Spring 2019 Schedule: Wednesdays 12-1 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).

• Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019 -- Debajit Chakraborty- On improvements in vdW-DF functional.
• Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 -- Debajit Chakraborty- On improvements in vdW-DF functional continued
• Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019 -- Yan Li - Computational Study of the Solid Electrolytes Na₄P₂S₆
• Wednesday, Feb. 13 , 2019 -- Haardik Pandey - Nudged Elastic Band Method
• Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019 -- Discussion of Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics (NEMD) methods (Natalie Holzwarth)
• Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 -- Meet with colloquium vistor: Stephen Erwin
• Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2019 -- no meeting due to APS
• Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2019 -- no meeting due to Spring Break
• Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2019 -- -- Presentations from the March APS and February Sanibel meetings
• Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019 -- CFM -- Presented by Timo Thonhauser
• Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2019 -- Noah Meyer -- Discussion of “deep learning” applied to DFT
• Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2019 -- Discussion of paper by Yang et al., “Far-Field Spectroscopy and Near-Field Optical Imaging of Coupled Plasmon–Phonon Polaritons in 2D van der Waals Heterostructures” (discussion lead by Natalie Holzwarth)
• Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2019 -- Meet with colloquium visitor: Paul Ayers
• Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2019 -- Stephanie Jensen -- "Thermal activation of molecular adsorption in metal-organic frameworks with a surface barrier layer: Using a combination of experiment and theory to tell the whole story."
• Wednesday, May 1, 2019 -- CFM -- Presentation by ...