MIF Series

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Date	Speaker	Title
28 Apr 2026   14:00	Thomas D. Grant SUNY University at Buffalo, US	Describing small-angle scattering profiles by a limited set of intensities.
Previous talks
26 Mar 2026   14:00	Helen Wilson / Gabriela Czanner / Erica Flapan / Yulia Gel UCL / Southampton / Pomona College / Virginia Tech	Women in interdisciplinary sciences
24 Mar 2026   14:00	Laura Gardiner IBM Research, UK	Harnessing Multi?Omics Foundation Models to Accelerate Biomedical Discovery.
18 Mar 2026   14:30	Daniel Widdowson MIF	The Crystal Geomap visualises materials databases in real time.
18 Mar 2026   14:00	Vitaliy Kurlin MIF	Resolving the data ambiguity for periodic crystals.
17 Mar 2026   13:00	Janos Pach Rényi Institute, Budapest and EPFL, Lausanne	On the distribution of distances: Quo vadis?
10 Mar 2026   14:00	Gil Alon Open University of Israel	Continuous symmetry measures of molecules and crystals.
03 Mar 2026   14:00	Julie Rowlett Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden	Isospectrality and Moduli Spaces.
24 Feb 2026   14:00	Lauren Porter National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, US	Looking inside AlphaFold�s black box.
17 Feb 2026   14:00	Alexey Garber University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, US	Lattices, Parallelohedra, and the Voronoi Conjecture.
10 Feb 2026   14:00	Dave Braines CTO Emerging Technology, IBM Research, UK	Harnessing Foundation Models for Materials and Chemistry with a sustainability use case.
03 Feb 2026   14:00	Oleg Karpenkov Mathematical Sciences	Geometry of continued fractions.
27 Jan 2026   14:00	Egon Schulte Northeastern University, US	Local Theory in Delone Sets and Tilings.
16 Dec 2025   13:00	Alex Hernandez-Garcia University of Montreal and Mila Institute, Canada	Generative modelling and active learning for scientific discoveries.
12 Dec 2025   15:00	Wolfgang Hornfeck Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences	Chiral Spiral Cyclic Twins.
09 Dec 2025   14:00	Gábor Domokos Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary	Natural tilings and the geometry of soft cells.
28 Nov 2025   13:00	Daniel Widdowson MIF	Visualising crystal structures from the ICSD by the Crystal Geomap.
21 Nov 2025   15:00	Mikkel Juelsholt Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany	Continued Challenges in High-Throughput Materials Predictions
14 Nov 2025   15:00	Lauren McHugh Chemistry	Metal?Organic Frameworks: From Structure to Function.
07 Nov 2025   15:00	Shannon Bernier Johns Hopkins University, US	A Crystallographic Metric for Continuous Quantification of Unit Cell Deformation.
31 Oct 2025   15:00	Olga Anosova Computer Science	Thousands of exact duplicates in high-profile structural databases.
24 Oct 2025   15:00	Felix Therrien Mila Institute, Montreal, Canada	Accelerating Materials Discovery with Application-Focused Machine Learning.
17 Oct 2025   15:00	Vitaliy Kurlin MIF	The discontinuity challenge of cell-based representations of crystals.
10 Oct 2025   15:00	Vitaliy Kurlin MIF	Invariants of molecules, including proteins.
03 Oct 2025   15:00	Vitaliy Kurlin MIF	Equivalences between molecules, including proteins.
26 Sep 2025   15:00	Tanaporn Na Narong Columbia University, US	Determining Local Structure from X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectra with Diffusion Models.

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