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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Department of Physics & Astronomy, TAMU-Commerce</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feb 27, Thursday, 4-5 PM in Science Building
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(coffee and cookies will be served at 3:50 PM)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Computational condensed matter physics</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First-principles and multiscale simulations
of electrified interfaces: screening of two-dimensional materials for catalytic applications</span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Oliviero Andreussi</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: rgb(11, 83, 148); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of North Texas</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Andreussi earned his undergraduate degree (Italian
Laurea, 5-years coursework) in Chemical Physics in 2003 from the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. He earned a Ph.D. degree (2008) in Chemical Physics from Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. His Ph.D. research topic was on modeling
the structure and dynamics of water at interfaces. He had several years of postdoctoral work, at MIT, Oxford, EPFL and the University of Pisa. In 2018, Dr. Andreussi began his appointment as an assistant professor at the Department of Physics of the University
of North Texas, where he is currently doing research in computational physics of materials. More information about Dr. Andreussi and his research can be found at</span></p>
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<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_site_olivieroandreussi_home&d=DwMFAw&c=oqyuZuih6ykib6aKiBq22_bich4AVfYGoLertJN0bEc&r=hjwEO_XYlnwAQWUGeaCrW47w4mK-Al28-BKyRvaivBs&m=b4x0sqAj5_r4vmPJw8p-ouh8wBeQgFn4MMKOeufrvrE&s=prlscocM3UAg5ONXvDAp6mnfsCEIA6TwiBQBc7PIUa8&e=" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://sites.google.com/site/olivieroandreussi/home</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
and at </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.quantum-2Denviron.org&d=DwMFAw&c=oqyuZuih6ykib6aKiBq22_bich4AVfYGoLertJN0bEc&r=hjwEO_XYlnwAQWUGeaCrW47w4mK-Al28-BKyRvaivBs&m=b4x0sqAj5_r4vmPJw8p-ouh8wBeQgFn4MMKOeufrvrE&s=nieNOo-XuzKVikY5wPutD0bv1KdM2tv-3278IPanWZM&e=" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.quantum-environ.org</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Abstract</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Continuum models of solvation have played a crucial
role in the computational characterization of molecules solvated in neutral or electrolyte solutions. Recent advances in the field have extended the capabilities of this class of methods towards the characterization of solvated interfaces, possibly in the
presence of an applied electrochemical potential. These recent advances have opened the possibility of modeling heterogeneous catalysis and electrochemistry in a first-principles-based framework, where the multiscale nature of the developed approaches provides
a significant reduction of the computational burden while retaining a good accuracy. Here, the core methodological aspects and the most recent features of these recently developed approaches, as implemented in the ENVIRON library (www.quantum-environ.org),
will be reviewed. Applications to the study of materials for electrocatalytic reactions will be presented, including a recent systematic screening of two-dimensional materials as electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER).</span></p>
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