Quick Links:

<<< University of Sydney    << School of Chemistry     < Symposium Home

Friday October 20th >     Saturday October 21st >     Sunday October 22nd >

Maps >

Abstract Booklet (5.5M) >

 

Theory of Molecular and Macromolecular Kinetics:

A Symposium in Honour of
Professor Bob Gilbert's 60th Birthday

 

Schedule

 

Friday October 20th

18:30 – 21:00


Welcome BBQ
Medina Classic Chippendale

(5 minutes walk from the University of Sydney)

 

POSTERS:

Posters will be displayed all day Saturday and Sunday.
They can be put up from 8:30 am Saturday October 21
.

 

Saturday October 21st

Eastern Avenue Auditorium

08:30 – 08:50

Coffee

08:50 – 09:00

Opening remarks
Professor Sean Smith, Associate Professor Greg Russell and
Dr Meredith Jordan

09:00 – 09:40

Dr Ezio Rizzardo

Control of free radical polymerization: Techniques for new and better defined polymer structuresd

09:40 – 10:00

Professor Graeme Moad

RAFT Mechanisms

10:00 – 10:20

Professor Tom Davis

Tailoring Photochromic Behaviour Using Living Radical Polymerization

10:20 – 10:40

Professor David Solomon

Paints from the Pharaohs to Bob

10:40 – 11:00

Morning Tea

11:00 – 11:40

Professor Graeme George

Spectroscopic probes for real-time monitoring of polymer reactions: connecting theory to the real worl

11:40 – 12:00

Professor Andrew Whittaker

NMR Diffusion Measurements – an Invaluable Tool for the Polymer Scientist

12:00 – 12:40

Professor Leon Phillips

Processes at the gas-liquid interface

12:40 – 13:20

Lunch

13:20 – 14:00

Professor David Clary

Quantum reaction dynamics of polyatomic molecules

14:00 – 14:20

Professor Warren Lawrance

Insights into condensed phase behaviour through studies of van der Waals clusters

14:20 – 14:40

Dr Terry Frankcombe

Scalable (fast!) methods to solve multiwell master equations

14:40 – 15:00

Associate Professor Scott Kable

Signatures of Chemical Reactions:
Identifying chemical reactions that bypass the transition state.

15:00 – 15:20

Afternoon Tea

15:20 – 16:00

Professor Noel Hush

Formation and reactions of Quinonedimethane monomers: relevance to the  parallel career paths of Michael Szwarc and Robert Gilbert

16:00 – 16:20

Professor Leo Radom

Adventures in Peptide Radical Chemistry:  A Theoretical Approach

16:20 – 16:40

Associate Professor Kieran Lim

Investigations into the recovery of erased characters on polymers with eugenol

16:40 – 17:00

Professor Ken Ghiggino

Dynamics of Electron Transfer Processes in Supramolecules

18:30 – 23:00

Banquet

Holme Building University of Sydney


 

 

Sunday October 22nd

Eastern Avenue Auditorium

08:50 – 09:20

Coffee

09:20 – 10:00

Dr Melissa Fitzgerald

Synthesis and Structure of Starch – unravelling mysteries of the cereal world.

10:00 – 10:20

Dr Matthew Morell

Starch Synthesis: the 3D challenge.

10:20 – 10:40

Professor Mike Gidley

Relating structure to function in starches: polymers, granules and food

10:40 – 11:00

Morning Tea

11:00 – 11:40

Dr Angus Gray-Weale

Is starch a randomly hyperbranched polymer?

11:40 – 12:00

Dr Stefan Bon

Supracolloidal Structures through Liquid-Liquid Interface Driven Assembly and Polymerization

12:00 – 12:40

Dr Alexander Haunschild

Emulsion Polymerization / Polymers –
Its Various Facets

12:40 – 13:20

Lunch

13:20 – 14:00

Dr Alex van Herk

Encapsulation of Clay Platelets through Emulsion Polymerization

14:00 – 14:20

Dr John Hirst

 

14:20 – 14:40

Dr Chris Such

 

14:40 – 15:00

Dr Leo Hyde

External Relationships or How do we make this science work in the world?

15:00 – 15:20

Afternoon Tea

15:20 – 15:40

Dr Brian Hawkett

RAFT in the control of particle morphology

15:40 – 16:20

Professor Michael Collins

Molecular Potential Energy Surfaces and Matrices for Chemical Reaction Dynamics

16:20 – 16:30

Closing Remarks