Grabowski, B.; Ismer, L.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio up to the melting point: An efficient thermodynamic integration scheme. Computational Materials Science Workshop, Ebernburg Castle, Germany (2008)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: First principles determination of phase transitions in magnetic shape memory alloys. XXI Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Osaka, Japan (2008)
Grabowski, B.; Ismer, L.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio up to the melting point: Influence of vacancies and explicit anharmonicity. International Workshop on Ab initio Description of Iron and Steel (ADIS2008), Ringberg Castle, Germany (2008)
Ismer, L.; Friák, M.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Effect of interstitial carbon on the magnetic structure of fcc iron: Towards an ab-initio simulation of austenitic steels. International Workshop on Ab initio Description of Iron and Steel (ADIS2008), Ringberg Castle, Germany (2008)
Körmann, F.; Dick, A.; Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: The free energy of bcc iron: Integrated ab initio derivation of vibrational, electronic, and magnetic contributions. International Workshop on Ab initio Description of Iron and Steel (ADIS2008), Ringberg Castle, Germany (2008)
Uijttewaal, M.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Phase transformations of Ni2MnGa shape memory alloy from first principles: The martensitic transition & magnetism, The pre-martensitic transition & soft modes, Off-stoichiometry & the stability of the phases. Workshop on magnetic shape memory alloys, Bremen, Germany (2008)
Hickel, T.: Ab initio determination of free energies and phase diagrams. MPIE Inter-Departmental Tutorial Day(s) 2008, MPIE, Duesseldorf, Germany (2008)
Marquardt, O.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures including strain and piezoelectric effects. PARSEM meeting and workshop, Cambridge, UK (2008)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio Investigations of Temperature Dependent Effects in MSM Alloys. Antragskolloquium SPP1239, Dresden, Germany (2008)
Grabowski, B.; Ismer, L.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio up to the melting point: Influence of vacancies and explicit anharmonicity. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Berlin, Germany (2008)
Marquardt, O.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Plane-wave implementation of the k.p-formalism including strain and piezoelectricity to study the optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Berlin, Germany (2008)
Uijttewaal, M.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Phase transformations of Ni2MnGa shape memory alloy from first principles. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Berlin, Germany (2008)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: First principles Determination of Phase Transitions in Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys. Group Seminar in Materials Department, University of California (UCSB), Santa Barbara, CA, USA (2008)
Marquardt, O.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures, a PW-approach to real-space properties. MRL seminar at UCSB, UCSB, Santa Barbara, USA (2008)
Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: From ab initio to materials properties: Accuracy and error bars of DFT thermodynamics. Phonon Workshop, Krakau, Poland (2007)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: Determination of symmetry reduced structures by a soft-phonon analysis in magnetic shape memory alloys. 2nd Workshop on ab initio phonon calculations, Cracow, Poland (2007)
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