Talks
Here is an (incomplete) list of talks and poster presentations
2024-04. Dec 2024: “Imaginary Time Mean-Field and Shell Model on Quantum Computers”, 5th Gogny Conference, Paris, France (invited) slides
2024-03. Jun 2024: “Porting Sky3d to GPU”, DiRAC Hackathon, Edinburgh
2024-02. Apr 2024: “Variational Eigensolvers for Nuclear Structure”, University of New Brunswick online seminar (invited)
2024-01. Apr 2024: “Quantum Computing for Nuclear Structure”, IoP HEPP-APP-NP conference, Liverpool, UK (invited) slides
2023-04. June 2023: “Mo-100 monopole & quadrupole strength with triaxiality: A time-dependent density functional study”, COMEX7, Catania, Italy slides
2023-03. May 2023: “Jim Al-Khalili going nuclear”, Jim Al-Khalili 60th Birthday Symposium, Guildford, UK
2023-02. May 2023: “Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution for Nuclear Hatree-Fock”, QCQS, Lausanne, Switzerland
2023-01. February 2023: “Quantum Computing for Nuclear Physics”, Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics Engagement Event, Warwick, UK (invited)
2022-02. November 2022: “Quantum Computing for Nuclear Physics Research at the University of Surrey”, Quantum Computing for Many-Body problems (QCMB), Orsay, France (invited)
2022-01. November 2022: “Quantum Computing for Nuclear Structure Theory”, LISA_ITN School online.
2021-02. April 2021: “Calculated octupole spectra near Pb-208 with a time-depdendent method “ Institute of Physics joint APP, HEPP and NP conference, Edinburgh, UK (via Zoom)
2021-01. March 2021: “Time-dependent theory for octupole states around lead-208, University of Athens seminar, Athens, Greece (via Zoom, invited)
2020-02. November 2020: “Nuclear structure and reactions from a time-dependent approach, Recent Advances in Science and Technology (RAST-2020), Sarang, India (via Zoom)
2020-01. July 2020: “Mercury, the pear-shaped nucleus” IOPP Twitter Conference poster
2019-07. November 2019: “A time-dependent approach to nuclear reactions”, AWE plc, Aldermaston, UK (invited)
2019-06. November 2019: “Probing the Surface Energy via Nuclear Fusion Reactions”, UK Theory Meeting, Guildford, UK
2019-05. October 2019: “Time-dependent mean-field dynamics for fission”, Fission Future Workshop, York, UK (invited)
2019-04. September 2019: “Role of the surface energy on heavy-ion collisions”, HIAS-2019, Canberra, Australia pptx slides
2019-03. June 2019: “Effective interactions and heavy-ion collisions”, Peking Univeristy, Beijing, China (invited)
2019-02. June 2019: “Solitonic Nuclear Reactions and Solitonic Stars”, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (invited)
2018-01. March 2019: “Superheavy Dynamics with Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock”, Sakura-2019 Nuclear Fission and Structure of Exotic Nuclei, Tokai, Japan
2018-04. Nov 2018: “Role of Tensor Force in Magnetic Dipole Transitions in Cr-52”, COMEX6 conference, Cape Town, South Africa link
2018-03. Sep 2018: “The role of the effective interaction in Low-Energy Heavy-ion Collisions”, PKU-CUSTIPEN workshop, Beijing, China (invited)
2018-02. July 2018: “Nuclear collisions and resonances from time-dependent density-functional theory”, Low Energy Effective Dynamics with Skyrmions, LEEDS, UK (invited)
2018-01. May 2018: “Reactions for Toroidal Nuclei”, UK Nuclear Theory Meeting, Guildford, UK
2017-04. April 2017: “Fusion and Fission from Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock, Physics Division Colloquium, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee (invited)
2017-03. March 2017: “Nuclear collective motion in the mean field and beyond”, Seminar at Shanhai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (invited)
2017-02. March 2017: “Guildford Bright Club #12”, The Boileroom, Guildford, UK.
2017-01. Feb 2017: “Effective interaction effects in nuclear fusion” Fusion’17, Hobart, Australia
20. July 2016: “Effective Interaction Effects in Nuclear Dynamics, Nuclear Structure 2016, Knoxville, TN, USA
21. May 2016: “Effective Interaction Effects in Heavy-Ion Collisions, International Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics 2016, Xinxiang, China (invited)
22. Mar 2016: “Simulating Fast Fission”, Departmental Seminar, Nuclear Physics Department, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (invited)
23. Jan 2016: “The Time-Dependent Nuclear Mean-Field and its Astrophysical Applications”, Recent Trends in Nuclear Structure and its Implications in Astrophysics, Puri, India (invited)
24. Nov 2015: “Estimating Errors in Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock, ISNET-3 Workshop, Trento, Italy (invited)
25. Nov 2015: “Dynamics from Density Functionals”, 1st UK Nuclear Theory Meeting, Manchester, UK (invited)
26. Oct 2015: “Using Mean-field Dynamics to Understand Density Functionals”, YIPQS Long-term and Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial International workshop Computational Advances in Nuclear and Hadron Physics (CANHP 2015), Kyoto, Japan (invited)
27. Oct 2015: “Shapes and Dynamics from Skyrme-TDDFT”, Shapes and Dynamics of Atomic Nuclei: Contemporary spects (SDANCA-15), Sofia, Bulgaria (invited)
28. Sep 2015: “Dynamics of Low-Lying modes”, COMEX5, Crakow, Poland
29. Jul 2015: “Resonances and Reactions from Mean-field Dynamics”, International Conference on Nuclear Structure and Related Topics, Dubna, Russia (invited)
30. May 2015: “Exploring Gamma Ray Strength through Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock”, 5th Workshop on Nuclear Level Density and Gamma Strength, Oslo, Norway
31. Apr 2015: “Swatting the Fly in the Cathedral”, Departmental Colloquium, UMass, Lowell, MA, USA (invited)
32. Mar 2015: “Exploring Nuclear Dynamics with Sky3D”, IoP Particle, Astroparticle and Nuclear Physics Conference, Manchester, UK
33. Mar 2015: “Field Guide to the Isotopes”, University of Surrey Physsoc, Surrey, UK (invited)
34. Mar 2015: “Field Guide to the Isotopes”, U3A, Cheam, Surrey, UK (invited)
35. Jan 2015: “The Response to β-decay Using Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock” Workshop on Collective Mode Study Through Beta Decay, Nantes, France (invited)
36. Jan 2015: “Nuclear Physics in the UK: Now and the future” Nuclear Physics Community Meeting, Cosener’s House, Abingdon, UK (invited)
37. Oct 2014: “Nuclear Structure and Dynamics the Time-dependent Way”, seminar, UMass, Lowell, USA (invited)
38. Oct 2014: “Explorations of fission with TDHF”, FUSTIPEN meeting on Challenges in the Microscopic Description of Nuclear Large Amplitude Collective Motion, Caen, France (invited)
39. Sep 2014: “Nuclear Structure and Reactions with DiRAC”, DiRAC day, Durham, UK
40. Jul 2014: “The isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance as a probe of nuclear matter”, 4th International Symposium on the Nuclear Symmetry Energy NuSYM14, Liverpool, UK
41. Jun 2014: “Nuclear Dynamics with the Sky3D Code”, 33rd International Workshop on Nuclear Theory, Rila Mountains, Bulgaria
42. Apr 2014: “Mean-field dynamics for giant resonances and fusion reactions”, ORNL Physics Division Colloquium, Oak Ridge, TN, USA (invited)
43. Apr 2014: “Isotope Geology”, West Sussex Geological Society, Worthing, West Sussex, UK (invited)
44. Apr 2014: “Order and Disorder, London Interdisciplinary Discussion Group, DANA Centre, London, UK (invited) video
45. Apr 2014: “Chair’s Welcome Presentation”, Institute of Physics Nuclear Physics Conference, Croydon, Surrey, UK
46. Mar 2014: “Quantum Physics: A guide for the uncertain”, CAST, Sandridge, St Albans, UK (invited)
47. Feb 2014: “Role of the Skyrme tensor terms in fusion thresholds”, FUSION14, New Delhi, India
48. Jan 2014: “Giant Resonances as probes of nuclear interactions”, Physics with Large Arrays of Novel Scintillators, Dublin, Ireland (invited)
49. Jan 2014: “Where will nuclear theory be in ten years from now?”, Quo Vadis Nuclear Physics Community Meeting, Cosener’s House, Abingdon, UK (invited)
50. October 2013: “What has nuclear physics done for us?”, Chichester Science Group (invited)
51. August 2013: “Fitting and Testing Skyrme Forces”, ISNET Workshop: Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory, Glasgow, UK (invited)
52. July 2013: “Why is lead so kinky?”, Eurisol User Group Topical Meeting, Krakow, Poland (invited)
53. June 2013: “The continuum time-dependent Hartree-Fock method” 32nd International Workshop on Nuclear Theory, Rila Mountains, Bulgaria
54. June 2013: “The continuum time-dependent Hartree-Fock method”, International Nuclear Physics Conference, Florence, Italy
55. April 2013: “Shape Coexistence Input from the Mean Field”, York shape coexistence workshop, York, UK
56. April 2013: “Why is lead so kinky?”, Institute of Physics Nuclear Physics Conference, York, UK (invited)
57. January 2013: “Field Guide to the Isotopes” Epping Forest U3A, Theydon Bois, UK
58. January 2013: Guildford Bright Club #5, Bar des Arts, Guildford, UK video
59. December 2012: “What Has Nuclear Physics Done For Us?”, Science Cafe, Harlow, UK
60. June 2012: “Constraints on Skyrme Force Parameterisations”, 31st International Workshop on Nuclear Theory, Rila Mountains, Bulgaria
61. March 2012: The Universe from the Bottom Up, Plymouth Medical Society, Plymouth, UK (invited)
62. February 2012: Guildford Bright Club #1, Guildford, UK (invited) video
63. November 2011: “Particle Physics: What we do and don’t know”, Guildford County School, Guildford, UK (invited)
64. February 2011: “Isotope Geology”, Farnham Geological Society, Farnham, Surrey, UK (invited)
65. February 2007: “Recent results from Time-dependent Hartree-Fock”, WONP’07 – Workshop on Nuclear Physics, Havana, Cuba
66. November 2006: “Quantum tricriticality in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model”, 3rd Workshop on Shape Phase Transitions and Critical Point Phenomena in Nuclei, Athens, Greece
67. July 2004: invited talk, Sofia Workshop on Current Trends in Nuclear Structure, Sofia, Bulgaria
Other 2011 things: William Shatner program; talk at RIKEN; Rutherford Conference talk; Farnborough school talk; Charterhouse Teacher talk;
Things to add in 2010: I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here; Aylesbury teacher event; talk during Frankfurt visit; Manchester seminar; Glasgow 1-Day meeting; Farnborough moving-on day; BBC Radio Scotland; BA festival (Aston) on nuclear physics; Sheffield Outreach talk
Things to add in 2009: Mexico talk; Sherbourne Science Café; Berkshire HE conf; IoP Conf invited talk (bham); Finland Workshop; Dubrovnik conference; St Andrews invited talk; York teachers event; Sittingbourne talk; Kent school talk; Charterhouse talk; BA Festival Surrey (2 talks - nuclear physics & Dalton-Darwin); Varna conference talk
Things to add in 2008: Trento plenary talk; Uckfield school (Teachers TV); Peter Symonds; Paisley open-systems workshop; Birmingham seminar; Surrey nuclear sizes & shapes symposium (June); Farnborough school talk; Gosport outreach talk