To mark the Thomas Young Centre turning 20, we will be hosting a 2-day symposium,  celebrating 20 years of cutting-edge research in the theory and simulation of materials and molecules at University College London, Imperial College London, King’s College London, Queen Mary University of London and their international collaborators.

This scientific symposium will cover cutting-edge research in 5 sessions dedicated to Electronic Structure Theory, Machine Learning, Functional Materials, Biomaterials and Perspectives on Materials Modelling. A separate session will be devoted to discussions about the future of theory and simulation of materials and molecules with the aim of developing a future Roadmap of Materials Modelling that identifies and articulates the most important challenges in this field over the next 10 years, broad strategies for how they will be overcome, and the likely impact of success in overcoming them for science and industry. 

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

Electronic structure

Andreas Grüneis	TU Wien
Paola Gori-Giorgi, Microsoft Research	Skala: A Deep-Learning Route to Predictive Density Functional Theory
Lucia Reining Ecole Polytechnique	Design of functionals: needs, news and thoughts

Machine Learning

Klaus-Robert Mueller TU Berlin	AI for the Sciences – Toward understanding
Keith Butler University College London	Machine learning for materials science; a bittersweet lesson

Biomaterials

Frank Noe	Microsoft Corporation
Modesto Orozco	Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona
Dominique Hoogland King’s College London	Atomistic insights in to drug-lipid interactions

Functional Materials

Karsten Reuter Fritz Haber Institut, Berlin	Embrace the Mess: Towards the Modeling of Disordered Catalyst Surfaces
Giulia Galli The University of Chicago	Materials for quantum technologies: the virtue of defects
Alessandro Troisi University of Liverpool	Computations for Discovering New Functional Molecules and Polymers
Laura Gagliardi	University of Chicago
Clotilde Cucinotta	Imperial College London

Perspective on Materials Modelling

Angelos Michaelides University of Cambridge	Accurate simulations of interfaces are not easy
Nicola Marzari	University of Cambridge
Michele Parrinello Italian Institute of Technology	The Material Science of Catalysis
Andrea Cavalli	CECAM
Gábor Csányi FRS Max Planck Institute	ML force fields: status and some challenges

Under government regulations, we must at least provide a 14 day cancellation period for customers, from the point the booking is made.

Sponsors

CCP9 (Collaborative Computational Project for the Study of the Electronic Structure of Condensed Matter)
The London Centre for Nanotechnology
UCL Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Group
UCL Physics & Astronomy Department.

Organisers

Jochen Blumberger
Hugh Burton
Devis Di Tommaso
Jarvist Frost
Alex Ganose
Ricardo Grau-Crespo
Venkat Kapil 
Johannes Lischner
Carla Molteni
Edina Rosta
Alex Shluger
Karen Stoneham
Martijn Zwijnenburg