Fall 2016 Schedule: Fridays 12:00-1:15 PM in Olin 102

Some possible papers for discussion are collected in the googledocs folder: (link) Some guidelines for preparing a talk are given in the googledoc: (link)

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

• September 9, 2016 -- Organizational meeting; summer highlights
• September 16, 2016 --Jason Howard -- “Fundamental principles of magnetic resonance as they apply to studying diffusion processes in solids”
• September 23, 2016 -- Natalie -- lead discussion of some papers of Oct. 5th Colloquium visitor -- Professor Yue Qi
• September 30, 2016 -- Evan Welchman -- “Examining the decomposition of metal borohydrides and metal borohydride ammoniate”
• October 7, 2016 -- Larry Rush -- "Tensor Decomposition Methods in DFT".
• October 14, 2016 -- Stephanie Jensen -- "Modelling non-radiative (ultra fast) relaxation on doped anatase nano-materials"
• October 21, 2016 -- no meeting (fall break)
• October 28, 2016 -- Peter Diemer == "Isomer Coexistence Induces Trapping States in Organic Field-Effect Transistors"
• November 4, 2016 -- Natalie Holzwarth -- leading discussion on Kieron Burke’s PRL Viewpoint article on “Improving electronic structure calculations”
• November 11, 2016 -- Matt Roveto --”Comparisons of the Effects of a Strong Magnetic Field on the Polarization Function of a 2DEG and of Graphene.”
• November 18, 2016 --Larry Rush -- “Tucker-tensor methodology in DFT part II”
• November 25, 2016 -- no meeting (Thanksgiving holiday)
• December 2, 2016 --Ahmad Al-Qawasmeh -- “Overview of work on simulations of electrolytes for solid state lithium ion batteries together with some interesting results on a promising new electrolyte material”
• December 9, 2016 -- David Harrison -- "H4-alkanes: a new class of hydrogen storage materials"