MARVEL Distinguished Lectures

The 39th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko, University of Luxembourg. He will be presenting a lecture entitled: "AI-Driven Fully Quantum Biomolecular Simulations".

The 38th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong. He will be presenting a lecture entitled: "Grain boundaries are natural Brownian ratchets: directional GB anisotropy".

The 37th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Massimiliano Di Ventra, University of California, San Diego. He will be presenting a lecture entitled: "MemComputing: when memory becomes a computing tool".

The 36th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Dominika Zgid, University of Michigan. She will be presenting a lecture entitled: "Ab-initio Green’s functions methods for molecules and solids. What accuracy can we reach?" 

The 36th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Elisa Molinari, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and Cnr-Nano, Modena, Italy. She will be presenting a lecture entitled: "The excitons that you might not expect." 

The 35th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Emmanouil Kioupakis, University of Michigan. He will be presenting a lecture entitled: "Advancing the state of the art in semiconductor technology through predictive atomistic calculations: from uncovering fundamental limitations to discovering new materials." 

The 34th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Dresden, Germany). She will be presenting a lecture entitled: "Chirality and Topology".

The 33rd NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Kristian Sommer Thygesen, professor computational atomic-scale materials design at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He will be presenting a lecture entitled: "Emergent Properties in Flatland: When One Plus One is More than Two".

The 32nd NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Heather Kulik, professor of chemical engineering at the MIT. She will be discussing materials discovery in challenging spaces with machine learning, from transition metal complexes to metal-organic frameworks.

The 31st NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik, professor of chemistry and computer science at the University of Toronto, and entitled: "There is no time for science as usual: Materials Acceleration Platforms".

The 30th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Garnet Chan, professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He will be discussing the possibility of exponential quantum advantage in quantum chemistry.

The 29th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Sharon Glotzer, department chair of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, entitled "A theory of entropic bonding".

The 28th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Ingrid Mertig, professor of physics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg on "Transversal transport coefficients and topological properties".

The 27th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. John Perdew, Professor of physics and chemistry at Temple University on "More-predictive density functionals, symmetry breaking, and strong correlation"

The 26th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Alex Zunger, professor at the University of Colorado (Boulder, USA) on "Spontaneous symmetry breaking in nominal cubic oxide perovskites through structural, magnetic or dipolar degrees of freedom".

The 25th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Dr. Darío Gil, Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research on "The Era of Accelerated Materials Discovery".

The 24th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Georg Kresse, Professor of Computational Materials Physics at the University of Vienna – with a talk entitled: "Finite temperature properties with first principles accuracy, is machine learning the way to go?"

The 23rd NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Kristin Persson, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California Berkeley (USA) on "The Era of Data-Driven Materials Innovation and Design".

The 22nd NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Jens K. Nørskov, Professor of physics at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), on "Catalysis for sustainable production of fuels and chemicals".

The 21st NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Silvia Picozzi, Director of Research at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) at the Institute for Superconducting and Innovative materials and Devices (SPIN) in Chieti, Italy. Her lecture is entitled "Spin-orbit coupling: a small interaction leading to rich physics".

The 20th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture is given by Prof. Stefano Baroni, Professor of theoretical condensed-matter physics at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, on "Gauge invariance of heat and charge transport coefficients".

The 19th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture – also an EPFL campus lecture – will be given by Prof. Giulia Galli, University of Chicago, with whom we will be "Marveling at materials through in-silico lenses".

The 18th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Emily A. Carter, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University on "Quantum Simulations of Sustainable Energy Materials".

The 17th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Feliciano Giustino from the Department of Materials, University of Oxford, on "Electron-phonon physics from first principles".

Thursday September 6, 2018, 16:15 pm, EPFL, Room MXF1, Prof. Sally Price (University College London, UK), Can we predict how pharmaceuticals will crystallize?

Wednesday May 23, 2018, 16:15 pm, EPFL, Room MXF1, Prof. Raffaele Resta (Democritos, IOM-CNR, Trieste, Italy), Geometrical observables of the electronic ground state.

Tuesday February 20, 2018, 16:15 pm, EPFL, Room MXF1, Prof. Kieron Burke (University of California, Irvine), Machine-learning of density functionals for applications in molecules and materials

Thursday September 21, 2017, 16:15 pm, EPFL, Room SG 0211, Prof. Chris G. Van De Walle (University of California, Santa Barbara), Using the right criteria for design and discovery

Monday September 11, 2017, 16:15 pm, EPFL, Room MXF1,  Prof. Yang Shao-Horn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The Future of Electrochemistry

Friday July 21, 2017, 11:15 am, EPFL, Room MXF1, Prof.  Steven G. Louie (University of California at Berkeley), The Fascinating Quantum World of Two-dimensional Materials: Interaction and Topological Effects

Tuesday May 16, 2017, 4:15 pm, EPFL MXF-1,  Prof.  Annabella Selloni (Princeton University), Photocatalysis on TiO2: insights from simulations

Wednesday March 8, 2017, 4:15 pm, EPFL MXF-1,  Prof. Markus Reiher (ETH Zurich), Interactive and Automated Exploration of Reaction Mechanisms

Tuesday December 20, 2016, 5:15 pm, EPFL MXF-1,  Prof. Laura Gagliardi (University of Minnesota, USA), Homogenous and heterogeneous catalysis:  two challenges for modern quantum chemistry

Wednesday October 26, 2016, 5:15 pm, EPFL MXF-1,  Prof. Clare P. Grey (University of Cambridge, UK), Structure and Dynamics in Batteries, Supercapacitors and Fuel Cell Materials: Application of New Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Study Function

Monday January 25, 2016, 5:15 pm, EPFL MXF-1, with live broadcast at ETHZ HIT E51 auditorium, Prof. Gerbrand Ceder (University of California at Berkeley, USA), The Materials Genome and the Transformation of Materials Science and Engineering

Wednesday November 11, 2015, 4:15 pm, EPFL MXF-1, Dr. Pierre Villars (MPDS, Vitznau, Switzerland), The MARVEL Initiative and the Integration of the Fifth Paradigm of Science

Tuesday October 13, 2015, 4:15 pm, EPFL MXF-1, Prof. Leonid Levitov (MIT, Cambridge, USA), Atomic Collapse in graphene

Monday August 31, 2015, 4:15 pm, EPFL MXF-1, Prof. Sidney Yip (MIT, Cambridge, USA), On the Mesoscale Science Frontier in Materials Theory and Simulation

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 4:15 pm, EPFL ELA-1, Prof. Gustavo Scuseria (Rice University, USA), The strong correlation problem: A quantum chemistry perspective

Thursday 9 October 2014, 4:15 pm, EPFL MXF-1, Prof. Alex Zunger (University of Colorado, USA), The Inverse Problem in materials theory: Find the system that has a given target property