Department of Materials

Department of Materials part of: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)

Friday 20 January 2017

17:00 - The Materials Challenge for Advanced Nuclear Systems
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Professor Steve Cowley FRS, FREng (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

Thursday 2 November 2017

11:00 - Doping Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Free refreshments at 3:30pm. Talk begins at 4pm.
Prof Narayan Pradhan (Indian Association of Soil Cultivation, Kolkata )

Wednesday 24 January 2018

18:30 - 'Damage-Tolerance in Engineering and Biological Materials'
Free event, including the pre-lecture afternoon tea and the post-lecture buffet and drinks. Please reserve a place by emailing lorraine.laird@materials.ox.ac.uk.
Professor Robert O. Ritchie (Lawrence Berkeley, University of California)
Hume-Rothery Lecture

Friday 29 January 2021

14:00 - Exploring Composition–Structure–Property Relationships in Battery Materials: Solid Electrolytes, Li-Rich Cathodes, and Grain Boundaries
There will be an informal discussion via gather.town following the seminar. You will be able to join this discussion immediately after the seminar via the following link: https://gather.town/app/WoMDHKOV2Oxlj3mY/MMLSeminars – this link is password protected and the password will be given out during the seminar. We hope you will join us for an interesting and lively discussion.
Dr Ben Morgan (University of Bath)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 19 February 2021

16:00 - Energy transport in low-dimensional halide perovskites
Dr Liang Tan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 26 February 2021

14:00 - The Wadsley-Roth niobates for stable, fast lithium-ion diffusion battery anodes: first principles modelling combined with experiment
Andrew Morris
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 12 March 2021

14:00 - Atomistic Spin Dynamics for Quantitative Modelling of Magnetic Materials
Dr Joe Barker (University of Leeds)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 7 May 2021

14:00 - Thermodynamic properties by on-the-fly machine-learned interatomic potentials: thermal transport and phase transitions
Dr Carla Verdi (University of Vienna)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 21 May 2021

14:00 - Orbital-free density functional theory: Background, challenges, and application to crystal structure prediction
Dr Chuck Witt (University of Cambridge)

Friday 4 June 2021

14:00 - A first principles perspective on metal halide perovskites: Challenges, results, and surprises
Dr Linn Leppert (University of Twente)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Tuesday 15 June 2021

14:00 - AerOx presents 'Future of Civil Aviation'
Please register and reserve your tickets via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-of-civil-aviation-tickets-154384896381
Various Speakers

Friday 18 June 2021

14:00 - Massively parallel atomistic simulations of complex magnets
Dr Richard Evans (University of York)

Friday 29 October 2021

15:00 - Modeling linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy in complex environments
Assistant Professor Tim Zuehlsdorff (Oregon State University)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 19 November 2021

14:00 - High-throughput discovery of superconductors
Michael Hutcheon (University of Nottingham)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 3 December 2021

14:00 - Element selection for crystalline inorganic solid discovery guided by unsupervised machine learning of experimentally explored chemistry
Dr Andrij Vasylenko (University of Liverpool)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 14 January 2022

16:30 - Hirsch Lecture 2022
'From Batteries to Solar Cells: Exploring Energy Materials on the Atomic Scale'
Professor Saiful Islam (University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 February 2022

16:00 - Design of nanoparticle-bio- interactions towards cancer therapy
The MS Teams Joining Link is: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZjRmYzg5YWMtNTE0OS00NjViLWI5Y2EtYTg4YWEyZTZlOTVm%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228f227e88-f60a-4b15-a7f5-e88462d8dc82%22%7d.
Prof Dr Lutz Maedler (Leibniz Institute for Materials Engineering, University of Bremen)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 4 February 2022

14:00 - Navigating the Ti-C-O and Al-C-O ternary systems through theory-driven discovery
Dr Joseph Nelson (University of Cambridge)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 25 February 2022

14:00 - Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold, and AI for quantum chemistry
Tim Green (DeepMind)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Thursday 10 March 2022

16:00 - Towards sustainable materials - a systems approach
Cancelled due to illness. We hope to reschedule for a date during Trinity Term 2022.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Mark Miodownik (University College London)

Friday 11 March 2022

14:00 - Fantastic Electrides and Where to Find Them
Chengcheng Xiao (Imperial College London)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Thursday 28 April 2022

16:00 - 'Towards sustainable materials - a systems approach'
Online link: https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=925726a0-3065-4513-8223-ae75008265c7 .
Professor Mark Miodownik (University College London)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 6 May 2022

14:00 - Moiré materials and flat bands: the case of twisted transition metal dichalcogenides bilayers
Dr Valerio Vitale (Imperial College London)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 10 June 2022

14:00 - Accessing polyanionic redox in high voltage Li-rich thiophosphates
Dr Pezhman Zarabadi-Poor (University of Oxford)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 17 June 2022

14:00 - Ab initio calculation of the magnetic Gibbs free energy using magnetically constrained supercells: electronic and magnetoelastic mechanisms of first-order transitions
Dr Eduardo Mendive Tapia (Max-Planck-Institut fur Eisenforshcung, Dusseldorf)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 21 October 2022

14:00 - Creating self-driving materials modelling laboratory using AiiDA
Dr Pezhman Zarabadi-Poor (University of Oxford)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Thursday 27 October 2022

16:00 - Small-scale mechanical testing: from micro- to meso- scale
Refreshments for speakers are available outside the lecture theatre from 3:30pm. This colloquium will be live-streamed, and available afterwards online:
Dr Jicheng Gong (University of Oxford)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Thursday 3 November 2022

16:00 - 2D-materials and van der Waals metasurfaces
Hybrid. In-person or streamed for University members using Panopto (which will automatically convert into a recording afterwards). https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=cbe9c6d0-e80f-4cdd-a21b-af3e016157e7
Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu (National University of Singapore)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 4 November 2022

14:00 - Using a symmetry-based approach to identify structural prototypes from first principles
Dr Michele Kotiuga (THEOS, EPFL)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Thursday 17 November 2022

16:00 - 'Supercharged - using oxygen redox to store more energy in rechargeable batteries'
Available online for Oxford SSO accounts: https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=cc66303b-14aa-4802-9842-af4f00ddf048
Dr Robert House (University of Oxford)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 18 November 2022

14:00 - Materials informatics: Moving beyond screening via generative machine learning models
Professor Taylor Sparks (The University of Utah)

Thursday 1 December 2022

16:00 - Functional Materials based on Magnetic Metal Complexes and Metal Oxides and Materials for Green Transformation (GX)
Hot drinks and biscuits will be available from 3:30pm (Hume-Rothery Meeting Room) Hybrid: Panopto link: https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7b93f1c6-1887-4056-b578-af5b006d715f .
Professor Shin-ichi (Ohkoshi)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 2 December 2022

14:00 - Modelling spin-control by ferroelectric switching
Professor Katherine Inzani (University of Nottingham)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Thursday 19 January 2023

16:00 - Perovskite-inspired Materials for Energy Conversion - from Defects to Devices
Professor Robert Hoye (University of Oxford)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 10 February 2023

14:00 - Theory and Simulation of Cation Solvation and Ionic Aggregation in Concentrated Non-Aqueous Electrolytes
Dr Zachary Goodwin (Harvard University)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Thursday 16 February 2023

16:00 - Molten Metal Droplet Processes - what can we learn from single droplets?
Joining Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjUwYjRmZjktNDhiOS00NGQzLWJmZmMtN2JjNDIxMTc0NmE3%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228f227e88-f60a-4b15-a7f5-e88462d8dc82%22%7d
Dr-Ing (Nils Ellendt)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 24 February 2023

14:00 - Chlorine: the magic ingredient in CdTe solar cell production
Dr Pooja Goddard (Loughborough University)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Wednesday 8 March 2023

Friday 10 March 2023

14:00 - Modelling Ultralong Phosphorescence in Molecular Crystals
Dr Rachel Crespo-Otero (Queen Mary University, London)
Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 21 April 2023

16:30 - Multicomponent High-Entropy Cantor Alloys
Professor Brian Cantor (University of Oxford and Brunel University)
Hume-Rothery Lecture

Thursday 27 April 2023

16:00 - Creep Cavitation: an old problem with solution thoughts on new characterisation approaches
Free refreshments will be available from 3:30pm. Panopto will be enabled (SSO required): https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=03458e5b-8160-46cc-b85a-afe800fe51b0.
Professor Peter Flewitt (Bristol and Oxford)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Thursday 4 May 2023

16:00 - 'Induction and dynamics of metastable phases of matter'
Professor Aaron Lindenberg (Stanford University)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Thursday 11 May 2023

16:00 - Advanced Heterogeneous Integration – Ionics Meets Semiconductors from Solar Cells to Bioelectronics and Machine Vision
*** This lecture is now offered as in-person only *** Hot drinks and biscuits for the in-person attendees will be available from 3:30pm.
Professor Paul Meredith (University of Swansea)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Thursday 18 May 2023

16:00 - Molecular Design of Colour Centres
Professor Danna Freedman (MIT)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Thursday 25 May 2023

16:00 - Autodifferentiation in atomistic simulations: interatomic potentials for battery materials, uncertainty-based active learning and rare-event sampling
Refreshments are available from 3:30pm in the Hume-Rothery Meeting Room
Associate Professor Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli (MIT)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Tuesday 30 May 2023

14:00 - Quantum Theory of Imperfect Crystals
Professor Aron Walsh (Imperial College London)
Materials Modelling Seminars

Tuesday 13 June 2023

14:00 - Mapping and exploiting stochastic explorations of material space
Professor Chris Pickard (University of Cambridge)
Materials Modelling Seminars

Thursday 19 October 2023

16:00 - Expanding Boundaries in Layered Solids: New Materials, Structures and Properties
Free refreshments for attendees are available from 3:30pm.
Professor Scott Warren (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Wednesday 25 October 2023

16:00 - Thermodynamics of Cr-Zr-X systems towards design of new accident tolerant fuel systems
Free refreshements for attendees are available from 3:30pm in the Hume-Rothery Meeting Room
Professor Theresa Davey (University of Bangor)
Materials Departmental Colloquia

Tuesday 31 October 2023

14:00 - Simulation, Synchrotron Radiation and Neutron Scattering Studies of Catalytic and Energy Materials
Professor Sir Richard Catlow (University College London)
Materials Modelling Seminars

Thursday 2 November 2023

16:00 - AsP ribbons: Quasi-1D nanomaterials with an element of danger
In-person and online (remote attendance is through Panopto: https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a0fe7e0e-d334-4724-bfa7-b09f00e88683). Free refreshments for attendees are available from 3:30pm in the Hume-Rothery Meeting Room
Dr Adam Clancy (University College, London)
Materials Departmental Colloquia