Fall 2024 Schedule

• 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 -- “Selective Adsorption and Diffusion in MOF NU2100"
• November 29, 2024 -- Thanksgiving Holiday
• December 6, 2024 –- Banasree Sarkar Mou -- "Evidence for a single-layer van der Waals multiferroic".