Condensed Matter Seminar Series

The purpose of this seminar series is to bring to the Institute the international experts focusing on a broad variety of problems in condensed matter physics and materials science. The talks cover all kinds of theoretical, computational and experimental problems with a strong emphasis on the integration of theory (computation) and experiment. This seminar series is sponsored by the Marie-Curie International Re-integration Grant "MesoPhysDef" No. 207745.

List of past speakers:

November 20, 2012
Dr. Thomas Hammerschmidt
ICAMS / Ruhr Universität Bochum (Germany)
"From density-functional theory to analytic bond-order potentials: Application to topologically close-packed phases"


January 30, 2012
Dr. Duc Nguyen-Manh
Culham Science Centre, UKAEA, Abingdon (UK)
"Advances in Multi-scale Modeling of Structural Stability and Radiation Defects in Materials for Nuclear Fusion Power Plants"


December 7-9, 2011
Dr. Francisco José Pérez-Reche
University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland (UK)
"Simple models for materials exhibiting complex behaviour"


November 24-26, 2011
Prof. István Groma
Eötvös University, Budapest (Hungary)
"Toward a continuum theory of dislocations"


May 26-28, 2011
Dr. Turab Lookman
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (USA)
"Statistical Learning for Materials Discovery and Design"


May 10-13, 2011
Dr. Daniel Caillard
CEMES, Toulouse (France)
"Dislocation kinetics in Fe and Fe alloys investigated by in situ TEM straining experiments "


April 11-13, 2011
Prof. Peter D. Nellist
University of Oxford, Department of Materials (UK)
"Applications of aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy to atomic resolution and 3D imaging"


February 28 - March 3, 2011
Prof. Jean-Pierre Julien
CNRS - Institut Néel, Grenoble (France)
"Electronic structure of strongly correlated electrons materials: I. Concepts and applications"
"Electronic structure of strongly correlated electrons materials: II. New efficient solver of the Anderson impurity model"
(2 talks)

January 25-28, 2011
Dr. Panagiotis Maniadis
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (USA)
"Mesoscopic Ginzburg-Landau modeling of layered transition metal oxides"