Events
Lecture Series
Energy Science and Technology (ES&T) Seminar and a Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series (Borguet and Klein)
Meetings
All-Hands Meeting - An annual meeting where principal investigators, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students present and discuss their research
Thrust Meeting - A bi-monthly meeting for each individual Thrust
Executive Committee Meeting - A bi-monthly meeting for The Executive Committee: Director John Perdew, Deputy Directors Maria Iavarone and Eric Borguet, and Thrusts leaders Gustavo Scuseria, Arun Bansil, David Srolovitz, and Daniel Strongin
Early Career Investigators Meeting - A weekly scientific series with the purpose of fostering communication and scientific exchange among the CCDM's theoreticians and experimentalists and to empower junior researchers to organize their own research activities. Attendees are CCDM research assistant professors, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and interested parties
CCM Event Timeline
This Timeline does not include thrust meetings, forum meetings, or management-related meetings
+ 2020
September 20, 2019
ECI Seminar,
" " by Ravneet Bhullar
+ 2019
December 6, 2019
ECI Seminar,
" " by Kanishka Wijesekara
"Systematic Density Functional Design: SCAN and Beyond" by Aaron Kaplan
November 15, 2019
ECI Seminar,
"Ion Solutions at Mineral/Water Interfaces: Bridging the Gap between Computational Modeling and Spectroscopy" by Ruiyu Wang
October 25, 2019
ECI Seminar,
"Nonlocal Energy-Optimized (NEO) Kernel for the Formation Energies of Alloys" by Bimal Neupane
September 20, 2019
ECI Seminar,
"New layered material catalysts from periodic heterogeneous stacking of metal oxide sheets and interlayer cations for water oxidation reaction" by Ran Ding
May 8, 2019
Chalk Talk, presented by Huta Banjade, Ruiyu Wang, Farbod Alimohamadi
April 5, 2019
ECI Seminar,
"Thin film deposition techniques and growth of epitaxial thin films via Laser MBE for energy storage applications" by Kanishka Wijesekara
March 6, 2019
Thrust III Reasearch Groups Update
February 22, 2019
Tutorial,
"A Practical Introduction to Neural Network Potentials" by Mark DelloStritto
February 8, 2019
ECI Seminar,
"2D Layered Materials for Energy Applications" by Ravneet Bhullar
+ 2018
December 7, 2018
ECI Talk,
"Enhancing the catalytic activity of MoS2 towards electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction" by Nuwan Attanayake
November 28, 2018
Journal Club, presented by Bimal Neupane
November 7, 2018
ECI Talk, presented by Chandra Shahi, Kanishka Wijesekara, and Rick Remsing
July 30, 2018
Webinar, "A Guide for Grant Writing"
July 20, 2018
ECI Talk,
"XAS signature of ferroelectricity in Croconic Acid" by Pratikkumar Duvad
"Negative Poisson's ratio in two-dimensional materials" by Jinbo Pan
"Designing new layered catalysts for water oxidation reaction via alternatively stacking nano sheets" by Ran Ding
July 6, 2018
Vacuum Technology Workshop
June 29, 2018
Diversity and Inclusion Webinar
June 22, 2018
ECI Talk
June 10-14, 2018
Electronic Structure (ES) 2018 and Penn Conference in Theoretical Chemistry (PCTC) 2018
June 8, 2018
ECI Talk,
"Phonons and thermal conductivity of graphene related nanostructures" by Himanshu Chakraborty,
"STM and STS investigation of 2H to 1T MoS2 phase transition" by Parisa Yasini, and
"Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy of Oxide/Aqueous Interfaces" by Tim Marshall
May 25, 2018
Journal Club
May 16, 2018
Career Avenues in Energy Sciences Webinar
May 11, 2018
ECI Talk, presented by Ian McKendry
May 2, 2018
Panel discussion, "How to Find a Postdoctoral Position" with panelists Dr. Yimei Zhu, Dr. Maria Iavarone, and Dr. Michael Zdilla
April 27, 2018
Chalk Talk
April 20, 2018
CCDM Seminar, "Graphene Nanoribbons, Transition Metal Chalcogenides and Mxenes for Electronic Applications," presented by Alexander Sinitskii, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
April 13, 2018
Journal Club
April 6, 2018
ECI Talk, "Antimicrobial Mode-of-Action of 2D Nanomaterials" presented by Farbod Alimohammadi
March 16, 2018
Chalk Talk
March 2, 2018
Journal Club
February 16, 2018
CCDM Seminar, "Synthesis, the new frontier for computational materials science," presented by Dr. Gerd Ceder, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
February 1, 2018
CCDM Seminar, "Complex topological phases in polar oxide superlattices," presented by Dr. Javier Junquera, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
January 26, 2018
ECI Talk, presented by Melissandre Richard, Farbod Alimohammadi, and Parisa Yasini.
January 11, 2018
CCDM Seminar, "Topological Phases in Transition Metal Chalcogenides," presented by Dr. Junwei Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
+ 2017
December 15, 2017
ECI Talk, "Nanoporous-Carbon Based Anode Materials for High-Performance Li-Ion Energy Storage With Increased Specific Capacity," presented by former CCDM ECI coordinator Dr. Matt Wolak, Sandia National Laboratories
November 10, 2017
CCDM Seminar, "Computationally Guided Discovery of Metal-Decorated Metal–Organic Frameworks Active for Catalysis," presented by Dr. Laura Gagliardi, University of Minnesota
October 27, 2017
Chalk Talk
October 6, 2017
ECI Talk, "Antiferromagnetic Dirac Semimetals and New fermions beyond Dirac and Weyl models," presented by Dr. Peizhe Tang, Stanford University
September 29, 2017
Journal Club
September 1, 2017
ECI Talk, presented by Mark DelloStritto
August 4, 2017
Journal Club
June 16, 2017
ECI Talk, presented by Joel Berry
June 9, 2017
ECI Talk, presented by Zhaoru Sun
May 18, 2017
SCAN Workshop
May 16 - 17, 2017
Annual Meeting
May 12, 2017
CCDM Seminar, "New Functional Materials as a Design Problem," by Dr. Alex Zunger, University of Colorado-Boulder
May 5, 2017
CCDM Seminar, "Identification and functional study of nucleosome-depleting factors," by Dr. Lu Bai, Penn State University
April 21, 2017
Tutorial #7 on X-ray diffraction by Michael Zdilla
March 31, 2017
ECI Talk, presented by Samantha Shumlas
March 24, 2017
Aqueous Interfaces Workshop
March 20, 2017
CCDM Seminar, "Atomistic Growth Mechanisms and Functionalization of Two-Dimensional Materials, by Dr. Zhenyu Zhang, International Center for Quantum Design of Functional Materials (ICQD), University of Science and Technology of China
March 3, 2017
CCDM Seminar, "Using Chemistry To Harness the Power Of the Sun," by Dr. Troy Van Voorhis, MIT
February 24, 2017
ECI Talk
February 17, 2017
Tutorial #6, "Correlated electron states in TiSe2 and CuxTiSe2," by Goran Karapetrov
February 1, 2017
Journal Club
January 20, 2017
ECI Talk, presented by Jinbo Pan
January 13, 2017
ECI Talk, presented by Ian McKendry
+ 2016
December 2, 2016
ECI Tutorial, "Simulating Quantum Processes with Classical Mechanics" presented by Richard Remsing
November 30, 2016
Journal Club
November 18, 2016
ECI Tutorial, "Phonons: Theory and Experiment," presented by Himanshu Chakraborty and Yaroslav Aulin
November 16, 2016
CCDM Seminar, "Interfacial disorder drives charge separation in molecular semiconductors," by Dr. Adam P. Willard, MIT
November 11, 2016
ECI Talk, presented by Akila Thenuwara
November 4, 2016
CCDM Seminar, "Understanding Hydration, One Water Molecule at the Time," by Dr. Franscesco Paesani, University of California-San Diego
October 21, 2016
Journal Club
October 14, 2016
ECI Tutorial, "Negative Poisson's Ratio in 1T-type Transition Metal Dichalcogenides," presented by Liping Yu
October 7, 2016
ECI Tutorial, "Sources of Shockley-Read-Hall recombination in III-Nitrides," by Dr. Cyrus Dreyer, Rutgers University
September 22, 2016
Grant Writing Panel
September 16, 2016
Journal Club
September 9, 2016
CCDM Seminar, "Defect Engineering in 2-Dimensional Materials: Graphene, Doped-Graphene and Beyond" by Mauricio Terrones
September 2, 2016
ECI Tutorial, "Study of the atomic and electronic structures of 1T-TiSe2 using analytical TEM," presented by Qiao Qiao
August 12, 2016
ECI Tutorial, "Phonons and Density Functional Theory," presented by Himanshu Chakraborty
August 5, 2016
ECI Tutorial, "The Interaction of Atomic Hydrogen with Au under Optical Plasmonic Excitation," presented by Bernardo Barbiellini and Christopher Lane
July 28, 2016
CCDM Tutorial #5, "Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Materials: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications (Part 2)," by Linyou Cao
July 15, 2016
ECI Talk
June 24, 2016
ECI Talk
June 10, 2016
ECI Tutorial, "Exploring Crystal Structure Transformations in Strain-Engineered 2D TMDs" presented by Joel Berry
June 3, 2016
ECI Talk
May 12-13, 2016
2016 CCDM Annual Meeting
May 6, 2016
ECI Talk
April 15, 2016
ECI Talk
April 1, 2016
CCDM Seminar, "The bulk photovoltaic effect in polar oxides for robust and efficient solar energy harvesting" by Andrew Rappe
March 25, 2016
ECI Tutorial, "Microscopic Theories of Excitons in 2D Materials," by Dr. Timothy Berkelbach, Princeton University
March 11, 2016
ECI Talk
March 4, 2016
ECI Tutorial, "Fabrication and STM Characterization of Atomically Thin Molybdenum Disulfide Films" by Dan Trainer
February 5, 2016
ECI Talk, presentation by Richard Remsing
January 22, 2016
CCDM Tutorial #4, Catalysis Tutorial by Dr. Michael Zdilla and Dr. Daniel Strongin
January 15, 2016
ECI Talk, presentation by Du Zhang
January 8, 2016
Project Meeting on Birnessite
+ 2015
December 18, 2015
ECI Tutorial, "Turning a poor catalyst into efficient catalyst: Metal Intercalated Birnessite as a WaterOxidation Catalyst," by Akila Thenuwara
December 11, 2015
ECI Meeting, Admin Q & A with Chau Nguyen and Webex Tutorial with Matt Wolak
December 3, 2015
ECI Talk, presentation by Richard Remsing
November 13, 2015
ECI Tutorial, "A Role for Confined Water in Catalysis by Layered Transition Metal Oxides" presentation by Richard Remsing
November 6, 2015
CCDM Seminar, "Using advanced x-ray techniques to probe fundamental physical interactions in strongly-correlated and two-dimensional electronic systems," by Alex Gray
October 2, 2015
CCDM Tutorial #3, "Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Materials: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications (Part 1)," by Linyou Cao
October 2, 2015
CCDM Seminar, "2D Carbides and Nitrides of Transition Metals (MXenes): Synthesis, Structure and Energy Storage Applications," by Yury Gogotsi
September 18, 2015
CCDM Seminar, "Extraordinary attributes of 2D nanosheets of MoS2 and other materials," by CNR Rao
September 11, 2015
ECI Talk, presented by Haowei Peng
August 26, 2015
Journal Club, organized by Ian McKendry
July 31, 2015
CCDM Tutorial #2: "Optical Properties of Materials" by Dr. Eric Borguet and Dr. Laszlo Frazer
July 29, 2015
Journal Club, organized by Ian McKendry
July 24, 2015
Faculty Round Table, Part 2 of a CDDM-sponsored series aimed at professional development for early career investigators
July 17, 2015
Speed Collaboration, organized by the Early Career Investigator Committee
July 13, 2015
Project Meeting on Birnessite
July 10, 2015
CCDM Tutorial #1: "Density Functional Theory For Non-Theorists: A Tutorial For Physical Scientists Who May Or May Not Hate Equations And Proofs" presented by Dr. John Perdew
June 26, 2015
Academic Faculty Job Search Round Table: A round table discussion with former faculty search committee members and give their perspective on the faculty hiring process in physics and chemistry. Part 1 of a CCDM-sponsored series aimed at professional development for early career investigators
May 22, 2015
7th Early Career Investigator Meeting at Temple University
Lecture of Dr. Jianwei Sun on An accurate and efficient Density Functional
May 4-5, 2015
Annual All-Hands Meeting (Slides and other presentations at this meeting can be found in the password-protected 2015 Annual Meeting page)
April 24, 2015
6th Early Career Investigator Meeting at Temple University
Lecture of Dr. Laszlo Frazer on Electronic and Vibrational Characterization: Outlook for spectroscopic and dynamic discoveries in layered materials at CCDM
April 10, 2015
5th Early Career Investigator Meeting at Temple University
Lecture of Dr. Qing Kang on Fabrication of Functional Nanomaterials based on anodic TiO2 nanotube arrays
April 8, 2015
Project Meeting on Defects
March 27, 2015
4th Early Career Investigator Meeting at Temple University
Open discussion format
March 13, 2015
3rd Early Career Investigator Meeting at Temple University.
Lecture of Ian McKendry on Surface-decoration of layered manganese oxide birnessite by Mn(III) for improved water oxidation catalysis
February 20, 2015
2nd Early Career Investigator Meeting at Temple University.
Lecture of Dr. Haowei Peng on Defects in 2D semiconductors from first principles calculations
February 9, 2015
Solid State Physics Workshop, organized by Loranne Vernisse and Laszlo (post doc fellows in Borguet's group)
February 6, 2015
1st Early Career Investigator Meeting at Temple University,
lecture of Dr. Liping Yu on Literature review. "What would be the high-impact research projects for the CCDM Thrust 2?"
+ 2014
October 20, 2014
Kick Off Meeting at Temple University