Seminars & Conferences

On 21-25th April 2014, DTC student David Miles presented his research at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting held in San Francisco, USA. Attendance of the conference was funded in part due to a successful £750 grant application to...

The RSC Solid State Group Easter Meeting was organised by Professor Aron Walsh (University of Bath) and Dr David Scanlon (UCL) and was held at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre in Chicheley between 14-16 April 2014. This post was...

On 1–6 December 2013, DTC student Lee Burton attended the Materials Research Society fall meeting in Boston, USA. He describes the experience for us in this blog post. As a PhD student I was honoured to be chosen to speak...

The RSC Solid State Group Christmas Meeting is an annual event which aims to bring together UK researchers from topics across issues relating to solid state materials. Of particular relevance to the DTC is the strong energy contingent of this...

Whorrod Fellow Dr Chris Chuck, along with DTC students Lisa Sargeant, Fraeya Whiffin, Joe Donnelly and Jon Wagner, recently attended the International Bioenergy 2014 Conference in Manchester. Jon, currently in his second year, has written a summary of the conference...

In December 2013, CSCT students Jemma Rowlandson and Leighton Holyfield (cohort 5) and Jess Sharpe (cohort 2) attended the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell (H2FC) SUPERGEN Researcher Conference. This report comes from Jemma. The H2FC SUPERGEN Hydrogen Researcher Conference took place...

In December, CSCT students Helena Quilter (cohort 5), James Tyson (cohort 3) and Ben Hodges (cohort 2) travelled to Glasgow for MASC 2013 to find out what’s new in the world of macrocyclic and supramolecular chemistry. Helena brings us this...

The Stem Cell Symposium organised by the Cardiff Stem Cell Network is a free event, in its second year, that brings together researchers in the south west. A number of students from the University of Bath, based in chemical engineering,...

The European Kesterite workshops is a fairly young and rapidly-growing event series. Kesterite solar cells with the formula Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 are a long-term candidate for terawatt "country-scale" solar generation. Third-year DTC student Adam Jackson attended this year's meeting to support his...

Earlier this year, DTC students Ibbi Ahmet (3rd year) and Thomas Wildsmith (final year) travelled to Nova Scotia, Canada, to share ideas and learn more about the chemistry of germanium, tin and lead. Ibbi brings us this report. From Monday...