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Materials Theory Group Seminars 2009

Monday, December 14, 2009
Tests of Order Parameter Symmetry in the Superconducting Iron Arsenides
David Parker
Naval Research Laboratory
10:30 a.m., 4500S, A-177
Host: David Singh (241-1944)

Thursday, February 8, 2009
Nanostructured Materials for Energy Conversion
Xiaofeng Qiu
Center for Chemical Dynamics and Nanomaterials Research
Department of Chemistry
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106
9:30 a.m., 3307 Nielsen Physics Bldg. at UT

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Friedel Oscillations and Quantum Tunneling in Metallic Thin Film Systems
Biao Wu
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
11:00 a.m., 4515, 265
Host: Zhenyu Zhang (576-5346)

Friday, February 13, 2009
Defects in correlated electron systems: from magnetic droplets to disordered stripes
Peter Hirschfeld
University of Florida
11:00 a.m., SNS-Iran Thomas Auditorium
Host: Elbio Dagotto (574-2592)

Monday, April 13, 2009
Optimal Dopant Control in Oxide Semiconductors for Spintronic and Solar Energy Applications
Hui Pan
ORNL Environmental Sciences Division
11:00 a.m., 4515, 265
Host: Zhenyu Zhang (576-5346)

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
First-Principles Many-body methods in Condensed Matter Theory: Recent developments and perspectives
Michal Bajdich
North Carolina State University
10:00 a.m., 4500S, A-177
Host: Fernando Reboredo (576-5346)

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Phase Diagrams of the Multiferroic Perovskite Manganites
Professor Nobuo Furukawa
Aoyama Gakuin University
Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
11:00 a.m., 4515, 265
Host: Satoshi Okamoto

Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Predictive Modeling of Novel Structures and Structural Phase Transitions in Zero and One Dimensions
Prof. Xin-Gao Gong
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
11:00 a.m., 4515, 265
Host: Zhenyu Zhang

Friday, September 11, 2009
Singlet-triplet qubits in silicon quantum dots
Dimitrie Culcer
University of Maryland
11:00 a.m., 4515, 265
Host: Zhenyu Zhang

Monday, September 28, 2009
A van der Waals DFT Approach to Modeling Water
Prof. Timo Thonhauser and Brian Kolb
Wake Forest University
10:00 a.m., 4500S, A-177
Host: Valentino Cooper (574-5164)

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Relativistic Optimized Effective Potential (OEP) Method for Solids
Diemo Ködderitzsch
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
10:00 a.m., 4515, 265
Host: Malcolm Stocks (574-5163)

Thursday, October 29, 2009
Precisely Tailored Nanostructures: Crystallinity, Hybrid Structures and Applications
Prof. Min Ouyang
University of Maryland
11:00 a.m., 4515, 265
Host: Zhenyu Zhang (576-5346)

Thursday, December 10, 2009
A New Spin Source: The Application of Spin Filter to TMR and Beyond
Dr. Guo-Xing Miao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:00 a.m., 4515, 265
Host: Zhenyu Zhang (576-5346)

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