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Macro Group Uk Polymer Physics Group Bulletin Macro Group UK & Polymer Physics Group Bulletin No 79 January 2013 Number Page 79 1 January 2013 MACRO GROUP UK POLYMER PHYSICS GROUP BULLETIN INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Editorial Views from the Top 2 Welcome to the January edition of the Macro Group and PPG bulletin. Firstly we would like to congratulate our distinguished award winners; Professor Donal Bradley FRS (Imperial College) for the Founders’ Prize of Committee members 3 the Polymer Physics Group, Professor Howard Colquhoun (University of Reading) for the Macro Group UK Medal and Dr Matthew Gibson News 4 (Warwick University) for the Macro Group UK Young Researchers Medal. The Macro Group medals will be awarded at the IUPAC 10th International Conference to be held in Durham in August 2013. Congratulations also Awards 4-7 to Dr. James Adams (University of Surrey) who is to be the DPOLY Exchange Lecturer. He will present a lecture at the March 2013 meeting Conference Reports & Bursaries 8-11 of the American Physical Society (APS) to be held in Baltimore, Maryland. Competition for the best 2012 UK PhD thesis in polymer science is still Competitions announcement 12-13 open, applications are encouraged. The winner will be awarded The Jon Weaver PhD Prize. We also would like to remind students that they can Forthcoming Meetings 14-19 apply for the D. H. Richards Memorial bursary, which is set up to support student travel to meetings. Similarly we would remind students that they can apply for the Polymer Physics Group Prize for the Best Student Committee Nominations 20-21 Publication. More details are contained within the bulletin. Finally we have many notices of forthcoming meetings and we would Contributions for inclusion in the BUL- like to highlight in particular the YRM and RAPS meetings dedicated to young scientists entering the field. The first call for the Polymer Physics LETIN should be emailed (preferably) Biennial meeting is issued in this edition. The meeting will be held in or sent to either: Sheffield on 9-11th Sept, 2013. Dr Nathalie Lavignac (MGUK) Thank you to everyone who has contributed an item to this newsletter. Medway School of Pharmacy University of Kent, Nathalie Lavignac Chatham, ME4 4TB Steve Eichhorn [email protected] Bulletin Officers or Professor Stephen Eichhorn (PPG) School of Physics College of Engineering, Maths and Physical Sciences The Pure and Applied Macromolecular Chemistry Group University of Exeter (Macro Group UK) is a joint group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry. [email protected] The Polymer Physics Group is a joint group of the Institute of Physics and the Tel: (01392) 72 5515 Royal Society of Chemistry. The deadline for contributions for the next issue is 31 July 2013 Macro Group UK & Polymer Physics Group Bulletin No 79 January 2013 Page 2 Views from the Top From the From the Chairman of Macro Group Chairman of the PPG Welcome to another Macro Group UK bulle- 2012 was a memorable year for many in the tin, I hope that you have all had a relaxing UK, with the combination of Olympics, Para- time over the holiday period. The latest lympics and the Diamond Jubilee providing Macro Group UK committee meeting was numerous opportunities for social events and held in November 2012 and hosted by Dr Peter Shaw of celebrations. 2013 will be a memorable year for the UK‟s Synthomer UK in Harlow. We have a policy of moving the polymer physicists as we collaborate with the wider soft mat- meetings around the country and this one was very different ter community. because it gave us the opportunity for a tour around a com- mercial polymerisation facility. All of us were very impressed New for us in 2013, we welcome Dr Aline Miller as the with the scale of the operations and also the significant con- Group‟s Honorary Secretary and Treasurer. She was trol and safety features that are required on the industrial elected to fill the vacancy left by Prof. Nigel Clarke, who scale. Certainly, the academics amongst us would very stepped down after seven years in the office. I would like to much like to hope that one day one of our own laboratory take this opportunity to extend our deep and sincere grati- based discoveries might just make it on to the commercial tude to Nigel for his dedicated service. Nigel first joined the scale! Speaking of sizes, I can confirm that the safety vest Committee in 2003, and ever since he has served the com- that I was given in the picture below was labelled a size XL! mittee with tremendous energy, efficiency and wisdom. Not everyone was able to be physically present in Harlow Coming up at the end of March, there will be an Advanced but we were able to take advantage of the teleconferencing School in Soft Matter, targeted at PhD students and those facilities at Synthomer to ensure that all could input to the new to the field. This four-day event is co-sponsored by the meeting. There were two very important items on the IOP‟s Liquids and Complex Fluids Group. Because of spon- agenda that I would like to mention. The first was to ensure sorship by the Groups, the costs for students are low (only that we found an appropriate way to remember our col- about £100!), and it is hoped that finances will not prevent league Jon Weaver who was tragically taken from us in July an interested student from attending. The Liquids and Com- after a short illness. Jon was an outstanding young aca- plex Fluids Group has put on an Advanced School for sev- demic with a tremendous future ahead of him and he was eral years (usually as a Winter School), but this will be the also a very valuable and proactive member of Macro Group first time they have paired up with PPG. We hope that stu- UK. He was instrumental in developing and promoting our dents in PPG take advantage of the opportunity and look PhD prize and I am delighted to be able to report that this forward to hearing reports back from them. will henceforth be known as “The Jon Weaver PhD Prize” and will be awarded annually to the author of the best UK Then, in the late summer, all are invited to gather in Shef- th PhD thesis in polymer science. I hope that you will support field for the 26 biennial meeting. A highlight of the meeting this award and nominate excellent candidates from 2012 will be the lecture by the Founders‟ Prize Winner, Professor before the upcoming deadline – details of this are provided Donal Bradley of Imperial College. You can read more within the bulletin. The second major item of business was about his achievements leading up to this Prize in this issue to decide upon the recipients of the Macro Group UK med- on page 5. We are now accepting nominations for the Stu- als. We received an excellent set of nominations and I am dent Prize, which will be awarded at the biennial meeting to delighted to report that Professor Howard Colquhoun the author of the best publication in polymer physics. This is (University of Reading) was awarded the Macro Group UK a great way to recognise and encourage our rising stars. Medal for significant and substantial contributions to the de- Looking further to the future, next year we are bringing to- velopment of polymer science in the UK. Also Dr Matt Gib- gether the larger soft matter and biological physics commu- son, (University of Warwick) was awarded the UK Young nity for a three-day meeting. The event will be tentatively Researcher‟s Medal for contributions to polymer science held at the Institute of Physics with co-sponsorship by PPG that show outstanding promise for the future. As ever, and three other groups: Liquids and Complex Fluids; Bio- Macro Group UK is keen to promote the development of logical Physics; and Molecular Physics. We have selected new young polymer scientists and so I want to make sure some broad themes that are of interest to all four groups: that you are fully aware of the dates for the next Young Re- searcher‟s Meeting which will be held on June 24th and 25th at the University of Nottingham, please put the dates in your Self-assembly and patterning diary and encourage any young polymer scientists at PhD level or postdoc to come along, participate and present. Fi- Imaging and optical methods nally I‟d like to welcome on board our new committee mem- bers - I‟m delighted to be able to work with such an enthusi- Mechanical probes and rheology astic and pro-active group. You can see a full membership inside. Enjoy reading the bulletin. Each theme will have a keynote and invited speaker. Plans Steve Howdle are still being put in place, and we welcome your input. Are Chairman Macro Group there other cross-cutting themes that should be included? There will be more information reported in the next bulletin. With these upcoming events, and with your continued enthu- siasm, I think it will be a very good year for Polymer Physics. Joseph Keddie Chairman Polymer Physics Group Macro Group UK & Polymer Physics Group Bulletin No 79 January 2013 Page 3 PPG & Macro Group Committees Polymer Physics Group Committee Macro Group Committee Chairman: Prof. Steve Howdle (University of Nottingham) 2007 - 2013 Secretary: Prof. Rachel O’Reilly (University of Warwick) 2008 - 2013 Chair: Treasurer: Dr Lian Hutchings (University of Durham) 2011 - 2014 Professor Joe Keddie (University of Surrey) Ordinary Members: Dr Carl Waterson (Innospecinc), Meetings Officer 2006 - 2014 Dr Raj Bhardwaj (Polymer Laboratories) 2007 - 2014 Dr Christopher Sammon (Sheffield Hallam University), Web Site Officer 2007 - 2014 Honorary Secretary and Treasurer: Prof.
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