Spring 2021 Schedule

This semester the seminar will be conducted online Thursdays at 12:30-1:30 via Zoom

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).

• Thursday, Jan 28, 2021 -- Informal “kickoff” meeting
• Thursday, Feb 4, 2021 -- Presentation from Deac Cluster Staff
• Thursday, Feb 11, 2021 -- WFU cancelled classes due to weather
• Thursday, Feb 18, 2021 -- Trick sharing -- Timo, Saif, Trevor
• Thursday, Feb 25, 2021 -- Trick sharing -- Haardik, Yan
• Thursday, Mar 4, 2021 -- Literature review discussion -- From EKU Gross’s group -- https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.256402 (also see perspective -- https://physics.aps.org/articles/v13/196)
• Thursday, Mar 11, 2021 -- Practice talks for March Meeting -- Yan and Gabe
• Thursday, Mar 18, 2021 -- March APS Meeting
• Thursday, Mar 25, 2021 -- Report from March APS Meeting; Timo Thonhauser and Stephen Winters will share their presentations; time permitting, other attendees may wish to share some of their APS meeting inspirations
• Thursday, Apr 1, 2021 -- Trevor Jenkins -- "Analyzing s Dependence of vdW Interaction Energies for Various Systems".
• Thursday, Apr 8, 2021 -- Yan Li -- "Computational investigation of the structural and electrolyte properties of Li boracites Li4B7O12Cl and Li5B7O12.5Cl"
• Thursday, Apr 15, 2021 -- Haardik Pandey -- "Studying H2O--NO interaction inside Ni-MOF-74 using spectroscopy and computational analysis."
• Thursday, Apr 22, 2021 -- Saif Ullah will present his work on "Co-adsorption in metal-organic frameworks as a route to dramatically enhance selective adsorption" and Ajay Kandada will present "Anharmonicity of the hybrid perovskite lattice"
• Thursday, Apr 29, 2021 -- Cal Bibeau will make a short presentation on physics-economics connections -- “The relationship between the Black Scholes Model and Schrodinger's Equation” and Cory Lynch will present his beginning results on “Investigation of possible lithium boracite (Li4B7O12Cl) analogues”.
• Thursday, May 6, 2021 -- Feliciano Giustino, U. Texas -- Electron-phonon interactions