ETH - THEORY - Spaldin Nicola, Prof. Dr.

Visiting Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley, January - June 2007.
Visiting Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University, Spring 2003.
Visiting Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India, Fall 2000.

Awards and Honors

Fellow, Materials Research Society, 2011.
American Physical Society McGroddy Award for New Materials, 2010.
NSF American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow, 2009.
Fellow, American Physical Society, 2008.
Miller Institute Research Professorship, 2007.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 2002.
UCSB Distinguished Teaching Award, 2001.
ONR Young Investigator Award, 2000.
Technology Review magazine Young Innovator award, 1999.
NSF POWRE award, 1999.
Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California, 1998.
Fulbright Scholarship from the U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission, 1991-1996.
Electronic Materials Conference Graduate Student Award, 1995.
Cray Research Fellowship in Computational Chemistry, 1995.
Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award, 1994.
Ephraim Weiss Fellowship, Graduate Study at U.C. Berkeley, 1993-1994.
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards, U.C. Berkeley, 1991 and 1992.
Dora Garibaldi Fellowship, Graduate study at U.C. Berkeley, 1991-1992.
Ronald Norrish Prize for Physical Chemistry, highest score, Cambridge Chemistry, 1991.
Churchill College, Cambridge Scholarship, First Class Honours in Tripos Examinations, 1989-1991.
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain Student Award, 1989.
Undergraduate Scholarship, General Electric Company Hirst Research Centre, 1987-1991.
Royal Society of Chemistry Award, highest score in Advanced Chemistry in U.K., 1987.

Books

Magnetic materials; fundamentals and device applications, Cambridge University Press. (2003). ISBN 0 521 81631 9 (hardback), 0 521 01658 4 (paperback).

Journal Publications

(~7000 citations; citations per paper ~70, h=40)

2011

Induced Magnetoelectric Response in Pnma Perovskites, Bousquet E. and Spaldin N., Physical Review Letters 107, 197603 (2011).
Structure and Properties of Functional Oxide Thin Films: Insights from Electronic-Structure Calculations, Rondinelli J.M. and Spaldin N.A., Advanced Materials, 23 (30), 3363-3381 (2011).
Band alignment at metal/ferroelectric interfaces: Insights and artifacts from first principles, Stengel M., Aguado-Puente P., Spaldin N.A. and Junquera J., Phys. Rev. B 83, 235112 (2011).
Shedding Light on Oxide Interfaces, Hammerl G. and Spaldin N.A., Science 332, 925-926 (2011).
Stress-induced R-MA-MC-T symmetry changes in BiFeO3 films, Christen H.M., Nam J.H., Kim H.S., Hatt A.J. and Spaldin N.A., Physical Review B 83, 144107 (2011).
Unexpectedly Large Electronic Contribution to Linear Magnetoelectricity, Bousquet E., Spaldin N.A. and Delaney K.T., Physical Review Letters 106, 107202 (2011).
High-temperature multiferroicity and strong magnetocrystalline anisotropy in 3d-5d double perovskites, Lezaic M. and Spaldin N.A., Physical Review B, 83, 2, 024410 (2011).

2010

Temperature-dependent magnetoelectric effect from first principles, M. Mostovoy, A. Scaramucci, N. A. Spaldin and K. T. Delaney, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 087202 (2010).
Quantifying octahedral rotations in strained perovskite oxide films, S. J. May, J.-W. Kim, J. M. Rondinelli, E. Karapetrova, N. A. Spaldin, A. Bhattacharya and P. J. Ryan, Phys. Rev. B 82, 014110 (2010)
A multiferroic material to search for the permanent electric dipole moment of the electron, K. Z. Rushchanskii, S. Kamba, V. Goian, P. Vanek, M. Savinov, J. Prokleska, D. Nuzhnyy, K. Knizek, F. Laufek, S. Eckel, S. K. Lamoreaux, A. O. Sushkov, M. Lezaic and N. A. Spaldin, Nature Materials 9, 649 (2010)
Chemical control of polar behavior in bicomponent short-period superlattices, H. Das, N. A. Spaldin, U. V. Waghmare and T. Saha-Dasgupta, Phys. Rev. B 81, 235112 (2010).
Unusual dielectric response in B-site size-disordered hexagonal transition metal oxides, D. Choudhury, A. Venimadhav, C. Kakarla, K. T. Delaney, P. S. Devi, P. Mondal, R. Nirmala, J. Gopalakrishnan, N. A. Spaldin, U. V. Waghmare, and D. D. Sarma, Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 162903 (2010)
Theoretical study of Schottky-barrier formation at epitaxial rare-earthmetal/ semiconductor interfaces, K. Delaney, N. A Spaldin and C. G. van de Walle, Phys. Rev. B 81, 165312 (2010).
Electron-lattice instabilities suppress cuprate-like electronic structures in SrFeO3/SrTiO3 superlattices, J. M. Rondinelli and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 81, 085109 (2010).
Strain-induced isosymmetric phase transition in BiFeO3, A. J. Hatt, N. A. Spaldin and C. Ederer, Phys. Rev. B 81, 054109 (2010).
Strain-Induced Ferroelectricity in Simple Rocksalt Binary Oxides, E. Bousquet, N. A. Spaldin and Ph. Ghosez, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 037601 (2010).

2009

Mn3+ in Trigonal Bipyramidal Coordination: A New Blue Chromophore A. E. Smith, H. Mizoguchi, K. Delaney, N. A. Spaldin, A. W. Sleight and M. A. Subramanian, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 17084 (2009).
First-principles modeling of ferroelectric capacitors via constrained displacement field calculations, M. Stengel, D. Vanderbilt and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 80,
224110 (2009). Editor’s Choice
A strain-driven morphotropic phase boundary in BiFeO3, R. J. Zeches, M. D. Rossell, J. X. Zhang, A. J. Hatt, Q. He, C.-H. Yang, A. Kumar, C. H. Wang, A. Melville, C. Adamo, G. Sheng, Y.-H. Chu, J. F. Ihlefeld, R. Erni, C. Ederer, V. Gopalan, L. Q. Chen, D. G. Schlom, N. A. Spaldin, L. W. Martin and R. Ramesh, Science 326, 977 - 980 (2009).
Current trends of the magnetoelectric effect, M. Fiebig and N. A. Spaldin, Eur. Phys. J. B 71, 293 (2009). Strain effects on the electric polarization of BiMnO3, A. J. Hatt and N. A. Spaldin, Eur. Phys. J. B 71, 435 (2009).
First-principles study of ferroelectric domain walls in multiferroic bismuth ferrite, A, Lubk, S. Gemming and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 80, 104110 (2009). Editor’s Choice
Non-d0 Mn-driven ferroelectricity in antiferromagnetic BaMnO3, J. M. Rondinelli, A. S. Eidelson and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 79, 205119 (2009). Editor’s Choice
Enhancement of ferroelectricity at metal/oxide interfaces, M. Stengel, D. Vanderbilt and N. A. Spaldin, Nature Materials, 8, 392 (2009).
Superexchange-driven magnetoelectricity in magnetic vortices, K. T. Delaney, M. Mostovoy and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 157203 (2009).
Role of Atomic Multiplets in the Electronic Structure of Rare-Earth Semiconductors and Semimetals, L. V. Pourovskii, K. T. Delaney, C. G. Van de Walle, N. A. Spaldin, and A. Georges, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096401 (2009).
Electric displacement as the fundamental variable in electronic-structure calculations, M. Stengel, N. A. Spaldin and D. Vanderbilt, Nature Physics 5, 304 - 308 (2009).
Conduction at domain walls in oxide multiferroics, J. Seidel, L. W. Martin, Q. He, Q. Zhan, Y.-H. Chu, A. Rother, M. E. Hawkridge, P. Maksymovych, P. Yu, M. Gajek, N. Balke, S. V. Kalinin, S. Gemming, F. Wang, G. Catalan, J. F. Scott, N. A. Spaldin, J. Orenstein and R. Ramesh, Nature Materials 8, 229, (2009).
Structural effects on the spin-state transition in epitaxially strained LaCoO3 films, J. M. Rondinelli and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 79, 054409 (2009).

2008

Electric field control of magnetism in complex oxide thin films, N. A. Spaldin and R. Ramesh, MRS Bulletin 33, 1047 (2008).
The toroidal moment in condensed-matter physics and its relation to the magnetoelectric effect, N. A. Spaldin, M. Fiebig and M. Mostovoy, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 20, 434203 (2008).
Electronic properties of bulk and thin film SrRuO3: Search for the metal-insulator transition, J. M. Rondinelli, N. M. Caffrey, S. Sanvito and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 78, 155107 (2008).
Theoretical study of the structural and electronic properties of strained ErAs, K. T. Delaney, N. A. Spaldin and C. G. Van de Walle, Phys. Rev. B 77, 235117 (2008). Self-interaction correction with Wannier functions, M. Stengel and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 77, 155106 (2008).
Carrier-mediated magnetoelectricity in complex oxide heterostructures, J. M. Rondinelli, M. Stengel and N. A. Spaldin, Nature Nanotechnology 3, 46 (2008).

2007

Towards a microscopic theory of toroidal moments in bulk periodic crystals, C. Ederer and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 76, 214404 (2007).
Analogies and differences between ferroelectrics and ferromagnets, N. A. Spaldin, Topics in Applied Physics 105, 175 (2007).
Ferrodistortive instability at the (001) surface of half-metallic manganites, J. M. Pruneda, V. Ferrari, R. Rurali, P. B. Littlewood, N. A. Spaldin and E. Artacho, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226101 (2007).
Anti-polarity in ideal BiMnO3, P. Baettig, R. Seshadri and N. A. Spaldin, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 9854-9855 (2007).
Density-functional investigation of the (113)[-110] twin grain boundary in Co-doped anatase TiO2 and its influence on magnetism in dilute magnetic semiconductors, S. Gemming, R. Janisch, M. Schreiber and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 76, 045204 (2007).
Tri-layer superlattices: A route to magnetoelectric multiferroics? A. J. Hatt and N. A. Spaldin, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 242916 (2007).
Ab initio theory of metal-insulator interfaces in a finite electric field, M. Stengel and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 75, 205121 (2007).
Multiferroics: Progress and prospects in thin films, R. Ramesh and N. A. Spaldin, Nature Materials 6, 21 (2007).

2006

Mott transition of MnO under pressure: A comparison of correlated band theories, D. Kasinathan, J. Kunes, K. Koepernik, C. V. Diaconu, R. L. Martin, I. D. Prodan, G. E. Scuseria, N. A. Spaldin, L. Petit, T. C. Schulthess and W. E. Pickett, Phys. Rev. B 74, 195110 (2006).
Origin of the dielectric dead layer in nanoscale capacitors, M. Stengel and N. A. Spaldin, Nature 443, 679-682 (2006).
Electrical control of antiferromagnetic domains in multiferroic BiFeO3 films at room temperature, T. Zhao, A. Scholl, F. Zavaliche, K. Lee, M. Barry, A. Doran, M. P. Cruz, Y. H. Chu, C. Ederer, N. A. Spaldin, R. R. Das, D. M. Kim, S. H. Baek, C. B. Eom and R. Ramesh, Nature Materials 5, 823 - 829 (2006).
Magnetic interactions in transition-metal-doped ZnO: An ab initio study, P. Gopal and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 74, 094418 (2006).
Origin of ferroelectricity in the multiferroic barium fluorides BaMF4: A first principles study, C. Ederer and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 74, 024102 (2006)
Electric-field-switchable magnets: The case of BaNiF4, C. Ederer and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 74, 020401(R) (2006)
Lattice relaxation in oxide heterostructures: LaTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices, S. Okamoto, A. Millis and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 056802 (2006).
Polarization, piezoelectric constants and elastic constants of ZnO, MgO and CdO, P. Gopal and N. A. Spaldin, J. Elec. Mat. 35, 538 (2006).
Accurate polarization within a unified Wannier function formalism, M. Stengel and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 73, 075121 (2006).
Understanding ferromagnetism in Co-doped TiO2 anatase from first principles, R. Janisch and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 73, 035201 (2006).

2005

Recent progress in first-principles studies of magnetoelectric multiferroics, C. Ederer and N. A. Spaldin, Curr. Opin. Sol. Stat. and Mater. Sci. 9, 128-139 (2005).
First principles study of the multiferroics BiFeO3, Bi2FeCrO6, and BiCrO3: Structure, polarization, and magnetic ordering temperature, P. Baettig, C. Ederer and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 72, 214105 (2005).
Effect of epitaxial strain on the spontaneous polarization of thin film ferroelectrics, C. Ederer and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 257601 (2005).
The renaissance of magnetoelectric multiferroics, N. A. Spaldin and M. Fiebig, Science 309, 391 (2005).
Transition metal-doped TiO2 and ZnO – present status of the field, R. Janisch, P. Gopal and N. A. Spaldin, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17, R657 (2005).
Influence of strain and oxygen vacancies on the magnetoelectric properties of multiferroic bismuth ferrite, C. Ederer and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 71, 224103 (2005).
Theoretical prediction of new high-performance, lead-free piezoelectrics, P. Baettig, C. Schelle, R. LeSar, U. Waghmare and N. A. Spaldin, Chem. Mat. 17, 1376 (2005).
Strong correlation and ferromagnetism in (Ga,Mn)As and (Ga,Mn)N, A. Filippetti, N. A. Spaldin and S. Sanvito, J. Mag. Mag. Mat. 290-291, 1391 (2005).
Schrödinger’s mousetrap, N. A. Spaldin, Nature 434, 25 (2005).
Weak ferromagnetism and magnetoelectric coupling in bismuth ferrite, C. Ederer and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 71, 060401(R) (2005).
Ab initio prediction of a multiferroic with large polarization and magnetization, P. Baettig and N. A. Spaldin, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 012505 (2005).
First-principles study of spontaneous polarization in multiferroic BiFeO3, J. B. Neaton, C. Ederer, U. V. Waghmare, N. A. Spaldin and K. M. Rabe, Phys. Rev. B 71, 014113 (2005).

< 2005

Self-interaction effects in (Ga,Mn)As and (Ga,Mn)N, A. Filippetti, N. A. Spaldin and S. Sanvito, Chem. Phys. 309, 59 (2004).
Magnetoelectrics - A new route to magnetic ferroelectrics, C. Ederer and N. A. Spaldin, Nature Materials 3, 849 (2004).
First-principles study of wurtzite-structure MnO, P. Gopal, N. A. Spaldin and U. V. Waghmare, Phys. Rev. B 70, 205104 (2004).
Density-functional study of charge doping in WO3, A. D. Walkinshaw, N. A. Spaldin and E. Artacho, Phys. Rev. B 70, 165110 (2004).
Fundamental size limits in ferroelectricity, N. A. Spaldin, Science 304, 1606 (2004).
Multiferroic materials tower up, N. A. Spaldin, Physics World 17 (4), 20 (2004).
Search for ferromagnetism in transition-metal-doped piezoelectric ZnO, N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 69, 125201 (2004).
The origin of ferroelectricity in magnetoelectric YMnO3, B. B. Van Aken, T. T. M. Palstra, A. Filippetti and N. A. Spaldin, Nature Materials 3 (3), 164 (2004).
Computational design of multifunctional materials, N. A. Spaldin and W. E. Pickett, J. Sol. Stat. Chem. 176 (2), 615 (2003).
Magnetism in polycrystalline cobalt-substituted zinc oxide, A. S. Risbud, N. A. Spaldin, Z. Q. Chen, S. Stemmer, and R. Seshadri, Phys. Rev. B 68, 205202 (2003).
Strong-correlation effects in Born effective charges, A. Filippetti and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 68, 045111 (2003).
Epitaxial BiFeO3 multiferroic thin film heterostructures, J. Wang, J. B. Neaton, H. Zheng, V. Nagarajan, S. B. Ogale, B. Liu, D. Viehland, V. Vaithyanathan, D. G. Schlom, U. V. Waghmare, N. A. Spaldin, K. M. Rabe, M. Wuttig and R. Ramesh, Science 299 (5613), 1719 (2003).
Self-interaction corrected pseudopotential scheme for magnetic and strongly-correlated systems, A. Filippetti and N. A. Spaldin, Phys. Rev. B 67, 125109 (2003).
First principles indicators of metallicity and cation off-centricity in the IV-VI rock-salt chalcogenides of divalent Ge, Sn and Pb, U. V. Waghmare, N. A. Spaldin, H. C. Kandpal and R. Seshadri, Phys. Rev. B 67, 125111 (2003).
First-principles approach to spin-orbit coupling in dilute magnetic semiconductors, G. J. Theurich and N. A. Hill, Phys. Rev. B 66, 115208 (2002).
Density functional studies of multiferroic magnetoelectrics, N. A. Hill, Ann. Rev. Mat. 32, 1 (2002).
First principles study of intrinsic defects in (Ga,Mn)As, S. Sanvito and N. A. Hill, J. Mag. Mag. Mat. 242, 441 (2002).
Why are there any magnetic ferroelectrics?, N. A. Hill and A. Filippetti, J. Mag. Mag. Mat. 242, 976 (2002).
Influence of quantum confinement on the electronic and magnetic properties of (Ga,Mn)As diluted magnetic semiconductor, S. Sapra, D. D. Sarma, S. Sanvito and N. A. Hill, Nanoletters 2, 605 (2002).
Coexistence of magnetism and ferroelectricity in perovskites, A. Filippetti and N. A. Hill, Phys. Rev. B 65, 195120 (2002).
First principles search for multiferroism in BiCrO3, N. A. Hill, P. Baettig and C. Daul, J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 3383 (2002).
Density functional calculations for III-V diluted ferromagnetic semiconductors: A review, S. Sanvito, G. J. Theurich and N. A. Hill, J. Supercon. 15, 85 (2002).
Prediction of enhanced ferromagnetism in (Ga,Mn)As by intrinsic defect manipulation, S. Sanvito and N. A. Hill, J. Mag. Mag. Mat. 238, 252 (2002).
Ab-initio transport theory for digital ferromagnetic heterostructures, S. Sanvito and N. A. Hill, Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 267202 (2001).
First principles study of structural, electronic and magnetic interplay in ferroelectromagnetic yttrium manganite, A. Filippetti and N. A. Hill, J. Mag. Mag. Mat. 236, 176 (2001).
Visualizing the role of Bi 6s “lone pairs” in the off-center distortion in ferromagnetic BiMnO3, R. Seshadri and N. A. Hill, Chemistry of Materials 13, 2892 (2001).
Self-consistent treatment of spin-orbit coupling in solids using relativistic fully separable ab initio pseudopotentials, G. J. Theurich and N. A. Hill, Phys. Rev. B 64, 073106 (2001).
Influence of the local As antisite distribution on ferromagnetism in (Ga,Mn)As, S. Sanvito and N. A. Hill, Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 3493 (2001).
First principles study of the origin and nature of ferromagnetism in (Ga,Mn)As, S. Sanvito, P. Ordejon, N. A. Hill, Phys. Rev. B 63, 165206 (2001).
Making the Fortran to C transition; just how painful is it really?, G. J. Theurich, B. Anson, N. A. Hill and A. J. Hill, Computing in Science and Engineering, p.22, Jan/Feb 2001.
Ground state of half-metallic zincblende MnAs, S. Sanvito and N. A. Hill, Phys. Rev. B 62, 15553 (2000).
Magnetic stress as a driving force of structural distortions: The case of CrN, A. Filippetti and N. A. Hill, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5166 (2000).
First principles study of strain/electronic interplay in ZnO; Stress and temperature dependence of the piezoelectric constants, N. A. Hill and U. V. Waghmare, Phys. Rev. B 62, 8802 (2000).
Why are there so few magnetic ferroelectrics?, N. A. Hill, J. Phys. Chem. B., 104, 6694-6709 (2000).
Optical properties of Si-Ge semiconductor nano-onions, N. A. Hill, S. Pokrant and A. J. Hill, J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 3156 (1999). First principles investigation of ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity in bismuth manganite, N. A. Hill and K. M. Rabe, Phys. Rev. B. 59, 8759 (1999).
Two-particle calculation of excitonic effects in semiconductor nanocrystals, N. A. Hill and K. B. Whaley, Chemical Physics 210, 117 (1996).
A theoretical study of light emission from nanoscale silicon, N. A. Hill and K. B.Whaley, Journal of Electronic Materials 25, 269 (1996).
Theoretical analysis of the geometries of the luminescent regions in porous silicon, N. A. Hill and K. B. Whaley, Appl. Phys. Lett. 67, 1125 (1995).
Size dependence of excitons in silicon nanocrystals, N. A. Hill and K. B. Whaley, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1130 (1995).
A theoretical study of the influence of the surface on the electronic structure of CdSe nanoclusters, N. A. Hill and K. B. Whaley, J. Chem. Phys. 100, 2831 (1994). Electronic structure of semiconductor nanocrystals; A time-dependent theoretical approach, N. A. Hill and K. B. Whaley, J. Chem. Phys. 90, 3707 (1993).

Conference Proceedings

Computational design of a new magnetic ferroelectric, in Magnetoelectric interaction phenomena in crystals, Proceedings of the Fifth International Meeting on Magnetoelectric Interaction Phenomena in Crystals, Sudak, Ukraine, Kluwer Academic (2004).
First principles study of two magnetic ferroelectrics, Proceedings of the Pakistan Physical, Society’s 8th National Symposium on Frontiers in Physics (2000).
First principles study of multiferroic magnetoelectric manganites, N. A. Hill, Proceedings of the Aspen Workshop on Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics, AIP conference proceedings 535, 372 (2000).
First principles investigation of multiferroism in perovskite manganites, N. A. Hill and K. M. Rabe, Materials Research Society Proceedings 574, (1999).
Calculation of the electronic structure of silicon nanocrystals, N. A. Whaley, Materials Research Society Proceedings 358, 25 (1995).

Invited Presentations

2011

Swiss Association of Computational Chemists Meeting, Bern, Switzerland (Plenary); Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials: From Magnetoelectronics to a Theory of Everything
ETH Zürich Physics Colloquium; Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials: From Magnetoelectronics to a Theory of Everything
Workshop on Multifunctional Oxides and Minerals, Uppsala, Sweden; Multiferroics: Whence, Why and Whither?
DPG Meeting, Dresden, Germany; Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials: From Magnetoelectronics to a Theory of Everything
Vienna Computational Materials Workshop, Vienna, Austria; Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials: From Magnetoelectronics to a Theory of Everything
EMPA Colloquium, Dubendorf, Switzerland; Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials: From Magnetoelectronics to a Theory of Everything
Paul Scherrer Institute Colloquium, Villigen, Switzerland; Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials: From Magnetoelectronics to a Theory of Everything

2010

Electroceramics XII, Trondheim, Norway (Keynote): Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials; Magnetoelectronics and the Origin of the Universe
Materials Department Seminar, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland: Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials; Magnetoelectronics and the Origin of the Universe
CECAM Workshop on First-Principles Calculations for Magnetoelectrics, Lausanne, Switzerland: What can first-principles calculations contribute to understanding the toroidal moment in bulk periodic solids Magnetoelectrics; Whence, why and wither?
MPG FKF Seminar, Stuttgart, Germany: Oxide/Oxide interfaces from first principles; Design and understanding
Joint IFW/PKS Colloquium, Dresden, Germany: Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials; Magnetoelectronics and the Origin of the Universe
Materials Department Seminar, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden: Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials; Magnetoelectronics and the Origin of the Universe
U. Halle Physics Colloquium, Halle, Germany: Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials; Magnetoelectronics and the Origin of the Universe
Uppsala University, Complex Systems Seminar, Uppsala, Sweden: Using density functional theory to design new materials. From nanoelectronics to the origin of the universe
APS March meeting, Portland, OR: A theorist’s-eye view of multiferroics (McGroddy Prize Talk)
Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics, Aspen, CO: The role of first-principles calculations in understanding and designing multiferroics

2009

MRS Fall meeting, Boston MA: Oxide/Oxide interfaces from First Principles; Design and Understanding
Yale University MRSEC Colloquium, New Haven, CT: Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials; Magnetoelectronicsand the Origin of the Universe
Argonne National Labs., Chicago, IL: Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials; Magnetoelectronics and the Origin of the Universe
European School on Multiferroics, Groningen, Netherlands: Multiferroics; Recent history, current excitement and future directions
Zernike Insitute, U. Groningen, Netherlands: Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials; Magnetoelectronics and the Origin of the Universe
Mott Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA: Use of first-principles computations in designing and understanding oxide/oxide interfaces
International Conference on Magnetism, Karlsruhe, Germany (Semi-Plenary): Novel magnetism at strongly correlated interfaces
Summer School on Materials Modeling from First Principles, Santa Barbara, CA (Keynote): Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials
MRS Spring meeting, San Francisco, CA: Picozzi-inspired routes to novel magnetoelectrics
Materials Department Colloquium, Iowa State University, Ames, IA: How do we use computational methods to design new materials?

2008

ICMR/ICMS Winter School on Novel Oxide and Carbon Materials, Bangalore, India: Why oxides are interesting and hard to calculate (and why these are related)
MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA: New routes to electric field control of magnetism
UCSB Physics Graduate Student Seminar, Santa Barbara, CA: How do we use computational methods to design new materials?
Colloquium, CIMAV National Lab., Chihuahua, Mexico: Recent progress in single phase multiferroics
NanoFerronics-2008, Jülich, Germany: Recent progress in single phase multiferroics
Workshop on Ordering Phenomena in Transition Metal Oxides, Augsburg, Germany: Towards a microscopic theory of toroidal moments in periodic crystals
Physics Department Colloquium, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA: How do we use computational methods to design new materials?
Gordon Conference on Correlated Electrons, Biddeford, ME: New routes to electric field control of magnetism
Ehrenfest Colloquium, Lorentz Institute, Leiden, Netherlands: New routes to electric field control of magnetism
European MRS meeting, Strasbourg, France: New routes to electric field control of magnetism
Materials Colloquium, U. Washington, Seattle: New routes to electric field control of magnetism
Physics Colloquium, U. Frankfurt: New routes to electric field control of magnetism
NordinSpin 08, Gimo Herrgard, Sweden: New routes to electric field control of magnetism
APS meeting, New Orleans, LA: Towards a microscopic theory of toroidal moments in bulk, crystalline solids
TMS meeting, New Orleans, LA: Exploiting oxide interfaces to generate new functionalites
Indo-Japan Workshop on New directions in ferroics and multiferroics, Kolkata, India: Progress and prospects in magnetoelectrics and multiferroics
Materials Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara: New routes to electric-field control of magnetism
ISIS Colloquium, UC Irvine: New routes to electric-field control of magnetism

2007

Angstrom Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden: Progress and prospects in multiferroics and magnetoelectrics
Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, India: Multiferroics and magnetoelectrics
CNSI seminar, UCLA: Design of new magnetoelectrics and multiferroics
Zernike Institute Colloquium, U. Groningen, Netherlands: Progress and prospects in multiferroics and magnetoelectrics
The National Academies, Irvine, CA: Grand challenges in oxides research
Northwestern University, Materials Colloquium: Progress and prospects in multiferroics
International Conference on Electroceramics, Arusha, Tanzania (Plenary): Progress and prospects in multiferroics
Pan American Advanced Study Institute on Electronic States and Excitations on
Nanostructures, Zacatecas, Mexico: Multiferroics and mangetoelectrics
International Symposium on Correlated Electron Systems, Akihabara, Japan: Alternative mechanisms for the magnetoelectric effect
International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics, Bordeaux, France: First principles calculations for metal-ferroelectric interfaces
University of Bonn, Physics Colloquium: Computational design of contra-indicated multifunctional materials
MRS Spring meeting, San Francisco, CA: Ab initio calculations of complex oxide interfaces
iDFT07, Laguna Beach, CA: Electric fields in DFT calculations; problems and solutions
EMMA MURI Review, Berkeley, CA: The dielectric dead layer in nanoscale capacitors: existence, origin, mitigation and exploitation
Lawrence Berkeley Labs. Seminar: Progress and prospects in multiferroics
Washington University at St. Louis, Physical Chemistry Seminar: Computational design of contra-indicated multifunctional materials
Caltech, Materials Colloquium: Computational design of contra-indicated multifunctional materials
Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute, Materials Colloquium: Computational design of contra-indicated multifunctional materials
IBM Almaden, Seminar: Progress and prospects in multiferroics: A theorist’s perspective
UC Berkeley, Miller Institute Seminar: First-principles design of contra-indicated multifunctional materials
Physics and Chemistry of Semiconductor Interfaces, Salt Lake City, UT: Ab initio calculations for complex oxide interfaces

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