Dr Martin Cockett Highlights

Recent Lectures

Substituent effects on the weak hydrogen bond in amino-aromatic van der Waals complexes: Insights into the stabilisation of protein-ligand interactions? Joint Research Seminar of Tohoku University and The University of York held at Tohoku University, Japan, January 2009
The weak hydrogen bond in the fluorobenzene-ammonia van der waals complex: insights into the effects of electron withdrawing substituents on pi vs in-plane bonding, 62^nd International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy held at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA, June 2007
Substituent effects on the weak hydrogen bond in amino-aromatic van der Waals complexes: Insights into the stabilisation of protein structures? Invited lecture at the NSCCS User Meeting held at Imperial College, London, March 2007.
The weak hydrogen bond in the fluorobenzene-ammonia van der Waals complex: insights into the effects of electron withdrawing substituents and ionisation on ᴨ vs in-plane bonding. Photon 06, an international conference on optics and photonics held in Manchester, UK 2006
Approaching the Ionisation Threshold of Molecular Clusters: Solvation and Electronic Excitation as a Probe of Molecular Structure. The International Conference on Laser Probing (LAP 2004) held at the Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA

Co-authored (with G. Doggett) two RSC Tutorial Chemistry Texts entitled Maths for Chemists, Volumes I and II, which were published worldwide by the Royal Society of Chemistry and Wiley in October 2003. These texts are aimed specifically at helping students without a post GCSE qualification to cope with the mathematical content of degree level chemistry. These texts are being used as the basis of our in-house maths skills teaching as well as in several chemistry departments around the UK. The books place the teaching of mathematical skills firmly in the chemical context but without obscuring the underlying mathematical principles.