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Research Seminars and Colloquia 2012-2013
The current schedule of Physical Sciences Colloquia and research seminars can be found below. Colloquia are intended for a broader audience and are held on Wednesdays, at 2 pm in PSLT (Ingram Building) unless otherwise specified. Seminars are more specialised talks. The programme is constantly updated. Everybody welcome!
Seminars
| Date/Location | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 21 June 2013, time and venue TBC | Aninda Jiban Bhattacharyya(Indian Institute of Science) | "Materials strategies for Lithium-ion batteries and beyond" |
| 9 October | Prof. Geetha Balakrishnan (Warwick) | TBC |
| 23 October | Sian Dutton (Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge) |
TBC |
| 13 November | P. A. Gale (Southmapton) |
Confirmed Speakers
The following speakers are confirmed for the present academic year:
| Date/Location | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| TBA | Lee Cronin (University of Glasgow) |
Earlier Speakers
speakers
| Date/Location | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd October (PSLT) Physical Sciences Colloquium | Prof Stephen J Blundell (University of Oxford) | Magnetic engineering with molecular bricks |
| 7th November (PSLT) Physical Sciences Colloquium | Dr Andrew Fogg (University of Liverpool) - RSC Gibson Fawcett Award Lecture | Application of In situ diffraction studies in materials discovery |
20th November (PS110) |
Irakli Simonia (Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia) | Frozen PAHs in the Universe from Comets to Nebula |
21st November (PS110) |
Thomas Bisbas (University College London) | Numerical simulations of triggered star formation in expanding HII regions |
| 16 January 2013 14:00 Physical Sciences Colloquium | Dr Neville Broad (University of Kent) | Pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting |
23 January 2013 Physical Sciences Colloquium |
Will R. Branford (Imperial) | “Nanomagnets working together; electric and magnetic currents in artificial spin ice” |
| 5 March at 4pm Tuesday (room 110 Ingram) Special CAPS Colloquium - note date and time |
Christopher J. Davies (Liverpool John Moores University) | "Outflows as tracers of star formation: what high resolution observations and wide field surveys can teach us" |
| 6 March 2013 | Dr William A. P. Smith (York) |
Statistical modelling for 3D Face Analysis |
| 20 March 2013 | Claire Carmalt (UCL) | AACVD of metal oxides: from precursor synthesis to gas sensors, TCOs and photocatalysts |
| 27 March 2013 |
Dr Antonio Chrysostomou (University of Hertfordshire and James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, Hawaii) | "SCUBA-2 and the JCMT: a new facility for survey astronomy in the submillimetre." The talk will include introductory material intended for a broad audience |
4 April at 2pm - Thursday in Darwin Lecture Theatre 2 (DLT2) |
Piers Coleman (Rutgers University and Hubbard Theory Consortium, RHUL) | Spinors, Strings and Superconductors: Challenges of new era in Condensed Matter Physics |
| 7 May 2pm - Tuesday PSLT | Ludwig (artist, Toulouse) http://www.espace-ludwig.net | 'Shock waves logic: exploring art & cosmos poïesis' |
| 5 June | Steven L. Jacques (Oregon Health & Science University) | Optically probing the nanoarchitecture of cells and tissues. |
| Special colloquium - note date and time 6 June, at 11am in PSLT |
Dr James West, SEPnet | SEPnet-2 - what it means for SPS |
| 12 June | Nora de Leeuw (UCL) | "Computational Surface Studies of Size and Shape Control of Copper Nanoparticles, Design of CO2 Conversion Catalysis and a Possible Origin of Earth's Water " |