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List of talks of relevance to the members of the Lennard-Jones Centre organised by others across Cambridge.

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33 upcoming talks and 2416 talks in the archive.

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials

UserDr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment).

HouseDept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials

UserDr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment).

HouseDept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials

UserDr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment).

HouseDept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding defects and disorder in energy materials

UserDr Sean Kavanagh (Harvard University, Center for the Environment).

HouseDept of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

A gapless 1D spin liquid as a critical point between fragile Kondo insulators

UserNick Bultnick, University of Ghent.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 14 November 2024, 14:00-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Practical Functional Oxide Thin Films for Electronic Devices

UserProf. Judith Driscoll (Device Material Group, Materials Science and Metallurgy).

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

ClockThursday 14 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Special Careers Session with Prof. Judith Driscoll

UserDepartment of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockThursday 07 November 2024, 15:15-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum and Classical Dynamics with Random Permutation Circuits

UserKatja Klobas, University of Birmingham.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Biomolecular Condensates Through a Computational Microscope

Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88371879047?pwd=vhtVw2UZOqP1euo1PGZsG6oZdOa84I.1

UserMaria Julia Maristany, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Designer alloys for tailored deformation-induced phase transformations: Revealing per-grain behaviour

UserDr David Collins, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge .

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT2.

ClockFriday 01 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Tuning the Electronic Phases of Graphene Nanoribbons

UserMichele Pizzochero (University of Bath).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 31 October 2024, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum geometry on physical properties in quadratic band touching

UserChanggeun Oh (University of Tokyo).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2024, 13:00-14:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

When the loss is not enough: misspecification uncertainty in atomic simulations

UserDr Thomas Swinburne, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille, CNRS.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2024, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Texture-induced spin-orbit coupling and skyrmion-electron bound states in a Néel antiferromagnet

UserRevaz Ramazashvili (Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Welcome to term and new PhD students

UserProfessor Michael Sutcliffe, Head of Division, Mechanics, Materials and Design.

HouseOatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

TCM talks

Chiral Wigner crystal phases induced by Berry curvature

UserBrian Skinner, Ohio State University .

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 27 September 2024, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Solid state defects for quantum information processing

UserSong LI (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 27 August 2024, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamical Many-body Freezing in Periodically Driven Quantum Systems

UserSayan Choudhury, Harish-Chandra Research Institute.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 01 July 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Disorder-tunable entanglement at infinite temperature

UserZlatko Papic, University of Leeds.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 13 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Adaptive Hybrid Density Functionals

UserDr Alastair Price, University of Toronto.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Unravelling emergent quantum phenomena from first-principles

https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.saeed.bahramy

UserMohammad saeed Bahramy (University of Manchester).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

EQUALITY-BASED FORMULATION FOR NON-SMOOTH VIBRATING SYSTEMS

UserProf. Christopher Pierre, Stevens Institute of Technology.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT6.

ClockFriday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Active Elasticity in non-reciprocal robotic metamaterials

UserDr. Jack Binysh, University of Amsterdam.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Orbital and spin Hall effect in altermagnetic RuO2

UserDr Lishu Zhang (Forschungszentrum Jülich).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological defects in spiral spin liquids

UserHan Yan, University of Tokyo.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exact many-body dynamics in quantum circuits via space-time duality

UserBruno Bertini, University of Nottingham.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Macromolecular Engineering by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

UserProfessor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Center for Macromolecular Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockThursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Fundamentals and Recent Advances in Controlled Radical Polymerization

UserProfessorKrzysztof Matyjaszewski, Center for Macromolecular Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockTuesday 14 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Hops, Walks, and Spins: The Choreography of Cellular Electron Transport at Biotic-Abiotic Interfaces"

User Professor Moh El-Naggar, Departments of Physics, Biological Sciences, and Chemistry, University of Southern California, USA.

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

ClockMonday 13 May 2024, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

SHAPE PROGRAMMABLE 3D MESOSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICES

UserProf. Yonggang Huang, McCORMICK school of Engineering, Northwestern University. .

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR5.

ClockThursday 21 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Automated discovery of material models

UserProfessor Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zurich.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT6.

ClockFriday 15 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Formulating protein behaviour in nanospace: Key to rational glue screening

UserProf. Daishi Fujita, Kyoto University iCeMS Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences.

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

ClockThursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bosonic Quantum Solvation Enabled by Machine Learning

UserDominik Marx (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology in lattices of semiconductor microcavities

UserJacqueline Bloch (Université Paris-Saclay & CNRS).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 15 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Field control of many-body phases in frustrated moiré bilayers

UserLaura Classen, MPI Stuttgart.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 08 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

State engineering of a mesoscopic spin system (in a quantum dot)

UserDorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

In-Silico Experiments to Unravel the Complexity of Engineering Interfaces

UserProfessor Daniele Dini, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Atomic scale modelling of magnetic materials

UserJoseph Barker (Leeds).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Hosts: From Energy Intensive Separations to Sensors and Soft Robotics

UserProf. Nivine Khashab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockThursday 14 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

“IT FROM BIT” How does information shape the structures in the universe?

UserSaeid Davatolhagh (Shiraz University).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 05 December 2023, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Computational Chemistry Event

UserDr Kadi Liis Sar, Dr Emma King-Smith, Dr Sam Niblett and Professor Angelos Michaelides.

HouseDept of Chemistry, BMS Lecture Theatre .

ClockFriday 01 December 2023, 14:00-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Deep learning, Monte Carlo and Quantum Mechanics

UserAlex Matthews, DeepMind.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 30 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Magnetism in 2D materials

UserProfessor Biplab Sanyal, Uppsala University.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Innovations in Multifunctional Materials and Composites through Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering

UserProf Kumar Shanmugam, Professor of Composite Materials and Advanced Manufacturing, University of Glasgow.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 24 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-boundary correspondence in quantum chains

UserNick Jones, University of Oxford.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Towards Operando Modelling of Zeolites

UserDr. Christopher Heard, Charles University.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum reaction-diffusion dynamics

User Gabriele Perfetto, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 17 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Melting of Spin 'Solids' in 2D

UserAndriy Nevidomskyy (Rice University).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kinetic magnetism of fermions in triangular lattices

UserEugene Demler, ETH Zurich.

HouseMott Seminar Room (531).

ClockWednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Prof. Julio Lloret

UserProf. Julio Lloret, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockTuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Diversity, tolerance, and maturation of the adaptive immune response

Please note a different venue than the usual

UserMehran Kardar (MIT).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Path Integral Approaches to Spin-Phonon Coupled Systems

1st Year PhD Report

UserIlija Srpak, University of Cambridge and Max Planck Institute.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2023, 14:30-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonlinear breathers with crystalline symmetries

UserFrank Schindler, Imperial College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 02 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Moving in a dynamically changing free energy landscape: strain, heterostructure and optical control of the correlation-driven metal-insulator transition

UserProf. Andrew Millis, Columbia University; co-Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, The Flatiron Institute.

HouseMott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2023, 11:15-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Soft elasticity by domain formation in reinforced and magneto-active composites

UserPedro Ponte Castañeda, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania,.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR5.

ClockFriday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical minimum

UserDavid Khmelnitskii.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 26 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Waves topology in geophysical flows

UserAntoine Venaille (ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Schrödinger in Oxford (and Cambridge)

UserProfessor Sir David Clary FRS (Oxford & Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Little Solutions to Big Problems: How we use nanoporous materials to address sustainability challenges

UserProf. Camille Petit,Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-reciprocal active matter across the scales

UserRamin Golestanian (MPI & Oxford).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Fracture and fatigue in additively manufactured alloys

UserProf. Upadrasta Ramamurty, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockWednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Eigenstate thermalization, quantum designs and free probability

UserJorge Kurchan (Ecole Normale Superieure, lpens, Paris, France).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 14 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Illuminating the Quantum Dynamics in Photoelectrochemistry

Special Lennard-Jones Centre seminar

UserDr Thomas Sayer, University of Colorado Boulder.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 14 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Searching for Quantum Spin Liquids in Cerium-based Pyrochlores

UserBenedikt Placke, Max Planck Institute.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 07 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-interface correspondence from quantum distance in flat band systems

UserChang-geun Oh (University of Tokyo).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockWednesday 23 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Imparting the generalised Toric Code with hopping dynamics

UserSiddarth Vadnerkar (UC Davis).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 17 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The quantum Mpemba effect

UserPasquale Calabrese (SISSA).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 27 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Calibrate Weak Intermolecular Ligand Interactions on Nanoparticles via the Dynamic Volume of Chain Segments

UserProf. Xueqian Kong, Institute of Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University .

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockThursday 20 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Hydrovoltaics: from energy to Intelligence

UserProf. Wanlin Guo, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

HouseLR3A, Department of Engineering.

ClockWednesday 05 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Colloidal nanocrystals to advance catalysis and energy technologies

UserProf. Raffaella Buonsanti, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne .

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockTuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical magneto-optical spectroscopy for solid state defect quantum bits

UserAdam Gali (Wigner Research Centre for Physics & Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

In Search of Coulson's Lost Theorem

UserProfessor Patrick Fowler, University of Sheffield.

HouseTodd Hamied Room, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanosensing in cancer fuels agressiveness

UserProf Laura M. Machesky, department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 26 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement automation for additive manufacturing using computer vision

UserProf William P. King, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC .

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 19 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum computers challenged by many-body chaos

UserAlexander Altland (University of Cologne).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 18 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Transcorrelated method for periodic systems

https://zoom.us/j/98420964527?pwd=K2NzWXBWZjZLd2MzaktMOXcxV3pDUT09 Meeting ID: 984 2096 4527 Passcode: 933217

UserProfessor Masayuki Ochi, Osaka University Japan.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 18 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Pseudo-Goldstone modes and order-by-disorder

UserJeffrey G. Rau (University of Windsor).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Planckian dissipation in metals

UserSean Hartnoll (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Cavity Magnonics

UserSilvia Viola Kusminskiy (RWTH Aachen/MPL Erlangen).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The shape of things to come

UserProfessor Nicola Marzari, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI).

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockThursday 20 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Liouville conformal blocks and Stokes Phenomena

UserBabak Haghighat (Tsinghua University).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 06 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Activity induced phase separation and ordering in various model soft matter systems

Theoretical Chemistry/Lennard-Jones Centre Seminar https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

UserProfessor Prabal Maiti, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry & Zoom.

ClockWednesday 29 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

‘Machine-learning in chemistry from the bottom up’

UserProfessor Michele Ceriotti, Institute of Materials, EPFL.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockTuesday 21 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Crumbling Crystals

First Year PhD Report

UserNiamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2023, 15:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Molecular simulations of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells

UserParamvir Ahlawat (Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Photosynthesis on an electrode

UserDr Jenny Zhang, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Spin dynamics in radical pairs

UserProfessor David Manolopoulos, University of Oxford.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Solving Continuum Physics Equations with OpenFOAM

UserHrvoje Jasak (Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Modeling of Fibrous Tissues Considering the Microstructure

UserProf Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Institute of Biomechanics, Austria.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermalization bounds and a universal collapse of the viscosities of glass forming liquids

UserZohar Nussinov (Oxford, Sorbonne, Washington U).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Leveraging vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and wave phenomena in emerging fields and across disciplines

UserProf Alper Erturk, Carl Ring Family Chair & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology .

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockThursday 16 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Understanding Metallic Bonding

UserVolker Heine.

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Energy landscapes of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs)

First Year PhD Report

UserArun Kumar Rajasekaran, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2023, 15:00-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Phononics: Structural dynamics of materials and implications to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and beyond

UserProf Mahmoud I. Hussein, Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multiscale Simulation of DNA

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminar

UserDr Modesto Orozco, IRB Barcelona.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The importance of fundamental hydrocarbons and their use in step economic total synthesis

UserDr Madison Sowden, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany (formerly at Australian National University, Canberra).

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockWednesday 01 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

UserBrian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

Recording now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kZjee3EwGU

UserBrian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum thermodynamics in open quantum systems

UserGéraldine Haack (Université de Genève).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 11:15-12:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Chemical Physics of Correlated Materials

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

UserProfessor Garnet Chan, Caltech.

Housevia zoom .

ClockWednesday 23 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

A constructive approach to dualities in quantum spin systems

UserFrank Verstraete (DAMTP and Ghent University).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development of a sequence-dependent coarse-grained model for probing protein aggregation

1st Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

UserKieran Russell, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2022, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Designing multiphase biomolecular condensates

First Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

UserPin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2022, 14:30-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ferroelectricity and topological polarization in twisted bilayers

UserDanny Bennett (University of Liège).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The role played by interactions in the assembly of active colloids: Discovering dynamic laws from observations.

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

UserDr Chantal Valeriani, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Programmable Folding of Droplet Colloidomers

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

UserProfessor Jasna Brujic, NYU.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Gender Equity in Academia: Why and How

UserProf. Paul Walton, University of York.

HouseBMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The many phases of Filinov filtration: mixed-limit semiclassical dynamics

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

UserDr Nandini Ananth, Cornell University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

UNICORN (UNIted COarse gRaiNed) Force Field

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

UserDr Adam Sieradzan, University of Gdańsk.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

A Spiral Twist to the "Normal" State of Magic-Angle Bilayer Graphene

UserSiddharth Parameswaran (University of Oxford).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Kinking in Atomically Layered Solids

UserDr Ankit Srivastava, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University.

HouseLR6.

ClockFriday 09 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Protein phase transitions in health and disease

UserProf Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 31 August 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Toward discovering novel physics with a NISQ processor

UserPedram Roushan (Google).

HouseTCM Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 21 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Bringing Quantum Mechanics for Electrons and Nuclei to Larger Scales

https://zoom.us/j/97412460697?pwd=SkZzdjZGNFUyakg2RkpwMnRCWkZ3dz09 Meeting ID: 974 1246 0697 Passcode: 804768

UserDr Mariana Rossi, Max Planck Institute .

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Emerging Energy Materials: Electrified Heating and Wood

UserProf Liangbing Hu, Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Center for Materials Innovation University of Maryland.

HouseMeeting ID: 849 1452 9444 .

ClockFriday 20 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Designing an Advanced Cancer Therapeutic Protein (GABPA Binding Inhibitor) Using an Artificial Intelligence-based DNA Binding Protein Design system.

https://zoom.us/j/96081156517?pwd=dmVGcVdDMXYvcVljdjVUQVIrd3F3QT09 Meeting ID: 960 8115 6517 Passcode: 135523

UserHaseem Deen Mohamed Sarif Mohamed Iqbal, University of Cambridge .

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2022, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

A computational model for protein phase separation: hnRNPA1 as a case study

https://zoom.us/j/96081156517?pwd=dmVGcVdDMXYvcVljdjVUQVIrd3F3QT09 Meeting ID: 960 8115 6517 Passcode: 135523

UserMaria Julia Maristany, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2022, 14:30-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Building bridges over mountain passes with variational path sampling

https://zoom.us/j/92686443414?pwd=OXVvY3lubnYxdU04enVZNFEzcjNmdz09 Meeting ID: 926 8644 3414 Passcode: 815149

UserDr David Limmer, UC Berkeley.

HouseZoom and will be lived streamed in the Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

ClockWednesday 11 May 2022, 16:30-17:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Machine Learning for Molecular Simulation - from Quantum Chemistry to Protein Dynamics

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/91726565686?pwd=cmpNYmswRlRRamgycGhiT29jSE44UT09 Meeting ID: 917 2656 5686 Passcode: 592709

UserProfessor Frank Noé, Free University Berlin.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2022, 14:30-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Angstrom-scale capillaries: Ion selectivity beyond steric effects

https://zoom.us/j/93042336923?pwd=V0dZc1hjcEhESXdGcGhDbGxYRTZQZz09 Meeting ID: 930 4233 6923 Passcode: 942671

UserProfessor Radha Boya, University of Manchester.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2022, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCUED LR4.

ClockFriday 18 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The liquid genome: Multiscale modelling of DNA packaging inside cells

https://zoom.us/j/99261863179?pwd=cExLK0QrdTF5R1c3bDNiWWwrbUtwdz09 Meeting ID: 992 6186 3179 Passcode: 180099

UserDr Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 11:15-12:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanically-instructive Scaffolds to Steer Tissue Regeneration: Merging Mechaniobiology with Biofabrication

User Prof Lorenzo Moroni, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Complex Tissue Regeneration Department. Maastricht University.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

One becomes two: assemblies that split cells across evolution

https://zoom.us/j/92220720173?pwd=WWVpVzVRY3dGRlhCRnFJZE81enRlUT09 Meeting ID: 922 2072 0173 Passcode: 070083

UserDr Anđela Šarić, IST Austria .

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Complexes and conservation: constructing numerical methods for physical systems

UserProf Garth Wells, Hibbit Professor of Solid Mechanics, CUED.

HouseCUED LR5.

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kagome metals

UserRonny Thomale, University of Würzburg.

HouseDetails of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Simple Models for Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Biological Cells

https://zoom.us/j/92110994248?pwd=VHVlRE15bUJRZ0pOcDdwdlQ3V0cwUT09 Meeting ID: 921 1099 4248 Passcode: 360337

UserProfessor Halim Kusumaatmaja, Durham University.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2022, 14:30-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development of a transferable coarse-grained model for biomolecular phase-separation with near-quantitative accuracy.

1st Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/97218330219?pwd=cm5obGVnMVJ1RmZML3Rtc1RNRlc1dz09 Meeting ID: 972 1833 0219 Passcode: 540145

UserAnne Aguirre, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2022, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

General embedded cluster protocol for accurate modelling of oxygen vacancies in metal-oxides

First Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/99862441719?pwd=OHc4d0hpczU4SVpEK0ppUHliUVRSUT09 Meeting ID: 998 6244 1719 Passcode: 373295https://zoom.us/j/97218330219?pwd=cm5obGVnMVJ1RmZML3Rtc1RNRlc1dz09 Meeting ID: 972 1833 0219 Passcode: 540145

UserBenjamin Shi (University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry & Zoom.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2022, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A phase-field model for ferroelectrics with general kinetics

UserProf Laurent Guin, Solid Mechanics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

ClockFriday 18 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum simulations of materials for sustainable energy generation and use

https://zoom.us/j/99306849914?pwd=dDg3YWkvTjZKaTc3RHZQbWxsb1QvUT09 Meeting ID: 993 0684 9914 Passcode: 982405

UserProfessor Giulia Galli, University of Chicago.

HouseDept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Exploding, weeping and reversible phase transformations in ceramics

UserProf Richard James, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Aerospace and Engineering Mechanics, University of Minnesota.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Hot electrons in chemical reactions at metal surfaces: From molecular beam scattering to plasmonic chemistry

https://zoom.us/j/98783704195?pwd=L0hDVDJYeDdRYkR5TGFyeEV3RE1vZz09 Meeting ID: 987 8370 4195 Passcode: 689645

UserDr Reinhard J. Maurer, University of Warwick.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry & Zoom.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Energy Landscape of Hybrid Restraint Functions Based on NMR Data

1st Year PhD Report. Join Zoom meeting https://zoom.us/j/99862441719?pwd=OHc4d0hpczU4SVpEK0ppUHliUVRSUT09 Meeting ID: 998 6244 1719 Passcode: 373295

UserYifei Wang, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2022, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Variational calculations of monoatomic endofullerenes

First Year PhD Report. Join Zoom meeting https://zoom.us/j/99862441719?pwd=OHc4d0hpczU4SVpEK0ppUHliUVRSUT09 Meeting ID: 998 6244 1719 Passcode: 373295

UserKripa Panchagnula, University of Cambridge.

Housevia zoom .

ClockWednesday 02 February 2022, 14:30-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Realistic simulations of IR spectra using path-integrals: quasicentroid molecular dynamics

First Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/97542686010?pwd=OHY3Mzd6NUptaHpzTDJkOUY2QTFzZz09 Meeting ID: 975 4268 6010 Passcode: 417918

UserChristopher Haggard, University of Cambridge.

Housevia zoom .

ClockWednesday 26 January 2022, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The origin of enantioselectivity in photochemical reactions with diarylprolinol silyl ether catalysts

First Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/97542686010?pwd=OHY3Mzd6NUptaHpzTDJkOUY2QTFzZz09 Meeting ID: 975 4268 6010 Passcode: 417918

UserChing Ching Lam, University of Cambridge.

Housevia zoom .

ClockWednesday 26 January 2022, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanical metamaterials: Does toughness characterise fracture?

UserDr Angkur Jyoti Dipanka Shaikeea, Ashby Fellow, CUED.

HouseCUED LR4.

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Genome Organization through Phase Separation: Random yet Precise

https://zoom.us/j/99705960225?pwd=VnB5WW9YWHNrUXRFZmFQOU1wQW5lUT09 Meeting ID: 997 0596 0225 Passcode: 198245

UserDr Bin Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Housevia zoom .

ClockWednesday 19 January 2022, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

POSTPONED

UserFlore Kunst, MPL Erlangen.

HouseDetails of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

ClockThursday 02 December 2021, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Exploring the interface between carbon based materials and electrolytes: Insights from simulations

https://zoom.us/j/98671840072?pwd=TXRNaHVIS0VlYWEzTm5YVUVWbThCQT09 Meeting ID: 986 7184 0072 Passcode: 366353

UserDr Céline Merlet, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier .

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2021, 14:30-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Scalable multi-reference chemistry using quantum Monte Carlo

https://zoom.us/j/93027947380?pwd=TTIrV3hPaFV4SlRyZm85UHF0d0RxUT09 Meeting ID: 930 2794 7380 Passcode: 697350

UserDr Nick Blunt, Riverlane.

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Learning based multiscale modeling

UserDr Burigede Liu, CUED.

HouseCUED LR6.

ClockFriday 19 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development Of A Multiscale Chromatin Coarse-Grained Model

First Year PhD Report

UserCharles Phillips, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2021, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Base flipping in DNA using potential energy landscapes

First Year PhD Report

UserNicy, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2021, 14:30-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

From hyperbolic drum towards hyperbolic topological insulators

UserTomáš Bzdušek (Paul Scherrer Institute).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

On Loss Function Landscapes of Neural Networks

First Year PhD Report. Zoom details Meeting ID: 915 2238 0125 Passcode: 224474

UserMax Niroomand, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2021, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions of Two Species Driven Diffusive Lattice Gas

First Year PhD Report. Zoom details: Meeting ID: 915 2238 0125 Passcode: 224474

UserHonghao Yu, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Bioprinting with Microgel Materials

UserProfessor Marcy Zenobi-Wong, Head of Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

ClockFriday 05 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Harnessing helpful heterogeneity in healing at the humeral head: The mechanics of the rotator cuff and its surgical repair

UserProf. Guy M Genin, Co-Director, NSF Science and Technology Centre for Engineering MechanoBiology Washington University in St Louis.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

ClockFriday 29 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Real Time Optical Probes of Phase Transitions in Nanoscale Materials

User Dr Akshay Rao, Cavendish Laboratory, Physics, Cambridge.

HouseCUED LR6.

ClockFriday 15 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The Statistical Finite Element Method

UserProf Mark A Girolami, Div D, CUED.

HouseCUED LR6.

ClockFriday 08 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Final Year PhD Talks (by Hugh Ryan and Francesca Firth)

UserHugh Ryan and Francesca Firth (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom meeting (Meeting ID: 967 7032 7126 Passcode: 077949).

ClockThursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Who gets to do research? - Equity in STEMM viewed through a funding lens

Materials RIG Seminar

UserProf. Rachel Oliver (Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom meeting (Meeting ID: 937 3157 5068, Passcode: 994936).

ClockThursday 10 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Elastocapillary singularities in creasing & wetting

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

User Dr Jacco Snoeijer.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

ClockFriday 04 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Controlling photonic properties from the micro to the macroscale

Final year PhD student talk

UserClement Chan (Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom meeting (Meeting ID: 944 5796 1273, Passcode: 773568).

ClockThursday 03 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Linear and nonlinear inverse problems in imaging

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

User Dr Leslie Greengar, New York University.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

ClockFriday 28 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Machine learning as a solution to the electronic structure problem

UserBeatriz G. del Rio (Georgia Tech).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Talks delivered by two final year PhD students

UserTaylor Uekert and Rajesh Jethwa (Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Universit of Cambridge.

HouseZoom meeting (Meeting ID: 933 8200 8737, Passcode: 991562).

ClockThursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Putting 3D Bioprinting to Tissue and Tissue Model Fabrication

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserDr Y. Shrike Zhang, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

ClockFriday 07 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nanoconfined Water and it's Anomalies

UserProfessor Biman Bagchi, Indian Institute of Science - Bengaluru.

HouseZoom: Meeting ID: 993 0985 5457 Passcode: 520993.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2021, 10:00-11:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The Mechanics of Bioinspired Artificial Intelligence

UserProf Markus J. Buehler, McAfee Professor of Engineering, MIT.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2021, 16:30-17:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Machine Learning in Structural Dynamics

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserProf Keith Worden, Sheffield University.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Learning based multi-scale modeling

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserProf Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Model-Free Data-Driven Science: Cutting out the Middleman

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserProf Michael Ortiz, California Institute of Technology .

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Generalization of Quasicentroid Molecular Dynamics to complex systems

First Year PhD Report

UserVijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom: Meeting ID: 971 8360 9971 Passcode: 458262.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2021, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

A systematic conformational searching method

First Year PhD Report

UserMengman Wei, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom: Meeting ID: 971 8360 9971 Passcode: 458262.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Bioengineered ECM-Based Constructs as a tool for Composite Tissue Fabrication

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserIdan Redenski, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 12 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The impact of glioblastoma heterogeneity on preclinical studies and treatment response

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserDr Rasha Rezk (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 05 February 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Symmetry in Crystal Structure Prediction

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserJames Darby, CUED.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 05 February 2021, 14:00-14:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

How to be a solid yet more fluid than a fluid?

UserChang Woo Myung.

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Modelling the creep deformation of engineering alloys for energy applications at different scales

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserProf Alan Cocks, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Leading Multiphysics Modeling for AM and Emerging Design Approaches for Impacts

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

User Prof Claus Pedersen, R&D SIMULIA - Dassault Systèmes.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Understanding transition metal heterogeneous catalysis

UserProfessor Jens Kehlet Nørskov, Technical University of Denmark.

HouseZoom: Meeting ID: 983 4340 7484 Passcode: 162366.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exploring the vibrational properties of anharmonic crystals

UserMark Johnson (Theory of Condensed Matter).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 11:30-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Micromechanics of near-ideal polymer networks

User Dr Laurence.Brassart, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford.

Housezoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email hh463@cam.ac.uk .

ClockFriday 27 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Rapid 3D Bioprinting for Precision Tissue Engineering

UserProf Shaochen Chen, Chair of NanoEngineering Department, University of California.

Housezoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email yc512@cam.ac.uk.

ClockFriday 20 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Open Markovian Quantum Many-Body Systems

UserMarco Schiro', CNRS, Institut de Physique, College de France & IPhT-CEA Saclay.

HouseDetails of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Amphipathic Nature of Graphene Flakes

UserKarolina Milowska.

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Understanding the Peculiarities of Metallic Bonding

UserProf. Volker Heine FRS.

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation

User Prof Gabor Domokos, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Housezoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email hh463@cam.ac.uk .

ClockFriday 06 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

In silico identification of reactivity driven MIEs

First Year PhD Report

UserCharles Gong, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom - Meeting ID: 924 3189 5042 Passcode: 306870.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2020, 15:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological Proximity Effects

UserKaryn Le Hur, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique.

HouseDetails of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

ClockThursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

EML webinar Liquid crystal elastomers

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfMWBNGZ1gP5eSjmynSFvWA/live

UserProf. Kaushik Bhattacharaya's.

House https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684 .

ClockWednesday 07 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Hall Viscosity in Quantum Systems with Discrete Symmetry

UserBarry Bradlyn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

HouseDetails of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

ClockThursday 25 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Transmission and reflection at the boundary of a random two-component composite

register for this seminar : https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GgUwoeBdSEuFoapyPpDe0A

UserProfessor John R. Willis, University of Cambridge.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The mechanics of Robotic Matter

https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

User Professor Chiara Daraio,Caltech.

House https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684 .

ClockMonday 08 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Cascaded quantum systems - strongly correlated transport and remote interactions

UserProf. Klemens Hammerer, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover.

HouseDetails of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

ClockThursday 04 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

New Horizons in Microarchitectured Materials

YouTube Live https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

User Prof Norman Fleck, Cambridge University.

HouseZoom Discussion https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Soft-bodied Magnetic Small-scale Mobile Robots.

YouTube Live https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

UserMetin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

HouseZoom Discussion https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multistable structures - from energy trapping to morphing.

YouTube Live https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

User Prof Katia Bertoldi, Harvard.

HouseZoom Discussion https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Injectable therapeutic vascularized micro-tissues engineered using sacrificial hydrogels

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81492263459

UserDr Ninna Rossen (BRIC-University of Copenhagen).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 08 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Extreme mechanics of soft materials for merging human-machine intelligence

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684

UserProf Xuanhe Zhao, MIT.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Self-excited motions of volatile drops on swellable sheets

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81492263459

UserDr Aditi Chakrabarti, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 01 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Simulation-assisted discovery of membrane targeting nanomedicine

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684

UserProf Huajian Gao, Nanyang Technological University.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Optical superresolution microscopy of molecular mechanisms of disease

User Prof Clemens Kaminski, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cancellation - Computational Modelling at the Interface of Physical Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry

This talk has been canceled.

UserProf. Fernanda Duarte (Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 05 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Innovation in synthetic methodology through use of flow

Joint Materials/Synthesis RIG Seminar

UserProf. Timothy Noël (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 02 March 2020, 15:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The modern-day blacksmith

User Dr Gareth Conduit, Theory of Condensed Matter, Physics, Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Chemical equilibrium in the Earth's core

UserProf. Dario Alfè, University College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 27 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Bioinspired Nano- and Microstructured Surfaces: From Analysis and Replication to Applications

UserProf. Dr. Hendrik Hoelscher (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Microstructure Technology, Germany).

HousePfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Thermal transport beyond Fourier, and beyond Boltzmann

UserMichele Simoncelli, Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor John Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-18:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology by non-unitary quantum dynamics

User Prof. Dr. Jan Carl Budich, TU Dresden .

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum topological effects in the transport properties of ionic conductors

UserProfessor Stefano Baroni, SISSA — Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Sudi Avanzati, Trieste.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A phenomenological constitutive theory for polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics based on orientation distribution functions

UserDr Martin I. Idiart, Departamento de Aeronáutica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata / CONICET, Argentina.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockMonday 10 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Emergent Black Hole Dynamics in Critical Floquet Systems

UserProf. Dr. Titus Neupert, University of Zurich.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 06 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reversible Catalysis in Redox Matrices

UserProf. Dr. Nicolas Plumeré (Department of Chemistry, University of Bochum).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2020, 10:00-11:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds

UserDr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 20 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology and scale invariance in atomic Flatland

UserProf. Jean Dalibard, Collège de France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Small Things Make Big Differences

Athena SWAN Talk

UserProfessor Catherine J. Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 15 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The Golden Road: Synthesis and Surface Chemistry of Gold Nanocrystals

BP Sustainability Lecture

UserProfessor Catherine J. Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 15 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Stochastic Approach to Quantum Spin Dynamics

UserDr Joe Bhaseen, King's College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Understanding the chemistry of ageing and disease in the extracellular matrix

UserProf Melinda J Duer, Professor of Biological and Biomedical Chemistry, Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Comprehensive modeling of materials for solar applications from first principles

UserProf. Julia Wiktor, Chalmers University of Technology.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Pathway to Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Discrete Dipoles

First Year PhD Report

UserHaydn Lloyd, University of Cambrisge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2019, 14:40-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multireference Stochastic Coupled Cluster

First Year PhD Report

UserMaria-Andreea Filip, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2019, 14:15-14:35

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Hierarchical equations of motion

First Year PhD Report

UserAdam Prada, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 14:40-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Introducing Topological Quantum Chemistry and Topological Materials Data Base

UserDr Maia Vergniory, Donostia International Physics Center.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 31 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Surface energy approaches in modeling of nano-objects

UserProf Anna Zemlyanova, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Axial anomalies in Weyl semimetals

UserProf. Jens Bardarson, KTH Royal Technical Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 24 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The Evolution of Solutions

UserProf Harry Bhadeshia, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spin Transport in 2D Materials and Topological Matter

UserProf. Stephan Roche, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Hydrogen induced fast fracture

User Profs Gábor Csányi and Vikram Deshpande (University of Cambridge).

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 11 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Photonic topological anomalies

UserProf. Henning Schomerus, Lancaster University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 10 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Amorphous Al2O3 from Atomic Layer Deposition

UserAngela Harper, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 09 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Towards the design of molecular materials

UserDr Gerit Brandenburg, Heidelberg University and UCL.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 16 September 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Biomolecular interactions in crowded cellular environments

UserDr Yuji Sugita, Theoretical Molecular Science Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 12 September 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Quantum Chemistry in the Continuum"

UserProfessor Anna Krylov, University of Southern California.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 11 September 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Towards automated self-correction of approximate DFT using first-principles Hubbard U and Hund's J parameters

UserDavid O’Regan, School of Physics, CRANN and AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 September 2019, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanics of Polymer Brushes

UserProf Srikantha Anasavarapu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 14 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Vestigial order in quantum materials

UserProf. Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 13 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonequilibrium Materials Engineering

UserDr. Michael Sentef, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 06 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ab initio thermodynamics with the help of machine learning

UserDr. Bingqing Cheng, Trinity College, the University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 03 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Atomistically inspired origami

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

UserProf Richard D. James, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 31 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dissipative "time crystals"

UserDr. Achilleas Lazarides, Loughborough University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Cell Mechanics Based Microfluidics for Disease Diagnosis & Therapy: From Bench to Bedside

UserProf. Chwee Teck (C.T.) Lim, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and Technology, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore.

HouseLR6, Department of Engineering.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

TBC

UserProf. Dr. Sven Schneider (Georg-August-Universität).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Directions for Random Search

UserProfessor Chris Pickard, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Flexoelectricity from first principles

UserProf. Cyrus E. Dreyer, Stony Brook University and Flatiron Institute.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 13 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Self-similarly expanding regions of phase change yield cavitational instabilities and model deep earthquakes

Tea and coffee will be available in the foyer after the seminar

UserProf Xanthippi Markenscoff, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 03 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Bio-electromechanical interfaces and sensors based on functional nanomaterials

UserDr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 26 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spontaneous non-equilibrium magnetism via "Berryogenesis" in driven electronic systems

UserProf. Mark Spencer Rudner, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 25 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Programming materials with classical conditioning algorithms

UserProf. Olli Ikkala, Molecular Materials (Molmat) - Aalto University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 09 April 2019, 15:10-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Assembly of nano-polysaccharides and plant polyaromatics at interfaces

UserProf. Orlando J. Rojas, Aalto University (Finland) & North Carolina State University (US).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 09 April 2019, 14:00-14:50

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

PROTAC-mediated Protein Degradation: A New Therapeutic Modality

UserProfessor Craig Crews, Yale University..

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 03 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Bioengineering Conference

Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bioengineering-conference-tickets-54846325837

UserMihaela van der Schaar, Somenath Bakshi, Sebastian Pattinson, Fumiya Iida, Rasha Rezk, Felice Torrisi, George Malliaras, James Ward, Roger Mason, Andrew Flewitt, Flavia Mancini.

HouseMcGrath Centre, St Catharine's College.

ClockFriday 15 March 2019, 08:45-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Catalytic Activation of Renewable Resources to make Polymers and Fuels

UserProf. Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Non-conventional polymer composite materials: expanding the design envelope of aerospace structures

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

UserDr Pedro Camanho, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, University of Porto.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Enhancing materials design using microscopy and modelling

UserDr Rebecca Nicholls, University of Oxford.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 28 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Oxidation catalysis imparted by donor-flexible ligands

UserProfessor Martin Albrecht (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Bern).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in One Dimension

UserDr Johannes Bausch, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Going green with black: On Biomass, Carbon and Clean Energy

UserProfessor Magdalena Titirici (Imperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Surprises in the Self-Assembly of Particles in Spherical Confinement

UserProf. Alfons van Blaaderen (Debye Institute for Nanomaterials, Utrecht University).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Lectures "Breakable and self-assembled materials: Synthesis and applications"

UserProfessor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Active Cell Mechanics

Tea and coffee & biscuits will be available after the seminar

UserProfessor Ulrich Schwarz, Institute for Theoretical Physics and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Germany .

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Lectures 2019 "Luminescent complexes: assemblies, sensing, towards artificial virus"

UserProfessor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

50 years on. Recollections of a former young theoretical physicist

UserProf. David Khmelnitskii, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 31 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Cambridge Philosophical Society series

UserProfessor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

SUPERCHIRALITY AND BLOCH SURFACE WAVES

UserProf. Paolo Biagioni, Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano (IT).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 24 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

3D quantum Hall effects in Dirac loops

UserProf. Bruno Uchoa, The University of Oklahoma.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 24 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Molecular Photosynthesis: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On

UserProfessor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences).

HouseSeminar Room, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 24 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Supramolecular Architectures for Artificial Photosynthesis

UserProfessor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 15:45-16:45

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Athena SWAN Presentation

UserProfessor Marcella Bonchio and Dr Emma Chapman.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Phonon assisted luminescence in hexagonal Boron Nitride

UserDr Elena Cannuccia, University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Multicatalytic Transformations with and without Light

UserProfessor Kirsten Zeitler, Institut für Organische Chemie, Universitat Leipzig..

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 19 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum many-body scars

UserDr. Zlatko Papić, University of Leeds.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Hybrid molecular materials for water splitting applications

UserAntoni Llobet, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multiscale physics-based strategies to address parameter uncertainty in crystal plasticity

UserDr Gustavo M Castelluccio, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 23 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dissipative transition in synthetic matter

UserProf. Rosario Fazio, ICTP.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Metal-containing organic cages and macrocycles with open/close feature

UserProf Shigehisa Akine (Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Emergence of topological phases in lithium under pressure

UserStephanie Mack, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theory of photon- and electron-stimulated surface chemistry

UserDr Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

2018 Merck Lectureship

UserProfessor Sarah Reisman- Caltech.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2018, 15:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamical quantum phase transitions

UserDr Markus Heyl, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 08 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Second-Principles DFT methods and current applications

UserDr Pablo García Fernández, University of Cantabria.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 01 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Uni-axial Negative Thermal Expansion in Layered Perovskites

UserProf. Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Pathways of Amyloid Aggregation

UserDr Birgit Strodel, Forschungszentrum Jülich.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Functional Nanoparticles: A Pathway to Low Viscosity Nanofluids, High Graft Density Polymers and Other Fun Things

UserProf. David Andrew Lewis, PhD, FRACI (Flinders centre for NanoScale Science and Technology, Flinders University) .

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2018, 14:30-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Energy Landscapes of Amyloid Oligomers

First Year PhD Report

UserLuke Dicks, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 14:40-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Superconducting DFT

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

BEEF: Bayesian Error Estimate Functionals

UserMatthew Evans (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Lieb's "Density Functionals for Coulomb Systems"

UserNick Woods (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The role of spin-orbit coupling in superconducting In5Bi3

UserBartomeu Monserrat (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Stimuli Responsive Supramolecular Materials Formed from Host and Guest Polymers

UserProf. Yoshinori Takashima (Osaka University, Japan).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 02 October 2018, 11:00-11:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Polymer/clay nanocomposites: The catalytic effect of clay

UserProf Miroslav Huskić (National Institute of Chemistry).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 28 September 2018, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

An overview of topological crystalline phases, defect physics and novel Floquet systems

UserDr Robert-Jan Slager, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems .

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 26 July 2018, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

3D bioprinting for in vitro tissue engineering

UserProf Wei Sun, University of Nottingham.

HouseJDB Seminar room.

ClockMonday 25 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonextensivity in classical inertial XY and Heisenberg models

UserDr Antonio Rodríguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 14 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Functionalization and Heteroleptic Assembly of Coordination Cages

UserProf. Dr. Guido Clever (Anorganische Chemie, Technische Universität Dortmund).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 June 2018, 10:00-11:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Molecular Imaging of Disease

UserBruno Oliveira, Chemistry Dept, Cambridge.

HouseTodd Hamied, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 31 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

On the length scale, robustness and manufacturability in topology optimization

User Dr Boyan Stefanov Lazarov, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 18 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Fractons

UserProf. Rahul Nandkishore, Boulder.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 14 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Thermalization Dynamics

UserProf. Dr. Frank Pollmann, Technische Universität München.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 26 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Multi-scale dynamic disorder in halide perovskite solar cells

UserProf. Aron Walsh, Imperial College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 19 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

David Chandler Linnett Memorial Symposium

UserDr Céline Merlet, Prof. Christoph Dellago, Prof. Iris Antes, Prof. Juan P. Garrahan, Dr Lester Hedges, Prof. Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Prof. Berend Smit, Dr Benjamin Rotenberg, Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Dr Ulf Pedersen.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 13 April 2018, 11:00-18:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

INFRARED TRANSMITTING SILVER HALIDE FIBERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

UserProf. Abraham Katzir, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum modelling of the interiors of rocky and icy planets

UserDr Andreas Hermann, The University of Edinburgh.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 15 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modelling diffusion-osmosis

First Year PhD Report

UserSimon Ramirez Hinestrosa, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2018, 14:55-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Depolarising Polar Surface Simulations

First Year PhD Report

UserThomas Sayer, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2018, 14:35-14:55

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Current-Induced Stresses in Ceramic Lithium-Ion Conductors

UserProfessor Charles Monroe, Energy and Power Group Oxford University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological Materials with liquid electrons

UserProf. Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 15 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Second Harmonic Scattering: Atomistic Simulation and Machine Learning

UserDr David M. Wilkins, Laboratory of Computational Science and Modelling, EPFL.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

TCM Dragon's Den

UserTCM first year students.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The world is not flat: 3D cell biology and 3D devices

User Dr Róisín M. Owens, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 26 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Metastability in open quantum dynamics

UserDr Katarzyna Macieszczak, University of Nottingham.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 25 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism at the nanoscale

UserProf. Alexandre Buzdin, University of Bordeaux.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Big Molecules and Small Particles

UserProfessor Lennart Lindfors, University of Gothenburg.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 17 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

What inspires us to learn?

UserFun Man Fung, National University of Singapore.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 15 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Organic Electronics for Monitoring and Hosting of 3D Cell Biology Models

UserDr. Róisín M. Owens, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 12 December 2017, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Modeling Collective Cell Migration: Clusters and Monolayers

UserProfessor Nir Gov Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 12 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Snaking, dripping, and fluttering of elastic rods

UserProfessor Davide Bigoni,Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering University of Trento, Italy.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 08 December 2017, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

New Frontiers in Biocatalytic C-H Functionalization

UserProfessor Greg Challis, University of Warwick.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 30 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Incorporating Meaning into Fundamental Physics

Lecture given at the Frontiers of Fundamental Physics 15 Conference: video, with slides included, available at link below.

UserBrian Josephson, Physics Department, University of Cambridge.

Houseview on your computer via webcast, link below.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Unconventional Order in some Framework Materials

UserProf. Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Coupled phenomena: theory and applications

UserDr Václav Klika, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University Prague.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 17 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exploring Chemical Space with Random Matrix Theory

UserDr Alpha Lee, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Innovations in Drug Delivery by Supramolecular Design

UserEric Andrew Appel, PhD, Assistant Professor Stanford University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 10 November 2017, 14:45-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Bonfires with a bang

Warning: There will be smoke, bright flashes and loud bangs!

UserDr Andy Szydio.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum Machine Learning

UserProfessor Anatole von Lilienfeld, University of Basel.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Simultaneous and coded seismic sources: Present and upcoming technologies

Please confirm attendance https://beta.doodle.com/poll/xpuzqdvuc4srcv63

UserRaymond Abma - BP America.

HouseRayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2017, 11:00-13:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Predicting and Designing the Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles: A Computer Game

Formal Materials - Theory Seminar

UserProfessor Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockFriday 20 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Surprises from 'simple' metals -- a case study of layered delafossites

UserProf. Andrew Mackenzie, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Shedding some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe: Ribozymes, Telomerase and Regulating Epigenetics

2017 Herchel Smith Lecture given by Nobel Laureate Professor Tom Cech

UserProfessor Tom Cech, University of Colorado Boulder.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

ClockMonday 16 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Scaling laws for spreading the quantum information

UserDr Adam Nahum, University of Oxford.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 12 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Cracking of thin films

UserProfessor Michael Thouless, University of Michigan.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 06 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological electronic properties of silicon

UserProf. Claudio Chamon, Boston University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 05 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP KEYNOTE LECTURE: Importance of C-O Bond Activation for CO2/COUtilization - An Approach to Energy Conversion and Storage

UserYuhan Sun, CAS Key Lab of Low-Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai..

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Photosynthetic water oxidation - the substrates view

For more information, please contact Dr. Erwin Reisner (reisner@ch.cam.ac.uk)

UserProf. Johannes Messinger, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden.

HouseTodd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 13 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Manufacturing of designed nanomaterials

If you would like more information regarding Dr. Torrente's talk, please contact Dr. Erwin Reisner (reisner@ch.cam.ac.uk)

UserDr. Laura Torrente Murciano, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

HouseTodd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Networks, resilience and complexity

UserProfessor Gabriel Cwilich, Yeshiva University, New York, USA.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 15 August 2017, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Defect tolerance and design principles for bio-inspired fibrillar dry-adhesives

UserMattia Bacca, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of British Colombia, Vancouver.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 04 August 2017, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

3D Bioprinting of Vascularized Tissues

UserMark Skyler-Scott, Harvard University.

HouseLR5, CUED.

ClockMonday 17 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Alternative Approaches to Chemical Risk Assessment: Assays, Databases, Models

Dr Richard Judson is a research chemist at the US EPA's National Center for Computational Toxicology. His research involves the development of databases and computer models to predict toxicological effects across a wide variety of chemicals.

UserDr Richard Judson, EPA National Centre for Computational Toxicology.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

ClockMonday 26 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Engineered growth factor microenvironments for regenerative medicine

UserProf Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Glasgow University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 16 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

On signatures of Majorana fermions

UserDr Benjamin Béri (University of Birmingham) .

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 01 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

UserProf. Joost Reek, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Tuning charge transfer in low-dimensional nano carbons

UserProf. Dirk Guldi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Transformation optics, surface plasmons, and metasurfaces

UserProfessor Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Merck, Sharp & Dohme Lecture

UserProfessor Stephen Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr Richard Tillyer, Merck.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 May 2017, 14:30-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Emergent phenomena in classical spin liquids

UserLudovic Jaubert, University of Bordeaux.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 04 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cellulose-based helical micro/nano filaments and films

UserProf. Maria Helena Figueiredo Godinho, Universidad Nova de Lisboa.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 11 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Atomistic modelling of excited states and luminescence in sodium silicate glass

UserDr Konstantinos Konstantinou, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Decompressive Craniectomy following Traumatic Brain Injury

UserMr Hadie Adams, Neurosurgery Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge .

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 10 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Times They Are A-Changin'

UserProf. Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 02 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

First-principles simulation of electrochemical reactions at solid-liquid interface

UserDr Minoru Otani, National Institute of Advanced Inductrial Science and Technology (AIST).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

A multiscale modelling strategy for virtual design of metallic alloys

UserProf Javier LLorca, IMDEA Materials Institute, University of Madrid.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Curl forces and beyond

UserProfessor Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 02 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Academic Writing

UserDr. Karen Ottewell MCIL, University of Cambridge Language Centre.

HouseRayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

ClockMonday 30 January 2017, 10:00-11:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The non-linear mechanics of slender deformable bodies

UserProf Basile Audoly, Laboratoire de mécanique des solides, École Polytechnique.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 27 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Counting the Uncountable

UserProf. Daan Frenkel.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 26 January 2017, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

How many stem cells can you fit in a stem cell niche?

UserProf Henrik Jönsson, Associate Director Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, .

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 20 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

TCM Dragons' Den

UserFirst year PhD students.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 19 January 2017, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Materials Challenges for Rolls Royce

UserDr Neil Glover, Head of Materials - Capability Acquisition at Rolls-Royce plc.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Materials Challenges for Rolls Royce

UserDr Neil Glover, Head of Materials - Capability Acquisition at Rolls-Royce plc.

HouseOatley Meeting Room.

ClockFriday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

New Directions in Ni-catalyzed Cross Coupling

UserProfessor Abigail Doyle, Princeton University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Label-free detection mechanism for carbon nanoparticles using non-linear optical excitation

UserDr. Christian Steuwe, Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, University of Leuven.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 13 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Buckling of Spherical Shells Revisited

UserJohn W. Hutchinson, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockMonday 12 December 2016, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Biological and bio-inspired locomotion at small scales - Mechanics Colloquium

UserProf Antonio De Simone, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 25 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Biological and bio-inspired locomotion at small scales

UserProf Antonio De Simone, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 25 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Network Properties of Atomic Clusters

Thesis Seminar

UserJohn Morgan (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 25 November 2016, 12:00-12:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

The intimate relation between mechanics and geometry

UserProf. Mark Warner, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Insights into compound mode-of-action by exploring gene expression space

1st Year PhD Report

UserBenjamin Alexander-Dann (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 18 November 2016, 12:00-12:20

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Artificial photosynthesis: From bio-inspired H2-evolving catalysts to photoelectrode materials

Informal Materials RIG Seminar

UserDr. Vincent Artero, SolHyCat, Université Grenoble Alpes.

HouseTodd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 14:30-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Molecular catalysis for the reduction of CO2 with Fe complexes

Informal Materials RIG Seminar

UserProf. Marc Robert, Université Paris.

HouseTodd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 14:30-16:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Mapping the molecular landscape of disease

1st Year PhD Report

UserErin Oerton (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 11 November 2016, 12:20-12:40

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Lattice models for DNA origami self-assembly

1st Year PhD Report

UserAlexander Cumberworth (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 11 November 2016, 12:00-12:20

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Self-assembly of jammed heterogeneous colloidal shells by combining electrohydrodynamics and dielectrophoresis

UserProf. Jon Otto Fossum, Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Upside Down and Inside Out: The Biomechanics of Cell Sheet Folding

UserProf. Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Stochastic Coupled Cluster in Model Solid Systems

1st Year PhD Report

UserVerena Neufeld (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 28 October 2016, 12:20-12:40

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Synthesis and Analysis of Nanobody Sequence and Structure Data

1st Year PhD Report

UserLaura Mitchell (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 28 October 2016, 12:00-12:20

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Criticality, Strange Metals and High Temperature Superconductors

UserChandra Varma, University of California, Riverside.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 27 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Contacts and Fretting - Mechanics Colloquium

UserProf David Hills, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 21 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Contacts and Fretting

UserProf David Hills, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 21 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Controlling Life with Photons

UserGuglielmo Lanzani, Center for Nano Science and Technology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia & Dep.of Physics, Politecnico di Milano .

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 14:30-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Applying Stochastic Coupled Cluster Theory to the Solid State

1st Year PhD Report

UserCharlie Scott (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 14 October 2016, 12:20-12:40

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Energy Landscape Landscaping

1st Year PhD Report

UserKonstantin Roeder (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 14 October 2016, 12:00-12:20

Theory of Condensed Matter

Current trends in cold atom physics

UserProf. Nigel Cooper, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 13 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Decorating the room at the bottom – designer nanomaterials for catalytic renewables conversions

UserProf. Anthony Masters, The School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Australia.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 July 2016, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

CO2 + H2O + Sunlight → Chemical Fuels + O2

UserProf. Peidong Yang, Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 July 2016, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Artificial photosynthesis—From catalysts to devices for water splitting

UserProfessor Licheng Sun, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 01 July 2016, 15:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Studying Interfacial Processes During Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction

UserDr Alexander Cowan, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 01 July 2016, 15:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-local density functional theory

UserProf. Stewart Clark, Durham University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 09 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Informal TMI RIG Seminar

UserPatrick Lewis, Chongli Qin & Dr Nitin Sharma.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2016, 16:00-17:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Theoretical advances in aqueous ion solvation: Charge asymmetry

UserDr Stephen J. Cox - University of California, Berkeley, College of Chemistry.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 03 June 2016, 12:00-12:40

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Biomineralization of nacre

UserProf. Pupa Gilbert, University of Wisconsin – Madison.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 26 May 2016, 14:30-15:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Encapsulation of 1D crystals inside carbon nanotubes

UserDr Paulo V C Medeiros (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2016, 11:00-11:45

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Simple microscopic models of complex systems

UserProfessor Jeremy Schofield (University of Toronto).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 12:00-12:40

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

A New Approach to Asymmetric Lewis Acid Catalysis

UserProf. Dr. Benjamin List, Max-Planck-Institute, Mülheim.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

New understanding of liquid thermodynamics and supercritical state

UserKostya Trachenko, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using Proteins to Prepare Functional Polymeric Nanomaterials

UserProf. Nico Bruns, Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

“TRANSLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL CHEMISTRY TO FUNCTIONAL NANOSCOPIC MACROMOLECULES DESIGNED FOR ADVANCED APPLICATIONS”

UserKaren L. Wooley, W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Stripe Phases in Quantum Dipolar Gases

UserProf. Jordi Boronat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 05 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Molecular Electronics for Chemical Sensors

UserProf. Timothy M. Swager, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 29 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Modelling non-symmetry of collagen fibre dispersion in the elasticity of arterial wall tissue

UserProfessor Raymond Ogden, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 29 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

2016 Lord Lewis Lecture: Dynamic Particles for Biological and Chemical Sensing

UserProf. Timothy M. Swager, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

First-Principles Study of Frequency-Dependent Resonant Raman Scattering

UserYannick Gillet, Université catholique de Louvain.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Professor Steven Ley's 70th Birthday Symposium

UserProfessor D. Enders, Professor M. Gaunt, Professor D. MacMillan, Professor R. Grubbs.

HouseBMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 08 April 2016, 09:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

The EvoDevo and Physics of Skin Appendages and Skin Colours in Vertebrates

UserProf. Michel C. Milinkovitch, Laboratory of Artificial & Natural Evolution (LANE), Dept of Genetics & Evolution, University of Geneva and SIB (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics). .

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 March 2016, 10:00-11:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Strain gradient plasticity: Numerical modeling and fracture assessment

UserMr Emilio Martinez Paneda, PhD candidate at University of Oviedo (Spain).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 18 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The v Jastrow factor

UserThomas Whitehead (TCM).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 11:40-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Seeing the Invisible: Vibrational Imaging for Biology and Medicine

UserProf. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie - Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Single Molecule Enzymology: Transcription against Supercoiling

UserProf. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie - Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The Linnett Lecture - Life at the Single Molecule Level: Single Cell Genomics

UserProf. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ultracold dipolar gases with quantum Monte Carlo

UserStefano Giorgini, Università degli Studi di Trento.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Many-body effects on electron-phonon coupling

UserBartomeu Monserrat (TCM, University of Cambridge and Rutgers University).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 11:00-12:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Adhesion of Volcanic Ashes in Gas Turbines and Potential Effects on Thermal Barrier Coatings

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquium and is in LR4

UserProfessor Bill Clyne, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 05 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Geometric responses of Quantum Hall systems. Bulk and boundary.

UserAlexander Abanov, Stony Brook University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

High-throughput calculation of phase diagrams with nested sampling

UserLivia Bartók-Pártay (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 11:30-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Nested sampling with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

UserRobert Baldock (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 11:00-11:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

The Phase Behavior of Deeply Supercooled Water: a Computational Perspective

Note unusual time

UserPablo Debenedetti (Professor in Engineering and Applied Science and Dean for Research of Princeton University).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 22 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spectral statistics of chaotic many-body systems

Please note unusual time

UserSebastian Müller, University of Bristol.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Atom Tunnelling as a General Phenomenon in Chemistry: from the Interstellar Medium to Enzymes

UserJohannes Kaestner (Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 15 January 2016, 12:00-12:40

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Recipient of RSC Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award.

UserProf Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 14 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry

Catalysts for CO2 reduction: from molecules to solids

UserProf. Marc Fontecave, College de France.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 14 January 2016, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop

UserRoberto Cingolani, Erwin Reisner, Pierre Emannuel Fayemi, Danilo De Rossi, Carlos Rego.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 15 December 2015, 09:00-13:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nature Inspired Manufacturing Workshop

UserThomas Speck, Ryad Benosman, Carlos Saez, Theresa Millard, Iain Valentine.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 December 2015, 14:00-18:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nanostructures for Energy Conversion: From Metal Oxides to Electroactive Covalent Organic Frameworks

UserProf. Thomas Bein, Department of Chemistry and Center for NanoScience (CeNS), University of Munich (LMU), Germany.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 December 2015, 14:30-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Disordered Hyperuniform Many-Particle Systems: New States of Amorphous Matter

UserSalvatore Torquato Dept. of Chemistry, Dept. of Physics, Materials Institute and Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton University.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockMonday 07 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Coupling Spin and Charge Transport in Complex Materials

UserDr Martin Gradhand, University of Bristol.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The exact functional of density functional theory

UserDr Aron Cohen, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 11:00-12:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Emergent parabolic scaling of nano-faceting crystal growth

UserDr Stephen Watson, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 27 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dragons' Den

UserVarious members of TCM.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The generation of free charges in efficient organic solar cells

UserSamuel Smith (TCM Group, University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 11:00-11:40

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR): New Paradigms for Next Generation Energy Storage

UserProf George Crabtree, Director, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Counting with symmetry for structural mechanics

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquium and is in LT2

UserDr Simon Guest, CUED.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT2.

ClockFriday 20 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

The Exact Functional

UserAron Cohen (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 13 November 2015, 12:00-12:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Powerful and deceptive Feynman diagrammatic series

UserEvgeny Kozik, King's College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Solar Powered CO2-to-Fuel”

UserProfessor Geoffrey Ozin, University of Toronto.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Improving pharmaceutical manufacturability through crystal engineering

UserProfessor Calvin Sun, University of Minnesota.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry

"Studies at the abiotic-biotic interface"

UserProf. Carole Perry, Nottingham Trent University.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Tensor Network Representation of Strongly Correlated States of Matter

Note unusual time / day

UserDidier Poilblanc, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, IRSAMC, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Multi-purpose Black-Phosphorus/hBN heterostructures

UserGabriel Constantinescu, TCM Group, Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 11:00-11:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Strain accommodation in kinking nonlinear elastic solids

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquium and is in LT4

UserProfessor Michel W Barsoum, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Strain accommodation in kinking nonlinear elastic solids

UserProf. Michel W. Barsoum, Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 14:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamical constraints, metastability and many-body localisation

UserJuan P Garrahan, University of Nottingham.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Line Defect dynamics and solid mechanics

UserProfessor Amit Archarya, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms

UserDr Hannah Price, Universita di Trento.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Using Surfaces to Direct Microphase Separation

UserClarion Tung (Department of Chemistry, Columbia University).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 11 September 2015, 13:30-14:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Evolution of Functionality of Porous Coordination Polymers

2013 winner of RSC de Gennes Prize for outstanding & exceptional work in the field of Materials Chemistry

UserProfessor Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 24 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Physics Without Borders

UserGreg Benesh (Baylor University).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 22 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Z4 parafermions in time-reversal invariant topological insulators

UserProf. Thomas Schmidt, University of Luxembourg.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 18 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Why fracking works and why not well enough

UserZdeněk P. Bažant, McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Dirac cones in two-dimensional borane?

UserMiguel Martinez-Canales (Edinburgh).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Phase transitions in non-Abelian string nets

Note Early Starting Time

UserJulien Vidal, CNRS, LPTMC Paris.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 13:45-14:45

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

DE NOVO PROTEINS: MYTH OR MYSTERY?

UserErich Bornberg-Bauer, The Westfalian Wilhelms University of Münster.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

sc867's list

Luminescent materials by controlling and managing self-assembly

UserProfessor Luisa De Cola - University of Strasbourg, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Perspectives on Designing Optimal User Interfaces

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserDr Per Ola Kristensson, CUED.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 08 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Graphene: the good, the bad, and the beauty

UserProf. Christiane Morais Smith, University of Utrecht.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 07 May 2015, 14:15-15:45

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Xenon oxides under pressure

UserNicholas Worth, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 08 April 2015, 11:40-12:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nanomaterials Design for Energy and Environment

Inaugural Schlumberger Lectures

UserProfessor Yi Cui, Stanford University, USA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cephalopod-derived Materials for Photonic and Protonic Devices

Informal Materials RIG seminar

UserProfessor Alon Gorodetsky, University of California, Irvine.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Interplay of X-ray Spectroscopy with Functional Materials - Addressing Scientific Issues with Synchrotron Capabilities

Information Materials RIG seminar

UserProfessor Tsun-Kong Sham, Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Canada.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Superconductivity in high-pressure phases of hydrogen sulfides

UserJoseph Nelson (TCM Group, University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 11:00-11:40

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Non lithium based technologies: walking on the sodium side

UserDr Rosa Palacin, CSIC, Inst Ciencia Mat Barcelona, Spain.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Embodied intelligence: How the body shapes the way robots behave

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserDr Fumiya Iida, CUED.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 06 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Nanoparticle growth and Ostwald ripening: aggregate growth, size distributions, and the breakdown of scaling

UserProf. Dr. Juergen Vollmer, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Goettingen, Germany.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 06 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

TCM's "Dragon's Den"

Usermultiple internal speakers - see abstract.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sampled Energy Landscapes: Analysis and Comparison

UserFrederic Cazals, Inria Sophia-Antipolis, Algorithms-Biology-Structure.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Dynamics of fluid driven delamination and fracturing in elastic and magneto-elastic materials

UserDr Jerome A Neufeld, BP Institute, Dept of Earth Sciences & Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 30 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Crustal deformation and Earthquakes

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

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

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Computer simulations of thermally induced electric fields in water.

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

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

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

The winding road to topological insulators

Note unusual location

UserEugene Mele, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Small Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Making quantum chemistry work for metals

UserJames Shepherd, Rice University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Making quantum chemistry work for metals

UserJames Shepherd (Rice University).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 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

UserProfessor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Soft Matter Quasicrystals and Their Complex Cousins

First BP lecture 2014

UserProfessor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

New functional surfaces: from science to application

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserProfessor Eduard Arzt, INM Saarbrueken.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Exotic morphologies of highly charged solvated macromolecules

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Fermions in two dimensions

UserMeera Parish, University College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Lewis Acids based on Aluminium and Phosphorus

UserProfessor Drasko Vidovic, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Majorana metals and quantum spin liquids

UserMaria Hermanns, University Köln.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Design of microstructures for enhanced magnetostriction in active composites

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

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Entropic Utopia: Shaping disorder for targeted self-assembly

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

High-dimensional surprises near the glass and the jamming transitions

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Molecular random tilings

UserProfessor Juan Garrahan (University of Nottingham).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Quantitative Prediction of Solute Strengthening in Metal Alloys

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserProfessor William Curtin, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Quantitative Prediction of Solute Strengthening in Metal Alloys

UserProfessor William Curtin, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Packing polyhedra: from ancient math to advanced materials

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

HouseScott Polar Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Thermal effects in NMR

UserBartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez, TCM.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spectroscopic signatures of collective modes in superconductors

UserLara Benfatto, University of Rome, La Sapienza.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Computational analyses of RNA repeat expansions causing genetic disease

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

One-dimensional boson flow between weakly couple reservoirs

UserProfessor Igor Lerner, University of Birmingham.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Disordered Photonics

UserProfessor Diederik Wiersma, University of Florence.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Dynamic Response of Coatings on Substrates Subjected to Impulse Loading

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

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spin Hall Effect

UserGuang-Yu Guo, National Taiwan University,.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanical properties of highly particle-filled composites

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

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

The density is not enough

UserProfessor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Interacting with Protein Interactions

"Special Event" Cambridge Cheminformatics Network Meetings

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

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Critical Casimir Forces in a Magnetic System: An Experimental Protocol

UserProf. Peter Holdsworth, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

First-principles Materials Applications and Design to Nonlinear Optical Crystals

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Molecular origins of "internal friction" in protein folding

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Many-body state preparation and quantum simulation with cold atoms

UserProf. Andrew Daley, University of Strathclyde.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Chaperone-guided protein folding at the single-molecule level

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

RSC Easterfield Award Winner Lecture

UserDr Bridget Stocker - RSC Easterfield Award Winner.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 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

UserDr Peter Hunt, Optibrium Ltd.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Thermodynamics of Dissipative Self-Assembly

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Pseudoψence

UserGareth Conduit (TCM).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Active nematics and topological defects

UserProf. Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chirality in NMR Spectroscopy

UserProfessor David Buckingham FRS (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological order from strong correlations in two-dimensional lattice models

Note time changed back to usual schedule at short notice.

UserStefanos Kourtis, IFW Dresden.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Embedded correlation within strongly correlated materials

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Odd Times for Triplet Pairing

UserProf. James Annett, University of Bristol.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 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

UserProfessor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Organic Photoredox Catalysis: Methods and Mechanistic Insight

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solar-fuels production from water using photocatalysts

First Lewis Lecture 2014

UserProfessor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

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

UserProfessor Gisbert Schneider. Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences ETH Zurich.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological Kondo Insulators and SmB6: magnetism meets topology.

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics

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

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 14:30-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Engineering tissue morphogenesis in vitro

Please note LR5 not Oatley Meeting Room

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Odorant space: From chemistry to physiology

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

dsk26's list

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

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

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Modeling Ductile Fracture Toughness and Fracture Surface Roughness

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserProfessor Alan Needleman, University of North Texas.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Folding of RNA tetraloop hairpins using Discrete Path Sampling

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

UserProfessor Jonathan Essex, University of Southampton.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

UserProf. Peter Haynes, Imperial College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

GAP potential for tungsten

UserWojciech Szlachta (Eng).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Experiments in multidisciplinary materials research

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserProfessor Mark Miodownik, University College London.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Experiments in multidisciplinary materials research

UserProfessor Mark Miodownik, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 14:30-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Pairing symmetry and dominant band in Sr2RuO4

UserThomas Scaffidi, University of Oxford.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

High-dimensional random landscapes and random matrices

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

First-principles dynamics applied to energy materials

UserKeith Refson, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Nonlinearity in musical instruments

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserProfessor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Coordination Clusters as Building Blocks for New Materials

UserProfessor Annie Powell, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Stationary Behaviour of Observables after a Quantum Quench

UserMaurizio Fagotti, University of Oxford.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Diffusion in confined systems

UserProfessor J. Miguel Rubi (University of Barcelona), Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry Imperial College .

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Coarse-grained modelling of RNA and DNA

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

First Passage Time Boxed Molecular Dynamics

UserBoris Fackovec (University of Cambridge), Wales Group.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Transport theory of pyrochlore conductors

UserMasafumi Udagawa, University of Tokyo.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chiral Nematic Properties of Cellulosic Materials

Melville/Materials Seminar

UserProfessor Derek G Gray, McGill University, Canada.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Modeling reactive events in complex systems

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Adiabatic reaction forces in mesoscopic systems

UserSilvia Viola Kusminskiy, Freie Universität Berlin.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

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

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

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

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Accurate Effective Hamiltonians via Unitary Flow in Floquet space

UserFlorian Mintert, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

UserProfessor Alain Goriely, University of Oxford.

HouseEngineering Department - **LR4**.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

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

UserProfessor Alain Goriely, OCCAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 14:30-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bosons in Synthetic Gauge Fields

UserRyan Barnett, Imperial College.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

CANCELLED

UserProfessor Jiri Vanicek (EPFL, Lausanne).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis II

UserElisabet Romero, VU University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis

UserProf. R. van Grondelle, VU University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nanotechnology for Medicine

BP Lectures 2013

UserProfessor James Tour, Rice University, USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Graphene Growth and Applications

BP Lectures 2013

UserProfessor James Tour, Rice University, USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Towards the reconstitution of a minimal cell?

UserProf. Marileen Dogeterom, FOM Institute, The Netherlands.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Discrete modelling of fibrous networks

UserDr Ron Peerlings, Eindhoven University of Technology.

HouseEngineering Department - **LR4**.

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

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

UserProfessor Jonathan Essex, University of Southampton.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-equilibrium dynamics of open quantum system

UserDr Igor Lesanovsky, University of Nottingham.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Density functional theory as a framework to develop new methods

UserProfessor Andreas Savin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 09 October 2013, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Global Protein Structural Analysis for Drug Discovery"

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

HouseTodd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Using Locally Dense Basis Sets for NMR Shielding Calculations

UserDavid Reid, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The search for the optimal supercell

UserJonathan Lloyd-Williams (TCM) .

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Boron Reagents in the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds

Dalton Young Researcher Award Lecture

UserDr Rebecca Melen, University of Toronto.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

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

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

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

UserDouglas R. MacFarlane Australian Centre for Electromaterials Science Monash University, Victoria, Australia.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Bose-Einstein Condensates

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Charge and exciton dynamics in organic devices

UserAlessandro Troisi, University of Warwick.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Approaching protein dynamics in the post-genome era

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bad metals

UserProf. Alexei Tsvelik.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solid Liquid Crystals and Soft Motors

UserProfessor Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Stable and unstable equilibrium points in the quantum Gaudin model

UserDr Benoit Doucot, CNRS / LPTHE Jussieu, France.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanics of motility at microscopic scales

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

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

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

A TMI RIG Presentation

UserProfessor Wes Borden, Unversity of Texas.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Ionic Liquids - From DFT to CG Simulations

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanoresponsive Materials and Self-Healing Systems

2013 Melville Lectureship

UserProfessor Jeffrey S Moore, University of Illnois.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

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

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermopower in the Quantum Hall Regime

UserDr Nicholas d'Ambrumenil, University of Warwick.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Enzyme dynamics, conformations and catalysis

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP 3rd Years PhD Talks

Talks by 3rd Yr PhD students in the Materials RIG

Uservarious.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

TB or not TB

Physical chemistry Linnett lecture series

UserProfessor Richard Zare (Stanford University).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Anharmonicity in periodic systems

UserBartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Searching for intermediates in liquid reactions

Physical chemistry Linnett lecture series

UserProfessor Richard Zare (Stanford University).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Amos B. Smith III - University of Pennsylvania .

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

“Data Driven Molecular Design & Discovery”

UserDr Scott Lusher, Netherlands eScience Centre.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multiscale mechanics and cohesive-surface models

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

UserProfessor René de Borst, University of Glasgow.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Multiscale mechanics and cohesive-surface models

UserProfessor René de Borst, University of Glasgow.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 14:30-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Pushing the frontiers of wavefunction based ab initio quantum chemistry

UserProfessor Frank Neese (Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Statistical Topological Insulators

UserDr Jonathan Edge, Leiden University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modeling of electrochemical interfaces at the atomic scale

UserProfessor Jan Rossmeisl (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Heart valve tissue engineering

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

UserProfessor Frank Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Frank Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 14:30-16:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

The Materials Project for Accelerated Materials Design

UserDr Kristin Persson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Theory, Dynamics, and Mechanisms of Cycloadditions

RSC Robert Robinson award Lecture

UserProfessor Kendall Houk (University of California, Los Angeles).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Assembly on Designer Templates

UserProfessor Mitsuhiko Shionoya, University of Tokyo.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Lucy Carpenter (University of York).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 03 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

High resolution electron microscopy of superalloys

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

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Physical Chemistry

Watching Single Molecules

UserDavid Klenerman (University of Cambridge).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Aspects of science, technology and government

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

UserProfessor Roderick Smith, Imperial College.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Aspects of science, technology and government

UserProfessor Roderick Smith, Imperial College.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 14:30-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Polarons: from models to materials to quantum simulation

UserVladimir M. Stojanovic, University of Basel.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Finite Volume Methods for Wave Propagation in Elastic and Poroelastic Materials

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

HouseCommittee Room 213, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Selective adsorption of ions to aqueous interfaces and its effects on evaporation rates

RSC Faraday Lecture

UserProfessor Richard Saykally (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Multicomponent Skyrmion lattices and their excitations

UserDr Dimitry Kovrizhin, Imperial College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Irregular seminars in TCM

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

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 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"

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

UserProfessor Alan Windle, Department of Materials Science.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Dynamol Symposium

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Cold atoms unspun

UserGareth Conduit (TCM Group).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

From Topological Insulators to Majorana Fermions

UserProf. Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

The many structures of foams

UserDenis Weaire FRS, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Biological Materials and Mechanics: An overview

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

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Successes and challenges in the prediction of P450 mediated drug metabolism

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Clusters in the bulk - the topological cluster classification

Note unusual day and time

UserDr Paddy Royall (University of Bristol).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Self-assembly in simple colloidal systems

Note slightly earlier time

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Creative Mind and Physical Reality

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

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

HouseOld Combination Room, Trinity College.

ClockFriday 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

UserProfessor Jeremy C Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Stabilizing Proteins with Polymer Conjugates

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Departmental Lecture

UserProfessor Andrea Ferrari, Department of Engineering.

HouseScott Polar Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Institute.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

TBC

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

HouseScott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Modelling of Explosively Driven Fragmentation Metals

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

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Graduate Student Seminar

UserMr Iman Mohaghegian CUED - Mr Wojciech Szlachta CUED.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Tailored Polymers for Controlling Cell Signaling

UserProf Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Field-induced p-wave Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Systems

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Physical properties of metal organic frameworks

UserProfessor Anthony K Cheetham, Materials Science, Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Topological Ring-Currents in Conjugated Systems

UserDr Roger Mallion, School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Understanding the Action of Proteins

Note unusual day

UserProf. Peter Bolhuis, University of Amsterdam (CCP5 Lecturer).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Artificial Leaf

Lewis Lectures 2012

UserProfessor Dan Nocera, MIT.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

The Flux Reconstruction Approach to High-Order Methods

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

HouseSeminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

'Chemistry of Oxygen Sensing in Animals'

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Development of New Synthetic Methods and Fundamental Studies of Conjugated Polymers

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

UserProf Christopher W Bielawski, University of Texas at Austin.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Designing Functional Molecular Nanostructures

UserProfessor Stefan Hecht (Humboldt University of Berlin).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthetic Molecular Systems (th)at Work

UserProfessor Stefan Matile, University of Geneva.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Exploring new chiral space in asymmetric catalysis"

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Mechanical Atom Manipulation: Towards a Matter Compiler

UserProfessor Philip Moriarty, University of Nottingham.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 16:15-17:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

New Materials for Phosphorescent OLEDs and Polymer Photovoltaics

Please note the change in the time

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

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

UserProfessor Marc Geers, TU Eindhoven.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

RSC Lecture (Sustainable Energy Award)

UserDr Ed Constable, University of Basel.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Lessons from Yeast: Drug Uptake and Systems Biology

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre.

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

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

On origins

UserBrian Josephson, Trinity College.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockThursday 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

UserDr John Sutherland, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Observing holographic superconductivity in the laboratory

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

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Feedback control of vibration in aircraft and in the ear

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

UserProfessor Steve Elliott, University of Southampton.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Irregular seminars in TCM

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

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 15 December 2011, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Coordination-Driven Capsules and Cages

UserProfessor Paul Lusby, University of Edinburgh.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Light-Responsive Polymers and Composites for Biomedical Applications

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

New Methods of Bioanalysis using Functionalised Nanoparticles and SERS

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

HouseTodd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Self assembly of DNA coated colloids

CPGS talk

UserMatthew Llewellyn-Jones (CUC3).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

How fast folding proteins fold

UserProf. Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, University of Copenhagen.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

UserProfessor Jean-Marc di Meglio, Université Paris Diderot.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Dielectric response of interfacial water

Note unusual day and time.

UserDouwe Jan Bonthuis (Technische Universität München).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Order-disorder in trajectory space and the glass transition

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Linnett Lecture: "The Theory of the Structural Glass Transition"

Joint Theory/Biological Seminar

UserProf. Peter Wolynes, Rice University.

HouseDept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum mechanical perspective on dynamical glass transitions

UserDr Claudio Castelnovo, Royal Holloway University of London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Irregular seminars in TCM

Numerical approach to structure, folding and aggregation of proteins

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Physical Chemistry

Timescales of chemical reactions

UserProf. Mike J Pilling CBE, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2011, 16:15-17:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Crystallography on curved surfaces

UserDavid Nelson, Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Design for environment and risk

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

UserProfessor David Cebon, CUED.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Water Photolysis in Biology: Photosystem II

Joint Materials/Biological Colloquia

UserProfessor Bill Rutherford, Imperial College, London.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Cooperative dynamics in supercooled liquids

Note unusual venue.

UserDr Jacob Stevenson (CUC3).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Structure and dynamics of water-solid interfaces

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Can hydrophobic surfaces catalyze unfolding?

Note unusual venue.

UserDr Patrick Varilly (CUC3).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Conformational dynamics of single protein molecules under load

Joint Theory/Biological Seminar

UserProf. Matthias Rief, Technische Universität München.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

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

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

HouseCavendish laboratory.

ClockFriday 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

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

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Networking the Self-assembled Cages

UserProfessor Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

ac313's list

Molecular Simulations in Structure-Based Drug Design

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

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Controlling bacterial motors

UserProf. Berenike Maier (Univeristy of Cologne).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Irregular seminars in TCM

The topology of smectics

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Soft and hard nanomaterials made by self-assmebly

UserProfessor Ullrich Steiner, Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theoretical Chemistry

What's wrong with density-functional theory?

UserProfessor Nicola Marzari, University of Oxford.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Title to be confirmed

UserAlston Misquitta (TCM).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological phases in 1D: An entanglement point of view

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Molecules and nanostructures for solar energy conversion

UserProfessor James Durrant, Imperial College London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theoretical Chemistry

Simulations of ionic liquids for energy applications

UserProfessor Mathieu Salanne, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Hard sphere crystal growth

UserDr Michiel Hermes (University of Utrecht).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Superconductivity in nanograins: smaller is different

UserAntonio M. Garcia-Garcia, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

What NanoAssembly can do for real world Nano-applications

UserProfessor Jeremy Baumberg, Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Exploring free-energy landscapes

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

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

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

The power of coarse-graining in biomolecular simulations

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

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

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Anion Supramolecular Chemistry: Sensing and Materials

UserProfessor Jonathan Steed, Durham University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Molecular Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly

Extra Inorganic Seminar

UserProfessor Kay Severin, EPFL, Switzerland.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Design of New Catalytic Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry

Lewis Lecture 2011

UserProfessor David Milstein, Weizmann Institute, Israel.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

UserProfessor Michael Thouless, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-boundary correspondence of topological insulators

UserProf. Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado at Boulder.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

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

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theoretical Chemistry

Soft matter physics and bacteria

UserProfessor Gerard Wong, UCLA and the University of Illinois.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

RSC Organic Symposium at the University of Cambridge

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ultracold atoms and fermionic simulations

UserProf. Matthias Troyer, ETH Zürich.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Noncovalent Nanostructures in Aqueous Medium: Robust yet Adaptive

UserDr Boris Rybtchinski, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry 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).

UserProf. Erik Luijten (Northwestern University, USA).

HouseRoom 357, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theoretical Chemistry

An Ising-like Model for Protein Folding

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Ultrafast Protein Folding"

Professor Eaton is this year's Alexander Todd Visiting Professor

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theoretical Chemistry

The theory of single molecule force and fluorescence spectroscopy

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

Professor Eaton is this year's Alexander Todd Visiting Professor

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

RSC Faraday Lecture

The Molecular Dance in Surface Reactions Followed a-Molecule-at-a-Time by STM

UserProfessor John Polanyi, University of Toronto.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 April 2011, 16:15-17:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Tooling Up for Nanoworld: The Magic of Molecular Machines

Alex Hopkins Lecture 2011

UserProfessor David Leigh, University of Edinburgh.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

An ab initio study of the Little-Parks effect

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

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Modelling synthesis and catalytic applications of doped AlPOs

Inorganic/Theoretical Joint Seminar

UserDr Furio Cora, University College London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physical Chemistry

Physical Chemistry Graduate Seminar

UserDavid Madden, Matthew Ashford, Isabella Stocker.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Physical Chemistry

Vehicle exhaust nanoparticles: sources and control.

UserDr Martyn Twigg - previously Chief Scientist of Johnson Matthey.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2011, 16:15-17:15

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Ultra-High Resolution Atmospheric Modeling Using Cut Cells

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

HouseRutherford Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Physical Chemistry

What surfactants do at interfaces

UserProfessor Robert Thomas, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2011, 16:15-17:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

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

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

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Engineering microenvironments to control cell fate and behaviour

UserDr Chunming Wang, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

BP Day

User3rd Year PhD students.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

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

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

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

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

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Ice

UserDr Nic Shannon, University of Bristol.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Form Matters: Catalysis with "Butterflies"

UserProfessor Hansjorg Grutzmacher, ETH Zurich.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 14:00-15:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Probing nanostructures and optoelectronic properties of plastic solar cells by scanning probe microscopy

UserThuc-Quyen Nguyen, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

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

UserDr. Rupert Sheldrake (Perrott-Warrick Scholar in Psychical Research, 2005-2010).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Under pressure: quasi-high pressure effects in nano-pores

UserProfessor Keith Gubbins, North Carolina State University.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Geometrical aspects of hydrophobic hydration

UserDr Joachim Dzubiella, Technische Universität München.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Groebli solution for three magnetic vortices

UserStavros Komineas, University of Crete, Heraklion.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 20 January 2011, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

UserBruce Perry (Eaux de Vie Ltd, London).

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 09 December 2010, 19:00-21:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Fractals, Failure and Lightweight Structures

UserRobert Farr, Structured Materials and Process Science Department,.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 03 December 2010, 14:30-15:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Catalytic Capsids: reactions in confinement

UserProf. Dr. Jeroen J.L.M. Cornelissen, Laboratory for Biomolecular Nanotechnology, University of Twente.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

CANCELLED

UserProfessor Mike Krische, University of Texas.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 17:00-18:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Giovanni Bussi, Statistical and Biological Physics Sector, SISSA, Trieste.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Metallopolyynes and Metallophosphors: Multifunctional Materials with Emerging Applications in Optical Devices

RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award Lecture 2010

UserProfessor Raymond Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Block-structured AMR algorithms for complex hyperbolic applications

UserDr Ralf Deiterding, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.

HouseRutherford Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

POSTPONED TO LENT TERM

UserDr Karolina Wahlstrom, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

POSTPONED TO LENT TERM

UserDr Xian Jun Loh, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-16:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Conjugated Polyelectrolytes for Emerging Optoelectronic Devices and Bioelectronic Applications

UserProfessor Gui Bazan, Department of Materials Engineering and Chemistry & Biochemistry University of California, Santa Barbara.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theoretical Chemistry

Quantum dynamics of chemical reactions

Royal Society of Chemistry Liversidge Lecture

UserProfessor David Clary FRS, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Visualising and Predicting Organic Reactivity"

UserDr Scott L Cockroft, Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.

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

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 14:15-15:30

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Diffuse interfaces modelling

UserRichard Saurel, Aix-Marseille University, IUSTI - SMASH Group, France.

HouseRutherford Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Exploring Ras Super-family Proteins : A Chemical Biology Approach

UserDr Debapratim Das, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseTodd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 15:00-16:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Inorganic 2nd Yr PhD Student Talks

UserUniversity of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 10:00-16:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Title: From coarse-grained models of fibril formation to atomistic details of potential inhibitors

Joint Theoretical/Biophysical Colloquium *** NOTE: UNUSUAL TIME: 10:30 AM ***

UserAmedeo Caflish, University of Zurich.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2010, 10:30-11:30

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

ADER high-order schemes for evolutionary PDEs

UserProfessor E F Toro, University of Trento, Italy.

HouseRutherford Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Multicomponent Block Polymers for Templating and Separations

UserProfessor Marc Hillmyer Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 12 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

CANCELLED

THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED

UserDr Daniel Balint, Imperial College.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 12 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Systems chemistry – Teaching simple molecules to do complex things

UserProf Douglas Philp, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Novel Types of Organic Electronic Materials: Polyselenophenes and Oligofurans

UserProfessor Michael Bendikov, Weizman Institute, Israel.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Physical Chemistry

Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences

UserBP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

HouseBP Institute, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences

UserBP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

HouseBP Institute, Madingley Road.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Physical Chemistry

Multifunctional Polymer Films and Coatings

UserBP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Multifunctional Polymer Films and Coatings

UserBP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Metal-mediated molecular traps and junctions: a computational design

UserDr Fedor Naumkin, University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Amphiphide Monolayers to study interfacial interactions

There will be a reception following this lecture in the Todd Hamied.

UserBP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Amphiphide Monolayers to study interfacial interactions

A Reception will follow this talk in the Todd Hamied Room

UserBP Visiting Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Multi-scale multi-physics approaches for forecasting weather and climate variability

UserKeiko Takahashi, Japan Agency for Marine and Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC).

HouseRutherford Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Organic Chemistry

No Strain, No Gain?: Lessons in Catalysis

UserProfessor Mark Lautens, University of Toronto.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Irregular seminars in TCM

Layered Systems of Cold Polar Molecules

UserNikolaj Zinner, University of Aarhus.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamics and critical behaviour of the spin-boson model

UserAndreas Alvermann, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Gaussian Approximation Potentials: quantum mechanical accuracy without electrons

UserDr Gabor G. Csányi, Engineering Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

Pfizer Graduate Symposium and talk

Graduate speakers: Mr Pawel Sledz (Abell Group), Mr Mike Housden (Paterson Group), Mr Michael Cooke (Gaunt group)

UserDr Daffydd Owen, Pfizer Global Research & Development,.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 13:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

The Use of Cucurbit[8]uril for Gold Nanoparticle Self-Assembly in Water

UserMr Sam Jones, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Towards the syntheses of chiral bidentate ligands in the form of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers

UserMiss Anna Andreou, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-16:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Engineering microenvironments to control cell fate and behaviour

UserDr Chunming Wang, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Deformation of droplet/double emulsion in microfludics

UserMr Shaohua Ma, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Force generation in the lamellipod of crawling cells

UserTom Duke, University College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

"From clays to the cytosol - approaches for characterising soft matter"

UserProfessor Athene Donald ( Director, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 16:15-17:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Monolithic Polymers: Innovations in Stationary Phase Technology for Separation Science

UserDr Zarah Walsh, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Application of Informatics within Unilever

UserDr Ian Stott, Informatics & Maths Leader, Unilever R & D, Port Sunlight.

HouseTodd Hamied Room, Dept. of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 13 October 2010, 14:15-15:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Modelling Cu(I) based p-type semiconducting oxides

UserGraeme Watson (School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 13 October 2010, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric Reactions of Peroxy Radicals – Key Intermediates in Ozone Formation and Loss

NOTE unusual DAY and LOCATION Joint with Physical Chemistry

UserDr Geoff Tyndall, NCAR Colorado USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Spin in Fermion Monte Carlo

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

UserSimon Smart (CUC3).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 08 October 2010, 12:00-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Possibility of Hot Superconductivity in Charged Graphene

UserG Baskaran, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis

UserProfessor Joost Reek, Van t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Amsterdam.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

Organic Chemistry

New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis

Joint with Inorganic Chemistry

UserProfessor Joost Reek, Van t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Amsterdam..

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

LeuRS Synthetase: An example of water-mediated editing reaction in a hybrid RNA/protein system

UserDr Mauro Boero, University of Strasbourg, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Materiaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

Small Molecules and Light as Tools for the Regulation of Biological Processes

UserProfessor Alex Dieter North Carolina State University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 01 October 2010, 16:15-17:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Structure-property relationships of molecular crystals

UserProfessor Len Barbour, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 22 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Past, present, and future of semiempirical methods

UserDr James J P Stewart, Stewart Computational Chemistry, Colorado Springs, USA.

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

ClockThursday 16 September 2010, 14:15-15:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Developing Catalytic Reactions One Step at a Time

UserProfessor Jennifer Love, University of British Columbia, Canada.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 10 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Recent developments on Riemann solvers and application to very complex hyperbolic systems

http://www.ing.unitn.it/~toroe/

UserProfessor E F Toro, University of Trento, Italy.

HouseLabSC's conference room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 10 August 2010, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Macromolecular Self-Assembly through Cucurbit[8]uril Ternary Complexes

UserMr Urs Rauwald, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 01 July 2010, 16:00-16:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

In Silico Drug discovery and molecular library focusing

UserProfessor Amiram Goldblum, The Institute of Drug Research, Faculty of Medicine The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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

ClockWednesday 30 June 2010, 16:00-17:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Regulation of amyloid self-assembly under partially denaturing solution conditions

Note change of day and time

UserProf Martin Muschol (University of South Florida).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Lewis acid-base pairs and host-guest interactions: towards dynamic functional materials

UserMr Nicolas Nouvel, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 June 2010, 15:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretic Study of Unitary Fermi Gas

Note unusual day

UserDr. Matthew Wingate, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 04 June 2010, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Nearly Isostatic Periodic Lattices

NOTE DIFFERENT DAY Thursday not Friday

UserProf. Tom Lubensky, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 03 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Tuning hierarchical structures with multiple hydrogen bonding interactions

UserMr Adam Celiz, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

The synthetic aspects of polyelectrolyte brushes

UserMiss Nan Cheng, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-16:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Smart and Flexible: Stimulus-responsive polymer brushes on elastic substrates

UserMr Tim Kelby, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 15:30-16:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Critical depletion

UserProf Roberto Piazza (Politecnico di Milano).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 21 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

CANCELLED - Synthesis of Polymeric Probes to Control Cell Recognition and Signaling

Melville Lectureship Speaker

UserProf Laura L Kiessling, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

Designing metal containing anticancer drugs in the absence of a well defined target

THIS IS A CHANGE FROM THE ORIGINAL TIME

UserProfessor Paul Dyson, EPFL.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 15:00-16:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Symmetry, equivalence and molecular self-organisation

UserDr Jack Douglas, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Materials Chemistry and Climate Change

UserProfessor Peter Bruce, University of St Andrews.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Modelling protrusion phenotypes and the force velocity relation to motile cells

This talk is jointly organised with TCM

UserDr. Martin Falcke, Mathematical Cell Physiology, Max-Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockWednesday 12 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Recharging the Planet: New Approaches for Optimizing the Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries and Fuel Cells

Inaugural Lecture

UserProfessor Clare Grey, Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Chemistry.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 16:15-17:15

Dirac Lecture

Phase Transitions: Scaling, Universality and Renormalization

UserProfessor Leo P. Kadanoff University of Chicago and Perimeter Institute.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 14:45-16:00

Organic Chemistry

CANCELLED

UserJuan Granja.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

E. coli superdiffusion and chemotaxis

UserDr Franziska Matthäus (University of Heidelberg).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 07 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

How a non-Fermi liquid can emerge at a metal-insulator transition

UserProf. Gabriel Aeppli, University College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 06 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

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

Life, extended mind, and physical reality

Device Materials Group (Materials Science) Special Seminar

UserProf. Brian Josephson, Mind-Matter Unification Project, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 17:30-18:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Free Energy methods to study complex biological phenomena

UserDr Francesco Gervasio, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

TCM Informal Seminar Series

Talk Cancelled

Canceled

UserProf. Pawel Hawrylak, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Anomalous Liquids

UserProfessor Giancarlo Franzese, University of Barcelona.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Dynamics of Stone Arches

Please note: joint talk between Micromechanics Seminar and Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks, Tea and cake from 3:30pm in Oatley meeting room 2

UserDr Matthew De Jong, CUED.

HouseLR5, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

ClockFriday 23 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Organic Chemistry

Joe Spencer Memorial Lectures

User11.00 Prof Peter Leadley (Cambridge), 11.45 Dr Joseph Wright (UEA), 12.15 Dr Dieter Spiteller (MPI Jena), 1.45 Prof Timor Baasov (Technion, Isreal), 2.30 Dr Andrew Truman (Cambridge), 3.00 Prof David O'Hagan (St Andrews), 4.15 Prof Jin-Quan Yu (Scripps).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 23 April 2010, 11:00-18:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Local Approach to Electronic Structure and Band Gaps

UserRoger Haydock (TCM and University of Oregon ).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 22 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Tailoring multivalent interactions in the design of biomaterials

UserProfessor Kristi Kiick (Materials Science & Engineering, University of Delaware).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 21 April 2010, 11:00-12:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Recent developments in multireference quantum chemistry

Note late change of venue

UserDr Yuki Kurashige (Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan).

HouseU202, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 16 April 2010, 12:00-13:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Using Disorder to Detect Local Order: Noise and Nonequilibrium Effects in Disordered Electron Nematics

Joint TCM/QM seminar - note non-standard time.

UserProf. Erica Carlson, Purdue University.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 06 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

What will a nanobot look like?

Alex Hopkins Lecture

UserProfessor Tony Ryan.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 18 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Complex architecures of conjugated polymers via Suzuki and Kumada chain-growth polycondensations

Please note the venue is the Wolfson Lecture Theatre

UserDr Anton Kiriy (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

BP Day

User3rd Year PhD students.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 11 March 2010, 12:00-18:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Life at high péclet number

UserProfessor R Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 14:00-15:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Framework Materials: Fascinating Properties

UserProfessor John Evans, University of Durham.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 14:00-15:30

Organic Chemistry

Chiral Carbenoids for Asymmetric Synthesis

UserProfessor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

From ultracold atoms to ultracold molecules. Prospects for novel physics

UserProf. Gora Shlyapnikov, University of Amsterdam and LPTMS Paris.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

Sequencing genomes and sequences in the genome: from chemistry to medicine

Inaugural Professorial Lecture: in the presence of Marcus and Jennifer Smith

UserProfessor Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Water: from bulk to interfaces

UserProf Giancarlo Franzese, Department of Physics, University of Barcelona.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Dynamics and Structure of Short Biopolymers Probed by Fluorescence

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Seminar

UserProfessor Werner Nau (Jacobs University, Bremen).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Self-Assembly and Self-Sorting: How to Construct and Characterize Complex Architectures

UserProfessor Christoph Schalley, Institut fur Chemie & Biochemie der Freien Universitat Berlin.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Fluctuation induced forces: The critical Casimir effect

UserProfessor Clemens Bechinger, Universität Stuttgart.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

No Lecture as Royal Society of Chemistry Meeting

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 00:00-00:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Just How Does One Make Formula One More Exciting?

UserTony Purnell (Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at CUED, Technical Consultant to the FIA, ex head of Jaguar F1 and Red Bull F1).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 14:30-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

CANCELLED

CANCELLED

UserProf Alenka Luzar (Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Semiconductor Block Copolymers for Organic Electronic Devices

UserDr Michael Sommer (Melville Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Analysis of coupled atomistic/continuum models for solids

UserDr Christoph Ortner, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Painleve condensation, counter-ion condensation and Coulombic elasticity of biopolymers

UserProf Emmanuel Trizac (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Université Paris-Sud, France).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Cyclodextrin Nanomachines at Work

UserDr Roger Coulston (Melville Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Tony Cheetham, Department of Materials Science.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Colourful chemistry with zwitterionic-type pi-ligands and their metal complexes

UserProfessor Pierre Braunstein, University of Strasbourg.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Machine like functions at the molecular level

UserProf. Dr. Rainer Herges, Otto-Diels-Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität zu Kiel.

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

ClockTuesday 19 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Phase field modelling of microstructure evolution

UserDr John Huber, Oxford University, Department of Engineering Science.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

Organic Chemistry

New Catalysis Concepts

UserProfessor David W. C. MacMillan, Princeton University, USA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 13 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Ions at Aqueous Interfaces: From Water Surface to Hydrated Proteins

UserProfessor Pavel Jungwirth, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 13 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Chaperonin-assisted protein folding: "The peculiar case of the bacteriophage T4 major capsid protein"

Note unusual day and time

UserProf Saskia van der Vies (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 12 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

BP Day

User3rd Year PhD students.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 07 January 2010, 13:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Post-Cotunnite phase of TeO2

UserGareth Griffiths (TCM).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 11:40-12:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Long Range Magnetic Interactions in Pure Carbon Materials

UserProfessor Nicholas M Harrison, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

New Genetic Codes

UserDr Jason Chin, University of Cambridge, MRC-LMB.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Modelling bacterial populations in changing environments

UserDr Rosalind Allen (Department of Physics, University of Edinburgh).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Binding Studies on CB[6] with a Series of 1-Alkyl-3-methylimidazolium Ionic Liquids

UserMiss Nan Zhao, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Polymeric building blocks for supramolecular complexation with cucurbit[8]uril

UserMr Eric Appel, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theory of exchange splittings of bands in diluted magnetic semiconductors

UserProf. Dr. Thomas Dietl, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Institute of Physics, University of Warsaw.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Modeling Protein Aggregation

UserProfessor Srikanth Sastry, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Crawling Across the Web of Chemistry Using ChemSpider

UserDr Antony Williams, VP Strategic Development, ChemSpider, RSC, Wake Forest USA.

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

ClockTuesday 17 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Theory of Elasticity at the Nanoscale

UserProfessor Bhushan Karihaloo, Cardiff University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 13 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Microdroplets in Microfluidics: Towards Emulsion Crystals

UserMr Wolfgang-Andreas Bauer, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Heterojunction Control of Organic & Hybrid Photovoltaic Semiconductor Devices

UserMiss Einat Elmalem, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-16:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Metal-organic frameworks for chemistry and medicine - Can we design them?

UserProfessor Russell Morris, University of St Andrews.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Explicit and implicit microion representations of dispersions of oppositely charged nanoparticles: expectations and surprises

UserProfessor Jean-Pierre Hansen FRS, Emeritus 1968 Professor of Chemistry, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Transduction of tactile information in human touch : a biomimetic approach

Mechanics Colloquia, note different venue and start time

UserDr Georges Debregeas, Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS.

HouseLR6, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 06 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Tissue Contact Mechanics

UserGeorges Debregeas: Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 06 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Functional Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly

User Prof Kay Severin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Amplified stochastic oscillations

UserProf. Alan McKane (Univeristy of Manchester).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Hydrogen bonding structure and ultrafast dynamics of bulk, interfacial, and confined water

(Joint Theory/Physical Seminar)

UserProfessor James L Skinner, University of Wisconsin.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

Design of chiral ligands for asymmetric copper-catalyzed reactions

UserProfessor Alex Alexakis, University of Geneva.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Irregular seminars in TCM

Superconductivity in underdoped cuprates from attraction between spin vortices

UserProf. Lu Yu (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 October 2009, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Crack Propagation in Brittle Crystals under Combined Tensile and Shear Stresses

Mechanics Colloquia, note different venue and start time

UserDr Dov Sherman, Technion, Israel.

HouseLR6, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 30 October 2009, 14:30-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Gas diffusion in the [NiFe]-hydrogenase

M.Phil. thesis presentation. Note unusual venue.

UserPo-hung Wang (CUC3).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 30 October 2009, 12:25-12:50

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

FCIMC, naturally

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

UserDeidre Cleland (CUC3).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 30 October 2009, 12:00-12:25

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Colloids, surfaces and reversible supramolecular interactions: Towards light-driven motion

UserMr Feng Tian, University of Cambridge, Mellville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 16:30-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Determination of binding constants for cucurbit[8]uril complexes: differences in aqueous versus gas-phase binding

UserMr Frank Biedermann, University of Cambridge, Meville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-16:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Probing the structure of organic-inorganic biocomposites

UserDr Melinda Duer, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Single-molecule force spectroscopy: theory, analysis, interpretation

UserProfessor Olga K Dudko, University of California at San Diego.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Synthesis of Chiral Bidentate Phosphorous Ligands in the Form of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIP)

UserMiss Mei-Hsuan Tsai, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Synthesis and Isolation of cucurbit[n]uril: a supramolecular host

UserMr Dezhi Jiao, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Polarised Fermi Gases.

UserMeera Parish (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Design of protein sequences with funneled free energy landscapes using a coarse-grained caterpillar model

Note unusual venue

UserDr Ivan Coluzza (National Institute for Medical Research, London).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 16 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Turning Cavitands into Materials

UserProfessor Enrico Dalcanale, University of Parma.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Inorganic Chemistry

The Many Faces of Heme in Biology

UserProfessor Emma Raven, University of Leicester.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Calculating selectivities in homogeneous catalysis"

UserProfessor Per-Ola Norrby, Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg,.

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

ClockTuesday 13 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Ring-polymer transition-state theory

CPGS talk. Note unusual venue.

UserJeremy Richardson (CUC3).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 09 October 2009, 12:25-12:50

Theory of Condensed Matter

Hybrid density functionals for accurate semiconductor band gaps

UserProf. John Robertson, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 08 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Computing absolute free energies of disordered structures by molecular simulation

CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS

UserDr Tanja Schilling (Department of Physics, University of Mainz).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 02 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Halogen Bonding and Metal Ion Coordination in Supramolecular Complexes

UserProfessor Kari Rissanen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 01 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Organic Chemistry

Atom Economic Transformations Catalysed by Low-Valent Cobalt Complexes

All Welcome

UserProfessor Gerhard Hilt (Marburg University).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 24 September 2009, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Chirality in supramolecular polymers

UserMaarten Smulders, University of Technology, Eindhoven.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 September 2009, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Reinforced elastomeric materials at large strains

UserProf. Pedro Ponte Castaneda, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 04 September 2009, 14:00-15:00

Irregular seminars in TCM

Simplifying the theory of the Invar effect in iron-nickel alloys

UserChris Hooley (SUPA, University of St Andrews).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 28 August 2009, 15:30-16:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Molecular Understanding, Design and Development of Zwitterionic-based Biomaterials

UserProf Shaoyi Jiang, Boeing-Roundhill Professor of Chemical Engineering & Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 August 2009, 14:00-15:00

Organic Chemistry

Recent advances in the area of asymmetric hydrogenation

UserProfessor Xumu Zhang, Rutgers University, USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 03 August 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Synthetic Peptides for DNA and Protein recognition

UserProfessor Jose-Luis Mascarenas, University of Santiago de Compostela.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 22 July 2009, 11:00-12:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Dynamics of a bacterium moving by chemotaxis in its own secretion

Extra seminar

UserDr Ankush Sengupta (Institute for theoretical physics, University of Duesseldorf).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 10 July 2009, 12:00-13:00

Organic Chemistry

"Mechanisms, Structures and Chemical Informatics"

UserDr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 June 2009, 17:00-18:00

Irregular seminars in TCM

What is the momentum of a photon propagating in a medium?

UserProf. Steve Barnett, University of Strathclyde.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 18 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Localisation tensor

UserBohshiang Jong (TCM).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 17 June 2009, 11:40-12:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Physical theory of vaccine design for influenza and dengue fever

Note unusual day and time

UserProfessor Michael W Deem (Rice University, USA).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 16 June 2009, 14:30-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Using single-molecule manipulation to probe the dynamics of protein and DNA molecules

Note unusual day and time

UserProfessor Ching-Hwa Kiang (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, USA).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 15 June 2009, 14:30-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Birth of a liquid droplet

UserProfessor Hans-Hennig von Gruenberg (University of Graz).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 12 June 2009, 12:00-13:00

Irregular seminars in TCM

Heterogeneities in granular media

UserProf. Anita Mehta, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Calcutta.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

TCM Informal Seminar Series

Can the thermal conductivity of semiconductors be controlled by impurities?

UserStefan K. Estreicher, Physics Department, Texas Tech University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 June 2009, 15:30-16:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Electrochemical formation of responsive hydrogel films for bioanalytics

UserDr. Johanna Bünsow, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 04 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Many-Body Phenomena in Coupled Arrays of Cavities

Joint TCM/AMOP seminar

UserDr Michael Hartmann, Technische Universitaet Muenchen.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 04 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Title to be confirmed

Note time

UserProf. Gerald Mahan, Penn State University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 29 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Molecular tectonics: from building blocks to crystals

UserProfessor M.W. Hosseini, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Universite de Strasbourg.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Nanofluidics

UserProfessor Nick Quirke, Nano-bio Physics, University College Dublin.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Matrix elasticity directs stem cell lineage – Better (polymeric) materials for Better biology

Melville Lecture

UserProfessor Dennis Discher, Biophysical Eng. & Nanobiopolymers Lab, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kondo physics in multilevel quantum dots.

UserProf. David Logan, Theoretical Chemistry, Oxford University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

Merck Lectureship Talk 3 - Probing Intracellular Signalling Processes with Phosphatidyl Inositol Polyphosphates .

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

UserProfessor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

TCM Informal Seminar Series

Understanding liquids and glass transition on the basis of elastic interactions

Note changed time

UserDr Kostya Trachenko (University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Assembling and breaking: competitive interactions between polymer, drug and cyclodextrin

UserDr Cecile Dreiss, Pharmaceutical Science Division, King's College London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Irregular seminars in TCM

Glasses, Jamming and Spin Glasses

UserProf. Mike Moore FRS, University of Manchester..

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

Merck Lectureship Talk 2 - Pericyclic Reactions in the Synthesis of Medium Ring Ether and Piperidine Alkaloids of Biological Importance

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

UserProfessor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Merck Lectureship Talk 1 - Seeing the Light With Polymers

Part of the Merck Lectureship series of talks

UserProfessor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Organometallic f-Element Chemistry and the Importance of Questioning Scientific Assumptions

RSC Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship

UserProfessor William J Evans, University of California Irvine, USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 May 2009, 11:00-12:00

TCM Informal Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Bogdan Mihaila, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 08 May 2009, 15:30-16:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Simulations of self-assembling synthetic proteins

UserDr Peter Bolhuis (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 08 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Fun and controversy in modelling polarons

UserProf Alexander Shluger (University College London).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 01 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Investigation of multivalent glycan interactions on functional surfaces

UserDr Carlo Fasting, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Organic Chemistry

Sustainability Through the Confluence of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis

Talk of interest to all branches of chemistry

UserSir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

Organic Chemistry

Sugars and Enzymes

UserProfessor Ben Davis, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 17:00-18:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

QMC applied to two-component molecular systems

UserDr Ryo Maezono, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

New Anion Receptors and Transporters

UserProfessor Phil Gale, University of Southampton.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 21 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

Organic Chemistry

SCI Graduate Symposium

More details to be confirmed nearer the time

UserSCI Graduate Symposium speakers to be confirmed.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 April 2009, 13:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Asymmetric Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles using Sulfinimines

UserProfessor Franklin Davis, Temple University, Philadelphia USA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 15 April 2009, 17:00-18:00

Organic Chemistry

Amino Acid Promoted Ullman Reactions and their Applications in Organic Synthesis

UserProfessor Dawei Ma, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 03 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Semi-Analytic Modeling of Micro-Defects in an Infinite Semi-Infinite Matrix

Please note this is to be held in the Oatley Seminar Room

UserProfessor Leon Keer (Northwestern University).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - Oatley Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 23 March 2009, 14:15-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanical Behaviour of Cells on Tissue Engineering Scaffolds

UserProfessor Lorna J. Gibson, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 15:00-16:00

Physical Chemistry

Redox chemistry of diamond

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserDr Katherine Holt (University College London).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Using Entropy in Materials Design

UserProfessor Daan Frenkel, Department of Chemistry.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

Physical Chemistry

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserRachel Pike, Amy Stevens.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ehrenfest Simulations of Radiation Damage in Metals

UserProf. Matthew Foulkes, Imperial College.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserNeil Dickson, Tamsin Phillips.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Superfluidity and other quantum fluid effects of microcavity polaritons

Joint TCM/AMOP/NP seminar

UserDr Alberto Amo, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

HouseRutherford Seminar Room B.

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 11:00-12:00

Physical Chemistry

Graduate Student Seminars

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserAndrew Cassidy, Paul Dunne.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Towards an understanding of how general anaesthetics work

UserDr P.-L. Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, Institut Pasteur.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

It's not (all) --rocket-- atmospheric science

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserProfessor John Pyle (University of Cambridge).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Density functional simulation of a fast-ion conducting glass

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserProfessor David Drabold (Ohio University).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological Phases of Matter and Why You Should be Interested

UserProf. Steve Simon, University of Oxford.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Bionanoscience

UserProfessor Gil Lee – University College Dublin.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Domain switching in ferroelectric perovskites and applications

Mechanics Colloquia, note room - LR6 and time - 2.30pm

UserProfessor Kaushik Bhattcharya, CalTech.

HouseLR6, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 23 January 2009, 14:30-15:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Single-Molecule Magnets and Magnetic Refrigerants

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/inorg.html

UserProfessor Euan Brechin (University of Edinburgh).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Understanding glass transition on the basis of elastic interactions in a liquid

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/theo.html

UserProfessor Kostya Trachenko (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

How physics can be applied to biological problems

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/phys.html

UserDr Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

How to decipher fracture surfaces and crackling noise

Please note change of day, Monday

UserDr Laurent Ponson, CalTech.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 14:30-15:00

Organic Chemistry

Finding the Needle in a Haystack and From Bathtubs to Pipes

UserDr David Ager (DSM, Raleigh-Durham, USA).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 15 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Point defects in alumina

Note unusual time

UserMatthew Foulkes (Imperial College).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 December 2008, 10:40-11:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Linear scaling algorithms: applicability, accuracy and scalable implementation

Note unusual time

UserVincent Sacksteder (Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 December 2008, 10:00-10:40

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Onset of cavitation in compressible, isotropic, hyperelastic solids

UserOscar Lopez-Pamies, Department of Mechanical Engineering State University of New York at Stony Brook.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 05 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Exchange and Dynamic Correlation

UserProfessor Nicholas Handy FRS (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2008, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Empirical pseudopotentials?

UserMikhail Kibalchenko (TCM).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2008, 11:00-11:20

Irregular seminars in TCM

Quantum Criticality, the Alpha/Delta Puzzle, and Dual Vacua

Joint TCM/QM Seminar

UserProf George Chapline, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 28 November 2008, 11:30-12:30

Irregular seminars in TCM

Patterns of co-existing order parameters and universal escapeway to the magnetic quantum critical point

UserProf. Georgios Varelogiannis, National Technical University of Athens.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Organic Chemistry

Biomimetic Organocatalysis: From Concepts to Applications

UserProfessor Magnus Rueping (University of Frankfurt, Germany).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Reactive Steels: - the making of calm welds

UserProfessor H Bhadeshia, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 21 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Freezing of cluster solids and the Gibbs phase rule

UserProf. Daan Frenkel FMRS, University of Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Multiscale modelling of catalytic nanoparticles for CNT synthesis

UserDr James Elliot (Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Currents in carbon nanotubes

UserMikhail Kibalchenko (TCM).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 11:00-11:20

Physical Chemistry

Chemical Activity on Graphene Under Stress

UserDr Pedro de Andres (CSIC, Madrid).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Organic Chemistry

Epoxide-Opening Cascades

ELI LILLY LECTURE

UserProfessor Tim Jamison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 17 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Theoretical Chemistry

Intermolecular Coulombic Decay and Ultrafast Energy Transfer

UserProfessor Lorenz Cederbaum (University of Heidelberg).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Accelerating Chemistry & Biology: Intelligent Microfluidics

UserProfessor Andrew de Mello (Imperial College).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Organic Chemistry

Progress Toward a Synthesis of Phomactin A

UserProfessor Richard Hsung (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Fractal superconductivity near localization threshold

Note unusual time and day

UserProf. Mikhail Feigel'man, Landau Institute.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 07 November 2008, 15:30-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Fluid mechanical modelling of carbon dioxide sequestration

UserProfessor Herbert Huppert, Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 07 November 2008, 14:30-15:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Making semiconducting polymers - the long and the short of it

UserProfessor Michael Turner (University of Manchester).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theoretical Chemistry

Non-equilibrium phase transitions in complex systems

UserDr Sergei Taraskin (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

A general Jastrow factor

UserPablo Lopez Rios (TCM).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 11:00-11:40

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Predicting Molecular Properties: the Role of Data Visualisation and Feature Selection

UserProf. Ian Nabney, Neural Computing Research Group, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Atmospheric Aerosols: Their Effect on Climate and on Human Health

UserDr Markus Kalberer (University of Cambridge).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Effects of surface chemistry on epidermal stem cell differentiation

UserMiss Britta Trappmann (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Stimuli-Responsive Materials - Aqueous Phase Cucurbituril Assemblies

UserMr Jameel Zayed (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theoretical Chemistry

Cold Molecules: Production and Control

UserProfessor Jeremy Hutson (University of Durham).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Physical Chemistry

Particle Engineering: Role of Surface Chemistry

UserDr Jerry Heng (Imperial College).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Hierarchical self-assembly in aqueous media

UserMr John Lee (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Droplet-interface Bilayers Formation in Microfluidic Devices

UserMr Yunpeng Bai (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Towards density functional theory calculations of defects in crystals

UserProf. Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Entropy as an ordering force

Inaugural Lecture

UserProfessor Daan Frenkel FMRS (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Organic Chemistry

Modern Medicinal Chemistry in the Hit to Lead Arena

PFIZER GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

UserDr Dafydd Owen (Pfizer Global Research & Development, Sandwich, UK).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Nanoimprinting Functional Polymers

UserMiss Jo Slota (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Catalytic Interfaces for Organic Synthesis in Microdroplets

UserMiss Ashleigh Theberge (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theoretical Chemistry

Dynamics on the way to forming glass: past, present and future

UserProfessor David Chandler (University of California at Berkeley).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Studies of plastic flow localization in different materials

Please note change of day and venue (Wednesday LR4)

UserProfessor V Tvergaard, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Solid Mechanics, Technical University of Denmark.

HouseCUED LR4.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Maths, Engineering and Industry

UserJohn Ockendon, Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mechanics.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 10 October 2008, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Random searching: shining a light on structure space

UserDr Chris Pickard, University of St Andrews.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 09 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Chemistry

Quantum transitions in Lennard-Jones clusters

UserProfessor Vladimir Mandelshtam (University of Southern California).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Physics at the kitchen

Note time and location

UserProf. Andrey Varlamov, University of Rome.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 29 September 2008, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Representation and predictive modeling of complex biomolecular datasets

UserProf. Alexander Tropsha, School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

ClockFriday 26 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

An Integrated Multiscale Framework for Performing Design and Analysis of Composite and Smart Structures

UserDr Steven M Arnold, Chief Mechanics and Life Prediction Branch, Structures and Materials Division, NASA Glenn Research Center.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 05 August 2008, 14:00-15:00

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

Nobel Laureate Lectures live, week starting June 30 2008

Lectures start June 30th. They will be available for viewing on the site later.

UserMiscellaneous Physics Nobel Laureates.

HouseLive webcast from Lindau (Bodensee), Germany.

ClockThursday 03 July 2008, 08:00-13:00

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

Nobel Laureate Lectures live, week starting June 30 2008

Lectures continue till July 3rd. They will be available for viewing on the site later.

UserMiscellaneous Physics Nobel Laureates.

HouseLive webcast from Lindau (Bodensee), Germany.

ClockMonday 30 June 2008, 08:00-13:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserMr Luis Fidalgo (University of Cambridge – Melville Laboratory).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 12 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Irregular seminars in TCM

SU(2) gauge theory, the Berry phase and spintronics

UserProf. Stewart Barnes, University of Miami.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 12 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Long wavelength spin dynamics of ferrromagnetic condensates

UserProf. Austen Lamacraft, University of Virginia.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 10 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Probing the internal structure of polymer brushes

UserMr Ron Oren (University of Cambridge – Melville Laboratory).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: New Applications in Materials Chemistry

UserDr Chris Bielawski (University of Texas, Austin, Texas).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Nanomechanical Property Measurements for Sub-10 nm Thick Solid Films with Application in Magnetic Storage

UserProfessor Andreas Polycarpou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign, Mechanical Sciences and Engineering Department).

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 23 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Dynamic Self-Assembly of Macromolecules and Small Molecules

UserProfessor Sam Stupp, The Stupp Laboratory at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

The Chemistry, Structure and Function of the DNA Quadruple Helix

UserProf Shankar Balasubramanian (University of Cambridge – Department of Chemistry).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for resonant fermions.

UserProf. Nikolay Prokof'ev, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

High-Strain Rate Studies

UserDr Bill Proud (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge).

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 02 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Developing Quantum Topological Molecular Similarity (QTMS)

UserDr. Paul Popelier, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Simultaneous determination of protein structure and dynamics

UserDr Michele Vendruscolo (University of Cambridge – Department of Chemistry).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 24 April 2008, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Complex dynamics in simple models of shear banding.

UserDr Suzanne Fielding, University of Manchester.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 24 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

An analytical approach to a model of spin interactions in quartic wells

UserDr Godfrey Akpojotor, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 17 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Using Ontology to Classify Members of a Protein Family

UserDr. Robert Stevens, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Bound states of 2D electrons induced by the spin-orbit interaction

UserProf A.V.Chaplik, Semiconductors Physics Institute, Novosibirsk.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 11 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The 2008 release of CES – new Bio and Eco tools

UserProfessor Mike Ashby, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 04 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Phase analysis of quantum oscillations in graphite

UserIgor Luk'yanchuk, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France and L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 03 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Oligomerization-deoligomerization synthetic strategy and cucurbituril

UserDr Li Liu, University of Cambridge - Melville Laboratory.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Casting Nanostructures for NanoPhotonics

UserProf Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge - NanoPhotonics Centre.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Analysis of Antibody Sequence and Structure

UserDr. Andrew Martin, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Functional Amphiphilic Block Copolymers prepared via Ring Opening metathesis Polymerization

UserDr Kurt Stubenrauch, University of Cambridge - Melville Laboratory.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Grain boundaries in strontium titanate

UserProf. Mike Finnis, Imperial College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

QM to QSAR

UserProf. Jonathan Hirst, School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemist.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Design of New Generations of "Smart" Materials using Controlled Radical Polymerizations Techniques

UserDr Jean-Francois Lutz, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Melville Laboratory Seminars

DNA Block Copolymers: Programmable Macromolecular Amphiphiles

UserProf Dr Andreas Herrmann, University of Groningen - Polymer Chemistry and Bioengineering.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Crack tips' black box: Spectroscopic challenge to the strength of solids

UserProf. Giuseppe Pezzotti, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 18 January 2008, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetic monopoles in spin ice

UserDr Claudio Castelnovo (University of Oxford).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Nanoimprint lithography for application in polymer electronics

UserXimin He, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 06 December 2007, 16:00-16:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Functionalized cucurbiturils and their applications

UserProfessor Kimoon Kim, Center for Smart Supramolecules, Pohang University of Science & Technology.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Design and synthesis of new biocatalysts

UserProfessor Ehud Keinan, Scripps Research Institute, California and The Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Instiitute of Technology.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Resonant Level Hybridized with Luttinger Liquid

UserProf. Igor Lerner, University of Birmingham.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Phenomena in cold exciton gases

Joint TCM/OE seminar

UserLeonid Butov, University of California at San Diego.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multiscale Atomistic Simulation for Dry and Wet Systems

UserDr Gabor Csanyi, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 02 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Cucurbituril meets polymer: Be my guest!

UserUrs Rauwald, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

From Bubbles to Cells

UserDr Alexandre Kabla, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseMicromechanics Centre Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 19 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Electrons in bilayer graphene

UserDr Edward McCann, Lancaster University.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 18 October 2007, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Study on the Constitutive Model of Cardiac Muscle and Numerical Heart

UserProfessor Zhuo Zhuang, Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University.

HouseMicromechanics Centre Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 05 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Coherent coupling of excitons in quantum dots probed by two-dimensional four-wave mixing

UserDr. Wolfgang Langbein, Bio Photonics and Quantum Optoelectronics, Cardiff.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 24 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Record dynamics in spin glasses, superconductors and biological evolution.

UserProf. Henrik Jensen, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 17 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Multiscale Simulations of Mechanical Properties: From General Issues to Fracture and Friction

UserDr. Noam Bernstein, Naval Research Laboratory, Washingtom and TCM Group, Cambridge.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 26 April 2007, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Metal to metal transitions

Joint TCM/QM seminar

UserProf. Andy Schofield.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 08 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Na_x Co O_2: What's going on at high doping

UserChris Hooley, University of St Andrews.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 04 December 2006, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Energy Crisis on the back of an envelope

UserProf. David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Determination of protein structures using NMR chemical shifts

UserDr Michele Vendruscolo, Dept. of Chemistry.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 09 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Electron Spin Injection and Transport in Semiconductors

Joint TCM/OE seminar

UserDr Darryl L. Smith, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 26 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Origin of large electromechanical coupling in relaxor ferroelectrics

UserProf. Ron E. Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy of the Pure and Cd-doped Heavy Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn5: Detecting Order Parameter Symmetry and Competing Phases

UserLaura H. Greene, Department of Physics and the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 20 September 2006, 11:15-12:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Investigating quantum matter with cold atomic gases

Note time - Wednesday, 2.00pm

UserMichael Koehl (ETH Zurich).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2006, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

New Challenges in the physics of high temperature superconductors

note change of Venue

UserProf. Jeff Tallon, University of Wellington, New Zealand.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 18 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Condensates in Flatland - Bose gases in two dimensions

note change of time - 10.00am Friday

UserDr Zoran Hadzibabic, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 May 2006, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Electronic-structure challenges in biomimetic catalysis

UserProf Nicola Marzari, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 04 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

To be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 16 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spin and charge quantum phase transitions in narrow-band metals

UserDr. Malte Grosche, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 23 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Carnot and the fields formulation of elementary thermodynamics

UserProfessor John Hannay, Physics Department, University of Bristol.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 09 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamics of network motifs

UserDr. Thomas Fink, CNRS/Institut Curie, Paris.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 26 January 2006, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Polymorphism in organic and inorganic solids

UserProf. M Parrinello, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 08 December 2005, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Photon Anti-bunching

UserProf. E. C. G. Sudarshan, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 November 2005, 15:30-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Why Can't We Solve the Problem of High Temperature Superconductivity?

UserProf. Mike Norman (joint seminar with Quantum Matter Group).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 10 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nanomechanical Oscillators: from Thermodynamics to Pattern Formation

UserProf. Mike Cross, Physics, Caltech, Pasadena.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 27 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Mapping Phase Diagrams by Atomistic Simulation

UserProf. Matt Probert, Physics, University of York.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 13 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Evolutionary genetics

UserProf Simon Tavar (DAMTP, Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 16 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

TBA

UserTBA.

HouseHEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 09 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

TBA

UserTBA.

HouseHEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 02 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-Equilibrium Fermi Gas as a Riemann Hilbert Problem

UserDr Boris Muzykanskii, University of Warwick.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 26 May 2005, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Superconducting pairing in small metallic nanoparticles

UserDr Vladimir Kresin (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab).

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 19 May 2005, 14:15-14:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Analogies between superfluid helium Three and the Universe

UserProf George Pickett (University of Lancaster).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2005, 11:15-12:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Squids

UserProf John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseHEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2005, 11:15-12:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Field theoretic methods in polymer stat mech

UserProf Andrea Pelissetto (Rome).

HouseHEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 28 April 2005, 02:15-03:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

"Quantum turbulence"

UserProf. WF Vinen, Birmingham.

HouseHEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 03 March 2005, 02:15-03:15

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