Seminars
Current academic year talks are detailed on the Department Seminar webpage
In addition to the Condensed Matter Physics talks please also note the Stephenson Institute seminar series.
2017/18
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 22nd May 2018 | Professor Marky Cain (Electrosciences Ltd) | In situ study of inter-ferroelectric phase transitions in domain engineered ferroic crystals |
| Tuesday 24th April 2018 | Dr Gøran Nilsen (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) | The long road to the kagome lattice antiferromagnet: a few materials met along the way... |
| Tuesday 30th January 2018 | Dr Craig Bull, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | High-Pressure Neutron Diffraction at The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source |
| Tuesday 21st November 2017 | Dr Martin Gradhand, University of Bristol | Coupling Charge and Spin Transport in Complex Materials |
2016/2017
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 11th April 2017 | Dr. Maria Stamenova and Dr. Plamen Stamenov, Trinity College Dublin | First-principles spin-transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions and a multi-scale scheme for modelling current-induced switching Point Contact Andreev Reflection and the Measurement of Spin Polarization - High Fields and Novel Materials |
| Tuesday 22nd November 2016 | Dr Joe Smerdon (University of Central Lancashire) | Adsorption of fullerene and pentacene on Cu(111) |
2015/2016
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 17th May 2016 | Prof Geoff Thornton (Department of Chemistry, University College London) | Understanding TiO2 as a photocatalyst and resistive switch |
| Tuesday 19th April 2016 | Prof Colette McDonagh (Optical Sensors Laboratory, School of Physical Sciences, Biomedical Diagnostics Institute(BDI), National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR), Dublin City University) | Nanoparticle-based fluorescence enhancement for biomedical applications |
| Tuesday 23rd February 2016 | Dr Karen Syres (School of Physical Sciences and Computing, University of Central Lancashire) | Probing surface structure and interactions of Ionic Liquids |
| Tuesday 16th February 2016 | Dr Lynette Keeney (Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork) | Magnetoelectric Investigations of a Single-Phase Multiferroic Material Possessing the Aurivillius Structure |
| Tuesday 17th November 2015 | Dr Qiandong Zhuang (Semiconductor Physics & Nanostructures, Physics Department, Lancaster University) | Monolithic integration of III-V semiconductor nanowires with silicon platform for photondetections |
| Tuesday 10th November 2015 | Dr Matteo Palma (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London) | Solution processable Nanohybrids for Single-Molecule Investigations |
| Tuesday 27th October 2015 | Prof Paolo Radaelli (Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford) | Spins in multiferroics: from crystals to devices |
| Tuesday 20th October 2015 | Dr James O'Shea (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nottingham) | Investigating complex molecules on surfaces with UHV-compatible electrospray deposition and soft x-ray and electron spectroscopy |