2014 Kick Off Meeting

SCHEDULE

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Monday, October 20, 2014

[8:30am-10:00am]

• John Perdew, Thrust I, Overview Of The Energy Frontier Research Center: Center For The Computational Design Of Functional Layered Materials
• Gustavo Scuseria, Thrust I, Research in the Scuseria Group
• Arun Bansil

Coffee Break - [10:00am-10:30am]
 
[10:30am-12:00pm]

• David Srolovitz, Thrust III
• Xiaoxing Xi, Thrust IV, Thrust IV: Growth and Characterization of Layered Materials
• Daniel Strongin, Thrust V, Catalysis & Water‐Splitting in Layered Materials

Lunch break  - [12:00pm-1:00pm]
 
[1:00pm-2:30pm]

• Weitao Yang, Thrust I, Introduction and Work Plans—EFRC‐Temple
• Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Thrust II, Electronic Structure of Layered Semiconductors
• Jianwei Sun, Thrust II, Testing Density Funcitonals for Layered Materials and Studies on Their Defects

Coffee Break - [2:30pm-3:00pm]

Session 2: Extensions
SERC room 110

• Eric Borguet, Thrust IV, Borguet Group Research Overview
• Goran Karapetrov, Thrust IV, Dichalcogenide Single Crystal Growth and Atomic Scale Characterization
• Linyou Cao, Thrust V, Our Success in Controlled Scalable Synthesis!
• Michael Zdilla, Thrust V, The Zdilla Lab at Temple University

[4:00pm-4:30pm] - General discussion and breakout sessions
Poster presentations:

• Du Zhang, Thrust I, Dynamical Second‐Order Bethe‐Salpeter Electronic Excitations
• Du Zhang, Thrust I, Analytic Gradient, Geometry Optimization and Excited State Potential Energy Surfaces from pp‐RPA
• Sepideh Afsari and Zhihai Li, Thrust IV, Orientation‐Controlled Single Molecule Junctions
• Devika Sil, Kyle D. Gilroy, Aurelia Niaux, Abdelaziz Boulesbaa, Svetlana Neretina, Thrust IV, Hot Electron Based Gold Nanoplasmonic Optical Hydrogen Sensor

Dinner - [6:00pm]
Rhoades Room of the Diamond Club (Mitten Hall) with cash bar