MIF Series

Past Talks

Date Speaker Title
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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