Month: September 2017

75th. Chemistry-UVa

Category : General News

The Faculty of Sciences will organize several events to commemorate the 75 anniversary of the first full Chemistry Degrees at the UVa. Despite the Faculty of Sciences was first established in 1857, it was later reorganized in 1923 and only in 1942 the first 5-year Chemistry program was concluded. The events will include an exhibition honoring Marie Curie (September 21-October 20, 2017) and a series of conferences next November 15th.

 


HBOND-2017

The XXII Horizons in Hydrogen Bonding Research conference was organized by the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) last September 10-14, 2017. The meeteing attracted a wide range of researchers interested in theoretical and experimental aspects related to hydrogen bonding. Alberto Lesarri presented an oral talk and two posters at the conference. Two meetings in Finland this year …

In the pictures below the conference photo, one of our posters and the Helsinki Senate square.


Cassini

Category : General News

The Cassini spacecraft was destroyed into Saturn atmosphere after more than 13 years orbiting the planet. A selection of 100 wonderful pictures of the mission was published by NYT. In his time in Saturn’s orbit Cassini found liquid methane-ethane lakes in Titan (1-100 km width) and  water-rich jets coming out of Enceladus south pole, among other discoveries. We will miss the robot.

Below a diagram of Titan’s atmospheric chemistry and Enceladus’ jets.