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Bonan Zhu attended the AiiDA coding week in the Swiss AlpsBonan went to the AiiDA coding week in the Swiss Alps, hosted by the AiidA team base in EPFL. It was a intense week of coding and discussions about the aiida_corepackage. Bonan shared his knowledge from his experience as the developer of the CASTEP plugin and also helped to solve a few issue…

Tahmida Huq gave a presentation, at the Fall MRS meeting this year - "Improving charge extraction from bismuth oxyiodide photovoltaics using 2-dimensional and layered materials".Fall MRS meeting, Boston, November 2018Tahmida Huq gave a presentation, titled, “Improving charge extraction from bismuth oxide photovoltaics using 2-dimensional and layere…

We had a great time at Judith’s house with 17 attendees.We had a great time at Judith’s house with 17 attendees (partners too), lots of food and fun, and so many interesting international dishes to go with traditional UK turkey and ham.

We had a great party at Boston, celebrating the 5 year anniversary of APL Materials. Thanks to everyone who came along! Big congratulations to all our Excellence in Researcher Award Winners.https://aip.scitation.org/apm/info/excellenceWe encourage all young researchers to apply. The cash prizes are large.

We were really pleased to host our sponsor, Dr. SeungHyun Moon, CEO of Sunam, Korea, with other friends and colleagues. We also had a nice walk to Grantchester on the weekend.

Judith Driscoll and John Feighan attended the ASC 2018 Conference in Seattle, Oct 28- Nov. 2Judith Driscoll and John Feighan attended the ASC 2018 Conference in Seattle, Oct 28- Nov. 2, where they delivered an invited talk and a poster - well done, John. Judith also co-organised and spoke at the Larbalestier symposium, honouring 50 years of David L…

Prof Driscoll spoke to students from 8 girls schools at the Cambridge Academy of Science and TechnologyProf Driscoll  spoke to around 100 year 8 students who came from 8 girls schools to attend a GSA event on science and entrepreneurship, at the Cambridge Academy of Science and Technology. She answered in a Q&A session about what it’s like to be in…

We warmly welcome a post-doctoral researcher (Matthew Wells) and two new PhD students (Tom Bedford and Adam Lovett) to the group.

The group had a social dinner at the great hall of Trinity College after a busy afternoon of DMG annual general meeting followed by a group meeting.The group had a social dinner at the great hall of Trinity College after a busy afternoon of DMG annual general meeting followed by a group meeting. We welcome new members Matthew Wells, Tom Bedford and…

Bonan was awarded the best poster prize at MMM Hub Conference 2018The MMM Hub is a national high performance computing hub for material and molecular modeling. Bonan attended its annual conference (link) 5th-7th Sept 2018 and presented his poster "Interfaces in vertically aligned nanocomposites for enhanced ionic conduction - A computational study"…

Bonan visited LANL as a student guest for two weeks. He had several meetings with local scientists discussing about modelling interfaces. Bonan presented his work on using ab-initio random structure searching (AIRSS) to determine interfaces between STO and CeO2 and got several local scientists interested. He also learned more about other people's w…

Matias Acosta is happy to receive an extension to his Alexander von Humboldt Feodor Lynnen Fellowship to continue working on complex oxide cathodes.

Judith delivered an invited guest lecture to the Institute of Materials Science at Los Alamos lab on “New Concepts for Realising Exemplary Functionalities in Strongly Correlated Oxides”, and also had a lunch meeting with early career researchers.

Judith delivered an invited guest lecture at Applied Materials in Sunnyvale on “Designing Reliable RRAM with Applicability to Industry”. It was fascinating to learn more of the industry perspective on new memory technologies.

Judith met with Prof. Theodore Geballe, her old Professor from Stanford. It was great to see Ted, discuss science, and to catch up with other colleagues at Stanford.