Marion, a French student on summer placement from Lyon, spent 6 weeks in the FRG. Sadly it was her last day on Friday … we all had the chance to say goodbye in the lab…
and then in Brown’s …
Hopefully we will see Marion back in Bristol in the near future!
With the sun shining and time for a break from the lab, the Hall and Faul groups headed out to South Wales to Rhossili Bay for a day of swimming, beach games, bbq’ing and fun!
Some photos from the top of the cliffs …
and down on the beach …
Yaozu recently had his birthday … which was a great reason to have more chocolate cake! 
Congrats Yaozu!
Today was the launch of our new, once-a-month, freestyle group meeting! We headed to Boston Tea Party on Park Street for our inaugural meeting!
Good to be out of the office on such a nice day! Thanks also to Yaozu who remembered to take a photo!
Bai kindly provided pizza, so we could celebrate Piotr’s birthday and the start to the world cup in style!
Thanks Bai, and happy birthday Piotr!
After a bit of a dry spell, we are entering into birthday season again, kicked off with Yumeng’s birthday!
Happy birthday Yumeng!
An Akagi group poster session was organised on the day that Charl visited. This was a great opportunity to discuss science, and see some of the beautiful results from the students in the group!
Everyone had a great time, especially as we went for a lovely dinner afterwards! We now look forward to hosting some colleagues from Kyoto in Bristol!
Charl is visiting Kyoto to catch up with Ben, as well as for a formal project discussion with Prof Akagi, his group members involved in the collaborative project, and Ben. This was also a chance for Ben and Charl to have a mini group meeting in Kyoto!
Mini group meeting in Kyoto!
This time there was no pizza or cake involved! Kanpai!
We had the pleasure of having a great line-up of speakers for the Peter Timms Symposium (named after the late Peter Timms, a pioneering chemist and the perfect gentleman!).
Arne (Thomas), Alex (from the FRG), Zac (Hudson, from the Manners Group) gave excellent lectures. The 2014 Timms Lecture was then given by Prof Craig Hawker (UCSB) – an exciting overview of some of the activities from his research laboratories. It was then our pleasure to have Liz Timms, Peter’s wife, hand over the Timms award to Craig.
The day was wrapped up with a wine reception! Thanks to all who were involved and helped to make it such a successful day!
The FRG wishes all the best to Charl!
Faul Research Group 