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 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Superconducting Technology for Fusion Energy
  Professor Joeseph V Minervini (MIT)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

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 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - New Perspectives on Phonons
  Dr Bartomeu Monserrat (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Exciton Diffusion in Organic Crystals from First Principles Many-Body Perturbation Theory
  Jonah Haber (University of California)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Simulating OLEDs using Wavelet-Based Density Functional Theory: From Core Spectroscopy to Large Systems
  Dr Laura Ratcliff (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Unveiling Pressure-Induced Transitions in Bulk MoTe2 and SnSe2
  Dr Roxana Margine (SUNY Binghampton)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network

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 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (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

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (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)

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

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

Friday 6 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (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

Friday 4 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (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

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

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

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

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

Friday 10 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (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 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Hype and Conspiracy: can we engage with conspiracy theorists?
  Dr Stephen Hughes (UCL)
• 13:30 - Workshop "Between Hype and Conspiracy: Can We Engage with Conspiracy Theorists?" - Dr Stephen Hughes (UCL)
  Dr Stephen Hughes (UCL)
• 16:30 - "Technoscientific Conspiracies: From Chemtrails to Transhumanism" - Dr Stephen Hughes (UCL)
  Dr Stephen Hughes (UCL)
• 16:30 - Technoscientific Conspiracies: from chemtrails to transhumanism
  Dr Stephen Hughes (UCL)

Friday 10 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

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

Tuesday 30 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 13 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

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

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (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

Wednesday 24 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - The Lycurgus Cup: new data from rediscovered samples and modern analytical techniques, sheds further light on the Dichroic nature of the 1,600 year old Roman glass of the Lycurgus Cup
  Neil Wilkinson (Natural History Museum/Brunel University)

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 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