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EPFL IMX Seminar Series
CECAM Workshops and Other Activities

Tuesday December 11th, 3pm, Matteo Calandra (Sorbonne University and CNRS Paris)
Emergence of correlated states in 2D crystal with ultraflat bands: multilayer graphene and single layer 1T-NbSe2 Abstract (pdf)

Tuesday November 27th, 2pm, Antonio Sanna (MaX Planck Halle)
Density Functional Theory for Superconductors: from functionals to applications Abstract (pdf)

Wednesday October 3rd, 2pm, Lucia Reining (Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau)
Time-dependent density functional theory: design and use of exchange-correlation kernels Abstract (pdf)

Monday September 24th, 11am, Rose Cersonsky (University of Michigan)
Designing Particle Shapes for Self-Assembly of Novel Colloidal Crystals Abstract (pdf)

Thursday September 6th, 4.15pm, Sally Price (University College London)
Can we predict how pharmaceuticals will crystallize? Abstract (pdf)

Friday June 15th, 10am, Robert L.Clay (Sandia National Labs)
Sandia’s IWF NextGen Workflow System Abstract (pdf)

Tuesday May 29th, 4pm, Víctor M. García Suárez (University of Oviedo and CINN)
Electronic transport in graphene break junctions Abstract (pdf)

Friday May 25th, 2pm, Brandon Wood (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Understanding Frustration, Correlation, and Disorder in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion Abstract (pdf)

Wednesday May 23rd, 4.15pm, Raffaele Resta (Democritos IOM-CNR, Trieste)
Geometrical observables of the electronic ground state Abstract (pdf)

Tuesday May 22nd, 4pm, Stefano Leoni (Cardiff University)
Novel free energy sampling approaches for phase transitions, mass transport and crystal structure prediction Abstract (pdf)

Monday April 23rd, 4pm, Carla Verdi (University of Oxford)
ARPES spectra of doped oxides from first principles: crossover from polarons to Fermi liquids Abstract (pdf)

Wednesday March 28th, 2pm, Marco Vanzini (École Polytechnique Palaiseau)
Auxiliary systems for observables: the dynamical local connector approximation for electron addition and removal spectra Abstract (pdf)

Tuesday March 20th, 3pm, Scott Auerbach (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Sipping from the Holy Grail: Simulating the Self Assembly of Nanoporous Materials Abstract (pdf)

Monday March 19th, 2pm, Matteo Calandra (CNRS and Univeristè Sorbonne, Paris)
X-ray core-hole spectroscopy from first principles: Theory and applications Abstract (pdf)

Thursday February 22nd, 2pm, Kieron Burke (University of California, Irvine)
Fundamentals of electronic structure Abstract (pdf)

Tuesday February 20th, 4.15pm, Kieron Burke (University of California, Irvine)
Machine-learning of density functionals for applications in molecules and materials Abstract (pdf)

Monday January 15th, 11.10am, Raffaele Resta (Democritos IOM-CNR, Trieste)
Topology in condensed matter physics: a primer Abstract (pdf)