LI/LA-SiGMA Seminar Series

The LONI Institute/LA-SiGMA seminar series started in September 2010 and is designed to provide a strong platform for interactions between various elements of the LONI Institute and LA-SiGMA. It is also expected to improve the general research atmosphere, and provide Louisiana researchers a greater exposure to cutting edge methodologies. The seminars are being conducted on a revolving basis where the participating sites take their turn in hosting a speaker. Out of state speakers are also welcome as they can contribute strongly to broader goals of the LONI Institute and LA-SiGMA. This semester, the seminar committee is John DiTusa, Zhiqiang Mao, Revati Kumar, and Ken Lopata.

The talks are meant to bring a greater degree of cohesion and a better collaborative atmosphere. Below you can find a list of current and prior seminars. Please check back for constant updates on speakers and locations. LA-SiGMA is also facilitating an upgrade of HD devices so that in future, these talks can be better disseminated.

The talks are broadcast using HD videoconferencing to all LA-SiGMA universities. The locations at each campus are shown below.

Please send any suggestions for speakers to John DiTusa at ditusa -AT- phys.lsu.edu edu and Bety Rodriguez at brodrig - AT- cct.lsu.edu.

Spring Schedule 2015

ALL talks are available at LSU, LA Tech, SUBR, Tulane, UNO, and Xavier, via HD videoconferencing.

Date/Time	Speaker	Title	Location
Wednesday February 4 3:30 p.m.	Liusuo Wu, Stony Brook University	Spinon excitations in one dimensional magnet Yb2Pt2Pb	1008B Digital Media Center, LSU
Wednesday March 11 3:00 p.m.	Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center	Atomic-scale Magnetism on a Complex Surface	600 Lindy Boggs, Tulane
Wednesday March 18 3:30 p.m.	Jim Sauls, Northwestern University	Discovery of broken time-reversal symmetry and topological edge states in chiral superconductors and superfluids	1008B Digital Media Center, LSU
Wednesday March 25 3:30 p.m.	Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida	Theory of disorder and quasiparticle interference in superconductors	1008B Digital Media Center, LSU
Wednesday April 1 3:30 p.m.	John Keith, University of Pittsburgh	Exploring CO2 Conversion into Commodity Chemicals with First Principles Quantum Chemistry	1008B Digital Media Center, LSU
Wednesday April 15 3:30 p.m.	Adrian Roitberg, University of Florida	Computational studies of energy transfer in dendrimers	1008B Digital Media Center, LSU
Wednesday April 22 3:00 p.m.	Paulette Clancy, Cornell University	Aggregation and its Mitigation in Graphene Nanoribbons	600 Lindy Boggs, Tulane
Wednesday April 29 3:00 p.m.	Doug Natelson, Rice University	Nanostructures and strongly correlated materials	600 Lindy Boggs, Tulane
Wednesday May 6 3:30 p.m.	Neeraj Rai, Mississippi State University	Modeling Complex Chemical Systems: Insights in Catalytic Activity of Sn-Beta Zeolite and Thermophysical Property Prediction	211 Nethken Hall, LATech
Wednesday May 13 3:30 p.m.	Mina Yoon, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, ORNL	Towards controlled growth of low-dimensional organic semiconductors on substrates: a theoretical understanding of their interaction mechanisms	1008B Digital Media Center, LSU

Broadcast locations

LASiGMA members can obtain more information about the series or formalize a talk, through their local point-of-contact.

Site	Event Location	Faculty Contact	IT Contact
LSU	1008B Digital Media Center	John DiTusa, ditusa AT phys.lsu.edu	Terrie Bordelon, tbordelon AT cct.lsu.edu
Louisiana Tech	211 Nethken Hall	Ramu Ramachandran, ramu AT latech.edu	Abdul Khaliq, khaliq AT latech.edu
Tulane	600 Lindy Boggs	Alexander Burin, aburin AT, Zhiqiang Mao, zmao AT, Yu Zhang, Yzhang1 AT tulane.edu	Derek Toten, derek AT, Don Elbers, delbers AT tulane.edu
UNO	Liberal Arts Building, Room 234	Steve Rick, srick AT uno.edu	Mike Adler, madler AT uno.edu
Southern University, Baton Rouge	211 J. B. Moore Hall	Diola Bagayoko, bagayoko AT, Lashounda Franklin, Lfranklin2002 AT aol.com	Marcus Brown, marcus_brown AT subr.edu
Xavier University	Qatar Pavilion Conference, Room 226	Vladimir Kolesnichenko, vkolesni AT xula.edu	Yamlak Tsega, ytsega AT xula.edu

Past Events

Fall Schedule 2014

Date/Time	Speaker	Title	Locations
September 3 3:30 p.m.	Helmut Katzgraber, Texas A & M University	Quantum computers: Are we there yet?	1008B Digital Media Center at LSU. Available at 243 Lindy Boggs, Tulane, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, via HD Videoconferencing.
October 1 3:00 p.m.	Jaqueline Cole, University of Cambridge	Designing New Classes of Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Molecular Engineering Approach	600 Lindy Boggs, Tulane Available at LSU, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via HD Videoconferencing.
October 15 3:30 p.m.	Theresa Head Gordon, University of California, Berkeley	Methods and Models and Software for Molecular Simulation	1008B Digital Media Center at LSU. Available at 600 Lindy Boggs, Tulane, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, via HD Videoconferencing.
October 22 3:00 p.m.	Congjun Wu, University of California, San Diego	Exact Results on Itinerant Ferromagnetism in Multi-orbital Systems on Square and Cubic Lattices	600 Lindy Boggs, Tulane Available at LSU, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via HD Videoconferencing.
October 29 3:30 p.m.	Mina Yoon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Postponed until Spring 2015.	1008B Digital Media Center at LSU. Available at 600 Lindy Boggs, Tulane, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, via HD Videoconferencing.
November 5 3:00 p.m.	Matt Sfeir, Brookhaven National Laboratory	Novel Singlet Fission Processes in Organic Semiconductors	600 Lindy Boggs, Tulane Available at LSU, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via HD Videoconferencing.
November 12 3:30 p.m.	Joseph Herzog, University of Arkansas	The design and characterization of plasmonic nanostructures and photonic crystals	1008B Digital Media Center at LSU. Available at 600 Lindy Boggs, Tulane, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, via HD Videoconferencing.
November 19 3:30 p.m.	Richard Scalettar, University of California, Davis	Superconducting Transition in a Flat Band	1008B Digital Media Center at LSU. Available at 600 Lindy Boggs, Tulane, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, via HD Videoconferencing.
December 3 3:30 p.m.	Chris Jacobsen, Argonne National Laboratory	TBD	1008B Digital Media Center at LSU. Available at 600 Lindy Boggs, Tulane, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, via HD Videoconferencing.

Spring Schedule 2014

Date/Time	Speaker	Title	Locations
January 17 3:30 p.m.	Premala Chandra, Rutgers University	Hastatic Order in URu2sI2	243 Lindy Boggs, Tulane Available at LSU, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
February 19 3:00 p.m.	Volker Blum Duke University	First Principles for Real Nanosystems:When Size and Accuracy Matter	204 Joseph Merrick Jones Memorial Hall, at Tulane University Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
February 26 3:30 p.m.	Michael Mascagni Florida State University	Monte Carlo Methods and Partial Differential Equations: Algorithms and Implications for High-Performance Computing	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
March 12 3:30 p.m.	Serdar Ogut University of Illinois, Chicago	Electronic and Optical Excitations in Confined Nanostructures: Density Functional versus Many-Body versus Classical Theories	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
March 19 3:30 p.m.	Matthew Escarra Tulane University	Photonic Solutions for 21st Century Problems: Quantum cascade lasers, optical metamaterials, and full spectrum solar energy conversion	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
March 26 3:30 p.m.	Bumsoo Han Purdue University	Engineering of Biomaterials using Hierarchical Poroelasticity	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, via HD Videoconferencing.
April 2 3:30 p.m.	James Allen University of Michigan	Topologically protected surface conduction in SmB6 – new solution to a thirty year old mystery	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via HD Videoconferencing.
April 9 3:30 p.m.	Priya Vashishta University of Southern California	Atomistic Simulations of Hard Matter, Soft Matter and Doesn’t Matter	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via HD Videoconferencing.
April 16 3:30 p.m.	Jian Wang Los Alamos National Laboratory	Deformation Twinning Mechanisms in FCC, BCC and HCP Metals	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via HD Videoconferencing.
April 23 3:30 p.m.	David Cory University of Waterloo	Realizing Quantum Information Processors	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via HD Videoconferencing.
April 30 3:30 p.m.	Gleb Yushin Georgia Tech	Nanostructured Composites for Energy Storage Applications	LATech - 122 Nethken Hall. Also available at LSU, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via HD Videoconferencing.
May 7 3:30 p.m.	David Sherrill Georgia Tech	Modeling and Visualizing Non-Covalent Interactions	UNO - 250 Liberal Arts Building Available at LSU, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via HD Videoconferencing.

Schedule Fall 2013

Date/Time	Speaker	Title	Locations
Sept. 11 3:30 p.m.	Igor Tupitsyn, University of British Columbia	On the road to Quantum Computations: Quantum Decoherence	243 Lindy Boggs, Tulane Available at LSU, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Sept. 18 3:30 p.m.	N. Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University	How to Kill a Topological Insulator?	1008B in the Digital Media Center, 5LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Oct. 9 3:30 p.m.	Theo Siegrist, FAMU-FSU	Exploratory Crystal Growth using Metal Fluxes	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Oct. 16 3:30 p.m.	Rafael Fernandes, University of Minnesota	What role does nematicity play in the high-temperature superconductivity of the iron pnictides?	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Oct. 23 3:30 p.m.	Mario Cuoco, Università degli Studi di Salerno	Spin-triplet superconductors: interface to intinerant ferromadnets and magnetic edge states	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Oct. 30 3:30 p.m.	Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin at Madison	Pairing mechanism and gap symmetry in Fe-based superconductors with only electron or only hole pockets	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Nov. 6 3:30 p.m.	Brian Sales, Oakridge National Laboratory	Surprises in Material Physics	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Nov. 13 3:30 p.m.	Jiang Wei, Tulane University	Nanostructure engineering: probing phase transition and unexpected hydrogen storage in single-crystal vanadium dioxide micro/nanobeam.	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Nov. 20 3:30 p.m.	Daniel Dessau, University of Colorado	What Sets the Tc in Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors?	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Dec. 4 3:30 p.m.	Noa Marom, Tulane University	The Electronic Structure of Dye-Sensitized TiO2 Clusters	1008B in the Digital Media Center, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.

Schedule | SPRING 2013

January 2013
Date/Time	Speaker	Title	Locations
Jan. 23 3:30 p.m.	Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University	High-Throughput Searches for Electronic Materials in AflowLib.org: Robustness and Fragility of Topological Insulators	Tilton Hall 305, Tulane Available at LSU, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Jan. 30 3:30 p.m.	Perla Balbuena, Texas A&M University	Nanoporous Metal Catalysts: Synthesis, Activity, and Stability	PML 1016, LA Tech Available at LSU, UNO, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
February 2013
Feb. 6 3:30 p.m.	Paul Canfield, Iowa State University	Cooking, Fishing and Jogging through Phase Space: A Practical Guide to Discovering (and Understanding) New Materials	Tilton Hall 305, Tulane Available at LSU, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Feb. 13 3:30 p.m.	Kevin Osborn, University of Maryland	Two-Level System Material Defects in Superconducting Qubit Dielectrics	Tilton Hall 305, Tulane Available at LSU, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Feb. 20 3:30 p.m.	Alex Zunger, University of Colorado at Boulder	Deliberate Discovery of Missing Materials and the "Inverse Problem": Given a Desired, Target Property, Find the Structure	At 338 Johnston Hall, LSU Available at LA Tech, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Feb. 27 3:30 p.m.	David Bruce, Clemson University	Catalysis: Making the Quantum Leap to Tomorrow's Fuels	At LA Tech, PML 1014 Available at LSU, UNO, SUBR, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
March 2013
March 6 3:30 p.m.	Randy Snurr, Northwestern University	Molecular Modeling of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Energy and Environmental	At 338 Johnston Hall, LSU Available at LA Tech, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
March 22 (Friday) 3:30 p.m.	Steve Zinkle, ORNL	Materials Under Extreme Environments: Fission and Fusion Energy	Frank H. Walk Design Presentation Room, LSU Available at LA Tech, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
April 2013
April 3 3:30 p.m.	Andrey Dobrynin, University of Connecticut	Electrostatic Interactions in Polymers And Soft Matter	At 338 Johnston Hall, LSU Available at LA Tech, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
April 10 11:30 a.m.	Laurie O'Brien, Tulane University	Increasing Diversity in STEM: Understanding How Stereotypes Create Barriers to Participation and Performance	At the LA-SiGMA Technical Conference, Marriott Hotel, Baton Rouge
April 10 3:30 p.m.	Martha Greenblatt, Rutgers University	Tuning the Properties of Low-Dimensional Transition Metal Oxides	At the LA-SiGMA Technical Conference, Marriott Hotel, Baton Rouge
April 19 (Friday) 3:30 p.m.	Ken Poppelmeier, Northwestern University	TBA	At Life Sciences Annex A101, LSU Available at LA Tech, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
April 24 3:30 p.m.	Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota	TBA	At 338 Johnston Hall, LSU Available at LA Tech, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
May 2013
May 8 3:30 p.m.	Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University	TBA	At 338 Johnston Hall, LSU Available at LA Tech, UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.

Schedule | FALL 2012

October 2012
Date/Time	Speaker	Title	Locations
Oct. 3 3:30 p.m.	David Carver, Carver Scientific, Inc.	"Energy, Energy Storage, and Organic Synthesis: A Unique Scientific Interdisciplinary Approach."	338 Johnston Hall, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Oct. 10 Live at LSU	Gang Cao, University of Kentucky	"Spin-Orbit Tuned Ground States in Single-Crystal Iridates" -- (PDF)	338 Johnston Hall, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, SUBR, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Oct. 17 Live at LSU	Jaime Fernandez-Baca, ORNL	"Neutron Scattering at the Spallation Neutron Source and the High-Flux Isotope Reactor in Oak Ridge National Laboratory"	338 Johnston Hall, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, SUBR, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
-Canceled- Oct. 24 Live at Tulane	Philip Stamp, University of British Colombia	"Coherence and Decoherence in Molecular Magnets"	242 Lindy Boggs, Tulane Available at LSU, UNO, LA Tech, SUBR, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Oct. 31 Live at LSU	Brian Moritz, Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences & Northern Illinois University	"Time-resolved spectroscopy in correlated electron materials"	307 Frey, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, SUBR, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
November 2012
Nov. 7 Live at LSU	David Singh, ORNL	"Transport in Thermoelectric Materials"	338 Johnston Hall, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, SUBR, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
Nov. 30 Live at LSU	Greg Voth, University of Chicago	"Theory and Simulation of Biomolecular Systems: Surmounting the Challenge of Bridging the Scales" (Video)	A-101 Life Sciences Annex Auditorium, LSU Available at UNO, LA Tech, SUBR, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.
December 2012
Dec. 5 Live at Tulane	Gustavo Scuseria, Rice University	"Symmetry Breaking and Restoration"	242 Lindy Boggs, Tulane Available at LSU, UNO, LA Tech, SUBR, and Xavier, and via Adobe Connect.

Schedule | SPRING 2012

February 2012
Date/Time	Speaker	Title
Feb 15 10 a.m. Live at LSU	Karol Kowalski	"Coupled-Cluster and Configuration-Interaction Methods in Terms That Even Physicist can Understand"
Feb 24 3:30 p.m. Live at LSU	Peter Nordlander	"Plasmonic Nanostructures: Artificial Molecules"
March 2012
March 13 11 a.m. Live at LA Tech	Ras Pandey	"Multigrain Computational Approach to Morphing Nanostructures."
March 21 10 a.m. Live at LSU	Kieron Burke	TBA
April 2012
April 11 10 a.m. Live at LSU	Vaclav Janis	TBA

Schedule | FALL 2011

September 2011
Date/Time	Speaker	Title
TBA

Schedule | SPRING 2011

January 2011
Date/Time	Speaker	Title
Jan 26 1 p.m. Live at LATech	Sven-Bodo Scholz	"How to have your cake and eat it too: High-Productivity and High-Performance with Multicores"
February 2011
Feb 22 2 p.m. Live at LSU	Piers Coleman	"Composite and hidden order in f-electron materials and the lessons we are learning"
March 2011
March 15 2 p.m. Live at LSU	Steven O. Nielsen	"Adaptive multiscale molecular dynamics simulations of soft matter"
March 29 2 p.m. Live at LATech	Jianliang Qian	"Fast algorithms for high frequency waves and applications in kinetic inverse problems"
April 2011
April 12 2 p.m. Live at LSU	Les Butler	"3D+ X-ray and Neutron Imaging in Materials Science for Energy: Hydrogen Storage and Batteries"
April 26 2 p.m. Live at UNO	Dr. Jake Y. Chen	"Computational drug discovery using translational bioinformatics tools"
May 2011
May 10 2 p.m. Live at LSU	Wei Ku	"What do the rich magnetic structures of iron-based superconductors teach us about their electronic structure?"
May 24 2 p.m. Live at LATech	Le Zhang	"Using multi-scale and multi-resolution model with Graphics processing Unit (GPU) to simulate real-time actual cancer progression"
Jun 2011
Jun 1 2 p.m. Live at UNO	Valeri Petkov	"Nanostructure by high-energy XRD and atomic pair distribution functions"

Schedule | FALL 2010

September 2010
Date/Time	Speaker	Title
Sep 9 Live at LSU	D. Moldovan	"Atomistic Simulation Studies Of Interfacial Phenomena In Biomolecular Systems"
Sep 16 Live at LATech	S. Dua	"Robust Data Mining and Fusion CyberTools for Knowledge Discovery"
Sep 30 Live at SUBR	D. Bagayoko	"A Mathematical Solution to the Theoretical Underestimation of Energy and Band Gaps and Applications to the Search of Novel Materials"
October 2010
Oct 7 Live at ULL	C. Christov	"In the search of of 2D Boussinesq solutions: a numerical approach"
Oct 21 Live at SUBR	M. Gao	"Developing High-Temperature Alloys for Fossil Energy Applications"
November 2010
Nov 4 Live at Tulane	V. Kolesnichenko	"Iron Oxide Molecular Clusters as Building Blocks of Non-volatile Memory"
Nov 9 Live at Tulane	T. Bishop	"Many Big Jobs: Computing in the eXtreme Digital Era"
Nov 18 Live at UNO	S. Patel	"Recent Progress In Development And Application Of Non-Additive Interaction Models For Molecular Simulations Of Biophysical And Physicochemical Systems"
December 2010
Dec 9 Live at LSU	V. Lubchenko	" The intrinsic midgap electronic states in semiconductor glasses "

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