Chemistry@York

The Chemistry@York Research Conference is a one-day conference, to be held in Chemistry on Wednesday 18 June (9am to 5.30pm), focused on celebrating the outstanding research done by the PhD students and PDRAs in the department. The conference will feature talks by final year PhD students and PDRAs, a poster session and a plenary lecture. Apart from our plenary speaker, this will be an internal conference for all staff, postgraduate students and visitors in the department. After a successful first two editions, we are happy to bring the conference back for a third year, for what has become an annual highlight in the Chemistry department.

A major driver for organising this conference is to bring together the whole department and celebrate our research all together. To accommodate all final year PhD students into a one-day event, with opportunity to present for all who want to, this will be done through parallel themed sessions – much as you’d expect to see at a major conference. The sessions will be split based on the Chemistry Department's seven research themes, plus an ‘open’ session. By bringing the whole department together for talks on the same day, we want to bring a real celebratory feel to the day.

The conference will start and end with activities to bring all participants together. It will start with a plenary lecture, to be given this year by Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing from the University of Bristol. It will end with a poster session, at which all participants not giving oral presentations will have opportunity to present at, accompanied by a drinks reception. There will also be prizes awarded for the best talk in each theme, and the prize giving will double-up with the awarding of the Roger J Mawby Demonstrating Awards.

• PhD students and postdocs - this is an excellent opportunity for you to share your research with the department in a friendly and supportive environment.
• Academic staff - please encourage as many of your research group as possible to attend, and please encourage them to present at the conference.

Host: Will Unsworth william.unsworth@york.ac.uk