Uijttewaal, M.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio investigation of temperature dependent effects in Ni_{2}MnGa: The pre-martensitic transition. Convention of the SPP 1239, Castle Eichholz in Wesseling, Germany (2007)
Hickel, T.: Research at the department of Computational Materials Design. Visit of the Steering Committee of IISI project “India 2020”, MPIE Duesseldorf, Germany (2007)
Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Uijttewaal, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Determination of symmetry-reduced structures by a soft-phonon analysis in magnetic shape memory alloys. Physics Seminar of Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK (2007)
Marquardt, O.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Application of the 8-band k.p-formalism to semiconductor nanostructures. Forschergruppentreffen Uni Bremen, Bremen, Germany (2007)
Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.; Marquardt, O.: Department of Computational Materials Design: Present activities and future research. Guided tour in the MPIE of IMPRS-SurMat, Duesseldorf, Germany (2007)
Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio calculation of free energies and thermodynamic properties of fcc metals. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Regensburg, Germany (2007)
Marquardt, O.; Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Boeck, S.; Neugebauer, J.: Implementation and application of the k.p-formalism to electronic structure and Coulomb matrix elements. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Regensburg, Germany (2007)
Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Uijttewaal, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio determination of symmetry-reduced structures by a soft-phonon analysis in Ni_{2}MnGa. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Regensburg, Germany (2007)
Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Uijttewaal, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio prediction of structural and thermodynamic properties of magnetic shape memory alloys. Focus meeting of the SPP 1239: Fundamentals of the Magnetic Shape Memory Effect: Materials properties & simulations, Schloss Ringberg, Germany (2007)
Marquardt, O.; Wahn, M.; Lymperakis, L.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Implementation and application of a multi-scale approach to electronic properties of group III-nitride based semiconductor nanostructures. Workshop on Nitride Based Nanostructures, Berlin, Germany (2007)
Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio prediction of structural and thermodynamic properties of metals. Seminar Abt. Jansen, MPI für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany (2007)
Marquardt, O.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: A k.p approach to electronic states and Coulomb interaction in semiconductor quantum dots. Forschergruppentreffen Uni Bremen, Bremen, Germany (2007)
Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: From ab initio to materials properties: Accuracy and error bars of DFT thermodynamics. MMM Workshop, Barcelona, Spain (2007)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio prediction of structural and thermodynamic properties of metals. International Max-Planck Workshop on Multiscale Materials Modeling of Condensed Matter, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain (2007)
Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio description of grain boundaries and diffusion processes. Arbeitstreffen der Helmholtz-Allianz „HYPER“,, Darmstadt (2006)
Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: Temperature dependent properites of Ni2MnGa – An ab initio approach -. European Symposium on Martensitic Transformations (ESOMAT), Bochum (2006)
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