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SUMMARY:Adventures in Flatland
DTSTART:20161222T160000
DTEND:20161222T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T163721Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Nicola Marzari\nTheory and Simulation of Materials (THEO
 S) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Mat
 erials (MARVEL)\, EPFL\n"Understand\, predict\, and design" has been for a
  long time the informal mission statement of our group\; since occasionall
 y we do follow through on this\, I'll take the chance to illustrate this p
 aradigm with case studies taken from the burgeoning field of 2D materials.
  I'll discuss in particular the breakdown of the established but approxima
 te picture of phonons being the heat carriers in crystals [1]\; the engine
 ering of Berry phases in nanostructures to create 1D electron and hole wir
 es [2]\; and our ongoing efforts to exfoliate all known 3D materials - thi
 s last made possible and straightforward by the development of our AiiDA m
 aterials' informatics platform [3].\n[1] A. Cepellotti and N. Marzari\, Th
 ermal transport in crystals as a kinetic theory of relaxons\, arXiv:1603.0
 2608 (2016).\n[2] M. Gibertini\, G. Pizzi\, N. Marzari\, Engineering polar
  discontinuities in honeycomb lattices\,Nature Communications 5\, 5157 (20
 14)\; M. Gibertini and N. Marzari\, Emergence of one-dimensional wires of 
 free carriers in transition-metal dichalcogenides nanostructures\, Nano Le
 tters 15\, 6229-38(2015).\n[3] G. Pizzi et al.\, AiiDA: automated interact
 ive infrastructure and database for computational science\,Comp. Mat. Sci.
  111\, 218 (2016)\; http://aiida.net.
LOCATION:Zeuzier
STATUS:CANCELLED
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