Neutral Atom Microscopy: Science and Applications

Livestream using Teams. Meeting ID: 315 430 872 95. Passcode: JCk2AZ

Paul Dastoor, Surface Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

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Olivia Morley. Formerly of PCS.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Rate, temperature and their coupled effects on the deformation process of polycarbonate and its composite

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Peihao Song, Department of Engineering Science, The University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

How is Small different from Big?

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Andrew Briggs, Department of Materials, The University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

Benchmarking and developing models for molecule-surface potential energy surfaces. The difficulties and opportunities arising from experimental data which is too detailed and too sensitive

Gil Alexandrowicz, Department of Chemistry, The University of Swansea.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Gram-scale explosions to inform numerical modelling and FREM development

Adam Dennis, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The University of Sheffield.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Image-based high strain rate testing of materials

Fabrice Pierron, MatchID, Ghent, Belgium.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Energetics now and future trends

Bill Proud, Institute of Security Science and Technology, Imperial College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

The challenge of developing materials for fusion

Jim Pickles, Tokamak Energy, Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Shock and Impact Deformation: A Geological Perspective

Auriol Rae, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Multi-Scale Characterization of Materials under Extreme Conditions

Vatsa Gandhi, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Discovering the 2D world with XPS

Shaoliang Guan, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

2D Helium Atom Diffraction from a Microscopic Spot

Nick von Jeinsen, Surface and 2D Nanoscience, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Hardening effects in metals

Claire Lincoln, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Build the future: Design concrete with machine learning

Bogdan Zviazhynski, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Challenges in capturing transient thermal evolutions in materials using IR imaging

Janice Barton & Karthik Ramakrishnan, School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

The stochastic wave function method for diffusion of alkali atoms on metallic surface

Elena Torres, Institute of Fundamental Physics, Madrid, Spain.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Improved statistical estimation of impact sensitivity

Dennis Christensen, Oslo, Norway.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

Pressure, Rate, and Temperature Effects on Mechanical Properties in Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)

Jennifer Jordan, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 September 2023, 15:00-16:00

DYMAT in historical context

Stephen Walley, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Fusion is coming: Recent achievements and activities in the nuclear fusion

Simon Kirk, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

An overview of the CASS group at Imperial

John Dear, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 15:30-16:00

An investigation into the effectiveness of patch repairs to restore impact properties of CFRPs for aerostructure application

Zoe Hall, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 15:00-15:30

Ultrafast diffusion at the onset of 2D growth: O/Ru(0001) and S/Ni(111)

Jack Kelsall, Surface Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Keeping up the pressure

Patricia Alireza, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

The formation of contrast in scanning helium microscopy

Sam Lambrick, Surface Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Experimental and numerical study of detonation reaction zones

James Edgeley, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Quantum tunnelling effects in the guanine-thymine wobble misincorporation via tautomerism

Louie Slocombe, Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre, University of Surrey.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Additive manufacturing of energetic materials

Mike O’Donnell, Fracture & Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Fundamentals of thermodynamics (and a bit of quantum mechanics)

John Ellis, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

A day in the life of an adsorbate: Observing dynamics in an open quantum system

Bill Allison, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Cleaning up the nuclear legacy: Vitrified wasteform development and durability

Russell Hand, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Sheffield.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Resonant acoustic mixing processing studies of energetic materials

Andrew Claydon, Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

An experimental approach for the validation and development of Group Interaction Modelling for polymer properties

Malvina Constantinou, Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

An experimental approach for the validation and development of Group Interaction Modelling for polymer properties

Malvina Constantinou, Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 13 September 2022, 15:00-16:00

Alloy design against fatigue?

Mick Brown, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Is wood a material?

Stephen Walley, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Dynamic Behaviour of Concrete materials in Underground Engineering.

Huachuan Wang - Monash University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Forensic explosives analysis

Mike O'Donnell, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Highways and byways in the history of high rate mechanical testing

Stephen Walley, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Exploiting shape anisotropy for binary magnetic memories

Peter Newton, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Modelling energy dissipation at surfaces

Jörg Meyer, Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Field emitters at atomic scale: Insights from density functional theory

Chris Edgcombe, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Ptychography

John Rodenburg, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Imaging materials structure and bonding using coherent and incoherent electron imaging

Peter Nellist, Department of Materials, The University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Random explorations of materials space

Chris Pickard, Department of Materials Science, The University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

A voyage from bulk via thin film and nanoparticles to surface magnetism

Adrian Ionescu, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Colloids in confinement: From two-dimensional melting to membrane transport

Alice Thorneywork, Biological and Soft Systems Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Characterising explosive blast loading for structural engineering, protection and blast injury sciences

Jack Denny, Department of Engineering, University of Southampton.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Studying molecule-surface interactions using rotational orientation control of ground-state molecular beams

Gil Alexandrowicz, Department of Chemistry, Swansea University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Studying charge density wave systems and THz collective excitations with a meV atomic beam

Toni Tamtögl, Institute of Experimental Physics, Graz University of Technology, Austria.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Fracture by a million impacts: Erosion of polycrystalline diamond at temperatures up to 600 ˚C

Arthur Henderson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Simple condensed phase explosive detonation modelling

Martin Braithwaite, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Using scanning probes to fabricate and characterise nanoscale donor devices in silicon

Neil Curson, Centre for the Advanced Characterisation of Materials, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Imaging with atoms

Paul Dastoor, Department of Physics, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Experiments with high explosives

Jiri Pachman, Institute of Energetic Materials, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Borates as electrodes for lithium and magnesium-ion batteries

Siân Dutton, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Some applications of DFT in surface dynamics

Marco Sacchi, Department of Chemistry, University of Surrey.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Analytical descriptions of atomic-scale surface dynamics

Peter Townsend, SMF Surface Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Full-field optical metrology

Jonathan Huntley, Department of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Loughborough.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chiral modification of surfaces

David Madden, The BP Institute, Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Understanding and manipulating monolayers of 1D and 2D conjugated polymers

Hugo Bronstein, Department of Chemistry, The University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

An exploration of grain growth & deformation in zirconium

Ben Britton, Department of Materials, Imperial College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

A continuum theory for the fractures in brittle and ductile solids

Luca Cimbaro, Department of Physics, Imperial College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computer vision techniques for measuring deformation

Nick Taylor, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Imaging surfaces with atoms

Matthew Bergin, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboraotry.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Undersampling in physical imaging inverse problems

Bogdan Roman, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, The University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

The quasi-stationary nature of ‘steady-state’ cyclic deformation

Hael Mughrabi, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

A history of seeing sound: From medieval phonetics to high-speed photography

Joshua Harvey, Department of Engineering Science, The University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Damage of polymer-bonded composites

David Williamson, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Aristotle, projectiles and guns

Stephen Walley, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Thermodynamics de-mystified? /Thermodynamics without Ansätze?

John Ellis, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Dynamics of carbon and hydrogen on Ru(001)

Peter Townsend, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Enhanced structural evolution in the dynamic plasticity of fcc metals

Lewis Lea, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

High strain rate deformation response of titanium for aerospace gas turbines

Steven Lainé, Department of Materials Science, The University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Diffraction of noble gases from surfaces: A challenge for theoreticians

Cristina Díaz, Department of Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chiral surface systems

Georg Held, Department of Chemistry, The University of Reading.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Molecular adsorption and strained graphene on boron nitride

Peter Beton, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nottingham.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

The wetting of metal surfaces and nano-structured interfaces

Andrew Hodgson, Department of Chemistry, The University of Liverpool.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Neutron spin echo and reflectivity (at OFFSPEC)

Jos Cooper, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

The Whittle Laboratory: Fluid mechanics of jet engines and vacuum cleaners

Masha Folk and Wen Yao Lee, The Whittle Laboratory, The University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Where have all the speckles gone? Incoherence and decoherence in fluctuation electron microscopy

Mike Treacy, Department of Physics, Arizona State University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

The focusing neutral helium beam microscope NEMI

Sabrina Eder, Department of Physics and Technology, The University of Bergen, Norway.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Crystalline growth of ice – Restructuring of the first wetting layer during multilayer formation

Barbara Lechner, Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

On the development and calibration of an in vitro platform to investigate the response of stem cells over a wide range of pressure and strain rate

David Sory, Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Caging the Sun: Materials challenges in magnetic confinement fusion reactors

Simon Kirk, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

The particulars of particulates

Nathalie Vriend, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, The University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Microtribology of biological and bio-inspired surfaces

Lars Heepe, Zoological Institute, University of Kiel, Germany.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Post-blast explosive residue: Morphological, chemical and computational studies

Nadia Abdul-Karim, Security Science Doctoral Research Training Centre, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

The characterisation of a shock tube system for blast injury studies

Luz Nguyen, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Engineering structure and response of soft materials with DNA-mediated interactions

Lorenzo Di Michele, BSS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Characterization of gravelly soils for geotechnical engineering applications

Jason DeJong, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Power laws in dislocation plasticity

Mick Brown, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

A molecular perspective of water structure at metal surfaces

Nadav Avidor, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Diffusion dynamics of adsorbates from tunnelling and other quantum effects

Roberto Marquardt, Laboratory of Quantum Chemistry, University of Strasbourg, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

The dynamic compression and subsequent freezing of water

Sam Stafford, Instutute of Shock Physics, Imperial College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Birefringence measurements in calcite and sapphire under shock compression

Gareth Tear, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Molecular engineering for sustainable energy applications

Jacqui Cole, Molecular Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Hybrid functional devices based on graphene

Vincent Bouchiat, Institut Néel, CNRS-Grenoble, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Adhesive properties of polymer bonded explosive constituents: An experimental, analytical and computational approach

Neil Hamilton, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Structural energetics based on intermetallic reactions

Chris Braithwaite, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Sine-Gordon kinks and dislocation motion

Steven Fitzgerald, Department of Materials Science, University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

New opportunities and challenges for electron microscopy

Archie Howie, The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Investigating pnictogen surfaces via HAS: The effect of electron-hole excitations on measured vibronic modes

Patrick Kraus, Graz University of Technology, Austria.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

A dynamic discrete dislocation plasticity study of plastic relaxation phenomena in shock loading

Beñat Gurrutxaga-Lerma, Imperial College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Deformation Pathways in Shock Compressed Silicon: Experiments and Atomic Simulations

Eric Hahn, UCSD San Diego, California.

Room 713, Link Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 September 2015, 13:30-14:30

Quantification of near field blast loading

Sam Clarke, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The University of Sheffield.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Shocking temperatures. 2: What did we get?

Alyssa Picard, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-17:00

Measurement of mechanical properties of diamond via solid particle erosion

Ben Ramsay, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:00-16:30

The Doctoral Training Centre in computational materials science

James Elliott, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

On the characterisation of shock-induced sliding along multi-material interfaces

Mark Collinson, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Shocking sand: Granular materials under extreme conditions

James Perry, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Magnetic resonance in physics and engineering: Dynamics of solids and fluids

Andy Sederman, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Probing surface structure and interactions of ionic liquids

Karen Syres, Department of Physics, University of Central Lancashire.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Scanning helium microscopy (SHeM): Real space imaging of delicate surfaces

David Ward, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Shocking temperatures. 1: What did you expect?

David Williamson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Quasi-elastic neutron scattering: a powerful tool to investigate molecular dynamics in two dimensions

Irene Calvo Almazán, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Nanostructures for tuning of optical properties: Light and matter wave applications

Martin Greve, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Norway.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Properties and applications of diamond

Jim Pickles, Element Six.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

The nuclear detective: The role of particle characterisation

Jane Collins & Dave Mitchell, AWE Aldermaston.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Understanding human injury from under vehicle explosions

Spyros Masouros, Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Structural and functional characterisation of oxide nanomaterials

Donald MacLaren, School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Glasgow.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Machine learning in materials design, oil exploration, and beyond

Gareth Conduit, TCM Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

i2®©: Investigative & Interpretative Radiochemistry – The development of nuclear forensic science

Paul Thompson, AWE Aldermaston.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Shock-induced cavity collapse in liquid nitromethane

Louisa Michael, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

The properties of silicate glass relevant to their use in ballistics applications

Stephen Walley, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Soft capture of 'shrapnel' in foams

Mike Hutchinson, AWE Aldermaston.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

How to keep women (and men) in science

Petra Rudolf, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

The diffusion of benzene adsorbed on graphite surfaces studied with quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) techniques

Irene Calvo-Almazán, Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Semi-metal surfaces: A new territory for helium atom scattering measurements

Anton Tamtögl, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

The working of metals and Deep Thought

Mick Brown, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Ammonium nitrate: Safe oxidizer or dangerous explosive

Martin Braithwaite, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

The development of the hybrid rocket for Bloodhound SSC

Daniel Jubb, The Falcon Project Ltd..

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Numerical simulations of high-speed droplet splashing

Steve Millmore, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Solids under high-pressure shock compression: The interplay between simulation and experiment

Gabriele Mogni, The Clarendon Laboratory, The University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Silk: Spiders, silkworms, and advanced materials

David Porter, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Physics in the oil and gas industry

Pepijn Kole, Shell, The Netherlands.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 16:30-17:00

Knowledge exchange: What is it, who does it, and why do it?

Michael Simmons, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 16:00-16:30

Ask not what you can do for outreach but instead what outreach can do for you!

Lisa Jardine-Wright, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Investigating single molecule transport at micro- and nanometre scales

Ulrich Keyser, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Multiscale modelling of brittle fracture in oxides and semiconductors

James Kermode, King's College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 October 2013, 15:00-16:00

Nano-particle polymer composites

Gerry Swallowe, Department of Physics, Loughborough University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Shock compression of geological materials

Simon Kirk, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Sum frequency generation spectroscopy of small molecules adsorbed at interfaces

Mike Casford, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms

Rob Smith, AMOP Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Room 16 Kapitza Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Complex molecules on surfaces: Synchrotron radiation, scanning probe and in situ electrospray deposition

James O'Shea, School of Physics, University of Nottingham.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Implementation of viscoelastic Hopkinson bars and their application to the testing of soft materials

Richard Curry, BISRU, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Fracture mechanics, quantum mechanics and fractal geometry applied to brittle materials

Jack Mecholsky, Department of Materials Science, University of Florida, Gainsville, USA.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

A day in the life of a patent attorney

John Addiss, Mewburn Ellis LLP.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Fluid-structure interaction in underwater blast

Andreas Schiffer, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Pipe dreams

Matt Causier, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

The working of ductile metals and the doctrine of maximum entropy

Mick Brown, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Recent perspectives in the science of granular matter

Rafi Blumenfeld, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Nuclear quantum effects, path integrals and coloured noise

Michele Ceriotti, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Understanding 3HeSE measurements of pentacene surface diffusion via computer simulation

Paul Rotter, Department of Physics, University of Marburg, Germany.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

X-rays and light from diffuse mechanical energy

Jonathan Hird, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, USA.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

From babbling brooks to boiling kettles

Alan Walton, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

The use of H atom band structures in the first principles determination of H atom surface diffusion

John Ellis, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Unusual phase diagrams in ferroelectric crystals

Jim Scott, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Quantum effects in surface diffusion and scattering

Eliza McIntosh, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Silk, the bio-nanocomposite: Findings from high-speed impact

Dan Drodge, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford .

Kapitza Seminar Room, Room 16 Kapitza Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Biological materials and mechanics: An overview

Marc Meyers, University of California at San Diego.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Heavy atom diffraction in scattering from surfaces

Eli Pollak, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chinese university and industrial espionage

Clark Barrett, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

A new concept for high strain rate testing of materials based on the use of inertial forces

Fabrice Pierron, ParisTech, Chalons-en-Champagne, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Strain localization in granular materials

Stephen Walley, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Structural modification of energetic materials using high pressures and co-crystallisation

Colin Pulham, School of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Role of computer simulations in understanding surface processes

Lev Kantorovich, Department of Physics, King's College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Imaging structural performance

Janice Barton, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Ceramic armour: Past, present and future

Paul Hazell, Dynamic Response Group, Shrivenham Campus, Cranfield University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Topics in quantum matter research

Malte Grosche, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Nanomechanics of coatings for electronic and optical applications

Steve Bull, School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Exploring structural phase transitions in nanofriction

Andrea Benassi, Statistical Materials Modeling Laboratory, Institute for Energetics and Interphases, Milan, Italy.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Probabilistic automated alloy development

Bryce Conduit, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Probing micro-mechanical deformation behaviour with high resolution electron backscatter diffraction.

Benjamin Britton, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Screen-printable energetic inks for mining detonators

Tuuli Sutinen, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Surface diffusion on the atomic scale

Graznya Antczak, Department of Physics, University of Wroclaw, Poland.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Mechanisms of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylenes subjected to ballistic impact

Benjamin Russell, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Current research at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory

Arthur Blackburn, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Modelling the behaviour of multiscale cellular materials

Philippe Viot, Institut de Mécanique et Ingénerie, Bordeaux, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Organic electronics: Applied nanotechnology

Paul Dastoor, Centre for Organic Electronics, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Interaction of phonons and Dirac fermions on the surface of Bi2Se3: A strong Kohn anomaly

Michael El-Batanouny, Department of Physics, Boston University, USA.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Charge transport physics of high mobility organic semiconductors

Henning Sirringhaus, Microelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Prospects for studying how high-intensity compression waves cause damage in human blast injuries

Kate Brown, Imperial College Blast Biomechanics and Biophysics Group.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Dynamic response of electronic systems to shocks and vibrations: Applications ot analytical ("mathematical") modelling and design for reliability (DfR)

Ephraim Suhir, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz.

Committee Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 15:00-16:00

Steam and Gas Turbines – Wear and Erosion Challenges at High Temperatures

Sarah Hainsworth, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Microscopic characterization of organic thin films for appliactions in organic electronics

Gregor Witte, Department of Physics, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Polymer solar cells

Neil Greenham, Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Novel multi-functional lightweight armour

David Townsend, BAe Systems, Filton, Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Ultrafast charge transfer in pyridine on Cu(110)

Heike Arnolds, Surface Science Research Centre, University of Liverpool.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Review of the mechanical properties of diamond

John Field, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Explosive interactions of granular media with structures

Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Strain effect on electronic and structural properties of metal nanoislands grown on reconstructed Au(111)

Guido Fratesi, Materials Science Department, Milano-Bicocca University, Milan, Italy.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 13 April 2011, 11:30-12:30

Hardness-induced elastic, plastic, cracking observations

Ron Armstrong, Center for Energetic Concepts Development, University of Maryland.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 31 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Pulsed power driven shock physics experiments at Imperial College

Simon Bland, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Scratching the surface: Measuring the wear and frictional response of surfaces

Mark Gee, National Physical Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Erosion of thermal barrier coatings

Richard Wellman, Cranfield University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Shock compression of Mie-Grüneisen liquids

Mike Morley, SMF Group, The Cavenidsh Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Improving laser-driven flyer performance

Hannah Brierley, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Research in the Semiconductor Physics Group at the Cavendish Laboratory

David Ritchie, Semiconductor Physics (SP) Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Physics in innovation consultancy

Tim Goldrein, Innovia Technology Ltd., Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

On the twist: Chirality at surfaces

Stephen Driver, Surface Science Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Nanotechnology: Challenging chips and crime

Russell Cowburn, TFM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

The nucleation and growth of nanovoids: Molecular dynamics calculations

Marc André Meyers, The University of California at San Diego.

The Committee Room, The Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 18 January 2011, 11:15-12:15

Artificial nacre with vertically bridged tablets by ambient solution processing

Alex Finnemore, Biological and Soft Systems, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Single atoms and ultracold atomic gases

Michael Koehl, Atomic, Mesoscopic, and Optical Physics (AMOP) Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Impact cratering: Shock physics on a planetary scale

Gareth Collins, Department of Earth Science, Imperial College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Simple systems at extreme conditions

Eugene Gregoryanz, Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, University of Edinburgh.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Characterisation of anisotropic materials at high rates of strain

Clive Siviour, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Titanium dioxide: Interplay between non-stoichiometry, point and planar bulk defects and surface structure and reactivity

Roger Bennett, Department of Physics, University of Reading.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

The dynamics of thermally activated motion of cyclopentadienyl and pyrrole on Cu(111)

Barbara Lechner, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 16:30-17:00

A two dimensional approach for measuring surface phonons using helium spin echo

Pepijn Kole, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 16:00-16:30

Fluctuation Electron Microscopy of Amorphous Materials: The Twinkle in the Microscopist's Eye.

Mike Treacy, Department of Materials, Oxford University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 15 July 2010, 16:00-17:00

Life, Hypervelocity Impacts and the Solar System

Mark Burchell, School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 11 June 2010, 14:30-15:30

Structures of materials at high pressures

Richard Needs, Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

How to make polymers as strong as steel – and also more environmentally friendly

David Barton, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Nanohardness of high purity Cu (111) single crystals: The effect of indenter load and prior plastic strain

Munawar Chaudhri, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

How water wets metal surfaces

George Darling, Department of Chemistry, The University of Liverpool.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

The use of innovative optimisation methods in computational mechanics: Application to structures, material processing technologies and constitutive models

A. Andrade-Campos, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Low work function diamond surfaces

Kane O’Donnell, Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour of structures under extreme dynamic loadings: Characterisation and modelling

Yong Lu, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, The University of Edinburgh.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Ferromagnetic fibre networks and their possible application for magneto-mechanical stimulation of bone growth

Athina Markaki, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

High strain rate properties of shape memory alloys

Gerry Swallowe, Department of Physics, University of Loughborough.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

The use of Taylor impact for validating material constitutive models

Stephen Walley, SMF Group.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 16:30-17:00

Whipple shields for spacecraft

David Williamson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-16:30

Constant Intermittency: Central problems in dislocation plasticity

Mick Brown, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Rational material selection in product design

Stephen Grantham, Granta Design Ltd., Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

Stephen Driver, Surface Science Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Toward understanding the role of heterogeneity in powder mixtures

Dan Eakins, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College, London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Organic Monolayers, Networks, Electrochemistry: A Toolbox for the Nanoscale?

Manfred Buck, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 14 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Next generation initiators

Tracy Vine, QinetiQ.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Ice accretion on aircraft

Graeme Leese, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Predicting surface structures from first principles

Phil Hasnip, Department of Physics, University of York.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Liquid crystal elastomers

Jonathan Biggins, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Mechanical behaviour of particulate polymer composites

Dan Drodge, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 16:30-17:00

Optical techniques for characterising shock ejecta

David Bell, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 16:00-16:30

Adventures in catalytic nanospace: Resolving surface phenomena at the atomic scale

Michael Bowker, Wolfson Nanoscience Laboratory and Cardiff Catalysis Institute.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Simulation of void collapse in heterogeneous explosives

Louisa Michael, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:30-17:00

PBX 9502 detonation propagation

Stefan Schoch, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-16:30

First principles simulations of water-solid interfaces and the initial stages of ice nucleation

Angelos Michaelides, London Centre for Nanotechnology.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

One bubble, two bubbles, three bubbles, four... the physics of bubbles and how to eavesdrop on a breaking wave

Helen Czerski, Department of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 29 May 2009, 11:15-12:15

What happens when a bomb explodes: A review of current understanding in conventional munitions

Mike Hutchinson, AWE, Aldermaston.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Splitting in the Fermi surface of ZrTe3: A surface charge density wave system

Moritz Hoesch, Diamond Light Source, Harwell, Oxon.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

High-power lasers and the extreme conditions that they can produce

Steven Rose, Plasma Physics Group, Imperial College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Dislocation dynamics simulations of plasticity in dispersion hardened metals

Sylvain Queyreau, Laboratoire d’Etude des Microstructures, ONERA, Chatillon, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

The Myth of Mithril: Real materials for body armour

Celia Watson, Cranfield Defence and Security, Shrivenham.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Photonic Doppler velocimetry: The easy way to measure particle velocity

Philip Rae, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Green Explosives: Saving the environment, one war at a time…

Adam Collins, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Recent measurements using 3He spin-echo spectroscopy: Surface dynamics

Pepijn Kole, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:30-17:00

Recent measurements using 3He spin-echo spectroscopy: Bound state resonances

Fay Tuddenham, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-16:30

Dynamic behaviour of granular materials during penetration and compaction

John Addiss, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

The use of chirped fibre Bragg grating sensors to monitor disbond growth in bonded composite structures

Steve Ogin, Department of Materials, Surfaces and Structural Systems, University of Surrey.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Going for strength: The development of carbon nanotube fibres and fibre composites

Alan Windle, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Site specific residual stress analysis using focused ion beam machining

Richard Langford, Biological and Soft Systems (BSS) Sector, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Towards extracting high strain rate constitutive relations using impact nanoindentation and finite elements

James Dean, Gordon Laboratory, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Biomolecular adsorption at a silicon/water interface driven by water-structure effects

Daniel J. Cole, Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

New generation X-ray diffraction: technology and applications

Jacqui Cole, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quasicrystals: there be monsters...

Professor Ronan McGrath, Surface Science Centre, Department of Physics, The University of Liverpool.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Mesoscopic to macroscopic behaviour of particulate composites: Experimental and numerical aspects

Alain Fanget, Centre d'Etudes de Gramat, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

On the probabilistic–deterministic transition involved in a fragmentation process of brittle materials

Pascal Forquin, Laboratory of the Physics and Mechanics of Materials, University of Metz, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Towards extracting high strain rate constitutive relations using impact nanoindentation and finite elements

James Dean, Gordon Laboratory, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Nano-wires and islands - the structure of rare earth silicides on silicon surfaces

Steve Tear, Department of Physics, University of York.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Nonlocality and dynamic fracture: Are multiscale models the answer in dynamic fracture?

Florin Bobaru, Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The Committee Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 13:30-14:30

Soft, Self-Organized Systems: Templates for Functional Nanomaterials

Erika Eiser, Biological and Soft Systems Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Shock Compression of Metals: From Monocrystals to Nanocrystals, from Explosives to Lasers

Marc André Meyers, University of California San Diego.

The Committee Room, The Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 23 September 2008, 13:30-14:30

Initiation systems and novel explosives for laser flyer initiation

Adam Parker, QinetiQ Fort Halstead.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 16:30-17:00

Energetic phenomena in an underwater environment

Robert H. Telling, [dstl] Fort Halstead.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Crystallography of NLO materials: battle of the charge-density models

Daniel D. Hickstein, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 16:30-17:00

Accentuate the negative: anomalous thermal expansion in cyanide frameworks

Anthony E. Phillips, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 16:00-16:30

The dynamics of molecules on oxide surfaces modelled with ab initio methods

Mike Gillan, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Immobilisation of nuclear and toxic wastes by vitrification

Russell J. Hand, Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Sudden energy release around interfaces during quasistatic loading

Henry Tan, University of Manchester.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

The conch shell as a model for tougher composites

D M Williamson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Falling glass: The post-fracture performance of glass in buildings

M. Overend, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Studies of 21-6-9 stainless steel at various strain rates

G. Whiteman, Hydro Design Group, AWE Aldermaston.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Time-resolved X-ray diffraction on laser-shocked crystals

T. D’Almeida, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Building the next generation climate model

N. Nikoforakis, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

PA Consulting: Exploiting emerging technologies

C.E. Lloyd, PA Consulting, Melbourn, Cambs.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Electronic friction and excitations in molecule-surface interactions

M. Persson, Surface Science Research Centre, Dept. of Chemistry, The University of L:iverpool.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Beyond slip circle constructions: the cohesion limit of a polycrystal

Prof. L.M. Brown, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Optical angular momentum and some applications

Prof. R.E. Burge, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Activated surface diffusion with interaction adsorbates

A.S. Sanz, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Sum-rules and quantum limits: Using first principles to understand nonlinear optical behaviour

Dr J. Pérez-Moreno, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Surface dynamics in the low friction regime: Xe on Pt(111) using 3He Spin Echo Spectroscopy

D.J. Ward, SMF Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:30-17:00

New developments in atom detectors for molecular beam experiments

A.R. Alderwick, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-16:30

Making the most of your intellectual property

M. Grimshaw & Z. Stoeva, Cambridge Enterprise.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Systematic prediction of new second-order organic nonlinear optical materials

N Z F Weng, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 14 June 2007, 16:00-17:00

The dynamics of benzene on surfaces

Dr H. Hedgeland, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 07 June 2007, 16:00-17:00

Extrapolating from 50 years of dislocation imaging: Reaching into the core

Prof. A. Howie, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 24 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

A mathematician’s odyssey into the world of granular flows: From microscopic considerations to a continuum theory

C.J. Cawthorn, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 17 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

Quantum information processing with silicon-on-insulator based single electron transistors

Dr D G Hasko, Microelectronics Research Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 10 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

Shock generated pressure-temperature excursions in planetary materials

Dr J G Spray, Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 08 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Forensic material technology

Dr J E Balzer, Kriminaltechnisches Institut, Wiesbaden, Germany.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 03 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

Development of Textures in Nematic and Smectic (Ferro-Electric) Rubbers

Prof. M Warner, Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 08 March 2007, 16:00-17:00

Adsorption and Reactions on Interstellar Dust Grains

Dr W A Brown, Department of Chemistry, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 01 March 2007, 16:00-17:00

Navigating in a Chiral Landscape

Dr S J Jenkins, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 22 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

What’s Cooking in Mining?

This talk is being given as part of the Mott Seminar series.

Dr S Kingman, School of Chemical, Environmental and Mining Engineering, The University of Nottingham.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 14 February 2007, 16:15-17:15

Materials Science Research at the ISL

Dr E Lach, Institut Saint-Louis, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 08 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

Slip Circle Constructions for Dislocation Plasticity, with Special Reference to Nanoindentations

Prof. L M Brown, Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 01 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

UK MoD Ignition Studies Towards Large Calibre Gun System Applications

Dr M J Taylor, QinetiQ, Fort Halstead, Kent.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 25 January 2007, 16:00-17:00

Detecting Single Atoms in the STEM

A. Bleloch, The Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Imaging Surfaces with Atoms: How, Why and When?

D.A. MacLaren, The Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, The University of Glasgow.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 16 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Advanced Structural Characterisation Techniques for Amorphous Materials

J.M. Cole, Surfaces, Microscopy & Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Non-Adiabatic Processes at the Gas-Solid Interface

S. Holloway, Department of Chemistry, The University of Liverpool.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 02 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Technology and Golf: Friends or Foes?

E. Zaayman, Surfaces, Microscopy & Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

How to Make an Atom-Mirror: Preparation of Si(111)-(1x1)H surfaces on ultrathin crystals

A. Weeks, Surfaces, Microscopy & Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 05 October 2006, 16:00-17:00