As the third poster prize won by a FAST group member this year — congrats to Joe, whose poster on machine learning potentials for realistic nanoporous carbons (depicted below) wowed the judges at the AiMat Summer School! The AiMat “Machine Learning for Molecules” Summer School was held at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from 14 to […]
Following up from Willem’s achievement back in April, we are proud to say that Isaac has also won a poster prize at the joint TYC–LJC MMM Conference, with his poster titled “False Metallization in Short-Ranged Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials” — congratulations! The 2nd joint Thomas Young Centre and Lennard–Jones Centre Materials and Molecular Modelling Conference […]
As a farewell to Lucas’s all-too-short visit, the FAST group headed out yet again to the punts — but this time, to race up and down the River Cam as quickly as possible — and do some sightseeing along the way. We also had a formal dinner at Gonville & Caius College last week, with […]
Congratulations to Willem, who won the poster prize at the CCP9 Conference and Community Meeting for his poster on the defect dynamics in Ice Ih, depicted below — well done! The CCP9 Meeting was held in Liverpool from 21 to 24 April 2026. Amongst the FAST group members, besides Willem, the meeting was also attended […]
A warm welcome to our newest batch of PhD students: Willem Farmilo and Joe Hart, who both joined in October 2025, and Thenmozhi Elango (part-time PhD), who was transferred into our group in February this year. Willem will be studying hydrogen bond networks in ice systems, with a view towards the diffusivity of hydrogen bonding […]
Niamh O’Neill undertook her viva today, and passed with minor corrections — many congratulations to Dr. O’Neill! During her tenure with the FAST group, Niamh’s research focused on studying ion paring interactions at chemical accuracy and beyond, as well as scaling coupled cluster calculations for high-accuracy condensed phase simulations. She will be starting a postdoc […]
Sam G.H. Brookes undertook his viva today morning, and passed with minor corrections — many congratulations to Dr. Brookes! Sam represents the first ever PhD student to graduate from the FAST group, setting a trend for future FAST members to follow! Pictured below is Sam and his “PhD hat” (built by his fellow ICE group […]
We had a great time in Lausanne for the 7th Psi-k conference, held at the SwissTech Convention Centre, EPFL across 25 to 28 August 2025, with a week full of interesting talks, insightful discussions, and wonderful science! Thank you to the Psi-k organising committee for the excellent event, we very much enjoyed keeping up-to-date with […]
To celebrate Lars’s successful PhD viva, the FAST group headed out to the punts to drift lazily down the River Cam (after all, what better way is there to study water, than to simply float on it?). Much fun was had, with a few of us taking turns to push the really big stick around […]
We decided to take advantage of the great weather, and held a (veggie-friendly) BBQ party at Wolfson College! Some good fun was also had afterwards throwing/kicking a ball around. Congrats to Darren, Joe, and Steffen for recently completing their halfway reports & presentations for the MPhil!