Events

Erskine Williamson Day 2025

 

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

Location 

CSEC

Date 

Tuesday, 27 May 2025