[8/24-28] MSM-AIMR Joint Online Workshop 2020

08/17/2020

In the week of 24-28 August, a Joint Online Workshop will be held bringing together researchers from the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy (MSM) in Cambridge, and the Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR) at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.

Date and Time

Monday 24 August - Friday 28 August
17:00-19:00 (Japan) / 09:00-11:00 (UK)
Talks will be held entirely online using Zoom.

Sessions and Program

August 24: Welcome address and introduction

9:00—9:10 (BST)
17:00—17:10 (JST)
Lindsay Greer (MSM)

August 24: Energy Devices

9:10—9:40 (BST)
17:10—17:40 (JST)
Shin-Ichi Orimo (AIMR)
Advanced Hydride Research for Energy Device Application
9:40—10:10 (BST)
17:40—18:10 (JST)
James Elliott (MSM)
Modelling of Polyelectrolyte Thin Films for Fuel Cell Applications
10:10—10:30 (BST)
18:10—18:30 (JST)
Xavier Moya (MSM)
Barocaloric materials for zero-carbon heating and cooling
10:30—10:50 (BST)
18:30—18:50 (JST)
Bonan Zhu (MSM/UCL)
Interface structures between fluorite and perovskite materials
10:50—11:10 (BST)
18:50—19:10 (JST)
Akichika Kumatani (AIMR)
Recent Advances in Scanning Electrochemical Microscopic Analysis and Visualization

August 25: Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy

9:00—9:30 (BST)
17:00—17:30 (JST)
Paul Midgley (MSM)
Electron Tomography and Multi-Dimensional Electron Microscopy
9:30—10:00 (BST)
17:30—18:00 (JST)
Yuichi Ikuhara (AIMR)
Atomic-Scale Dynamic Observations of Grain Boundary and Surface Phenomena
10:00—10:20 (BST)
18:00—18:20 (JST)
Caterina Ducati (MSM)
STEM studies of hybrid perovskite solar cells
10:20—10:40 (BST)
18:20—18:40 (JST)
Kazutoshi Inoue (AIMR)
Arrangement and Hierarchy of Polyhedral Units in Tilt Grain Boundaries
10:40—11:00 (BST)
18:40—19:00 (JST)
Emilie Ringe (MSM)
Plasmonics Magnesium Nanoparticles

August 26: Mathematics / Data Science assisted Structure Search

9:00—9:30 (BST)
17:00—17:30 (JST)
Chris Pickard (MSM/AIMR)
Stochastic Sampling of Material Structure Space
9:30—10:00 (BST)
17:30—18:00 (JST)
Professor Gábor Csányi (Department of Engineering, Cambridge)
Machine Learned Force Fields and Potential Energy Surfaces
10:00—10:20 (BST)
18:00—18:20 (JST)
Andreas Dechant (Kyoto University, AIMR)
Standard Realization of Curved Carbon Structures
10:20—10:40 (BST)
18:20—18:40 (JST)
Kazuto Akagi (AIMR)
Topological Data Analysis for Materials Science
10:40—11:00 (BST)
18:40—19:00 (JST)
Bingqing Cheng (MSM)
Ab initio thermodynamics with the help of machine learning

August 27: Bio/Soft Materials

9:00—9:30 (BST)
17:00—17:30 (JST)
Ayumi Hirano (AIMR)
Microfabrication Approaches for Investigating Ion Channel and Neuronal Functions
9:30—10:00 (BST)
17:30—18:00 (JST)
Ruth Cameron (MSM)
Materials for Regenerative Medicine
10:00—10:20 (BST)
18:00—18:20 (JST)
Hayato Chiba (AIMR)
Dynamics of Neuronal Gamma Oscillations on a Random Graph
10:20—10:40 (BST)
18:20—18:40 (JST)
Tom Bennett (MSM)
The Changing State of MOFs and Hybrid Perovskites: Liquids, Glasses, and Extreme Conditions
10:40—11:00 (BST)
18:40—19:00 (JST)
Hiroshi Yabu (AIMR)
Biomimetic Functional Materials Based on Self-Organization of Polymers

August 28: Topological Materials

9:10—9:40 (BST)
17:10—17:40 (JST)
Tomoki Ozawa (AIMR)
Topological Phenomena beyond Solid-state Systems
9:40—10:00 (BST)
17:40—18:00 (JST)
Max McGinley
Fragility of time-reversal symmetry protected topological phases
10:00—10:20 (BST)
18:00—18:20 (JST)
Takafumi Sato (AIMR)
Electronic Structure of Novel Topological Materials Studied by ARPES
10:20—10:40 (BST)
18:20—18:40 (JST)
Bartomeu Monserrat (MSM)
Modelling topological materials at finite temperature
10:40—11:00 (BST)
18:40—19:00 (JST)
Max Lein (AIMR)
On Choosing a Physically Meaningful Topological Classification for Non-Hermitian Systems

Registration

To receive Zoom links for the talks (via email), please complete the short form here. Registration is free.

Organizer & Co-organizer

Organizer : C. Pickard (MSM/AIMR), K. Akagi (AIMR), J. Nelson (MSM/AIMR), S. Ikeda (AIMR)
Co-organizer : WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University
Co-organizer : JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas: “Discrete Geometric Analysis for Materials Design”

Contact

Kazuto Akagi
Associate Professor, Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University

E-mail: akagi@wpi-aimr.tohoku.ac.jp