Activities

Upcoming events

The Hub runs a broad range of materials modelling, training, community building and outreach events in partnership with the Thomas Young Centre (TYC): The London Centre for the Theory and Simulation of Materials. Subscribe to the TYC calendar and check out the TYC events page for more details.

June 5, 2025
  • TYC Highlight Seminar: Modelling the structure of the carbon/electrolyte interface - Paola Carbone, Manchester

    June 5, 2025  3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    1.02 Malet Place Engineering Building, 2 Malet Pl, London WC1E 7JE, UK

    The physical-chemistry of the graphene/aqueous–electrolyte interface underpins the operational conditions of a wide range of devices. Despite its importance, this interface is poorly understood due to the challenges faced in its experimental characterization and the difficulty of developing models that encompass its full physics. In this talk I’ll present the simulation methods we have developed to model such interface also under confinement and how modelling can aid the full characterization of this interface.
     
    https://thomasyoungcentre.org/event/tyc-highlight-seminar-prof-paola-carbonne-university-of-manchester/

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June 11, 2025
  • TYC Postgraduate Student Day 2025

    June 11, 2025  9:30 am - 6:00 pm
    Arts Two LT and foyer space, Queen Mary University of London, 327 Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 4NS, UK

    https://thomasyoungcentre.org/event/tyc-postgraduate-student-day-2025/
     
    We invite all TYC students to submit abstracts to present a poster of their research, and for final year students to submit abstracts for talks.  ~12 talks will be selected (12 minute presentations and 2 minute Q&A), and all of the posters from across the four London TYC colleges, plus LSBU and Brunel, will be on display at the poster presentation during lunch and at a drinks reception at the end of the day.
     
    Abstract submission deadline: Sunday 18th May 2025

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July 23, 2025
  • MMM Hub Software Spotlight: ML force fields - Venkat Kapil

    July 23, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    Zoom

    Venkat Kapil from UCL will give an overview of ML force fields – their generation, use and software which can enable this (inc. its use on HPC/Young).

    Future talks aim to include commonly codes used on Young, such as Quantum ESPRESSO and Casino and include some emerging technologies such as machine learning with Keras, Tensorflow and Torch

    Join Zoom Meeting:

    Meeting ID: 991 6854 2304
    Passcode: TYCSWS

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Past events

Poster for the MMM Hub conference.

Previous outreach events

A Pint of Science with the TYC: Living in a material world (May 2019)

The technological revolution is evident: our phones have become more powerful, our computers smaller and day-to-day lives increasingly interconnected. Tonight, we cast our gaze to futuristic materials in search of opportunity and adventure. From the possibility of beetle inspired TV screens, to infinite batteries and beyond: come share our excitement about what the periodic table has to offer!

Code for Creation @ The Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2018

Using theory and simulation to understand, design and discover the materials of tomorrow!

A gallery of previous events