Please join us for this CDAC Zoom talk/webinar:
Upcoming Webinars:
Date: Wednesday, June 3 2026 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Christian Tantardini (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals)
Title: Stabilizing Unusual Electronic States in Low-Dimensional Materials: From Sb(IV) Chemistry to Spin-Orbit Transport
Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2026 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Dana Dattelbaum (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Title: TBA
Past Webinars:
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Tyler Eastmond (Advanced Photon Source / Argonne National Laboratory)
Title: New Developments in Structure-Property and Amorphous Materials Research at HPCAT
Note: No webinar on May 7, 2026 - due to Advanced Photon Source/Center for Nanoscale Materials User Meeting
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Liangzi Deng (University of Houston)
Title: Harnessing Quantum Metastable States via Pressure-Quench Protocol: From Ambient to High Pressure and Back Again
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Abdul Haseeb Manayil Marathamkottil (Texas A&M University)
Title: Progress in High Tc Hydride Superconductors: New Imaging Modalities at Megabar Pressures
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2026 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Jin Zhang (Texas A&M University)
Title: Extreme Compression of Calcium Silicate Perovskite: A Key to the Largest Geophysical Anomalies Inside the Earth
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2026 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Victor Tranchant (University of Rochester / Sorbonne University)
Joint Seminar With the NNSA/SSAA Center for Matter Under Extreme Conditions (CMEC)
Title: Studying Gas-Puff Z Pinches With FLASH and Recent Code Developments for Magnetized Plasmas and Gas Injection Simulations
Date: Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Amy Coleman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Exploring Extreme States: Shock-Ramp Compression at High Energy Density
Date: Wednesday, Feb 11, 2026 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Santanu Chaudhuri (University of Illinois Chicago)
Title: Perspectives on the Convergence of Generative AI and In-situ Measurements for Building Smart Manufacturing Capabilities for the NNSA
Date: Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Saryu Fensin (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Title: Influence of Interface Structure and Orientation on the Dynamic Response of Bimetal Systems
Date: Wednesday, Jan 14, 2026 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Alisha Clark (University of Colorado - Boulder)
Title: Broken Planets and Dirty Stars
Date: Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Malcolm Guthrie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Title: Frontiers in High-Pressure Diffraction: a Neutron Perspective on the Data Pipeline
Date: Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Jon Eggert (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Joint Seminar With the NNSA/SSAA Center for Matter Under Extreme Conditions (CMEC)
Title: Advances in Laser-Driven Dynamic X-ray Diffraction
Date: Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Stefano Racioppi (University of Cambridge)
Title: Recent Advances in Multi-Objective Crystal Structure Prediction
Date: Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Egor Babaev (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
Title: Fermion Quadrupling Condensates: Proposals and Current Status from Hydrogen Under Extreme Pressure to Electronic Systems
Date: Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Keith Phuthi (University of Michigan)
Title: Stability and Structure of Binary Metal Hydrides under Combined Pressure-Electrochemistry
Date: Wednesday, Sept 24, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Adam Jaffe (University of Notre Dame)
Title: Hybrid Bronzes and Their Emergent Behavior under Pressure
Date: Wednesday, Sept 10, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Xuan Zhou (University of Texas - San Antonio)
Title: Plasmonic Hybrid Systems Under Extreme Pressures
Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Bethany Chidester (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Title: High P-T Phase Transitions and Possible Piezoelectric Behavior of RDX
Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Karen Sugano (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title: Pressure-Electrochemistry at Gigapascal Pressures: Model Study of the Y-H System
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Ding Pan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Title: Development and Application of First-Principles Statistical Mechanics Methods for Studying C-H-O-N Supercritical Fluids
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Tyrell McQueen (Johns Hopkins University)
Title: Advancing Materials Discovery: AI/ML Predictions and Topotactic Chemistry
Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Rebecca Lindsey (University of Michigan)
Title: Understanding Reaction-Mediated Phase Separation and Phase Transformation in Shock-Compressed Materials Through Machine Learning-Accelerated Simulation
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Joint Seminar With the NNSA/SSAA Center for Matter Under Extreme Conditions (CMEC)
Speaker: Marc Meyers (University of California-San Diego)
Title: Journey to the Center of the Earth : Using High Power Lasers to Explore Extreme Regimes
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Bijuan Chen (Harvard University)
Title: NV Sensing at High Pressure : A New Lens to Explore Superconductivity Under Extreme Conditions
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Sara Kadkhodaei (University of Illinois Chicago)
Title: First-Principles Approaches and Machine Learning Applications for Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Solids
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Nir Goldman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Machine Learning-Driven Simulations of Reactive Materials Under Extreme Conditions
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CDT)
Speaker: Bo Chen (Donostia International Physics Center)
Title: Modeling High-Pressure Organic Reactions
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Luca Bindi (University of Florence)
Title: Quasicrystals Shift Nature’s Boundaries
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Xiaojia Chen (University of Houston)
Title: Future Directions in the Study of Superconductivity in Hydrides
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Speaker: Krzysztof Wozniak (University of Washington)
Title: Quantum Crystallography
Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 - 1:00 pm (CST)
Joint Seminar With the NNSA/SSAA Center for Matter Under Extreme Conditions (CMEC)
Speaker: Burkhard Militzer (University of California-Berkeley)
Title: Phase Separation of Planetary Ices Explains Magnetic Disorder on Uranus and Neptune