Colloquium: Aldo Humberto Romero
Physics Colloquium Lecture
March 31, 2021
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Aldo Humberto Romero, Professor of Condensed Matter Theory and Computation, West Virginia University
Title:"Designing materials from scratch, how close are we?"
Abstract: In this talk, I will describe the scientific community's efforts in creating methodologies to design materials from Scratch. I will start with a general view of the field, trying to show each of the different approaches' ups and downs. After a general introduction, I will focus on two different methods: a metaheuristic approach, the so-called firefly structural search method, and on a dynamical structural search, the so-called minima hopping method. I will introduce each and present some examples that my research group has performed in the last few years. I will compare our predictions with existing experimental or theoretical results, particularly those in structural materials databases. I will end up with an overview of the methods and the future of those in the structural prediction field. I will try to make the case on why we still need these methodologies to complement our knowledge on the possible synthesizable materials.
Join us on Zoom: https://uic.zoom.us/j/89391720560?pwd=SGs0YjBSL2lqMkkzN1FaeVdVZjYrZz09
Date posted
Feb 4, 2021
Date updated
Mar 23, 2021