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23 and 24 April 2007 Discussion Meeting at the Royal Society
Organiser: Professor James Barber FRS (Imperial College London) and Dr Alfred Rutherford (CEA Saclay)
Synopsis
This multidisciplinary meeting will discuss the latest developments in our understanding of how plants and other types of photsythetic organisms use sunlight to split water into oxygen and reducing equivalents, a reaction which underpins virtually all life on our planet. In recent years considerable details of this chemically difficult reaction have been revealed and is providing a 'blue print' for designing new green technologies for direct photochemical generation of hydrogen from water, a goal which could have significant impact on solving problems of future energy demands and global climate change.
Speakers
Professor Fraser Armstrong; Professor James Barber FRS; Professor Victor Batista; Dr Alain Boussac; Professor David Britt; Professor Gary Budvig; Professor George Christou; Professor Holger Dau; Professor Richard Debus; Professor Bruce Diner; Professor Charles Dismukes; Professor Leslie Dutton FRS; Professor Leif Hammarstrom; Dr Warwick Hillier; Professor Wolfgang Junge; Dr Johannes Messinger; Professor Daniel Nocera; Professor Takumi Noguchi; Professor Vincent Pecoraro; Professor Per Seigbahn; Dr Alfred Rutherford; Professor Vittal Yachandra |