Seminars
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Michaelmas Term 2024 | |
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Tuesday Week 5 (12th November) 2pm Hume-Rothery Lecture Theatre |
Michele Pizzochero (Department of Physics, University of Bath) |
Tuesday Week 7 (26th November) 2pm Hume-Rothery Lecture Theatre |
Christoph Schran (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge) |
Past Seminars
Michaelmas Term 2023 | |
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Tuesday Week 4 (31st October) 2pm Hume-Rothery Lecture Theatre |
Richard Catlow (Department of Chemistry, University College London) Simulation, Synchrotron Radiation and Neutron Scattering Studies of Catalytic and Energy Materials |
Tuesday Week 8 (28th November) 2pm Hume-Rothery Lecture Theatre |
Marina Filip (Department of Physics, University of Oxford) Title TBA |
Trinity Term 2023 | |
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Tuesday Week 6 (30th May) 2pm Hume-Rothery Lecture Theatre |
Aron Walsh (Department of Materials, Imperial College London) Quantum Theory of Imperfect Crystals |
Tuesday Week 8 (13th June) 2pm LR-2 Thom Building (Engineering) |
Chris Pickard (Department of Materials, University of Cambridge) Mapping and exploiting stochastic explorations of material space |
Hilary Term 2023 | |
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Week 4 (10th February) |
Zachary Goodwin (School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard) Theory and Simulation of Cation Solvation and Ionic Aggregation in Concentrated Non-Aqueous Electrolytes |
Week 6 (24th February) online only |
Pooja Goddard (Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University) Chlorine: the magic ingredient in CdTe solar cell production |
Week 8 (10th March) |
Rachel Crespo-Ortero (Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London) Modelling Ultralong Phosphorescence in Molecular Crystals |
Michaelmas Term 2022 | |
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Week 2 (21st October) |
Pezhman Zarabadi-Poor (Department of Materials, University of Oxford) Creating a self-driving materials modelling laboratory using AiiDA |
Week 4 (4th November) |
Michele Kotiuga (EPFL, Switzerland) Using a symmetry-based approach to identify structural prototypes from first principles |
Week 6 (18th November) |
Taylor Sparks (University of Utah) Materials informatics: Moving beyond screening via generative machine learning models |
Week 8 (2nd December) |
Katie Inzani (University of Nottingham) Modelling spin-control by ferroelectric switching |
Trinity Term 2022 | |
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Week 2 (6th May) |
Valerio Vitale (Department of Materials, Imperial College London) "Moiré materials and flat bands: the case of twisted transition metal dichalcogenides bilayers" |
Week 7 (10th June) |
Pezhman Zarabadi-Poor (Department of Materials, University of Oxford) "Accessing polyanionic redox in high voltage Li-rich thiophosphates" [In-person seminar at 21 Banbury Road lecture theatre, also live-streamed] |
Week 8 (17th June) |
Eduardo Mendive Tapia (Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungzentrum Jülich/Department of Computational Materials Design, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung Düsseldorf) "Ab initio calculation of the magnetic Gibbs free energy using magnetically constrained supercells: electronic and magnetoelastic mechanisms of first-order transitions" |
Hilary Term 2022 | |
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Week 3 (4th February) |
Joseph Nelson (University of Cambridge) "Navigating the Ti-C-O and Al-C-O ternary systems through theory-driven discovery" |
Week 6 (25th February) |
Tim Green (DeepMind) "Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold, and AI for quantum chemistry" |
Week 8 (11th March) |
Chencheng Xiao (Imperial College London) Title TBA |
Michaelmas Term 2021 | |
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Week 3 (29th October) NB 3pm |
Tim Zuehlsdorff (Oregon State University) "Modeling linear and nonlinear spectroscopy in complex environments" |
Week 4 (5th November) | Internal seminar |
Week 6 (19th November) |
Michael Hutcheon (University of Nottingham) "High-throughput discovery of superconductors" |
Week 8 (3rd December) |
Andrij Vasylenko (University of Liverpool) "Element selection for crystalline inorganic solid discovery guided by unsupervised machine learning of experimentally explored chemistry" |
Trinity Term 2021 | |
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Week 2 (7th May) |
Carla Verdi (University of Vienna) "Thermodynamic properties by on-the-fly machine-learned interatomic potentials: thermal transport and phase transitions" |
Week 4 (21st May) |
Chuck Witt (University of Cambridge) "Orbital-free density-functional theory: background, challenges and application to crystal structure prediction" |
Week 6 (4th June) |
Linn Leppert (University of Twente) "A first-principles perspective on metal-halide perovskites: challenges, results and surprises" |
Week 8 (18th June) |
Richard Evans (University of York) "Massively parallel atomistic simulations of complex magnets" |
Hilary Term 2021 | |
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Week 2 (29th January) |
Benjamin Morgan (Department of Chemistry, University of Bath) "Exploring Composition-Structure-Property Relationships in Battery Materials: Solid Electrolytes, Li-Rich Cathodes, and Grain Boundaries" |
Week **5** (19th February) |
Liang Tan (Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) "Energy transport in low-dimensional halide perovskites" |
Week 6 (26th February) |
Andrew Morris (School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham) "The Wadsley-Roth niobates for stable, fast lithium-ion diffusion battery anodes: first principles modelling combined with experiment" |
Week 8 (12th March) |
Joseph Barker (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds) "Atomistic spin dynamics for quantitative modelling of magnetic materials" |
Michaelmas Term 2020 | |
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Week 2 (23rd October) |
Bartomeu Monserrat (Department of Materials, University of Cambridge) "New Perspectives on Phonons" |
Week 5 (13th November) |
Jonah Haber (University of California, Berkeley) "Exciton diffusion in organic crystals from first principles many-body perturbation theory" |
Week 7 (27th November) |
Laura Ratcliff (Department of Materials, Imperial College London) "Simulating OLEDs using Wavelet-Based Density Functional Theory: From Core Spectroscopy to Large Systems" |
Week 8 (4th December) |
Roxana Margine (State University of New York at Binghamton) "Unveiling pressure-induced transitions in bulk MoTe2 and SnSe2" |
Hilary Term 2020 | |
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Week 2 (31st Jan) |
Christopher Patrick (Oxford Materials) "First-principles finite temperature calculations on rare-earth magnets: |
Week 4 (14th Feb) |
Joseph Prentice (Junior Research Fellow in Materials, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford) "Vibrations and electronic excitations in large-scale simulations: method development and application" |
Week 6 (28th Feb) |
Volker Deringer (Department of Chemistry, Oxford) "From Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials to Materials Chemistry" |
Week 8 (13th March) |
Miguel Angel Pérez (Oxford Materials) "Redox chemistry of alkali-rich cathodes" |