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SUMMARY:Student Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Brian Dawes (BIOE) and Nicholas Russo (CME)\, Boston 
	University\nHosted by: Eric Boyers\n\nPart of the Graduate Student Council 
	Events.\n\nStudent Seminars are talks to the physics graduate student body\
	, typically given by graduate students or postdocs. The series is organized
	 by the Graduate Student Council. If you would like further details or woul
	d like to give a talk or invite a speaker\, please email gradcouncil@buphy.
	bu.edu.\n\nBrian Dawes (BIOE)\nA physicist's introduction to bioinformatics
	\n\nBefore attending BU\, I spent two years working as a bioinformatician. 
	Broadly speaking\, bioinformatics is the application of data science to bio
	logical problems. In this talk\, I will give a brief overview of the field 
	and describe my experiences working in a bio lab when my last bio class was
	 in high school. I will end by following the analysis pipeline of a single 
	cell RNA sequencing data set. Along the way\, I'll cover a few machine lear
	ning techniques such as PCA and tSNE which have broad applicability.\n\nNic
	k Russo (CME)\nPerspective on Engineering Transition Metal Oxides\n\nTransi
	tion Metal Oxides are a class of materials that exhibit a wide range of fas
	cinating and useful electronic properties. Understanding the molecular orig
	ins of these properties is crucial to controlling and engineering their beh
	avior; and this can be done by understanding a few general concepts. In thi
	s talk\, I will discuss a few of these concepts and illustrate how they can
	 be applied to understand some interesting properties and behaviors of thes
	e compounds\, notably Charge Density Waves and High Tc superconductivity. T
	he three concepts discussed are: (1) orbital mixing and the roles of cation
	-d/O-2p covalent bonding as distinct from on-site cation−orbital hybridiz
	ation; (2) cooperativity in ordering (a) localized orbitals to remove an or
	bital degeneracy\, (b) ferroic atomic displacements\, and (c) bond lengths 
	in a charge-density wave; and (3) cation-site expansion at the crossover fr
	om itinerant to localized electron behavior.
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