{"id":395,"date":"2018-09-06T10:56:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/?p=395"},"modified":"2018-09-06T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:56:54","slug":"dr-david-liptrots-visit-to-uc-davis-strengthens-links-with-bath-global-chair-in-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/2018\/09\/06\/dr-david-liptrots-visit-to-uc-davis-strengthens-links-with-bath-global-chair-in-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr David Liptrot's visit to UC Davis strengthens links with Bath Global Chair in Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was my pleasure earlier this year to host Prof. Philip Power\u2019s first visit as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/announcements\/the-university-welcomes-global-chair-professor-philip-power\/\">Bath Global Chair<\/a> in the Department of Chemistry. Phil was, as always, a delight. He gave a very popular talk focusing on the fascinating but complex 2<sup>nd<\/sup> order Jahn-Teller effect, which was supplemented by an excellent talk from Marie Curie Fellow Dr Maialen Espinal-Viguri. As well as this, Phil\u00a0continued his important role as a mentor, providing advice and support to our students and junior scholars. He engaged with a range of postdocs and graduate students about their research and began to kick off our joint research programme.<\/p>\n<p>As part of our efforts to enhance the links between our universities, I was delighted to be invited to talk at the Department of Chemistry at his home institution, the University of California, Davis. I was a postdoc in the department from 2015 to 2017 so my return was an unusual, but enjoyable experience. I gave a talk entitled <em>Entropy and Enthalpy in Main Group Bond Syntheses: Dehydrocoupling and Beyond<\/em>\u00a0which, I was glad to see, was well-attended mostly by graduate students. Perhaps scheduling it the evening before the Independence Day holiday may have contributed to this!<\/p>\n<p>Phil will return to Bath in just a few weeks. The centrepiece of his visit will be a public lecture on his research entitled <em>Highly Sterically Crowded Subvalent Group 14 Compounds: Unexpected Structures and High Reactivity with Small Molecules<\/em>, which will be followed by a reception.\u00a0I encourage all to attend what will doubtlessly be an intellectually stimulating talk and a great opportunity to discuss and engage with his work.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us for Phil\u2019s public lecture on Friday, 7 September\u00a0at 4pm in 3WN2.1.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Philip Power is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chemistry.ucdavis.edu\/faculty\/department_faculty\/philip_power.html\">Distinguished Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of California, Davis<\/a>, and a 2017\/2018 Global Chair at Bath.<\/p>\n<p><em>This blog post is contributed by Dr David Liptrot from the Department of Chemistry at Bath.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was my pleasure earlier this year to host Prof. Philip Power\u2019s first visit as a Bath Global Chair in the Department of Chemistry. Phil was, as always, a delight. He gave a very popular talk focusing on the fascinating...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,10,7],"tags":[],"coauthors":[60],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-partnership","category-research","category-visit"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}