The Surfactants & Colloids Workshop at Hull a great success

The Surfactant & Colloid Group at the Department of Chemistry at Hull has held a very successful workshop on Surfactants and Colloids on 25 May 2004. The list of workshop speakers included internationally recognised figures like Prof. Brian Vincent, who is the head of the Polymer & Colloid Group at the School of Chemistry of Bristol University, Dr. Colin Bain, who’s group is a part of the Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Lab at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Oxford and Prof. Orlin Velev, who leads the Colloids and Nanoscience Engineering group at the Department of Chemical Engineering of North Carolina State University. Talks were also given by the senior members of the Surfactant & Colloid Group: Prof. Bob Aveyard, Prof. Paul Fletcher, Prof. Bernie Binks, Dr. John Clint and Dr. Vesko Paunov as well as the graduate students Mr. Brian Prevo and Mr. Ketan Bhatt from Prof. Velev’s group at NCSU. The poster session at the workshop was presented by our graduate students and post-docs in an informal and stimulating atmosphere. Dr. Paunov, who organised and chaired the workshop this year, intends to establish it as a regular annual event following the positive feedback from our guests and group members. Many thanks to all our students and post-docs who helped with the organisation of the poster session.

Workshop speakers: Second row left to right: Prof. Paul Fletcher, Prof. Bob Aveyard, Dr. John Clint, Dr. Colin Bain, Prof. Brain Vincent, Prof. Orlin Velev, Dr. Vesko Paunov and Prof. Bernie Binks. First row: Ketan Bhatt and Brian Prevo.

Workshop programme

What Velev’s PhD students say about their trip to Hull