Spring 2015 Schedule: Tuesdays 12:30-2 PM in Olin 102

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

• Tues. Jan. 13, 2015 -- no meeting
• Tues. Jan. 20, 2015 -- Evan Welchman -- "Ab initio studies of ammonia borane"
• Tues. Jan. 27, 2015 -- Drew Onken -- "Laser-initiated dislocation in brittle solids"
• Tues. Feb. 3, 2015 -- Ryan Melvin -- “Ewald Sums on a Grid,” a discussion of http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9807099)
• Tues. Feb. 10, 2015 -- Natalie Holzwarth -- "Analysis of the Shell Model"
• Tues. Feb. 17, 2015 -- Ali Abbaspour Tamijani -- "The applications of quantum chemistry in condensed matter"
• Tues. Feb. 24, 2015 -- March meeting practice talks
• Tues. Mar. 3, 2015 -- no meeting due to APS
• Tues. Mar. 10, 2015 -- no meeting due to Spring Break
• Tues. Mar. 17, 2015 -- Sebastian Zuluag -- "Can you hear the shape of a drum?"
• Tues. Mar. 24, 2015 -- Jason Howard -- "various analyses for finite size corrections for supercell simulations such as discussed in the Makov & Payne paper "
• Tues. Mar. 31, 2015 -- William C. Kerr -- "The quantum mechanics of electrical conductivity, or the Kubo formula"
• Tues. Apr. 7, 2015 -- Calvin Arter == "Quadrupling small molecule uptake in MOF74"
• Tues. April 14, 2015 -- David Harrison -- "Predicting novel hydrogen storage materials with DFT"
• Tues. April 21, 2015 -- -- Ahmad Al-Qawasmeh -- “The projector Augmented Wave Method”
• Tues, April 28, 2015 -- Larry Rush