Events this person is organising:

Friday 20 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Looking below the surface: probing electrochemical and catalytic reactions under real-world conditions
  Professor Robert Weatherup (University of Oxford )
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 15 January 2021 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:30 - Hume-Rothery biennial Materials Science lecture
  Please email communications@materials.ox.ac.uk to register (the Teams Live joining link will then be emailed to you).
  Professor Amanda Petford-Long FREng (Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory)

Friday 14 January 2022 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Thursday 10 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)

Thursday 28 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Thursday 27 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Thursday 19 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 16 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 21 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Advanced passivating contacts for silicon photovoltaics and their application to pervoskite/silicon monolithic tandem architectures
  Free refreshments for attendees from 3:30pm
  Dr Takuya Matsui (Renewable Energy Research Centre, AIST, Japan)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Oxide Spintronics and Ethics in Scientific Research
  Refreshments will be available from 3:30pm.
  Professor DrTamalika Banerjee (University of Groningen)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 12 January 2024 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Neofossils: bio-based plastics to sequester CO2
  Drinks reception and nibbles in Holder Common Room (5:30-7pm). Booking deadline: 5pm, Friday 15 December 2023.
  Professor Anthony J Ryan (University of Sheffield)
  Hirsch Lecture

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Engineering porous nitrides via defect-related channels
  TBA
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - 'Microstructure Evolution Studies: ceramics for extreme conditions'
  The format is in-person only.
  Professor Katharina Marquardt (University of Oxford)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Symmetry, negative thermal expansion and superconductivity in layered perovskite oxides
  Professor Arash Mostofi (Imperial College, London)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - "It can't be done!" - Lessons from operando X-ray studies of real-format pouch cells without windows or synchrotrons
  Professor Louis Piper (University of Warwick/FutureCAT)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - 'It can't be done!' - lessons from operando X-ray studies of real-format pouch cells without windows or Synchrotron
  Profefessor Louis Piper (University of Warwick/The Faraday Institution)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Innovative pathways to accelerate the solar energy revolution: an Australian perspective
  Dr David Payne (Macquarie University)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 101 Things to Do with an Energetic Electron
  Refreshments for attendees will be available in the Hume-Rothery reception foyer from 3:30pm
  TBA
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Highly efficient monolithic tandem solar cells with metal-halide perovskites
  Prof Dr Steve Albrecht (KAUST Research Centre)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Towards atomic scales analytical tomography - and the art of the possible today
  Professor Simon Ringer (Pro VC for Research and Infrastructure - University of Sydney)

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Playing with elements: focus on stability of high entropy alloys
  Professor Ying Chen (Tohoku University, Japan)

Friday 13 September 2024 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Self-driving laboratories: the revolution will not be televised
  Please contact the host, Dr Pranay Shrestha, with any queries: pranay.shrestha@materials.ox.ac.uk.
  Prof Alan Aspuru-Guzik (University of Toronto)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Wednesday 2 October 2024 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Understanding static and dynamic local structure: Metal Halide Perovskites
  Professor Michael F Toney (University of Colorado Boulder)

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Correlative microscopic analysis of nano-scale precipitate evolution and mechanical behaviour in Ni alloyed Fe-Mn-Al-C steel
  Online only (MS Teams)
  Associate Professor K. G Pradeep (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - From Waste to Wealth: Upcycling into Functional Materials
  Dr Francesco D'Acierno (Imperial College, London)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Advances in Thermoplastic Elastomers: Bringing Self-Networking Polymers into the 21st Century
  TBA
  Materials Departmental Colloquia