Contributed Talk, Northern California Theoretical Chemistry Meeting, Berkeley, California
I discussed my work on deriving an effective Hamiltonian and developing a mean-field theory to understand the phase behavior and kinetics of lattice-mismatched bulk solids and nanocrystals.
Contributed Talk, APS March Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts
I discussed my work using mean field theory and an extension of the double-tangent construction to understand the phase behavior of a model of lattice-mismatched solids.
Talk, Pitzer Center Theoretical Chemistry Seminar, Berkeley, California
I discussed my work on mapping out the phase behavior of a model of lattice-mismatched solids, with an eye towards understanding cation exhcange of different-sized cation species in nanocrystals.
Talk, Berkeley Statistical Mechanics Seminar, Berkeley, California
I discussed my work on understanding slow dynamics in liquid crystals by analyzing shortest paths through their potential energy landscapes.