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Wednesday, 30 March 2011

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2011 SUPA Annual General Meeting in St. Andrews

Wednesday, 30 March, 10:00 AM
Site event

The SUPA Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be hosted in St. Andrews on Wednesday 30th March 2011. It will be a interesting day of talks and events with lots of opportunity for networking.

The program for Wednesday, 30th March 2011

  • 09:30 Coffee and Registration
  • 10:00-10:45 KT Meeting
Introduction: KT Director Roy Clarke
Speaker: Graeme Malcolm (M^2 Lasers) "Laser Technology: From the lab to the market"
Speaker: Jeannine Sargent (Independent Director, SiOnyx, formerly CEO of Oerlikon Solar) "Developments in Thin Film PV"
  • 11:00 Coffee
  • 11:20-12:30 PALS meeting.
Introduction: Cait McPhee (Theme Leader)
Speaker: Jane Greaves (St Andrews) "SUPA Astrobiology: from exoplanets to Biosigns"
Speaker: Simon Titmuss (Edinburgh) "Responsive colloids: from self-assembly of nanoparticles to the mechanical biology of viruses"
Speaker: Richard Blythe (Edinburgh) "Statistical Physics and the evolution of communities and cultures"

In parallel:

11:20-12:45 Selected SUPA PhD students present their research.
  • 12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00 AGM Main Event
Introduction: Jim Hough (SUPA CEO)
Speaker: Jochen Guck (Cambridge) "Living optical elements in the vertebrate retina"
Speaker: Mike Charlton (Swansea) "Trapping of Antihydrogen"

  • 15:30 Coffee
  • 16:00 AGM Main Event (continued)
Speaker: Roy Sambles (Exeter) "From butterflies to battleships"
Speaker: Charles Cockell (Open University) "Astrobiology: In search of life's boundaries"

  • 17:30 Close

During the day we will have opportunity to welcome our new CEO, Professor Jim Hough.

If you want to attend the SUPA AGM, please submit your details by the booking form.


Transport will be provided by local institutions.