MUCS Committee for 2004

President: Dr. Spencer J. Williams
Secretary: Assoc. Prof. Michelle Gee
Treasurer: Dr. Uta Wille

Student Members: 
Helen Ryan
Le Zeng
Nazanin Amini
Kylee Aumann
Colin Scholes
Danny Ganame

All lectures are held in the Cuming Theatre at 4:15 pm Wednesday unless stated otherwise.
Invitations are extended to join the guest speaker and committee for dinner at 6.30pm following the meeting.

RSVP to A/Prof Michelle Gee
Enquires to A/Prof Michelle Gee
e-mail: mlgee@unimelb.edu.au

Electronic Mailing List:

If you would like to automatically receive reminders of MUCS seminars two weeks in advance of the seminar date, simply send an e-mail message to The secretary and in the body of the message use the words "subscribe MUCS". You will then be automatically notified of upcoming events.

Program of Events for 2004

March

March 10th
Professor Paul Luckham
Imperial College, London
The Science (and Art) of Controlling Particle Forces

March 31st
Stranks Memorial Lecture
Prof. Michael Bruce
University of Adelaide
Three Decades of Chemistry - A Tale of Two Compounds
The lecture will be a semi-historical account of the development of the speaker's research in Adelaide, which has originated from just two compounds.

April

April 21st 
Prof Margaret Britz
Assistant Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
University of Melbourne
Discovering the Biochemistry of Cheese Microbes:  The Interface between Proteomics Biochemistry and Chemical Analysis

May

 
May 19th
Blake Dawson Waldron Patent Service Lecture
Dr. Chris Burns
University of Sydney
"The Challenges of Drug Discovery and the Cytopia Approach"

June

June 23rd  
Prof G. Charles Dismukes
Department of Chemistry
Princeton University
"The Biology and Chemistry of Water Splitting Enzymes and Biomimetic Catalysts"

July 28th
Dr Phil Barker,Principal Research Scientist
BlueScope Steel Research, Port Kembla
"Resins, Roofs and Radicals : Chemistry, COLORBOND® and BlueScope Steel"

September

September 1st
Feutrill Memorial Lecture
A/Prof Roger Read
University of New South Wales
"Progress in Fluorous Chemistry - Unfolding the Fluorous Toolbox "

October

October 20th
Australian Journal of Chemistry Lecture
Prof Douglas MacFarlane
Monash University
"Ionic Liquids and Ionic Solids "

November

Presidential Address and Annual General Meeting

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