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Join us in Coventry, 9-11 September 2025, for our next annual Faraday Institution Conference!

The Faraday Institution are delighted to invite you to attend our Annual Conference 2025. This year’s event is hosted by the University of Warwick, taking place Tuesday 9 to Thursday 11 September, and we're expecting over 500 attendees to participate in our largest science dissemination conference to date. We aim to once again convene the electrochemical energy storage community of academics, industry organisations, policy makers and funders once again from the UK and internationally. The invite is open to all working within this innovative community.

The conference theme for 2025 is "Energising the UK Battery Ecosystem" with a programme curated to disseminate the latest battery research from around the world and raise the visibility of UK scientific excellence in energy storage. In particular, we'll be shining a spotlight on partnership and collaboration, bridging the interface between academia, industry and policy for a net zero future. Keynote speakers include Professor Sir Stanley Whittingham, 2019 Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry, and Professor Shirley Meng from University of Chicago. 

Our call for abstracts closes soon, Monday 24^th March at 23:59 GMT. We're looking for abstracts for posters and talks to help shape our programme - you can submit abstracts for one or more of the themes below:

• Active Materials & Supply Chain
• Advanced Characterisation & Degradation
• Advances in Recycling & Reuse
• Battery Modelling
• Battery Safety & Abuse
• Electrode Manufacturing
• New Battery Chemistries & Interfaces

Held across 3 days, it will encompass multiple parallel sessions, poster sessions, exhibition stands, ample networking opportunities and more. We hope to see you there!

Register. Submit an abstract for a talk or poster (closes 24 March).

Mark your calendars! The European Research & Innovation (R&I) Days 2025 will take place on 16–17 September 2025 at The Square in Brussels. The sixth edition of this flagship event of the European Commission will bring together policymakers, researchers, business leaders and the wider innovation community to discuss how research and innovation drives Europe’s competitiveness, sustainability and industrial leadership, underpinning the EU’s top priorities.

This year’s edition will come at a pivotal moment of discussions on the EU’s next long-term budget and key policy actions such as the Startup and Scaleup Strategy, the European Life Sciences Strategy, the AI in Science Strategy and the European Innovation and European Research Area Acts.

Join us for high-level discussions, engaging panels and networking opportunities that will shape the future of EU research and innovation. Whether in Brussels or online, be part of the conversation and help steer Europe’s R&I agenda!

Download Programme: https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/document/download/7df1f67e-...

Register now: https://eu.eventscloud.com/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=200290669&categoryid=...

Continuing the ECME tradition, we will highlight the best work in the field of molecular electronics, including presentations on the synthesis, properties, devices and applications of small molecule and polymer-based electronic materials.

ECME 2025 will feature a special session celebrating the work of Prof. Sir Richard Friend, and a social programme that highlights the cultural richness of Cambridge.

We invite you to present your latest work in the field and look forward to hosting you in Cambridge.


Register: https://ecme2025.eu/

The BIEE is delighted to be holding its next Research Conference at Worcester College in Oxford, Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 September 2025.

Whilst there has been positive progress to celebrate, there remains much more to be decided and done to transition the whole energy system successfully to be low carbon.

The issues involved impact the entire energy system (not only electricity), and there is a need to draw on a wide range of domestic and international perspectives in this changed global and UK context for net zero.

Do countries need to increase delivery pace to meet 2030 aims? Has success been made more complex in a fractured world? What is the role and value of energy in systems and for communities and people? What influence do market design, system considerations, legacy and finance have in the transition?

BIEE’s biennial Research Conference offers an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of current work on these issues, hear from experts and join the debate on pathways for the future. As time passes, it remains vital for academic, business and policy experts to be in close contact. The two days will offer an unrivalled opportunity to speak directly to specialists across these three groups.

Plenary sessions will look at the political and environmental context and will hear from leading policymakers and thinkers on key topics in the transition.

In-depth papers over two days will look at themes including the economic, environmental and geopolitical context, progress and innovation in the solutions being deployed, the role of finance and investment in the transition, the approaches taken to legacy infrastructure, and new approaches to modelling this ever smarter and more complex system.

Register: https://www.biee.org/conference/research-conference-2025/

Important dates to note are the 31 March abstract submission deadline, the 31 July early registration deadline, and the 15 September closure of registrations.

Launch of UK-wide neuromorphic tech network, focussing on project scoping, strategic plans, and engaging discussions with experts.

The NeuMat Kick-Off Meeting marks the exciting beginning of the UK-wide NeuMat network, bringing together key stakeholders and experts in the field of neuromorphic technologies. This meeting aims to set the stage for future collaborations and outline the strategic direction of the project. The agenda is packed with engaging discussions with renowned invited speakers from government, academia and industry, plus information on upcoming workshops and engagement initiatives. This kickoff meeting is a crucial step in fostering innovation and advancing research in the science and technology of neuromorphic computing. The meeting will be focussed on scoping this 5-year Network grant to maximise success toward its four central aims:

NeuMat Network Aims:

1. Foster and Educate the Community: Create an ecosystem of researchers at varying career stages, representing diverse scientific, ethnic, and gender backgrounds, and encompassing all geographic regions.
2. Strengthen Academic-Industry Ties: Enhance collaboration between academia and the private sector.
3. Catalyse Research & Development Funding: Initiate new funding proposals on subjects that emerge directly from idea cross-fertilisation within the network.
4. Ensure Continuity: Build a cohort of early-career researchers and a long-term vision for the future beyond NeuMat.

Event Schedule 

The Arrival and registration will be in the Blue Boar Common Room which is next to the Winstanley Lecture Theatre. All talks will take place in Winstanley Lecture Theatre, whilst the poster exhibition will be in the Old Combination Room (OCR). Tea/Coffee breaks and reception drinks will be served in the OCR. Dinner will take place in the Hall. Please see map below.

Day 1 – 23 September 2025:

2.00 pm Check-in for people being accommodated at Trinity College

2.30 pm Posters to be put up in OCR (before 6 pm)

3.00 pm Arrival and registration with Tea/Coffee in Blue Boar Common Room

3.30 pm Welcome in Winstanley Lecture Theatre

3.45 pm Lecture 1. Judith Driscoll, University of Cambridge, Intro to NeuMat and Welcome.

4.15 pm Lecture 2. Glenn Goodall, EPSRC, "Neuromorphic Computing and the National Semiconductor Strategy"

4.45 pm Lecture 3. Abu Sebastian, IBM

6.00 pm Reception Drinks and poster session 1 viewing in OCR

7.30 pm Dinner in Hall

Day 2 – 24 September 2025:

8.15 am Breakfast in Hall

9 am. Put Poster session 2 posters up.

9.15 am Lecture 4. Joshua Yang, USC, "Memristive Devices for Computing"

10.00 am Lecture 5. Andrew Mallinson, Intel

10.45 am Tea/Coffee break in OCR

11.15 am Initial roundtable brainstorm - Where should the network go? How can it be most effective?

12.30 pm Lunch in Hall

1.30 pm Poster session 2 in OCR

3.00 pm Lecture 6 Luca Larcher, Applied Materials, "Technologies for Neuromorphic Computing"

3.45 pm Coffee/Tea break

4.15 pm Lecture 7 Sergei Turitsyn, the new UK Neuromorphic Centre

4.45 pm Lecture 8 Paul Larcey, Innovate UK

5.15 pm Researcher flash talks (6 x (6+1))

6.15 pm Reception Drinks and Posters 2 in OCR

7.30 pm Dinner in Hall

Day 3 – 25 September 2025:

8.15 am Breakfast in Hall and Poster session 2 viewing.

10.00 am Check-Out if accommodation at Trinity College

Remove posters before 12 pm

9.30 am Lecture 9 Tony Kenyon, UCL, "Overview of the UK Neuromorphic Computing Ecosystem"

10.00 am Lecture 10 Themis Prodromakis, APRIL hub, "Innovation opportunities across the Semiconductors – AI spectrum"

10.30 am Coffee

10.45 am. Roundtable wrap up discussion. How can the network be most effective? Report to be written.

11.45 pm Researcher flash talks (6 x (6+1))

12.30 pm Best posters and flash talk prize giving.

1.00 pm Lunch in Hall and End

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neumat-kick-off-meeting-tickets-13419047562...