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2008 Seminar Program

Semester One

Semester Two

Semester Two 2008 Seminar Program

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Postgraduate/School Seminars School Seminars/Postgraduate School Seminars

Week Mondays - 4pm in LT 4 Wednesdays - in LT 4 Fridays - 11am in LT 4
(14/7)
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5.30pm SUCS
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(21/7)
5pm School Colloquium
Professor Masanori Tachiya
National Institute of advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
Generalization of Marcus Theory of Electron Transfer and Unified Interpretation of Electron Transfer and Exciplex Formation
1 (28/7)
Jill Halliday - Phd candidate
1pm in LT 4:
Prof. Brian Saunders
Manchester UniversityColloid Science at Manchester University: From Nanoparticle-Polymer Solar Cells to Biocolloids for repairing Intervertebral Discs
Professor Armido Studer
University of Muenster
2 (4/8)
David Schilter - PhD candidate
9am Prof Dr Peter Comba
University of Heidelberg
New pathways of nonheme-iron-catalyzed oxidation processes

5.30pm SUCS Howard Lecture: Professor Chi-Huey Wong
Scripps Research Institute

Dr Florian Jaroschik
Monash University
3 (11/8)
Mohamed Ali - PhD
9am Dr Paul Clark
University of York
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4 (18/8)
Rebecca Lesic - PhD candidate
Dr Ulrich Baisch
Structural Chemistry Laboratory
University of Bristol
Chelate ligands as organic tectons for the crystal engineering of organic and rare earth coordination networks
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5 (25/8)
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5pm School Colloquium
Professor Paul V Bernhardt
Chemistry, School of Molecular and Microbial Scienes, University of Queensland
6 (1/9)
Daniel Stocks
9am Shunichi Fukuzumi
Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University/SORST
Chemical Challenge to Stop Global Warming

12noon Dr Adam Lee
University of York, UK
Aerobic selective oxidation of allylic alcohols: from single crystal to single site
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7 (8/9)
Jeannette McAlpine - PhD
Dr Yasuko Koda
Organic Postdoctoral Seminar
Dr Matthew Piggott
University of Western Australia
Research in the Piggot Group
8 (15/9)
James Webb - PhD
9am Anne Pilotelle-Bunner - PhD

5.30pm SUCS Liversidge Lecture Professor Helmut Schwarz, Technical University of Berlin

Professor Michael Carpenter
University of Cambridge
9 (22/9)
Amalie Pakchung - PhD
5pm School Colloquium
Dr Brian Hawkett
Disperse Phase RAFTing in KCPC
Professor Dan Gibson
The Hebrew University, Israel
(29/9)
Damian Kokkin
9am Dr Geoff Willmott
Industrial Research Limited, New Zealand
Nano and Microfluidics - Kiwi Style
Prof. Roger Horn
Deputy Director (Academic), Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia
Fluid interfaces that move in mysterious ways
10 (6/10)
Holiday
SUCS AGM - Dr Ron Clarke
Professor Ben Davis
Oxford University
The Cornforth Lecture
11 (13/10)
Natasha Sciortino - PhD
Professor Mats Larsson
Stockholm University
Dr Mike Greaney
Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
Topic: synthesis/natural products
Host: Dr Peter Rutledge
12 (20/10)
Erin Sheridan - PhD
5pm School Colloquium
A/Professor J K Beattie
Dr A Gray-Weale
Professor Thomas Maschmeyer

Increasing Sustainability - Some Chemical Solutions to a Tricky Problem

13 (27/10)
Alex Yeung - PhD
9am Anna Safitri - PhD
Chris and Ana Brett
Coimbra University
(3/11)

School Honours Seminars - Monday 3 November to Wednesday 5 November

School Honours Seminars
James Stening
Senior Environmental Engineer, Legacy Sites and Property
Orica
Remediation of the Orica Botany site and potential grant opportunities
Host: Dr Brian Hawkett
(10/11)
Ali Youssef
9am Dr Nima Ghaderi
Caltech
Nonstatistical dissociation of ozone: trajectory and theory

11am Professor Colin D Bain
Department of Chemistry
University of Durham
Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters

5.30pm SUCS - Le Fevre Lectures

A/Prof Bruce Law
Kansas State University
Dipoles at liquid interfaces: their influence on surface structure and surface slip
Host: Dr Chiara Neto
(17/11)
Ellen Crossley - PhD
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(24/11)
Gordon Thorogood - PhD
(1/12)
Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 December

2nd Sydney-SIOC Organic Chemistry Workshop on New Chemical Technologies (Dr Mat Todd)

RACI NSW One-Day Organic Symposium (Dr Mat Todd)
Professor Steve Howdle
University of Notthingham
Host: A/P Sebastien Perrier
(8/12)

15/12
11am in LT 4 - Professor C J Moody
Sir Jesse Boot Professor of Chemistry
The University of Nottingham

Recent developments in the synthesis of heterocyclic natural products


Semester One 2008 Seminar Program

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Postgraduate/School Seminars School Seminars School Seminars

Week Mondays - 4pm in LT 4 Wednesdays - in LT 4 Fridays - 11am in LT 4
(21/1)
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A/Professor Louis Barriault University of Ottawa
(11/2)
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5.30pm SUCS
Dr Anthony Collings CSIRO
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(18/2/)
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Professor Ortwin Brede University of Leipzig
(25/2)
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Professor Sergei Kazarian Imperial College London
1 (3/3) Dr Tony Khoury
School of Chemistry
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A/Professor Simon George
Macquarie University
2 (10/3)
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9am Professor Peter Baeuerie, University of Ulm

5.30pm SUCS Dr Peter Clifton, CSIRO Human Nutrition

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3 (17/3)
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Holiday
(24/3) Holiday 5pm School Colloquium: Professor Scott Kable
School of Chemistry
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4 (31/3) Dr Michaele J Hardie
Dr Malcolm Halcrow
University of Leeds
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5 (7/4)
Helen Salouros - PhD candidate
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Professor Jose Bourdelande
Department of Chemistry, University of Barcelona
Transient Absorption (Flash Photolisys) and Second Harmonic Generation on Solid Samples
6 (14/4)
Katie Cergol - PhD candidate
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7 (21/4)
Peter Cafe - PhD candidate
5.30 pm SUCS Francis Lions Lecture: Professor Sally Brooker, University of Otago Holiday
8 (28/4)
Cillian Byrne - PhD candidate
5pm School Colloquium - Professor John Canning
Overview of Activities in the interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories
Professor Leiv Sydnes, Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen, Preparations of and Chemistry based on TEB
9 (5/5)
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Dr Shaun Hendy
School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Wellington
10 (12/5)
Josh Peters - PhD candidate
5.30 pm SUCS Dr Norman Swann, ABC Radio
Professor Andrew Abell, University of Adelaide
11 (19/5)
Nima Sayyad - PhD candidate
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Professor Howell Edwards, University of Bradford, UK
12 (26/5)
Cody Szczepina - PhD candidate

Towards the synthesis of Amphidinolide H

9am Dr Torsten Frosch - Institute fur Physikalische Chemie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena
Raman spectroscopic investigation of active agents

5pm School Colloquium - A/Prof S Perrier

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13 (2/6)
Cindy Aquino - PhD candidate
Dr Tak Kee
Encapsulation of Curcumin in Cationic Micelles Suppresses Alkaline Hydrolysis
School of Chemistry and Physcis, University of Adelaide
Ms Yvonne Brill
Department of Experimental Physics, Saarland University, Saarbruken, Germany
How can protein adsorption be influenced by tailoring substrate properties
14 (9/6) Holiday
5.30pm SUCS
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(16/6) Paul Saines - PhD candidate
9am Peter Cafe - PhD Candidate. The molecular aligator clip: binding modes of 1, 10-phenanthroline to gold
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11am Arati Kaza - PhD seminar

11am Prof. A Ramanan
Indian Institute of Technology

Dr Richard Black
Organic Postdoctoral Seminar
(30/6) Craig Richmond - PhD candidate
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(7/7) Daniel Obando Gutierrez - PhD candidate
Synthesis and Antifungal Activity of Bispyridinium Compounds
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Prof. Tim Gallagher
University of Bristol
Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

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