This year's Erskine Williamson Day will take place on 27 May 2025 under the theme Exploring Extremes, Building Bridges.
9:50 – 10:00 |
Welcome Address — Ingo Loa, Interim Director of CSEC |
10:00 – 10:30 |
Willem Vanderlinden (SoPA) HIV infection: challenges and opportunities in the host cell |
10:30 – 11:00 |
Stewart Gault (SoPA) Living under pressure: a biological future for CSEC |
11:00 – 11:30 |
Coffee break |
11:30 – 12:00 |
Simon Parsons (SoC) Behaviour of occupied and void space in molecular crystal structures at high pressure |
12:00 – 12:30 |
Carole Morrison (SoC) Finding heterogeneous nucleating agents for phase change materials: a data-driven approach |
12:30 – 13:00 |
Neil Robertson (SoC) Pressure-switchable molecular semiconductors |
13:00 – 14:30 |
Lunch and posters |
14:30 – 15:00 |
Miguel Martinez-Canales (SoPA) Modelling matter in the GPa to TPa regime |
15:00 – 15:30 |
Andrew Huxley (SoPA) Charge density wave order and superconductivity |
15:30 – 15:50 |
Ian Butler (SoG) 4D X-ray microtomography – new insights into geological processes |
15:50 – 16:30 |
Group picture and coffee break |
16:30 – 17:00 |
Filipe Teixeira-Dias (SoE) The collision chronicles: from sports fields to cosmic shields |
17:00 – 17:30 |
Malcolm McMahon (SoPA) Extreme conditions science using the world’s brightest X-ray sources |
18:30 – 21:00 |
Dinner at St Trinnean's Dining Room, St Leonards Hall, Pollock Halls |
Venues
CSEC Seminar Room for presentations
CSEC Reading Room for Lunch and coffee
St Trinnean's Room, St Leonards Hall, Pollock Halls for dinner