Inivited Talks

Electric field control of magnetism in rare-earth-substituted BiFeO3
The 8th Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) Workshop on Multiferroics
Shanghai, China
October, 2016

Finite-temperature Properties of Rare-Earth-Substituted BiFeO3 Multiferroic Solid Solutions
Electronic Materials and Applications 2015
Orlando, FL, USA
January, 2015

Metastable phase transition in silicon nitride at high pressure: A first-principles and experimental study
Recent Advances in Spectromicroscopy: Experimental and Theoretical Tools
Mons, Belgium
September, 2013

Ab initio calculation of thermoelectric properties using abinit
6th International ABINIT Developer Workshop
Dinard, France
April, 2013

Ab initio thermoelectric properties
Vibrational Coupling: most important, often ignored, and a challenge for ab-initio
Lausanne, Switzerland
November, 2012

Theoretical Study on the Thermodynamic Properties of Al2O3 and Si3N4 at High Pressure
13th International IUPAC Conference on High Temperature Materials Chemistry (HTMC-13)
University of California at Davis, CA
September, 2009

Contributed Talks

Designing lead-free antiferroelectrics for energy storage
APS March Meeting
Los Angeles
March, 2018

Spin cycloids in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films
2018 Workshop on the Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics
Washington D.C.
January, 2018

Designing lead-free antiferroelectrics for energy storage
The 14th International Meeting on Ferroelectricity
San Antonio, Texas
September, 2017

Pinched hysteresis loop in defect-free materials
APS March Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana
March, 2017

Intrinsic polarization switching mechanisms in BiFeO3
2017 Workshop on the Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics
Williamsburg, VA
January, 2017

Control of magnetism by electric field in rare-earth-substituted BiFeO3
33rd International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors
Beijing, China
August, 2016

Designing lead-free antiferroelectrics for energy storage
2016 Workshop on the Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics
Washington D.C.
January, 2016

First Principles explanation of the positive Seebeck coefficient of lithium
18th ETSF Workshop on Electronic Excitations
Luxembourg
October, 2013

Ab initio thermoelectric properties
ETSF Young Researchers’ Meeting 2013
Budapest, Hungary
May, 2013

First-Principles Seebeck Calculation: Implementing a general formula for the calculation of the Seebeck coefficient from first-principles
Fourth International Oxide Workshop
Santander, Spain
May, 2012

First-Principles Study of Electron-Phonon Coupling in STO
16th ETSF Workshop on Electronic Excitations
Turin, Italy
September, 2011

First-Principles Study of Electron-Phonon Coupling in STO and 2DEG
Third International Oxide Workshop
Olbia, Italy
May, 2011

Oxidation Mechanism in SiCO: First-Principles Study of O2 Diffusion and Reaction
Fifth International Meeting on Polymer Derived Ceramics and Related Materials
Boulder, Colorado
August, 2010

Theoretical Study of Transformation Mechanism for the Corundum-to-Rh2O3(II) Transition in Al2O3 (Selected student presentation)
COMPRES Annual Meeting
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
June, 2009

First-Principles Calculations of Thermodynamic Properties and Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions in Ga2O3 and Al2O3
APS March Meeting
Denver, Colorado
March, 2007

First-Principles Study of High-Pressure Phase Transitions in Si3N4
APS March Meeting
Baltimore, Maryland
March, 2006

Invited Seminars

Novel applications of ferroelectrics: towards artificial neural network & energy storage
Department of Physics, University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
October, 2017

Rare-earth-substituted BiFeO3: spice up the ‘holy grail’ of multiferroics
School of Energy, Soochow University
Suzhou, China
May, 2017

Rare-earth-substituted BiFeO3: spice up the ‘holy grail’ of multiferroics
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University
Beijing, China
May, 2017

Electric field control of magnetism in rare-earth-substituted BiFeO3
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China
July, 2016

Calculation of thermoelectric properties from first principles
School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology
Beijing, China
July, 2013