ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society


2008-02-28 19:30: Biofuelling the future? (Panel debate, chaired by Prof. Ian Fells CBE, FRSE (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University))

2008-04-29 17:30: Interdisciplinarity in Science (Panel debate, chaired by Quentin Cooper, presenter of BBC Radio 4's weekly science programme, The Material World)

2008-10-16 13:00: A close look at states of matter, from the familiar to the novel (Dr Paddy Royall, University of Bristol)

2008-10-16 20:00: Gods, Devils and Alcohol - Their Influence in Chemical Nomenclature (Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry)

2008-10-23 19:30: Will Feeding the World Kill the Planet? (Caroline Hurford, spokesperson for the World Food Programme; Dr Malcolm Hawkesford, Rothamsted Agricultural Research Centre; Dr Peter Craufurd, School of Agriculture Policy and Development, Reading University; Dr Howard Griffiths, Cambridge University)

2008-11-06 13:00: Peptide Design in Nanoscience and Synthetic Biology (Prof Dek Woolfson, University of Bristol)

2008-11-13 19:30: A Small Problem?  The Bioethics of Nanotechnology (Dr John Roberts, DEFRA; Professor Geoff Hunt, University of Surrey; Professor Antony Seaton, Edinburgh University; Dr Alexandra Porter, Imperial College London)

2010-01-14 19:30: Chocolate - Science or Art? (Dr Ian Wilson, University of Cambridge)

2010-01-28 19:30: Plant-induced weathering and climate change: Insight from non-traditional stable isotopes (Dr Albert Galy, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

2010-02-04 19:30: The Glassy State of Matter: Novel Properties and Applications - golf, frozen frogs, memory (Professor Lindsay Greer ( Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy))

2010-02-11 19:30: Ice- not just H2O: The Chemistry of Ice Cores (Dr Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. ewwo@bas.ac.uk)

2010-02-18 19:30: Highly Porous Polymeric Materials - the Hole Truth and Nothing But! (Prof Neil Cameron, University of Durham)

2010-02-25 19:30: The Chemistry of the Brain (Dr Michael Brooks)

2010-10-21 19:00: Can we feed 9 billion? (Dr John Emsley)

2013-10-10 19:00: Practically Making the Philosophers' Stone: Recreating Alchemical Experiments (Dr Jennifer Rampling (Dept of History of Science, Cambridge University))

2013-10-18 20:00: Better Looking, Better Living, Better Loving (Dr John Emsley)

2013-10-25 20:00: Figuring Out the Rules: Molecular Self-Assembly (Dr Jonathan Nitschke)

2013-11-07 19:00: The Science of Fireworks and Explosives – Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture (Prof Chris Bishop (Microsoft Research Cambridge))

2013-11-15 20:00: Watching Single Molecules (Professor David Klenerman)

2013-11-22 20:00: Inspired by Nature: Renewable 21st century fuels from water and sunlight (Dr Erwin Reisner)

2013-11-28 19:00: Moving to low carbon energy provision – do we have a choice? (Prof Geoffrey Maitland (Imperial College London))

2014-01-29 21:00: Gods, Devils and Alcohol - their influence in chemical nomenclature (Dr Peter Wothers)

2014-02-12 19:00: Biophysical insights into protein aggregation (Dr Tuomas Knowles (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge))

2014-03-04 19:00: A Trail of Research from Opium to Vitamin B12 (Professor Sir Alan Battersby FRS)

2014-03-12 19:00: G-quadruplex: the DNA quadruple helix (Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci FRS (CRUK and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge))

2014-10-17 20:00: Gods, Devils and Alcohol (Dr Peter Wothers, MBE)

2014-11-06 19:00: As if by Magic...... Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture (Dr Andrew Szydlo (Highgate School, London))

2014-11-07 20:00: Following Function in Real Time: New Methods for Studying Structure and Dynamics in Batteries and Supercapacitors (Dr Clare Grey)

2014-11-14 20:00: The Billion-Molecule Machine (Professor Jonathan Goodman)

2015-01-23 20:00: From Waste to Wealth using Green Chemistry (Prof. James Clark (University of York))

2015-02-20 20:00: Old Solvents: New solutions? (Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE FRS)

2015-10-16 20:00: Volta’s battery: electrochemistry, but not as we know it (Professor Hasok Chang)

2015-11-27 20:00: [CANCELLED] Advances in anion and amino acid transport (Professor Philip Gale, FRSC)

2016-01-29 20:00: Snakes and Ladders on the Pathway to Mechanism (Professor GC Lloyd-Jones FRS, FRSE)

2016-02-26 20:00:  New-Generation Computer Memory (Prof. Stephen Elliott (University of Cambridge))

2016-03-04 20:00: Quantum Dynamics in Chemistry (Prof. Stuart Althorpe (University of Cambridge))

2018-04-27 18:15: Sunlight-driven Synthesis of Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals (Dr Erwin Reisner from the Cambridge Chemistry Department)