Condensed Matter Journal Club/PHY663/363
T. Thonhauser, A. R. S. Kandada, S. Winter, W. C. Kerr, and N. A. W. Holzwarth
Fall 2024 Schedule
Meeting times: 11-11:50 PM on Friday's in Olin 105. Snacks will be available
Please contact Natalie Holzwarth (natalie@wfu.edu) for more information.
The detailed schedule is available on the shared googledoc --
Fall 2024 CMTJC Googledoc
- August 30, 2024 – Short presentations by participants describing highlights of summer 2024
- September 6, 2024 – Continued short presentations by participants describing highlights of summer 2024
- September 13, 2024 – Ramesh Dhakal --
"Berry phase, Berry curvature and topology in solids"
- September 20, 2024 –
Group discussion led by Natalie on several seminal papers related to a component of “Machine Learning” and
efficient functional representations of multicomponent potential energy surfaces. Two papers for the
discussion are by Behler and Parrinello and by Bartok.
- September 27, 2024 -- Postponed due to unpredicable weather.
- October 4, 2024 –- Cory Lynch --
Improving First Principles Predictive Capabilities through the Implementation of Neural Networks and
Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials
- October 11, 2024 – Owen Ganter --
- “DMET versus pDMET: A Comparison of the Two Methods” Reference: Wu et al."
- October 18, 2024 – Fall break
- October 25, 2024 -- Dr. Sean Anderson will talk about and demonstrate the many
new developments in the DEAC cluster
- November 1, 2024 –- Samuel Griffith --
"Details of The Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition"
- November 8, 2024 -- Katie Koch --
"Modulating exciton polaron characteristics via organic cation substitution in Ruddlesden Popper metal halides"
- November 15, 2024 -- Trevor Jenkins --
"Characterizing Molecular Physisorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks Using Density Functional Theory."
- November 22, 2024 -– Wells Graham
- November 29, 2024 -- Thanksgiving Holiday
- December 6, 2024 –- Banasree Sarkar Mou