Welcome to Oxford Battery Modelling Symposium (OBMS), a unique event for the battery community. OBMS brings together mathematicians, chemists, physicists and engineers from academia and industry to discuss the latest modelling research and applications. Our philosophy is to invite a small number of outstanding speakers spanning a range of topics from atomistic to continuum modelling, controls and beyond, giving broad and inspiring presentations and open discussions. Our first event in 2019 was attended by 170 people with leading experts including John Newman speaking; our subsequent events were held online during lockdown periods but continued to be wildly popular.
Registration opens soon.
Senior researchers, early career researchers and PhD students, in academia, research institutes, and industry, in the UK and internationally
12th and 13th April 2027, Mathematical Institute, Oxford, England, OX2 6GG.
Please contact clementine.hadfield@oerc.ox.ac.uk for general queries about the conference, or events@eng.ox.ac.uk for registration related queries
Bryan McCloskey is Department Chair and Warren & Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research explores electrochemistry for sustainable energy conversion and storage, with current work spanning metal-air batteries, Li-ion and Na-ion batteries, high-voltage cathode–electrolyte interfaces, and organic–inorganic composites for solid-state batteries. He has co-authored more than 150 articles and received numerous honors, including the Electrochemical Society Charles Tobias Award and the International Society of Electrochemistry Tajima Prize. He is also a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society. More information is available at www.mccloskeylab.com.
Chibueze Amanchukwu is a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, a faculty affiliate of the Data Science Institute, and a joint appointee at Argonne National Laboratory. His research focuses on developing earth-abundant, intrinsically safe batteries; converting waste such as CO₂ and PFAS into valuable fuels and chemicals; and accelerating energy materials discovery using AI and machine learning. His honors include C&EN’s “Talented Twelve,” MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and a Sloan Research Fellowship, alongside early-career awards from NSF, DOE, the US Army, Google, and 3M. He earned his PhD from MIT and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford.
The Oxford Battery Modelling Symposium will be held in the heart of Oxford at the Mathematical Institute.
Map and directions to the Mathematical Institute
The Mathematical Institute is situated in Oxford city centre and is a 20 minute walk from Oxford's train station where regular trains run to London Marylebone station or Paddington station, both of which are just a few stops by London Underground to St. Pancras station, where Eurostar train connections are available to France, Belgium and beyond. If you are driving to Oxford (which we would not recommend), parking in the centre is very constrained and we recommend instead parking at one of the local Park and Ride facilities from which regular buses into the centre of town are available. The easiest airport for access to Oxford is London Heathrow and there is a regular bus service that runs between Heathrow and Oxford (terminal 5 is particularly convenient for this). There are also regular direct trains to Oxford from Birmingham Airport, the journey takes about 60 minutes.
There are a number of hotels in close proximity to the venue, including but not limited to: Cotswold Lodge Hotel, Malmaison, Vanbrugh House, Tower House, The Buttery. You can also book rooms in other Oxford Colleges via Conference Oxford - Green Templeton, St Anne’s, St Anthony’s, Kellogg, Somerville, Regent’s Park and St John’s are all within close proximity of OBMS24. We strongly recommend booking accommodation well in advance as Oxford gets very booked up in the spring.
Information about how to register coming soon.
Registration is now open, please use this link or the SIGN ME UP! button at the top of the page to register. Registration includes: the two-day workshop, keynote lecture, welcome drinks reception and poster session, lunch and refreshment on both days, participant pack, certificate of attendance. There is a charge of £65 to attend the Symposium Dinner, this can be added on at the time of registration.
Registration is now closed.
Early Bird Rate: Standard registration £330; Student registration £230
After 31st March: Standard registration £380; Student registration £280
If you wish to submit a poster abstract for consideration by the OBMS committee, please visit this Google form, which includes full details of the required process. You will need to login with a Google account (if this is prohibitive let us know). The deadline for poster abstract submissions is 11.59pm BST on May 16th 2025. We will then make decisions quickly and inform people about whether their poster is accepted by Monday 2nd June (earlier if possible). Please do not deviate from or change the template, if you do we will send your abstract back to you. You may include figures as long as the total length remains one page.
If you would like a quote to start the process, please contact us at events@eng.ox.ac.uk.
The Symposium Dinner will take place on the evening of 15th April 2024, and includes a 3 course meal and wine in Lady Margaret Hall's old dining hall.
David Howey
Charles Monroe
Colin Please
Jon Chapman
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We value the participation of everyone and want all participants to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Accordingly, all participants are expected to show respect and courtesy to other participants throughout the workshop and through all communication channels, including but not limited to OBMS Slack channel and Zoom. To make clear what is expected, all participants, speakers, exhibitors, organisers and volunteers at OBMS are required to conform to the following Code of Conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event.
SUMMARY
The Oxford Battery Modelling Symposium is dedicated to providing a harassment-free workshop experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of workshop participants in any form.
* All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds.
* Be kind to others.
* Do not insult or put down other attendees.
* Behave professionally. Remember that harassment and exclusionary jokes are not appropriate at the Oxford Battery Modelling Symposium. Do not send any unprofessional messages to other participants, including but not limited to private messages in Slack and Zoom.
* Participants violating these rules may be asked to leave the symposium at the sole discretion of the organisers.
* Thank you for helping make this a welcoming, friendly event for all.
CLARIFICATIONS
* Harassment includes offensive communication related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.
* Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.
* Be careful in the words that you choose. Remember that words can be offensive to those around you. Offensive jokes are not acceptable at the Oxford Battery Modelling Symposium. Excessive swearing is not appropriate at OBMS.
* If a participant engages in behaviour that violates this code of conduct, the organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the symposium.
* Filming/recording of the Oxford Battery Modelling Symposium and sharing or any recordings is strictly prohibited.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of the Code of Conduct Committee via: events@eng.ox.ac.uk
CANCELLATION OF EVENT - IF WE CANCEL
On occasion, unforseen circumstanes may require us to cancel an event. In such circumstances we will give as much notice as possible and endeavour to oganise another event date or refund any fees paid, but no compensation will be paid for any additional costs you may have incurred.
REEFUNDS - IF YOU CANCEL
The following refund policy is applicable for OBMS:
Where notice of cancellation is received, we will refund a proportation of the conference fee. The non-refundable portion of the fee is £100 per person and cannot be reimbursed. Note: the periods reference the day on which we receive your written/emailed notification of cancellation.
NOTICE PERIOD % OF REFUND
More than 14 workings days before the start date - 100% of the refundable portion.
Less than 14 working days before the start date - 0% of the refundable portion.
The refund policy above applies to the registration fee.
