2007/08 Schedule

• Monday 3 December 2007
  Molly Stevens, Materials
  Elucidating protein interaction with the surface of nanostructured materials
• Monday 7 January 2008
  Nick Hine, Materials and Physics
  Accurate ab initio simulations of point defect formation energies
• Monday 4 February 2008
  Alex Mottura, Materials and Physics
  Atomic-scale phenomena in nickel superalloys
• Monday 3 March 2008
  Andrea Ferretti, University of Modena
  First principles study of aromatic molecules on copper substrates
• Monday 7 April 2008
  Giuseppe Mallia, Chemistry
  A quantum-mechanical study of Iron-doped TiO₂: an oxide-based dilute magnetic semiconductor
• Tuesday 6 May 2008
  Nicole Benedek, Materials and Physics
  To What Extent Can Interatomic Potentials Accurately Describe Grain Boundaries in Strontium Titanate?
• Tuesday 27 May 2008
  Haibin Su, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  Multi-aspects of Carbon: C60, Carbon Nanotubes, and Graphene
• Monday 2 June 2008
  Kilian Frensch, Materials and Physics
  The Corundum Conundrum and other Questions...Solved?
• Monday 30 June 2008
  Matt Shelley, Materials and Physics
  A Maximally-Localised Wannier Function Approach to Heterostructured Si/Ge Nanowires
• Monday 21 July 2008
  Jenny Nelson, Physics
  Multiscale modelling of charge transport in disordered molecular semiconductors
• Monday 4 August 2008
  Gerard Gorman, Earth Sciences
  Multi-scale modelling using anisotropic adaptive meshes and dynamic load balancing methods
• Monday 1 September 2008
  Cathy White, Materials
  Towards an Effective Electric Nose - Constructing a Resonant Tunnelling Diode on a Carbon Nanotube