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

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CHEM 634: Andreas Ruediger comes to talk about Complex oxide materials.

To the new CSACS students

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

Classes and Workshops

CHEM 634

Everyone is welcome! If you would like to attend some of the lectures and you not registered, you need to send us an email to reserve your spot and specify the date, since the spaces are limited.

Friday from 9:05am to 11:55am, in Pulp and Paper Building room 113,at McGill U.

Speakers and course notes
Date	Speaker	Subject	Affiliation
Jan. 13	Tomislav Friscic	Solid state synthesis of molecular materials	McGill Chem
Jan. 20	Amy Blum	Molecular Electronics and SPM	CSACS McGill Chem
Jan. 27	Bruce Lennox	Self-Assembled Monolayers	CSACS McGill Chem
Feb. 3	Marta Cerruti	XPS	CSACS McGill Mater. Eng.
Feb. 17	Pat Kambhampati	Quantum Dots	McGill Chem
Feb. 24	Andreas Ruediger	Complex oxide materials	INRS
March 2	Mark Andrews	Photonics materials	CSACS McGill Chem
March 9 starts at 9:30	Thomas Szkopek	Graphene	McGill Electr. Eng.
March 16	Dima Perepichka	Organic Photovoltaics	CSACS McGill Chem
March 23	Janine Mauzeroll	Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy	CSACS McGill Chem
March 30	Hanadi Sleiman	Self-assembly of biomolecules	CSACS McGill Chem
April 6	Adi Eisenberg	Diblock copolymers	CSACS McGill Chem

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

2011/2012 Seminars

Sept. 13/14, 2011	Prof. Will Dichtel , Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.	Bottom-up Synthesis of Structurally Precise 2D and 3D Organic Materials	McGill /UdeM
Sept. 20/21 2011	Prof. Vicki Meli , Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB.	Adventures in Interfacial Self-Assembly: from Nanoparticles to Liquid Crystals	McGill/Concordia
Sept. 26/27/28, 2011	Prof. Paul Weiss , UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.	Designing, Measuring, and Controlling Molecular and Supramolecular Devices	McGill /INRS/UdeM
Oct 17/18/19, 2011	Prof. Sergiy Minko Clarkson University,Potsdam, NY	Stimuli-Responsive Nanostructured Materials: Design and Applications	Sherbrooke/ McGill /UdeM
Nov. 1/2, 2011	Prof. Elias Vlieg Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands	Chiral purification using crystal growth and grinding	Concordia/UdeM
Nov. 30/Dec. 1, 2011	Prof. Michael Drain Hunter College of CUNY, NY, NY.	Commercially Viable Dyes and Self-Organized Films for Photonics Applications	UdeM/Sherbrooke
Feb. 27/28/29, 2012	Prof. Francesco Stellacci Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	From Nano- to Bio-Interfaces, Lessons Learned	INRS/ McGill /UdeM

Student Scholarships

For more information and options please contact your supervisor or Yves Dory , the chair of a scholarship selection committee.

1. 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.
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2. FQRNT International Internships for graduate students: $15,000 (max)

Four such internships were awarded to CSACS students in 2008-2010, who worked in research teams abroad, for period ranging from 2 to 12 months.
Four more scholarships are available for CSACS students in 2010-2013. One was already awarded to Ori Gidron from Weizmann Institute of Science (Tel-Aviv, Israel) who worked in Prof. Perepichka lab for two months in summer 2011. CSACS still has three scholarships to be granted. Those interested are invited to consult the rules .
>>> >>> To apply <<< <<<

3. Summer undergraduate research scholarships: $4000 (plus travel expenses for non-Quebec students)

We have budgeted for 5-6 students per yr. This program is also eligible for foreign and Canadian students. Please see the list of projects for the year, 2012 and the complete procedure on how to apply. Applications to be submitted on or before Feb.16.
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Other 2012 Projects
Supervisors	Title
Cuccia/Hannan	Auto-assemblage des complexes de métaux à l'interface liquide-solide.
Dory/Cuccia	Auto-assemblage des réseaux de liaison-H à l'interface liquide-solide.
Cerruti/Wilkinson	Nucleation and growth of hydroxyapatite nanoparticles.
Skene/Cosa	Fluorimetric studies of novel fluorophores covalently bonded to transparent substrates.
More to come!

Encouraging Commercializable Outcomes (ECO) Grants

We are opening the call for proposals for the ECO program. This program supports short-term projects (duration of maximum 1 year, non renewable) to conduct research directed towards the transition of a research project to industry. The proposal should lead to advances, which will be attractive for potential industrial partners. The outcome of the 1-year project may include a declaration of invention, filing of a patent, or application for a strategic or I2I grants (or similar grant with industrial partners).
The proposals are due by January 15th 2012 , and consist of a cover letter and a 2-page proposal.

Purpose: To fund 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).
>>> How to apply
>>> Cover page application