Hi, I’m Conor Williams 👋

My slides are available here. This year I attended the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition in San Diego with one of my colleges from the university of Cambridge. I presented my work on the development of off-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo methods for simulating the interaction of hydrogen with crystal defects at the Symposium of Thermodynamics and Kinetics. The presentation was very successful and lead to deep discussions with experts in the field, including Laurent Karim Béland, one of the authors of the k-ART program....

I’ve finally had some time to work on one of my favorite and longest ongoing hobby projects, libfork, a C++20 library for for strict fork-join parallelism. I built libfork when I realized that with the introduction of coroutines in C++20 it was possible to implement continuation-stealing without the use of macros or inline assembly. This is a feature that I have wanted for a long time and I am very happy with the results:...

After becoming the unwillingly elected member of the MML to revamp the our website and learning my way around Hugo/GoLang/PaperMod and static websites in general. I decided it was finally time to put something together for myself. So welcome to my site! I intend to use this as a space to display my (professional) achievements and hopefully write some blogs about C++ and scientific-computing. bool syntax_highlight(){ return call<int>(0, "str", variable, true); }

My PhD has focused on the development of off-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo (OLKMC) methods to study hydrogen and carbon interstitials in metals, with the recent publication of my first paper: @article{Williams2023, title = {Accelerating off-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to predict hydrogen vacancy-cluster interactions in alpha-Fe}, author = {C.J. Williams and E.I. Galindo-Nava}, year = 2023, month = jan, journal = {Acta Materialia}, publisher = {Elsevier {BV}}, volume = 242, pages = 118452, doi = {10....

In 2021 I produced a report, for my PhD in Scientific Computing at the University of Cambridge. In this work I developed the first version of invariant and tolerant local-equivalence for atomic environments.

In 2020 my thesis, for my Masters in Scientific Computing, was awarded a Distinction by the University of Cambridge. This will form the foundations of my research focus for the next three years. Abstract The project aims to implement an off-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo model, based on the dimer saddle-point finding method, suitable for simulating the interaction of hydrogen with crystal defects in iron, such as vacancies, grain-boundaries and dislocations, over timescales not achievable with classical methods including molecular dynamics....