MARVEL Distinguished Lectures
A series of Distinguished Lectures sponsored by NCCR MARVEL, bringing high-profile researchers in contact with the MARVEL community. These lectures take place either at EPFL or in one of the other participating institutions.
41. Calculations of excited electronic states using saddle point searches
Date: November 11, 2025
Description: The 41st NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Hannes Jónsson (University of Iceland). He will be presenting a lecture entitled: Calculations of excited electronic states using saddle point searches and self-interaction corrected density functionals, with comparison to neural-network selective configuration interaction.
40. Realizing Schrödinger's dream with AI-enabled molecular simulations
Date: March 6, 2025
Description: The 40th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko, University of Luxembourg. He will be presenting a lecture entitled: 'Realizing Schrödinger's dream with AI-enabled molecular simulations'
39. How the future of science may look: AI and autonomous laboratories for materials synthesis.
Date: January 30, 2025
Description: The 39th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Gerbrand Ceder (University of California, Berkeley). He will be presenting a lecture entitled: 'How the future of science may look: AI and autonomous laboratories for materials synthesis'.
38. Grain boundaries are natural Brownian ratchets: directional GB anisotropy.
Date: June 26, 2024
Description: The 38th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong. He will be presenting a lecture entitled: 'Grain boundaries are natural Brownian ratchets: directional GB anisotropy'.
37. MemComputing: when memory becomes a computing tool.
Date: May 2, 2024
Description: The 37th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Massimiliano Di Ventra, University of California, San Diego. He will be presenting a lecture entitled: 'MemComputing: when memory becomes a computing tool'
36. Ab-initio Green's functions methods for molecules and solids.
Date: April 18, 2024
Description: The 36th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Dominika Zgid, University of Michigan. She will be presenting a lecture entitled: 'Ab-initio Green's functions methods for molecules and solids. What accuracy can we reach?'
35. Advancing the state of the art in semiconductor technology through predictive atomistic calculations: from uncovering fundamental limitations to discovering new materials.
Date: June 20, 2023
Description: The 35th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Emmanouil Kioupakis, University of Michigan. He will be presenting a lecture entitled: 'Advancing the state of the art in semiconductor technology through predictive atomistic calculations: from uncovering fundamental limitations to discovering new materials.'
34. Chirality and Topology
Date: May 2, 2023
Description: The 34th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Dresden, Germany). She will be presenting a lecture entitled: 'Chirality and Topology'.
33. Emergent Properties in Flatland: When One Plus One is More than Two
Date: March 23, 2023
Description: The 33rd NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Kristian Sommer Thygesen, professor computational atomic-scale materials design at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He will be presenting a lecture entitled: 'Emergent Properties in Flatland: When One Plus One is More than Two'
32. Materials discovery in challenging spaces with machine learning
Date: December 13, 2022
Description: The 32nd NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Heather Kulik, professor of chemical engineering at the MIT. She will be discussing materials discovery in challenging spaces with machine learning, from transition metal complexes to metal-organic frameworks.
7. Structure and dynamics in batteries, supercapacitors and fuel cell materials
Date: October 26, 2016
Description: Application of new experimental and theoretical approaches to study function.
2. The strong correlation problem: A quantum chemistry perspective
Date: January 14, 2015
Description: This talk addresss issues when dealing with strongly correlated systems. This lecture was not recorded for more details view the profile link.
1. The Inverse Problem in materials theory: Find the system that has a given target property
Date: October 9, 2014
Description: Alex Zunger discusses whether Materials discovery by declarative property searching is feasible. This lecture was not recorded for more details view the profile link.