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South West Computational Chemists Meeting 2010

SWCC 2010, 23 September 2010, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol

General Information

The annual meeting of South West Computational Chemists will take place on Thursday, 23rd September 2010, in the School of Chemistry (LT2) at the University of Bristol.

The South West is very loosely defined as anybody who would like to come to the meeting, and there are no registration formalities for the meeting. If you would like to receive further information about the meeting, please contact Dr Natalie Fey to be added to the email list.

The meeting will follow the established format of an afternoon start and a series of talks (20+5 minutes, usually by PhD students), with a poster/tea break and a further poster session at the end of the day.

Draft Programme

Time: Speaker (Group/University) Title
13.30 Chair Introduction
13.35Peter Bygrave (Manby/Bristol)The Many-Body Expansion: Applications for Solid State Chemistry
14.00Tobias Kraemer (McGrady/Oxford)Electronic structure of complexes of non-innocent ligands
14.25Michael Bodnarchuk (Essex/Southampton)tba
14.50Jesse Dufton (Islam/Bath)Atomistic simulation studies of the Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cell material
15.15Kerensa Houghton (Mulholland/Bristol)tba
15.40Posters and Tea
16.20Greg Bellchambers (Manby/Bristol)Reference-Geometry Harris-Foulkes: an Approximate DFT Method
16.45Muhsen Al-Ibadi (McGrady/Oxford)Migration of transition metal fragments over polyaromatic hydrocarbons
17.10Dr Rob Richardson (Carpenter/Cardiff)Remote C-H activation in pyridine and amine radical cations
17.35Jitnapa Sirirak (Mulholland/Bristol)QM/MM study of oleamide hydrolysis and oleoylmethylester hydrolysis catalysed by FAAH
18.00Posters and Drinks

Posters

Currently, the following people/research groups have indicated that they are planning to bring along a poster:

  • Benjamin Rawe, Tim King (Fey group)
  • Manby group
  • James Robinson (Knowles group)

Please get in touch if you wish to present a poster.

Planning your visit

Bristol is easily accessible by rail and road, and these sites might be helpful to plan your visit:


Last updated on 23rd August 2010.