This year's Erskine Williamson Day takes place on 19 May 2026. To celebrate the diverse activities across CSEC, there will be talks covering several of our research themes, including materials, Earth and fusion sciences. Many PhD students and postdocs will also showcase their work in a poster session.
Programme
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9:50 |
Welcome — Ingo Loa, Director of CSEC |
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10:00 |
Tetsuya Komabayashi Thermodynamic modelling of Earth's core composition |
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10:30 |
Andreas Hermann First-principles calculations of planetary ices at high pressures and temperatures |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Tea and coffee break |
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11:30 |
Simon Parsons Thermodynamics of compression in molecular solids |
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12:00 |
George Serghiou New materials landscapes |
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12:30 |
Sean Injac New materials and novel reactivities from solid state chemistry under pressure |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
Miriam Peña Alvarez Metal polyhydrides |
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14:30 |
Ilka Schmueser Chemistry of tritium breeding and extraction for fusion reactor breeding blanket concepts |
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15:00 – 15:10 |
Group photo |
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15:10 – 16:00 |
Poster session and refreshments |
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16:00 |
Stewart McWilliams Exploring nuclear fusion materials at nuclear fusion conditions: CSEC’s past, present, and future |
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16:30 |
Andy Mount Fusion systems research at Edinburgh |
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17:00 |
Closing remarks |