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Attend our seminars to hear about research and work in academia and industry!

Presentations are given by external speakers, alumni, or PAMS faculty in Kemper Hall 204 or on Zoom.

Presentations take place on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

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Spring 2026 Seminars

Date Speaker Title
1/15 No seminar (1st week of classes)  
1/22
Zoom
Dr. Qunfei Zhou
University of Kansas
Collective Electrostatic Design of Nanomaterials and Interfaces
  Abstract: Collective electrostatic effects from periodic charge distributions play a crucial role in regulating the electronic structure and excitonic properties of low-dimensional materials and their interfaces. In this talk, I will discuss the fundamental physics governing the collective electrostatic effects from periodically arranged dipoles and quadrupoles. I will then present two examples of our recent research that demonstrates how these electrostatic effects can be harnessed to engineer electronic and excitonic materials properties. First, I will show that two-dimensional self-assembled (SAM) organic molecular layers generate electrostatic superlattice potentials that strongly modulate of charge-transfer exciton dynamics in SAM/MoS2 heterostructures. Second, I will show that electrostatic potentials produced from one-dimensional (1D) Janus transition metal dichalcogenide nanotubes significantly modify the band alignment in 1D van der Waals heterostructures. Finally, I will introduce a computational approach that efficiently captures the effects of heterogeneous dielectric screening on the electronic structure of van der Waals heterostructures, offering accuracy comparable to many-body methods at a significantly reduced computational cost.
1/29 TBA TBA
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2/12 TBA TBA
2/19
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Farhan Ishrak (alum)
North Carolina State University
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2/26 TBA TBA
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3/5 Dr. Matthew Maschmann
University of Missouri
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3/12 Dr. Wennie Wang
University of Texas - Austin
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3/19 No seminar (Spring break)  
3/26
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Dr. Rafik Addou
University of Texas - Dallas

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4/2 Dr. Parameswar Hari
University of Tulsa
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4/9 Dr. Jacob Simon
Iowa State University
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4/16 Dr. Charles Steinhardt
University of Missouri
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4/23 Dr. Julius de Rojas
Oklahoma State University
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4/30 No seminar (last week of classes)  
5/7 No seminar (finals' week)  

 

 

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