Kelly Kilpin

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Experimental Design: An Essential Skill for Chemists II

December 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry, London
An event aimed at promoting the education and deployment of Statistical Methods and Principle Component Analysis in Academia. Hear about progress since the May meeting, evaluate options for funding and implementation of a Statistical methods programme for chemists and refine plans for the next steps

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Computational Prediction of Reaction Outcomes and Optimum Synthetic Routes

September 2014, Leeds
We are now living and working in an information age – but is synthetic chemistry taking full advantage of the large amounts of experimental data routinely available and the computing power available to enrich and manipulate it?

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Meeting Report: ‘Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century: The role of 3D Printing’

Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century: The Role of 3D Printing: Find the highlights from the meeting here

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Dial-a-Molecule Annual Meeting

The Dial-a-Molecule Annual Meeting was held on 9th & 10th July at the University of Birmingham, check back soon for a report on the highlights of the meeting.

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Experimental Design – An Essential Skill for Chemists

May 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry, London
The first in a series of events aimed at promoting the education and deployment of statistical methods in chemistry research

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Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century – The Role of 3D Printing

April 2014, CMAC Nottingham
An opportunity to learn about 3D printing technologies and applications both from a chemistry and engineering perspective, and discuss issues and limitations in the area

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Liberating Laboratory Data

January 2014, AstraZeneca
A meeting to establish the current state of the art in facilitating the automated capture and use of laboratory data and discuss a open data description for ELNs.

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elnItemManifest – A metadata schema for accessing and processing ELN records

In order to exploit the vast body of currently inaccessible chemical information held in Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) it is necessary not only to make it available but also to develop protocols for discovery, access and ultimately automatic processing. The ability to draw on the body of accumulated chemical knowledge in order to predict or …

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X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy: New Insights at the Interface Between Homogeneous, Heterogeneous and Hybrid Catalysis

September 2013, STFC RAL
Sponsored by Dial-a-Molecule and the UK Catalysis Hub, this two-day symposium will discuss the application of X-ray methods to accelerating synthetic research in the remit of the Dial-a-Molecule Grand Challenge goals.

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Dial-a-Molecule submits response to BIS

On 17th May the Dial-a-Molecule Executive Group submitted a statement to BIS in response to Prof. Sir John O’Reilly’s invite for comments on key priorities for the spending review FY 2015/2016.  In this letter the following key recommendations were made: Continue support for science and research through protection of the research budget and related capital …

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