Events

Seminars 2006

2 March 2006

Algal hydrogenase: Biological Platinum
Mike Packer, Cawthron Institute, Nelson

6 April 2006

Emulsion microstructure and stability: understanding and manipulating interfacial control
Kate McGrath, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington

4 May 2006

Nanomechanical Properties of Polysaccharides - Does Form Follow Function?
Richard Haverkamp, Massey University, Palmerston North

8 June 2006

Quantum electromechanical systems: from Bohr to buckyballs
Gerald Milburn, University of Queensland, Australia

6 July 2006

Control of the optical transmission of metal films via excitation of surface plasmons
Ling Lin, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
Materials for spintronics - rare earth nitrides
Simon Granville, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington

15 August 2006

MacDiarmid AGM

7 September 2006

Resizable nanometre-scale apertures-new tools for nanotechnology
Stephen J. Sowerby, Australo, Dunedin

5 October 2006

Small Effects, Large Consequences: From Relativity to Electroweak Interactions
Peter Schwerdtfeger, Centre of Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, Massey University (Albany Campus), Auckland

9 November 2006

Defects induced in carbon nanotubes and novel composite formation using nanotubes as chain transfer agents in RAFT polymerisations
Amanda Ellis, Flinders University, Adelaide

7 December 2006

New Theoremsin Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
Edith M. Sevick, Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University