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Events at the Henry Royce Institute

And from around the Materials Community

SEMI Talent Forum
01
May

01 May 2024
9:00 am - 6:00 pm

The SEMI Talent Forum is the premier platform for university students to learn about the microelectronics industry and how technology is impacting the global workforce​.


Event Type: Student Engagement


Lead Partner:none


Location: The Great Hall

Hydrogen Materials Challenges Short Course
07
May

07 May 2024 - 10 May 2024
All Day

Cranfield University presents the first UK Hydrogen fundamentals and Material Challenges short course, aimed to both industrial delegates and students.


Event Type: Workshop


Lead Partner:none

The Advanced Materials Show 2024
15
May

15 May 2024 - 16 May 2024
All Day

The Advanced Materials Show is a showcase of materials with exceptional properties for engineering and electronic applications, along with the technologies used to develop them.


Event Type: Conference


Lead Partner:none


Location: The NEC

The Digital Materials and Metals Manufacturing 2024 Conference
15
May

15 May 2024 - 16 May 2024
All Day

This opening outreach sandpit event, dedicated to promoting outreach practices to engage with historical metal tools belonging to the Hawley collection at the Kelham Island Museum (Sheffield), sponsored by Outreach at Royce. 


Event Type: Workshop


Lead Partner:none


Location: The Cutlers’ Hall

Royce Training: Ion Beam Irradiation and Characterisation - Best Practice II
22
May

22 May 2024 - 23 May 2024
All Day

Hosted at the Royce Hub Building in Manchester, this course explores procedures and techniques for the planning, preparation, and running of ion irradiation and characterisation experiments.


Event Type: Royce Training


Lead Partner:none


Location: Royce Hub Building

An End-to-End Framework for FAIR Data in Experimental Materials Tribology
22
May

22 May 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

This workshop presents a software framework and a workflow built to expand a prior proof-of-concept and to turn it into a daily lab routine. Its purpose is to enable the generation, storage, and analysis of FAIR datasets in the field of materials tribology, as well as materials science in general.


Event Type: Online Workshop


Lead Partner:none

Carbon Science and Technology: Early Career Researchers Meeting
04
June

04 June 2024
All Day

The British Carbon Group is pleased to invite you to their latest event – a day of early career oral and poster presentations at the Royce Hub Building, University of Manchester, UK at 10:00 4th June 2024.


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Lead Partner:University of Manchester


Location: Royce Hub Building

Cheltenham Science Festival 2024
04
June

04 June 2024 - 06 June 2024
All Day

In June Discover Materials will be back at the amazing Cheltenham Science Festival where we will be running a workshop and participating in a careers panel session.


Event Type: Outreach


Lead Partner:none

Roadmapping for strategic navigation and alignment
05
June

05 June 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Stand Out Skills is a webinar series for early career researchers working in materials science disciplines. Hosted by experts, each episode explores presentation, communication, or career skills for researchers which aren’t normally taught as a part of established education pathways for materials scientists.


Event Type: Virtual Workshop


Lead Partner:none

Thermo-Calc User Group Meeting - Sheffield 2024
11
June

11 June 2024 - 12 June 2024
All Day

The University of Sheffield are happy to welcome Thermo-Calc software users to a User Group Meeting in Sheffield, UK.  The purpose of this meeting is to offer a space for exchanging ideas and experiences within the field of CALPHAD-type thermodynamics and kinetics, all within a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.


Event Type: Meeting


Lead Partner:none

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Graphene Conference 2023
27 June 2023 - 30 June 2023    
12:00 am
The 13th edition of Graphene Conference series, the largest European Event in Graphene and 2D Materials, will be organised in-person in Manchester (UK): June 27-30, 2023. Over the past editions, the Graphene Conference strengthened its position as the main in-person meeting point of the Graphene community Worldwide.
Advanced Materials Show 2023
28 June 2023 - 29 June 2023    
All Day
The Advanced Materials Show provides a truly unique, free-to-attend exhibition and conference that brings together a highly focused audience, all involved in the research, production, purchasing or integration of advanced materials technology including Graphene & 2D Materials, Composites, Polymers, Coatings, and Ceramics.
Stand Out Skills Webinar | 3D Scientific Visualisation with Blender
28 June 2023    
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Learn how to use Blender to start your workflow towards data visualisation and rendering in 3D with Dr Brian Kent in the second episode of our new Stand Out Skills webinar series. Stand Out Skills is a new webinar series for early career researchers working in materials science disciplines. Hosted by experts, each episode will explore useful presentation, communication, or career skills for researchers which aren’t typically taught as a part of traditional education pathways for materials scientists.
UKAEA RadIAEM Opening & workshop on characterisation of Radiation Damage
29 June 2023 - 01 July 2023    
All Day
This opening event, hosted by UKAEA's Materials Research Facility (MRF), will celebrate the EPSRC-NNUF-funded Radioactive In situ Analytical Electron Microscope dedicated for β/γ active materials (RadIAEM).
Resilience in Socio-Environmental Systems Workshop
29 June 2023    
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
This workshop, run jointly by the Resilient Futures and Inclusive and Prosperous Futures Challenge Areas, seeks to bring together UoM researchers from across a range of disciplines to share and discuss research to understand and enhance resilience of people and nature to environmental change in different areas around the world.
How to enhance the functionalities of surfaces using laser-based manufacturing methods
29 June 2023    
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
A webinar demonstrating the potential for rapidly and precisely tailoring material surface microstructures and topographies on industrially relevant scales.
Uranium Science Conference 2023
05 July 2023 - 07 July 2023    
All Day
An international conference for interdisciplinary discussion, exciting uranium-centred presentations, and the opportunity for our academic community to meet and collaborate online. The forefront of modern uranium research will be showcased through a mixed program of plenary speakers, presentations, and poster sessions. We look forward to seeing familiar faces and to meeting new members of our growing network of uranium science researchers at our next edition.
Combining machine learning & physics/chemistry modelling in materials R&D
06 July 2023    
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
In this Intellegens webinar, we will share the results of a project that developed a framework allowing such methods to be combined, including case studies of the integration of Alchemite™ ML with CALPHAD to understand the behaviour of different phases in an alloy, and of molecular descriptors calculated from SMILES strings to study surfactants.
Symposium on Fusion Engineering 2023 Oxford
09 July 2023 - 13 July 2023    
All Day
The UK Atomic Energy Authority invites you to Oxford for the 30th Symposium on Fusion Engineering. The University of Oxford is one of the world’s most prestigious academic institutions and will be the venue for SOFE23. The conference will combine a first-class programme, with events in the city and a tour of the UKAEA facilities.
EPSRC and SFI Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Metallic Systems Summer School
12 July 2023 - 14 July 2023    
All Day
Learn the foundational skills of entrepreneurial and innovation methodology from industry specialist in this unique 3-day course for engineering doctoral researchers. The EPSRC and SFI Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Metallic funding includes delivery of a series of Summer Schools, offering intensive training to doctoral researchers in topics pertinent to the grand challenges in engineering manufacturing. The 2023 Summer School introduced Industry 4.0, and this year's theme is Entrepreneurship and Innovation; a topic often overlooked during doctoral research, but is a key employability enabler and skill-set.
UK Colloids 2023
17 July 2023 - 19 July 2023    
All Day
UK Colloids 2023 is jointly organised by the RSC’s Colloid and Interface Science Group and the SCI’s Colloid and Surface Science Group and will provide a perfect opportunity for UK and international researchers interested in colloid and interface science to meet, present and discuss issues related to current developments in this field.
Advanced Metallic Systems PGR Conference
18 July 2023 - 19 July 2023    
All Day
The Postgraduate Research Conference in Metallic Materials aims to give postgraduate researchers the opportunity to hone their talents at presenting to national and international audiences in a warm and welcoming environment. This year the conference is hosted at The Edge at the University of Sheffield, with a conference dinner at The Mowbray at Kelham Island, the heart of Sheffield's industrial heritage. 
Bluedot 2023
20 July 2023 - 23 July 2023    
All Day
The Henry Royce Institute's Marvellous Materials stand will explore the fascinating world of materials science!
Prestigious Lecture and Panel - Chris Stark (CEO, Climate Change Committee)
25 July 2023    
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Chris Stark, CEO of the Climate Chance Committee UK, will be presenting a Keynote talk followed by an engaging panel discussion with a range of experts.
Royce Student Summit: Electronic and Photonic Materials
26 July 2023    
All Day
Royce Student Summits present the opportunity for the UK Materials PhD and EngD community to come together to share ideas, network and learn more about transitioning from doctoral study to the next steps on the career ladder.    This year, we are delighted to host a Student Summit focused around Royce research area Atoms to Devices at the Sir William Henry Bragg Building within The University of Leeds on 26 July 2023. 
Stand Out Skills Webinar | Writing Academic CVs: What You Need to Know
27 July 2023    
10:00 am - 11:00 am
In the third episode of our Stand Out Skills Webinar Series, Jess Popplewell, Careers Consultant at Imperial College London, will walk you through the process of composing an academic CV and making sure that it helps you stand out from the crowd.   Stand Out Skills is a new webinar series for early career researchers working in materials science disciplines. Hosted by experts, each episode will explore useful presentation, communication, or career skills for researchers which aren’t typically taught as a part of traditional education pathways for materials scientists.
A Variable Hardness PVD Coating - A Paradigm Shift For Running-In
27 July 2023    
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Rings & liners must run-in before reaching optimum performance & oil control. A top softer run-in coating is better for removing asperities and gives optimum surfaces after which a lower harder durable coating is best. This webinar will discuss ways for optimising this through creating a dual lining.
Sustainable Futures Early Career Researcher Event
28 July 2023    
12:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Sustainable Futures is developing a network for Early Career Research (ECR) staff. This workshop aims to promote this network, which hopes to develop interdisciplinary, cross faculty relationships that can lead to new perspectives on research.
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