Fall 2021 Schedule

• September 2, 2021 -- Stephen Winter (in tandem with CFM meeting) “First-Principles Multiscale Modelling of Quantum Materials”
• September 9, 2021 -- Natalie Holzwarth -- “A New(?) bound state solver algorithm based on cubic splines”
• September 16, 2021 -- Informal meeting to get to know each other
• September 23, 2021 -- Sajant Anand (WFU alum; honors thesis with Oana Jurchescu; in tandem with CFM)
• September 30, 2021 -- J. Denise Lewis -- Research and Instruction Librarian for Engineering and Science, Z. Smith Reynolds (ZSR) Library
• October 7, 2021 -- Fall break
• October 14, 2021 -- Erin Henslee, WFU Department of Engineering (in tandem with CFM meeting) “ Investigating the Cellular Electrome as a Biomarker in Red Blood Cell Physiology & Pathology”
• October 21, 2021 -- Trevor Jenkins -- "Reduced-gradient Analysis of van der Waals Complexes"
• October 28, 2021 -- No meeting
• November 4, 2021 -- Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada --"Nonlinear and quantum optical probes of quasiparticles in semiconducting materials" (in tandem with CFM)
• November 11, 2021 -- Haardik Pandey -- “Metal Organic Frameworks based H-bonding for efficient acetylene storage and separation” and Owen Ganter --”Materials database development for crystalline organic conductors and superconductors”
• November 18, 2021 -- Cory Lynch -- Discussion of literature paper -- “Bridging the gap between simulated and experimental ionic conductivities in lithium superionic conductors” by S. P. Ong’s group -- Materials Today Physics 21 (2021) 100463 -- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtphys.2021.100463. This is an example of using “machine learning” methods to augment first principles molecular dynamics simulations.
• November 25, 2021 -- Thanksgiving
• December 2, 2021 -- Saif Ullah, WFU Department of Physics -- “Co-adsorption of gas molecules in Metal-Organic Frameworks” (in tandem with CFM)