DATE   PRESENTER TITLE

Fall 2020

 

09/01/2020 Kristen Fichthorn Faculty Meeting
09/08/2020 Kristen Fichthorn Welcome to Fall 2020
09/15/2020 Matt Grisewood Career at Schrödinger, Inc. R&D 
09/22/2020

Cassie Rosas-Carson, Career Services Center

Virtual recruiting season and virtual networking
09/29/2020 Steven Arturo Career at R&D Dow Chemical
10/06/2020

 

TBA
10/13/2020 TBA
10/20/2020 VMD Team VMD Team Presentation (different time than usual: 6-7pm)
10/27/2020 Manish Kumar, UT Austin How to make an interdisciplinary research successful?
11/03/2020

Jessica Schulze

TBA
11/10/2020 Amir Sheikhi How to make successful transition from grad school to career in academia?
11/17/2020 AlChE no meeting
12/01/2020 MRS no meeting
12/08/2020 TBA

 

 

 

Spring 2020 

01/21/2020 Ben Evangelisti
01/28/2020 Kristen Fichthorn Faculty Meeting
02/04/2020 J. Wesley Scala Stress management workshop
02/11/2020 Steven Baksa First-Principles Modeling of Photocatalytic Water Splitting on Bi2WO6 and Bi2MoO6
02/18/2020 Cassie Rosas-Carson Interview Training workshop
02/25/2020 James Goff

 Cluster expansions and applications to electrode solution interfaces
\03/03/2020  APS meeting
03/10/2020 Spring break
03/17/2020 Lance Westerhoff Lance Westerhoff from QuantumBio Inc. will be our guest speaker to discuss: A transition form grad school to private business.
03/24/2020 ASC meeting
03/31/2020 Samir Mushrif, University of Alberta, Canada zoom meeting: First–principles-based catalyst and solvent design for the processing of alternative feedstocks.
04/07/2020 Margaret Kowalik CoMET overview
04/14/2020 Martin Gmitra,Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia zoom meeting:
04/21/2020 Mark Bronson

04/28/2020 Jacob Robbins

 Calculating DC-Conductivity in Graphene with Substitutional Disorder

Fall 2019

09/05/2019 Faculty meeting
09/03/2019 Kristen Fichthorn Organizational Meeting
09/10/2019 Eric Hudson How to plan your teaching career
09/17/2019 Scott Milner Capstone project
09/24/2019 Michael Alley How to prepare a research presentation
10/01/2019 Brett Green

Pressure-Driven Landau Level Phases in Bilayer Graphene
10/08/2019 Naveen Agraval  Mechanistic investigations for electrocatalytic oxidation of furfural
10/15/2019 Pallavi Eswara, Director, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs What comes after graduation
10/22/2019 Jeff Becca Simulating molecular properties
10/29/2019 Ben Katz TBA
11/05/2019 Gaurav Kumar Post-CoMET experience in a real world 
11/19/2019 Nicole Hall TBA
12/10/2019 Angela Nguyen

TBA

Spring 2019

01/08/2019 Faculty meeting
01/15/2019 Kristen Fichthorn Organizational Meeting
01/22/2019 Joel Bombile Tight Binding Model of Charge Localization and Excitons in Semiconducting Polymers
01/29/2019 Pallavi Eswara, Director, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs An interactive seminar on crafting your CV & Resume.
02/05/2019 Clive A. Randall Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and the Director of Materials Research Institute DISCUSSION: How to succeed in your postdoc training or transition to a faculty position?
02/012/2019 Dr. Robert Orndorff, Senior Director of Career Service Center

The workshop is rescheduled to 3/12/2019 due to UP classes cancelation.
20/19/2019 Dr. Nadire Nayir  ReaxFF force field development for Application of Migration-Enhanced Encapsulated Growth Technique: 2D Ga modeling.
02/26/2019 Garrett DuCharme Dynamics of Hydroxyls on the Fully Hydroxylated α-Al2O3(0001) Surface: A Study with Density Functional Theory-Molecular Dynamics.
03/12/2019 Dr. Robert Orndorff, Senior Director of Career Service Center Career Service workshop: learn about your career resources
03/19/2019 Kate Penrod Modeling the Hydrated Electron Using DFT and
eReaxFF
03/26/2019 Dr. Patrick Dudas, Data Visualization Software Engineer Data visualization worshop
03/30/2019 Prof. Carolee Bull 3h workshop by Carolee Bull on Saturday 03/30/2019 10am-1pm: How to be your own mentor?
04/09/2019 Jeff Becca Doubly-resonant infrared-visible sum frequency generation of a push-pull azobenzene compound
04/16/2019 Mark Hagemann Fitting Tight-binding Parameters from DFT Results for Use in Large Systems – Computation of Energy Levels in Metalattices.
04/23/2019 James Goff Preferential Dissolution of Platinum Nanoparticles: Implicit and Explicit Solvation Effects

 Fall 2018

08/28/2018 Faculty meeting
09/04/2018 Margaret Kowalik Chemistry of Carbon Fiber Conversion with ReaxFFMolecular Dynamic Simulations
09/11/2018 Jordan Barr First-Principles Investigation of the Tribology of Silica Structures
09/18/2018 no CoMET seminar; Donald Brenner seminar: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM, 301A Chemistry Building: Computation, Simulation and Modeling in Materials Science and Engineering: Some Examples from Nuclear Materials and High-Entropy Ceramics.
09/25/2018 Brett Bixler Creating website in sites.psu.edu
10/02/2018 Kate Penrod
10/09/2018 Michael Alley Essence of Grammar Needed for Research Writing
10/16/2018 Michael Alley The Lost Craft of Connecting Ideas in Research Writing
10/23/2018 Garrett DuCharme Dynamics of Hydroxyls on the Fully Hydroxylated α-Al2O3(0001) Surface: A Study with Density Functional Theory-Molecular Dynamics
10/30/2018 no seminar AlChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh: 10/28/2018-11/02/2018
11/06/2018 Naveen Agrawal
11/13/2018 Brandon Bocklund Rapid Development and Uncertainty Quantification of CALPHAD Databases via Automated First Principles Calculations
11/27/2018 no seminar Thanksgiving
11/27/2018 Zachary Ulissi Enabling Catalyst Data Science with Active Optimization for Compositionally-Diverse Materials
12/04/2018 Zihao Chen Cooperative Role of Chloride and HDA in Promoting the Growth of Copper Nanowires

 

 

08/28/2018 Faculty meeting
09/04/2018 Margaret Kowalik Chemistry of Carbon Fiber Conversion with ReaxFFMolecular Dynamic Simulations
09/11/2018 Jordan Barr First-Principles Investigation of the Tribology of Silica Structures
09/18/2018 no CoMET seminar; Donald Brenner seminar: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM, 301A Chemistry Building: Computation, Simulation and Modeling in Materials Science and Engineering: Some Examples from Nuclear Materials and High-Entropy Ceramics.
09/25/2018 Brett Bixler Creating website in sites.psu.edu
10/02/2018 Kate Penrod
10/09/2018 Michael Alley Essence of Grammar Needed for Research Writing
10/16/2018 Michael Alley The Lost Craft of Connecting Ideas in Research Writing
10/23/2018 Garrett DuCharme Dynamics of Hydroxyls on the Fully Hydroxylated α-Al2O3(0001) Surface: A Study with Density Functional Theory-Molecular Dynamics
10/30/2018 no seminar AlChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh: 10/28/2018-11/02/2018
11/06/2018 Naveen Agrawal
11/13/2018 Brandon Bocklund Rapid Development and Uncertainty Quantification of CALPHAD Databases via Automated First Principles Calculations
11/27/2018 no seminar Thanksgiving
11/27/2018 Zachary Ulissi Enabling Catalyst Data Science with Active Optimization for Compositionally-Diverse Materials
12/04/2018 Zihao Chen Cooperative Role of Chloride and HDA in Promoting the Growth of Copper Nanowires