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Rutgers Theory Symposium
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   **Focus**

   | ML/Data-Based and Physics-Based Methods  
   | Talks given by postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students

   **When**

   | September 4, 2025  
   | 9:20 AM to 5:00 PM  
   | (Eastern US time zone)

   **Location**

   | 101 Warren St., Newark, New Jersey
   | Smith Hall, Room 206

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         VIDEO RECORDINGS


**Participants**

* Dr. Bhaskar Rana (Pavanello group)
* Rishi Rao (Zhu Group)
* Dr. Aniket Mandal (Pavanello group)
* Meiyan Wang (Zhu Group)
* Jessica Martinez Bernal (Pavanello group)
* Dr. Ezekiel Oyeniyi (Pavanello group)
* Dr. Jack Taylor (Maitra Group)
* Anya Baranova (Maitra Group)
* Dhyey Ray (Maitra Group)
* Valeria Rios Vargas (Pavanello group)
* Dr. Evaristo Villaseco (Maitra group)

Morning session: ML/Data-based methods and software
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   * - **TIME**
     - **ACTIVITY**
   * - 9:20
     - Opening Remarks

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   * - **TIME**
     - **SPEAKER**
     - **GROUP**
     - **TITLE**
   * - 9:30
     - Dr. Bhaskar Rana
     - Pavanello group
     - `Learning the Electronic Structure of Excited States via the 1-RDM <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGevvSvqfhY&list=PLDgw3fS4ncAFaZZ04pldyBXdjB8Z3-mMD&index=1&t=8s&pp=iAQB>`_
   * - 9:50
     - Rishi Rao
     - Zhu Group
     - `Machine Learning of Self-energies for Accelerated DMFT Calculations <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAuej-8CYu4&list=PLDgw3fS4ncAFaZZ04pldyBXdjB8Z3-mMD&index=2&pp=iAQB>`_
   * - 10:10
     - Dr. Aniket Mandal 
     - Pavanello group
     - `QEpy: Quantum ESPRESSO in Python <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHkHfOFWUU&list=PLDgw3fS4ncAFaZZ04pldyBXdjB8Z3-mMD&index=3&pp=iAQB0gcJCRUKAYcqIYzv>`_
   
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   * - **TIME**
     - **ACTIVITY**
   * - 10:30
     - Break

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   * - **TIME**
     - **SPEAKER**
     - **GROUP**
     - **TITLE**
   * - 11:00
     - Meiyan Wang
     - Zhu group
     - `From Semiconductors to Superconductors: A Data-Driven Pipeline for Exploring Complex Energy Landscapes <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZobac8Ncr8&list=PLDgw3fS4ncAFaZZ04pldyBXdjB8Z3-mMD&index=4&pp=iAQB>`_
   * - 11:20
     - Jessica Martinez Bernal
     - Pavanello Group
     - `Machine Learning the 2-RDM <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-QLZ9aZm0s&list=PLDgw3fS4ncAFaZZ04pldyBXdjB8Z3-mMD&index=5&t=8s&pp=iAQB>`_
   * - 11:40
     - Dr. Ezekiel Oyeniyi  
     - Pavanello group, Zoom
     - `Pseudopotentials for Orbital Free DFT <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehD9NOSU7o&list=PLDgw3fS4ncAFaZZ04pldyBXdjB8Z3-mMD&index=6&t=682s&pp=iAQB>`_

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   * - **TIME**
     - **ACTIVITY**
   * - 12:00
     - Lunch Break

Afternoon session: Physics-Based Methods
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   * - **TIME**
     - **SPEAKER**
     - **GROUP**
     - **TITLE**
   * - 2:30
     - Dr. Jack Taylor
     - Maitra group
     - `Ground-to-excited state conical intersections in LR-TDDFT: Implications for nonadiabatic molecular dynamics <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2uCpT5cwh4&list=PLDgw3fS4ncAFaZZ04pldyBXdjB8Z3-mMD&index=7&pp=iAQB>`_
   * - 2:50
     - Anya Baranova
     - Maitra Group
     - `Excited-State Densities from Linear-Response TDDFT <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jzB59tmcJs&list=PLDgw3fS4ncAFaZZ04pldyBXdjB8Z3-mMD&index=11&pp=iAQB>`_
   * - 3:10
     - Dhyey Ray 
     - Maitra group
     - `The Application of Response-Reformulated TDDFT to Strong-Field Dynamics in Systems with Double Excitations <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0e924m-S4o&list=PLDgw3fS4ncAFaZZ04pldyBXdjB8Z3-mMD&index=8&pp=iAQB>`_

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   * - **TIME**
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   * - 3:30
     - Break

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   * - **TIME**
     - **SPEAKER**
     - **GROUP**
     - **TITLE**
   * - 4:00
     - Valeria Rios Vargas
     - Pavanello group
     - `Orbital-Free TDDFT for Plasmonic Nanoparticles <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecmE2Ut1c4A&list=PLDgw3fS4ncAFaZZ04pldyBXdjB8Z3-mMD&index=9&pp=iAQB0gcJCRUKAYcqIYzv>`_
   * - 4:20
     - Dr. Evaristo Villaseco
     - Maitra Group
     - `Electronic Coherences in Molecules: The Nuclear Quantum Momentum as Hidden Agent <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYO8vM4WmPQ&list=PLDgw3fS4ncAFaZZ04pldyBXdjB8Z3-mMD&index=10&pp=iAQB>`_

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   * - **TIME**
     - **ACTIVITY**
   * - 4:40
     - Open Discussion