On Friday, December 16th, an inter-departmental Centre for Computational Materials Science will be inaugurated.
"Materials" in this context should be interpreted broadly: it covers everything from living matter to hard steel. The new Centre will be named after Sir John Lennard-Jones, who held Cambridge's first Chair in Theoretical Chemistry. Computational groups in Physics, Materials Science, Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry will participate in the Centre.
The Lennard-Jones Centre for Computational Materials Science will be inaugurated with a small meeting in the Unilever Lecture Theatre (4:30 pm).
The programme will be:
1. A brief biographical sketch of Lennard-Jones by Prof Haroon Ahmed
2. Award of the first honorary membership of the Centre to Prof Volker Heine, who will give a short talk on the history of electronic structure calculations at the Cavendish.
Daan Frenkel & Mike Payne