EPSRC UK National Service for Computational Chemistry Software
NSCCS User Meeting 2011
7th December 2011
Imperial College London
The 2011 NSCCS User Meeting was held on Wednesday 7th December at Imperial College London. The meeting consisted of two user talks presented by Dr Jonathan McMaster (University of Nottingham) and Dr Stuart Mackenzie (University of Oxford), follow by a plenary talk presented by Dr Jonathan Goodman (University of Cambridge). Poster sessions took place during the afternoon tea break and the event ended with a wine reception.
The poster prize was announced and presented to Mr Gavin Roffe by Professor Jennifer Green of the University of Oxford, Chair of the NSCCS Management Advisory Panel. Gavin Roffe is a final year MSci student carrying out a research project in the group of Dr Hazel Cox at the University of Sussex. His poster was entitled "The gas-phase activation of methane by [M(pyridine)2]2+ complexes, M = Ca, Sc, Ti, Cu and Zn".
| Programme | ||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Registration and Lunch & Put up Poster | |
| 14:00 - 14:10 | Welcome and Introduction by Head of Service | Professor Mike Robb Imperial College London |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Status report on NSCCS | Dr Helen Tsui NSCCS Dr Alexandra Simperler NSCCS Mr Nick Hill STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
Session to be chaired by Professor Tim Wright, University of Nottingham
| 14:30 - 15:00 | NSCCS User Talk: Bringing Inorganic Chemistry to Life | Dr Jonathan McMaster University of Nottingham |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | NSCCS User Talk: Infrared-driven reactivity on isolated transition metal clusters: a cluster analogue of temperature controlled reactions | Dr Stuart Mackenzie University of Oxford |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Poster Session including Tea & Coffee |
Session to be chaired by Professor John Dyke, University of Southampton
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Plenary Talk: Experiment and calculation: organic synthesis | Dr Jonathan Goodman University of Cambridge |
| 17:15 - 18:30 | Wine Reception & Poster Session (continued) (Poster prize will be presented at 17:30) | |
| 18:30 | End of Meeting | |