Surface Physics Seminar


2025-08-05 14:00: Surface Visualization of Bacterial Biofilms using Neutral Atom Microscopy (Professor Paul Dastoor, University of Newcastle)

2025-08-12 14:00: Helium Spin Echo – An Open Quantum System (Matthew Ord, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2025-08-19 14:00: Thermodynamics, phonon occupation numbers, and their measurements by helium spin echo (Dr Boyao Liu, Cavendish Laboraroty, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-14 15:30: Summer project presentation (Zixuan Chai, Joseph Morris, William Royce, and Ben Collishaw Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-21 13:30: Journal Club: Diffraction of helium and hydrogen atoms through single-layer graphene (Boyao Liu, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-28 15:30: Simulations in a Dynamic Basis (Matthew Ord, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-07 14:00: Journal Club: Electric Field Effect Tuning of Electron-Phonon Coupling in Graphene (Boyao Liu, Cavendish Laboratory)

2025-11-11 14:00: From the beginning of the universe to the theory of everything: A brief history of Quantum Field Theory. (Field theory in Surface Physics series 1) (Min Lin, Cavedish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-18 13:40: SHeM for Battery Materials Characterisation: Insights Inspired by H-Si(111) (Ke Wang, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-25 14:00: Characterizing a Quantum Environment (Matthew Ord, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2025-12-02 14:00: Using AI for instrument development and digital sandbox (Ke Wang, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2025-12-09 14:00: Quantitative Reconstruction of Low Aspect Ratio MoS₂ Bubbles via Specular Contrast (Chenyang Zhao, Cavendish Laboratory)

2026-01-20 14:00: Density Functional Theory: Fundamental Principles and Applications (Min Lin, Cavendish Laboratory)

2026-01-27 14:00: Journal club: High resolution neutron Larmor diffraction using superconducting magnetic Wollaston prisms (Boyao Liu, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-03 14:00: Quantum Simulations of Ballistic Motion (Matthew Ord, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-10 14:00: Measurement of electrical currents (Bill Allison, Cavendish Lab)

2026-03-24 14:00: Mechanical characterisation of materials using Virtual Fields Method (Vivian Perez, Cavendish Laboratory)

2026-03-31 14:00: Investigating the optically silent phonons in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) (Aleksandar Radić, Cavendish Laboratory)