Seminars & Conferences

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...

In September, David Miles and Lisa Sargeant travelled to Imperial College London for the annual Energy Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT) Network conference. The aim of this conference was to enable students from the various different energy-related CDTs to present...

MC11 (the 11th International Conference on Materials Chemistry) was held by the Royal Society of Chemistry at the University of Warwick from July 8-11th. Given a reasonably local and affordable opportunity to attend a fully-fledged international conference, four DTC students...

3rd year DTC students Lisa Sargeant and Jessica Sharpe attended the UKERCs Summer School at Warwick University. This post describes their experience. ‘Energy security’, ‘green economy’ and ‘sustainable development’ are phrases that we regularly hear in the media, but how...

On 18–20 June 2013, 4th year PhD student Julia Griffen attended the 17th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in North Bethesda, Maryland, USA. I would like to thank the ACS Green Chemistry Institute for awarding me the Joseph Breen...

From Sunday 23 to Friday 28 June 2013, DTC PhD student Jessica Bristow took part in the 2013 International Summer School 
on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences in New York. This post describes her experience. It was a privilege to...

This post comes from 3rd-year DTC PhD student, Lisa Sargeant. It’s a sure-fire sign that you’ve chosen the right conference to attend when even feeling tired and jet-lagged doesn’t stop you having a conversation with a Prius-owning taxi driver about...

On Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 January 2013, our student Ibbi Ahmet attended a Theo Murphy international scientific meeting held by The Royal Society, which "intended to be pivotal events of lasting significance." This report comes from second-year DTC student...

The Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies continued its on-going tradition of hosting world-leading symposia last week with “Photovoltaics— the future is bright”. Over 100 registered attendees took part in the event, including staff and students from various departments of the...