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Yining Huang (Chemistry)

Gary Shaw (Biochemistry)

Blaine Chronik (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

Roberta Flemming (Department of Earth Sciences)

Mathew Willans (NMR Facility, Chemistry) < new web-site

UWO NMR Facility (Chemistry) < new web-site

UWO Biomolecular NMR Facility

24th Canadian Materials Science Conference – call for abstracts (Jan 20/12)

We invite you to submit an abstract for presentation at the 24th CMSC, Materials: Atoms to Applications, which will be held at The University of Western Ontario, June 5-8, 2012. We are accepting abstracts for both oral and poster presentations; priority will be given to submissions by students.

The Conference has been expanded from its roots in metallurgy to include presentations related to many materials including bio- and nano-materials and composites; a somewhat more detailed list is shown on the attached flyer which we hope you will print and post/distribute to anyone you think might be interested in participating.

We hope you will forward this e-mail to any potential participants, including students and post-docs. Students who live in Canada more than 500 km from London, Ontario and are submitting abstracts may apply for travel support. Presenting students will automatically be entered into the appropriate competition; there will be prizes for the top presentations in each category.

All abstracts must be submitted through webHermes. Information about abstract submission may be found on the CMSC web site under "Abstract Submission"; any questions, problems, etc., please let us know.

We are delighted that Dr. Carlos Tomé (Los Alamos National Laboratories) will present the D.K.C. Memorial Lecture on Thursday evening, June 7, immediately after the banquet (included with registration). We are also pleased to announce that so far fifteen leading researchers in their fields of materials science have accepted our invitation to speak during the Conference.

Everyone who wishes to attend the 24th Canadian Materials Science Conference, whether presenting or not, must register for the Conference. The registration fee includes the opening reception on Tuesday evening, June 5, the poster reception on Wednesday, June 6 and the banquet on Thursday as well as lunches on Wednesday and Thursday, all coffee breaks and all conference materials including the Program/Abstract book. On-line registration is accessible through our web site as is access to reserving a room in Essex Hall on campus.

The University of Western Ontario campus, always beautiful, is especially so in early June; the weather should be superb. Niagara Falls and the superb wine country of the Niagara peninsula are about two hours away as is Toronto, Canada's largest city. The Stratford Shakespeare Festival (45 minutes away) and Shaw Festival (~2.5 hours away) will be offering many presentations before, during and after the CMSC.

We hope to see you in London in June not only attending the 24th CMSC but participating as a presenter of a talk or a poster. webHermes is available for abstract submission from now through midnight, March 5.

Any questions, comments, etc., please let us know.

See you in June.

Dr. Robert J. Klassen, Conference Chair
Dr. Myra Gordon, Conference Coordinator

http://www.eng.uwo.ca/2012cmsc/

Thesis Defenses (April 29/10)

Susan Safadi (University of Western Ontario) December 2009
Supervisor: Gary Shaw
Ph.D. thesis: "Structure, Stability and Interactions of the Parkin Ubiquitin-like Domain"

Nicole Marlatt (University of Western Ontario) April 2010
Supervisor: Gary Shaw
Ph.D. thesis: "Revealing Conformational Diversity in the Multifunctional S100 Protein Family"

Venzi Hristova (University of Western Ontario) April 2010
Supervisor: Gary Shaw
Ph.D. thesis: "Investigating the Structural and Functional Attributes of the Parkin Ubiquitin Ligase"

Canada Research Chairs in magnetic resonance (March 26/10)

Government of Canada has announced today (external link) an investment of $165.5 million to fund 187 new or renewed Canada Research Chairs in 44 Canadian universities. This includes renewal of two Chairs involved in magnetic resonance research.

Gary Shaw (University of Western Ontario) Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Structural Neurobiology

Vladimir Ladizhansky (University of Guelph) Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Biophysics

Our sincere congratulations to Gary and Vladimir with this well-deserved recognition.

Cover article in the Journal of Physical Chemistry (Dec 10/09)

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Crystalline beta-Barium Borate is an important nonlinear optical material often used in frequency mixing. Interestingly enough, even though beta-Barium Borate has been known for years, there still exists a controversy about its true crystallographic space group. That is existed until now! In this cover article in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C a research team from the University of Western Ontario has solved this problem using ultrahigh-field solid-state NMR spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations.

Andre Sutrisno, Cheng Lu, Robert Lipson, Yining Huang, "Combined 135/137Ba Solid-state NMR at an Ultrahigh Magnetic Field and Computational Study of beta-Barium Borate," Journal of Physical Chemistry C 113 (2009) 21196–21201. (Cover Article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp9044786

This is a seventh cover article featuring results obtained using resources of the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids. See our cover gallery and the complete list of research publications enabled by the Facility here (complete list).

Special Issue of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (April 7/09)

Michael Hunger has edited a special "Solid State NMR in Catalysis" issue of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (vol. 35, issue 2). Among authors are many renown personae in the field including Yining Huang (University of Western Ontario), who is reporting their recent research in studying formation of molecular sieves.

Z. Yan, B. Chen, Y. Huang, "A solid-state NMR study of the formation of molecular sieve SAPO-34," Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 35 (2009) 49-60. (invited publication, special issue "Solid State NMR in Catalysis") http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2008.12.006

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