2012 seminar program

Semester One 2012 Seminar Program

	Postgraduate/School Seminars	School Seminars	School Seminars
Week	Mondays - 4pm in LT 2	Wednesdays -9am in LT 2 (unless otherwise stated)	Fridays - 11am in LT 4
23/1			Professor Phil Gale School of Chemistry University of Southampton Host: Prof Kate Jolliffe
30/1			Dr Stephen Goldup School of Biological and Chemical Sciences Queen Mary University of London, UK Host: Dr Mat Todd
6/2*		Professor Ian Paterson Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge, UK Host: Dr Rich Payne Special Seminar 4:00 pm, Chemistry LT2 Professor Junpo He Department of Macromolecular Science Fundan University, China Host: Prof Sebastien Perrier	Professor Ludwik Leibler École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI ParisTech), France Host: Prof Sebastien Perrier
13/2		668^th Meeting of the Sydney University Chemical Society 5:30 pm, Chemistry LT2 Professor Justin Gooding School of Chemistry University of New South Wales Host: Dr Rich Payne	Professor Kelly Chibale Department of Chemistry University of Capetown South Africa Host: Dr Rich Payne
20/2		Dr Marc Kimber Department of Chemistry Loughborough University, UK Host: Dr Chris McErlean
27/2		Professor Shuhei Furukawa Kyoto University, Japan Host: Prof Cameron Kepert
5/3 (S1 begins)	Ms Jessica Chadbourne PhD seminar		Professor Takahiko Akiyama Department of Chemistry Gakushuin University, Japan Host: Dr Mat Todd
12/3		669^th Meeting of the Sydney University Chemical Society 5:30pm, Chemistry LT2 Refreshments from 5:00 pm. Dr Alan Robertson Chief Executive Officer Pharmaxis Ltd Title of talk: Building a research based pharmaceutical company in the 21st Century Host: Dr Rich Payne
19/3			Associate Professor David Reilly Director Quantum Nanoscience Laboratory School of Physics University of Sydney Host: Prof Jeff Reimers
26/3	Mr Yuen Yap Cheng PhD seminar
2/4	Mr George Huyan PhD seminar		Good Friday
9/4	Easter Monday
16/4		Ernest Ritchie Memorial Lecture (as part of the 670^th Sydney University Chemical Society) 5:30 pm, Chemistry LT2 Professor Dale Boger Department of Chemistry and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology The Scripps Research Institute Host: Dr Rich Payne	Associate Professor Roy Tasker School of Science and Health University of Western Sydney Host: Dr Alexandra Yeung
23/4	Ms Lisa Cameron PhD seminar	Public holiday	Dr Gary Delaney Mathematical and Information Sciences CSIRO, Australia Host: Dr Toby Hudson
30/4		Professor Sean Li School of Materials Science and Engineering University of New South Wales Host: A/Prof Chris Ling	Associate Professor Michael Oelgemöller School of Pharmacy and Molecular Science James Cook University Host: Dr Deanna D'Alessandro
7/5		Dr Juan C. Nino UFRF Professor Materials Science and Engineering University of Florida Host: Prof Brendan Kennedy 671st Meeting of the Sydney University Chemical Society 5:30 pm, Chemistry LT2 Refreshments from 5:00 pm. Professor Iain McGregor Professor of Psychopharmacology ARC Professorial Fellow The University of Sydney Title of talk: Evolution of party drugs Host: Dr Rich Payne	Associate Professor Andrew Minett Co-Director Laboratory for Sustainable Technology School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Sydney Host: Dr Deanna D'Alessandro
14/5	Mr John Moraes PhD seminar
21/5	Mr Say Kwang Lim MSc seminar	Robert A. Flowers II Professor and Chairman Danser Distinguished Faculty Chair in Chemistry Department of Chemistry Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA 18015 Venue: Chemistry LT1 Time: 11:00am Host: Dr Rich Payne	Professor Igor Vorobyov University of California at Davis LT4, 11:00am Host: Dr Ron Clarke
28/5	Ms Liwen Zhu PhD seminar		Associate Professor Steen Brøndsted Department of Physics and Astronomy Aarhus University, Denmark Host: Prof. Scott Kable
4/6	Ms Teck Yee Tan PhD seminar		Dr Nial Wheate School of Pharmacy University of Sydney Host: Dr Deanna D'Alessandro
11/6	Public holiday		Dr Fred Pfeffer School of Life and Environmental Sciences Deakin University Host: Dr Kate Jolliffe
18/6	Mr Cameron Weber PhD seminar	672nd Meeting of the Sydney University Chemical Society 5:30 pm, Chemistry LT2 Refreshments from 5:00 pm. Dr Karl S. Kruszelnicki Julius Sumner Miller Fellow The University of Sydney Title of Talk: Great Moments in Science Host: Dr Rich Payne	Professor Simon Ringer Director, Australian Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis (ACMM) The University of Sydney Host: Dr Peter Southon
25/6	Ms Michelle Wong PhD seminar		Professor Huw Davies Department of Chemistry Emory University, USA Host: Dr Rich Payne
2/7	Mr Murad Tayebjee PhD seminar
9/7			Pr Claude Spino Département de Chimie Université de Sherbrooke 2500 Boul. Université Sherbrooke, QC Canada, J1K 2R1 Host: Dr Rich Payne
16/7	Ms Nguyen Pham PhD seminar	673rd Meeting of the Sydney University Chemical Society 5:30 pm, Chemistry LT2 Professor Addy Pross Department of Chemistry Ben Gurion University Beer Sheva, Israel Title of talk: "How Chemistry Becomes Biology. Extending Darwinian Theory to Inanimate Matter"	Dr Anne Richards Department of Chemistry La Trobe University Host: Dr Deanna D'Alessandro
23/7

Semester Two 2012 Seminar Program

-	Postgraduate/School Seminars	School Seminars	School Seminars
Week	Mondays - 4pm in LT 4	Wednesdays -9am in LT 4	Fridays - 11am in LT 4
30/7	Ms Althea Tsang PhD seminar		A/Prof James Beattie School of Chemistry The University of Sydney Host: Dr Deanna D'Alessandro
6/8	Ms Mimi Liu PhD seminar		Assistant Professor Nathan Gianneschi Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, San Diego Host: A/Prof Lou Rendina
13/8	Ms Caroline Nesbitt PhD seminar
20/8	Ms Zhi Jun Lim PhD seminar
27/8	Mr Trent Conroy PhD seminar	Sydney University Chemical Society Meeting 5:30 pm, Chemistry LT2 Dr John Macor Bristol Myer Squibb, USA Host: Dr Rich Payne	Professor Pierre Ronceray École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Host: Prof Peter Harrowell
3/9	Mr Joonsup Lee PhD seminar
10/9	Mr Robert Chapman PhD seminar
17/9	Sydney University Chemical Society Meeting 2012 Howard Lecture 5:30 pm, Chemistry LT2 Professor Phil Baran Department of Chemistry The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA Host: Dr Rich Payne		Professor Herbert Mayr Department of Chemie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Title: Mythology in Organic Chemistry: A Kinetic Analysis Host: Prof Leo Radom
24/9	Ms Soo Jean Park PhD seminar		Professor Paul Mulvaney School of Chemistry The University of Melbourne Host: Dr Asaph Widmer-Cooper
1/10	Public holiday
8/10	Ms Alexandra Manos-Turvey PhD seminar		Professor Paul Bernhardt School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences University of Queensland Host: Dr Deanna D'Alessandro
15/10	Ms Nilupa Amarasinghe PhD seminar	Foundation for Inorganic Chemistry Lectures Professor Ed Solomon Department of Chemistry Stanford University, USA Host: Dr Deanna D'Alessandro	Professor Irene Yarovsky Health Innovations Research Institute School of Applied Sciences RMIT University Host: Prof Jeff Reimers
22/10	Mr Mingfeng Yu PhD seminar	Professor Ed Solomon Department of Chemistry Stanford University, USA Host: Dr Deanna D'Alessandro	Foundation for Inorganic Chemistry Lectures Professor Ed Solomon Department of Chemistry Stanford University, USA Host: Dr Deanna D'Alessandro
29/10	Mr Dong-Hee Yoon PhD seminar		Professor Peter Daivis School of Applied Sciences RMIT University Title of talk: Calculation of fluid-wall slip friction coefficients by equilibrium molecular dynamics Host: Dr Asaph Widmer-Cooper
5/11			Professor Brian Yates School of Chemistry University of Tasmania Host: Professor Jeff Reimers
12/11			Dr David Lupton School of Chemistry Monash University Host: Dr Rich Payne
19/11
26/11	Ms Alice Klein PhD seminar		Associate Professor Daniel Kosov School of Engineering and Physical Science James Cook University, Townsville Host: Prof Jeff Reimers
3/12
10/12

Special Seminars: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 - Professor M. Saiful Islam, Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, UK will be giving a talk on "Watts New with Clean Energy Materials? Batteries Included" in Chemistry LT2 at 3:00pm. Tuesday, 23 October 2012 - Hans C. Freeman Lecture (Foundation for Inorganic Chemistry),* Professor Ed Solomon, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, USA, Host: Dr Deanna D'Alessandro Tuesday, 3 April 2012 - The Foundation for Inorganic Chemistry, A lecture introducing new members of the inorganic faculty. They are: Dr Elizabeth New; Dr Michela Simone and Dr Deanna D'Alessandro. Chemistry LT2, 5:30pm. All welcome. Tuesday, 3 March 2012 - Professor Ulrich Wiesner, Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University, USA. 11am in Chemistry Room 418, Level 4, School of Chemistry. Thursday, 1 March 2012 - Associate Professor Takahiro Ohkubo, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama Unviersity Japan Thursday, 9 February 2012 - Professor David Haddleton from the Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK Tuesday, 7 February 2012 - Dr Tom Faust, University of Manchester, Host: Cameron Kepert

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2012 seminar program

Semester One 2012 Seminar Program

Semester Two 2012 Seminar Program