Spring 2018 Schedule: Mondays 12:00-1:00 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).

• January 22, 2018 -- Discuss papers from upcoming colloquium speaker -- Professor Yosuke Kanai from UNC
• January 29, 2018 -- Sarah Jeong, Presentation of Library’s reference resources
• February 5, 2018 -- Van der Waals Density Functional for General Geometries" by Dion, Rydberg, Schroeder, Langreth and Lundqvist.
• February 12, 2018 -- Kristian Berland (visiting from the University of Oslo) -- “The van der Waals density functional”
• February 19, 2018 -- Group discussion of Electric Field and Dipolar Corrections for periodic boundary condition calculations
• February 26, 2018
• March 5, 2018 -- Spring Break and APS March meeting
• March 12, 2018 -- Highlights of the APS March and Sanibel meetings
• March 19, 2018 Akbar Salam: Molecular QED Theory of Resonance Energy Transfer
• March 26, 2018 -- Jason Howard Phonons with Quantum Espresso
• April 2, 2018 -- Dominique -- “Theoretical and experiment studies to assess catalytic activity for electrochemical and photo-chemical hydrogen evolution reaction”
• April 9, 2018 -- No meeting; David Montgomery’s Ph. D. presentation
• April 16, 2018 -- Ahmad Al-Qawasmeh -- "Computational study of the structural and electrolyte properties of Li4PS4I"
• April 23, 2018 -- Debajit Chakraborty -- "Role of high-entropy alloy in reducing radiation-induced damage".
• April 30, 2018 -- Bill Kerr -- "Electric Field Control of Electron Spin".