Fall 2014 Schedule: Mondays 1-2 PM in Olin 102

Please contact N. Holzwarth to add or change schedule (or use equivalent shared googledoc).

• Mon. Sept. 1 -- organizational meeting; short (1 slide) presentations by volunteers
• Mon. Sept. 8 -- Ryan Melvin -- “Empirical potential modeling”
• Mon. Sept. 15 -- Sebastian Zuluaga -- Structural band-gap tuning in g-C3N4"
• Mon. Sept. 22 --
• Mon. Sept. 29 -- Drew Onken -- Photoconductivity
• Mon. Oct. 6 -- David Harrison -- Computational investigation of hydrogen storage materials
• Mon. Oct. 13 -- N. Lepley -- "A systematic treatment of interface properties using first principles methods"
• Mon. Oct. 20 -- Jason Howard and Larry Rush -- Reviews of two classic papers in electronic structure theory
• Mon. Oct. 27 -- Evan Welchman -- "Substitution in the B-group of ammonia borane (NH3BH3)."
• Mon. Nov. 3 -- Xinfu Lu --"Modeling scintillator nonproportionality from rate equations including hot and thermalized electron transport, space charge fields, linear/nonlinear quenching, and account for initial track radius and βEg".
• Mon. Nov. 11 --Calvin Arter -- Linker Modification: Increasing the number of adsorption sites in MOF-74
• Mon. Nov. 17 -- Ali Abbaspour Tamijani -- "NO adsorption and reaction on rutile TiO2 (110) surface"
• Mon. Nov. 24 -- William Story, “Vacuum Evaporation of Amorphous Metal Coatings for Bone Implants”
• Mon. Dec. 1 -- Qi Li, “Electronic structure calculations on self-trapped excitons in alkali halides”