NQPI Seminar Series
Seminar Schedule
Fall 2026
- Sep 3: "Formation and Stability of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Surfactants at Metal-Water Interfaces Studied Using Molecular Simulations" Sumit Sharma from Ohio University
- Sep 10: "Welcome Address" Jixin Chen from Ohio University
- Sep 17: "Heteroleptic Sandwich Complexes [(Tp3R,5R)M(Bp3R′,5R′)]: Semi-“agostic” B–H Coordination, Spin Crossover and Catalysis" Michael Jensen from Ohio University
- Sep 24: "Hydration Free Energies of Alkanes and Surfactants Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation" Yalda Ramezani from Ohio University
- Oct 1: "Altermagnetism: Properties and Microscopic Models" Merce Roig Server from Univ Wisconsin Madison
- Oct 8: "SCACS: Simulator Collection for Atomic to Continuum Scales" Chinonso Ugwumadu from Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Oct 15: "Investigations into New Approaches for Synthesis, Transfer, and Device Fabrication of Two-Dimensional Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS₂)" Muhammad Tariq from Ohio University
- Oct 22: "Building and Probing Thin Films and Heterostructures of TMDs and Kagome Metals" Pengpeng Zhang from Michigan State
- Oct 29: Anna Mather (UCM) and "Confinement-Induced Membrane Blebbing in Breast Cancer Cells: A Microfluidic Approach" Debalina Chakraborty from Ohio University
- Nov 5: "Minimizing Non-Specific Binding of Oligonucleotides to Glass Surface via PEGylation" Umar Umaru from Ohio University
- Nov 12: Weiqiang Yuan from Ohio University
- Nov 19: Hitesh Changlani from Florida State University
- Dec 3: Pavithra Ariyaratne from Ohio University
Spring 2026
- Jan. 15: "Welcoming Address" | Jixin Chen from Ohio University
- Jan. 22: "Critical Materials: Atomic-scale control of rare-earth complex assemblies" | Saw Hla from Ohio University/Argonne National Laboratory
- Jan. 29: Shaowei Li from USCD (rescheduled to later date due to weather)
- Feb. 5:
- Feb. 12: "Microwave Response of Superconductors with Paramagnetic Impurities" | Mehdi Zarea from Louisiana State University
- Feb. 19: "Methods and Instrumentation Development for Cost-Effective Solid State NMR" | Edward Saliba from Ohio University
- Feb. 26: "Microscopy at the Quantum Edge: Imaging Topological States, Superconductors, and Skyrmions" | Perry Corbett from Miami University
- Mar. 5: "Toward Predictive Control of Quantum Emission in Strain-Engineered Two-Dimensional Materials" | Lottie Murray from University of Delaware
- Mar. 12: Spring Break
- Mar. 19: "On-Demand Control of Single-Molecule Chemistry through Vibrational Characterization and Manipulation" | Shaowei Li from USCD
- Mar. 26: "Microelectronics Fabrication and Extreme Environment Electronics at AFRL" | Adam Charnas from AFRL/RX
- Apr. 2: Poster Session
- Apr. 9: "Atomistic Insights into Electronic and Thermal Transport in phase change memory material amorphous Ge2 Sb2Te5" | Kishor Nepal from Ohio University
- Apr. 16: "Controlling Valley Degrees of Freedom in Dirac Materials" | Ramon Carrillo Bastos from UABC/Mexico
- Apr. 23: "Study of binding kinetics and diffusion dynamics of fluorescent probes on surface-immobilized lambda DNA" | Srijana Pandey from Ohio University
- Apr. 30: Final Exam Week