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Dissertation Defenses

Spring 2021

Friday, March 26, 2021
2:00 PM
Puskar Bhattarai
Assessment of the scaled Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction applied to three levels of density functional approximations.
(Advisor: Prof. John Perdew)

Wednesday, March 31, 2021
10:30 am
Xunzhen Yu
Design of Apparatus for a Sterile Neutrino Search Using 131 Cs: The HUNTER Experiment.
(Advisor: C. Jeff Martoff)

Friday, April 2, 2021

3:00 PM
Santosh Adhikari
Dispersion and self-interaction correction: improving the accuracy of semilocal density functional approximations
(Advisor: Prof. Adrienn Ruzsinszky)


Tuesday, April 6, 2021
11:00 AM
Kamal Wagle
Importance of self-interaction correction in hydrogen bonded water clusters and water-ion clusters
(Advisor: Prof. John P. Perdew)


Friday, April 9, 2021
10:00 AM
Colin Lauer
Hadron Structure from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Using Twisted Mass Fermions
(Advisor: Prof. Martha Constantinou)


Friday, April 9, 2021
12:00 PM
Basu Dev Oli
Tunneling Spectroscopy Studies of Superconductors
(Advisor: Prof. Maria Iavarone)


Friday, April 9, 2021
12:30 PM
Samuel Kim
Gamma Background Reduction in Low Counting Facility at Shallow Depth, and Analysis of Gamma Emissions from Eight Beta Decay Contributors to the Antineutrino Spectrum
(Advisor: Prof. C. Jeff Martoff)

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