Winton symposium on materials discovery

Mon 30 September 2013

Physics, Department of

This one-day meeting on "Materials Discovery" will again bring together leading scientists from around the world to explore some of the recent breakthroughs that reveal just how unexpected the physical world turns out to be. Speakers will cover a wide gamut of topics from 'electronics' through to 'life sciences'. This is the part of an annual series of topical meetings as part of the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability.

Programme and Speakers

Session I
Professor Chris Wise - Director and Co-founder of Expedition Engineering
“Learning from Stradivarius?”

Session II
Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov - Professor of Physics, University of Manchester
“Materials in Flatland”

Professor Paul Alivisatos - Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
“Design and synthesis of multi-component colloidal nanocrystals for catalysing and sensing”

Session III
Professor Jason Chin - Head, Centre for Chemical & Synthetic Biology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge
“Reprogramming the genetic code”

Professor Daniel Fletcher - Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Engineering Biological Systems, Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley
“Alive or dead? Self-organisation of biological structures”

Session IV
Professor Ben Feringa - Jacobus van't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences, University of Groningen
“Designing Dynamic Molecular Systems”

Professor George Whitesides - Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Harvard University

Cost: free