All at 2.00 pm on Tuesday (unless otherwise indicated below) in the Lecture Theatre of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory. Convenors: Prof. Andrew Goodwin & Prof. Andrew Weller Week 1 9 October Prof Jason Davis - University of Oxford "The Biotic-Abiotic Interface: from switches to diagnostics" Week 2 15 October MONDAY Prof Nicola Spaldin FRS - ETH, Zurich "Grand Challenges in Materials Chemistry: Cosmic Strings, the Higgs Boson, Dark Matter and Room-temperature Superconductivity" Week 3 23 October Prof Andrew Harrison - Diamond "New Opportunities for Science at Diamond" Week 4 30 October Prof Claire Carmalt - University College London "From Precursor Synthesis to TCOs, Photocatalysts, and Superhydrophobic Materials" Week 5 6 November Prof Lee Cronin - Glasgow (RSC Award Lecture) "Exploring and Discovering Computation and Chemistry with Chemical Reactions" Week 6 13 November Dr Sian Dutton - Cambridge "Lanthanide Oxides for Low Temperature Magnetocalorics" Week 7 20 November Prof Fred Fontaine - Laval "Ligand design in organometallic chemistry taken to the extreme: when the metal is no longer needed" Week 8 27 November Prof Peter Scott - Warwick "Polyolefin-polar block copolymers - from mechanism to commercial application"