Computational Techniques and Applications for Materials Modelling

Keele University

Program for CCP5 Meeting 30th August – 2nd September

Tuesday 30th August

17:00 – 19:00 Registration, Chancellor’s Building Foyer
19:00 – 20:00 Dinner, Comus Restaurant

Wednesday 31st August

07:30 – 08:45 Breakfast, Comus Restaurant
08:50 – 09:00 Introductory remarks – R A Jackson
Session 1 – Chair: R A Jackson
09:00 – 10:00 M J Gillan (UCL)
The first-principles statistical mechanics of materials
10:00 – 10:30 M Nolan (TCD)
The electronic structure of surfaces and defects in ceria
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee, Chancellor’s Building Foyer
11:00 – 11:30 P Martin (Bath)
Computer modelling of the structure and oxygen mobility at ceria surfaces
11:30 – 12:00 J-C Chen (NTU, Taiwan)
Molecular dynamics simulation of self-diffusion in 2/1-mullite and sillimanite
12:00 – 12:30 J Harding (Sheffield)
Simulating bulk and surface processes in ceramics using temperature-accelerated dynamics
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch, Comus Restaurant
Session 2 – Chair: P M Rodger
14:00 – 15:00 D C Rapaport (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Ab initio approach to hydrodynamic instability via molecular dynamics
15:00 – 15:30 D M Heyes (Surrey)
Soft particle liquids
15:30 – 16:00 Tea, Chancellor’s Building Foyer
16:00 – 16:30 D Michel (SHU)
Computer simulations of self-assembling amphiphilic systems
16:30 – 17:00 B Leimkuhler (Leicester)
Partial thermostatting of coarse-grained molecular dynamics
17:00 – 19:00 Poster Session & Drinks Reception, Chancellor’s Building Foyer
19:00 – 20:00 Dinner, Comus Restaurant

Thursday 1st September

07:30 – 09:00 Breakfast, Comus Restaurant
Session 3 – Chair: D M Heyes
09:00 – 10:00 N Quirke (Imperial)
Simulating nanoflows
10:00 – 10:30 J Anwar (Bradford)
A robust and accurate method for free energy calculation of charged molecular systems
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee, Chancellor’s Building Foyer
11:00 – 11:30 M B Sweatman (Strathclyde)
A self-referential Monte Carlo method for calculating the free energy of crystalline solids
11:30 – 12:00 R L Davidchack (Leicester)
Determining crystal-melt interfacial free energy via computer simulation
12:00 – 12:30 Discussion and general questions session
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch, Comus Restaurant
Session 4: Chair: D J Willock
14:00 – 15:00 D W Lewis (UCL)
Hydrated zeolites - modelling the effect of pressure and water content
15:00 – 15:30 G Sastre (Valencia)
A computational study on the role of fluoride in the synthesis of SSZ-23 zeolite
15:30 – 16:00 Tea, Chancellor’s Building Foyer
16:00 – 16:30 E A Pidko (TUE)
The DFT study of propane and oxygen individual and co- adsorption by alkaline-earth zeolites
16:30 – 17:00 J Fearon (TCD)
Understanding catalytic selectivity from first principles: C=O and C=C moieties on Pt and PtSn {111} surfaces
17:00 – 17:30 J Elliott (Cambridge)
Multi-scale modelling of minimally hydrated short-side chain perfluorosulphonic acid membranes for fuel cell applications
17:30 – 18:00 CCP5 AGM
18:00 – 18:30 CCP5 Executive Committee Meeting
19:00 – 19:30 Pre-dinner drinks, Great Hall , Keele Hall
19:30 – 23:00 Conference Dinner, Salvin Room, Keele Hal

Friday 2nd September

07:30 – 09:00 Breakfast, Comus Restaurant
Session 5 – Chair: J H Harding
09:00 – 09:30 T Youngs (Belfast)
Derivation of an accurate forcefield for ionic liquid simulation
09:30 – 10:00 A Wynveen (Imperial)
Interactions of polarisable media in water solutions: a molecular dynamics study
10:00 – 10:30 P M Rodger (Warwick)
Direct molecular simulations of hydrate nucleation
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee, Chancellor’s Building Foyer
11:00 – 11:30 T Kraska (Köln)
Molecular dynamics simulation of homogeneous nucleation from the vapour phase
11:30 – 12:00 D J Cooke (Cambridge)
Towards modelling the biological-mineralogical interface
12:00 – 12:30 Discussion and general questions session
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch, Comus Restaurant
14:00 – 16:00 CCP5 DL-MESO Executive Committee Meeting