Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

SHAPE PROGRAMMABLE 3D MESOSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICES

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

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Automated discovery of material models

Professor Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT6.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Organic Nanoionics in Polymers for Energy Conversion System

Prof. Manabu Tanaka, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Whereto for physical metallurgy – vision and the role of design

Roger Reed, University of Oxford.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Formulating protein behaviour in nanospace: Key to rational glue screening

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

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Collective Dynamics in Non-Equilibrium Fluids

Professor Robert Jack, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Mechanics of Soft Composites: The Interplay between Geometrical Structuring and Large Deformation to Achieve Novel Behavior

Professor Mary Boyce, University of Columbia.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 01 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-conservation of the valley density and its implications for the observation of the valley Hall effect

Alessandro Principi, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Correlation and Collaboration: using model results to design functionals

Professor Lucia Reining, ETSF Palaiseau.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Scientific machine learning - opportunities and challenges from an industrial perspective

Dr Dirk Hartmann, Siemens.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 23 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bosonic Quantum Solvation Enabled by Machine Learning

Dominik Marx (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Liquid Water at Coupled Cluster Accuracy

Professor Dominik Marx, Ruhr-University Bochum.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-parallel based deep learning for the model order reduction of parametrized partial differential equations

Dr Nirav Vashant Shah, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Full field measurement technique enabling the discovery of new materials laws

Dr Zifan Wang, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology in lattices of semiconductor microcavities

Jacqueline Bloch (Université Paris-Saclay & CNRS).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Foundation Models for Materials Chemistry

Professor Gábor Csanyi, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Disconnection Dynamics and Grain Boundary Kinetics: their surprising effects on microstructural evolution

Professor David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 09 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Field control of many-body phases in frustrated moiré bilayers

Laura Classen, MPI Stuttgart.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

London Dispersion in Density-Functional Theory and the Exchange-Hole Dipole Moment Model

A joint Lennard-Jones Centre talk

Professor Erin Johnson, Dalhousie University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 15:30-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Nanovoid Irradiation Hardening in Metals: A Mesoscale Perspective".

Dr Ashley Roach.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Role of Phase Transformation on Shock Compression Behavior of Iron

Dr Vatsa Gandhi, Ashby Fellow.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

Dorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermodynamic Integration, fermion sign problem, and real-space renormalization

Werner Krauth, ENS Paris, Oxford .

Mott Seminar Room (531).

Thursday 01 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Dynamic rupture behavior and friction evolution revealed by laboratory experiments using ultra high-speed digital image correlation

Prof Vito Rubino École Centrale de Nantes, France.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 26 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The statistical properties of eigenstates in chaotic many-body quantum systems

John Chalker (Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

All-atom simulations of DNA in complex 3D arrangements

Dr Agnes Noy, University of York.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

In-Silico Experiments to Unravel the Complexity of Engineering Interfaces

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Atomic scale modelling of magnetic materials

Joseph Barker (Leeds).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Artificial chemistries: From designing matter to mimicking life



Dr Zorana Zeravcic, ESPCI Paris PSL Research University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Computational Roadmap of Emerging Materials: Implications of Piezochromism and Rashba Phenomena

Dr Sudip Chakraborty, Harish-Chandra Research Institute Allahabad.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

Saeid Davatolhagh (Shiraz University).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-driven ML-enhanced approaches to support accelerated materials design for extreme conditions

Prof. Lori Graham-Brady, Johns Hopkins University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Computational Chemistry Event

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

Dept of Chemistry, BMS Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Deep learning, Monte Carlo and Quantum Mechanics

Alex Matthews, DeepMind.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Magnetism in 2D materials

Professor Biplab Sanyal, Uppsala University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthesis planning, mechanistic analysis and discovery of new reaction classes in the age of computers

Prof. Bartosz Grzybowski, UNIST, Republic of Korea.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 27 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Innovations in Multifunctional Materials and Composites through Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-boundary correspondence in quantum chains

Nick Jones, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Making Sense of Electrical Noise by Simulating Electrolyte Solutions

Professor Benjamin Rotenberg, Sorbonne University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Towards Operando Modelling of Zeolites

Dr. Christopher Heard, Charles University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The rational design of sociotechnical systems in healthcare

Tom Bashford,CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum reaction-diffusion dynamics

Gabriele Perfetto, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Melting of Spin 'Solids' in 2D

Andriy Nevidomskyy (Rice University).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Uncovering Molecular Transport Mechanisms by Counting with Colloids

Professor Alice Thorneywork, University of Oxford.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kinetic magnetism of fermions in triangular lattices

Eugene Demler, ETH Zurich.

Mott Seminar Room (531).

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Prof. Julio Lloret

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

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Resource Efficiency: delivering future energy and material services with less environmental impact.

Prof Jonathan Cullen, CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

Friday 10 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

Mehran Kardar (MIT).

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solvation Across Length Scales: A Classical Density Functional Theory

1st Year PhD Report

Anna Bui, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Path Integral Approaches to Spin-Phonon Coupled Systems

1st Year PhD Report

Ilija Srpak, University of Cambridge and Max Planck Institute.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Friday 3 November - no seminar today

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Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonlinear breathers with crystalline symmetries

Frank Schindler, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Fifty Years Simulating Water and Electrolyte Solutions : Where Are We?

Professor Carlos Vega de las Heras, University Complutense of Madrid.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

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

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

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development of Solid-State Solar Thermal Fuels

Dr. John Griffin, Lancaster University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

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

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

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical minimum

David Khmelnitskii.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

From Computational Chemistry to Computational Microbiology: A Few Successes and Many Challenges

Professor Syma Khalid, University of Oxford.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement, Assessment and Modelling of Heavy Goods Vehicle Energy Consumption

Dr Xiaoxiang Na, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Waves topology in geophysical flows

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

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Relativistic QED developments for atomic and molecular bound state computations

Dr Edit Mátyus, ELTE Faculty of Science, Budapest.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Chemicals and fuels from CO2 via thermo and electrochemical routes: Insights from quantum chemistry

Prof. Felix Studt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 13 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Schrödinger in Oxford (and Cambridge)

Professor Sir David Clary FRS (Oxford & Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 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

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

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Learning from molecular dynamics trajectory ensembles

Professor Peter Bolhuis, University of Amsterdam.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-reciprocal active matter across the scales

Ramin Golestanian (MPI & Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Fracture and fatigue in additively manufactured alloys

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Toward Better Bone Regeneration: Innovation in Metallic and Ceramic Scaffolds

Prof. Donghui Zhu,.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 29 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multiscale design strategies for the progressive failure of architected materials and structures – Focus on interface cracking

Dr Federica Daghia, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Mécanique Paris-Saclay .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 21 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Diastereoselective self-assembly of low-symmetry metal-organic cages

Dr Jamie Lewis, University of Birmingham.

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

Wednesday 20 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Eigenstate thermalization, quantum designs and free probability

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

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Illuminating the Quantum Dynamics in Photoelectrochemistry

Special Lennard-Jones Centre seminar

Dr Thomas Sayer, University of Colorado Boulder.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Searching for Quantum Spin Liquids in Cerium-based Pyrochlores

Benedikt Placke, Max Planck Institute.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Journey of Droplet through various spatio-temporal scales

Prof Saptarshi Basu.

LR3B, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 31 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Control: Strategic Uses of Carbon Nanohoops, Fluorinated Cyclohexanes and Organophosphates

Prof. Max von Delius, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Ulm University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 24 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-interface correspondence from quantum distance in flat band systems

Chang-geun Oh (University of Tokyo).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Imparting the generalised Toric Code with hopping dynamics

Siddarth Vadnerkar (UC Davis).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

The quantum Mpemba effect

Pasquale Calabrese (SISSA).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The elastic stability and transitions between the unusual equilibrium states of a special hexagram ring

John W. Hutchinson, Harvard University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 July 2023, 10:00-11:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Hydrovoltaics: from energy to Intelligence

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

LR3A, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Intelligentsia of Nano-Architected Hierarchical Materials

Professor J.R. Greer, California Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Wednesday 05 July 2023, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 (a joint Winton seminar)

Prof Yuanbo Zhang (Fudan University).

Small Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Colloidal nanocrystals to advance catalysis and energy technologies

Prof. Raffaella Buonsanti, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne .

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Leapfrog in Fracture and Damage Mechanics inspired by Gap Test and Curvature-Resisting Sprain Energy

Prof Zdenek Bazant .

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 16 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

WISE(Wearable Intelligent Sensors & Electronics) Research and Applications

Prof. Xueji Zhang, Shenzhen University.

LR6.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical magneto-optical spectroscopy for solid state defect quantum bits

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

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Strong Correlation and Unconventional Superconductivity in Bulk and Trilayer Alkali-Doped Fullerides

Changming Yue (University of Fribourg).

Zoom.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

In Search of Coulson's Lost Theorem

Professor Patrick Fowler, University of Sheffield.

Todd Hamied Room, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanosensing in cancer fuels agressiveness

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetic excitations from TDDFT: the case of the CrI3 2D magnet

Tommaso Gorni (CINECA).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Developing Hybrid Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithms for Low Quantum Overheads and Improved Noise Resilience

Dr Maria-Andreea Filip, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement automation for additive manufacturing using computer vision

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum computers challenged by many-body chaos

Alexander Altland (University of Cologne).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 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

Professor Masayuki Ochi, Osaka University Japan.

Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Tackling Topology with TopoStats

Dr Alice Pyne, University of Sheffield.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Pseudo-Goldstone modes and order-by-disorder

Jeffrey G. Rau (University of Windsor).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

A novel framework for electron and phonon transport predictions from first-principles

Jenny Coulter (Harvard).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum Theory of Imperfect Crystals

Professor Aron Walsh, Imperial College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Coiled Muscle + Snapping Beams: From Nonlinear Mechanics to Miniature Robotic Design

Dr Sam Tawfick, University of Illinois .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 05 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Molecular design approaches to organic semiconductors

Prof. Iain McCulloch, University of Oxford.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Planckian dissipation in metals

Sean Hartnoll (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Towards the development of neural network potentials for describing chemistry under challenging conditions

First Year PhD Report

Samuel Brookes, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Non-unitary Trotter circuits for imaginary time evolution

First Year PhD Report

Chiara Leadbeater, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 14:30-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Cavity Magnonics

Silvia Viola Kusminskiy (RWTH Aachen/MPL Erlangen).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum theory of electronic friction

Professor Rocco Martinazzo, University of Milan.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

From theoretical chemistry to integrated drug discover platforms. Methods and applications

Prof. Artem Cherkasov, University of British Columbia.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The shape of things to come

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

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Machine-learning-enabled discovery of extreme chemistry

Prof. Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 17 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Weakly Bound Molecular Materials: Competing Energy Scales, Quantum Effects and More

Dr Mariana Rossi, MPI.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Liouville conformal blocks and Stokes Phenomena

Babak Haghighat (Tsinghua University).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Advanced Tissue Biofabrication

Prof Y. Shrike Zhang, Harvard Medical School.

Room LR6, Cambridge University Engineering Department, CB2 1PZ.

Friday 31 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The mechanics of nature-inspired heterogeneous architected materials (HAMs)

Prof Bosco Yu, University of Victoria.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Modernist Materials Synthesis: Finding Thermodynamic Shortcuts with Hyperdimensional Chemistry

Professor Jamie Neilson, Colorado State University .

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

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

Professor Prabal Maiti, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

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

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Exploring chemical reactivity in the age of automation and ML

Professor Fernanda Duarte, University of Oxford.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The Joy of Discovery - A Lecture in Memory of Alex Hopkins

Professor Ben Feringa.

BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 24 March 2023, 17:00-18:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

‘Machine-learning in chemistry from the bottom up’

Professor Michele Ceriotti, Institute of Materials, EPFL.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Seeing opportunity in failure: can common issues in metal Additive Manufacture help deliver innovative material solutions?

Prof. Iain Todd from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Reinforcement learning to manipulate many-body quantum systems

Marin Bukov (PKS Dresden).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Crumbling Crystals

First Year PhD Report

Niamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Exploring and implementing molecular counterfactuals for chemical toxicology prediction

First Year PhD Report

Katie Beckwith, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Physics-enhancing machine learning strategies for friction force evaluation

Alice Cicrello, TU Delft.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Topology, Molecular Simulation, and Machine Learning as Routes to Exploring Structure, Dynamics, and Phase Behavior in Atomic and Molecular Crystals

Professor Mark Tuckerman, New York University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The chase for fluid-structure interaction effects – An obsession or something important?

Dr Vegard Aune, NTNU, Norway.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 03 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in the multi-fluid plasma regime with transport effects

Kyriakos Tapinou, University of Queensland.

Zoom.

Friday 03 March 2023, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Molecular simulations of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells

Paramvir Ahlawat (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Photosynthesis on an electrode

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

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Spin dynamics in radical pairs

Professor David Manolopoulos, University of Oxford.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Strength prediction of polymer composite laminates under uncertainties using theory-guided machine learning

Prof Pedro Camanho, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Porto.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 24 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Solving Continuum Physics Equations with OpenFOAM

Hrvoje Jasak (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The structure of the carbon/electrolyte interface from molecular dynamics simulations

Professor Paola Carbone, University of Manchester.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Modeling of Fibrous Tissues Considering the Microstructure

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

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

Zohar Nussinov (Oxford, Sorbonne, Washington U).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Discovering New Materials By Combining Computation And Intelligent Mobile Robotic Chemists

Andrew I. Cooper, University of Liverpool.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 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

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

Department of Engineering - LR6.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

T-Shaped Transition Metal Complexes and their Metalloradical Nature

Prof. Lutz Gade, Heidelberg University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Unravelling adsorption interactions and establishing benchmark accuracy: The case of hydrogen adsorption on low-dimensional materials

Dr Yasmine Al-Hamdani, UCL.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Mechanistic design, understanding, and multicatalysis in the development of catalytic chemical processes

Dr Pawel Dydio, University of Strasbourg.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 13 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Geometric compatibility: from simple mathematics to complex materials, structures and mechanics

Dr Fen Fang, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Stress-unsupervised learning of material models using experimental data

Dr Akshay Joshi, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 February 2023, 14:00-14:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Iron catalysed cyclotrimerisation: Reactions of alkynes and phosphaalkynes

Dr Ruth Webster, University of Bath.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 09 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Understanding Metallic Bonding

Volker Heine.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Energy landscapes of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs)

First Year PhD Report

Arun Kumar Rajasekaran, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Found In Translation: Using Language Models To Predict C–H Borylation Regioselectivity

First Year PhD Report

Ruslan Kotlyarov, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Simplified Earth-abundant metal catalysis, C–H activation and transborylation

Dr Jamie Docherty, The University of Manchester.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

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

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

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multiscale Simulation of DNA

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminar

Dr Modesto Orozco, IRB Barcelona.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Applying Matsubara Dynamics to Study Rates in Thermally Dissipative Systems

First Year PhD Report

William Moore, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

DMC-ICE13: ambient and high pressure polymorphs of ice from Diffusion Monte Carlo and Density Functional Theory

First Year PhD Report

Flaviano Della Pia, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Computationally derived correlations between segregation, microstructure variations and process-induced cracks in AM

Prof Hector Basoalto, Sheffield University.

Meeting ID: 898 8054 7075 .

Friday 27 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The unusual reactivity inside the supramolecular resorcinarene capsule catalyst – from terpene cyclizations to glycosylations

Prof. Konrad Teifenbacher, University of Basel.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Recent developments with the Transcorrelated method

Professor Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A hyperplasticity framework for efficient modelling of cyclic loading ratcheting

Dr Christelle Abadie, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Some new perspectives on old problems: From water to materials and back again.

Professor Michael Klein, Temple University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 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

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Go EAST, young scientist - First principles view on chemical compound space

Professor Anatole von Lilienfeld, University of Toronto.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

What machine learning can do for (meta)materials-by-design

Dr Sid Kumar, Materials Science and Engineering at TU Delft.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum thermodynamics in open quantum systems

Géraldine Haack (Université de Genève).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 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

Professor Garnet Chan, Caltech.

via zoom .

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Micromechanical Modelling at High Temperature - A Personal Perspective

Prof Alan Cocks, Oxford.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

A constructive approach to dualities in quantum spin systems

Frank Verstraete (DAMTP and Ghent University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 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

Kieran Russell, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 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

Pin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Microstructure control in metal additive manufacturing: a LEGO analogy

Dr Matteo Seita, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 11 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ferroelectricity and topological polarization in twisted bilayers

Danny Bennett (University of Liège).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 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

Dr Chantal Valeriani, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Cut it out - residual stresses in dynamic cell sheets

Dr Stephanie Hoehn, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 04 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Active Matter: a new approach to mechanobiology?

Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Programmable Folding of Droplet Colloidomers

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

Professor Jasna Brujic, NYU.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Simulating the Tumor Microenvironment for Immune Cell Interactions via Deployable Extrusion

Corrado Mazzaglia, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Smart micro-textiles: from bioinspired sensing to bioelectronic interface

Andy Wang CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-14:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Gender Equity in Academia: Why and How

Prof. Paul Walton, University of York.

BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 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

Dr Nandini Ananth, Cornell University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Protection against self-oxidation by copper oxygenases

Prof. Paul Walton, University of York.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Prediction and mitigation of railway induced vibration in the built environment

Prof Geert Degrand, KU Leuven.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum measurement protocol for many-body systems through projective measurements on ancillary sites

Elmer Doggen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Dr Adam Sieradzan, University of Gdańsk.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

Siddharth Parameswaran (University of Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Welcome to term and to new PhD students

Prof Michael Sutcliffe, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 07 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding and tuning the surface chemistry of perovskite oxides to activate oxygen exchange and water splitting

Prof Bilge Yildiz, MIT.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LR6.

Thursday 29 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Kinking in Atomically Layered Solids

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

LR6.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Conjugated organic and carbon nitride photocatalysts for solar driven hydrogen synthesis: insights from time resolved spectroscopies

Prof James Durrant, ICL.

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Protein phase transitions in health and disease

Prof Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested in Reactors, and Understood In Silico

Prof Charlie Sykes, Tufts.

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 August 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Insights from Physical Chemistry into the Aerosol Route for Respiratory Disease Transmission

Prof Jonathan Reid, University of Bristol.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LR6.

Wednesday 20 July 2022, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Electrons in novel materials, water, and their interplay

Prof Mischa Bonn, MPI .

Cambridge University Engineering Department LR6.

Thursday 14 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Architected Materials Beyond the Laboratory: harnessing self-architecture and exploring extreme conditions

Carlos M Portela, MIT.

LR5.

Friday 01 July 2022, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Measurement-induced transitions with symmetries

Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Penn State University .

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

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Toward discovering novel physics with a NISQ processor

Pedram Roushan (Google).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological skyrmion phases of matter

Ashley Cook (MPI PKS Dresden).

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

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Photon-Instanton Collider Implemented by a Superconducting Circuit: Splitting a Single Photon

Moshe Goldstein (Tel Aviv University).

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

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Dr Mariana Rossi, Max Planck Institute .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Emerging Energy Materials: Electrified Heating and Wood

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

Meeting ID: 849 1452 9444 .

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theories of Cross phenomena and Zentropy

Zi-Kui Liu (Penn State).

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

Thursday 19 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

Haseem Deen Mohamed Sarif Mohamed Iqbal, University of Cambridge .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 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

Maria Julia Maristany, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 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

Dr David Limmer, UC Berkeley.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Graphene: from point defects to tunable twins

Prof Pilar Ariza, University of Sevilla.

LR5, Baker Building, CUED.

Friday 06 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Professor Frank Noé, Free University Berlin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Symmetry breaking and entanglement transitions in driven-dissipative systems

Rosario Fazio, ICTP.

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

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Novel Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Quantum Fluids of Light

Marzena Szymanska, UCL.

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

Thursday 28 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Professor Radha Boya, University of Manchester.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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Speaker to be confirmed.

CUED LR4.

Friday 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

Dr Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, University of Cambridge.

Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

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

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 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

Dr Anđela Šarić, IST Austria .

Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Complexes and conservation: constructing numerical methods for physical systems

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

CUED LR5.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kagome metals

Ronny Thomale, University of Würzburg.

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

Thursday 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

Professor Halim Kusumaatmaja, Durham University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanics of Architected Materials Across Length and Time Scales

Prof Carlos M Portela, School of Engineering, MIT.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 25 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Path integral molecular dynamics for indistinguishable particles

Barak Hirshberg, Tel Aviv University.

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Anne Aguirre, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 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

Benjamin Shi (University of Cambridge).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry & Zoom.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A phase-field model for ferroelectrics with general kinetics

Prof Laurent Guin, Solid Mechanics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

The inevitable emergence of density-dependent diffusion in expanding phage populations

Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 17 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

Professor Giulia Galli, University of Chicago.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Exploding, weeping and reversible phase transformations in ceramics

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

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 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

Dr Reinhard J. Maurer, University of Warwick.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry & Zoom.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Designing vascular networks for tissue engineering

Andrew Guy.

CUED LR4.

Friday 04 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Biofabrication techniques for vascular graft and network

Dr Alex Justin .

CUED LR4.

Friday 04 February 2022, 14:00-14:30

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

Yifei Wang, University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Wednesday 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

Kripa Panchagnula, University of Cambridge.

via zoom .

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Decarbonising Road Freight

Prof David Cebon CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 28 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-Hermitian topological phenomena: Exceptional points, symmetry and breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence

Flore Kunst, MPL Erlangen.

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

Thursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

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

Christopher Haggard, University of Cambridge.

via zoom .

Wednesday 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

Ching Ching Lam, University of Cambridge.

via zoom .

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanical metamaterials: Does toughness characterise fracture?

Dr Angkur Jyoti Dipanka Shaikeea, Ashby Fellow, CUED.

CUED LR4.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Order by disorder and phase transitions

Laura Messio, LPTMC Paris.

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

Thursday 20 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

Dr Bin Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

via zoom .

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Shape-shifting assemblies in cutting and dividing cells

Dr Andela Šarić, UCL.

CUED LR6.

Friday 03 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

POSTPONED

Flore Kunst, MPL Erlangen.

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

Thursday 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

Dr Céline Merlet, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier .

Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Forward and inverse homogenization of cellular metamaterials

Prof Dennis Kochman, ETH Zürich.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

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

Dr Nick Blunt, Riverlane.

Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Learning based multiscale modeling

Dr Burigede Liu, CUED.

CUED LR6.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magneto-enhancement of superconductivity in composite D-wave superconductors

Boris Spivak (University of Washington).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development Of A Multiscale Chromatin Coarse-Grained Model

First Year PhD Report

Charles Phillips, University of Cambridge.

Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Base flipping in DNA using potential energy landscapes

First Year PhD Report

Nicy, University of Cambridge.

Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

From hyperbolic drum towards hyperbolic topological insulators

Tomáš Bzdušek (Paul Scherrer Institute).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Energy absorption of foams with non-linear variation in cross-sectional area under stationary impact BD

Dr Sri Datta Rapaka, CUED.

CUED LR6.

Friday 12 November 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Active light-driven microfluidic components made of soft smart materials

Dr Klaudia Dradrach, CUED.

CUED LR6.

Friday 12 November 2021, 14:00-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

New understanding of liquid thermodynamics, viscosity and its lower bounds

Kostya Trachenko ( Queen Mary, University of London).

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

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

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

Max Niroomand, University of Cambridge.

Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 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

Honghao Yu, University of Cambridge.

Zoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Model-Free Data-Driven Mechanics: A tutorial

Prof. Michael Ortiz, Caltech.

Meeting ID: 893 5973 8882.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 09:30-11:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Bioprinting with Microgel Materials

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

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Coarse-Graining Markov State Models

Dr Edina Rosta, UCL.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom: Meeting ID: 977 4633 0653 Passcode: 379093.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 14:30-15:30

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

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

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Crack dynamics simulations in wood and other heterogeneous materials

Dr Jenny Carlsson, CUED.

CUED LR6.

Friday 22 October 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanically Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators

Dr Morgan Barnes, CUED.

CUED LR6.

Friday 22 October 2021, 14:00-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Water flows in carbon nanochannels: from quantum friction to carbon memories

Lyderic Bocquet, Ecole Normale Superieure.

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

Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nucleation in first order phase transitions starting from the top

Dr Eduardo Sanz, University Complutense of Madrid.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom: Meeting ID: 929 3874 2761 Passcode: 803269.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Real Time Optical Probes of Phase Transitions in Nanoscale Materials

Dr Akshay Rao, Cavendish Laboratory, Physics, Cambridge.

CUED LR6.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Encoding quantum-chemical knowledge into machine-learning models

Professor Clemence Corminboeuf, EPFL.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre and Zoom: Meeting ID: 915 2897 9304 Passcode: 474419.

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The Statistical Finite Element Method

Prof Mark A Girolami, Div D, CUED.

CUED LR6.

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

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Rapid Discovery of Novel Materials by Coordinate-free Coarse Graining using Wyckoff Representations

Rhys Goodall .

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 26 July 2021, 16:30-17:00

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

A transferable active-learning strategy for reactive molecular force fields

Fernanda Duarte, University of Oxford.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 12 July 2021, 16:30-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Ranking the information content of distance measures through the information imbalance

Aldo Glielmo ( International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA).

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 28 June 2021, 16:30-17:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Detecting fractional chern insulators of few-bosons

Cécile Repellin (CNRS Grenoble).

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

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

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Systematic study of magnetotransport responses with Berry-Boltzmann equations and Wannier functions

Stepan Tsirkin (University of Zurich).

Zoom.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 11:30-12:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Machine Learning for Molecular Spectra and Solvent Effects

Michael Gastegger, Technische Universität Berlin.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 14 June 2021, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Through the eyes of a descriptor: Constructing complete, invertible, descriptions of atomic environments

Martin Uhrin, EPFL.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 14 June 2021, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanics, Additive Manufacture, and Characterisation of Lattice Biostructures

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Faezeh Shalchy, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 11 June 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A New Approach for 3D hydrogel printing; and a Study of Single-Cell Microfibre Interaction Dynamics

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Duo Zhang, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 11 June 2021, 14:00-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Symmetric Jordan-Wigner transformation on the square lattice

Adrian Po (MIT).

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

Thursday 10 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

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

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

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

First principles simulations of electrolyte materials with a view toward all solid state battery technology

Natalie Holzwarth (Wake Forest Uni.).

Zoom.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Elastocapillary singularities in creasing & wetting

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Dr Jacco Snoeijer.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-conservative forces in nanoscale conductors

Tchavdar Todorov, Queen's University Belfast.

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

Thursday 03 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

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

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

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Non-Abelian braiding of phonons in layered silicates

Bo Peng.

Zoom.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 11:30-12:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Learning the molecular grammar of protein condensate formation

Kadi Liis Saar.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 31 May 2021, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Integrating machine learning and quantum chemistry with fully differentiable quantum chemistry

Muhammad Firmansyah Kasim, University of Oxford.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 31 May 2021, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Linear and nonlinear inverse problems in imaging

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Dr Leslie Greengar, New York University.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Machine learning as a solution to the electronic structure problem

Beatriz G. del Rio (Georgia Tech).

Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Noncovalently bound molecular dimers with more than four atoms: Inter- and intramolecular rovibrational states and frequency shifts from full-dimensional and fully coupled quantum calculations

Professor Zlatko Bačić, New York University.

Zoom: Meeting ID: 977 2817 4648 Passcode: 343584.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Electrochemo-poromechanical interactions: the case of ionic polymer metal composites

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Alessandro Leronni, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 21 May 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Microstructurally-guided modeling of hard magnetorheological elastomers

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Dr Dipayan Mukherjee, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 21 May 2021, 14:00-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Low-temperature quantum bounds in simple models

Jorge Kurchan, ENS Paris.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Talks delivered by two final year PhD students

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

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Light-matter interactions: from ab initio molecular dynamics and machine learning to x-ray spectroscopy

Dr Morgane Vacher, University of Nantes.

Zoom: Meeting ID: 919 4908 5468 Passcode: 711578.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Kohn-Sham equations as regularizer: building prior knowledge into machine-learned physics

Li Li, Google Research.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 17 May 2021, 16:30-17:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Robotic Metamaterials: Additive Fabrication for Multi-materials and Multi-functionalities

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Dr Rayne Zheng, UCLA.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thwarting long-lived dark states to speed up dynamic polarization

Anushya Chandran (Boston University).

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

Thursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Machine Learning for Intermolecular Interactions

Professor David Sherrill, Georgia Tech.

Zoom: Meeting ID: 936 2232 6567 Passcode: 659838.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electrically tunable stacking domains and ferroelectricity in Moiré superlattices

Danny Bennett.

Zoom.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Putting 3D Bioprinting to Tissue and Tissue Model Fabrication

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

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

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermodynamics in the presence of coherences and strong coupling corrections

Janet Anders (University of Exeter).

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

Thursday 06 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electronic properties and structural relaxation of twisted bilayer graphene: insights from large-scale first principles calculations

Giovanni Cantele.

Zoom.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nanoconfined Water and it's Anomalies

Professor Biman Bagchi, Indian Institute of Science - Bengaluru.

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

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

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Selected applications of machine learning for materials modeling: structural characterization and visualization, van der Waals interactions and X-ray spectroscopy

Patricia Hernández-León and Miguel A. Caro, Aalto University.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 03 May 2021, 16:30-17:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Inflight printing of micro/nano fibres: from harvesting acoustic energy to detecting cell movement

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Andy Wenyu Wang, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 30 April 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Finite element modelling of hot compression testing of titanium alloys

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Dr Patryk Jedrasiak, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

Friday 30 April 2021, 14:00-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology vs. interaction in fragile bands

Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science.

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

Thursday 29 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Phase Behaviour of Supercooled Water: Recent Computational Results.

Professor Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton University.

Zoom: Meeting ID: 960 7975 3507 Passcode: 674325.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 14:30-15:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Data-Efficient Machine Learning with Chemical and Physical Priors

Johannes Margraf, Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 19 April 2021, 16:30-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Reinforcement Learning for 3D Molecular Design

Gregor Simm.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 05 April 2021, 16:30-17:30

External talks

Electrochemical Technology for the Low Carbon Transition

Professor Nigel Brandon (Imperial College London).

Zoominar (registration required): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bp-icam-webinar-electrochemical-technology-for-the-low-carbon-transition-tickets-141658982831.

Thursday 25 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

What can we learn from toy models?

Albert Bartok-Partay, University of Warwick.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 22 March 2021, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

dNNsolve: an efficient NN-based PDE solver

Yvette Welling .

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 22 March 2021, 16:30-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum Machine Learning for Accurate and Low-Cost Computational Chemistry

Professor Thomas F. Miller III, Caltech.

Zoom: Meeting ID: 974 4858 8660 Passcode: 016125.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Charges and Dipoles in Periodic Systems: Here Be Dragons

Michael Rutter.

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exploring the Mysteries of Collective Quantum Dynamics

Michael Knap, TU Munich.

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

Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Let there be light: exploiting machine learning to elucidate optical spectroscopy in the condensed phase

Professor Thomas Markland, Stanford University.

Zoom - link to be announced.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 17:00-18:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The Mechanics of Bioinspired Artificial Intelligence

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

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Space projected electrical conductivity and spectral properties of the conduction matrix

Dave Drabold (Ohio University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Neural Equivariant Interatomic Potentials

Simon Batzner, Harvard University.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 08 March 2021, 16:30-17:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Machine Learning in Structural Dynamics

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Prof Keith Worden, Sheffield University.

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonlinear topological photonics

Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State.

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

Thursday 04 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chemical reactivity in solution and under confinement – Applications and computational developments

Professor Fernanda Duarte (Hertford College, University of Oxford).

Zoom meeting ID: 920 8107 6877; Passcode: 119678.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Structure and dynamics of ionic liquids confined between metallic surfaces

Professor Marialore Sulpizi, Johannes Gutenberg University.

Zoom: Meeting ID: 956 7058 2700 Passcode: 141090.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 14:30-15:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The challenge to deliver high accuracy for material science on large computer simulations

Andrea Zen.

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Learning based multi-scale modeling

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Prof Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology.

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reaction mechanism discovery using random walks in chemical space

Professor Scott Habershon, University of Warwick.

Zoom - Meeting ID: 946 2143 4053 Passcode: 203059.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

A sound idea: engineering phonons to convert heat into electricity

Phil Hasnip (York).

Zoom.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Neural Network Approximations for Calabi-Yau Metrics

Challenger Mishra.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 22 February 2021, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Machine-learning-driven advances in modelling amorphous solids

Volker Deringer, University of Oxford.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 22 February 2021, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

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

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Prof Michael Ortiz, California Institute of Technology .

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Machine-learning interatomic potentials as computational technology

Alexander Shapeev, Skoltech.

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

Thursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Generalization of Quasicentroid Molecular Dynamics to complex systems

First Year PhD Report

Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

A systematic conformational searching method

First Year PhD Report

Mengman Wei, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Periodic Trends in Adsorption Energies around the Single-Atom Alloy Active Site

Julia Schumann.

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Idan Redenski, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Irradiation-induced defect engineering in two-dimensional materials

Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf .

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

Thursday 11 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Computational modelling of genome organisation - Understanding the compaction of DNA within cells

First Year PhD Report

Esmae Woods, University of Cambridge .

Zoom Meeting ID: 983 5633 9540 Passcode: 268115.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantifying the applicability domain between two datasets using Tanimoto similarity

First Year PhD Report

Marcus Wang, University of Cambridge.

Zoom Meeting ID: 983 5633 9540 Passcode: 268115.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 14:30-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

First-Principles Search for Battery Electrodes

Ziheng Lu.

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

𝝙-Machine Learning for Molecular Crystal Structure Prediction

Simon Wengert, TU Munich.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 08 February 2021, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Crystal Structure Search with Random Relaxations Using Graph Networks

Gowoon Cheon, Stanford.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 08 February 2021, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The impact of glioblastoma heterogeneity on preclinical studies and treatment response

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

Dr Rasha Rezk (University of Cambridge).

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

Friday 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

James Darby, CUED.

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Rapid development of robust single purpose machine learning potentials for complex aqueous systems

Dr Christoph Schran, University of Cambridge.

Zoom - Meeting ID: 922 6672 0201 Passcode: 427839.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 14:30-15:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

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

Chang Woo Myung.

Zoom.

Wednesday 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

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

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Machine-learning interatomic potentials as computational technology

Alexander Shapeev, Skoltech.

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

Thursday 28 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

A chemical perspective on electron correlation in transition metal complexes

James Shee (UC Berkeley).

Zoom.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Predicting material properties with the help of machine learning

Dr Bingqing Cheng, University of Cambridge.

Zoom: Meeting ID: 976 0491 4122 Passcode: 108408.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 14:30-15:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Global optimisation of atomistic structure with evolutionary algorithms and reinforcement learning

Bjørk Hammer, Aarhus University.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 25 January 2021, 16:30-17:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Leading Multiphysics Modeling for AM and Emerging Design Approaches for Impacts

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

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

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

The challenge to deliver high accuracy for material science on large computer simulations

Andrea Zen, UCL.

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

Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Understanding transition metal heterogeneous catalysis

Professor Jens Kehlet Nørskov, Technical University of Denmark.

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

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Studies in Dexter Energy Transfer with Quantum Dot Donors

BP Sustainability Lecture 2021 (Webinar)

Prof. Emily Allyn Weiss, Northwestern University .

Department of Chemistry (Webinar registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dgeAAcB4S32rsR1o-_4kOw).

Thursday 14 January 2021, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

“It’s how you think, not what you think about”: a Career Spent at Interfaces

Athena SWAN Talk (Webinar)

Prof. Emily Allyn Weiss, Northwestern University .

Department of Chemistry (Webinar registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dgeAAcB4S32rsR1o-_4kOw).

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 15:30-16:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Colloidal Photocatalysis for Organic Synthesis and Energy Conversion

BP Sustainability Lecture 2021 (Webinar)

Prof. Emily Allyn Weiss, Northwestern University .

Department of Chemistry (Webinar registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dgeAAcB4S32rsR1o-_4kOw).

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 14:15-15:15

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Time Symmetries and Neurosymbolic Learning for Dynamical Systems

Miles Cranmer, Princeton University.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 11 January 2021, 16:30-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Graph Convolutional Networks for Atomic Structures

Rachel Kurchin, Carnegie Mellon University.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 07 December 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Exploring the Linear Subspace Hypothesis in Gender Bias Mitigation

Francisco Vargas Palomo.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 07 December 2020, 16:30-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Measurable signatures of quantum chaos and patterns of volume-law entanglement in quantum dynamics

Sagar Vijay, UC Santa Barbara.

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

Thursday 03 December 2020, 17:00-18:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Ice nucleation without supercooling: on the search for the most potent ice nucleants.

Professor Valeria Molinero, University of Utah.

Zoom - Meeting ID: 916 8928 5361 Passcode: 848429.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exploring the vibrational properties of anharmonic crystals

Mark Johnson (Theory of Condensed Matter).

Zoom.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Micromechanics of near-ideal polymer networks

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

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The hydrophobic effect characterises the thermodynamic signature of amyloid fibril growth

Dr Sanne Abeln, Vrije University Amsterdam.

Zoom - link to be announced.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 14:30-15:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Tunable photostriction of halide perovskites controlled by light: Light-induced lattice expansion or light-induced lattice contraction?

Bo Peng, Materials Theory Group and Theory of Condensed Matter Group.

Zoom.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Journal club: Incorporating Electronic Information into Machine Learning Potential Energy Surfaces via Approaching the Ground-State Electronic Energy as a Function of Atom-Based Electronic Populations

Elena Gelžinytė.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 23 November 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Machine learning assisted accurate potential energy surfaces generation

Fabio E. A. Albertani.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 23 November 2020, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Rapid 3D Bioprinting for Precision Tissue Engineering

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

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Open Markovian Quantum Many-Body Systems

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

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Evolved minimal frustration - How multiple functions are encoded in biomolecules

Dr Konstantin Röder, University of Cambridge.

Zoom Meeting ID: 928 9045 3974 Passcode: 313781.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Ballistic and blast response of structural materials: lessons from architecting materials

https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

Prof Vikram Deshpande, CUED.

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

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 14:00-16:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Amphipathic Nature of Graphene Flakes

Karolina Milowska.

Zoom.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Wrinkling and Creasing in Soft Solids: A Global Bifurcation and Symmetry-Breaking Approach to Surface Instabilities

Dr Shrinidhi Pandurangi, CUED.

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

Friday 13 November 2020, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Failure of a pre-cracked epoxy sandwich layer in shear

Dr Sina Askarinejad, CUED.

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

Friday 13 November 2020, 14:00-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology, Molecular Simulation, and Machine Learning as Routes to Exploring Structure and Phase Behavior in Molecular and Atomic Crystals

Mark Tuckerman, NYU.

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

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

First-principles simulation of electronic processes due to ionic projectiles traversing matter

Professor Emilio Artacho, University of Cambridge.

Zoom Meeting ID: 981 1605 6934 Passcode: 258737.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 14:30-15:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Understanding the Peculiarities of Metallic Bonding

Prof. Volker Heine FRS.

Zoom.

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

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

e3nn: A modular PyTorch framework for Euclidean Neural Networks

Mario Geiger .

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 09 November 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Neural Networks with Euclidean Symmetry for Physical Sciences

Tess E. Smidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 09 November 2020, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation

Prof Gabor Domokos, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Order within disorder: approaching phase boundaries in high-entropy systems

Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University.

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

Thursday 05 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Wavefunction based correlation methods for molecular condensed phase systems

Professor Jürg Hutter, University of Zurich.

Zoom - Meeting ID: 933 6001 1482 Passcode: 782662.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 14:30-15:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Letting the machines vote: Committee neural network potentials control generalization errors and enable active learning

Christoph Schran (UCL).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Analytical homogenization estimates for the transient and steady-state response of elasto-viscoplastic polycrystals

Shuvrangsu Das, CUED.

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

Friday 30 October 2020, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

On the Multiscale Mechanics of Plasticity and Damage in Magnesium

Padmeya Indurkar,CUED.

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

Friday 30 October 2020, 14:00-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

A Supramolecular Approach to Templating Hybrid Perovskites

Jovana Milic, University of Fribourg.

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

Thursday 29 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

In silico identification of reactivity driven MIEs

First Year PhD Report

Charles Gong, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Machine Learning for Critical Care: Using Neural Networks to Predict Patient Mortality

First Year PhD Report

Conor Cafolla, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 14:30-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Discovery of a weak topological insulating state and van Hove singularity in triclinic RhBi2

Gunnar Lange.

Zoom.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Interpretable machine learning for critical evaluation of scientific ML models - the case of reaction prediction

David Peter Kovacs.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 26 October 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Towards explainable computational biology: small steps and many questions

Bianca Dumitrascu .

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, Passcode: 000042, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2635916003?pwd=ZlBEQnRENGwxNmJGMENGMWxjak5nUT09.

Monday 26 October 2020, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

New 1D models for localisation in slender structures

Claire Lestringant, Structural Engineering, Cambridge.

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

Friday 23 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological Proximity Effects

Karyn Le Hur, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique.

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cloud-mounted Molecular Experiments during COVID times

Dr David Glowacki, University of Bristol.

Zoom Meeting ID: 986 1567 0048 Passcode: 266539.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 14:30-15:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Systematic improvement of molecular excited state calculations by inclusion of nuclear quantum motion

Antonios Alvertis.

Zoom.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Efficient Constitutive Model for Crash Analysis of Mineral-filled Polymers

Dr Andrea Codolini, CUED.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk or hh463@cam.ac.uk or jsb56@cam.ac.uk.

Friday 16 October 2020, 15:30-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Taming Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Dr LukaCmok, CUED.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk or hh463@cam.ac.uk or jsb56@cam.ac.uk.

Friday 16 October 2020, 14:00-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

High-fidelity description of spectral functions in correlated materials

Mark van Schilfgaarde, King's College London.

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

Thursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Bypassing the energy functional in density functional theory: Direct calculation of electronic energies from conditional probability densities

Ryan McCarty (UC Irvine).

Zoom.

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Theoretical Predictions of Superconducting and Superhard Materials

Professor Eva Zurek, University at Buffalo.

Zoom Meeting ID: 994 9249 3911 Passcode: 603941 .

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Unsupervised Machine Learning and Band Topology

Robert-Jan Slager.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 12 October 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Solving the electronic Schrödinger equation with deep learning

Jan Hermann, Freie Universität Berlin.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 12 October 2020, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanobiology of Cells and Extracellular Matrices

Prof Carlijn Bouten, Eindhoven University of Technology.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk or hh463@cam.ac.uk or jsb56@cam.ac.uk.

Friday 09 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

EML webinar Liquid crystal elastomers

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

Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharaya's.

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

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

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Neural network quantum states, from lattice models to quantum chemistry and quantum computing

Guglielmo Mazzola, IBM Research.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 28 September 2020, 16:30-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Journal club: Uncertainty Quantification Using Neural Networks for Molecular Property Prediction

Rokas Elijosius.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 14 September 2020, 16:30-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Solving the Many-Electron Schrödinger Equation with Deep Neural Networks

Matthew Foulkes (Imperial College).

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

Thursday 10 September 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Unsupervised attention-guided atom-mapping

Philippe Schwaller, IBM Research.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 31 August 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Machine learning and the University

Gareth Tribello, Queen's University Belfast.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 31 August 2020, 16:30-17:00

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Statistical learning for phase-change memory materials

Felix Cosmin Mocanu.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 17 August 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Machine learning an interatomic potential without (much) human effort

Noam Bernstein, U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 17 August 2020, 16:30-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Emergent topological phenomena in strained pyrochlore iridate thin films

Bohm Jung Yang (Seoul National University).

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

Thursday 06 August 2020, 11:00-12:00

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Introduction to Gaussian processes and Modulated Bayesian Optmisation

Carl Henrik Ek .

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 03 August 2020, 16:30-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Applications of Machine Learning in Lattice QCD

Bipasha Chakraborty.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 20 July 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Combining scalar and vector learning to predict molecular dipole moments

David Wilkins, Queen's University Belfast.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 20 July 2020, 16:30-17:00

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Tutorial: Mapping the space of materials and molecules

Tamas Stenczel and Bingqing Cheng.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 06 July 2020, 16:30-17:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Hall Viscosity in Quantum Systems with Discrete Symmetry

Barry Bradlyn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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

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

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Neural network potentials in theory and practice

Andreas Singraber, University of Vienna.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 22 June 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Exact Learning

Ben W.J. Irwin.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 22 June 2020, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

3D Printing and Biofabrication of Functional Material and Dynamic Systems

Dr Yan Yan Shery Huang, CUED.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81286483911?pwd=NXlMZmpoVytsZE9GcDBqck8zWmJiUT09.

Friday 12 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

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

Professor John R. Willis, University of Cambridge.

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Universal exfoliation of 2D materials

Bo Peng .

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 11:30-12:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Representing potential energy surfaces with neural networks

Matti Hellström, SCM, Amsterdam.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 08 June 2020, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The mechanics of Robotic Matter

https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

Professor Chiara Daraio,Caltech.

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Cascaded quantum systems - strongly correlated transport and remote interactions

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

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The mechanical side of artificial intelligence

Dr Rob Wood, Harvard.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81492263459 Meeting ID: 814 9226 3459.

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

How to compute spectral properties of operators on Hilbert spaces with error control

Matthew Colbrook -- DAMTP.

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 11:30-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

New Horizons in Microarchitectured Materials

YouTube Live https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

Prof Norman Fleck, Cambridge University.

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

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

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Transformer-based Chemical Reaction Prediction and Synthesis Planning

Philippe Schwaller, IBM Research.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 25 May 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Representing many-body wave functions using Gaussian processes

Aldo Glielmo, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA).

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 25 May 2020, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Shaping Shells with Spontaneous Curvature

Dr Douglas P. Holmes, Mechanical Engineering, Boston University .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81492263459 Meeting ID: 814 9226 3459.

Friday 22 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

Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

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

Wednesday 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

Prof Katia Bertoldi, Harvard.

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

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

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Noisy, sparse, nonlinear: Navigating the Bermuda Triangle of physical inference with deep filtering

Carl Poelking.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 11 May 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Discovering new materials by detecting modules in atomic networks

Sebastian Ahnert.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 11 May 2020, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Injectable therapeutic vascularized micro-tissues engineered using sacrificial hydrogels

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

Dr Ninna Rossen (BRIC-University of Copenhagen).

Online.

Friday 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

Prof Xuanhe Zhao, MIT.

Online.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using CO2 to Your Advantage

Prof Matt Kanan (Stanford University, USA).

PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 04 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Self-excited motions of volatile drops on swellable sheets

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

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

Online.

Friday 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

Prof Huajian Gao, Nanyang Technological University.

Online.

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

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

A clustering analysis of structural heterogeneity in supercooled liquids

Robert Jack.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Enabling Ideas in the Mechanics of Bio-Integrated Electronic Systems – From COVID-19 Patients to Engineered Mini-Brains

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

Prof John A Rogers at Northwestern University.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

RSC Award Lecture: Title TBC

Prof. David Britt (U.C Davies, USA).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 21 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

New Developments in Shell Stability- https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684

new Zoom ID: 271 079 684

Professor John W Hutchinson, Harvard University.

This meeting is online: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684.

Wednesday 15 April 2020, 15:00-16:00

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Inverse Design of Simple Liquids using Machine Learning and the Ornstein-Zernike Equation

Rhys Goodall.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Tuesday 14 April 2020, 16:30-17:00

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Deciphering correlations in concentrated electrolytes using unsupervised learning

Penelope Jones.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 30 March 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Deep Generative Models of Molecules in 3D Space

José Miguel Hernández Lobato.

virtual ZOOM meeting ID: 263 591 6003, https://zoom.us/j/2635916003.

Monday 30 March 2020, 16:30-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

CANCELLED: Alex Hopkins Lecture: the joy of discovery

Professor Ben Feringa, University of Groningen.

Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Friday 20 March 2020, 17:00-18:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Lewis Lecture (Part II): Title TBC

Prof. Andy Cooper (University of Liverpool).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Friday 13 March 2020, 11:00-12:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

CUED Bioengineering Conference

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McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge.

Friday 13 March 2020, 08:30-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Lewis Lecture (Part I): Title TBC

Prof. Andy Cooper (University of Liverpool).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Optical superresolution microscopy of molecular mechanisms of disease

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 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.

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

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Approaching Exact Quantum Chemistry by Stochastic Wave Function Sampling and Deterministic Coupled-Cluster Computations

Professor Piotr Piecuch, Michigan State University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Topological phonons in ferroelectrics switched by light

Bo Peng.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Regularised body-ordered Permutation-Invariant Polynomials (aPIP) for Materials

Cas van der Oord.

Mott Seminar (531) room, top floor of the Mott Building, in the Cavendish Laboratory, West Cambridge..

Monday 02 March 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Auto-populating ontologies: Data-extraction beyond single properties with ChemDataExtractor 2.0 and TableDataExtractor

Juraj Mavracic.

Mott Seminar (531) room, top floor of the Mott Building, in the Cavendish Laboratory, West Cambridge..

Monday 02 March 2020, 16:30-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Innovation in synthetic methodology through use of flow

Joint Materials/Synthesis RIG Seminar

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The modern-day blacksmith

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Designed Polynuclear Metal Compounds For the Activation of Small Molecules

Prof Leslie Murray (University of Florida, USA).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Friday 28 February 2020, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Chemical equilibrium in the Earth's core

Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Towards 3D characterization of nanomaterials under realistic conditions

Prof Sara Bals (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Sum of its Parts: MBE-FCI Theory

Dr Janus Juul Eriksen, University of Bristol.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

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

PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Thermal transport beyond Fourier, and beyond Boltzmann

Michele 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.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Geometry and rheology of epithelial monolayers

Dr Alexandre Kabla, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Simulating Disordered Supramolecular Materials for Organic Electronics using Linear Scaling Density Functional Theory

Dr Laura Ratcliff, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor John Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nuclear Quantum Effects – Fast and Accurate

Venkat Kapil, EPFL.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quasi-1D Lithium-ion dynamics in high-rate complex oxide battery electrodes

Can Kocer.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Combining Quantum Mechanical Response Operators and Machine Learning.

Felix Faber.

Mott Seminar (531) room, top floor of the Mott Building, in the Cavendish Laboratory, West Cambridge..

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Constrained Bayesian optimization for automatic chemical design using variational autoencoders

Ryan-Rhys Griffiths.

Mott Seminar (531) room, top floor of the Mott Building, in the Cavendish Laboratory, West Cambridge..

Monday 17 February 2020, 16:30-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Assessment of Approximate Methods for Anharmonic Free Energies

Venkat Kapil, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 17 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy: characterisation of elastic and anelastic behaviour of metals, ceramics and functional oxides associated with ferroic, multiferroic and normal-superconductor phase transitions

Prof Michael A. Carpenter, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology by non-unitary quantum dynamics

Prof. Dr. Jan Carl Budich, TU Dresden .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum topological effects in the transport properties of ionic conductors

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

An ab initio approach for exciton-photon interactions in molecular crystals

Antonis Alvertis, TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Emergent Black Hole Dynamics in Critical Floquet Systems

Prof. Dr. Titus Neupert, University of Zurich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multi-billion speedup of glassy dynamics with swap Monte Carlo: equilibrium phase transitions and rugged energy landscapes

Dr Ludovic Berthier, CNRS & Universite de Montpellier.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exploring chemical space for computational drug discovery

Alex Wade, TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reversible Catalysis in Redox Matrices

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

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

State-of-the-art QSAR modelling with SOAP

William McCorkindale.

Mott Seminar (531) room, top floor of the Mott Building, in the Cavendish Laboratory, West Cambridge..

Monday 03 February 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Representation Learning from Stoichiometry

Rhys Goodall.

Mott Seminar (531) room, top floor of the Mott Building, in the Cavendish Laboratory, West Cambridge..

Monday 03 February 2020, 16:30-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Deep Learning for Molecular Physics

Professor Frank Noe, Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Hierarchical structuring of micro and nanoparticles for Li-ion battery electrodes

Dr Michael De Volder, IfM, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Moiré superlattices in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

Prof. Vladimir Fal'ko, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Tuning Properties and Functionality in the Modulated Self-Assembly of Metal-Organic Frameworks

Prof. Ross Forgan (School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Forces in TDDFT with a moving basis set

Jessica Halliday.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantized optical responses in chiral insulators and metals

Dr Adolfo G. Grushin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

High Frequency Dynamic Nuclear Polarization β-Amyloid, Membranes and the Magic Angle

Prof. Robert G. Griffin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Structure searching and longitudinal-transverse mode coupling in sulfur

Jack Whaley-Baldwin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Identifying degradation patterns of Li-ion batteries from impedance spectroscopy using machine learning

Yunwei Zhang .

Mott Seminar (531) room, top floor of the Mott Building, in the Cavendish Laboratory, West Cambridge..

Monday 20 January 2020, 17:00-17:30

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

MOFA: a principled framework for the unsupervised integration of multi-omics data

Ricard Argelaguet.

Mott Seminar (531) room, top floor of the Mott Building, in the Cavendish Laboratory, West Cambridge..

Monday 20 January 2020, 16:30-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds

Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Phase engineered two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides for electrochemistry

Dr Manish Chhowalla Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The Risks of Climate Change: What is Plan B? Climate Repair

Professor Sir David King.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology and scale invariance in atomic Flatland

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

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Small Things Make Big Differences

Athena SWAN Talk

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The Golden Road: Synthesis and Surface Chemistry of Gold Nanocrystals

BP Sustainability Lecture

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

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Optical excitations in layered semiconductors - the case of BiI3

Ivona Bravić.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Catalytic Conversion of Biomass and Platform Chemicals

Prof. Feng Wang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Friday 10 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Machine learning in Physics, Chemistry and Materials discussion group (MLDG)

Using machine learning to make maps of stem cell differentiation

Dr. Jake Yeung, Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research.

Mott Seminar (531) room, top floor of the Mott Building, in the Cavendish Laboratory, West Cambridge..

Monday 06 January 2020, 16:30-17:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Stochastic Approach to Quantum Spin Dynamics

Dr Joe Bhaseen, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthetic maps for navigating high-dimensional data spaces

Professor Alessandro Laio, SISSA Trieste.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:15-15:15

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Oncotripsy: Selective ablation of cancer cells through tuned low-intensity pulsed ultrasound

Prof Michael Ortiz, Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Caltech.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00