something about Propene, Probably”
– Dr. TJ Preston
Friday, 14 Mar, 4:30PM WS402
“New plasmonic nanomaterials and optical applications: theory drives innovation”
– Professor George Schatz, Northwestern University
Monday, 24 March 3:00PM LT 3
RSC Boys-Rahman Award
“Broadband rotational spectroscopy applied to the study of the doublet pi states of PbI and SnI”
– HansJochen Kockert
“Time-Resolved Infrared Absorption Studies on Ring-Opening Reactions”
– Dr. Dan Murdock
Friday, 4 April, 4:30PM WS402
“New Tools for the Study of Single Molecule Chemistry at the Atomic Length Scale and Femtosecond Time Scale”
– Professor Richard P.Van Duyne, Northwestern University
Monday, 7 April, 4:00PM LT4
RSC Stokes Award
“The Tale of Hydrogen and Cyanide: A Shakespearean tragedy that can only end with someone getting poisoned”
– Dr. Michael P. Grubb
“Unimolecular Photoisomerization: Solvent Influence in scCO2 & FSRS Probing”
– Ryan Kieda
Friday, 11 April, 4:30PM WS402
Bank Holiday Friday, 18 April
Mass Transport Dynamics of Aqueous Aerosol
– James Davies
Friday, 2 May, 4:30PM WS402
RSC Chemical Dynamics Award lecture
– Prof Dan Neumark, University of California, Berkeley 
Friday, 9 May, 4:30PM WS402
Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy for Single Aerosol Extinction Measurements
– Michael Cotterell
Friday, 16 May, 4:30PM WS402
 Infrared driven reactions on gas-phase metal clusters: Chemistry of spectrally characterised entrance-channel complexes
– Prof. Stuart Mackenzie (Oxford)
Tuesday, 24 June, 12:30 PM WS 402
Homologation of Boronic Esters: Structural and Mechanistic Investigations
– Dr. Stephanie Essafi
Bimolecular and Unimolecular reaction kinetics of CH2OO
– Dr. Rabi Chhantyal-Pun
Friday, 4 July, 4:30PM WS402
Presentation Date/Venue
“Ultraviolet Photodissociation of Protonated Pyridine Derivatives: Action Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry”
– Chris Hansen
Friday, 11th March 2016, 4:30 PM, E204
“Inductively-coupled plasmas in Cl2, O2 and mixtures: quantitative optical measurements of stable and transient species densities and energy distributions”
– Jean-Paul Booth
Friday, 26th February 2016, 4:30 PM, WS402
“Extensive Ab Initio Study of S2”
– Patrick Martin“Gas phase ion imaging”
– Andy Wall“A study into the unimolecular decomposition of Criegee intermediates using cavity ring-down spectroscopy”
– Henry Hill
Friday, 19th February 2016, 4:00 PM, E204
“A kinetic study into the reactions of Criegee intermediates with Ammonia and Methylamine, using cavity ring-down spectroscopy”
– Aidan Ingham“Extensive ab initio study of molecular oxygen”
– Vicki Eagle“The excited state proton transfer of 7-azaindole”
– Lauren Mccarthy“Two dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2DIR) of short Aib peptide systems”
– James Hawken
Friday, 12th February 2016, 4:00 PM, E204
“Femtosecond X-Ray Experiments: Towards Real-Time Imaging of Chemical Dynamics”
– Christian Bressler (XFEL Hamburg)
Friday, 5th February 2016, 4:30 PM, W415
“It’s All About Water”
– Peter Hamm (University of Zurich)
Friday, 22nd January 2016, 10:00 AM, LT4
“This is what I did in my holidays”
– Rebecca Ingle
Friday, 11th December 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“Phenol: The Story That Never Ends?”
– Tom Oliver
Friday, 4th December 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“Towards In Silico Photochemistry with Ab Initio Multiple Spawning: Methods & Applications”
– Basile Curchod (Stanford University)
Friday, 27th November 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“Microwave spectroscopy of chiral molecules” –  Chris Medcraft (University of Newcastle)“The rotational spectrum of the imidazole dimer” – John Mullaney (University of Newcastle) Friday, 20th November 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“Time resolved studies of low temperature chain branching”
– Paul Seakins (University of Leeds)
Friday, 13th November 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“LILAC lithography”
– Magdalena (Ulmeanu) Stanton
Friday, 6th November 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“Spatial Fluorescence Imaging”
– Matthew Bain
Friday, 30th October 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“Boltzmann Avenged”
– Heather Lewandowski (University of Colorado)
Friday, 23rd October 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them”
– Daniel Murdock
Friday, 16th October 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“Multidimensional Problems and Failures in Multiple Dimensions”
– Hugo Marroux
Friday, 9th October 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“Characterization of an electrochemical jet for bulk reduction reactions”
– Ryan McMullen
Friday, 25th September 2015, 4:30 PM, WS402

Summer/Spring 2015

Presentation Date/Venue
“Mysteries of bromocyclopropane (upstairs and downstairs)”
– Shubhrangshu Pandit
Friday, 24th July 2015, 4:30 PM, WS402
“A Talk for Dan”
– Michael Grubb
Friday, 10th July 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“How to make good tyres: a bottom-up approach”
– Daisuke Koyama
Friday, 3rd July 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“ICN and BrCN – it doesn’t work”
– Philip Coulter
Friday, 26th June 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“Time resolved kinetic studies of the Criegee Intermediate unimolecular and bimolecular reactions using Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy”
– Rabi Chhantyal Pun
Friday, 12th June 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“High-resolution and contact-free spectroscopic approach to tissue biomechanics”
– Francesca Palombo, University of Exeter
Friday, 5th June 2015, 4:30 PM, WS402
“Modulation of light-induced electron transfer pathways by infrared light stimulation of intramolecular vibrations” – Theo Keane, University of Sheffield and Milan Delor, University of Sheffield Friday, 22nd May, 4:30 PM, WS402
 “Cavity-enhanced resonant photoacoustic and Raman spectroscopy for trace gas analysis and high-resolution spectroscopy”
–Michael Hippler, University of Sheffield
Friday, 15th May 2015, 4:30 PM, WS402
“MD and QM/MM reaction modelling: An introduction & application to enzymes”– Marc van der Kamp, University of Bristol Friday, 8th May 2015, 4:30 PM
“Acceleration of Reactions in Charged Microdroplets”
–Dick Zare, Stanford University
Friday, 1st May 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“High-resolution and contact-free spectroscopic approach to tissue biomechanics” – cancelled
– Francesca Palombo, University of Exeter
Friday, 24th April 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“Mapping microscopic viscosity with molecular rotors: from live cells to atmospheric aerosols”
–Marina Kuimova, Imperial College London
Friday, 17th April 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“The Dynamics of Opening Three-Membered Rings in Gas and Condensed Phases” 
– Barry Carpenter, University of Bristol
Friday, 10th April 2015, 4:30 PM, E204
“Laser driven chemistry of Criegee intermediates'” 
– Joseph Beames, University of Cardiff
Friday, 27th March 2015, 4:30 PM, WS402
“Using time-resolved spectroscopy to study protein dynamics”
– Samantha Hardman, University of Manchester
Friday, 20th March 2015, 5:00 PM, E204
“Fundamental Metal-Ligand Interactions and Gas-Phase Reaction Mechanisms Involving Metal Atoms and Clusters”
–Alex Gentleman, University of Oxford“Multimass Imaging and Charged Particle Detection:  Faster, Brighter, More Efficient”
–Simon-John King, University of Oxford“Photofragment velocity and spatial map imaging applications using the Pixel Imaging Mass Spectrometery (PImMS) camera”
–Michael Burt, University of Oxford
Friday, 13th March, 2015, 4:00 PM E204
“All Aerosols, All the Time”
– Bryan Bzdek
Friday, 06th March 2015, 4:30 PM
“DNA + photon = ?”
– Katharina Röttger
Friday, 13th February 2015, 4:30 PM E204
 “Forming and Understanding 2D-IR Spectra”
– Samantha Gibbins
“The fragmentation of acetonitrile: looking towards a new CN radical source”
– Alex Fairbairn
Friday, 6th February 2015, 3:00 PM LT4
 “A Road to Electrochemical Ultrafast Spectroscopy”
– Ryan McMullen
“Understanding how nitrogen contributes to the gas phase chemistry of diamond growth by chemical vapour deposition”
– Katie Potter
Friday, 30 January 2015, 4:30PM E204
  “An investigation into the kinetics of atmospherically relevant reactions of Criegee intermediates”
– Lucy Blacker
“1-Chlorophenol, 2-Chlorophenol, Red Chlorophenol, Blue Chlorophenol”
– James Berry
 Friday, 23 January 2015, 4:30PM E204

Autumn 2014

Presentation Date/Venue
“How Do Liquids Work? – An ICN Case Study”
– Dr. Michael Grubb
Thursday, 25 September 2014, 4:30PM E204
“3-D Patterning of Silicon by Laser-induced, Liquid-assisted colloidal (LILAC) Lithography”
– Dr. Magda Ulmeanu
Friday, 3 October 2014, 4:30PM E204
“Homologation of Boronic Esters: Structural and Mechanistic Investigations”
– Dr. Stephanie Essafi
Friday, 10 October 2014, 4:30PM E204
“Theoretical Insights into Water Splitting: Current Applications and Beyond”
– Dr. Tolga Karsili
Friday, 17 October 2014, 4:30PM E204
“Probing Atmospheric Aerosol in the Field and Laboratory: New Science and Instruments”
– Dr. Justin Langridge (UK MET Office)
Tuesday, 21 October 2014, 2:00PM E204
“Direct Observation of the Structural Changes in Molecules After Photoexcitation: An Experimental Time-domain Approach”
– Christoph Schnedermann (Kukura Group, Oxford University)
Friday, 24 October 2014, 4:30PM E204
“Probing the Ultrafast Photochemistry of DNA: A Case Study of Adenine”
– Dr. Gareth Roberts
(Physical & Theoretical Seminar)
Tuesday, 28 October 2014, 4:00PM LT4
“Probing Solvation: A Spectroscopic Study of Salt-water Complexes in Helium Nanodroplets”
– Dr. Johnathan Tandy (Ellis Group, University of Leicester)
Friday, 14 November 2014, 4:30PM E204
“Time-resolved Interference-detected Second Harmonic Generation at Liquid Interfaces”
– Dr. David Woods (Verlet Group, Durham University)
“TBA”
– Dr. James Bull (Verlet Group, Durham University)
Friday, 21 November 2014, 4:30PM E204
“TBA”
– Prof. Ruth Signorell (ETH Zurich)
Friday, 28 October 2014, 4:00PM LT3
“TBA”
– Dr. Russell Minns (University of Southampton)
Friday, 5 December 2014, 4:30PM E204

Spring 2014