Condensed Matter Theory Seminars
The Condensed Matter Theory group holds an informal talk and discussion group meeting most weeks, currently on Mondays from 4pm to 5pm (coloured blue in the schedule below). There are usually two speakers, each talking for about 20 minutes on a subject of their choice with 5-10 minutes of questions at the end.
The topics of the talks are many and varied. People often talk about their research (past, present or future), but we also have reports from conferences, discussions about interesting papers or methods, or indeed anything else that people think the group as a whole will find useful. If you'd like to volunteer a talk or suggest someone as a speaker then please don't hesitate to drop me an email.
The present schedule is below:
| Date | Speakers | Venue | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29th July 2019 | The biophysics for Protein-DNA recognition for tracking evolution Elliot Chan | J/Q/001 | |||||
| 1st August 2019 | Schottky barrier modelling Nicola Farmer | Illustrating theoretical physics Malo Pages-Gerles | Reverse engineering optimisation in the iDEA code Aidan Brewis | P/L/002 | |||
| 15th August 2019 | Using CASTEP to study long range interactions in materials Sarah Graham |
Pyrallex: an X-ray crystallography simulator Neville Yee | P/T/111 | ||||
| 29th August 2019 | X-Ray, Electron and Neutron Diffraction Daniel Westwood | P/T/111 | |||||
| 5th September 2019 | A noise-tolerant geometry optimiser Luke Mortimer | J/P/001 | |||||
| Break | |||||||
| 14th October 2019 | Path Search, an alternate line search for geometry optimisation Harry Tindale | J/P/001 | |||||
| 21st October 2019 | No meeting | ||||||
| 28th October 2019 | Machine learning for thermoelectric metamaterials Finn Hambly |
Designing nanostructures for thermoelectrics Ben Durham |
Many interacting worlds theory of QM Harry Tindale |
Properties of exact DFT Louis Ingle | P/T/111 | ||
| 4th November 2019 | Molecular dynamics simulations in biophysics Elliot Chan | DFT for neutron stars Cameron Jarvis | P/T/111 | ||||
| 11th November 2019 | Calculating non-collinear magnetic properties from DFT Peter Byrne | P/T/111 | |||||
| 18th November 2019 | Exact non-adiabatic part of the Kohn-Sham potential and its fluidic approximation Mike Entwistle | P/T/111 | |||||
| 25th November 2019 | No meeting | ||||||
| 2nd December 2019 | No meeting | ||||||
| 9th December 2019 | KITE: Quantum Simulations with Multi-Billion Orbitals Simao Joao (University of Porto) | P/T/111 | |||||
| Talks in this colour are at 4pm on a Monday | |||||||
| Talks in this colour are on a Thursday | |||||||
Talks in pale blue are at the usual time of Mondays at 4pm; any other colours correspond to a different day or time.
These talks are in addition to the more general Condensed Matter Physics seminars. There are many other interesting seminars in the University; some of the series which are most relevant to CMT are: