Durham Chemistry Seminar Schedule Michaelmas Term 2024

Seminars Take Place in CG85 at 2pm (unless otherwise informed)

 

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11^th September 2024

Elizabeth New (Sydney University)

Find out more: https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/chemistry/~enew/liz.html

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9^th October 2024

Paul Hodgkinson (Durham University)

Find out more: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/paul-hodgkinson/

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16^th October

Stephen Goldup FRSC (University of Birmingham)

Find out more: https://golduplab.org/

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23^rd October 2024 – This will begin at 1300 in room CG85 (Chemistry Department)

Matt Fuchter (University of Oxford)

Find out more: https://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/people/matthew-fuchter

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24^th October 2024 – Please note this will be held in CG91 (Chemistry Department)

Musgrave Lecture: Programme as follows

• 14:00 - 14:10 - Welcome and introduction
• 14:10 - 14:45 – Keith Andrews (Durham University)
  • https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/keith-g-andrews/
• 14:45 - 15:30 – John Murphy (Strathclyde)
  • https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/murphyjohnprof/
• 15:30 - 16:00 - Break (Coffee and Tea in the Musgrave room)
• 16:00 - 17:00 – Franziska Schoenebeck (RWTH Aachen) - Musgrave Lecture
  • https://www.schoenebeck.oc.rwth-aachen.de/fs
• 17:00 - 18:30 – Wine reception in the Musgrave Room open to all

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30^th October 2024

Black history month seminars

12.00 Lunch Musgrave Room (CG141) Chemistry Building

13.00 pm Welcome – CG91

13.10 pm Daniel Similaki - Key Account Manager at Avantor (Pharma) “Science Beyond Barriers: My Story of Empowering Minority Voices in Science".

13.40 pm Benjamin Ajibade - Professor in Mental Health and Lead for the ProNE project, Northumbria University “The Intersection of Race and Identity: Navigating Blackness in the 21st Century”.

14.10 pm break 15 min Tea/coffee – Musgrave Room (CG141)

14.25 pm Dorothy Monekosso - Professor of Computer Science and CTO at More Life UK Ltd, Durham University "My journey as an engineer, academic & researcher".

14.55 pm Discussion

15.30 pm end of the event/networking opportunities

 

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6th November 2024

Martin Fascione (University of York)

Find out more: https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/people/mfascione/

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13^th November

Diversity in Science Symposium

• 12:00 - 12:50 - Lunch
• 12:50 - 13:00 - Welcome and Introduction
• 13:00 - 13:30 - Sannia Farooque (University of Bradford)
• 13:30 - 14:00 - Ben Arenas (The University of Edinburgh) https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-ben-arenas
• 14:00 - 14:30 - Break
• 14:30 - 15:00 - Syed Zaheer Abbas (University of Southampton) https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/62bw6h/doctor-syed-zaheer-abbas
• 15:00 - 15:30 - Ashok Keerthi (The University of Manchester) https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/ashok.keerthi
• 15:30 - 16:00 - Question and Answer session
• 16:00 - 16:10 - Concluding remarks

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20^th November 2024

Stephen Wallace (University of Edinburgh - Norman Heatley RSC Award Lecture)

Find out more: https://wallacelab.bio.ed.ac.uk/

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25^th November 2024 – This will be held at 13:00 in Room CG60 (Chemistry Department)

David E. Herbert (Manitoba Institute for Materials, Canada)

Find out more: https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~dherbert/

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27^th November

Paul Walton (University of York)

Schedule:

12.00 – 1.00 Lunch, Musgrave Room

1.00-2.00 Research talk: Spectroscopy and structures of biomass-degrading metalloenzymes-a way to cleaner fuels? (CG85)

2.00-2.30 Tea/coffee/biscuits, Musgrave Room

2.30-3.30 EDI talk: Gender equality in academia: when? (CG85)

 Paul has long been a champion of gender equality in the sciences. He has given over 200 international lectures on the topic and received a number of international awards. 

https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/people/pwalton/equality/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyFo4aNqqHA

https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/people/pwalton/

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4^th December 2024

Anders Madsen (University of Copenhagen)

Find out more: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rQQuoAkAAAAJ&hl=en

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11^th December 2024 - This will be held at 13:00 in Room CG85 (Chemistry Department)

Sabine Flitsch (Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester)

Find out more: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/sabine.flitsch

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Durham Chemistry Seminar Schedule Easter Term 2023

Seminars Take Place in CG85 at 2pm (unless otherwise informed)

 

Date	Speaker
27/03/24	Prof Matt Unthank Northumbria University Website
17/04/24	RSC Prize Lecture - Corday-Morgan Prize   Prof Tomislav Friščić University of Birmingham Website
30/04/24	RSC Prize Lecture - Centenary Prize   Prof Mark Grinstaff Boston University Website
01/05/24	Dr Joe Beckwith University of Cambridge Website
03/06/24- 05/06/24	Durham Lecture Series   Prof Kelly Chibale University of Cape Town Website
05/06/24	Dr Patrick Stewart DSTL, Porton Down Website
19/06/24-20/06/24	Postgraduate Symposium
24/06/24	RSC Prize Lecture - Centenary Prize   Prof Christopher Barner-Kowollik Queensland University of Technology Website

 

Durham Chemistry Seminar Schedule Epiphany Term 2024

Seminars Take Place in CG85 at 2pm (unless otherwise informed)

Date	Speaker
10/01/24	Prof Gavin Miller Keele University Website
17/01/24	Prof. Eli Zysman-Coleman http://www.zysman-colman.com/home
24/01/24	Dr Alison Stuart https://le.ac.uk/people/alison-stuart
30/01/24 (Tuesday)	Tilden Prize Seminar by David Smith https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/o-s/dsmith/
31/01/24	Prof. Anju Massey-Brooker (ex-P&G; RSC)
07/02/24	Dr. Jessica Wade  https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/jessica.wade
14/02/24	Prof. Matthew Unthank Please note this is to be rearranged
28/02/24	Amy Robertson
06/03/24	Joanna McGouran
13/03/24	Frances Docherty

 

 

Durham Chemistry Seminar Schedule Michaelmas Term 2023

Seminars Take Place in CG85 at 2pm (unless otherwise informed)

Date	Speaker
11/10/23	Prof Bruno Linclau Ghent University Website
18/10/23	Black History Month Event Details to follow
01/11/23	Dr Patrick Stewart DSTL, Porton Down Website Please note this is to be rearranged
15/11/23	Dr. Mike Hall University of Newcastle   'Developing synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry'
22/11/23	Dr Tim Miles GSK Website
29/11/23	Dr Maria Paz Munoz-Herranz Lancaster University Website
06/12/23	Careers Event More details to follow