Visitors and Invited Speakers


November 2024
Prof Paolo Mele,
College of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

August 2024
Prof Aloysius Soon,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea

June 2024
Prof Feng Liu, Distinguished and Ivan B. Cutler Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah

Two-dimensional topological insulators: past, present and future

February 2020
Prof Nicholas Harrison, Chair and Head of Computational Materials Science
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry and co-Director of the Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering Imperial College, London, England.

September 2019
A/Prof. Aloysius Soon
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea

September 2019
Prof. Dr. Jer-Lai Kuo
Graduate Dean, Research Fellow/Professor, Molecular and Material Modeling Lab., Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica

September 2019
A/Prof. Anderson Janotti
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, USA

August 2019
Professor Bin Shan
Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

August 2019
Professor Wei Liu
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, China

November 2016
Mr Guoping Gao
PhD student, Queensland University of Technology

June-August 2016
Mr Greg Collinge
PhD student, Washington State University, USA

August-to date 2016
Dr. Saurabh Agrawal

January-February 2016
Professor Peter Kratzer
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

May 2013
Professor Shobhana Narasimhan
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India

May 2011
Professor Chris Van de Walle
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

March 2009
Professor Stefano Baroni
SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center – Trieste, Italy

November 2008
Prof. Matthias Scheffler
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin Germany


September 2008
Dr. habil. Klaus-Peter Bohnen
Institute of Solid State Physics, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

Tuesday, 30 September 2007
2.30 pm, Slade lecture theatre, School of Physics
Lattice dynamics of complex systems by ab initio methods with applications to surfaces, superconductors, and nanotubes


Feburary 2008
Dr. Su-Huai Wei
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO, USA

Monday, 11 Feburary 2008
3.15pm, Slade lecture theatre, School of Physics
First Principles Design of Functional Materials for Novel Applications


October 2007
Prof. Renzo Rosei
Center of Excellence for Nanotechnology, University of Trieste

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
11 am, Slade lecture theatre, School of Physics
Which Energy for the Future of Mankind?


October 2007
Prof. Ian Snook
School of Applied Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne

Monday, 8 October 2007
3.15 pm, Slade lecture theatre, School of Physics
Computer modelling of the structure and growth of some nanoparticles


September 2007
Prof. Enrico Traversa
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Friday, 21 September 2007
11 am, Lecture Theatre 5, School of Physics
Nanostructured Materials for Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (IT-SOFCs)


August 2007
Dr. habil. Klaus-Peter Bohnen
Institute of Solid State Physics, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

Monday, 13 August 2007
3.15 pm, Slade lecture theatre, School of Physics
Lattice dynamics and electron-phonon coupling in carbon nanotubes


July - August 2007
Dr. Daniel Fernández Hevia
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Wednesday, 25 July 2007
2pm, Council Room, School of Physics
Oxygen and silicon defect complexes in AlN: The origin of n-type doping


March 2007
Dr. Mathias Laurin
Research Centre for Spectrochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
2pm, Room 414, School of Physics
CO-oxidation on Pd model catalysts: Experiments and simulations ;
Core-hole clock spectroscopy of N-containing compounds on TiO2(110)


March 2007
Prof. Stefano Baroni
SISSA - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati and INFM DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center, Trieste - Italy

Thursday, 22 March 2007
2pm, Lecture Room 5, School of Physics
Turbo charging time-dependent density-functional theory with Lanczos chains


February 2007
Prof. Matthias Scheffler
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin Germany

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
2pm, Lecture Room 4, School of Physics
Key Theoretical and Algorithmic Needs for Predictive Modeling of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis


February 2007
Prof. Xin-Gao Gong
Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Monday, 12 February 2007
3.15pm, Slade Lecture, School of Physics
Structural Transition in Nanoparticles and Carbon Nanotubes


November 2006
Dr. Bernard Delley
Paul-Scherrer-Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland

Thursday, 23 November 2006
2pm, LT 5, School of Physics
An overview of electronic structure calculations with DMol3


August/September 2006
Dr. Klaus-Peter Bohnen
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Germany

Thursday, 24 August 2006
1pm, Room 414, School of Physics
Lattice Dynamics and Electron-phonon Interactions in Doped Small-radius Nanotubes


Wednesday, 6 July 2005
1pm, Lecture Room 5, School of Physics
Prof. Gianfranco Pacchioni
Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
Metal atoms and clusters on oxide surfaces and thin films: charging mechanisms and consequences


Monday, 18 July 2005
3.30pm, Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics
Prof. Arthur J. Freeman
Morrison Professor of  Physics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Materials by design and the growing, exciting role of computation/simulation in Physics