News

  • Dr. Ataca receives a DOE grant in collaboration with experimental condensed matter physicists to study the quantum properties and physics of defects in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides.
  • Akram publishes a paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, featured in the virtual special issue titled “Machine Learning in Physical Chemistry Volume 2.”
  • Akram and Dr. Ataca attends the QMCPACK workshop at Argonne National Lab in Chicago, IL; Dr. Ataca gives an invited talk (12/2023)
  • Akram presents virtually at NIST’s AIMS workshop (7/2023)
  • Akram, and Dr. Ataca present at APS in Las Vegas, NV (3/2023)
  • Akram presents virtually at NIST’s QMMS workshop (2/2023)
  • Akram gives a contributed talk, and Dr. Ataca gives an invited talk at the APS Mid-Atlantic Meeting at Penn State (12/2022)
  • Akram presents virtually at NIST’s AIMS workshop (7/2022)
  • Gracie successfully defends her PhD thesis, “Simulating Li-ion Batteries and Beyond: Developing Electrode Materials for Next-Generation Batteries”, congratulations Dr. Gracie! (7/2022)
  • Akram Ibrahim advances to PhD candidacy, congratulations Akram! (04/2022)
  • STEAM Lab presents virtually at the APS March Meeting (3/2022)
  • Daniel successfully defends his PhD thesis, “Beyond DFT: Accurately Engineering the Properties of 2D Materials for Energy and Device Applications”, congratulations Dr. Wines! (2/2022)
  • STEAM Lab featured in UMBC news for work on energy materials (12/2021)
  • Dr. Ataca presents at the virtual QMCPACK workshop, “Modeling at Chemical Accuracy For Energy Applications.” (11/2021)
  • Daniel is awarded an NRC postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD. Congratulations Daniel! (09/2021)
  • Daniel attends and presents a poster at the virtual International Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure hosted by the Flatiron Institute (07/2021)
  • Daniel attends and presents a poster at the virtual school on electronic excitations using Yambo (04/2021)
  • Gracie, Daniel, Yelda and Akram present at the virtual APS March Meeting (03/2021)
  • Gracie and Daniel present a virtual poster at the “20th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods” hosted by ICTP (02/2021)
  • STEAM Lab attends the virtual BerkeleyGW Tutorial and Berkeley Excited States Conference (01/2021)
  • Dr. Ataca named session chair for “DFT and Beyond” at the virtual 2021 APS March Meeting
  • STEAM Lab featured in UMBC news and Phys.org for work on 2D materials (12/2020)
  • STEAM Lab attends the PERTURBO code virtual workshop. (11/2020)
  • Gracie Chaney advances to PhD candidacy, congratulations Gracie! (10/2020)
  • Former STEAM Lab graduate Dr. Jaron Kropp accepts position at the Army Research Lab (ARL) as a Cleanroom Deposition Engineer, congratulations Jaron! (06/2020)
  • STEAM Lab welcomes graduate student Akram Ibrahim. (06/2020)
  • STEAM Lab welcomes Yelda Kadioglu as a postdoctoral associate. (06/2020)
  • Former STEAM Lab member Dr. Fatih Ersan accepts position as an Associate Professor in the Physics Department at Adnan Menderes University (Turkey), congratulations Fatih! (05/2020)
  • Jaron Kropp defends PhD thesis “Investigation of Two-Dimensional Materials for Next-Generation Electronic Devices”, congratulations Dr. Kropp! (04/2020)
  • Daniel Wines advances to PhD candidacy, congratulations Daniel! (03/2020)
  • STEAM Lab virtually presents at APS (American Physical Society) March Meeting 2020. (03/2020)
  • STEAM Lab welcomes Ellen Gulian as an undergraduate researcher (joint project with Prof. Michael Hayden). (09/2019)
  • Daniel Wines and Gracie Chaney attend MOLSSI School on Stochastic Approaches to Electronic Structure Calculations at the University of Pittsburgh. (08/2019)
  • STEAM Lab welcomes Brendan Richards as a summer rotation student. (06/2019)
  • STEAM Lab attends SCAN Density Functional Workshop at Temple University. (05/2019)
  • STEAM Lab welcomes Joshua Richards as an undergraduate researcher. (05/2019)
  • STEAM Lab attends APS (American Physical Society) March Meeting 2019. (03/2019)
  • STEAM Lab appears in UMBC news to discuss the newly awarded DMR grant to study 2D materials with Quantum Monte Carlo methods. (10/2018)
  • Prof. Rubenstein and her group visited us as part of the NSF – DMR project. Very productive discussions! (08/2018)
  • Dr. Amit Patel joins STEAM Lab as a visiting scientist. (07/2018)
  • STEAM Lab and Rubenstein Group from Brown University have been funded from NSF – DMR (National Science Foundation – Division of Materials Research) to apply advanced electronic structure methods to study 2D materials and their related applications. (07/2018)
  • STEAM Lab welcomes Zeynep Yalcin, high-school summer-term researcher. (06/2018)
  • Dr. Fatih Ersan joins STEAM Lab as a postdoctoral associate. (06/2018)
  • Prof. Ataca is giving an oral talk on “Enhancing Light Emission Efficiency without Color Change in Post-Transition Metal Chalcogenides” at ECS (The Electrochemical Society) Meeting 2018. (05/2018)
  • Prof. Ataca is giving an oral talk on “Weakly Dipole Bound Molecules” at APS (American Physical Society) March Meeting 2018. (03/2018)
  • Gracie Chaney and Cory Nunn are doing research rotations in STEAM LAB. (02/2018)
  • Thomas Hyatt joined STEAM Lab as an undergraduate researcher. (02/2018)
  • STEAM Lab welcomes Jaron Kropp (joint PhD Candidate with Prof. Theodosia Gougousi). (02/2018)
  • Prof. Ataca is giving an invited talk at PSI-K Conference on 2D materials. (12/2017)
  • Welcome to STEAM Lab Daniel Wines. (09/2017)
  • Prof. Ataca was on the news at TURKISH PHYSICISTS NETWORK. (08/2017)