Presentations & Conferences
Note: Presentations delivered in English unless otherwise noted. One full talk delivered in French (QCAM 2024). Fielded audience questions in Spanish during collaborator presentations with UNAM (Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).
2025
- International Bio-Inspiration N.I.C.E. Winter Event – December 09 to December 11, 2025 – Nice, France
- Gas hydrate interfacial structures and processes for nanostructure characterization and application to green energy storage
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- Prize: Training Mobility Grant/Award - Quebec Center for Advanced Materials (QCAM)
- CHEM 634: Seminar in Advanced Materials Invited Speaker – November 07, 2025 – McGill University, Montréal, Canada
- Gas hydrate interfaces and bulk: geometric and atomistic perspectives
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
- 45-minute invited lecture covering both experimental (Servio) and computational (Rey) lab research; invited by course instructor Dr. Linda Reven (Chemistry Department)
- Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference – October 05 to October 07, 2025 – Montréal, Canada
- Multiscale Characterisation of sII Gas Hydrate Interfacial Structure and Organisation
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- Prize: Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Award
- Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling Annual Symposium – May 06, 2025 – Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
- Multiscale Characterisation of Gas Hydrates Under Pressure
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
2024
- Materials Research Society Fall Meeting & Exhibit – December 01 to December 06, 2024 – Boston, United States
- Characterizing, Classifying and Manipulating Gas Hydrate Crystalline Interfaces and Associated Liquid-Like Layers to Understand Their Nucleation and Growth
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- Chemical Engineering Research Day – November 28, 2024 – McGill University, Montréal, Canada
- Characterizing, Classifying, and Manipulating Gas Hydrate Crystalline Interfaces and Associated Phases & Layers to Understand Nucleation and Growth
- Samuel Mathews, Alejandro Rey, Phillip Servio
- Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference – October 06 to October 09, 2024 – Toronto, Canada
- Molecular Modeling and Characterisation of Processes and Dynamics of Gas Hydrates in the Presence of Applied Electric Fields and Backbone Instabilities
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- CHEM 634: Seminar in Advanced Materials Invited Speaker – September 25, 2024 – McGill University, Montréal, Canada
- Multiscale Modeling of Gas Hydrates and their Interfaces
- Samuel Mathews, Alejandro Rey, Phillip Servio
- 45-minute invited lecture covering both experimental and computational lab research; invited by Dr. Linda Reven (Chemistry Department)
- 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics – July 21 to July 26, 2024 – Vancouver, Canada
- Modeling the Effect of Backbone Instabilities and Guest Occupancies on Interfacial and Structural Processes and Dynamics of sII Gas Hydrate Systems Using Molecular Dynamics
- Samuel Mathews, Alejandro Rey, Phillip Servio
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- Prize: Canadian Association for Computational Science and Engineering (CACSE) Travel Award
- Prize: Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Award
- 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics – July 21 to July 26, 2024 – Vancouver, Canada
- Geometric Modeling of Gas Hydrate Structural Properties and Guest-Host Interactions
- Samuel Mathews, Zijun Xu, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- Prize: Canadian Association for Computational Science and Engineering (CACSE) Travel Award
- Prize: Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Award
- Mathematics of Multiscale and Multiphysics Phenomena in Materials Science (24w5159) – June 16 to June 21, 2024 – Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, Banff, Canada
- Molecular Modeling of sII Gas Hydrate Interfacial Structures and Processes
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
- Invited poster
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- Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling Annual Symposium – May 27, 2024 – Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
- Interfacial Properties and Processes of Natural Gas Hydrates for Energy Applications
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- Prize: Presentation Excellence Award
- Quebec Centre for Advanced Materials Annual Symposium – May 22 to May 23, 2024 – Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
- Propriétés et Processus Interfaciaux des Hydrates de Gaz pour des Applications Énergétiques
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- Prize: Best Use of Language - Oral Session
2023
- Materials Research Society Fall Meeting & Exhibit – November 26 to December 01, 2023 – Boston, United States
- Modeling of Interfacial Growth and Structural Processes and Dynamics of sII Gas Hydrate Systems using Molecular Dynamics and Geometric Techniques
- Samuel Mathews, André Guerra, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference – October 29 to November 01, 2023 – Calgary, Canada
- Molecular Modeling and Characterization of Interfacial Processes, Structures, and Dynamics of sII Gas Hydrate Systems for Engineering Applications
- Samuel Mathews, André Guerra, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- 11th World Congress of Chemical Engineering – June 04 to June 08, 2023 – Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Gas Hydrate Thermal and Interfacial Properties and Processes in Gas Capture and Storage for Energy Applications
- Samuel Mathews, André Guerra, Alejandro Rey, Phillip Servio
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- Prize: Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Award
- Chemical Engineering Research Day – March 17, 2023 – Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
- Modeling of Interfacial Processes of Gas Hydrate Systems for Energy and Engineering Applications
- Samuel Mathews, Alejandro Rey, Phillip Servio
- American Physical Society March Meeting – March 05 to March 10, 2023 – Las Vegas, United States
- Modeling of Interfacial Processes of Gas Hydrate Systems for Engineering Applications at Extreme Conditions
- Samuel Mathews, André Guerra, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- American Physical Society March Meeting – March 05 to March 10, 2023 – Las Vegas, United States
- Equilibrium molecular dynamics of methane hydrate systems at pre-nucleation conditions to predict system transport properties
- André Guerra, Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey, Milan Marić
- Abstract
2022
- Materials Research Society Fall Meeting – November 27 to December 02, 2022 – Boston, United States
- Molecular Modeling of Interfacial Structure, Kinetics and Processes of sII Gas Hydrate Systems for Engineering Applications
- Samuel Mathews, André Guerra, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- Prize: Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Award
- Materials Research Society Fall Meeting – November 27 to December 02, 2022 – Boston, United States
- Molecular Dynamics Estimations of Transport Properties of Pure Water and Methane Hydrate Systems at Pre-Nucleation Conditions
- André Guerra, Samuel Mathews, Alejandro Rey, Milan Marić, Phillip Servio
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- Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference – October 23 to October 26, 2022 – Vancouver, Canada
- All-atom molecular dynamics predictions of transport properties of methane hydrate systems at pre-nucleation conditions using the TIP4P/Ice water OPLS potential
- André Guerra, Samuel Mathews, Milan Marić, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- McGill-ETH Zurich Synergia Symposium – August 05, 2022 – McGill University, Montréal, Canada
- Molecular Dynamics-based transport and interfacial properties with applications to rheology and crystallization of water-based solutions
- Samuel Mathews, André Guerra
2021
- Materials Research Society Fall Meeting – November 29 to December 02, 2021 – Boston, United States
- Gas Hydrate Thermal and Interfacial Properties for Natural Gas Capture and Storage via Novel Atomistic-Molecular Dynamics Simulations
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference: Molecules to Enterprise – October 24 to October 27, 2021 – Virtual
- Gas Hydrate Thermal and Interfacial Properties via Molecular and Atomic Modeling Techniques
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
- Quebec Centre for Advanced Materials Annual Symposium – May 27 to May 28, 2021 – Virtual
- Thermal Properties of Structure I Hydrates Using Density Functional Theory and Phonon Calculations
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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2020
- International Conference on Gas Hydrates 10 (Canceled due to COVID-19) – June 21 to June 26, 2020 – Singapore
- Thermal Properties of sI Hydrates Using Density Functional Theory
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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- Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling Annual Symposium – February 07, 2020 – Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
- Thermal Properties of sI Hydrates Using Density Functional Theory
- Samuel Mathews, Phillip Servio, Alejandro Rey
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2019
- Chemical Engineering Research Day – November 19, 2019 – McGill University, Montréal, Canada
- Thermal Properties of sI Hydrates Using Density Functional Theory
- Samuel Mathews, Alejandro Rey, Phillip Servio
- Prize: Outstanding Presentation Award (Masters)