Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to our afternoon symposium, Advances in Photochemistry, on Tuesday 5 August 2025, in the Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ.

The symposium is being co-organised by the UPDICE (Ultrafast Photochemical Dynamics in Complex Environments) and COSMOS (Coherent States in Molecular Simulations) EPSRC Programme Grants and it is linked with London Light (London Institute for Advanced Light Technologies) and the UCL Chemistry & Light research theme.

Programme

1.55-2                 Welcome

2-2.30                 Professor Toshinori Suzuki, Kyoto University, Japan

A New Twist to Electronic Relaxation of Nucleobases

2.30-3                 Dr Tracey Clarke, UCL Chemistry

Exploring Excited States in Organic Photovoltaic Materials

3-3.30                 Tea

3.30-4                 Professor Chiara Capelli, Scuola Normale Superiore & IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca, Italy

Molecular Spectra in Solution: A Fully Atomistic Quantum-Classical Perspective

4-4.30                 Dr Sandra Gomez Rodriguez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

Nonadiabatic Dynamics Across Three Molecular Systems

4.30-5.30          Networking and drinks reception

Attendance is free, but we would like to have an idea of numbers for catering purposes, so please register here if you would like to attend: registration.

Best wishes,

Helen

Professor Helen Fielding (she/her)

Thomas Graham Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ

https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/3176-helen-fielding