Congratulations to Professor Hazel Cox, who has been made Professor of Theoretical & Computational Chemistry

           Ryan (left), Abigail (middle) Adam (right)

Congratulations to Dr Adam Baskerville who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled:

"The quantum chemical physics of few-particle atoms and molceules."

Adam went to the Young Modellers Forum (YMF) in Greenwhich, UK. He gave a presentation titled:

"Going beyond standard approximations in quantum chemistry"

His talk won the YMF talk prize.

               Adam (left) receiving the YMF talk prize.

Adam and Hazel went to the Quantum Physics and Quantum Technology conference in Berlin, Germany. Adam gave a presentation titled:

"Excited S states of two electron atoms"

Hazel gave a presentation titled:

"Correlated Motion in Atoms and Molecules: Chemistry meets Physics"

Congratulations to Dr Sarote Boonseng who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled:

"Computational Study of the reactivity of palladacycles in catalytic applications."

       Dr Sarote Boonseng with Prof Stuart Macgregor.

Congratulations to Sarote Boonseng who submitted his PhD thesis entitled:

"Computational Study of the reactivity of palladacycles in catalytic applications."

Congratulations to Dr Gavin Roffe who graduated with a Ph.D in Chemistry.

   Prof John Spencer, Dr Gavin Roffe and Dr Hazel Cox.

Hazel, Pop and Adam attended the ISTCP conference in North Dakota USA. Pop presented a poster titled:

"The formation of Pd(0) from pincer palladacycles"

and Adam presented a poster titled:

"Quantum effects of particle motion in atomic and molecular three particle systems."

Hazel gave a presentation titled:

"Correlated Motion in Atomic and Molecular Three Particle Systems."
 

          Pop and Adam at the poster session.

         Pop, Lawrance Dunne, Hazel and Adam.

Rob graduates with an MChem and the Murrell Prize for Theoretical Chemistry at Masters Level for his work on the quantum-mechanical three-body problem, which is currently being written up for publication.

          Rob and Pop on a boat.

Congratulations to Dr Gavin Roffe who successfully defended his thesis entitled:

"The synthesis, catalytic investigation, and theoretical rationalisation of unsymmetrical pincer palladacycles."

Congratulations to Dr Andrew King who successfully defended his thesis entitled:

"The Stability of Small Atoms and Molecules : A Quantum Mechanical Three-Body Study."

The Cox lab group tried their hand at rowing at the Anchor Inn and Boating Pub on the west bank of the River Ouse.

Adam attended the International Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics and Chemistry (IMAMPC) 2015 at the University of Birmingham. He presented a poster titled:

"Intracule and centre of mass particle densities for atomic and molecular three particle systems."

                      Group shot at the IMAMPC conference 2015.

Luke graduates with an MChem and a paper published in PRA based on his MChem research. See the paper here: Effect of nuclear motion on the critical nuclear charge for two-electron atoms.

Gavin attended the XXI EuCheMS International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry in Bratislava Slovakia. He presented a poster with the title:

"A Synthesis, Catalytic Application and Theoretical Investigation into N'CN, SCN and PCN Pincer Palladacycles."

The Cox lab went to the NSCCS user meeting at Imperial College London. Congratulations to Luke Rhodes who won the poster prize.

Congratulations to Pop who presented his poster at The Young Modeller's forum 2014 held at SOAS London. His poster was titled:

"The Nature of the Bonding in Symmetrical Pincer Palladacycles."