Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design Materials Discovery Symposium, September 2022

Location: Anfield Stadium Registration: Main Stand reception, Anfield Stadium

Oral Presentations: The Dugout, 2nd Floor, Main Stand

 

PROGRAMME:   DAY ONE - Wednesday 21st September 2022

 

09.00 – 10.00
Registration and Coffee                                                          
10.00 – 10.15
Welcome & Intro to the LRC                                                               
Professor Andrew I Cooper
Director, Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design
Session 1,  Chaired by: Prof Matthew Rosseinsky
10.15 - 10.45
Translating the enormous promise of complex oxides to working devices
Professor Judith Driscoll
University of Cambridge, UK
10.45 – 11.15
Data-driven Materials Discovery
Professor Jacqui Cole
University of Cambridge, UK
11.15 – 11.45
Coffee break
11.45 – 12.15
Coordinating and reconfiguring swarms of objects at extreme dimensions
Professor Sándor Fekete
Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
12.15-12.45
Designing a Programmable Material Made of Autonomous Robots
Professor Julien Bourgeois
Universtė Bourgogne Franche-Comtė, FEMTO-ST Institute, France
12.45-14.00
Lunch and Poster Session
Session 2, Chaired by: Dr Edward Pyzer-Knapp
14.00 – 14.30
Structure design and band gap engineering from mixed anion building blocks
Dr. Houria Kabbour
Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide, France
14.30-15.00
Employing Chemical Heuristics in Computational Materials Design of Functional Materials
Professor David Scanlon
University College London, UK
15.00-15.30
Scheduling Theory and Its Application to Chemical Production
Professor Prudence Wong
University of Liverpool, UK

15.30-16.00

Coffee Break

16.00 – 16.30
Materials that compute: 21 Molecular algorithms using reprogrammable DNA self-assembly
Professor Damien Woods
Maynooth University, Ireland
16.30 – 17.00
Self-Optimising Industry 4.0 Chemical Reaction Platforms for Multi-objective and Multistep Process Development
Professor Richard Bourne
University of Leeds, UK

 

 

PROGRAMME: DAY TWO – Thursday 22nd September 2022

 

Session 3, Chaired by: Dr. Anna Slater / Charlotte Boot
09.00 – 09.30
Coffee Breakfast                                                         
09.30 - 10.00
Superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates
Professor Harold Y. Hwang
Stanford University, USA
10.00 – 10.30
Defects and Disorder in Electronic Oxides
Professor Elizabeth C. Dickey
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
10.30 – 11.00
Getting into shape – Precision polymer nanoparticles
Professor Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham, UK
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.00
Designing polymers for energy in the digital age
Dr. Brett Helms
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
 
12.00 – 12.30
Designing High Performing Semiconducting Polymers
Professor Ian McCulloch
University of Oxford, UK
12.30 – 14.00
Lunch & poster session
Session 4, Chaired by: Prof. Andrew Cooper
14.00 – 14:30
Accelerating the discovery and evaluation of sorbents for sustainable gas separations
Professor Camille Petit
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
14.30 – 15.00
Flexible Automation: A New Approach to Meet Evolving Challenges
Dr. Jason Hein
University of British Columbia, USA
15.00 – 15.30
New Ways in Automating Research and Development Laboratories
Professor Kerstin Thurow
University of Rostock, Germany
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 – 16.30
It's a machine's world: How automation and machine learning reshapes polymer chemistry
Professor Tanja Junkers
Monash University, Australia
16.30 – 17.00
Billions upon billions of molecules
Professor Alan Aspru Guzik
University of Toronto, Canada
17.00 – 18:45
Anfield Stadium Tours (Pre-booked) & Networking Drinks
19:00 – 22:00
Conference dinner for seating at 19:00 in The Chemistry Suite, 3rd Floor, Main Stand, Anfield Stadium

 

 

PROGRAMME: DAY THREE – Friday 23rd September 2018

 

Session 5, Chaired by: Prof. Taylor Sparks                       
09.00 – 09.30
Coffee Breakfast                                                         
09.30 - 10.00
Exploring Catalyst-Support Interfaces with Faceted Perovskite Nanoparticles
Professor Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier
Northwestern University, USA
10.00 – 10.30
Meta-learning adaptive deep kernel Gaussian processes for molecular property prediction
Professor José Miguel Hernández-Lobato
University of Cambridge, UK
10.30 – 11.00
Towards molecular design in allosteric processes through unsupervised, multiscale learning on atomistic graphs
Professor Sophia Yaliraki
Imperial College London, UK
11.00 – 11.30

Coffee Break

11.30 – 12. 00
Complementary Artificial Intelligence for Sustained Innovation
Professor James Evans
University of Chicago, USA
12.00 – 12.30
Advancement of Zintl Phases from Curiosities to Thermoelectric Materials
Professor Susan Kauzlarich
University of California, Davis Campus, USA
12.30 – 14.00
Lunch & poster session
Session 6, Chaired by: TBC
14.00 – 14:30
Voltage & Current Controlled Nanomagnetism for Memory and Logic
Professor Lucas Caretta
Brown University, USA
14.30 – 15.00
Topology and Chirality
Professor Claudia Felser
Max Planck Institute Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany
15.00 – 15.30
Excitement in Materials Research: from material design to social implementation
Professor Hideo Hosono
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
15.30 – 16.00
Poster Prize Presentation & Close