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SUMMARY:LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computatio
 nal window on materials - Professor Chris Pickard\, Sir Alan Cottrell Prof
 essor of Materials Science\, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:Modern methods for computing the properties of realistic mater
 ials from first principles (starting from quantum mechanics) have resulted
  in robust\, efficient\, and easy to use computer codes.\n\nWith with the 
 explosion of available computational resources\, and increasingly\, machin
 e learning\, it has become possible to search though the vast space of com
 positions and arrangements of atoms to “discover” new materials with e
 xtreme properties\, or under extreme and experimentally difficult to acces
 s conditions.\n\nExamples range from the computational prediction of super
 conductors with very high superconducting transition temperatures\, which 
 at least in some cases have been confirmed experimentally\, to the predict
 ion of the behaviour of matter in the centre of giant planets\, or even wh
 ite dwarf stars.
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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