HetSys Summer Conference 2023
Wednesday 19th - Friday 21st July 2023
Scarman House, University of Warwick, Coventry
The conference will feature talks, posters and flash presentations from our current students as well as keynote presentations from two invited speakers.
Schedule
Day 1: Wednesday 19th July |
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13:00 |
Lunch: Lakeview Restaurant, Scarman House |
14:00 |
Welcome and introduction, Space 42 |
14.10 |
Keynote Lecture: Livia Bartok-Partay "Computational thermodynamics: what can we learn about an interatomic potential?" |
15.10 |
Break, Scarman Lounge |
15.30 |
Cohort 2 presentations: Session 1. [Chair - Aravinthen Rajkumar (Cohort 1)] Connor Allen "Development of workflows for modelling bulk materials." Adam Fisher "First Principle Validation of Energy Barriers in Ni3Al." |
16.30 |
Break, Scarman Lounge |
17.00 |
Cohort 3 presentations: Session 1 [Chair - Aravinthen Rajkumar (Cohort 1)] Matt Nutter "Spanning the scales: insights into dislocation mobility provided by machine learning and coarse-grained models." Geraldine Anis "Dislocation dynamics in Ni-based superalloys from atomistic simulations." Thomas Rocke "Atomistic failure in III-V semiconductors." |
18.00 |
Poster Session and networking drinks, Scarman Small Bar |
19:00 |
Close |
Day 2: Thursday 20th July |
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09.30 |
Cohort 2 presentations: Session 2 [Chair - Andrew Angus (Cohort 1)] Peter Lewin-Jones "Computational modelling to predict transitions in drop impact." Charlotte Rogerson "Framework for optimizing free parameters in ICF Hydrodynamic simulations using Gaussian Process Surrogate models." |
11:00 |
Break, Scarman Lounge |
11:30 |
Flash presentations from Cohort 4 |
12:30 |
Lunch: Lakeview Restaurant, Scarman House |
13:30 |
Keynote Lecture: Alex Robertson "Partnering modelling and experiment to yield fundamental insights into defects in 2D materials." |
14:30 |
Break, Scarman Lounge |
14.45 |
Cohort 2 presentations: Session 3 [Chair - Chris Woodgate (Cohort 1)] Iain Best "Uncertainty quantification in atomistic simulations using interatomic potentials." Alisdair Soppitt "Model for the simulation of reaction-mixing processes at boundary layers." Lakshmi Shenoy "Modelling fracture and defects in steel." |
16.15 |
Break, Scarman Lounge |
16:30 |
Cohort 3 presentations: Session 2 [Chair - Jingbang Liu (Cohort 1)] Ben Gosling "Determining the presence of laser-plasma instabilities in particle in cell simulations." Oscar Holroyd "Linear quadratic regulation control for falling liquid films." Ziad Fakhoury "Generating protein folding trajectories using contact-map-driven walks." Matyas Parrag "MemPrO: Membrane Protein Orientation in lipid bilayers." |
17.30 |
Poster Session and networking drinks, Scarman Small Bar |
19:00 |
Conference Dinner: Lakeview 2 Restaurant (small area), Scarman House |
Day 3: Friday 21st July |
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09.30 |
Cohort 2 presentations: Session 4 [Chair - Chris Woodgate (Cohort 1)] Omar-Farouk Adesida "Exploring the phase behaviour of hard sphere dimers: a nested sampling approach." Joe Gilkes "Advances in automated long-timescale chemical breakdown simulations." Steven Tseng "A unified approach to solubility prediction: combining graph representations with molecular descriptors." |
11:00 | Break, Scarman Lounge |
11.30 |
Cohort 3 presentations: Session 3 [Chair - Matt Harrison (Cohort 1)] Anas Siddiqui "Machine-learned interatomic potentials for transition metal dichalcogenides Mo(1-x)W(x)S(2-2y)Se(2y alloys." Jeremy Thorn "Modelling Disorder in Amorphous Pharmaceuticals with NMR" - postponed to Monday. Dylan Morgan "Simulation of X-Ray Spectroscopy for Condensed Matter Systems." |
12:30 | Lunch: Lakeview Restaurant, Scarman House |
13.30 | Closing remarks and prizes |