This is an informal seminar where students, postdocs and faculty discuss research progress as well as plans for future research.
Location: Bevill Building, Room 2006.
Time: Thursday, 5:00 p.m.
Contact: Georg Schwiete
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 25 | First meeting | |
| Sep 8 | Mahmud Shamim |
TBA |
| Sep 22 | Shakeel Ahmad | TBA |
| Oct 6 | Huan Nguyen / Upama Karki | TBA |
| Oct 20 | Gaurav Gupta | TBA |
| Nov 3 | Modi Ke | TBA |
| Nov 17 | Zahidul Jitu | TBA |
| Dec 1 | Nathaniel Lowe | TBA |
Previous Semesters:
Spring 2021
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 21 | First meeting | |
| Feb 18 | Pieter Visscher |
TBA |
| March 04 | Zahidul Jitu | TBA |
| March 18 | Modi Ke
Anish Rai |
TBA |
| April 1 | Bhuwan Nepal
Arjun Sapkota |
TBA |
| April 15 | Ashok Pokhrel
Gaurav Gupta Upama Karki |
TBA
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| April 29 | TBA | TBA |
Fall 2020
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26 | First meeting | |
| Sept 24 | Kayla Cole-Piepke |
Observed effects of magnetism on the calculated stacking fault energies offcc Co and Co-based alloys |
| Oct 08 | Gaurav Gupta
Ehsan Zolghadr |
Hall Conductivity of Thin Films of Topological Insulators
PVDF microfiltration (MF) membrane modification to improve antibacterial performance for water treatment application
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| Oct 22 | Modi Ke
Arjun Sapkota |
Floquet topological insulators
TBA |
| Nov 5 | Bhuwan Nepal
Upama Karki |
Skyrmion based artificial neuron device
Investigation of competing anisotropies in exchange biased nanostructures |
| Nov 19 | Ashok Pokhrel
Zahidul Islam Jitu |
Micromagnetic simulations of the quasi-static properties of dissimilar bilayers
Thermopower of the two-dimensional disordered electron gas
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| Dec 3 | Kaio Marques | Review of Machine Learning Techniques to Identification and Characterization of Skyrmions |
Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 16 | Best research practices for PhD students | |
| Jan 30 | Georg Schwiete |
Introduction to Boltzmann transport theory I |
| Feb 14 | Georg Schwiete | Introduction to Boltzmann transport theory II |
| Feb 27 | Claudia Mewes | Magnetic Materials and Micromagnetics |
| March 12 | Gaurav Gupta
Zahidul Jitu |
Integer Hall effect
Thermoelectric Transport in Electronic Systems at Low Temperatures |
| April 9 | Bhuwan Nepal
Arjun Sapkota Mahmoud Asmar |
TBA
Magnetic skyrmion-based artificial neuron device Floquet control of periodically driven magnetic lateral heterostructure |
| Dec 5 | Ashok Pokhrel
Modi Ke |
Bilayer Vertical inhomogeneity in Micromagnetics
Exchange Interaction Between Magnetic Adatoms in Irradiated Graphene |
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Sept 12 | Wang-Kong Tse | Introduction to Interlayer Interaction in Layered 2D Materials |
| Sept 26 | Arjun Sapkota |
Anisotropic damping in multilayer spintronics devices |
| Oct 10 | Gaurav Gupta
Zahidul Jitu |
postponed |
| Oct 24 | Ashok Pokhrel | Determination of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Ultrathin Films and Multilayer Structures Using First Principles |
| Nov 7 | Modi Ke
Gaurav Gupta Zahidul Jitu |
Introduction to RKKY interaction
Light propagation through a 1D photonic lattice Entropy, specific heat, susceptibility, and Rushbrooke inequality in percolation |
| Nov 21 | Woo-Ram Lee
Kayla Cole-Piepke |
Thermo-magneto-electric transport in correlated electron systems at intermediate temperatures
Observed effects of magnetism on calculated stacking fault energy of fcc Co |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 14 | Claudia Mewes | Computational Methods in Magnetism: From First Principles to Magnetization Dynamics |
| Feb 28 | Woo-Ram Lee |
Electric and thermal transport in 2D disordered electron systems at intermediate temperatures |
| March 21 | Arjun Sapkota | Origin of higher order anisotropy and limitations of the macrospin approximation of materials with inhomogeneous perpendicular anisotropy |
| April 4 | Phuong Nguyen | Density Matrix Theory for Photo-Induced Valley Hall Conductivity in Two-Dimensional Dirac Semiconductors |
| April 18 | Mahmoud Asmar | Interlayer RKKY Coupling in Bulk Rashba Semiconductors under Topological Phase Transition |
| May 2 | Modi Ke | RKKY interaction of 2D material with light |
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 10 | Arjun Sapkota | Limitations of the macrospin approximation of materials with inhomogeneous perpendicular anisotropy |
| Sep 24 | Georg Schwiete | Transport of charge, heat and spin in electronic systems – recent progress and future plans |
| Oct 8 | Ashok Pokhrel | Determination of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Ultrathin Films and Multilayer Structures using First Principles |
| Oct 22 | Wang-Kong Tse | Quantum Dynamics in Van Der Waals Materials |
| Nov 5 | Kayla Cole | First principles calculations of stacking fault energies of Co-based alloys |
| Nov 19 | Mahmoud Asmar | Interface symmetries and spin control in topological insulator-semiconductor heterostructures |