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2009

Director Appointment

Dr Jeremy A. L. Rabone has been appointed a Director of Four Delta Consulting Ltd. as of March. Jeremy brings with him a wealth of experience in chemical computation and modelling. In the coming months Jeremy will post a gallery of examples of molecular modelling followed by "how to" demonstrations using Four Delta's Molview software.

The Chemical and Industrial Consultants Association

Senior Consultant Dr Kenneth Rabone is now a member of CICA, The Chemical and Industrial Consultants Association).

Source Code Available

Four Delta has made the Java source code for the Lorentz 3D demonstration freely available. The code is primarily intended as a demonstration of writing Java 3D programs, with possible educational use. Please feel free to contact us if you have any comments or questions.

2008

Transferable Skills Course

Four Delta has again delivered a series of seminars on Transferable skills to a Master Of Research Course at the University of Liverpool. "How to survive as a Middle Manager" (2007) has been augmented by "Statistics and the Middle Manager". The additional seminars do not attempt to teach statistics as such but rather aim to inculcate an awareness of how statistics might be of help in a future career. In particular, the seminars highlight what statistical techniques are available and when to involve a professional statistician. The seminars concluded with advice on the importance of design before experimentation for effectiveness and economy. (NB If this approach is of interest to your business, please contact us.)

Surfactants Course

Four Delta has designed and delivered a course on surfactants appropriate to the Master of Research Course on the Physical Analysis of Biological Interactions on Surfaces at the University of Liverpool.

Congratulations!

Four Delta congratulates Associate Jeremy Rabone on the award of a PhD. Jeremy was admitted to the Degree of Philosophiae Doctor by the Master, Professor David S Latchman, at a ceremony of Birkbeck College, London, on 5th November 2008 for a thesis entitled "Molecular Dynamics of Fission Track Annealing in Apatite Minerals". Jeremy is continuing to use massively parallel computer architecture for chemical modelling at the University of Liverpool in the Department of Chemistry as a Postdoctoral Fellow in association with Professor Matt Rosseinsky, FRS.

2007

Transferable Skills Course

Four Delta has designed and delivered a series of seminars on Transferable Skills to a Master of Research Course run jointly by the Department of Physics and Biosciences at the University of Liverpool. Inspired by the book "Surviving as a Middle Manager" by Michael Broussine and Yvonne Guerrier (1983), the seminars were well-received by the graduate students in preparation for their future careers

Complexity, Science and Society

The long-awaited book taken from the proceedings of the the Conference in 2005 has now been published (edited by Jan Bogg and Robert Geyer, Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford)

2005

Complexity, Science and Society Conference

Four Delta ran a subject group at the 2005 conference on Complexity, Science and Society hosted at the University of Liverpool. The presentations and demonstration software are available to download from the links at the bottom.

2004

Galway FOAF Workshop

Four Delta attended the 2004 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the Semantic Web hosted at the National University of Ireland, Galway. We assisted Immuexa Corporation with their first public demonstration of Tidepool, a semantic-web enabled application to manage photographs and memories.