The year has started on a high note with a large delegation (>100) from Kyoto University visiting Bristol on the 10th and 11th of January. A number of parallel sessions are being held across campus, actively investigating opportunities for further collaboration. Charl is actively involved in the Materials Chemistry sessions.
Read this University of Bristol news article here for more details.
Seven group members (Feli, Saravanan, Angel, Alex, James, Ben and Charl) are attending Elecmol ’12 in Grenoble, France (with 6 posters and 1 oral presentation!). This exciting event, co-organised by our close collaborator Dr Patrice Rannou, has been a very good way of experiencing good science (and some good food!).
The event is held at Minatec’s conference facility in Grenoble.
In the final stop before starting to head back to Bristol, Merv, Peng and Charl are attending the 6th Annual Symposium on Nanobiotechnology held at ICeMS (Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences), Kyoto University. They have enjoyed the generous hospitality of Prof Kitagawa, Deputy Director of ICeMS, and visited the very impressive laboratories of Prof Tanaka.
Prof Aono, director-general of MANA, organised an excellent half-day symposium, with speakers from the NSQI and MANA. After such a good start we look forward to active exchange of researchers between Bristol and Tsukuba!
Charl, David, Merv, Prof Bando (Chief Operating Officer), Prof Aono (Director General), Peng and Mr Fujita (Administrative Director)
More photos to follow!
Merv, David (Lundberg) and Charl visited the SNU’s Inter-university Semiconductor Research Centre, ISRC, yesterday, kindly hosted by the director, Prof Park (left). He was joined by Prof Lee (second from left) and prof Kim (right).
A multi-author paper, “Double Smectic Self-Assembly in Block Copolypeptide Complexes” appeared very recently in the ACS journal Biomacromolecules, with contributions from a number of collaborators, including Charl, and Patrice Rannou, a close collaborator of the FRG.
Dr Ke Wang joined the FRG as a new postdoc, working jointly with Mike Fraser (Computer Science), Martin Cryan (Electrical & Electronic Engineering) and Charl on a exciting project on 3D printing!
Welcome Ke!
Feli and Alex are currently visiting Tsinghua University, Beijing, to work with students of Prof. Xi Zhang, and enjoyed a weekend away at China’s oldest vineyard, Chateau Changyu.
Dr Peter Walters, from the Centre for Fine Print Research at UWE, came to visit the FRG on Monday, and give a fascinating lecture on 3D printing.
Very interesting, lots of discussion, and a good way to stimulate new collaborative research projects. We look forward to lots of future contact!
Albert Schenning, from Eindhoven, visited the FRG on Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd of October. A mini-symposium was held in conjunction with his excellent lecture, with Ben Brown from the FRG talking about his latest results.
Great to have Albert in Bristol, and we look forward to more contact in the future!
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