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The 2026 session of CSP2A aims to introduce two powerful methods for finding the global (and local) minima of a potential energy surface, an evolutionary algorithm and an ab initio random generator.Dr. Peter Cooke was invited to give a lecture on Machine-learned Potentials in AIRSS. Dr. Maélie Caussé was invited to present the "Search for supercond…

Kieran Bozier was invited to give a seminar at the University of Linköping, entitled "Accelerating the search of superconductivity". He visited the group of Dr. Florian Trybel. 

William Galloway attended the Joint ICTP MARVEL College: Materials simulations in the age of AI, in Trieste in June.The aim of the summer school was to bring together graduate students and early-career researchers to learn the state-of-the-art for computational materials science in the age of AI.link: https://indico.ictp.it/event/11146

Prof. Bartomeu Monserrat and Maélie Caussé were invited to give a talk at the CECAM Flagship Workshop, "Theoretical Realisation of Quantum Phenomena in Computational Materials Discovery", at CECAM-HQ in Lausanne. This workshop was an opportunity to bring together researchers working on advanced methods for quantum materials and those in the high-th…

Congratulations to Gleda Ho (Part III Materials) and Joe Greer (Part III Physics) who both completed their final year at Cambridge and their research project in the MTG !Gleda and Joe presented their results at a poster session held in the Materials department (Gleda) and the Physics department (Joe). Gleda worked on the ionic properties of a promi…

Kieran Bozier and Maélie Caussé attended the CCP9 Conference in April in Liverpool and presented both a poster on their latest published results. Maélie won the Best Poster Prize.

During his visit to Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Prof. Chris Pickard played a leading role in a symposium on AI for materials discovery (https://www.ntu.edu.sg/mse/news-events/events/detail/2026/01/26/flagship/ai-for-materials-discovery-symposium?utm_medium=event&utm_source=linkedin&trk=public_post_comment-text)

Will Galloway has joined the MTG as a new PhD student in October. Dr. JiuYang Shi will collaborate with MTG, he is a postdoc in Prof. Angelos Michaelides group.

Dr. Ryuhei Sato (Assistant Professor at Tokyo University) and Dr. Maélie Caussé attended the 2025 AIRAPT Conference.

Dr. Ruyhei Sato from Tokyo University and Tim Kamsam (PhD student in Utrecht University in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics) visited Material Theory Group this summer for few months !Picture of the MTG (from left to right: Dr. Ruyhei Sato, Kim Kamsma, Dr. Maélie Caussé, Prof. Chris Pickard, Dr. Stefano Racioppi, Kieran Bozier and Dr. Peter Cooke…

MTG group leader Chris Pickard was featured on the American Scientist podcast this month. Access the podcast using this link to hear Chris discuss a range of topics, from future research directions of the group, to pondering structures of solid hydrogen in the Scottish sand dunes.

The first edition CS2PA workshop, a series of hands-on tutorials on Crystal Structure Prediction & Machine-learned potentials was held in Poitiers University (France), (see program of CS2PA)MTG leader Chris Pickard and Dr. Peter Cooke presented the AIRSS/EDDP  of Pr. Chris Pickard et al. during the workshop. Four hands-on tutorial were also given b…

Dr. Pascal Salzbrenner completed his PhD on High-throughput Ab Initio Phase Diagram Prediction in 2025.

The Materials Theory Group was well represented at the Gordon Research at High Pressure Conference in Holderness, New Hampshire, from 14-19 July. This year, the conference was chaired by our group leader, Prof. Chris Pickard.The program covered a wide range of topics, this year focusing on Exploring Matter Beyond Equilibrium. Scientists from around…