CSACS/CRMAA - Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures - Centre de recherche sur les matériaux auto-assemblés

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CHEM534/CHEM634: Registration is now open.

To the new CSACS students
If you are still not on the CSACS email list please fill out and submit the student registration sheet.

Mini-Symposium

The next mini-symposium will be held on Wednesday December 9 in the Otto Maass buidling at McGill University, room 10. For those interested please use >>> on-line registration .

Our guests:

Linda Reven, McGill
Geraldine Bazuin, U. of Montreal
Stephen Hyde, Australian National University

Classes and Workshops

CHEM 534/634

For the 2010 winter term , the CHEM 534/634 will be given once a week on Friday from 9:00 - 11:30 am in Pulp and Paper room 113. The first class starts on January 8. Anyone who would like to register for credits and is not a McGill student must do so through CREPUQ .

Description: A series of lectures on topics of current interest in advanced materials. The focus of the course is on exposing the students rational chemical prospective to synthesis, characterization and understanding of advanced materials, particularly at the nano-scale.

>>> Course Outline
To see the electronic versions of the covered material from past years please click here .

Encouraging Commercializable Outcomes (ECO) Grants

Purpose: To fund small projects, led by a CSACS principal investigator, whose objective is to demonstrate or strengthen proof-of-principle for a CSACS research-based invention. Successful projects are expected to lead to results with strong commercialization potential.

Amount of funding: $20,000 max per project (direct research costs only).

Timeline (2009): Applications to be submitted electronically (pdf format) on or before December 15, 2009. Results to be announced by January 30, 2010.

>>> How to apply

>>> Cover page application

Seminar Series 2009-2010

More to come.

Oct. 5/7, 2009	Prof. David Leigh , University of Edinburgh.	Tooling Up for Nanoworld: The Magic of Molecular Machines	McGill /Sherbrooke
Oct. 19/20/21, 2009	Prof. Francisco Raymo , University of Miami.	Photoswitchable Luminescent Probes for Fluorescence Nanoscopy	Sherbrooke/ McGill/UdeM
Nov. 3/4/5/6, 2009	Prof. Olof Ramstrom , KTH - Royal Institute of Technology	Supramolecular Control in Synthesis and Discovery Processes	McGill/UdeM/Sherbrooke/Concordia
May 11/12, 2010	Prof. Christopher Murray U. of Pennsylvania	TBA	McGill/UdeM

Scientist-in-Residence Program

Professor Stephen Hyde from Australian National University in Canberra will be around for at least 6 months (Feb-July) as a CSACS visiting scientist.
Host by Prof. Suzanne Giasson, his principal aim is to finish writing a couple of books on fundamentals of structures of crystalline networks and space partitions. The work builds on studies of structure using 2D hyperbolic geometry. It is relevant to framework compounds and liquid crystals and is a structural outgrowth of an earlier book "The Language of Shape".
In addition, He plans to work with Dr. Suzanne Giasson on the formation of liquid crystalline membranes in vivo (so-called "cubic membranes"), in a collaborative project with Dr. Yuru Deng in Singapore.

Speciality: Theoretical Physics; self-assembly of complex molecular structures; nanoscience. He pioneered the application of non-Euclidean geometry to two-dimensional problems of membranes and crystal development.

Student Scholarships

For more information and options please contact your supervisor or CSACS director .

FQRNT International Internships for graduate students: $15,000 (max)

All the info can be found on the FQRNT web page.
>>Briefly:
We can submit up to four applications which will evaluated by the CSACS selection committee. This program is only funded until March 31, 2010 but may be renewed depending on its success. Remember that we are establishing formal links with two international research clusters for student/research exchanges so internships with these researcher groups are encouraged: Europe and NY-USA

Scholarship supplements for MSc and Ph.D. students:

We have budgeted for 4 students per yr. Provides scholarship funding for graduate students working on CSACS interuniversity collaborations. To apply, please have the student send in a C.V., a transcript and a 1-2 page description of the proposed research.