Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design 2^nd Biennial Symposium

Registration NOW OPEN

Call for Posters - deadline 30^th June 2022

21^st – 23rd September 202022, Liverpool, UK

Join us at the world famous Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, in September 2022 for the 2nd biennial Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design Symposium. This symposium is for established and early-career scientists, post-graduate students and industrial researchers interested in materials discovery. We have brought together, under one roof, some of the world leading experts across all areas of materials research, a truly unique symposium is in store. We strongly encourage delegates to submit an abstract for a poster presentation, details for submission can be found here

Developing new high-performance materials is critical to enable next-generation technologies for society. New systematic and effective approaches to this problem are required given the slow pace with which new materials have traditionally been discovered when relying on serendipity and chemical intuition. The complexity and the multi-scale nature of the relationships between material's structure and its properties makes the design of a material with given properties one of grand scientific challenges of our times. The Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design is moving this forward by fusing leading-edge synthesis concepts from the physical sciences with ideas from the forefront of computer science, alongside experts in robotics, engineering, management and social science. This symposium brings together experts across different scientific disciplines united by the common goal of accelerating materials discovery to discuss important themes such as grand challenges, the integration of computation and experiment, algorithms, and high throughput methods.

Invited speakers include:

• Professor Alan Aspuru-Guzik CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Toronto
• Professor Jacqui Cole Head of Molecular Engineering, University of Cambridge
• Professor Julien Bourgeois Director of the Department of Computing Complex Systems, Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies
• Professor Elizabeth Dickey Teddy & Wilton Hawkins Distinguished Professor and Department Head of Materials Science & Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
• Professor Judith Driscoll FREng Professor for Materials Science, University of Cambridge
• Professor James A. Evans Director of The Knowledge Lab, University of Chicago
• Professor Sándor Fekete  Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks, Technical University of Braunschweig  
• Professor Claudia Felser  Director Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
• Professor Jason Hein  Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
• Dr. Brett A. Helms  Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, The Molecular Foundry
• Professor José Miguel Hernández-Lobato  Professor of Machine Learning, University of Cambridge
• Professor Hideo Hosono ForMemRS Director Centre for element strategy at Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Dr. Houria Kabbour  Solid State Chemistry Department, Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide
• Professor Tanja Junkers  School of Chemistry, Monash University
• Professor Susan Kauzlarich  Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis
• Professor Iain McCulloch Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford
• Dr. John Mitchell Deputy Division Director, Argonne National Laboratory
• Professor Rachel O'Reilly  Head of the School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham
• Professor Kenneth Poeppelmeier  Charles E. & Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University
• Professor Ramamoorthy Ramesh  Professor of Physics and Materials Science, University of California Berkley
• Professor David Scanlon Professor of Computational Materials Design, University College London
• Professor Kerstin Thurow Professor & Chair for Automation/Life Science Automation, University of Rostock
• Professor Prudence Wong Professor of Computer Science, University of Liverpool
• Professor Damien Woods Professor of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Maynooth
• Professor Sophia Yaliraki Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Imperial College London

Registration details can be found here

The call for poster abstracts is now open to apply click here