Group Meetings

Spring 2011

  • Jul 14 - "Enhancing molecular dynamics by colored-noise thermostats," Michele Ceriotti (University of Oxford)
  • Jun 8 - "Statistical Analysis of Single Molecule Diffusion Measurements and Estimating in vitro Association Rates," Sy Redding
  • Jun 6 - "The detection of hidden structures in glasses and complex systems by multi-scale clustering," Zohar Nussinov (Washington University in St. Louis)
  • May 11 - "Measures of Thermodynamic/Kinetic Behavior in Lattice Glass Models (ct'd)," Richard Darst
  • May 4 - "Measures of Thermodynamic/Kinetic Behavior in Lattice Glass Models," Richard Darst
  • Apr 1 - "Quantum dynamics of coherent excitation energy transfer," Tim Berkelbach
  • Mar 18 - "Introduction to the spin-boson model," Tim Berkelbach
  • Mar 4 - "Role of Lifetime of Dynamical Heterogeneity in Stokes-Einstein Violation of Glass-Forming Liquids," Kang Kim (Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan)
  • Jan 21 - "Finite-Temperature Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo for Bose-Fermi Mixtures," Brenda Rubenstein

Fall 2010

  • Dec 17 - "Tractable inference on regularized Dirichlet distributions," Carl Smith
  • Nov 19 - "Quantum quench from a Luttinger liquid to a band insulator," Tim Berkelbach
  • Nov 5 - "Thermodynamics of several glass formers," Glen Hocky
  • Oct 8 - "Molecular dynamics simulations of conjugated polymers," Kateri DuBay
  • Sep 10 - "Quantum fluctuations can promote or inhibit glass formation," Tom Markland (Berne group)

Summer 2010

  • Jul 30 - "Effects of Berry curvature on the terahertz dynamics of holes in semiconductors," Kuljit Virk
  • Jun 11 - "Transport through magnetic molecules," Florian Elste

Spring 2010

  • Apr 30 - "Many-Body Localization," Tim Berkelbach
  • Apr 16 - "Anderson Localization," Tim Berkelbach
  • Mar 19 - "Journal Club: Hydrophobicity," Kateri DuBay and Glen Hocky
  • Mar 5 - "Lattice Glass Models, Pt II," Richard Darst
  • Feb 19 - "Lattice Glass Models, Pt I," Richard Darst
  • Feb 3 - "Towards the fermion sign problem (less pedagogical)," Brenda Rubenstein
  • Jan 22 - "Fermion lattice models (pedagogical)," Brenda Rubenstein