Past Events
Soft Matter Seminar Series 2011/12
Date / 1pm |
Location |
Speaker |
Additional details |
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27 October |
St Mary's |
Prof John Girkin |
Durham University "Light for Soft Matter" |
|
3 November |
St Mary's |
Dr Dirk Aarts |
University of Oxford "Instabilities at Ultra-Low Surface Tension" |
| 4 November | Chemistry CG60 |
Prof William Ducker |
Virginia Tech "Nanoscale Gas Phases and Viscous Forces in Thin Films" |
|
9 November |
Calman |
Prof Hiroshi Watanabe |
Kyoto University, Japan "Nonlinear Flow Behaviour or Telechelic HEUR Solutions" |
|
23 November |
Calman |
Prof Ralph Colby |
Penn State, USA "Designing Ionomers for Facile Ion Transport" |
|
1 December |
St Mary's |
Dr Rhoda Hawkins |
University of Sheffield |
|
8 December |
St Mary's |
Dr David Johnson |
Durham University |
|
15 December |
CG141 Musgrave Rm |
Prof Malcolm Povey |
University of Leeds "The Sound of Food" |
| 18 January | Calman | Prof Alexi Likhtman | University of Reading " |
| 25 January | Calman |
Dr Steve Rimmer |
University of Sheffield “Responses of polymers driven by binding to cells” |
|
1 February |
Calman |
Dr Suzanne Fielding |
Durham University |
|
8 February |
Calman | Dr Rachel O'Reilly | University of Warwick "New amphiphiles for self-assembly, catalysis and recognition" |
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15 February |
Calman | Prof Ian Hamley | University of Reading "Molecular Dynamics of Entangled Polymers" |
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21 February |
D110, 5pm | Prof Ian Manners | University of Bristol (NEPA/DUCS evening lecture) "Supramolecular Self-Assembly" |
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22 February |
Calman | Prof Stephen Yeates | University of Manchester |
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29 February |
Calman | Prof Paul Buckley | University of Oxford |
Calman = Kingsley Barratt lecture theatre, Calman Learning Centre.
St. Mary's = Holdsworth & Donaldson Room, St. Mary's College.
Other Soft Matter Events
Friday 18 March 2011
- Durham Centre for Soft Matter Industrial Day 9:30am to 4:30pm, Collingwood College, Contact soft.matter@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 21 November 2012
- Seminar: Prof Nigel Clarke (Sheffield), Equilibrium, instabilities and structure formation in thin film polymer blends 2:00pm, CLC407 (Kingsley Barrett)
Wednesday 6 March 2013
- Drying Droplets Workshop 11:30am
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Wednesday 24 April 2013
Scott Milner, 9 and 10 May 2011
The Centre was delighted to welcome Scott Milner to Durham University on the 9th and 10th of May
MUPP +2, 9 September 2011
The Durham Centre for Soft matter organised a meeting on Friday 9th September to reconvene the researchers (both academic and industrial) who took part in the EPSRC funded Microscale Polymer Processing (MUPP) project. Over the course of ten years, a consortium of several universities (Leeds, Bradford, Durham, Sheffield, Oxford, Cambridge, UCL and Eindhoven) and Industrial partners (Dow, Lucite, former ICI, Ineos, BASK, DSM, Basell, Mitsubishi and Japan Polychem) came together to form the MUPP project. The principal objective of this project was to develop an understanding of how molecular parameters of polymers such as molecular weight, polydispersity and chain branching affect melt processing and final product properties. This understanding in turn lead to the development of a suite of unique mathematical and computational modelling software tools to predict melt flow properties as a function polymer structure.
This event gave the community the opportunity to discuss advances made in this still very active field, since funding for the MUPP project ended in 2009.
Attendance at the event was free and attendees from both academia and industry who were not involved in the MUPP project were welcome to attend.
For further information please contact Lian Hutchings (l.r.hutchings@durham.ac.uk)
