Rideal lecture and symposium 2017, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Tuesday 4th April 2017

Written by admin on April 20, 2023. Posted in Past Meetings.

Professor Daan Frenkel was the 2017 Rideal Lecturer. The Rideal Lecture is awarded jointly by the RSC Colloid and Interface Science Group and SCI Colloid and Surface Chemistry Group, to recognise a sustained and distinguished contribution to colloid and interface science in the UK (photograph below).

A one-day symposium was held at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge on Tuesday 4th April 2017. The symposium featured contributions by Willem Kegel, Richard Sear, Zorana Zeravcic, Roel Dullens, Erika Eiser and Rosalind Allen and finished with the Rideal Lecture.

We gratefully acknowledge support from CCP5 and from BP for this symposium. Alex Routh Jeroen van Duijneveldt

For synopsis of the Rideal Lecture, please follow this link.

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