Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

The Ertl Lecture Award was established in 2008 by the three Berlin universities (Humboldt University, Technical University and Free University) and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and is awarded once a year. It commemorates former FHI Director Gerhard Ertl's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he received in 2007. The prize honours outstanding personalities and researchers in the field of catalysis where Ertl carried out exceptional research for many decades. The prize, sponsored by BASF, includes a one-week research stay at the participating Berlin institutions and a keynote lecture. The winner is typically announced in Spring, the lecture takes place around the December 10th, the anniversary of Ertl's Nobel Prize reception.

Machine Learning (ML) for Simulating Complex Energy Materials with Non-Crystalline Structures

• TH Department Online Seminar
• Date: Jun 23, 2022
• Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Nongnuch Artrith
• Materials Chemistry and Catalysis, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Location: https://zoom.us/j/94714507046?pwd=ak16cG9leDE3cnMxZ1BCeXhsZ3BnZz09
• Room: Meeting ID: 947 1450 7046 | Passcode: 535637
• Host: TH Department

Many materials with applications in energy materials, e.g., catalysis or batteries are non-crystalline with amorphous structures, chemical disorder, and complex compositions, which makes the direct modelling with first principles methods challenging. To address this challenge, we developed accelerated sampling strategies based on ML potentials, genetic algorithms, and molecular-dynamics simulations. [more]