Past Events

December 2024
Tue 17 Dec 2024 10:00 - 16:00	DMRN+19: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2024 Centre for Multimodal AI DMRN+19: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2024 Queen Mary University of London Tuesday 17 December 2024 https://www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn19/ The Digital Music Research Network (DMRN) aims to promote research in the area of digital music, by bringing together researchers from UK and overseas universities, as well as industry. The workshop will include invited and contributed talks and posters, and will be an ideal opportunity for networking with other people working in the...
Tue 17 Dec 2024 11:00 - 12:00	Seminar: Recent Developments in Perovskite Halides - Seminar by Prof Sir Anthony K Cheetham Centre for Sustainable Engineering The Centre for Sustainable Engineering is delighted to invite you to attend the seminar of Prof Sir Anthony K Cheetham, a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was formerly the Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge (2007-2017) and the Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal Society (2012-2017). He obtained his D.Phil. at Oxford in 1972 and did post-doctoral work in the Materials Physics Division at Harwell. He joined the...
Thu 12 Dec 2024 11:00 - 12:00	gr-qc journal club, every Thursday at coffee o'clock (11am) Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation
Thu 12 Dec 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Piotr Oprocha (AGH U Krakow) - On invariant sets with vanishing derivative and Cantor set dynamics Centre for Complex Systems The aim of this talk is to characterize all dynamical systems on Cantor set that can be embedded in interval with vanishing derivative over it. Starting motivation for this study is an old question whether invariant subset C ⊂ [0, 1] on which...
Wed 11 Dec 2024 11:00 - 12:00	AdSolve – Addressing Socio-technical Limitations of LLMs for Medical and Social Computing Centre for Human-Centred Computing Professor Maria Liakata delves into the £3.5M Responsible Ai UK funded Keystone Project, "AdSolve – Addressing Socio-technical Limitations of LLMs for Medical and Social Computing". Moderated by Dr. Shoaib Ehsan, Deputy Chair of the Equities Committee at RAi UK, in this live session Professor Liakata will share insights from the AdSolve team's work and critical challenges of deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare and legal systems. From biases and privacy leaks to flawed...
Wed 11 Dec 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Chemistry Seminar: Prof Stephen Wallace, University of Edinburgh Centre for Chemical Research Merging Synthetic Biology and Synthetic Chemistry Prof. Stephen Wallace Chair of Chemical Biotechnology and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, University of Edinburgh, UK The emerging field of biocompatible chemistry aims to combine the synthetic...
Tue 10 Dec 2024 12:15 - 12:45	SEMS seminar: Dr Josephine Wu, Trinity College Dublin Centre for Bioengineering Title: Engineering Spatiotemporal Cues for Directed Formation of Musculoskeletal Tissues Abstract: Joint disease is detrimental to basic quality of life and effective treatments are lacking. Tissue engineering has the potential to offer more biologically faithful tissues derived with minimal invasiveness, but the resulting tissues currently lack the full composition, organization, and function of native tissue. In normal joint development, finely coordinated spatiotemporal gradients of...
Tue 10 Dec 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Weekly GAnG Seminar: Camille Laurent, Propagation of global analyticity and unique continuation for semilinear wave equations Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation Title: Propagation of global analyticity and unique continuation for semilinear wave equations Abstract: In this talk, I will first present some known results of unique continuation for wave-like equations. I will explain the difficulties of obtaining global results under natural geometrical assumptions. Then, I will present a recent result, in collaboration with Cristobal Loyola, where we prove unique continuation for semilinear wave equations under the geometric control assumption. A...
Fri 6 Dec 2024 14:00 - 20:30	60 Years of Robotics at Queen Mary Centre for Advanced Robotics Queen Mary University of London's School of Engineering and Materials Science is this year celebrating 60 years of Robotics. On Friday 6 December 2024 we will celebrate this milestone with an event showcasing research highlights and welcoming special guests. The evening will include speeches and demonstrations from academics and special guests, followed by a drinks reception. More details to follow. Explore the history and memories on the 60 Years of Robotics Microsite.
Wed 4 Dec 2024 11:00 - 12:00	Theoretical Physics / Condensed Matter Seminar: Experiments on Anyons with Prof. Steve Simon Centre for Fundamental Physics Speaker: Prof. Steve Simon (University of Oxford) Experiments on Anyons In 2+1 dimensions quantum particles can exist that are neither bosons nor fermions. Such particles, known as "anyons" have been studied theoretically for over forty years....
Wed 4 Dec 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Chemistry Seminar: Dr Daniel Toolan, University of Manchester Centre for Chemical Research Title: The development of photon-multiplier materials based on nanoparticle:small organic semiconductor blends Speaker: Dr Dan Toolan Abstract: This talk will focus on the development of nanocomposite films, which comprise...
Tue 3 Dec 2024 12:00 - 12:30	SEMS PDRA-PhD seminars: Elis Newham and Holly Bachas Brook Centre for Bioengineering Title: TomoSAXS: combining small-angle scatter and X-ray tomography for hierarchical biomechanics of collagenous tissues Talk Summary of Dr Elis Newham: Collagenous tissues, key constituents in the overwhelming majority of vertebrate biomechanical systems, consist of a range of structures and assemblies that operate hierarchically over spatio-structural scales. This creates a complex interplay between nanoscale and microscale biomechanics that is vital for understanding the function of...
Tue 3 Dec 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Fast Structure-informed Positional Encoding for Music Generation Centre for Multimodal AI You are invited to join us for a Centre for Digital Music / Centre for Multimodal AI seminar on Tuesday 3 December from 2-3 pm, where Manvi Agarwal (Télécom Paris) will be presenting her work on "Fast Structure-informed Positional Encoding for Music Generation". Attend in person in ENG G2 or virtually via Zoom. Please see details below. Topic: Fast Structure-informed Positional Encoding for Music Generation Speaker: Manvi Agarwal (Télécom Paris) Date/time: 3 December 2024, 2-3 pm ...
Sun 1  - Fri 6 Dec 2024	Dagsthul Workshop: Human in the Loop Learning through Grounded Interaction in Games Dec 01 – Dec 06, 2024, Schloss Dagsthul, Germany. Centre for Human-Centred Computing Professor Massimo Poesio is coordinating one of the competitive and prestigious Dagstuhl Perspective Workshops at Schloss Dagsthul, the Leibniz Center for Informatics, intended to identify promising new fields and research directions in computer science. QMUL's workshop, Human in the Loop Learning through Grounded Interaction in Games, organised in collaboration with the universities of Trento, Regensburg, Utrecht and Illinois, will bring together researchers from around the world to look at...
November 2024
Fri 29 Nov 2024 11:00 - 12:00	Seminar: Queen Mary Robotics Seminar Series - Prof Robert Katzschmann, ETH Zürich Centre for Intelligent Transport Title: Creating Life-like Robots: From Musculoskeletal Designs to Biohybrid Innovations Abstract: Living robots represent a new frontier in engineering materials for robotic systems, incorporating biological living cells and synthetic materials into their design. These bio-hybrid robots are dynamic and intelligent, potentially harnessing living matter's capabilities, such as growth, regeneration, morphing, biodegradation, and environmental adaptation. Such attributes position bio-hybrid...
Tue 26 Nov 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Weekly GAnG Seminar: Stefano Foffa, Field theory methods for the two-body problem in General Relativity Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation Abstract: In the last two decades, concepts and techniques inherited from particle physics and more in general from quantum (and classical) field theory, have been more and more successfully applied to the study of compact binaries in GR. After a general overview of the methods available today, with particular focus on a specific version called Non Relativistic General Relativity, I will describe some of the most recent advancements in this field.
Wed 20 Nov 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Chemistry Seminar: Prof Daniel Gryko, Polish Academy of Sciences Centre for Chemical Research 1,4-Dihydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole and Dipyrrolonaphthyridinedione – Novel Building Blocks for Optoelectronics Daniel T. Gryko Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland. E-mail: dtgryko@icho...
Tue 19 Nov 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Weekly GAnG Seminar: Saikat Mondal C for Carroll Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation Title: C for Carroll Abstract: Physics beyond relativistic invariance and without Lorentz (or Poincaré) symmetry and the geometry underlying these non-Lorentzian structures have become very fashionable of late. This is primarily due to the discovery of uses of non-Lorentzian structures in various branches of physics, including condensed matter physics, classical and quantum gravity, fluid dynamics, cosmology, etc. In this talk, I will be talking about one such theory - Carrollian theory,...
Fri 15 Nov 2024 10:30 - 12:00	Special colloquium by Abhay Ashtekar Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation Prof. Ashtekar is an Indian theoretical physicist who created Ashtekar variables and is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity and its subfield loop quantum cosmology. He is an Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Physics and former Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (now Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos) and Center for Fundamental Theory at Pennsylvania State University.
Fri 15 Nov 2024 10:30 - 12:30	Gravitational Wave Initiative: Special Colloquium Centre for Fundamental Physics We are pleased to announce a special event hosted by the Gravitational Wave Initiative this term - a colloquium by Abhay Ashtekar on 15 November at 10.30am in MB503 (QMUL Maths building, 5th floor seminar room). The talk will be followed by coffee and cake in the 5th floor common room. Prof. Ashtekar is an Indian theoretical physicist who created Ashtekar variables and is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity and its subfield loop quantum cosmology. He is an Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus...
Wed 13 Nov 2024 12:30 - 17:30	Conference: Tropical Mathematics and its Applications (Meeting of the LMS joint research network) Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory An afternoon of talks on Tropical mathematics and its applications will be held at Queen Mary University of London on Wednesday 13 November 2024. For more details see the event website. This meeting is one of the activities of the joint research group in tropical mathematics formed by researchers in UK mathematics departments at universities including Manchester, Birmingham, Warwick, Queen Mary University of London and Durham, with financial support from the London Mathematical Society. ...
Tue 12 Nov 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Weekly GAnG Seminar: Warren Li, Princeton, Inhomogeneous BKL bounces in General Relativity Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation While the celebrated Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems show that 'singularities' are a robust prediction of Einstein's general relativity, the theorems say little about the quantitative behaviour of near-singularity spacetimes. This was subsequently explored in physics heuristics of Belinski-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz, who suggest a chaotic and oscillatory approach to singularity punctuated by so-called 'BKL bounces'. In this talk, we present recent works justifying these bounces in symmetric, but...
Tue 12  - Wed 13 Nov 2024	Understanding the AI Revolution: Risks Imagined and Real. Lecture 3 - Towards a Rational Public Policy on AI Centre for Human-Centred Computing Prof. Shalom Lappin discusses how current AI systems are primarily designed and supported by large tech companies. He addresses the recent debate on whether AI should be regulated to prevent harm and promote social benefit, which often focuses on how to regulate these companies. He explores various legislative regimes and regulatory mechanisms implemented in different countries, considering their motivations and effectiveness in achieving their stated objectives. Prof. Lappin emphasises that...
Fri 8 Nov 2024 13:00 - 17:00	London Evo-Devo Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Genomics Given all the outstanding evo-devo work going on at QMUL and the greater London area, several Centre members (Alex de Mendoza, Chema Martin, and Roman Arguello, along with group leaders from The Crick and UCL) felt that a regular gathering to share recent discoveries and to network would be a real asset. Not too long ago there was such a meeting, and they are aiming to revive the spirit of it. As part of the Centre of Evolutionary and Functional Genomics, their hope is to arrange a...
Wed 6 Nov 2024 12:00 - 13:00	Seminar: Department Seminar Dr Sylvain Antoniotti, Université Côte d’Azur Centre for Chemical Research
Wed 6 Nov 2024 15:00 - 16:00	SEMS seminars: Dr Roberto Santoprete, Project Leader & Research Associate at L'Oréal Centre for Bioengineering Title Facial aging: from clinical perception to biomechanical characterization Abstract The perception of facial aging is a complex, multisensory phenomenon whose criteria may vary according to ethnicity and geographical area. Nevertheless, there are recurring clinical signs such as the increase of visibility of wrinkles or sagging. The mechanics of the various skin layers and underlying tissues play a decisive role in understanding these clinical phenomena. However, few studies to...
Wed 6 Nov 2024 15:00 - 16:00	SEMS seminars: Dr Thomas Bornschlögl, Head of imaging platform, advanced research, L'Oréal Centre for Bioengineering Title The imaging platform of Advanced Research at L'Oréal: Recent imaging developments and insights in skin and hair biology. Abstract The imaging platform uses different microscopy approaches to better understand the impact of cosmetic treatments on the structure and biology of human hair and skin. The skin is among our largest organs and defines the barrier that separates our body from the external world. This barrier function is in many cases essential for our health, for example...
October 2024
Wed 30 Oct 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: RSC Prize Lecture, Prof Darren Dixon, University of Oxford Centre for Chemical Research Catalyst Control in Complex Molecule Synthesis Darren J. Dixon Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom e-mail: Darren.dixon@chem.ox.ac.uk In this presentation, new "synthesis inspired" user-friendly broad scope...
Tue 29 Oct 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Weekly GAnG Seminar: James Vickers, The Cauchy Problem in Spacetimes with Closed Timelike Curves Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation In this talk we will start by reviewing the structure of some model spacetimes containing closed timelike curves (CTCs) such as Misner space, and spacetimes with moving or rotating cosmic strings. In general such spacetimes contain both a chronal and non-chronal region separated by a "chronology horizon". We give initial data for the wave equation on a partial Cauchy surface in the chronal region and show that the Cauchy problem is well-posed up to and on the chronology horizon. We then...
Tue 29 Oct 2024 18:00 - 19:30	Understanding Artificial Intelligence Lecture 2 - Dangers Imagined and Real Centre for Human-Centred Computing Professor Shalom Lappin continues his lecture series presenting the core ideas of his forthcoming book, Understanding Artificial Intelligence: Neither Catastrophe nor Redemption (Polity Books, 2025). Prof. Lappin will consider some of the apocalyptic scenarios envisioned by various commentators as a consequence of the AI revolution. He will argue that these scenarios generally lack clear factual grounding in the actual capabilities of existing systems or those likely to emerge in the...
Wed 23 Oct 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Department Seminar: RSC Prize Lecture, Prof Stuart Taylor, University of Cardiff Centre for Chemical Research
Tue 22 Oct 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Weekly GAnG Seminar: Eleni Kontou from KCL, Singularity theorems for worldvolume energy inequalities Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation The original singularity theorems of Penrose and Hawking have, in their hypotheses, pointwise energy conditions violated by some classical and all quantum fields. If we want to extend their validity to semiclassical gravity, these conditions have to be replaced by weaker ones. In this talk I will first discuss recent results for singularity theorems with weakened energy conditions, some of which are obeyed by quantum fields. Then I will argue for the need of singularity theorems with worldvolume...
Tue 22 Oct 2024 14:00 - 16:00	Seminar: Chemistry Department Mini-Symposium Centre for Chemical Research Catalyst NO bar for turning O/N-tethered alkynes: NO-heterocycles are impossible! Santosh J. Gharpure Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai – 400076 (Email: sjgharpure@chem.iitb.ac.in) ...
Mon 21  - Fri 25 Oct 2024	Conference: Geometry of Matroids Workshop Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory This event aims to bring together leading researchers in different areas of combinatorial geometry. This workshop is a part of the special year Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics. Organisers: Matt Baker, Chris Eur, June Huh, Oliver Lorscheid, and Felipe Rincon.
Fri 18 Oct 2024 10:30 - 16:30	The Paris-London Analysis Seminar Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation http://www.london-analysis-seminar.org.uk/Paris-London/
Wed 16 Oct 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Chemistry Seminar: Dr Maxie Roessler, Imperial College London Centre for Chemical Research Mechanistic insights from unpaired electrons: from membrane proteins to electrocatalysis Maxie M. Rößler Department of Chemistry and Centre for Pulse EPR Spectroscopy, Imperial College London, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, London W12 0BZ,...
Tue 15 Oct 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Weekly GAnG Seminar: Vasil Dimitrov from University of Turin, Exploring thermal black holes in AdS_5/CFT_4 Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation In the first part of the talk I will recap the black hole thermodynamics of a certain non-supersymmetric asymptotically AdS_5 black hole: I will define its asymptotic charges and associated potentials and show some thermodynamic relations between them. Then I will describe the so-called BPS point, where the black hole is extremal (zero temperature) and supersymmetric. Finally, I will show how to approach the vicinity of the BPS point, without exactly landing on it and discuss the significance of...
Tue 15 Oct 2024 18:00 - 19:30	Understanding the AI Revolution: The Roots of the Deep Learning Transformation. Professor Shalom Lappin Centre for Human-Centred Computing The first of Professor Shalom Lappin's public lecture series where he will present the core ideas of his forthcoming book, Understanding Artificial Intelligence: Neither Catastrophe nor Redemption (Polity Books, 2025). Lecture 1 - The Roots of the Deep Learning Transformation, 15 October 2024 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM In this talk, Prof. Shalom Lappin provides a brief history of AI, tracing its origins from the immediate postwar period through the fluctuations in funding and support during the...
Tue 8 Oct 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Weekly GAnG Seminar: Melanie Rupflin from Oxford University, Maps between spheres with nearly minimal energy Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation Many interesting geometric objects are characterised as minimisers or critical points of natural geometric quantities such as the length of a curve, the area of a surface or the energy of a map. For the corresponding variational problems it is often important to not only analyse the existence and properties of potential minimisers, but to obtain a more general understanding of the energy landscape. It is in particular natural to ask whether an object with nearly minimal energy must...
Wed 2 Oct 2024 15:30 - 17:00	Interdisciplinary seminar: Non-invertible coset symmetry and fractionalization Centre for Fundamental Physics Speaker: Po-Shen Hsin (KCL) Title: "Non-invertible coset symmetry and fractionalization" Abstract: Coset symmetry arises in many systems such as Higgs phases of gauge theories and quantum spin liquids. When the coset is quotient by a non...
September 2024
Wed 25 Sep 2024 11:00 - 12:00	Seminar: Meta-learning-based domain adaptation for melody extraction Centre for Multimodal AI Centre for Digital Music Seminar by Kavya Ranjan Saxena: Meta-learning-based domain adaptation for melody extraction QMUL, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Centre for Digital Music Seminar Series Seminar by: Kavya Ranjan...
Tue 24 Sep 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Weekly GAnG Seminar: Claude Warnick from Cambridge: Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation Abstract: A perturbed black hole rings down by producing radiation at certain fixed (complex) frequencies - the quasinormal frequencies. These frequencies can be identified with the spectrum of a non-self adjoint operator derived from the evolution equation of the particular field of interest. Thanks to accurate measurements of gravitational waves, the quasinormal spectrum of a black hole is increasingly an observable quantity. A natural question is whether the quasinormal spectrum is stable...
Wed 18 Sep 2024 11:00 - 12:00	Seminar: Chemistry Seminar: Dr Guillaume Clavé, University of Montpellier Centre for Chemical Research Chemistry Seminar: Dr Guillaume Clavé, University of Montpellier Titile of seminar: "Application of the sulfo-click reaction in the field of nucleic acid chemistry"
Thu 12 Sep 2024 10:30 - 17:00	Conference: Genius -Fish at the British Science Festival Centre for Brain and Behaviour Genius-Fish, an exhibit created by Dr Adele Leggieri, will be showcasing work from the QMUL zebrafish genetics group at the British Science Festival held at the University of East London. Genius fish, a fusion of genetics, neuroscience and experimental biology, explores the genetic factors contributing to psychiatric disorders that affect millions of individuals worldwide.
Thu 5  - Fri 6 Sep 2024	Conference: BioMedEng 2024 Centre for Bioengineering The top bioengineering conference in the UK will return to Queen Mary in September 2024. There will be multiple parallel themes covering a broad range of bioengineering, medical engineering, biomaterials and related topics.
Thu 5 Sep 2024 12:00 - 13:00	Seminar: Chemistry Seminar: Dr Jean-François Brière (Université de Rouen Normandie) Centre for Chemical Research Dr Jean-François Brière (Université de Rouen Normandie): "Organocatalytic synthesis of chiral heterocycles"
Tue 3 Sep 2024 15:00 - 16:00	Research seminar by Dr Liang Zheng: Pairs, Data Pairs! Centre for Multimodal AI Abstract: Training AI models with image pairs has been studied for a long time and proven very useful. In this talk, Dr. Zheng will first revisit popular practices of using data pairs in various computer vision tasks: from face recognition,...
August 2024
Thu 29 Aug 2024 14:00 - 18:00	Conference: COW Algebraic Geometry Seminar Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Speakers: 2pm, David Favero (Minnesota): Homotopy Path Algebras and Resolutions 3:30pm, Nicholas Proudfoot (Oregon): The algebraic geometry of Kazhdan-Lusztig-Stanley polynomials 5pm, Marta Benozzo (UCL/LSGNT): Anti-Iitaka conjecture in positive characteristic
Thu 22 Aug 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Chemistry Seminar: Dr JuHyeon Kim, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin Centre for Chemical Research Chemistry seminar by Dr JuHyeon Kim, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin Full quantum state control of chiral molecules Controlling the internal quantum states of chiral molecules for a selected enantiomer has a wide range of fundamental applications...
Fri 2 Aug 2024 09:00 - 17:00	Conference: Paul Nelson's 40th birthday seminar Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory We will have a one-day seminar series on 2nd August, 2024 to celebrate Paul Nelson's 40th birthday. Speakers: Soumendra Ganguly, Sumit Kumar, Kevin Kwan, Yannis Petridis, Ian Petrow, Nina Zubrilina.
July 2024
Tue 30 Jul 2024 15:00 - 16:00	Seminar: Score Informed Note-level MIDI Velocity Estimation and Its Transcription into Symbolics Centre for Multimodal AI You are invited to join us for a C4DM seminar on Tuesday 30th July from 3-4 pm, where Hyon Kim will be presenting his work on modeling the dynamic information of piano performance. Attend in person in ENG G2 or virtually via Zoom. Please see details below. Topic: Score Informed Note-level MIDI Velocity Estimation and Its Transcription into Symbolics Speaker: Hyon Kim Date/time: 30 July 2024, 3-4 pm Location: G2, Engineering Building Zoom link: https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9798452959 ...
Tue 23 Jul 2024 12:00 - 13:00	Seminar: Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Centre for Experimental and Applied Physics Anthony Phillips: Designing materials for solid-state cooling
Thu 18 Jul 2024 12:00 - 13:00	Seminar: Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Centre for Experimental and Applied Physics Kui Yu, National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials Sichuan University: Formation Pathways of Colloidal Semiconductor Magic-Size Clusters and Quantum Dots Abstract: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded for "The discovery and...
Wed 17 Jul 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Pulling together the pieces to measure cosmology using weak gravitational lensing with the LSST camera at the Vera Rubin Observatory. Centre for Fundamental Physics In the coming decade, the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will be key to exploring the cosmos. With the massive data set generate by the 10-year survey we will be able to conduct precise measurements cosmological...
Wed 17 Jul 2024 14:00 - 15:30	Seminar: Sustainable Engineering Chalk and Talk Centre for Sustainable Engineering The purpose of the event is to create a "common room" atmosphere in which people can informally discuss research. There will be two speakers, a PhD student and a post doc. They will introduce their research using a whiteboard, and there will be an...
Tue 16 Jul 2024 12:00 - 13:00	Seminar: Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Centre for Experimental and Applied Physics Teymour Talha-Dean: Effect of atmospheric molecules and resist residues on the transport properties of 2D FETs
Wed 10 Jul 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Gravitational Wave Initiative Seminar Centre for Fundamental Physics Roberto Campos and Gabriel Escrig, UCMadrid: Applying Quantum Computing to Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation Abstract: Since the first detection of gravitational waves (GWs) generated by a pair of black holes in 2015, the field has rapidly advanced. Yet current analysis techniques are bottlenecked by high computational demands. Our exploration demonstrates that quantum computing offers a promising alternative to tackle these challenges. In this talk, we will introduce a quantum...
Tue 9 Jul 2024 12:00 - 13:00	Seminar: Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Centre for Experimental and Applied Physics Alin Elena, STFC Daresbury: Machine learnt inter-atomic potentials. Do they matter?
Wed 3 Jul 2024 15:00 - 16:00	Seminar: Biomolecule-based Piezoelectric Nanomaterials and Their Energy applications Centre for Sustainable Engineering Multifunctional materials have received increasing attention in recent years. Owing to their inherent biological nature as well as piezoelectric properties, piezoelectric biomaterials are considered as promising candidates for application in fields ranging from electrochemical energy storage to biological systems. Rational material design is important to enhance their piezoelectric and biological activity. Herein, recent advancements to piezoelectric biomaterials like peptide-based micro...
Mon 1  - Fri 5 Jul 2024	British Combinatorial Conference Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Held biennially since 1969, the British Combinatorial Conference (BCC) is the foremost UK conference on combinatorics and its applications. Nine principal speakers will give survey talks covering a diverse range of topics in combinatorics and six mini-symposia, comprised of four speakers each, will cover significant recent advances in: additive combinatorics, algebraic combinatorics, combinatorial geometry, combinatorial optimization, extremal combinatorics, and probabilistic combinatorics. ...
Mon 1  - Fri 5 Jul 2024	LMS Invited Lecture Series 2024 Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory The London Mathematical Society's Invited Lecturers Series aim to bring a distinguished overseas mathematician to the United Kingdom to present a small course of about ten lectures spread over a week. Each course of Invited Lectures is on a major field of current mathematical research, and is instructional in nature, being directed both at graduate students beginning research and at established mathematicians who wish to learn about a field outside their own research specialism. The 2024...
June 2024
Thu 27 Jun 2024 14:30 - 18:30	Celebrating EDI in Science and Engineering Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Join colleagues from across Science and Engineering for a hybrid event on Thursday 27 June to celebrate EDI in our Faculty. We will hear from guest speakers who are champions for EDI as well as a LGBTQIA+ panel discussion with academic and professional services staff from S&E. The event will conclude with a reception. Please register at the event website below. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Tue 25 Jun 2024 12:00 - 13:00	Seminar: Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Centre for Experimental and Applied Physics James Thomas: Spin and vibrational effects in molecular junctions
Mon 24  - Tue 25 Jun 2024	Conference: Bacterial Machines in Action Centre for Molecular Cell Biology Synopsis A suite of sophisticated molecular machines drives virtually all essential cell functions of bacteria - from fundamental processes such as DNA replication and gene expression to highly specialised multi-component systems required for the interaction of bacteria with their environment. We would like to bring together leading researchers in the field and provide the audience with a comprehensive and timely insight into the actions of bacterial machines. We thereby aim to integrate...
Thu 20 Jun 2024 16:30 - 19:30	Future Shock: the generative AI policy dilemma Faculty of Science and Engineering In this event, we broach this GenAI policy dilemma by launching the Policy Forum of the Harvard Data Science Review's special issue: Future Shock: Grappling the Generative AI Revolution. The Policy Forum, co-edited by Queen Mary's own Professor David Leslie, collects short, Op-Ed style position papers and policy analyses by leading thinkers from around the world, including Yoshua Bengio, Rachel Coldicutt, Jacob Metcalf, and Shmyla Khan. Our panel discussion with Professor Leslie and other...
Tue 18 Jun 2024 12:00 - 13:00	Seminar: Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Centre for Experimental and Applied Physics Andrei Sapelkin: Revisiting the problem of information content in x-ray absorption data
Wed 12 Jun 2024 15:00 - 17:00	Entrepreneurs Club event with Prof Andy Bushby Faculty of Science and Engineering Prof Andy Bushby (Founder and CTO of Ultima Forma) will present the story behind the founding of Ultima Forma, a disruptive materials engineering company. Join us for networking afterwards, refreshments will be provided. Please complete the registraton form via the link below.
Tue 11 Jun 2024 12:00 - 13:00	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Centre for Experimental and Applied Physics Mathieu de Kruijf, Quantum Motion Towards scalable quantum processors and integration with on-chip classical control using commercially available silicon chips.
Fri 7 Jun 2024 11:00 - 12:00	Seminar: A social psychology approach to fostering inclusion in music technology education Centre for Human-Centred Computing Abstract: Organised by C4DM/AIM/EECS/WHEN, in this talk Dr Eddie Dobson will address the considerable challenges facing Women and minority gender professionals (WMGP) in the audio industries, which are are serviced by a majority white, cis, able...
Thu 6 Jun 2024 15:00 - 17:00	Inclusion/engagement workshop in music technology education and reflections and broader implications Centre for Human-Centred Computing For the colleagues who identify as women, we will have a workshop with Eddie Dobson organised by the Women in Higher Education Network. In this workshop Dr Eddie Dobson will look at new research on engagement in music technology education, and...
Wed 5 Jun 2024 18:00 - 22:00	Game AI Meetup Centre for Multimodal AI The next Game AI meetup will take place on the 5th of June 2024! Attendance is free, but we do have limited spaces - please update your RSVP if you can no longer make it, to allow others to take your place. We will have a series of short talks, followed by networking with a light buffet and drinks. * If you would like to give a short informal talk at future GAIM events (on any Game AI topic), please contact one of the organisers with a title and short abstract! (Limited spaces available!) ...
May 2024
Fri 31 May 2024 10:00 - 16:00	Engineering Biology Day Centre for Chemical Research
Fri 31 May 2024 14:30 - 15:30	Astronomy Unit Colloquium Centre for Fundamental Physics The AU is delighted to welcome Francesco Shankar (University of Southampton), who will give a colloquium talk about supermassive black holes. Professor Shankar is PI of one of the largest networks in the world working on supermassive black holes in a cosmological context (https://www.bid4best.org/).
Wed 29  - Thu 30 May 2024	Gravitational Wave Initiative Lectures Centre for Fundamental Physics A series of lectures to promote interdisciplinary research within the Gravitational Wave Initiative. Lecturers: Mark Hannam (Cardiff University) Lionel London (Kings College London) Rachel Gray (University of Glasgow)
Fri 24 May 2024 14:30 - 15:30	Astronomy Unit Colloquium Centre for Fundamental Physics The AU is delighted to welcome David Grant (University of Britol), who will give a colloquium talk about the James Webb Space Telescope and its recent observations of exoplanet atmospheres, including the detection of carbon monoxide and quartz clouds.
Thu 23 May 2024 12:00 - 17:30	Categorical aspects of differential Galois theory Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory The aim of this one-day meeting is to deepen the discussion on the interaction of differential and difference Picard-Vessiot Galois theory, Categorical Galois theory and Logic.
Wed 15 May 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Chemistry Seminar: Dr Joy Farnaby, University of Glasgow Centre for Chemical Research
Wed 8 May 2024 10:00 - 16:00	Quantum Day Centre for Experimental and Applied Physics We are pleased to announce our first annual Quantum Day. This event will celebrate all quantum-related activities at Queen Mary and will be a great way to meet others in the broader quantum community. 10:00 10:10 Opening 10:10 10:40 Theory 10:10 10:25 Ginestra Bianco – Perspectives on Complex Quantum Networks 10:25 10:40 Owen Benton – Searching for Quantum Spin Liquids 10:45 11:15 Materials and devices 10:45 11:00 James Thomas – Molecular quantum materials and devices 11:00 11:15...
Wed 8 May 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Chemistry Seminar: Prof Theoni Georgiou, Imperial College London Centre for Chemical Research
April 2024
Tue 30 Apr 2024	NC3Rs NAMs Network launch event Centre for Bioengineering New approach methodologies (NAMs) - replacement (full and partial) technologies for use in assessing chemical or drug toxicity - hold great promise in providing useful information for chemical hazard and risk assessment. The NAMs Network is open to stakeholders from all sectors and at all career levels. The purpose of the Network is to encourage and support conversations and collaborations across sectors in new approach methodologies.
Mon 29  - Tue 30 Apr 2024	Conference: Target to Patient - Creating tomorrow's drug discovery toolbox Centre for Bioengineering Target to Patient is returning in 2024. Advances in genomics for target choice, in vitro technologies, novel modalities, risk mitigation, data analysis, AI/ML and digital health are transforming our understanding of disease leading to an explosion of new opportunities in drug discovery. Prof Martin Knight from the Centre for Bioengineering and the Centre for Predictive in vitro Models at Queen Mary is an invited keynote speaker at this event. Prof Knight will be discussing research on organ...
Thu 25 Apr 2024 13:00 - 18:00	Conference: Facets of Algebraic Geometry: A Celebration of Combinatorial Techniques Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Speakers: Navid Nabijou (QMUL) Rohini Ramadas (Warwick) Evgeny Shinder (Sheffield) The event will also feature an "Explain It To Me" session for early-career researchers, and will conclude with a wine reception. This event is supported by an LMS Celebrating New Appointments Grant, and by the School of Mathematical Sciences at QMUL.
Thu 25 Apr 2024 14:00 - 18:00	TYC Recently Appointed Academic Talks: Chiara Gattinoni, Wojciek Kopec and Frank Schindler Centre for Chemical Research Chiara Gattinoni – King's College London Electrostatic effects in nanoscale ferroelectrics The behavior of nanoscale forms of matter, such as thin films or nanocrystal, is strongly influenced by the structure and behavior of their...
Thu 18 Apr 2024 11:00 - 17:00	Gravitational Wave Initiative Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation A meeting to celebrate the inauguration of this new research collaboration at Queen Mary University of London. Speakers Luc Blanchet (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) Patrick R Brady (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Bernd Brügmann (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) Registration https://sites.google.com/view/gwiinauguralmeeting/registration Programme Please arrive between 10:00-11.00 for coffee, cake and registration in the Social Hub in the...
Wed 17 Apr 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Seminar: Dr Beatrice Collins: Modern Synthetic Methodologies for Controlled Molecular-Level Motion Centre for Chemical Research Chemistry Seminar by Dr Beatrice Collins, University of Bristol
Wed 3 Apr 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Dr Charlie McTernan: Capsules with Character – Synthesising Metal-Peptidic Capsules for Targeted Guest Binding Centre for Chemical Research Chemistry Seminar by Dr Charlie McTernan, Francis Crick Institute and King's College London
March 2024
Wed 27 Mar 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Prof Steven Armes: Polymerisation-Induced Self-Assembly (PISA): A Powerful Platform Technology for Bespoke Polymer Particles Centre for Chemical Research Chemistry Seminar by Professor Steven Armes, University of Sheffield
Wed 13 Mar 2024 13:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Antennas in Advanced Applications: Horizon watching with a 50-year perspective Centre for Electronics Please view the recorded event Seminar Summary Which areas in antennas will have a significant impact in 50-years' time? For that matter what was happening 50-years ago that influences what we do today? Although sometimes considered a niche technology, antennas are now ubiquitous and a key part of wireless technologies. Increased emphasis on, for example, energy efficiency, environmental sustainability and spectrum utilization makes their design even more important. In some ways antenna...
Wed 13 Mar 2024 14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Prof Tim Donohoe: To Leave and then Return? Hydrogen Borrowing Catalysis and Organic Synthesis Centre for Chemical Research Chemistry Seminar by Professor Timothy Donohoe, University of Oxford
Tue 12 Mar 2024 14:00 - 18:00	'Cell Dynamics and Chromosomal Stability' Centre for Molecular Cell Biology The Centre for Cell Dynamics is hosting an international workshop (hybrid mode) on 'Cell Dynamics and Chromosomal Stability' research with speakers from Japan, Switzerland and the UK
February 2024
Thu 29 Feb 2024	Organ-Chip Industrial Affiliates Meeting Centre for Bioengineering This invite only meeting brings together industrial affiliates and other stakeholder partners working in the organ-chip technology to discuss key challenges and opportunities in this rapidly developing multidisciplinary field.
Thu 29 Feb 2024	Night of Science and Engineering 2024 Faculty of Science and Engineering This is an exclusive VIP reception showcasing our world-leading science and engineering and how diversity and social mobility are at the heart of Queen Mary's values and key to our success. The evening will introduce Dr Karen Salt from UK Research and Innovation along with two of our amazing alumni, a polar explorer and a leading industrialist, and one of our top professors whose research has transformed the treatment of hundreds of thousands of patients and has even been featured on a royal...