| 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 |
| No presentation | Friday, 24th February 2023, 4:00 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 |
| TBA – Daniel Hollas | Friday, 9th June 2023, LT4, 4:00 PM |
| TBA – Rokas Petrenas | Friday, 16th June 2023, W415, 4:00 PM |
| TBA – TBA | Friday, 23rd June 2023, LT4, 4:00 PM |
| TBA – Meghan Oddy | Wednesday, 28th June 2023, LT4, 4:00 PM |
| TBA | TBA |
| Presentation | Date/Venue |
| “On the photochemistry of pyruvic acid and pyruvate” – Lewis Hutton | Friday, 23rd September 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM
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| No presentation | Friday, 30th September 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM
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| “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
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| “Predicting rate constants of photo physical molecular processes via static non-adiabatic calculations” – Harry Stroud | Friday, 18th November 2022, W415, 4:00 PM
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| “Classification of Doubly Excited Molecular Electronic States” – Mariana Telles do Casal | Friday, 25th November 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM
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| “Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy of Surfaces and Hydrated Electrons” – Caleb Jordan | Friday, 2nd December 2022, W415, 4:00 PM
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| “Shedding light on the dual fluorescence of Nile Red” – Camilla Gajo | Friday, 9th December 2022, W415, 4:00 PM
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| “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
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| Presentation | Date/Venue |
| “Ligand Dynamics Timescales Identify the Surface-Ligand Interactions in Thiocyanate-capped Cadmium Sulfide Nanocrystals’” – Dr. Deborin Ghosh
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Friday, 8th April 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM
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| “Investigating the excited state dynamics of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene using time correlated single photon counting, part 2 ” – Olivia Hawkins
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Thursday, 14th April 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM
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| “Observing the Photoredox-Catalysed Mechanism for the Formation of α-Tertiary Amines with Transient Absorption Spectroscopy” – Georgia Thornton
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Friday, 29th April 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM |
| “Towards automated calculations of photoabsorption cross-sections” – Dr. Daniel Hollas
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Friday, 6th May 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM |
| “Investigating in silico the sunlight-triggered excited-state dynamics of transient atmospheric molecules” – Dr. Antonio Prlj
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Friday, 13th May 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM |
| “Understanding the DPH fluorescence mechanism from a theoretical perspective” – Dr. Dasha Shchepanovska
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Wednesday, 1st June 2022, LT4, 4:00 PM |
| “Ultrafast Photoinduced Through-Space Electron Transfer Dynamics” – Dr. Ravi Kumar Venkatraman
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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 |
| Presentation | Date/Venue |
| “Single particle CRDS measurements of absorbing aerosol particles” – Jamie Knight
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Friday, 29th October 2021, 4:00 PM
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| “Ultrafast Spectroscopic Study of Overcrowded Alkene Molecular Motors Based on an Oxindole” – Connah Harris
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Friday, 12th November 2021, 4:00 PM
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| “Exploring the photophysics of organic photocatalysts using transient vibrational absorption spectroscopy” – Will Whitaker
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Friday, 26th November 2021, 4:00 PM |
| “Observing the Photocatalysed Mechanism for the formation of α-Tertiary Amines with Ultrafast Spectroscopic Techniques” – Georgia Thornton
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Postponed – Friday, 3rd December 2021, 4:00 PM
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| “Life Post-Bristol: Adventures Down the Electromagnetic Spectrum” – Dr. Rebecca Ingle (University College London)
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Friday, 10th December 2021, 4:00 PM |
| Presentation | Date/Venue |
| “Solvent Influences on Photodynamic of a Sunscreen Molecule DHHB” – Tony Kao
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Friday, 5th February 2021, 4:00 PM
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| “Exploring enhanced photoprotection on natural photonic chloroplasts” – Fabiola Cardoso Delgado
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Friday, 19th February 2021, 4:00 PM
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| “Investigating photoactive molecules using gas-phase ion spectroscopy” – Dr. Michael Scholz (University College London)
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Friday, 5th March 2021, 4:00 PM
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| “When two become one: triplet-pair states in (hetero)acenes” – David Bossanyi (University of Sheffield)
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Friday, 12th March 2021, 4:00 PM
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| “Investigating DPH fluorescence in different environments” – Olivia Hawkins
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Friday, 19th March 2021, 4:00 PM
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| “A study on the dynamics of phycocyanobilin in solution and protein environments” – Camilla Gajo
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Friday, 26th March 2021, 4:00 PM
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| “Molecular tuning of charge dynamics in small-molecule organic photovoltaics” – Rhea Kumar (Imperial College London)
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Friday, 23rd April 2021, 4:00 PM |
| “Coulomb Explosion Imaging of CH3I and CF3I: A Progress Report” – Dr. Stuart Crane (Heriot-Watt University)
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Friday, 30th April 2021, 4:00 PM
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| “Dalian 2019: Exploring all product channels in the photodissociation of state-selected H2S molecules” – Prof. Mike Ashfold
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Friday, 14th May 2021, 4:00 PM
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| “Methods for simulating ionisation in aqueous solutions” – Dr. Alice Henley (University College London)
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Friday, 28th May 2021, 4:00 PM
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Presentation | Date/Venue |
| “Ultrafast Dynamics of Biomolecular Systems” – Marta Duchi
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Friday, 4th October 2019, 4:30 PM, W415
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| “Photochemistry of a Sunscreen Molecule- Hexyl diethylaminohydroxybenzoylbenzoate” – Tony Kao
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Friday, 11th October 2019, 4:30 PM, W415
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| “A Photoredox Polymerisation Study of N-ethylcarbazole Using Transient Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy”– Georgia Thornton
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Cancelled
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| “What Mike did at FERMI (or Studying Ring-Opening in Gas Phase)?”– Mike Ashfold
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Friday, 25th October 2019, 4:00 PM, W415
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| “The Surface Properties of Atmospheric Aerosol: Composition, Clouds, and Climate”– Dr Bryan Bzdek (University of Bristol)
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Friday, 1st November 2019, 4:00 PM, W415
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“Comparing dynamic and kinetic approaches in atmospheric photodissociation” – Darya Shchepanovska (University of Bristol)
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Friday, 8th November 2019, 4:00 PM, W415
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| “Investigating the Intermediate Triplet-Pair States in Singlet Fission” – Daniel Polak
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Friday, 15th November 2019, 4:00 PM, W415
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| “A Photoredox Polymerisation Study of N-ethylcarbazole Using Transient Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy”– Georgia Thornton
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Thursday, 21st November 2019, 4:00 PM, W415 |
| “Dimensionality Reduction of Reaction Coordinates and Trajectories” – Dr Stephanie Hare (University of Bristol)
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Friday, 29th November 2019, 4:00 PM, W415
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| “How can Transient Absorption Spectroscopy Inform the Rational Design of Organic Reactions?” – Luke Lewis-Borrell
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Friday, 6th December 2019, 4:00 PM, W415
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| “Coloumb Explosion Imaging: A Tool for Molecular Structure Determination” – Dr Stuart Crane
“Simulating Coulomb Explosion Dynamics” – Lingfeng Ge
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Friday, 13th December 2019, 4:00 PM, LT4
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| 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” |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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| “Multi-mass imaging of photodissociation dynamics” – Emma Elsdon |
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| “Ultrafast photochemical dynamics of organic photoredox catalysis” – Harvey Dale |
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| “TBA” – Matthew Bone |
| “TBA” – Luke Carter |
Friday, 24th February 2017, 2:30 PM, E204 |
| “TBA” – Chay Hale |
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| “TBA” – Emma Goodband |
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| “TBA” – Leana Aristodemou |
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| “Simulating the iodine spectrum using AUTOFIT in PGOPHER” – Li Xian Tan |
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| “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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
