CMP members present work at Faraday Discussion (with a link to Sir Oliver Lodge!)
Lucy Morris (PhD student), Dr Rahul Pandey (Postdoc) and Prof. Brianna Heazlewood from the CMP cluster attended the New Directions in Molecular Scattering Faraday Discussion in Edinburgh from 8-10 May 2024. Faraday Discussions have a special format where primary research papers written by the speakers are distributed to all participants before the meeting, and most of the meeting is devoted to discussing the papers. The meeting included four inter-related themes, covering all aspects of inelastic and reactive two-body collisions. The overall focus was on the growing capability to investigate collisions involving larger, more complex systems than have previously been accessible at the molecular level. Lucy and Rahul both presented their work at the conference, with Lucy selected to give a one-minute flash presentation on her poster “Ion-Neutral Reactions in the Cold Regime”. Rahul presented a poster on his recent research “Density measurements of NH3 molecules and H radicals in supersonic beams”. Brianna served as a member of the Scientific Committee and chaired the discussion for two sessions. The discussions in each session will be published alongside the research papers themselves, with all active contributors included as co-authors in the resulting publication.
At the conference dinner, the President of Faraday Community for Physical Chemistry (Prof. Dwayne Heard) spoke about the rich history of the conference series and mentioned an interesting link with Liverpool Physics. Every Faraday Discussion conference starts with a Spiers Memorial Lecture delivered by an eminent researcher in the field—and it was mentioned that the very first Spiers Memorial Lecture was delivered by Sir Oliver Lodge at a Faraday Discussion in 1928.