Charl in Korea and Japan

Charl is currently on a short trip to Korea and Japan with Professors Mervyn Miles and Huaxin Peng, colleagues from the Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information (NSQI). He is currently in Gwangju, where he will be giving a talk at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), hosted by Prof Ji-Woong Park.

Birds-eye view of GIST’s campus, and the School of Materials Science & Engineering (tall building in the middle of the picture)

Charl at the ISACS9 “Challenges in Nanoscience” Symposium in Xiamen

Charl arrived in hot and humid Xiamen last night.  The ISACS symposium is held on the University of Xiamen‘s campus, at the Arts and Science Centre.  See the photo from his on-campus hotel room of the conference venue!

The symposium starts this evening, with Charl being fortunate enough to speak early on the first full day tomorrow.

Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Charl was invited by Prof Wenping Hu, expert in OFETS and organic electronics, to give a talk today at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing.

It was Charl’s first (hopefully of many) and very enjoyable visit to the Institute.  Very impressive place, and many excellent researchers!

Talk at Tsinghua!

Charl is currently in China, and gave a talk this morning at the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing (hosted Prof Xi Zhang, head of department).

Here he is trying his best to prepare for a difficult question! Very nice periodic table behind him!

He is spending the rest of the day in discussion with Prof Zhang and Assoc. Prof. Huaping Xu (who visited Bristol recently).

He will be visiting the Chinese Academy’s Institute of Chemistry tomorrow (visiting prof. Wenping Hu), and then off to Xiamen for the RSC conference “Challenges in Nanoscience, ISACS 9”, where he is speaking on Saturday morning.

More to follow soon!

Carrot science at the local Science Cafe!

Charl spoke at the local Bristol and Bath Science Cafe last night (30th of July). It was a fun evening, explaining self-assembly, types of interactions, energies, shape and function of nanostructured materials at the hand of the simple example of bunches of carrots! The venue was packed, and Charl was questioned for a whole hour after his presentation!

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Thanks to Carl (who was in the audience with Angel) for the photos!