Materials Annual Report - Friends of Imperial College
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DFT+U with generalized<br />
Wannier functions: selfconsistent<br />
projectors and<br />
linear-scaling<br />
Invited lecture<br />
A Thomas Young Centre Soiree,<br />
King’s <strong>College</strong> London, UK<br />
22 July 2010<br />
Heterostructured Si/Ge<br />
nanowire thermoelectrics:<br />
a first-principles model<br />
Hamiltonian approach<br />
Invited lecture<br />
Psi–k Conference 2010, Berlin,<br />
Germany<br />
12–16 September 2010<br />
Dr Alexandra E Porter<br />
Imaging the cellular uptake <strong>of</strong><br />
multi-walled carbon nanotubes<br />
using 3D Electron tomography<br />
Invited talk<br />
11th International Conference<br />
on the Science and Application<br />
<strong>of</strong> Nanotubes, Montreal,<br />
Canada<br />
27 June–2 July 2010<br />
Interactions <strong>of</strong> carbon<br />
nanotubes with target<br />
epithelial and macrophage cells<br />
Invited talk<br />
European Respiratory Society<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> Congress, Barcelona,<br />
Spain<br />
18–22 September 2010<br />
Cellular uptake <strong>of</strong> bioceramic<br />
nanoparticles<br />
Invited talk<br />
SCERN Meeting on Bioceramics<br />
in the UK, London, UK<br />
30 September 2010<br />
Dr Rongshan Qin<br />
Local 0rganizer<br />
Corus-Academia Symposium,<br />
<strong>Imperial</strong> <strong>College</strong> London, UK<br />
14–15 July 2010<br />
Organizing Committee Member<br />
1st UK-China Steel Forum,<br />
Leicester, UK<br />
19–20 July 2010<br />
Manufacturing engineering at<br />
<strong>Imperial</strong> <strong>College</strong> London<br />
Invited presentation<br />
UK-China Forum on Advanced<br />
<strong>Materials</strong> Manufacturing,<br />
Shanghai, China<br />
14–17 August 2010<br />
Electrical current metallurgy<br />
Invited lecture<br />
Wuhan University <strong>of</strong> Science<br />
and Technology, Wuhan, China<br />
12 April 2010<br />
Electrical current metallurgy<br />
Invited lecture<br />
Wuhan Steel Ltd, Wuhan, China<br />
12 April 2010<br />
Electrical current metallurgy<br />
Invited lecture<br />
Huazhong University <strong>of</strong> Science<br />
and Technology, Wuhan, China<br />
13 April 2010<br />
Supercooled simultaneous<br />
composite casting<br />
Invited lecture<br />
Wuhan University <strong>of</strong> Science<br />
and Technology, Wuhan, China<br />
13 April 2010<br />
Application <strong>of</strong> electropulsing in<br />
tailoring the microstructure <strong>of</strong><br />
pearlitic steels<br />
Oral presentation<br />
1st UK-China Steel Forum,<br />
Leicester, UK<br />
19–20 July 2010<br />
Phase-field simulation <strong>of</strong><br />
crystal growth during warm<br />
rolling <strong>of</strong> steels<br />
Oral presentation<br />
1st UK-China Steel Forum,<br />
Leicester, UK<br />
19–20 July 2010<br />
Green steel processing<br />
Poster presentation<br />
The Royal Academy <strong>of</strong><br />
Engineering <strong>Annual</strong> Research<br />
Forum 2010<br />
15 September 2010<br />
Dr Jason Riley<br />
Engineering nanomaterials for<br />
light harvesting<br />
Seminar<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Leicester, UK<br />
10 November 2009<br />
Q-dots for efficient light<br />
harvesting in solar cells<br />
Oral presentation<br />
MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, USA<br />
30 November–4 December<br />
2009<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Eduardo Saiz<br />
Gutierrez<br />
Tissue engineering scaffolds<br />
Invited talk<br />
AADR 2nd Fall Focused<br />
Symposium: Tissue Engineering<br />
<strong>of</strong> Crani<strong>of</strong>acial and Oral Tissues,<br />
San Francisco, USA<br />
5–6 November 2009<br />
Nuevas tendencias y conceptos<br />
en el diseño de biomateriales<br />
para regeneración<br />
Invited talk<br />
Osteocite – Worshop sobre<br />
Regeneración Ósea, Santiago<br />
de Compostela, Spain<br />
23 January 2010<br />
Early stages <strong>of</strong> dissolutive<br />
spreading<br />
Invited talk<br />
Triple Lines in Metals and<br />
Ceramics, Ecole de Physique<br />
des Houches, France<br />
25–28 May 2010<br />
Dissolutive spreading<br />
Invited talk<br />
IIB2010 (XIII international<br />
conference in intergranular<br />
and interphase boundaries in<br />
materials), Mie, Japan<br />
27 June–2 July 2010<br />
Hierarchical materials through<br />
freezing<br />
Invited talk<br />
Solidification <strong>of</strong> Colloidal<br />
Suspensions, Avignon (France)<br />
6-8 September 2010<br />
Bio-inspired hybrid composites<br />
with complex hierarchical<br />
structures<br />
Plenary talk<br />
11th International Symposium<br />
on Multiscale, Multifunctional<br />
and Functionally Graded<br />
<strong>Materials</strong>, Guimaraes, Portugal<br />
26–29 September 2010<br />
Dr Stephen J Skinner<br />
Fuel cell technology<br />
Invited talk<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Uppsala, Sweden<br />
14–16 October 2009<br />
New materials advances for<br />
solid oxide fuel cells<br />
Invited talk<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Science and<br />
Technology, Beijing, China<br />
October 2009<br />
Novel high conductivity<br />
electrochemical gas sensors<br />
based on La2CuO2<br />
Invited talk<br />
SCI Gas Sensors Group,<br />
London, UK<br />
December 2009<br />
Ionic mobility in novel materials<br />
for solid oxide fuel cells: new<br />
structural solutions<br />
Invited talk<br />
Trinity <strong>College</strong> Dublin, Ireland<br />
February 2010<br />
Novel materials for lower<br />
operating temperature SOFCs<br />
Invited talk<br />
UK-SEA Symposium, Bangkok,<br />
Thailand<br />
February 2010<br />
Fuel cells for stationary<br />
applications: materials<br />
advances and capabilities<br />
Invited talk<br />
UKTI <strong>Materials</strong> Technologies<br />
for energy Applications,<br />
Manchester, UK<br />
March 2010<br />
A researchers view <strong>of</strong> scientific<br />
publishing<br />
Invited talk<br />
STM Journal workshop, London,<br />
UK<br />
May 2010<br />
Advances in novel ionic<br />
conductors for electrochemical<br />
applications<br />
Invited talk<br />
12th International Ceramics<br />
Congress, Italy<br />
June 2010<br />
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