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NMR crystallography Faraday Discussion

4 - 6 September 2024, Birmingham, United Kingdom


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Introduction

Welcome

Join us in Birmingham in September 2024 for this addition to our Faraday Discussion series. With over a century of history and more than 300 meetings, Faraday Discussions have been at the forefront of the physical sciences and many Discussions have become landmark meetings in their field.
 
The unique format of the Faraday Discussions will allow for in-depth discussions of emerging computational and experimental methods in the field of NMR crystallography, as well as the current limitations and challenges that need to be overcome to broaden applications to increasingly complex materials.
 
On behalf of the scientific committee, we look forward to welcoming you to Birmingham.

John Griffin and Andrew Morris
Co-Chairs

Format

Faraday Discussions have a special format where primary research papers written by the speakers are distributed to all participants before the meeting, and most of the meeting is devoted to discussing the papers. All delegates at the meeting, not just speakers, have the opportunity to make comments, ask questions, or present complementary or contradictory measurements and calculations during the discussion sessions. In addition, there is a dedicated poster session where further discussion takes place. The research papers and a record of the discussion are published in the journal Faraday Discussions.

Themes

Big Data and Simulations in NMR Crystallography
This session will cover recent advances and ongoing challenges in computational simulations of large and/or complex systems in NMR crystallography. Topics covered will include machine learning for large datasets and statistical methods for NMR calculations of complex structures. Discussion in this session will cover the merits and limitations of computationally cheap approaches in comparison to conventional DFT methods, and the usefulness of these approaches in different types of material systems.
 
Challenges and Opportunities for NMR Calculations
This session will focus on developments in NMR calculation methods for systems that are challenging to study by conventional DFT approaches. Topics covered will include the calculation of NMR parameters for magnetic and conducting systems, relativistic contributions for heavy atoms, and the use and development of semi-empirical dispersion correction schemes. The discussion will cover strategies to address the current limitations of DFT, and what level of accuracy we can expect from new computational approaches.
 
Generating Models that Describe Complex Disorder
This session will focus on disorder, which is ubiquitous across physical chemistry and can be present as both positional disorder (e.g., glasses, polymers) and compositional disorder (e.g., defects, substitutions, partial occupancies). The discussion will cover current and future developments in methods for generating models for disorder in increasingly complex materials, as well as methods for statistical analysis of the outputs of such models.
 
Understanding Dynamics and Mechanisms

This session will cover the effects of dynamics and structural evolution on observables in NMR crystallography, and how these can be modelled computationally and accurately measured experimentally. The discussion will cover NMR methods for measuring dynamics and structural evolution, and the scope for using large-scale simulations to predict and model these effects over a wide range of timescales.
Speakers
Lyndon Emsley (Introductory lecture), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Lyndon Emsley is a professor of Chemistry at EPFL, where he mostly develops NMR spectroscopy. His work focuses on the development of solid-state NMR methodology for the determination of atomic-scale molecular structures, and the application of those techniques to a wide variety of systems, including pharmaceuticals, crystals, molecules on surfaces, hybrid inorganic structures, and amorphous materials.


Sharon Ashbrook (Closing remarks lecture), University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Sharon Ashbrook is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of St Andrews UK. Born in Liverpool, she completed an MChem (1997) and DPhil (2001) at the University of Oxford, before being awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship in 2003 which she held at the University of Cambridge. From October 2005, she was appointed as an RCUK Academic Fellow in the School of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews, and was promoted to Reader in 2009 and Professor in 2013. Her research concerns the application of NMR crystallography to investigate structure, disorder and chemical reactivity in inorganic solids, and she has published over 200 papers in this area. She was awarded the RSC Harrison Prize (2004), Marlow Awrad (2011), Corday Morgan Prize (2015) and Bourke-Liversidge Award (2021), and the RSE MakDougall Brisbane Medal (2012) and Lord Kelvin Prize (2023). She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and previously held a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. She has an interest in the promotion of women in STEM, co-authoring booklets entitled Academic Women Now (2016) and Academic Women Here (2018). She was awarded a Suffrage Science Award in 2017. She sits on the Facility Executive of the UK High-Field NMR Facility, and is on the working group of the EPSRC CCP-NC.


Greg Beran, University of California, Riverside, United States

Greg Beran is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, where he focuses on the quantum chemical modeling of organic molecular crystals, including the development of electronic structure methods for describing non-covalent interactions, crystal structure prediction, and the calculation of NMR chemical shifts.


Thibault Charpentier, CEA Paris-Saclay, France

Dr. Thibault Charpentier is Research Director at CEA Paris-Saclay since 2008. His research interests span NMR theory, development of NMR methodologies and studies of nuclear waste materials such as glasses and cements. His current research focuses on developing computational methodologies based on DFT, Machine Learning and Molecular Dynamics for modeling NMR experiments of materials from first principles.


Christel Gervais, Sorbonne Université, France

Christel Gervais is professor at Sorbonne Université in Paris since 2011. Her research activities are centered on solid state NMR spectroscopy for the characterization of a wide range of materials including nitride- or oxide-based structures and hybrid systems exhibiting an interface between an inorganic surface and (bio)organic molecules. She combines this experimental approach with DFT calculations of NMR parameters.


Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Andrew Goodwin is Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Oxford. He studied at the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge. His research focuses on understanding and exploiting the dual roles of flexibility and disorder in functional materials. He and his team specialise in the development and application of diffuse scattering methods, which provide an experimental window into the atomic-scale structures of disordered solids. Andrew has used these approaches to resolve the nature of complexity in a range of different systems of both fundamental and technological importance.


Gillian Goward, McMaster University, Canada

Gillian R. Goward is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at McMaster University in Canada. Her research team focuses on characterizing the structure and exchange dynamics in materials for energy storage devices including Lithium-, Sodium- and Zinc- Ion Batteries.  Characterization strategies implemented by the group include solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, diffusometry and imaging methods. Our collaborative projects focus on the use of operando detection and quantification of lithium metal plating in LIBs using electrochemical, magnetic resonance imaging, and spectroscopic methods.


Celine Merlet, Toulouse-Paul Sabatier, France

Céline Merlet is a CNRS researcher at Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse. She received her PhD in 2013, in Paris, for her work on molecular simulations of supercapacitors. She then joined the University of Cambridge as a postdoctoral researcher working on simulating NMR spectra and diffusion of ions in energy storage materials such as porous carbons and lithium manganese oxides. Since 2017, she has been working on the development of multi-scale models for a better understanding and performance prediction of electrochemical systems.


Len Mueller, University of California, Riverside, United States

Len Mueller is Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside. His research is centered on integrative approaches that combine solid-state NMR with diffraction and computation to probe molecular and biomolecular structure and function. Applications from his lab span from materials science and photomechanical materials to structural biology and enzyme active sites.


  • Jonathan Yates University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Abstract submission

Oral abstracts

Oral abstract submission is now closed.
A full research paper containing new unpublished results always accompanies oral presentations at Faraday Discussions. 

Papers must be full research papers with a significant amount of new, unpublished work. The research papers are reviewed upon submission and are sent to all delegates 4 weeks before the meeting so they can be read in advance. At the meeting the presenting author is allowed five minutes to highlight the main points of their paper, and the rest of the time is for discussion. The discussion is recorded and will be published alongside the research paper in the Faraday Discussion Volume

Poster abstracts

Poster abstract submission is now closed.
Posters are displayed throughout the meeting and a poster session is held on the first evening. The poster prize will be awarded to the best poster presented by a student at the conference. 

Additional information

All oral and poster abstracts will be reviewed by the committee. Authors will be notified of the outcome of the review process within about 6 weeks of the submission deadline. The abstracts should be no longer than one A4 page in portrait layout. Please ensure you provide the details of the presenting author and indicate whether you are submitting an abstract for oral or poster presentation.
Registration
In-person registration includes:
  • Attendance at all scientific sessions
  • Attendance at the poster session
  • Refreshments throughout the meeting and lunch on all three days
  • Attendance at the poster drinks reception on 4 September
  • Attendance at the conference dinner on 5 September
  • Access to all journal paper pdf “pre-prints” before the meeting
  • Access to recordings of all scientific sessions post-event
  • For full paying delegates, a copy of the Faraday Discussion journal volume, issued approximately 5 months after the meeting, containing all papers presented at the meeting and accompanying discussion comments. Student delegates may purchase a copy of the volume at less than half price, during the registration process or on site at the meeting.
Please note accommodation is not included in the registration fee.

All prices quoted do not include VAT, which is added during registration at the prevailing rate in the UK
 
Early bird Standard
RSC member £415+Vat £465+Vat
Non-member £530+Vat £580+Vat
Student RSC member £205+Vat £255+Vat
Student non-member £255+Vat £305+Vat
Accompanying person £125+Vat £125+Vat

Virtual registration includes:
  • ​Live access to all scientific sessions
  • Access to all journal paper pdf “pre-prints” before the meeting
  • Access to recordings of all scientific sessions post-event
All prices quoted do not include VAT, which is added during registration at the prevailing rate in the UK
 
Standard
RSC member £130+Vat
Non-member £155+Vat
Student RSC member £70+Vat
Student non-member £95+Vat

A copy of the Faraday Discussion journal volume containing papers presented at the Discussion (issued approximately 5 months after the meeting) is not included in the virtual registration fee. Delegates may purchase a copy of the volume at less than half price, during the registration process or on site at the meeting. 

RSC members and student RSC members

If you are a member and wish to register for this meeting, please select the member option on the online registration page. You will need to enter your membership number.

Non-member and student non-members

For non-member registrants, affiliate membership of the until the end of 2024 is available, the affiliate membership application will be processed and commence once the registrant has attended the event. 

Student delegates 

In order to encourage undergraduate or postgraduate students to attend the Discussion, a reduced conference fee is available for students. This fee applies to those undertaking a full-time course for a recognised degree or a diploma at a university or equivalent institution.

A copy of the Faraday Discussion journal volume containing papers presented at the Discussion (issued approximately 5 months after the meeting) is not included in the student registration fee. Students may purchase a copy of the volume at less than half price, during the registration process or on site at the meeting.

Accompanying person

If you would like to bring a guest to the conference, this can be done during the registration process. There will be an additional charge, which will include all lunches, refreshments and the conference dinner. The fee does not include attendance at any scientific sessions, journal paper pre-prints or the journal volume.

Accessibility

The is keen to encourage and enable as many people as possible to attend our events, to benefit from the networking opportunities and the chance to hear talks from leaders in the field. If you would like to discuss accessibility, or have childcare, caring responsibilities or other care needs, please contact us to discuss your requirements so that we can enable your attendance. Please refer also to our Grants for carers fund; for more information please see the ‘bursaries’ section on this page.

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Bursaries

Collaborative Computational Project for NMR Crystallography (CCP-NC) travel grants

Travel grants for students and early career researchers to attend the meeting are available from the Collaborative Computational Project for NMR Crystallography (CCP-NC). For further information, please follow the CCP-NC link on this page.

ConnectNMRUK 

Funding for students and early career researchers to attend the meeting are available from the ConnectNMRUK network. For further information, please follow the ConnectNMRUK link on this page.

Grants for carers

With our Grants for carers, you can apply for up to £1,200 per year to help you attend a chemistry-related meeting, conference or workshop or a professional development event. This money would be used to cover any additional costs you incur, paying for care that you usually provide.  Please visit the website for further information and eligibility criteria.

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With our Accessibility grants, you can apply for up to £1,200 per year to help with the cost of specific support to attend a chemistry-related meeting, conference, workshop or professional development event. This support might be any form of equipment, service, or other personal expense associated with meeting your access needs.

Researcher development grant

If you are an RSC member and you are one of the following:a PhD student actively undertaking a PhD course in the chemical sciences;
a researcher in the chemical sciences (including post docs, research technicians and research assistants), working in academia, industry or any sector, within 10 years of leaving full time education (at the time of the application deadline).You can apply for up to £500 to support your participation in this event.

Please note it is not necessary to have confirmation of abstract acceptance before applying for a Researcher Development and Travel Grant and we encourage you to apply as early as possible.
 
Please see the website for up-to-date information on eligibility, how to apply and submission deadlines.
 
Researcher Development and Travel Grants can be applied for in addition to Grants for Carers and Assistance Grants.

Sponsorship & supporting organisations
There are opportunities available to become a Faraday Discussion sponsor and exhibitor, as well as poster session and abstract book advertising options. A sponsorship menu document is available to download from this page with more details and prices. Sponsorship Menu
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Alan Walters Building

Alan Walters Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom

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