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Thursday 9th July 2026BMS Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of CambridgeOur 2nd joint Thomas Young Centre and Lennard-Jones Centre conference focused on materials and molecular modelling. This event offered opportunities to early career researchers, for learning, collaboration, and community building through talks, p…

We are pleased to announce three Payne Studentships for undergraduate summer research projects across our community in Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Engineering, and beyond. These studentships are made possible by a donation from Mike Payne — a founding figure in UK computational materials science and key developer of CASTEP — to support t…

 Introducing Prof. Erin Johnson! The LJC is pleased to welcome Prof. Erin Johnson, the Lennard-Jones Centre and Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Professor. Erin visits us from Dalhousie University, where she is the Herzberg-Becke Chair in Theoretical Chemistry.On Wednesday, Erin gave an exciting seminar on her group's research into the exchange-hole …

 The LJC extends a warm welcome to everyone to the new academic year.The different working groups of the Centre have worked hard over the past months to provide a diverse and exciting set of events this year, including an Inaugural LJC Meeting in September. This is to stimulate the main goals of the LJC to bring together the molecular and materials…

The first ever LJC Student Day occurred today. The Student Day was set up to showcase the brilliant work of the students in the form of a set of presentations and poster; we saw an excellent set of presentations showcasing the wide range of research occurring within the mateirals and molecular modelling within the systems. The day was wrapped up wi…

Thanks to Bartomeu Monserrat, the recordings of the LJC Discussion Group will be made available from this term on.Note that not all talks will be recorded as some speakers will cover unpublished results, so remember to tune in.The DG organisers

The relaunch of the Lennard-Jones Centre is going to be officially announced during a Welcome Event on Thursday, the 21st of October, from 4-6pm. The venue is West Cafe, including its outdoor patio.If you plan to attend, please use this link to sign up by Friday the 15th. There will be catered snacks and sweets, as well as a range of beverages. The…

The Lennard-Jones Centre (LJC) was established with the aim of bringing together those across different departments across Cambridge with an interest in materials modelling. In recent times, however, its activities have not reflected the strength and depth of research in this area within the University: this is set to change.From 4th October, a new…

A small team including Angelos Michaelides, Chris Pickard, Gabor Csanyi, Stephen Cox, Robert Jack, Chuck Witt and Christoph Schran has started in the last month to give new life to the Lennard-Jones Centre.Details are expected to follow in due course.