In 2019, the Graham Lecture will be awarded to Professor Wilson Poon of the University of Edinburgh. Organised by the SCI's Colloid & Surface Chemistry Group and RSC's Colloid & Interface Science Group this meeting will be of interest to both industrial and academic researchers, particularly those from colloid chemistry, soft matter physics and chemical engineering backgrounds working with suspensions. The Graham Lecture is awarded, biennially, to a scientist
In this summer evening demonstration at the Edinburgh New Town Cookery School, Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne, Founder of Genius Foods, and Dr Paul Clegg, a soft materials physicist at Edinburgh University, will be inviting the audience to join them in investigating how sauces and dressings are constructed and how this construction can go very wrong.
Come and dance the Biofilm Riverside Jig along with traditional ceilidh dances you know & love!
This is a ceilidh with a twist: some of the dances will have been designed by our own physicists, to illustrate their research or physics concepts they love. With the award-winning Science Ceilidh Band playing live, it promises to be a fun evening!
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, John Hope Gateway, Arboretum Place, Edinburgh EH3 5LR
We will join a magical event at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, inspired by the "Harry Potter: A History of Magic" festival.
Put your wizard cloak on, and come and join us for a number of classes specially tailored for wanna-be wizards! As you might have guessed, we will be showing the science behind potions and alchemy. We look forward to seeing you at this fantastic event!
After a successful session about the Physics of Afternoon Tea (the 9th October), where our reserachears Keith Bromley and Marion Roullet introduced enthusiastic audience members to the physics behind dairy products, scones, jams and tea, we'll be back at the Cafe at Pentland Plants Garden Centre the 16th, showing how microscopic structures of chocolate affect its taste and look. We'll end our contributions to the fantastic Midlothian Science Festival by an activity for children, "Soft Matter Kingdom", in IKEA (Straiton) the 18th from 3 to 5pm.
Erskine Williamson Building, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh
ECFP present an event to bring together industrial and academic researchers to celebrate and share the results of our EPSRC funded Programme Grant on 'Design Principles for New Soft Materials'. This has included adventurous research on the behaviour of microorganisms in complex fluids and on harvesting functional ingredients from biological materials. We look forward to sharing ideas and development opportunities with scientists from academic and industrial backgrounds.
ECFP was delighted to co-host a hackathon with the energy company Engie and Launch.ed during the University's Festival of Creative Learning week. The day brought together 18 students with experienced scientists across the College of Science and Engineering and trainers in entrepreneurship. In the morning the group split into teams and brainstormed, then converged on ideas and developed a pitch presentation.
The SOFI CDT are holding their third Industry Day. Designed to link togther industry with the centre's academic expertise the meeting will include presentations and to opportunity for one to one meetings between industrialists and academics. For more information and to register see the event website.
ECFP are helping to orgainise Innovations in Encapsulation. Organised by the RSC Formulation Science and Technology Group, this one day meeting will hightlight new techniques in encapsulation.
CSEC, Erskine Williamson Building, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh
On April 27th, Edinburgh Complex Fluids Partnership, together with Interface, jointly hosted a workshop on the flow and stability of complex formulations. This second workshop of the Scottish Formulation Network brough together academic and industry participants to discuss how structure and interactions in multicomponent mixtures control stability and flow properties.
CSEC, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Building Campus, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ
On Tuesday 8th September, ECFP will host Informulation2015, an event that will bring together academic and industry participants to encourage collaboration for future projects. We will explore how function, structure, interactions and dynamics in complex mixtures can lead to informed design for future formulations.
On Sunday 8th of March researchers from ECFP ran an interactive workshop at the Dunbar SciFest. Around 400 people visited the Soft Matter in Action stand and played with demonstrations highlighting the research from the group, including our ever popular vat of cornstarch in water as a model non-Newtonian fluid. Visitors also made edible gel capsules, investigated viscous coiling, and met our collection of fluffy microbes.
Dr Vincent Martinez and Dr Jochen Arlt will join eminent scientists and speakers at the Royal Society of Edinburgh to celebrate the launch of the International Year of Light. They will showcase modern light microscopy techniques used to image swimmers at the microscale, such as swimming bacteria and self-propelled synthetic colloids. They will show how light can be used to control their swimming abilities and create spatial patterns at the microscopic level.
Pretend that you are a consultant working with companies to help them solve challenges with product manufacture and innovation. Dr Job Thijssen, Prof. Alex Lips and Dr. Tiffany Wood of the Edinburgh Complex Fluids Partnership will provide insight into what it is like to work with companies through quasi-'real-life' case studies. Find out more from the ILW brochure.
ECFP is scheduled to present an Interactive Formulation Science workshop at the Natural Product Biotechnology conference in Inverness this November to illustrate key concepts through live experimental demonstrations and promote networking. This is a significant new conference for people with interests in high value natural products, their application in drug discovery, foods and nutraceuticals, personal care products and cosmeceuticals, and other biotech applications.
James Clerk Maxwell Building, University of Edinburgh
Researchers introduced over 300 people to the delights of soft matter as part of Doors Open Day on Saturday 27th September 2014. This city wide event allows members of the public to see behind the scenes of building across Edinburgh. At the JCMB, visitors were able to see the rheo-imaging set up in action, visit the food science preparation laboratory, and see examples of active soft matter in the form of bacteria and Janus particles.
On the 12th of September ECFP members Dr Tiffany Wood, Dr Anne Pawsey and CM-DTC student Katherine Rumble will join the Scottish Food and Drink Federation to share the excitement of food science with school pupils who attend Eat Drink Discover Scotland. We will use hands on experiments to highlight their research and explain how complex fluids are important in foods.