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42nd IUPAC Congress, 2-7 August 2009, Glasgow, UK


A-Z of Symposia


An alphabetical index of all the symposia taking place during the congress:


Adaptive Nanomaterials (MC9)

Convener: Mathias Brust (Liverpool, UK); Keynote Speaker: Vincent Rotello (Massachusetts, USA), Andrew Cooper (Liverpool, UK)

Analytical and Risk Considerations for Emerging Environmental Issues

Convener: Hemda Garelick (Middlesex, UK); Keynote Speakers: Joerg Feldmann (Aberdeen, UK), Nicola Senesi (Bari, Italy)

Analytical Challenges in the Nanosciences

Convener: Malcolm Smyth, (Dublin, Ireland); Keynote Speakers: Graham Leggett (Sheffield, UK), Luke Lee (Berkeley, USA), Gordon Wallace (Wollongong, Australia)

Applications of Functional Metal Complexes and Ligand Design

Convener: Paul Walton (York, UK); Keynote Speakers: Lisa Berreau (Utah, USA), Paul Chirik (Cornell, USA), Jon Dilworth (Oxford, UK), Richard Douthwaite (York, UK)

Artificial Photosynthesis

Convener: Anthony Harriman (Newcastle, UK); Keynote Speakers: Tom Moore (Arizona, USA), Atsuhiro Osuka (Kyoto, Japan)

Astrochemistry

Convener: Helen Fraser (Strathclyde, UK); Keynote Speakers: Eric Herbst (Ohio), Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden), Bruce Kay (Pacific Northwest National Lab), David Clary (Oxford), Steph...

Biofuels co-organised by the Brazilian Chemical Society (SBQ), the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) and the RSC

Scientific Committee: Alejandra Palermo (RSC, UK), Philip Earis (RSC, UK), Tom Lynch (UK), Vanderlan Bolzani (President SBQ, Brazil), Teruto Ohta (Executive Director the Chemical S...

Bioinorganic Toxicity, Poison or Cure

Convener: John Duffus (Edin Tox, Edinburgh, UK); Keynote Speaker: Peter Sadler (Warwick, UK)

Biomaterials (MC9)

Convener: Cameron Alexander (Nottingham, UK); Keynote Speakers: Kevin Healy (UC Berkeley, USA), Claus-Michael Lehr (Saarland, Germany)

Bionanotechnology co-organised by the Chinese Chemical Society, the Korean Chemical Society and the RSC

Convener: Alejandra Palermo (RSC, UK); Keynote Speakers: Dae-won Moon (Korea), Richard Jones (Sheffield, UK), Yuliang Zhao (Peking, China)

Catalysis for a Sustainable Future

Convener: John Birtill (Consultant, UK); Keynote Speakers: Clark Landis (Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Avelino Corma (Valencia, Spain)

Catalysis for Energy (MC9)

Convener: Graham Hutchings (Cardiff, UK); Keynote Speakers: Michel Che (Paris, France), Enrique Iglesia (UC Berkeley, USA)

Chemical Education

Convener: Tina Overton (Hull, UK); Keynote Speakers: David Boud (Sydney, Australia), Harry Kelly (GlaxoSmithKline, UK), Bassam Z Shakhashiri (Wisconsin, USA), George Bodner (Purdue...

Chemistry Addressing Climate Change

Convener: Michael Whitehouse (RWE Npower plc, UK); Keynote Speaker: Gary Rochelle (Austin, USA), Reinhold Kneer (RWTH Aachen, Germany)

Chemistry for Electro-optic Displays

Convener: Ian Sage (QinetiQ, UK); Keynote Speakers: Andrew Holmes (Melbourne, Australia), Dirk Broer (Eindhoven, Netherlands)

Chemistry for Solving Biological Problems

Convener: Emma Wilson (RSC, UK); Keynote Speakers: Laurence Hurley (Arizona), Stephen Neidle, (London), Tarun Kapoor (Rockefeller University), Tom Muir (Rockefeller University)

Chemistry in the Food Chain and Health

Convener: Richard Frazier (Reading); Keynote Speakers: Ian Norton (Birmingham), R A Rastall (Reading)

Chemistry of the Cell

Convener: Rudolf Allemann (Cardiff); Keynote Speakers: Rowena Matthews (Michigan), Vern Schramm (Albert Einstein College), Craig Townsend (Johns Hopkins), Manfred Reetz (MPI)

Computational Nanoscience (MC9)

Convener: Nick Besley (Nottingham, UK); Keynote Speakers: George Schatz (Northwestern, USA), Jeff Grossman (UC Berkeley, USA), Jim Chelikowsky (Texas, USA).

Crystal Engineering (MC9)

Convener: Stuart James (Belfast, UK), Jamie Humphrey (CrystEngComm); Keynote Speakers: Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto, Japan), Joel Bernstein (Ben-Gurion, Israel)

Developing Polymer Materials (MC9)

Conveners: Chris Ober (Cornell, USA), Wilhelm Huck (Cambridge, UK); Keynote Speaker: Uli Wiesner (Cornell, USA)

DNA-Based Electrochemical Devices and Biosensors

Convener: Richard Bowater (East Anglia, UK); Keynote Speakers: (Kevin Plaxco, Santa Barbara, USA), Thomas Carell (Munich, Germany)

Energy Materials: Batteries and Fuel Cells (MC9)

Convener: Saiful Islam (Bath, UK); Keynote Speakers: Sossina Haile (Caltech, USA), John Irvine (St Andrews, UK), Christian Masquelier (Picardie, France), Linda Nazar (Waterloo, Can...

Ethics, Science and Development (ChemRAWN XVIII)

Conveners: Stanley Langer (RSC, UK), Leif Sydnes (Bergen, Norway)

Forensic Science

Convener: Sarah Cresswell (Strathclyde, UK); Keynote Speakers: Robert Kalin (Strathclyde, UK), Sean Doyle (DSTL, UK)

Formulating for the Green Renewable Age

Convener: David Higgins (Consultant, UK); Keynote Speakers: Colin Brennan (Syngenta, UK), Pietro Tundo (Venice, Italy)

Green Materials Synthesis (MC9)

Convener: Adam Lee (York, UK); Keynote Speaker: Andrew Abbott (Leicester, UK)

Heritage Science

Conveners: Lorraine Gibson (Strathclyde, UK), Jim Tate (National Museums Scotland, UK); Keynote Speaker: Jan Wouters (Consultant Conservation Scientist, Belgium)

Heterocyclic Chemistry: Synthesis, Chemical Biology, and Drug Discovery

Conveners: Keith Jones (Institute of Cancer Research, UK), Colin Suckling (Strathclyde, UK); Keynote Speakers: Tom Brown (Southampton, UK), Prem Man Singh Chauhan (Lucknow, India),...

Hydrogen Storage (MC9)

Convener: Duncan Gregory (Glasgow, UK); Keynote Speakers: Peter Edwards (Oxford, UK), Andreas Züttel (EMPA, Switzerland)

Impact of New Physical and Computational Methods

Conveners: Stuart Macgregor (Heriot-Watt, UK), Ian Fallis (Cardiff, UK); Keynote Speakers: Peter Chen (Zürich, Switzerland), Odile Eisenstein (Montpellier, France), Sason Shaik (Je...

Industrial Biotechnology

Convener: John Sime (Bioscience for Business, UK); Keynote Speakers: Hans-Peter Meyer (Microbial Technology Development, Switzerland), Karl Sanford (Genencor, USA)

Innovation and Creativity: A Formula for Success

Convener: Lilian Hamilton (Scottish Enterprise Chemical Sciences Team, UK); Keynote Speakers: Chris Thoen (Procter and Gamble, USA), Michael Duncan (Procter and Gamble)

Main Group Chemistry

Convener: Claire Carmalt (UCL, UK); Keynote Speakers: Robert Mulvey (Strathclyde, UK), Francois Gabbai (Texas, USA), Herbert Roesky (Georg-August, Germany), Akira Sekiguchi (Tsukub...

Mechanisms in Chemistry

Conveners: Mike George (Nottingham, UK), Niek Buurma (Cardiff, UK); Keynote Speakers: Barry Carpenter (Cardiff, UK), Jonas Peters (Massachusetts, USA), Tito Scaiano (Ottawa, Canada...

Minaturised Electroanalytical Systems

Convener: D W M Arrigan (Cork, Ireland); Keynote Speakers: Paul Bohn (Notre Dame, USA), Sue Lunte (University of Kansas, USA)

Molecular Control of Degradable Polymers for Biomedical Applications

Convener: Matthew Davidson (Bath, UK); Keynote Speakers: Malcolm Chisholm (Ohio, USA), Steve Howdle (Nottingham, UK), Robert Waymouth (Stanford, USA)

Molecular Electronics and Magnetics (MC9)

Convener: Euan Brechin (Edinburgh, UK); Keynote Speakers: Wolfgang Wernsdorfer (Grenoble, France), Eugenio Coronado Miralles (Valencia, Spain)

Molecular Machines and Devices (MC9)

Convener: Graeme Cooke (Glasgow, UK); Keynote Speakers: David Leigh (Edinburgh, UK), Itamar Willner (Jerusalem, Israel)

Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids

Convener: Derek Fray (Cambridge, UK); Keynote Speakers: Frank Endres (Clausthal, Germany), Hongmin Zhu (Beijing, China), Tom Welton (London, UK), Vladimir Volkovich (Ekaterinburg, ...

Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion (MC9)

Convener: Mathias Brust (Liverpool, UK); Keynote Speakers: Frédéric Chandezon (Grenoble, France), Thomas Nann (Norwich, UK)

Natural Products

Convener: Marcel Jaspars (Aberdeen, UK); Keynote Speakers: Christian Hertweck, (Jena, Germany), Wilfred van der Donk, (Illinois, USA), Jon Clardy, (Harvard, USA)

Nuclear Fission, Nuclear Fusion and the Environment

Convener: Nick Evans (Loughborough, UK), Keynote Speaker: David Clark (Los Alamos, USA); Jean-Paul Glatz (Karlsruhe, Germany)

Organic Electronics (MC9)

Convener: Pete Skabara (Strathclyde, UK), Keynote Speakers: John Reynolds (Florida, USA), Iain McCulloch (London, UK), Nazario Martin (Madrid, Spain), Stephen Yeates (Manchester, U...

Oxygen Activation and Sensing by Iron in Biology

Convener: John Reglinski (Strathclyde, UK); Keynote Speakers: Paul R Ortiz de Montellano (California, USA), Lawrence Que, Jr., (Minnesota, USA)

Peptides as Contrast Imaging Agents for MRI and PET

Convener: Brian Austen (St George's, London, UK)

Polymer Molecular Characterisation (MC9)

Conveners: Harald Pasch (Darmstadt, Germany); Taihyun Chang (Pohang, Korea); Keynote Speakers: Peter Rinaldi (Akron, USA), Robert Gilbert (Queensland, Australia)

Polymerisation Kinetics - Fundamentals for the Design of Novel Processes (MC9)

Convener: Michael Buback (Göttingen, Germany); Keynote Speakers: David Haddleton (Warwick, UK), Robin Hutchinson (Kingston, Canada), Igor Lacik (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), Phili...

Process Analysis

Convener: David Littlejohn (Strathclyde, UK); Keynote Speaker: Jeff Gunnell (Exxon Mobil, UK)

Quality Assurance of Medicines and Detection of Counterfeits

Convener: Tony Moffat (London, UK); Keynote Speakers: Mark Witkowski (Cincinnati, USA), Shaohong Jin (Beijing, China)

Safety Training Workshop

Convener: Mark Cesa (Ineos, USA); Keynote Speaker: Steve Harper (Health and Safety Executive, UK)

Soft Matter

Convener: Katie Gibb (RSC, UK); Keynote Speakers: Karen Wooley (St. Louis, USA), Dennis Discher (Pennsylvania, USA), Dimitris Vlassopoulos (Heraklion, Greece), Bing Xu (Hong Kong a...

Solid State (MC9)

Convener: Edmund Cussen (Strathclyde, UK); Keynote Speakers: Matt Rosseinsky (Liverpool, UK), Tony Cheetham (Cambridge, UK), Mercouri Kanatzidis (Northwestern, USA)

Sustainable Water

Convener: Richard Allan (Scottish Water, UK); Keynote Speaker: Philippe Quevauviller (European Commission, Belgium)

The Chemistry-Biology Interface: Drug Targets and Diagnostics

Conveners: Harpal Minhas, Niamh O'Connor, Michael Smith (RSC); Keynote Speakers: Dana Spence, Michael Shuler, Larry J Kricka, Thomas Kodadek