Lennard-Jones Centre

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Crustal deformation and Earthquakes

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

Professor Jean-Phillipe Avouac, BP McKenzie Professor of Earth Sciences.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Friday 23 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Computer simulations of thermally induced electric fields in water.

Peter Wirnsberger, Deparment Chemistry, University of Cambridge (Frenkel Group).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 23 January 2015, 12:00-12:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope

Prof. Dr. Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zürich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Application of normal forms and TST to the reaction dynamics of quantum wave packets

Dr. Andrej Junginger, University of Stuttgart, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Stuttgart, Germany.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 16 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-Fermi-liquid behaviour in nearly ferromagnetic metals: a new fixed point

Dr Chris Hooley, University of St Andrews .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electron-phonon coupling and the vibrational averaging over proton-orderings in ice

Edgar Engel (TCM) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The role of van der Waals interactions and nuclear quantum effects in soft layered materials

Gabriella Graziano (Cambridge Graphene Centre).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 11:00-11:40

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

GPU acceleration of basin hopping global optimisation: towards a fast and accurate method of predicting binding free energies of macromolecules

Rosemary G. Mantell, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge (Wales' group).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 05 December 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The winding road to topological insulators

Note unusual location

Eugene Mele, University of Pennsylvania.

Cavendish Laboratory, Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Energy landscape and band-structure tuning in realistic MoS2/MoSe2 heterostructures

Gabriel Constantinescu (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 11:40-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Making quantum chemistry work for metals

James Shepherd, Rice University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 11:00-11:40

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Making quantum chemistry work for metals

James Shepherd (Rice University).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 11:00-11:40

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Impact perforation of polymers and polymer-metal laminates

Dr Graham McShane, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Long-time behaviour of periodically driven many-body quantum systems

Achilleas Lazarides, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Digital Discovery and Design: the new age of materials on demand

2nd BP Lecture 2014

Professor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Soft Matter Quasicrystals and Their Complex Cousins

First BP lecture 2014

Professor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

New functional surfaces: from science to application

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

Professor Eduard Arzt, INM Saarbrueken.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 21 November 2014, 14:30-16:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Exotic morphologies of highly charged solvated macromolecules

Prof. Styliani Constas, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario London, ON N6A 5B7 CANADA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 21 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Fermions in two dimensions

Meera Parish, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Lewis Acids based on Aluminium and Phosphorus

Professor Drasko Vidovic, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Noncollinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling

Dan Jones (Oxford/TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Theory and simulation of electronic and optical properties of thin film BaxSr1-xTiO3

Jawad Al-Saei (Imperial College London).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 11:00-11:40

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Hydrogen uptake and diffusion – implications for evaluating resistance to hydrogen embrittlement

Dr Alan Turnbull, National Physical Laboratory.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 14 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Electric double layers at metal oxide water interfaces and their effect on electrocatalysis.

Prof. Michiel Sprik, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambirdge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 14 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Majorana metals and quantum spin liquids

Maria Hermanns, University Köln.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Comparing site occupancy calculations with experimental observations

Robbie Bennett.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quantum Monte Carlo study of the phase diagram of solid molecular hydrogen at extreme pressures

Jonathan Lloyd-Williams (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 11:00-11:40

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Design of microstructures for enhanced magnetostriction in active composites

Professor Pedro Ponte, University of pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 07 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Entropic Utopia: Shaping disorder for targeted self-assembly

Pablo F. Damasceno, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 07 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Tracing potential energy surfaces of electronic excitations via their transition origins: application to oxirane

Jian-Hao Li, TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

2D molecular self assembly - quantifying electrostatic interactions in monolayers of charged molecules with CDFT

Valerie Vaissier, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 11:00-11:40

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Multiresolution shape and topology optimisation of shells and solids

Dr Fehmi Cirak, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

High-dimensional surprises near the glass and the jamming transitions

Prof. Patrick Charbonneau, Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0354.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 31 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-equilibrium processes from an ab-initio perspective: generalized Hedin's equations and ultra-fast processes in paradigmatic materials

Andrea Marini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Quantitative Prediction of Solute Strengthening in Metal Alloys

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

Professor William Curtin, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 24 October 2014, 14:30-16:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Packing polyhedra: from ancient math to advanced materials

Dr. Daphne Klotsa, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 24 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Strong-coupling ansatz for the one-dimensional Fermi gas in a harmonic potential

Jesper F. Levinsen, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Thermal effects in NMR

Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez, TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quantum many body effects in transition metal molecules?

Cedric Weber, Kings College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 11:00-11:40

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Generalized Grain Cluster Method for Multiscale Modelling of Microstructures

Professor Akke Suiker, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

2D or not 2D? Two-dimensional nanostructures for sensing and solar energy conversion

Professor Bettina Lotsch, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitaet, Germany.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spectroscopic signatures of collective modes in superconductors

Lara Benfatto, University of Rome, La Sapienza.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Computational analyses of RNA repeat expansions causing genetic disease

Dr. Ilyas Yildirim, Deparment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 10 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

One-dimensional boson flow between weakly couple reservoirs

Professor Igor Lerner, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Protein Disorder in Assembly and Regulation of Macromolecular Machines

Elisar Barbar, Oregon State University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Comparing site occupancy calculations with experimental observations

Robbie Bennett (Mat).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 October 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Molecular excited states and QMC

Mike Towler.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 October 2014, 11:00-11:40

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Disordered Photonics

Professor Diederik Wiersma, University of Florence.

Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 02 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

CALYPSO: A Useful Tool for Discovering Novel Structures and Properties of Materials at Extreme Conditions

Yanming Ma, Jilin University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 September 2014, 15:30-16:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Dynamic Response of Coatings on Substrates Subjected to Impulse Loading

Professor Matthew Begley, Mechanical Engineering Materials University of California, Santa Barbara.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 14 August 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spin Hall Effect

Guang-Yu Guo, National Taiwan University,.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 July 2014, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Environmental challenges to the implementation of ceramic composites in gas turbines

Carlos G. Levi, Materials Department, University of California Santa Barbara.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Wednesday 16 July 2014, 10:00-11:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Mechanical properties of highly particle-filled composites

Prof Pengwan Chen, Head of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Friday 11 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reinventing Energy Storage in 2D: Nanosheets and Exfoliated Materials

Professor Bruce Dunn, UCLA.

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The density is not enough

Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 July 2014, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Interacting with Protein Interactions

"Special Event" Cambridge Cheminformatics Network Meetings

Professor Arthur J Olson, Departmen of Interactive Structure & Computational BIology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre Department of Chemistry Lensfield Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3RA.

Wednesday 09 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Critical Casimir Forces in a Magnetic System: An Experimental Protocol

Prof. Peter Holdsworth, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 July 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

First-principles Materials Applications and Design to Nonlinear Optical Crystals

Prof. Zheshuai Lin, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Synergism between Theory and Experiments in Asymmetric Catalysis: Transition State Modeling for Rationalizations and Catalyst Design

Professor Raghavan B. Sunoj, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 14:15-15:45

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Nanotopographical (and other nano stuff) control of mesenchymal stem cell mechanotransduction and fate

Dr Matthew Dalby, University of Glasgow.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Flexible Metal Forming: A Mathematical Perspective

Dr Chris Cawthorn, DAMTP.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Molecular origins of "internal friction" in protein folding

Dr. David de Sancho, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 13 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Many-body state preparation and quantum simulation with cold atoms

Prof. Andrew Daley, University of Strathclyde.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Graphene electronics and optoelectronics

Antonio Lombardo.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Molecular dynamics with linear scaling density functional theory: the CONQUEST code

David Bowler (UCL).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 11:00-11:40

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Functional Conjugated Polymers: Towards New Materials for Biomedical Applications

NZIC Easterfield Prize Lecture

Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic, .

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Novel energetic materials based on intermetallic reactions

Dr Chris Braithwaite, Cavendish Laboratory.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 06 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Chaperone-guided protein folding at the single-molecule level

Prof. Sander Tans, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 06 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

RSC Easterfield Award Winner Lecture

Dr Bridget Stocker - RSC Easterfield Award Winner.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 06 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"CADD & ENAC - A bad hand at Scrabble..?"

Please note that the date of this seminar has been changed

Dr Peter Hunt, Optibrium Ltd.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 14:15-15:45

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Reverse Engineering the Forces that Drive Embryogenesis

Professor G. Wayne Brodland, University of Waterloo.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 30 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Thermodynamics of Dissipative Self-Assembly

Dr. ing. Ger J. M. Koper, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 30 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Calculation of NMR parameters in the solid-state: the importance of special relativity

Dr Jonathan Yates, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Probing many-body physics with cold atoms: The Higgs boson and quantum hexatic order.

Georg Bruun, Aarhus University.

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Pseudoψence

Gareth Conduit (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 11:00-11:45

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Atomistic studies of interfacial failure in optical multilayer coatings

Dr Paul Bristowe, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 23 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Chemical applications of Density Matrix Renormalization Group

Dr. Sandeep Sharma, Princeton University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 23 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Active nematics and topological defects

Prof. Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Werner Complexes: A New Class of Chiral Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysts for Enantioselective Organic Reactions"

RSC Organometallic Award 2013 Lecture

Professor John Gladysz, Texas A&M.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

“Development of new antibiotics by targeting essential enzymes in bacteria: structure-based design and simulation studies”

Dr Concepción González-Bello , Associate Professor, Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CIQUS), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Cellular models for Tissue Engineering: potential and limitations

Professor C. James Kirkpatrick, Johannes Gutenberg University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

IS GREEN TEA GOOD FOR YOU? INSIGHTS FROM ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS

Carla Molteni, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Core loss spectroscopy of graphene oxide

Gleb Shiroki (Cavendish).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 12:00-12:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Short range order in liquid metals

Martin Mayo, TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 11:45-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exotic physical properties of matter studied by simulation

Martin Dove, Queen Mary University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 11:00-11:45

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP Day 2014

Various.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 09:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Dripping, jetting, drips and wetting: the magic of microfluidics

Professor David A. Weitz, Harvard University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological order from strong correlations in two-dimensional lattice models

Note time changed back to usual schedule at short notice.

Stefanos Kourtis, IFW Dresden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Visualization of Chemical Space for Medicinal Chemists

Dr Peter Ertl, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 14:15-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Embedded correlation within strongly correlated materials

Dr. George Booth, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 02 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Odd Times for Triplet Pairing

Prof. James Annett, University of Bristol.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development of visible light responsive photocatalysts for water splitting

Second Lewis Lecture 2014

Professor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Organic Photoredox Catalysis: Methods and Mechanistic Insight

Professor David Nicewicz, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solar-fuels production from water using photocatalysts

First Lewis Lecture 2014

Professor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"From fragments to target-selective ligands by reaction-driven de novo design"

Professor Gisbert Schneider. Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences ETH Zurich.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 April 2014, 14:15-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological Kondo Insulators and SmB6: magnetism meets topology.

Piers Coleman, Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 14:15-15:15

RSC Organic Division South Eastern Regional Meeting

RSC Organic Division South Eastern Regional Meeting

If you would like to present a poster, please send title, authors, affilliation and email of the presenter to jmg11@cam.ac.uk

http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/rsc_organic_southeast.html.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 14:00-17:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

Professor Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Thursday 10 April 2014, 14:30-15:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Engineering tissue morphogenesis in vitro

Please note LR5 not Oatley Meeting Room

Dr Alison P McGuigan, University of Toronto Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 28 March 2014, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Christian Doppler Symposium

Various.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 27 March 2014, 14:00-17:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Odorant space: From chemistry to physiology

Dr Michael Schmuker, Neuroinformatics & Theoretical Neuroscience, Freie Universität Berlin.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 March 2014, 14:15-15:45

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Clustering, Phase Separation and Tricriticality of an Ultrasoft Model of Polyelectrolytes

Professor Jean-Pierre Hansen.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 21 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Algorithmic differentiation of diffusion Monte Carlo

Tom Poole (Imperial).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 March 2014, 11:00-11:45

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

The ups and downs of coenzyme A biosynthesis as an antimicrobial drug target

Professor Erick Strauss, Department of Biochemistry, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 18 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

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The ups and downs of coenzyme A biosynthesis as an antimicrobial drug target

Professor Erick Strauss, Department of Biochemistry Stellenbosch University South Africa.

Department of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Characterizing nanoscale friction and work of adhesion using measurements followed by modeling

Professor G G Adams, Northeastern University, Boston.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Monday 17 March 2014, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Recent advances in lattice materials

Professor Norman Fleck, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 14 March 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Paradigms of the interaction effects in Fermi surface topological reconstruction

Dr Joseph Betouras, Loughborough University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quantum Monte Carlo at the research frontier: useful calculations for big, complicated systems

Mike Towler (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 11:00-11:40

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Fluorine as Key Element in buckyball chemistry and C-F bond activation

Professor Dieter Lentz, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Modeling Ductile Fracture Toughness and Fracture Surface Roughness

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

Professor Alan Needleman, University of North Texas.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 07 March 2014, 14:30-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Folding of RNA tetraloop hairpins using Discrete Path Sampling

Debayan Chakraborty, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 07 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

The micro-fluid mechanics of synthetic swimming

Dr Eric Lauga, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exploring Thermal Transport via Gauge-Gravity Duality and Hydrodynamics

M. Joe Bhaseen, King's College, London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Towards first-principles biomimetic catalyst design

Greg Lever (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The method of entropy calculations for biochemical bonds

Shane Lawrence (Earth Sciences).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 11:00-11:40

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Protein-Ligand Binding by Free Energy Simulations: Issues, Successes and Failures

Please note the change of date, one week earlier than originally planned

Professor Jonathan Essex, University of Southampton.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 14:15-15:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

The nature of the quantum spin-liquid state in Herbertsmithite

Matthias Punk, Universität Innsbruck.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Materials Synthesis and Interface Catalysis Using the Molecular Precursor Approach

Professor Dr. Matthias Driess, Technische Universitat Berlin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

What’s the point of linear-scaling electronic structure methods?

Prof. Peter Haynes, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Slicing a system for optimization in QMC

Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

GAP potential for tungsten

Wojciech Szlachta (Eng).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 11:00-11:40

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Experiments in multidisciplinary materials research

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

Professor Mark Miodownik, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 07 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Pairing symmetry and dominant band in Sr2RuO4

Thomas Scaffidi, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The 2-particle density matrix and the exchange-correlation holes

Jian Wang (Huzhou University).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Growth and form of the gut

Dr Thierry Savin, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 January 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

High-dimensional random landscapes and random matrices

Prof. Yan Fyodorov, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 31 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

First-principles dynamics applied to energy materials

Keith Refson, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Nonlinearity in musical instruments

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 24 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Coordination Clusters as Building Blocks for New Materials

Professor Annie Powell, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Stationary Behaviour of Observables after a Quantum Quench

Maurizio Fagotti, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electronic structure and impact

Mike Payne (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Pseudopotentials reach for the stars

Gareth Conduit (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 11:00-11:40

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

On energy and momentum transfer to deformable structures from underwater explosions and air blast

P J Tan, University College London.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 January 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Coarse-grained modelling of RNA and DNA

Petr Sulc, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford, UK.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 17 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nucleation pathways in partially disordered lattice models

David Quigley, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

First Passage Time Boxed Molecular Dynamics

Boris Fackovec (University of Cambridge), Wales Group.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 13 December 2013, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Transport theory of pyrochlore conductors

Masafumi Udagawa, University of Tokyo.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 December 2013, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chiral Nematic Properties of Cellulosic Materials

Melville/Materials Seminar

Professor Derek G Gray, McGill University, Canada.

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Modeling reactive events in complex systems

Prof. Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute, NYU 251, Mercer Street New York, NY, 10012 .

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 06 December 2013, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Organometallic Reaction Chemistry and Catalysis in the Solid-State

Professor Andrew Weller, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 05 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Adiabatic reaction forces in mesoscopic systems

Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, Freie Universität Berlin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 December 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

A new extension of QM/MM methods: the adaptive buffered-force QM/MM method

Letif Mones (Eng).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 11:00-12:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Protein folding, unfolding, and ligand docking by generalized-ensemble algorithms

Prof. Yuko Okamoto, Department of Physics, School of Science, Nagoya University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 29 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamics in one dimension: from fractional excitations to new out-of-equilibrium states of matter

Jean-Sébastien Caux, University of Amsterdam.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 November 2013, 14:15-15:45

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Pseudopotentials in cold atoms

Pascal Bugnion (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Momentum-resonant tunnelling in carbon nanotube networks

Rob Bell (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 11:00-11:40

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Biomimetic approaches to cell-cell adhesion, fusion and lipid domain formation

Prof. Jasna Brujic, New York University, Center for Soft Matter Research.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 22 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Accurate Effective Hamiltonians via Unitary Flow in Floquet space

Florian Mintert, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality

Please note this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will start at 2.30pm and is held in LR4

Professor Alain Goriely, University of Oxford.

Engineering Department - **LR4**.

Friday 15 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Smart inference and its relation with criticality

Jorge Hidalgo - University of Granada, Spain.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 15 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Getting the most out of carbon sp2 and sp3 materials in sensing applications

Professor Julie Macpherson, Univeristy of Warwick.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Part is Greater than the Sum of the Wholes: How to Spin Light Into Anyons

Eliot Kapit, Oxford University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Intra- and intermolecular potential energy surfaces derived from ab initio data by machine learning

Alan Nichol (Eng) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Pressure-induced structural transformations in nanomaterials: a linear-scaling DFT investigation

Niccolo Corsini (Imperial).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 11:00-11:40

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Failures of density functional theory for strongly correlated systems using density-matrix renormalization group

Kieron Burke (University of California, Irvine).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 11:00-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bosons in Synthetic Gauge Fields

Ryan Barnett, Imperial College.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Near-Field Electrospinning of Biomimetic Niche

Dr Yan Yan Shery Huang, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Towards ab initio optical spectroscopy of a bacterial light-harvesting complex

Danny Cole (Yale).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Wavefunction expansions in the solid state: New approaches to reach the thermodynamic limit

George Booth (Chemistry, Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 11:00-11:40

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Compressive failure of fibre composites with random waviness

Dr Michael Sutcliffe, CUED.

Engineering Department - **LR4**.

Friday 25 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis II

Elisabet Romero, VU University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 15:45-16:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis

Prof. R. van Grondelle, VU University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nanotechnology for Medicine

BP Lectures 2013

Professor James Tour, Rice University, USA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Graphene Growth and Applications

BP Lectures 2013

Professor James Tour, Rice University, USA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 22 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Towards the reconstitution of a minimal cell?

Prof. Marileen Dogeterom, FOM Institute, The Netherlands.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 18 October 2013, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Discrete modelling of fibrous networks

Dr Ron Peerlings, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Engineering Department - **LR4**.

Friday 18 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Control over Cavity Size & Shape in Anion-binding Coordination Cages

Dr Guido Clever, University of Goettingen.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 17 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Steve Simon.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The molecular vacancy in hexagonal ice from a random structure searching point of view

Edgar Engel (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Linking the continuous and the discrete -- coupling molecular dynamics to continuum fluid mechanics

Edward Smith (Imperial College).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 11:00-11:40

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Protein-Ligand Binding by Free Energy Simulations: Issues, Successes and Failures

We regret that due to illness this talk has been cancelled

Professor Jonathan Essex, University of Southampton.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 15 October 2013, 12:00-13:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Multiscale Modelling of Nonwoven Fabrics

Dr Emrah Demirci, Loughborough University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 11 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-equilibrium dynamics of open quantum system

Dr Igor Lesanovsky, University of Nottingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 October 2013, 14:15-15:45

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Global Protein Structural Analysis for Drug Discovery"

Dr Krishna Bulusu, from the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR).

Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 08 October 2013, 14:15-15:45

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Using Locally Dense Basis Sets for NMR Shielding Calculations

David Reid, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 04 October 2013, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The search for the optimal supercell

Jonathan Lloyd-Williams (TCM) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 October 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Forces for electronic excited states: An implementation of TD-DFT in CASTEP

Dominik Jochym (Rutherford Appleton Lab).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 October 2013, 11:00-11:40

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Boron Reagents in the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds

Dalton Young Researcher Award Lecture

Dr Rebecca Melen, University of Toronto.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 29 August 2013, 09:30-11:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

On the importance of the COSMO polarization charge density for the quantification of molecular interactions in liquid phases

Prof. Dr. Andreas Klamt, COSMOlogic GmbH & Co. KG.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 28 August 2013, 15:00-16:30

Organic Chemistry

"Porous Organic Cages - A Serious Alternative to Extended Framework Materials"

Professor Michael Mastalerz, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 August 2013, 14:00-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Ionic Liquids: Applications in the Chemical-, Electro- and Bio- Sciences

Professor Douglas R MacFarlane, Monash University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 16 July 2013, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Nested sampling for bulk systems

Robert Baldock (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 July 2013, 11:00-12:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Prof. Lincoln D. Carr, Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, U.S.A..

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 05 July 2013, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The bulk photovoltaic effect in polar oxides for robust and efficient solar energy harvesting

Andrew M. Rappe (University of Pennsylvania).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 26 June 2013, 11:00-12:00

Irregular seminars in TCM

Towards a general theory for pyrochlores: dimensional reduction, ground-state selection and new emergent electromagnetism

Ludovic Jaubert.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 June 2013, 15:00-16:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Quantum Tunnelling Splittings in Water Clusters, from Ring-Polymer Instanton Theory

Adam Reid, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 14 June 2013, 12:00-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Charge and exciton dynamics in organic devices

Alessandro Troisi, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Approaching protein dynamics in the post-genome era

Professor Modesto Orozco, Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona .

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 14:15-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Experimental-Driven Metadynamics simulations

Dr Carlo Camilloni (University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 07 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bad metals

Prof. Alexei Tsvelik.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 14:15-15:45

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

White dwarf cooling: electron-phonon coupling and the metallization of solid helium

Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Linear-scaling time-dependent density-functional theory in the linear-response formalism: An implementation in the ONETEP code

Tim Zuehlsdorff (Imperial College).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 11:00-11:40

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

MR imaging and biomechanical analysis: the assessment of carotid atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability

Dr Zhongzhao Teng, University Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Stable and unstable equilibrium points in the quantum Gaudin model

Dr Benoit Doucot, CNRS / LPTHE Jussieu, France.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Influenza Virus Envelope: Complex Interplay between Membrane Proteins and Lipid Domains"

Dr Daniel Parton, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Calculations on Tunneling by Carbon Tell Experimentalists Where to Look and What to Look For

Professor Wes Borden, Unversity of Texas.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Mechanics of motility at microscopic scales

Prof Antonio DeSimone, Scuola Internazionale de Studi Avanzati, Trieste.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 24 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

What can we learn about protein folding from atomistic simulations?

Dr. Robert Best, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 24 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Correlated electrons on the nanoscale: models, issues, reality.

Prof. David Logan, Oxford University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Why Does Cyclobutane-1,2,3,4-tetraone Have a Triplet Ground State?

A TMI RIG Presentation

Professor Wes Borden, Unversity of Texas.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Anharmonic phonon properties: electron-phonon coupling and stress

Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exploring the binary Lennard-Jones system with high throughput structure prediction and speeding up time to ground state

Martin Uhrin (UCL).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 11:00-11:40

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Using computational methods to aid our understanding of ionotropic glutamate receptors at the molecular level"

Dr Phil Biggin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Climb-enabled discrete dislocation plasticity

Professor Vikram Deshpande, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Ionic Liquids - From DFT to CG Simulations

Prof. Dr. Christian Holm, Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 17 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanoresponsive Materials and Self-Healing Systems

2013 Melville Lectureship

Professor Jeffrey S Moore, University of Illnois.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands

Prof. R. Shankar, Yale University .

Mott Seminar Room 531, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 14:15-15:45

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

GPU-accelerated Quantum ESPRESSO: between performance, correctness and sustainability

Filippo Spiga (HPCS, Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nucleic Acid-Modified Nanostructures as Programmable Atom Equivalents: Forging a New Periodic Table

Lewis Lectures 2013

Professor Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 10 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Stress Generation in the Storage Particles of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Professor Robert McMeeking, University of California Santa Barbara.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

On ripples, rafts, and networks - insights from generic models

Prof. Friederike Schmid, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Germany.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 10 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Spherical Nucleic Acid (SNA) Nanostructures: Establishing a New Paradigm in Molecular Diagnostics and Intracellular Gene Regulation:

Lewis Lectures 2013

Professor Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Lattice modulation of a two-dimensional superfluid: could it be…the Higgs particle?

Prof. Lode Pollet, LMU München.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Magnesium alloys microstructures: coupling experiments and simulations

Dr Antoine Jerusalem, University of Oxford.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 03 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermopower in the Quantum Hall Regime

Dr Nicholas d'Ambrumenil, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 14:15-15:45

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Enzyme dynamics, conformations and catalysis

Professor Adrian Mulholland, Centre for Computational Chemistry, Univeristy of Bristol.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 14:15-15:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Multiscale and multiphysics modelling in wood

Dr Karin de Borst , University of Glasgow.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 26 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry - Nano Puzzle and More

Professor Iris Oppel, RWTH Aachen University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 16:30-17:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Vortices and the BKT transition in regions of competing order

Dr Sam Carr, Kent University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 14:15-15:45

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP 3rd Years PhD Talks

Talks by 3rd Yr PhD students in the Materials RIG

various.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 10:15-16:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Biomimetic, bioinspired and biosynthetic catalysts for water-splitting

Dr Vincent Artero, CEA, Grenoble.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 21 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Peeling adhesive tape: A case study for understanding the effective properties of heterogenous materials

Professor Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 15 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Peeling adhesive tape: A case study for understanding the effective properties of heterogenous materials

Professor Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 15 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Towards a quantitative analysis of core-level and valence photoemission spectra of dye-sensitized solar cell interfaces

Dr Feliciano Giustino (University of Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Anharmonicity in periodic systems

Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 11:40-12:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Driving self assembly and emergent behavior in particle suspensions with magnetic fields

Cancelled

Dr James Martin (Sandia National Laboratories, USA).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 08 March 2013, 12:00-13:00

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Amos B. Smith III - University of Pennsylvania .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Is the theory of neutral evolution right?

Thomas Fink, CNRS / LIMS.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Fibre Network Materials : Architecture, Mechanics and in vitro Cell Responses

Dr Athena Markaki, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

For Richer Pore: Porous Molecules and Materials Through Supramolecular Chemistry

Professor Mark MacLachlan, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Helical correlations and unbroken symmetry in FCC-stacked triangular Ising antiferromagnets

Dr Fiona Burnell (All Souls, Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

How can energies be aligned in ab initio electronic transport calculations?

Robert Bell (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 11:40-12:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Materials and Sustainable Technology

Professor M F Ashby CUED Emeritus.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 22 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Entanglement spectra: A novel spectroscopic tool to investigate quantum many body wave functions

Prof. Andreas Läuchli, Universität Innsbruck.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

“Data Driven Molecular Design & Discovery”

Dr Scott Lusher, Netherlands eScience Centre.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Thinking (and looking) out of the box - new tricks for molecular simulation and visualization"

Dr Marc Baaden, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimque, Paris.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 14:15-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Light energy harvesting and charge carrier collection in mesoscopic solar energy conversion systems

Professor Michael Graetzel, EPFL.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Multiscale mechanics and cohesive-surface models

Please note this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will be held in LR4 at 2.30pm

Professor René de Borst, University of Glasgow.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 15 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Heavy quasiparticles in Yb compounds: The Renormalized Band approach

Dr Gertrud Zwicknagl, TU Braunschweig.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Charge transfer in carbon nanotubes?

Robert Bell.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:10-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Nonequilibrium dynamics in the Hubbard model

Michael Moeckel (Chem).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 11:30-12:10

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Elasticity and (dis)orders in networks and cellular patterns

Dr Marc Durand, Université Paris Diderot.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Statistical Topological Insulators

Dr Jonathan Edge, Leiden University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 14:15-15:45

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Heart valve tissue engineering

Please note this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will be held in LR4 at 2.30pm

Professor Frank Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 01 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Functional Nanomaterials via Crystallization-Driven "Living Self-Assembly"

Professor Ian Manners, University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum limited transport in ultracold atomic gases

Tilman Enss, TU München.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Machine learning for predictive condensed-phase quantum chemistry: clusters, ice and liquid water

Gabor Csanyi (Engineering).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Superconducting Materials for Engineering Applications

Dr J Durrell, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exact Density-Functional Potentials for Time-Dependent Quasiparticles

Rex Godby, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

The Materials Project for Accelerated Materials Design

Dr Kristin Persson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 18 January 2013, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Geoff Moore.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Assembly on Designer Templates

Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya, University of Tokyo.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 06 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quantum chemistry and cold atoms: insights into magnetism

Pascal Bugnion (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Orbital dependent backflow transformations

Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Monte Carlo Modeling of π-bonded Transition-metal Organometallics

Prof Ivan Stich,Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Formation of C-C Bonds via Catalytic Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation"

Professor Mike Krisches - University of Texas at Austin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 26 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

High resolution electron microscopy of superalloys

Dr. Catherine Rae, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 23 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Some ideas about QMC and molecular dynamics

Mike Towler (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Bayesian reconstruction of free energy profiles from umbrella samples

Thomas Stecher (Engineering).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 11:00-11:40

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Aspects of science, technology and government

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will be held in LR4 at 2.30pm

Professor Roderick Smith, Imperial College.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 16 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Controlled functionalization of surfaces: supported single-site catalysts and beyond

Professor Christophe Coperet, ETH Zurich.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Polarons: from models to materials to quantum simulation

Vladimir M. Stojanovic, University of Basel.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Finite Volume Methods for Wave Propagation in Elastic and Poroelastic Materials

Randall J LeVeque, Applied Mathematics Dept, University of Washington.

Committee Room 213, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 15:00-17:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Mechanics of soft membranes and interfaces: anisotropy; nonlinearity; buckling

Dr Pietro Cicuta, Cavendish Laboratory.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 09 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Van der waals interactions in acenes and C60

Alston Misquitta (Queen Mary).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Redox active species in liquid water compared to charged defects in solid oxides

Michiel Sprik (Chemistry).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 11:00-11:40

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Some spiral structures in biology

Professor Chris Calladine, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Multicomponent Skyrmion lattices and their excitations

Dr Dimitry Kovrizhin, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Instantaneous Mapping of Excitonic Transport in Biomimetic Systems by Multi-dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy

Prof. Elad Harel, Department of Chemistry: Northwestern University (USA)..

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:15-17:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"The mechanisms of solute flux through membrane channels from multi-microsecond equilibrium simulations"

Dr Martin Ulmschneider, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 14:15-15:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Direct spinning of carbon nanotube fibre – a new sort of stuff?

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will be held in LR4 at 2.30pm

Professor Alan Windle, Department of Materials Science.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 26 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

Dynamol Symposium

Jeremy Sanders, Fraser Stoddart, Christoph Schalley and Rafal Klajn.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 13:00-19:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The challenge of nanotechnology

Mike Payne (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 11:40-11:50

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Cold atoms unspun

Gareth Conduit (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

From Topological Insulators to Majorana Fermions

Prof. Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo for strongly correlated systems

CPGS talk

Robert Thomas (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 19 October 2012, 12:30-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Investigating tunneling rates using instanton theory

CPGS talk

Conan Zhang (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 19 October 2012, 12:00-12:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

The response of submerged structures to blast in deep water

Andreas Schiffer, University of Oxford.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 12 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Sequence-based predictions of secondary structure populations in disordered proteins

CPGS talk

Pietro Sormanni (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 12 October 2012, 12:30-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Quantum transition state theory?

CPGS talk

Tim Hele (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 12 October 2012, 12:00-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

The many structures of foams

Denis Weaire FRS, Trinity College Dublin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Biological Materials and Mechanics: An overview

Professor Marc André Meyers, Departments of Nanoengineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, U. of California, San Diego.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 05 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Successes and challenges in the prediction of P450 mediated drug metabolism

Professor Patrik Rydberg, University of Copenhagen, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 04 September 2012, 14:00-15:30

gc121's list

Codesign in action: the hardware and software architecture of Blue Gene/Q and its impact on scientific applications

Dr Jeff Hammond (Argonne National Laboratory).

TCM Seminar Room.

Monday 03 September 2012, 11:00-12:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Clusters in the bulk - the topological cluster classification

Note unusual day and time

Dr Paddy Royall (University of Bristol).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 July 2012, 14:30-15:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Hybrid Inclusion Complex (HIC) and its Key Role in Constructing New Polymeric Materials

Prof Ming Jiang, Fudan University, Shanghai.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Self-assembly in simple colloidal systems

Note slightly earlier time

Prof. Vinothan Manoharan (Department of Physics, Harvard).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 13 July 2012, 11:30-12:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Entropy and order parameters from ensembles generated by computer simulations"

Profressor Klaus Liedl, University of Innsbruck.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 June 2012, 15:15-16:30

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Creative Mind and Physical Reality

Video now available at http://youtu.be/6FdLOIc6bvM

Prof. Brian Josephson, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Old Combination Room, Trinity College.

Friday 22 June 2012, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Dynamics of Biomolecules: from the Glass Transition to Drug Design"

A joint Theory/UCC talk as part of the TMI Research Interest Group

Professor Jeremy C Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry.

Wednesday 20 June 2012, 14:15-15:30

Irregular seminars in TCM

Scattering theory of topological insulators and superconductors

Anton Akhmerov, University of Leiden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 18 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Mechanical properties of electrospun nanofibres

Dr Bin Wang, Brunel University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 15 June 2012, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

The initiator full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo method and its application to molecular systems

Thesis seminar

Deidre Cleland (CUC3).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 15 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Lattice materials for the design of hip replacement implants

Professor Damiano Pasini, McGill University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 June 2012, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Status and Outlook of Quantum Hall Interferometry Experiments: Evidence of Nonabelions?

Steven H Simon, Oxford University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Numerical simulation of two-phase chemically-active flows

Dr Nikos Nikiforakis, Cavendish Lab.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 June 2012, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Stabilizing Proteins with Polymer Conjugates

Prof Heather D Maynard, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Strongly correlated electrons driven by an electric field

Camille Aron (Rutgers).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 11:20-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Gaussian Approximation Potentials at work: from silicon to water

Albert Bartok-Partay.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 11:00-11:20

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

TBC

Professor Andrea Ferrari, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Departmental Lecture

Professor Andrea Ferrari, Department of Engineering.

Scott Polar Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Institute.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Modelling of Explosively Driven Fragmentation Metals

Professor Rade Vignjevic FRAeS, Applied Mechanics and Astronautics Department, School of Engineering, Cranfield University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

investigating Disorder in Solids: Multinuclear Solid-State NMR and First-Principles Calculations

RSC Marlow Award Lecture

Dr Sharon Ashbrook, University of St Andrews.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Order-by-Disorder Near Criticality and the Secret of the Partially Ordered Phase of MnSi

Frank Kruger, University of St Andrews.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Enzyme catalysis from linear-scaling DFT: application to chorismate mutase

Greg Lever (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Multiscale simulation of brittle fracture in oxides and semiconductors

James Kermode (KCL).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 11:00-11:40

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Graduate Student Seminar

Mr Iman Mohaghegian CUED - Mr Wojciech Szlachta CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 18 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Tailored Polymers for Controlling Cell Signaling

Prof Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Field-induced p-wave Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Systems

Prof Fuchun Zhang, Zhou Guangzhao Professor in Natural Sciences at Hong Kong University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Insect biomechanics - from sticky feet to broken legs and ruptured wings

Dr Jan-Henning Dirks : Trinity College Dublin.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 11 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Statistical mechanics of systems with long-range interactions

Prof. Yan Levin (Instituto de Física, UFRGS Brazil).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 11 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Physical properties of metal organic frameworks

Professor Anthony K Cheetham, Materials Science, Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Diffusion Monte Carlo, nodal surfaces and pairing functions

Pascal Bugnion (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Dynamical mean-field theory applied to linear scaling density functional theory

Cedric Weber (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 11:00-11:40

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Compressive failure mechanisms in Composite Laminates with Dropped Plies

Dr Stuart Lemanski, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 04 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Exploring quantum tunnelling in water clusters using the instanton method

Thesis seminar

Jeremy Richardson (University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 04 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Metal Oxide Clusters Capped with Organic Ligands: Formation and Building Blocks for Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials

Professor Ulrich Schubert, Technical University of Vienna, Austria.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quasiparticle Self-consistent GW Approximation as a Universal Framework for Electronic Structure

Prof Mark v. Schilfgaarde, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Inauguration of Christian Doppler Laboratory for Systainable SynGas Chemistry

Speaker to be confirmed.

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 12:30-15:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Utilizing Supramolecular Chemistry in Polymeric Systems: A Route to Dynamic, Adaptive Materials

Prof Stuart J Rowan, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 24 April 2012, 15:30-16:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The end of simulation?

Mike Payne (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 17 April 2012, 11:00-11:40

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Dynamic order-disorder transitions in a system of self-propelled particles

Dr Vladimir Lobaskin (University College Dublin).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 13 April 2012, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

CUED graduate seminar - Biomimetic materials for nucleus pulposus tissue engineering/Solid bonding of aluminium scrap

Daniel Strange, CUED and Daniel Cooper.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Artificial Leaf

Lewis Lectures 2012

Professor Dan Nocera, MIT.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

The Flux Reconstruction Approach to High-Order Methods

Dr Peter E Vincent (Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 12:30-14:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

General vs. geometrical reaction coordinates on QM and QM/MM surfaces

Letif Mones (Engineering).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 12:00-12:20

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

New bulk phases of alumina from random searches

Matthew Lyle (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Water clusters, ice and liquid: Improving ab initio energetics

Mike Gillan (University College, London).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 11:00-11:40

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

'Personalized Energy for 1 (x 6 Billion): A Solution to the Global Energy Challenge

Lewis Lectures 2012

Professor Dan Nocera, MIT.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

'Chemistry of Oxygen Sensing in Animals'

Prof. Christopher Schofield, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Modeling of cemented granular aggregates - Application to the hardness of wheat endosperm

Professor Jean-Yves Delenne.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 09 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP 3rd Years PhD Talks

3rd Year PhD Students.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 13:00-18:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Development of New Synthetic Methods and Fundamental Studies of Conjugated Polymers

website: http://www.cm.utexas.edu/christopher_bielawski

Prof Christopher W Bielawski, University of Texas at Austin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 02 March 2012, 15:00-16:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

The structural mechanics of crystals

Dr Simon Guest, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Designing Functional Molecular Nanostructures

Professor Stefan Hecht (Humboldt University of Berlin).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Ligand discrimination in myoglobin from linear-scaling DFT+U

Daniel Cole (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Materials discovery: the systematic prediction of new classes of organic non-linear optical materials

Jacqui Cole.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 11:00-11:40

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

A high order cell centred Lagrangian Godunov scheme for cylindrical geometry

Dr Andy Barlow (AWE).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 12:30-14:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Method of reduction of dimensionality in contact mechanics

Professor Valentin Popov, TU Berlin.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 24 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthetic Molecular Systems (th)at Work

Professor Stefan Matile, University of Geneva.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

The early stages of biomimetic calcium phosphate formation: amorphous phases and pre-nucleation complexes

Dr Nico A.J.M.Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

"Exploring new chiral space in asymmetric catalysis"

Prof. Ben Feringa, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Groningen.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 16:45-17:45

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

"Self-assembly and cryo-TEM in the study of bioinspired hybrid materials"

Dr Nico A.J.M. Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 15:45-16:45

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Slug initiation modelling and two-phase flow prediction

Dr Stamatis Kalogerakos (Cranfield University).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 12:30-14:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

New Materials for Phosphorescent OLEDs and Polymer Photovoltaics

Please note the change in the time

Dr Youtian Tao, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

A brief discussion about weak measurements

Mike Towler.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 11:55-12:05

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Cold atoms in a spin

Gareth Conduit.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 11:40-11:55

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Convergence of wave function expansions using a plane wave basis: from the homogeneous electron gas to the solid state

James Shepherd (CUC3).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 11:00-11:40

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Light-in, Light-out - the yin and yang of sustainable materials chemistry

RSC Lecture (Sustainable Energy Award)

Dr Ed Constable, University of Basel.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Multi-scale computational-experimental analysis of the mechanics of interfaces

Please note this is a Mechanics Colloquia and starts at 2.00pm

Professor Marc Geers, TU Eindhoven.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Calculation of adhesion between elastic spheres from molecular forces

Dr Jim Greenwood, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 03 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

A conservative level-set based method for multi-components problems on fixed grids

Ben Obadia (Cranfield University).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 February 2012, 11:00-12:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

What could materials chemistry do for anti-inflammatory therapies. Oxidation-sensitive polymers and other examples.

Prof Nicola Tirelli, FRSC, School of Biomedicine and School of Materials, University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Weak Measurements: Wigner-Moyal and Bohm in a New Light?

Basil Hiley (Birkbeck College).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Lessons from Yeast: Drug Uptake and Systems Biology

Dr Paul D Dobson, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 14:00-15:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

The textured response of nematic elastomers and other strange solids

Professor Mark Warner, Cavendish Laboratory.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 27 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

On origins

Brian Josephson, Trinity College.

Seminar Room, Wolfson College.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 18:00-19:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Origins of life chemistry - reconciling the iron-sulfur and the RNA worlds

Materials/Synthesis Departmental Lecture

Dr John Sutherland, Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Observing holographic superconductivity in the laboratory

Jan Zaanen, Institute Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Feedback control of vibration in aircraft and in the ear

Please note this is a Mechanics Colloquia and starts at 2.00pm

Professor Steve Elliott, University of Southampton.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 20 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Sampling rare events in non-stationary dynamics

Dr Josh Berryman (University of Luxembourg).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 20 January 2012, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Novel complex fast ion conductors: challenges for crystallographers and spectroscopists!

Professor Stephen Skinner, ICL.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

A new finite element shallow water model on the sphere: Model setup, grid refinement, and boundary separation

Peter Dueben (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 12:30-14:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Perfect parallel scaling for quantum Monte Carlo on hundreds of thousands of cores

Mike Towler (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Absorption energy decay rates show peptide phosphate bonding structures

Shane Lawrence (Earth Sciences).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 11:00-11:40

Irregular seminars in TCM

Metastability and Coherence of Repulsive Polarons in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Mixture

Dr. Pietro Massignan, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 December 2011, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

Coordination-Driven Capsules and Cages

Professor Paul Lusby, University of Edinburgh.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 09 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modeling a single-site spring-like hypothesis for Fe-mediated N2 reduction

Professor Jonas Peters, California Institute of Technology.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 08 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Biomimetics of Fibrillar Adhesive Systems/Using principles of intrinsic motivation in inclusive design of ICT for the ageing population

Lizbeth Prieto-Lopez - Tanya Goldhaber, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Electrostatic interactions in binary liquids

CPGS talk.

Alexandra Dobrinescu (CUC3).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 02 December 2011, 12:00-12:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Light-Responsive Polymers and Composites for Biomedical Applications

Professor Jason A Burdick, (Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/directory/profile.php?ID=13.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 01 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

New Methods of Bioanalysis using Functionalised Nanoparticles and SERS

Professor Duncan Graham (University of Strathclyde ) http://www.chem.strath.ac.uk/people/academic/duncan_graham.

Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 November 2011, 14:30-16:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Microextrusion - process innovation to product application

Dr Bart Hallmark, Department of Chemical Engineering.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Self assembly of DNA coated colloids

CPGS talk

Matthew Llewellyn-Jones (CUC3).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 25 November 2011, 12:30-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Characterisation of RNA dynamics using restrained MD simulations

CPGS talk

Aditi Borkar (CUC3).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 25 November 2011, 12:00-12:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

From Nuclear Fuels to CO2 Activation at Uranium Complexes - Chemistry Between Phobia & Enthusiasm

Prof. Dr Karsten Meyer, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Mechanical study of the C. elegans worm locomotion. From soft matter to biomimetics

Please note: joint talk between Micromechanics Seminar and Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Professor Jean-Marc di Meglio, Université Paris Diderot.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 18 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Improving i-FCIQMC: Reducing the cost using biased sampling

CPGS talk

Catherine Overy (CUC3).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 18 November 2011, 12:30-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Rhodanese folding within the GroEL chaperonin cavity

CPGS talk

Anshul Sirur (CUC3).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 18 November 2011, 12:00-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Fluctuation-driven first order transition in the chiral magnet MnSi

Markus Garst, University of Cologne.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Dielectric response of interfacial water

Note unusual day and time.

Douwe Jan Bonthuis (Technische Universität München).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Dislocation motion and instability

Professor Jon Chapman, University of Oxford.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 11 November 2011, 14:00-15:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Melville Lecturer 2011 - Development of New Routes to Benign Polymeric Materials

Prof Geoffrey Coates, Cornell University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Order-disorder in trajectory space and the glass transition

Prof. David Chandler, Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chemistry and Elecrochemistry related to the active sites of[FeFe]- and [Fe]-hydrogenases

Professor Christopher Pickett, University of East Anglia.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Theoretical insights into co-translational folding: From pathways to proteomes

Dr Edward O'Brien.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 04 November 2011, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Studies towards engineered wood and designed cell wall polymer interactions

Ms Emma-Rose Coad (University Of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-16:30

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Linnett Lecture: "Landscapes of Matter, Energy and Life"

Prof. Peter Wolynes, Rice University.

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum mechanical perspective on dynamical glass transitions

Dr Claudio Castelnovo, Royal Holloway University of London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Numerical approach to structure, folding and aggregation of proteins

Prof. Chin-Kun Hu, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 31 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Mechanical behaviour of the lower limb under high strain rates

Dr Spiros Masouros, Imperial College London.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 October 2011, 14:00-14:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Quantum Tunnelling Splittings from Ring-Polymer Instanton Theory

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

Adam Reid (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 28 October 2011, 12:30-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Ring Polymer Tunnelling Rates and the Connection with Instanton Theory

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

Adrian Hemmen (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 28 October 2011, 12:00-12:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Designing Artificial Light-harvesting Arrays for Solar Cells

Professor Anthony Harriman, Newcastle University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Crystallography on curved surfaces

David Nelson, Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 24 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Design for environment and risk

Please note: joint talk between Micromechanics Seminar and Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Professor David Cebon, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 October 2011, 14:30-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Water Photolysis in Biology: Photosystem II

Joint Materials/Biological Colloquia

Professor Bill Rutherford, Imperial College, London.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 21 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Cooperative dynamics in supercooled liquids

Note unusual venue.

Dr Jacob Stevenson (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 21 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Dynamic heteroogenized metal nanoparticles by CB[n] assembly in water: from synthesis to application

Ms Enass Abo-Hamed (University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Structure and dynamics of water-solid interfaces

Prof. Angelos Michaelides, London Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Coordination and activation of aminoboranes

Dr Simon Aldridge, University of Oxford.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Micromechanics models for soft solids composite materials

Dr Maria Charalambides, Imperial College London.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 14 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Can hydrophobic surfaces catalyze unfolding?

Note unusual venue.

Dr Patrick Varilly (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 14 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

CPGS talks

Various.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 10:00-17:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Mapping the phase behavior of protein interactions in multicomponent solutions

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

William Jacobs (CUC3).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 07 October 2011, 12:00-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Plasma Analogy and non-Abelian Braiding Statistics in Ising-type Quantum Hall States

Parsa Bonderson, Microsoft Station Q, Santa Barbara.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

47th UKELG One Day Discussion meeting on “Condensed and Gas Phase Detonation Phenomena”

Professor Martin Braithwaite, LSC academic visitor and Organiser of UKELG meeting.

Cavendish laboratory.

Friday 23 September 2011, 10:00-16:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"New Developments in Semiempirical MO Theory for Drug and Materials Design"

This Lecture is part of Professor Clark's MGMS Lecture tour

Professor Tim Clark, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry.

Thursday 22 September 2011, 14:00-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Tunneling transport in conductor-insulator composites and the role of microstructure

Dr Claudio Grimaldi (EPFL, Switzerland).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 16 September 2011, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Interplay of disorder and interactions in 1d cold fermi gases

Prof. Masaki Tezuka, Kyoto University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 September 2011, 15:30-16:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Spin crossover complexes and macrocyclic single-molecule magnets

Professor Sally Brooker, University of Otago.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 July 2011, 14:00-15:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Networking the Self-assembled Cages

Professor Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 08 July 2011, 14:00-15:00

ac313's list

Molecular Simulations in Structure-Based Drug Design

Dr Julien Michel, Royal Society University Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 07 July 2011, 15:30-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Geometrical Description of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Prof F D M Haldane, Princeton University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 27 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Controlling bacterial motors

Prof. Berenike Maier (Univeristy of Cologne).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 24 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Identification of Active Species and Reaction Pathways in Molecular Catalysis: Recent Case Histories

Professor Lutz Gade, University of Heidelberg.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 23 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Proton-coupled electron transfer from ab initio molecular dynamics

Dr Jun Cheng (CUC3).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 17 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Predicting the Folding Behavior of Proteins with a Simple Statistical Model: from qualitative to quantitative descriptions

Dr Pierpaolo Bruscolini, University of Zaragoza.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 15 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

The topology of smectics

Prof. Randy Kamien, Physics Department, University of Pennsylvania.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 14 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Cluster Move Monte Carlo: as good as it sounds?

Mr Thomas Ouldridge (University of Oxford).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 10 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Modelling non-classical mechanisms of crystal nucleation and growth

David Quigley, Warwick University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Soft and hard nanomaterials made by self-assmebly

Professor Ullrich Steiner, Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

What's wrong with density-functional theory?

Professor Nicola Marzari, University of Oxford.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Title to be confirmed

Alston Misquitta (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 June 2011, 11:20-12:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Size Effects on Tensile Strength and Failure Mechanisms of Carbon/Epoxy Composites

Professor Michael Wisnom, University of Bristol.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 03 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Responsive polymer-stabilised droplets and the 3D structuring of liquids

Dr Jonathan Weaver, Imperial College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological phases in 1D: An entanglement point of view

Frank Pollmann, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Molecules and nanostructures for solar energy conversion

Professor James Durrant, Imperial College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Simulations of ionic liquids for energy applications

Professor Mathieu Salanne, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Hard sphere crystal growth

Dr Michiel Hermes (University of Utrecht).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 27 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Superconductivity in nanograins: smaller is different

Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Distinction of disorder, classical and quantum vibrational contributions to atomic mean-square amplitudes in dielectric pentachloronitrobenzene

Jacqui Cole (Structure and Dynamics).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 May 2011, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

What NanoAssembly can do for real world Nano-applications

Professor Jeremy Baumberg, Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Exploring free-energy landscapes

Professor Daan Frenkel FRS, Cambridge University Centre for Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Anion Supramolecular Chemistry: Sensing and Materials

Professor Jonathan Steed, Durham University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

The power of coarse-graining in biomolecular simulations

Professor Siewert-Jan Marrink, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Manipulating dynamics: Galilean-invariant friction and stochastic thermostats"

Professor Herman Berendsen, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Molecular dynamics beyond molecules: principles for coarse-graining"

Professor Herman Berendsen, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Tuesday 17 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Molecular Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly

Extra Inorganic Seminar

Professor Kay Severin, EPFL, Switzerland.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Design of New Catalytic Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry

Lewis Lecture 2011

Professor David Milstein, Weizmann Institute, Israel.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 13 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Some applications and mechanics for the cracking of stiff films supported on compliant substrates

Note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will be held in LR6 at 2.30pm

Professor Michael Thouless, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 13 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

Band Gap Control in Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers via Lewis Acids

Dr Greg Welch, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-boundary correspondence of topological insulators

Prof. Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado at Boulder.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Stimuli-responsive macromolecules: polymer-protein bioconjugates and sugar-responsive micelles

Prof. Brent S. Sumerlin, Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Soft matter physics and bacteria

Professor Gerard Wong, UCLA and the University of Illinois.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Computational Studies of Realistic Multiband Models of the Copper Oxides

Cedric Weber (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 11:20-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The equilibrium of energy levels in phosphorous linkages

Dr Shane Lawrence (Earth Sciences).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 11:00-11:20

Organic Chemistry

RSC Organic Symposium at the University of Cambridge

Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn University of Bristol - Dr Matthew Clarke University of St Andrews - Professor Dieter Enders RWTH-Aachen.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 May 2011, 14:00-18:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Micromechanical modelling of the mechanical behaviour of semi‐crystalline polymers

Dr Hans van Dommelen, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 06 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

The role of particle size and shape in highly size-asymmetric mixtures

Dr Douglas Ashton (University of Bath, Department of Physics).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 06 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

Inorganic Chemistry

A transition metal chemist's view of C-H and C-F bond activation

Professor Robin Perutz FRS, University of York.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

Primo Levi’s Lesson: a Bridge between Chemistry and Literature

Professor Luigi Dei Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” University of Florence via della Lastruccia, 3 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze) - Italy.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

From three-dimensional weavings to swollen corneocytes

Ms Myfanwy Evans, Australian National University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 29 April 2011, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ultracold atoms and fermionic simulations

Prof. Matthias Troyer, ETH Zürich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Noncovalent Nanostructures in Aqueous Medium: Robust yet Adaptive

Dr Boris Rybtchinski, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Self-assembly and hydrodynamics of Janus particles

Note unusual venue. This talk is on Good Friday and the building will be single-locked. Anyone without access who wishes to attend should contact Mark Miller (mam1000).

Prof. Erik Luijten (Northwestern University, USA).

Room 357, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 22 April 2011, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry

An Ising-like Model for Protein Folding

Dr William Eaton, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 20 April 2011, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

"Ultrafast Protein Folding"

Professor Eaton is this year's Alexander Todd Visiting Professor

Professor William Eaton, NIH Distinguished Investigator Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethseda.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 14 April 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

The theory of single molecule force and fluorescence spectroscopy

Dr Attila Szabo, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, USA.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 13 April 2011, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

“Physical chemistry and searching for a cure for sickle cell disease”

Professor Eaton is this year's Alexander Todd Visiting Professor

Professor William Eaton, NIH Distinguished Investigator Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethseda.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 April 2011, 17:00-18:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Generalized-ensemble algorithms: efficient conformational sampling techniques for biomolecular simulations

Professor Yuko Okamoto, Nagoya University, Japan.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Diels Alder Polymers with Unusual Properties: Re‐Mending and Shape Memory

Prof Fred Wudl, UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Modelling Needs Related to Case Studies in the Sanitary Engineering Sector

Prof. Marco Ragazzi, University of Trento, Italy.

Rutherford Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 April 2011, 13:00-14:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Tooling Up for Nanoworld: The Magic of Molecular Machines

Alex Hopkins Lecture 2011

Professor David Leigh, University of Edinburgh.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 25 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Fusion Power: Sometime/Never, or This Year/Next Year?

Brian Josephson.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 March 2011, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetic field-induced anisotropy in specific heat and transport properties of unconventional superconductors.

Ilya Vekhter, Louisiana State University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Quantum nuclear effects on the dynamics and spectroscopy of large molecules in the gas phase. Are they really important?

Dr Florent Calvo, University of Lyon.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

An ab initio study of the Little-Parks effect

G.J. Conduit (Weizmann Institute of Science).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 11:20-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Free Energy Calculations with ONETEP: the pKa of phenol

D.J. Cole (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 11:00-11:20

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Phase diagrams from first principles using Gaussian Approximation Potentials

Gabor Csanyi.

Rutherford Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 15 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Modelling synthesis and catalytic applications of doped AIPOs

Dr Furio Cora.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Modelling synthesis and catalytic applications of doped AlPOs

Inorganic/Theoretical Joint Seminar

Dr Furio Cora, University College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Architecture characterisation of fibre network materials. MIcro-computed tomography and image analysis

Mr Dimitris Tsarouchas, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 11 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Benchmark studies of ring polymer molecular dynamics rate theory

Thesis seminar

Thomas Stecher (CUC3).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 11 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Development and characterization of protecting groups that enhance the solubility of synthetic peptides

Dr Karolina Wahlström, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Hydrogen Storage and Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Professor Jeffrey R Long, Berkeley, USA.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Accurate and efficient calculation of electronic energies through explicitly-correlated wave functions

Dr David Tew, University of Bristol.

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Bioactivity Mapping of Chemical Space"

Dr Jordi Mestres, IMIM, Barcelona Biomedical Reseach Park.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 14:15-15:30

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Ultra-High Resolution Atmospheric Modeling Using Cut Cells

Hiroe Yamazaki, Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan.

Rutherford Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Calculating acidity constants of manganese oxide

CPGS talk

John Kattirtzi (CUC3).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 04 March 2011, 12:00-12:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Supramolecular Polymers with Hydrogen Bonding: From Morphology to Structural Control and Use

Professor Wolfgang Binder (Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Superconductor proximity effects in half-metallic ferromagnets

Prof Piet Brouwer, FU Berlin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Influencing Folding and Structure of Large RNAs by Metal Ions: Moving from Bulk to the Single Molecule Level

Professor Roland Sigel, University of Zurich.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Materials Design using Ab Initio Random Structure Searching

Andrew Morris (UCL, UK).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 11:20-12:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

What we don't know about nano-assembly for nanomaterials

Prof. Jeremy Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 25 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Engineering microenvironments to control cell fate and behaviour

Dr Chunming Wang, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Irregular seminars in TCM

Atom-dimer and dimer-dimer scattering in fermionic mixtures near a narrow Feshbach resonance

Jesper Levinsen, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

BP Day

3rd Year PhD students.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 13:30-17:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Dominant reaction pathways of macromolecules: from classical to quantum mechanical calculations

Dr Pietro Faccioli, University of Trento.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Neurotransmitter transporters: from ligand-based to systems chemical biology approaches

Professor Olivier Taboureau, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 14:15-15:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Crack front instability in mode i+iii: experimental and theoretical approaches

Professor Jean-Baptiste Leblond, Institut Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), French Academy of Sciences.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 18 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Ice

Dr Nic Shannon, University of Bristol.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Form Matters: Catalysis with "Butterflies"

Professor Hansjorg Grutzmacher, ETH Zurich.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 14:00-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry

The PhaseChip: manipulating phase diagrams with microfluidics

Professor Seth Fraden, Brandeis University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Distinction of disorder, classical and quantum vibrational contributions to atomic mean-square amplitudes in dielectric pentachloronitrobenzene

Jacqui Cole (Structure and Dynamics).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 11:20-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Guest desorption and rearrangement in a metal-cyanide framework

Anthony Phillips (Structure & Dynamics).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 11:00-11:20

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Probing nanostructures and optoelectronic properties of plastic solar cells by scanning probe microscopy

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Grains, interfaces and size effects in metal forming

Dr Daniel Balint, Imperial College.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 11 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Matching theory and experiment in primary peptide folding

Dr David de Sancho (CUC3).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 11 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Stimuli-responsive biodegradable poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate]-based copolymers for drug delivery and tissue engineering

Dr Xian Jun Loh, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

The Evolution of Telepathy (Perrott-Warrick Lecture)

Recording now available at http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1097239

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (Perrott-Warrick Scholar in Psychical Research, 2005-2010).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Under pressure: quasi-high pressure effects in nano-pores

Professor Keith Gubbins, North Carolina State University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Toxicity from Predicting Chemistry - Categories, Read-Across and Integrated Testing Strategies

Professor Mark Cronin, Liverpool John Moores University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry.

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 14:15-15:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Some recent multiphysics problems in geomechanics

Professor Kenichi Soga, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 04 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Monte Carlo approach to the full configuration interaction problem

Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Stable Silicon Clusters with Partial Substitution – Exploring the SI6R6 Potential Energy Surface Experimentally

Dr David Scheschkewitz, Imperial College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

New correlations in Material Arrest and Failure: Insight from Colloidal Glasses

Dr Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

A Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo Study of the Uniform Electron Gas

James Shepherd (CUC3).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 11:30-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Structural composition of GeSe_2 and GeSe_4 glasses

Mikhail Kibalchenko (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 11:00-11:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Studies of Ion Mobility in Materials for Alternative Energy Applications Using Solid-State NMR

Professor Gillian Goward, McMaster University, Canada.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Geometrical aspects of hydrophobic hydration

Dr Joachim Dzubiella, Technische Universität München.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Friction between people and fabrics

Dr David Cottenden, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 January 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Groebli solution for three magnetic vortices

Stavros Komineas, University of Crete, Heraklion.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Oddities of QMC with the 1D electron gas

Robert Lee (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 January 2011, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The crystal structure of ammonia dihydrate II

Gareth Griffiths (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 January 2011, 11:20-11:40

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quantum Monte Carlo study of the first row atoms & ions.

Priyanka Seth (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 January 2011, 11:00-11:20

Chemistry Departmental Seminars

Cognac and Armagnac - a scientific brandy tasting

To reserve a ticket or for more information please contact: John O'Toole T: 01223 894174 E: john.otoole9@btopenworld.com

Bruce Perry (Eaux de Vie Ltd, London).

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 09 December 2010, 19:00-21:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Refining force fields for atomistic simulations of protein folding

Robert Best (CUC3).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 03 December 2010, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Catalytic Capsids: reactions in confinement

Prof. Dr. Jeroen J.L.M. Cornelissen, Laboratory for Biomolecular Nanotechnology, University of Twente.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

CANCELLED

Professor Mike Krische, University of Texas.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 17:00-18:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Title to be confirmed

Dr Giovanni Bussi, Statistical and Biological Physics Sector, SISSA, Trieste.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Trapping, linking and encapsulating molecules in metal-based complexes and cluster cages.

Fedor Naumkin (Univ. of Ontario Institute of Technology).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 11:20-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Molecular Doping of Graphene

Louis Lee (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 11:00-11:20

Inorganic Chemistry

Metallopolyynes and Metallophosphors: Multifunctional Materials with Emerging Applications in Optical Devices

RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award Lecture 2010

Professor Raymond Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Organic Chemistry

Metallopolyynes and Metallophosphors: Multifunctional Materials with Emerging Applications in Optical Devices RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award Lecture 2010

RSC award lecture - joint with Inorganic Chemistry

Professor Raymond Wong, RSC award lecture.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Block-structured AMR algorithms for complex hyperbolic applications

Dr Ralf Deiterding, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.

Rutherford Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 29 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Numerical solution of partial differential equations with random coefficients: a stochastic finite element approach

Dr Eveline Rosseel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 26 November 2010, 14:00-15:00