6th IRDG Martin & Willis Prize Award Meeting,

University of Strathclyde, 10 April 2002.

Student oral presentations were 20 minutes maximum, comprising 15 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes maximum question time. .

A panel of IRDG committee members and/or their appointees will decide the Awards. Certificates will be awarded at the meeting; the IRDG Treasurer will forward monetary awards as soon as possible after the meeting.

This year, the M&W Award prize for an oral presentation is kindly sponsored by Jobin Yvon (JY) Limited. The poster awards are kindly sponsored by Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc.).

Agenda:

 

 

 

10:15-11:00

Registration and Coffee

 

 

11:00-11:10

Welcome and Introduction

John Chalmers

 

Oral Presentations I:

 

 

University:

11:10-11:30

Detection of Amphetamine by SERRS.

Karen Faulds

Strathclyde

11:30-11:50

Working towards precise structure/reactivity relationships in heterogeneous catalysis.

Timothy Lear

Glasgow

11:50-12:10

Vibrational spectroscopy of the Titanosilicate Zeolite ETS-10.

Yuni Krisnandi

Aberdeen

12:10-12:30

External-reflection Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy of flowing liquid surfaces.

Richard Campbell

Oxford

12:30-14:45

Lunch and Poster Session

 

 

Oral Presentations II:

 

 

 

14:50-15:10

Designing infrared probes of DNA.

Joanne Dyer

Nottingham

15:10-15:30

Distance detection by SERRS.

Ailie McCabe

Strathclyde

15:30-15:50

Analysis of nitrite from biological fluids by SERRS.

Marc Boris Durner

Sheffield Hallam

15:50-16:10

Total internal reflection Raman spectroscopy of thin films.

Phillip Greene

Oxford

16:10-16:30

Remote detection using surface enhanced resonance Raman scattering.

Grant Thomson

Leeds

 

 

 

 

16:30-17:00

Tea and IRDG review of oral and poster presentations.

 

 

17:00-

Announcement of Awards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

19:15-

Evening meal and (some) liquid refreshments sponsored by the IRDG.

Venue: Staff Club Lounge

 

 

Poster presentations:

A novel method of oligonuclotide detection using Diels Alder cycloaddition and SERRS.

Ljiljana Fruk

Strathclyde University

Sulfonic acids – A Raman spectroscopic study of their behaviour in aqueous and non-aqueous solutions.

Breda Kiernan

Bradford University

A comparison of electrochemical and colloidal SERRS from two analytes designed to chemisorb to silver surfaces.

Rachael Littleford

Strathclyde University

In-situ diffusion studies of water into polymeric materials using FTIR-ATR.

Leena Doeppers

Sheffield Hallam University

Determination of Diquat and Paraquat by SERS.

Yvonne Carella

Strathclyde University

Multi-point confocal Raman microscopy using a diffractive optic.

Fiona Thorley

Leeds University

The application of infrared spectroscopy to probe acid site distributions of heterogeneous catalysts.

David Lundie

Glasgow University

Raman microspectroscopy, a tool for in-situ corrosion analysis.

Damien Larroumet

Sheffield Hallam University

RDX detection by flowcell SERRS.

Maureen Monaghan

Strathclyde University