Public Special Events

(List in chronological Order)

2018-02-09 Bestowal Ceremony of the Clara Immerwahr Award 2018 announcement (PDF)

2017-12-08 Gerhard Ertl Lecture 2017 Prof. Ben L. Feringa: "From Molecules to Dynamic Molecular Systems" announcement (PDF)

2017-10-23 BBAW / UniCat FEUER, RAUCH UND ASCHE: DIE SPRACHE DES KOCHENS IM SPIEGEL DER SPRACHE DER CHEMIE announcement (PDF)

2017-02-10 Bestowal Ceremony of the Clara Immerwahr Award 2017: Laudatio: Prof. Dr. Martin Kaupp; Awardee: Dr. Sandra Luber, Zurich University: "In Silico Investigation and Design of Bio-inspired Catalysts for Water Splitting" announcement (PDF)

2016-12-09 Gerhard Ertl Lecture 2016 Prof. J. Peter Toennies: "Enigmatic Molecules of Helium and Molecules in Enigmatic Helium" announcement (PDF)

2016-02-12 Bestowal Ceremony of the Clara Immerwahr Award 2016: Laudatio: Prof. Dr. Thomas Braun; Awardee: Dr. Rebecca Melen announcement (PDF)

2015-12-04 Gerhard Ertl Lecture 2015 Prof. Maki Kawai: "Electron dynamics of molecules at surfaces" announcement (PDF)

2015-02-13 Bestowal Ceremony of the Clara Immerwahr Award 2015: Laudatio: Prof. Christian Limberg (HU) ; Awardee: Dr. Anna Company Casadevall, University of Girona, Spain: "Selective ortho-hydroxylation-defluorination of 2 fluorophenolates with bis(µ-oxo)dicopper(III) species" announcement (PDF)

2014-12-10 Gerhard Ertl Lecture 2014 Awardee: Prof. Richard Catlow: "Computer modelling as a tool in surface and catalytic science" announcement (PDF)

2014-10-10 Concert for and with Nobel Laureate Gerhard Ertl Concert by UniCat, the "Universität der Künste Berlin" and the "Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung" announcement (PDF)

2014-07-09 Inauguration Opening Ceremony of BasCat, the UniCat BASF Joint Lab at TU Berlin announcement (PDF)

2014-02-21 Bestowal Ceremony of the Clara Immerwahr Award 2014: Laudatio: Prof. Silke Leimkühler (UP) ; Awardee: Dr. Teresa Santos-Silva, Center for Biotechnology and Fine Chemicals, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal : "X-ray Crystallography for the Characterisation of Molybdenum Protei announcement (PDF)

2013-12-10 Gerhard Ertl Lecture 2013 Awardee: Prof. John T. Yates, Jr., Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA: "Photochemical Processes on TiO2 Semiconductor Surfaces and in Astronomical Ices in Deep Space" announcement (PDF)

2013-02-11 Bestowal Ceremony of the Clara Immerwahr Award 2013: Laudatio: Prof. Reinhard Schomäcker (TUB); Awardee: Dr. Jennifer K. Edwards, Cardiff University, UK: "Highly selective Catalysts for hydrogen peroxide synthesis" ;Guest lecture of Prof. Dr. Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, Universitä announcement (PDF)

2012-12-10 Gerhard Ertl Lecture 2012 Awardee: Prof. Charles T. Campbell, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA: "Energetics in heterogeneous catalysis: Adsorbed intermediates and active sites in catalytic nanomaterials" announcement (PDF)

2012-12-05 Science on Stage Dramatic Reading Performance by UniCat, the "Universität der Künste Berlin" and the "Einstein-Stiftung Berlin" of the Theater Play "Killerblume" (orig.:"Insufficiency") by Prof. Carl Djerassi announcement (PDF)

2012-10-08 Opening Ceremony of the Gerhard Ertl Center with lectures of Prof. erem. Gerhard Ertl (FHI of the MPG Berlin), Prof. Matthias Driess (TU Berlin), Prof. Daniel G. Nocera (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) and Prof. Karl O. Stetter (University of Regensburg, Germany a announcement (PDF)

2012-04-24 Lecture of and interview with Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin: "Powering the Future" - Moderation: Gerald Traufetter from the weekly journal 'Der Spiegel' announcement (PDF)

2012-02-10 Public Bestowal Ceremony Clara Immerwahr Award 2012: Awardee Dr. Kylie Vincent, University of Oxford, UK: "Driving chemical reactions with dihydrogen: insights into biocatalysis and its applications in energy cycling and chemical synthesis" and special guest lec announcement (PDF)

2011-12-09 Celebration Event Final Ceremony for the International Year of Chemistry with Dramatic Reading Performance of the Theater Play "Oxygen" in German Language directed by Isabella Gregor - Both authors of the play, Prof. Roald Hoffmann and Prof. Carl Djerassi will attend the e announcement (PDF)

2011-12-08 Gerhard Ertl Lecture 2011 Awardee: Prof. Roald Hoffmann, Baker Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaka, NY, USA: "The Chemical Imagination at Work in Very Tight Places" announcement (PDF)

2011-09-24 Open house Presentation of UniCat at the open house in the Department of Chemistry - More information will follow soon announcement coming soon

2010-12-10 Gerhard Ertl Lecture 2010 Awardee: Prof. Sir John M. Thomas, Cambridge, UK: "Unifying Thoughts on Single-Site Catalysis" announcement (PDF)

2010-12-01 UniCat Application Seminar Lectures within the appeal procedure for filling the Junior Research Group Leader - "Theoretical Bioinorganic Chemistry" announcement (PDF)

2010-10-27 Popular Science Lectures Fuel cell day: experiments, talks and test-driving fuel cell cars - Public event in German language announcement (PDF)

2009-12-10 Gerhard Ertl Lecture 2009 Awardee: Prof. Jens K. Nørskov, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark announcement (PDF)

2009-01-12 until 2009-01-16 UniCat Application Seminar Lectures within the appeal procedure for filling the W3-Professorship "Theoretical Chemistry - Quantum Chemistry" announcement (PDF)

2008-12-10 Gerhard Ertl Lecture 2008 Awardee: Prof. Gabor A. Somorjai, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley: "Molecular Foundations of Heterogeneous Metal Catalysis" announcement (PDF)

2008-05-30 Opening Ceremony Inauguation of the Cluster of Excellence UniCat announcement (PDF)

2008-05-29 UniCat Application Seminar Lectures within the appeal procedure for filling the W1-Junior Professorship "Modellierung biomolekularer Systeme" announcement (PDF)

2008-05-21 until 2008-05-23 UniCat Application Seminar Lectures within the appeal procedure for filling the W3-Professorship "Biocatalysis" announcement (PDF)

2008-05-05 UniCat Application Seminar Minisymoisum within the appeal procedure for filling the W3-Professorship "Strukturbiologie" announcement (PDF)

2008-04-03 until 2008-04-04 UniCat Application Seminar Applicant's Talks within the appeal procedure for filling the W3-Professorship "Functional Materials" : "Structural Analysis in Modern biochemical research" announcement (PDF)