Group Seminar Winter Semester 2016/17

Format: Presentation and discussion of interesting literature, numerical or technical facts, tools and fundamental questions of science Informal scientific get-together with coffee and biscuits

Date: Tuesdays, 4:00 pm (16:00), unless stated otherwise

Room: CH 63214 (Seminar Room TUM.computational)

Date Speaker Title
18.10.2016 (10.15am) David Egger Cavity Optimization for Implicit Solvent Models (Presentation of Master Thesis)
21.10.2016 (Friday, 2.15pm) Alberto Perez de Alba Ortiz Adaptive QM/MM simulations of proton transfer in water with an energy based reaction coordinate (Presentation of Master Thesis)
08.11.2016 Prof. Tejs Vegge (Technical University of Denmark) Computational methods for accelerated DFT-based design of energy materials (PC/ThC colloquium)
06.12.2016 Christian Kunkel (University of Würzburg) Application talk for PhD position
20.12.2016 Vanessa Jane Bukas PhD Defense Talk
10.01.2017 Prof. Suljo Linic (University of Michigan) Catalytic reactions on optically excited plasmonic metal nanoparticles
24.01.2017 Prof. Natália Cordeiro (Universidade do Porto) Unravelling the Synthesis of Mesoporous Silica Materials by a Multi-scale Simulation Approach
31.01.2017 Dr. Daniel Opalka Multiscale electronic structure theory for strongly correlated molecules and materials
07.02.2017 (3.30pm) Dr. Ville Havu (Aalto University) Developing and using FHI-aims
14.02.2017 (2pm) Sina Stocker Studying surface kinetics: Calculation of CO-NO lateral interaction parameter using density functional theory (Presentation of MSc Internship)