Invited Presentations

2016

1. Thermodynamic cycle of catalytic nanoparticle morphology driven by carbon nanostructure growth, Physics and Chemistry of Materials, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (May 2016)
2. DNA Origami, Computational Soft Materials Seminar at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD (February 2016)
3. Characterizing chemical and structural transformations: Catalysis, nanomanufacturing, and beyond, Project Leader Seminar at CNST, Gaithersburg, MD (February 2016)

2015

1. Nanoscale thermal transport: Simulation and Applications, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (July 2015)
2. Crossover behavior of the thermal conductance and Kramers’ transition rate theory, Thermodynamics and Nonlinear Dynamics, TRSC, Telluride, CO (July 2015)
3. Crossover behavior of the thermal conductance and Kramers’ transition rate theory, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE (May 2015)
4. Interrogating biomolecules via nanoscale thermal transport, School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced, CA (April 2015)
5. Deconstructing structural transitions via thermal transport, Academia Sinica, Research Center for Applied Sciences seminar, Taipei, Taiwan (January 2015)
6. Deconstructing structural transitions via thermal transport, Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Chiao Tung University seminar, Hsinchu City, Taiwan (January 2015)
7. Crossover behavior of the thermal conductance and Kramers’ transition rate theory, 14th Workshop on First-Principles Computational Materials Physics, Huisun Forest Station, Taiwan (January 2015)

2014

1. Crossover behavior of the thermal conductance and Kramers’ transition rate theory, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (December 2014)
2. Amplification, redundant information, and the Quantum Chernoff Bound, Quantum Foundations of a Classical Universe, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY (August 2014)
3. Quantum Darwinism, Amplification, and the Quantum Chernoff Bound, SFB Seminar, Universität Ulm, Germany (April 2014)

2013

1. Detection and interrogation of biomolecules via nanoscale probes: From fundamental physics to DNA sequencing, Colloquium at University of Portland, Portland, OR (2013)
2. Rapid DNA sequencing via transverse electronic transport, Seminar at Willamette University, Salem, OR (2013)
3. Deconstructing structural transitions via thermal transport, Colloquium at Reed College, Portland, OR (2013)
4. Amplification, redundant information, and the Quantum Chernoff Bound, Seminar at Universität Ulm, Germany (2013)
5. Amplification, redundant information, and the Quantum Chernoff Bound, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (2013)
6. Probing DNA via thermal transport, Nonequilibrium Phenomena, Nonadiabatic Dynamics and Spectroscopy, Telluride, CO (2013)
7. Probing DNA via thermal transport, Seminar at Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków, Poland (2013)
8. Probing DNA via thermal transport, Novel Approaches to DNA Sequencing, Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden (2013)
9. Complementarity of information and the emergence of the classical world, Colloquium at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (2013)
10. Quantum Darwinism and the emergence of the objective, classical world: An information proliferation treaty with Nature, Decoherence and Friends, Waterloo, ON, Canada (2013)
11. A tale of two C’s: Correlations & complementarity in open quantum systems, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN (2013)
12. Detection and interrogation of biomolecules via nanoscale probes: From fundamental physics to DNA sequencing, March American Physical Society, Baltimore, MD (2013)
13. Deconstructing structural transitions: Thermal transport as a probe of biomolecular dynamics, Biochemistry & Biophysics Seminar at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (2013)

2012

1. Universality of redundancy under pure decoherence, Quantum Lunch at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (2012)
2. Complementarity of information and the emergence of the classical world, Colloquium at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (2012)
3. The symmetry of information and the emergence of the classical world, Seminar at Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria (2012)
4. Probing DNA via thermal transport, CECAM conference DNA sequencing and detection with nanoprobes, Pisa, Italy (2012)
5. DNA Sequencing via Electron Tunneling, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seoul, South Korea (2012)
6. Deconstructing structural transitions via thermal transport, Seminar at Universiteit Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium (2012)
7. Quantum Darwinism and the emergence of the objective, classical world: An information super-proliferation treaty with Nature, Seminar at Universität Ulm, Germany (2012)
8. Deconstructing structural transitions via thermal transport, Materials Science seminar at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (2012)
9. No big deal: Various adventures to the nanoscale and back, Colloquium Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (2012)

2011

1. Thermal transport and structural transitions in biological molecules, Northwest American Physical Society, Corvallis, OR (2011)
2. Quantum Theory of Classical Reality: Quantum Darwinism in Action, Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality, Traunkirchen, Austria (2011)
3. Rapid DNA Sequencing via transverse electronic transport, Colloquium at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (2011)
4. Rapid DNA sequencing via transverse electronic transport, T4 BLABS at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (2011)
5. Redundant imprinting of information in non-ideal environments: Quantum Darwinism via a noisy channel, Seminar at the University of California – San Diego, La Jolla, CA (2011)

2010

1. Sequencing with nanopores – a physicist’s perspective, Prospectives in Genomics Research, St. Anne’s College, Oxford, UK (2010)
2. Rapid DNA Sequencing via transverse electronic transport, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY (2010)
3. Rapid DNA Sequencing via transverse electronic transport, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC (2010)
4. Rapid DNA Sequencing via transverse electronic transport, Shanghai International Conference on Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Jiashan, China (2010)
5. Redundant imprinting of information in decohering environments: Quantum Darwinism via a noisy channel, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden (2010)
6. Quantum Darwinism in practice, Quantum Coherence and Decoherence, Benasque, Spain (2010)
7. Finite representations of continuum environments, Seminar at Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń, Poland (2010)
8. A physical approach to rapid DNA sequencing, Functionalized Nanomaterials: Bio helps Nano, Santa Fe, NM (2010)

2009

1. A physical approach to DNA sequencing, Seminar at Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń, Poland (2009)
2. Seeing the quantum world (through foggy glasses), Seminar at Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń, Poland (2009)
3. Quantum Darwinism in a hazy environment, Quantum Information Workshop, Paraty, Brazil (2009)
4. Seeing the quantum world (through foggy glasses), Seminar at Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Krakow, Poland (2009)
5. Seeing the quantum world, Quantum Lunch at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (2009)

2008

1. Simulation of open quantum systems, Quantum Workshop, Los Alamos, NM (2008)
2. DNA sequencing via transverse electronic transport, Complex Systems Seminar at Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Krakow, Poland (2008)
3. Nonlinear approximation of quantum environments, Seminar at ICFO, Castelldefels, Spain (2008)
4. Two short stories on I&I of environments, Quantum Coherence and Decoherence, Benasque, Spain (2008)
5. Finite representations of continuum environments, Quantum Lunch at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (2008)
6. DNA sequencing via transverse electronic transport, Complex Systems Seminar at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (2008)

2007

1. DNA sequencing via transverse electronic transport, Seminar at Columbia University (2007)
2. DNA sequencing via transverse electronic transport, Seminar at Yale University (2007)
3. Dissipative dynamics of strongly correlated quantum systems, Quantum Lunch at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (2007)
4. Tensor networks, entanglement entropy, and simulating open systems, Seminar at Universität Karlsruhe, Germany (2007)

2006

1. DN, eh? sequencing via transverse electronic transport, Charge Migration in DNA: Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Perspectives, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (2006)

2005

1. Non-Markovian dynamics within the mixed-state TEBD method, Numerical Renormalization Group Methods: New Perspectives from Entanglement Theory, Pasadenta, CA (2005)
2. Charge transport in DNA: the pi-way or the highway?, Colloquium at California State University – Northridge, Northridge, CA (2005)

2004

1. Simulation of mixed and thermal States of one-dimensional quantum systems, Recent Progress and Prospects in Density-Matrix Renormalization, Leiden, Netherlands (2004)