RSC NEWS 11 November 2005

Vol 36 :   Issue No. 16

Editors -- Marilyn Holloway and Sue Riches

Good news is always welcome! Hot off the press are the ARC results. Congratulations to all those who were successful.

I am sure the picture below will bring gladness to everyone's heart. This cheerful bunch (Geoff Deeble, Chris Tomkins, Kevin Cooper and Lee Welling) were snapped after receiving the Special ANU Staff Excellence Award from the Vice-Chancellor on 3 November.

News from the Social Club is that this year's RSC Christmas Party will be held on Wednesday 7 December. The end of year cricket match has been postponed until January when everyone returns from holidays.

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

CONGRATULATIONS

Mr David Michael Carberry (BSc BEng Hons ANU)
Optical Tweezers: Experimental Demonstrations of the Fluctuation Theorem
Supervisor: Dr E M Sevick
Submitted 28 October 2005

Ms Marta Maria Cieslinski (BSc Adelaide)
Cyclodextrin-Based Supramolecular Assemblies
Supervisor: Professor C J Easton
Submitted 2 November 2005

Recent Arrivals

A sincere welcome is extended to the following people who have arrived (or metamorphosed) since our last issue:

Professor Bill Rutherford is visiting the School for the month of November and will present the 2005 Craig Lecture on Wednesday 23 November. Professor Rutherford is the Research Director CNRS and Head of Service de Bioénergétique, DBJC, CEA Saclay, France.
(Room E109, ext. 53773).

Dr Keith Ingold from the National Research Council of Canada has joined Professor Easton's group as a Visiting Fellow until 13 December (room 102, ext. 53713).

Dr Saurabh Soni from Université du Maine, Le Mans, France, is a Visiting Fellow with Professor White's group until the end of November (room 9A/18, ext. 53571).

Ms Steph Neulinger has commenced with Professor White's group as an Administrative Assistant (room 13, ext. 53578).

Mrs Julie Arnold started this week as the new Administrative Assistant with the Biological Group (room E4A, ext. 54599).

Where does Lasse Norén find these "treasures"?

Staff Publications since last issue as at 9 November 2005

Dewhurst, R.D., Hill, A.F., Smith, M.K. Neutral and anionic tricarbido complexes of gold(I). Organometallics (2005), 24(23), 5576-5580. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/om050528i

Goossens, D.J., Welberry, T.R., Heerdegen, A.P., Edwards, A.J. Modelling disorder in 3,3′-dimethoxybenzil, C₁₆H₁₄O₄.   Z. Kristallogr. (2005), 220(12), 1035-1042. http://dx.doi.org/10.1524/zkri.2005.220.12_2005.1035

Henderson, M.J., Perriman, A.W., Robson-Marsden, H., White, J.W. Protein-poly(silicic) acid interactions at the air/solution interface. J. Phys. Chem. B (2005), 109(44), 20878-20886. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp051908k

Howard, C.J., Withers, R.L., Zhang, Z., Osaka, K., Kato, K., Takata, M. Space-group symmetry for the perovskite Ca_0.3Sr_0.7TiO₃. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter (2005), 17(44), L459-L465. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/17/44/L01

Welberry, T.R. Diffuse scattering.   Z. Kristallogr. (2005), 220(12), 993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1524/zkri.2005.220.12_2005.993

Welberry, T.R., Goossens, D.J., Heerdegen, A.P., Lee, P.L. Problems in measuring diffuse X-ray scattering.   Z. Kristallogr. (2005), 220(12), 1052-1058. http://dx.doi.org/10.1524/zkri.2005.220.12_2005.1052

Willis, A.C., Mahdi, W.K., Humphrey, M.G. Bis(μ₃-4-bromophenylimido)tris(tricarbonylruthenium)(2 Ru-Ru). Acta Crystallogr., Sect. E (2005), 61(11), m2335-m2337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600536805032885

Withers, R.L. Disorder, structured diffuse scattering and the transmission electron microscope.   Z. Kristallogr. (2005), 220(12), 1027-1034. http://dx.doi.org/10.1524/zkri.2005.220.12_2005.1027