the Blue Book
The Blue Book is a book that used to be called the White Book when it was blue and then it turned into a white book and was called the Blue Book and has been called the Blue Book ever since even though it is neither blue nor white these days and, in fact, it's not even a proper book anymore but a PDF file. The Blue Book is a (200kb) PDF file with useful mathematical and physical equations and constants. Go to the Blue Book now.
- 12 March 2010: Our paper Universal nonexponential relaxation: Complex dynamics in simple liquids was selected JChemPhys editors’ choice as one of the most innovative and influential articles in the field of Chemical Physics in 2009. See http://jcp.aip.org/jcp/editors_choices_2009.
- 5 January 2010: Our paper Universal nonexponential relaxation: Complex dynamics in simple liquids was the 3rd most downloaded paper of J. Chem. Phys. in December 2009.
- 5 August 2009: Read more about our latest paper in JACS in Serving nanoparticle "soup".
- 4 August 2009: We were joined by new postdoc Marco Candelaresi.
- May 2009: New ultrafast chemical physics lab is ready!
- April 2009: Find out more about 2D-IR from our recent invited Tutorial Review published in Chem Soc Rev.
- 30/31 October 2008: The 2008 Ultrafast Chemical Physics (UCP) meeting was held at Strathclyde.
- 14 August 2008: Neil's ERC grant featured in two press releases: Physicists in million-euro molecular movie and Three million euros boost for engineering and science research.
- 10 July 2008: We were joined by new postdoc Kitsakorn Locharoenrat.
- 23 May 2008: Our paper "Glasslike Behavior in Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions" was selected "Editors' Choice" in the 23 May issue of the journal Science (PDF, 800kB).
- 12 May 2008: Groups wins £0.6M EPSRC grant "Two-dimensional terahertz–IR spectroscopy: a unique probe of ultrafast hydrogen-bond dynamics of liquid water and model systems" by KW, JOK, and DJSB.
- 6 May 2008: Claire Neil has been awarded the Neil McDougall Bursary in Practical Oceanography by the Scottish Association for Marine Science. This is a competitively awarded scholarship which will allow her to spend 9 weeks at Dustaffnage Marine Laboratory and participate in a month-long cruise on the Royal Research Ship James Cook in the Celtic Sea. The cruise is highly relevant to her PhD work on interactions between physical mixing and optical properties in UK shelf seas.
- 2 May 2008: Strathclyde will host the "International Workshop on Ultrafast Chemical Physics 2008 (UCP ‘08)" on 30/31 October 2008 to be held in the Senate/Court suite. Plenary speaker is Prof Robin Hochstrasser FRSE (University of Pennsylvania). Confirmed invited speakers are Prof Casey Hynes (CNRS, Paris and University of Colorado, Boulder), Prof Charles Schmuttenmaer (Yale), Prof Majed Chergui (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Prof Mischa Bonn (AMOLF, Amsterdam), Prof Peter Hamm (University of Zurich), and Prof Thomas Elsaesser (Max Born Institute, Berlin). The workshop is organised by Angus J. Bain (UCL), David Klug (Imperial), Steve Meech (UEA), Neil Hunt (Strathclyde), and Klaas Wynne (Strathclyde).
- 1 May 2008: SPRITES (Structure changes in Protein Reactions via Infrared Time Evolution Spectroscopy) a € 1M ERC Starting Grant Scheme proposal submitted by Neil Hunt has been approved for funding. The project, one of only ~300 funded projects from more than 9000 Europe-wide applications, will apply a derivative of the new ultrafast laser technique of transient 2D-IR spectroscopy to study enzymatic and protein reactions in real time.
- 24 April 2008: Our paper "Glasslike Behavior in Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions" came out in J. Chem. Phys. A summary of the paper in simple terms (best attempt anyway) is on the page The science of syrup and traffic jams.
- 4 March 2008: Visiting professor Robin Hochstrasser of the University of Pennsylvania has been elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This is a prestigious fellowship for scientists of great international renown and we are delighted that Robin has been honoured in this way.
- 25 June 2007: David McKee wins prestigious NERC Advanced Fellowship to study optical properties of shelf seas and other optically complex oceanic waters.
- 18 March 2007: New paper in JACS on terahertz spectra associated with a helix to coil transition in a peptide. Read more about it in the research highlight Observing ‘The Lubricant of Life’
- 10 January 2007: New paper on terahertz emission from nanostructured surfaces has come out in PRL. Read more about it in the research highlight nanotechnology leads to new terahertz radiation sources
- 25 May 2006: Dr Neil Hunt has been chosen to receive an EPSRC Chemistry Advanced Research Fellowship worth about £1M. See a picture of an excited Neil in the Ultrafast picture diary.
- March 2006: Profs David Birch and Duncan Graham and collaborators managed to secure a £5M EPSRC grant to study nanometrology.
- January 2006: The BCP group has two new visiting professors: Prof. Robin Hochstrasser (University of Pennsylvania) and Prof. John Pickup (King's College, London)
- November 2005: The new Wolfson Molecular Nanometrology Laboratories have been completed in the Physics and Chemistry departments. See the website of the Wolfson Nanometrology Laboratories.
- October 2005: New ultrafast abstracts added to the ultrafast reprints section including a Kerr paper in JPCB.
- May 2005: Dalibor Panek of the Czech Technical University is visiting the group. Dalibor's work concerns single-molecule spectroscopy of dye molecules encapsulated in porous silica.
- March 2005: Pictures from the Optical Probes 2005 conference in Bangalore, India, are now uploaded.
- April 2005: Integration of various sites into the BCP site; things a big mess...
- Summer 2004: Four new people starting in the ultrafast sub-group. We got an 18-W Verdi to pump the amplifier and an FTIR. The Wolfson Nanometrology lab will be refurbished.
