Charl is back in Beijing to teach at the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University. It is, as always, a pleasure to see old friends and enjoy excellent food … and, in addition, enjoy sunny weather and blue skies!
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Talks, talks, talks …
Last week was a busy week, with talks from our undergraduate project students Rachel, Steffan and Nick (and a celebration lunch in Cosmo afterwards!).
In addition, Prof. Julius Vancso (Twente University, the Netherlands) also visited the School of Chemistry. Peter from the FRG gave a great talk as part of the preceding mini-symposium before Prof Vancso’s fascinating talk!
Well done to all from the FRG!
ACES Electromaterials Conference, Melbourne
Charl was invited to speak at the 11th Electromaterials Science Conference (this year held at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia).
There is an exciting line-up of speakers, including Prof. Ric Kaner (UCLA) and Prof. Frank Marken (Bath). Prof Maria Forsyth, who chairs this meeting, visited the FRG in July last year.
Peter and Dicker at the MRS Fall meeting
Peter and Dicker both attended the MRS meeting in Boston. Here they are in action at their respective poster sessions … deep in discussion!
Master Yumeng!
Yumeng successfully completed her viva as the final stage of her Masters by Research degree! She will be heading back to China soon … but congratulations are in order before she does! Well done Yumeng!
Carl contributing to a local mini symposium
Holger Schmalz (from the University of Bayreuth) visited Bristol recently. Carl was one of the local speakers that contributed to the the mini-symposium (with other speakers from the Hall and Manners groups).
Carl gave a great talk on “Functional 3D architectures based on oligo(aniline)s” – well done!
Heidelberg-Kyoto-Bristol Symposium 2015
A “Chemistry and Materials Session” was organised (by Charl) to take place on Friday, 6th of November, as part of the HKB Symposium 2015. With an exciting line-up of speakers, and a poster session at the end of the day it was a great opportunity to learn about local and international science!
The event ended on a high note with a speakers dinner held at the M-Shed Industrial Museum at the harbour side in Bristol.
Photographer: Bhagesh Sachania (group photo).
Talk and posters with Prof. Akagi (Kyoto)
The FRG had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Kazuo Akagi from Kyoto University today. After a beautiful talk about helical poly(acetylene)s, and polymerisations in anisotropic media, the whole group interacted with Prof. Akagi over posters, coffee and pastries!
Kazu then had the chance to catch up with his former PhD supervisor!
Fascinating talk by Jan van Esch!
As Jan was visiting Bristol, he agreed to give a research seminar on some of the latest work from his group. In front of a packed seminar room Jan gave a fascinating talk on “Out-of-equilibrium biomimetic systems by dynamic and dissipative self-assembly”
Jan’s talk led to some lively discussion afterwards!
Success in France!
Ben, Alex and Carl attended the 17th CNRS Colloquium on Anisotropic Self-Organised Systems, held in Autrans in France, 8 – 11 September (with generous support from the Bristol Alumni Foundation – thanks!). They had a great time discussing their science with physicists and chemists, including our close collaborators Olli Ikkala and Patrice Rannou (who also was one of co-organizers).
Finally, we heard recently that Carl won one of six poster prizes! Well done Carl!
Faul Research Group 