The four speakers will talk about their current research in a special event honouring Dr Yusuf Hamied with the department's first ever Alumni Medal in the Wolfson Theatre beginning at 2:30 pm.  The Vice-Chancellor of the University will also give a brief talk and present the award to Dr Hamied "for services to the community which have brought honour to the Department of Chemistry."

The order of the day will be:

2.30 – 2.45
Prof John Pyle
Head of Department
Chemistry:  Making a world of difference 

2.45 – 3.00
Prof Christopher Abell
University of Cambridge Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research
One of the two cultures 

3.00 – 3.15
Prof Christopher Dobson
John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology
Making a difference to Alzheimer’s 

3.15 – 3.30
Prof Clare Grey
Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Chemistry

Recharging the planet

3.30 – 3.40

Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
How Cambridge alumni have made a difference in the world

3.40 – 3.45
Presentation of the medal

3.45 – 3.55
Dr Yusuf Hamied
Cambridge days and life post-Cambridge

3.55 
Closing remarks and unveiling of Alumni Medal plaque

4.00
Reception for invited guests and all academics in the Todd-Hamied room