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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Stellios Arseniyadis
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Anna Köhler
Title and Abstract --- TBC For details regarding the speaker and their research please see their website.
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Abbie McLaughlin
Title and Abstract --- TBC For details regarding the speaker and their research please see their website.
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Jonathan R Nitschke
Molecules in Metal Boxes
Simple organic subcomponents can come together around metal-ion templates to produce intricate hollow capsules, which can bind guest molecules selectively. This...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Roly Armstrong
Twists and Turns in Stereoselective Amide Synthesis
Fuelled by an increasing requirement within the pharmaceutical industry for 3D building blocks, there is significant demand for new synthetic methods targeting...
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Poetry in translation: On Yellow Evenings
Byre World event: free but please book
Jordi Larios, a Catalan poet, translator and Professor of Spanish at St Andrews, will be in conversation about the making of On Yellow Evenings, his latest book...
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Byre World: Kaili Blues
Join Dr Keru Cai for a screening of the 2015 film Kaili Blues, which brought international acclaim to the young Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan. Hailing from the...
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Byre World: When there's love inside
Join Senior Lecturer of the School of Modern Languages, Orhan Elmaz on Valentine's Day for a literary conversation about everything the heart may (or may...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor M. Kevin Brown
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Mariupol Memory Park
Join us for an afternoon of events dedicated to Mariupol, Ukraine, organised by Victoria Donovan (Professor of Ukrainian and East European Studies) and Dr Anna...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Josh Makepeace (University of Birmingham)
Chemical and Electrochemical Energy Storage Facilitated by Lithium Imide
This event is open to final year undergraduate project students, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and academic staff. Effective energy storage is one of...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Alison Hill
Unique data sets for robust and authentic online open book assessments
Online assessments where there is a clear 'correct' answer are susceptible to students working together, sharing (or even selling) answers. The...
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Energised Ukraine: Art in Precarious Times
Byre World event: free but please book
What is energy? Is it something that we remember only at moments when we think it might disappear completely? During this talk, hosted by Viktoriia Grivina,...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Mike Watkinson
Targeted small molecule fluorescent probes for the detection of mobile zinc
Zinc mis-regulation is associated with a wide range of disease states and there is an ongoing need to study the behaviour of 'mobile' or...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Larissa von Krbek
Stimuli responsiveness in molecules, cages, and dynamic libraries
Photoswitchable molecules can reversibly interconvert between two different isomers. With new applications for photoswitches constantly emerging, the necessity...
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Light from the East: Middle Eastern Art (Dr Fabio Caiani)
Free, but please book your tickets on the Byre Theatre website
This event is a multi-media celebration of Middle Eastern art in honour of Catherine Cobham (former Head of the Arabic and Persian Department). Renowned Syrian...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Kirsten Zeitler
Photoredox Catalytic Strategies for the Activation of Strong Bonds
Over the past decade, photocatalysis has become a powerful synthetic tool, offering novel reaction pathways that were previously inaccessible by other methods....
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Daniel T. Gryko
1,4-Dihydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole and Dipyrrolonaphthyridinedione -- Novel Building Blocks for Optoelectronics
Recently we have discovered and optimized the first practical synthesis of non-fused pyrrole[3,2-b]pyrroles via domino reaction of aldehydes, primary amines,...
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Green and sustainable chemistry bootcamp with John Warner
Cefic, the European Chemistry Industry Council, and the University of St Andrews will collaborate to organise another edition of the 'Green and...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Evgeny Pidko
Death and Life of Homogeneous Carbonyl Reduction Catalysts: Navigating the Maze of Deactivation Chemistry for Sustained Performance
Catalytic reduction of carbonyl moieties in ketones and esters is fundamental to the production of high-value fine chemicals. Although traditional precious...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Robert Mokaya (University of Nottingham)
Porous carbons as sustainable energy materials
This event is open to academic staff, final year undergraduate project students, MSc students, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. The talk, titled...
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Menstruation Matters: Fighting Stigma in Scotland Today (Bettina Bildhauer)
Free, but please book your tickets on the Byre Theatre website
At least half of the world's population experience menstruation and the menopause at some stage in their lives, and yet we hardly ever speak about it....
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Matthew J Fuchter
Maximising dissymmetry and handling directionality in chiral materials
We have an ongoing interest in the development of conjugated chiral organic molecules which can emit and detect circularly-polarized (CP) light within thin film...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Robert Weatherup (University of Oxford)
Revealing Reactions at Electrochemical and Catalytic Interfaces with Operando X-ray Spectroscopy
The performance of materials for energy storage and conversion depends critically on reactions taking place at the interfaces between these materials and their...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Xenia Beyrich-Graf
Innovation drives Transformation: The Role of R&D in BASF's Sustainability Transformation
Around 111,500 employees contribute to the BASF Group's success worldwide. Our business is divided into the Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions,...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Anna Slater (University of Liverpool)
Developing tools for supramolecular materials discovery
Molecular materials and supramolecular systems have great potential in multiple applications, but their synthesis and scale-up is still challenging. When...
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Special Seminar: Dr Alex Ganin (University of Glasgow)
Application of metallic 2D chalcogenides in energy conversion and storage applications
Application of metallic 2D chalcogenides in energy conversion and storage applications Abstract: What if we could catalyse game-changing advances in renewable...
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International Symposium: Ceramic Materials and Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Including Hydrogen.
International Symposium: Ceramic Materials and Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Including Hydrogen. Speakers: Mihails Kusnezoff (Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic...
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Stories in migration: politics, gender and literature in the UK
In conversation with Dr Liliana Chřvez-Díaz, University of St Andrews and Dr Dunia Gras, Universitat de Barcelona. What memories will remain of those without...
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Special lecture to mark the opening of the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology
Professor Sir Peter Bruce (University of Oxford)
Please note the change of venue for this event to Lecture Theatre 3 in The Gateway. To mark the opening of the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology,...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Alessia Portiere (ELDICO Scientific AG)
Electron Diffraction -- an innovative and advantageous tool for structure determination of nanocrystalline materials
Abstract: MicroED (microcrystal electron diffraction) is emerging as a powerful technique for the structural elucidation of challenging compounds as it bypasses...