(out of 147)
- Maija M.Kukla, Models for International Collaboration, Invited talk at USA-Russia University Rectors meeting, Association of American Universities and Eureka Foundation, College Park, MD, April, 2011.
- Maija M.Kukla, Partnerships for International Research and Education, Invited talk, The Entrepreneurial University – Accelerating Social and Economic Innovation, UC Washington DC campus, April, 2011.
- Maija Kukla, Embassy Science Fellow’s View on the US-Russia Collaboration, Invited talk at the National Academy of Sciences meeting, U.S.-Russia Bioengagement, Past, Present, and Future, January, 2011.
- Maija M.Kukla, Are we there yet? Innovation Opportunities at NSF, Invited talk at the Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference, October 28, 2008.
- Maija Kukla, NSF MRSEC and PREM programs in 2008. Invited lecture at Research and Education in Material Science Symposium, American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, April, 2008.
- Maija M. Kuklja, NSF Materials Research and Engineering Centers (MRSEC): NSF prospective on international collaboration, Invited presentation at London Center for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, UK, October, 2007.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Strategic Planning for successful NSF Materials Research and Engineering Centers (MRSEC) proposal, Invited presentation at EPSCoR Research Theme Forum: Strategies for Building Center-Level Research Themes at The University, State, and Regional Level, June, Washington, D.C., 2007.
- Maija M. Kuklja, NSF Materials Research and Engineering Centers (MRSEC) program, Invited presentation at Federal Interagency Chemistry Representatives Meeting Research Centers: Their Role, Value, and Impact on Individual Investigator Programs, Arlington, VA, March, 2007.
- Maija M. Kuklja Overview of NSF/MPS/DMR funding opportunities: emphasis on DMR MRSEC program, Invited Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January, 2007.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Overview of DMR MRSEC program and how to write a successful MRSEC proposal, Invited seminar, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, September 2006.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Overview of NSF/MPS funding opportunities, DMR MRSEC program and how to write a successful MRSEC proposal: specifics of a minority serving institution, Invited seminar CCNY, New York, September 2006.
- T. Rieker, M. M. Kukla, NSF division of materials research PREM program, Invited talk at 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006
- Maija M. Kuklja, Overview of DMR MRSEC program and how to write a successful MRSEC proposal: specifics of a campus from EPSCoR state, Invited seminar, HiPSEC, UNLV, Las Vegas, May 2006.
- Maija M. Kuklja, How to get funding for traditionally not funded research, workshop at APS SCCM meeting, Baltimore, June 2006.
- Maija M. Kukla, Overview of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate and Division of Materials Research activities, Invited lecture at NSF day at Norfolk State University, HBCU Workshop, January 5, 2005, Norfolk, VA.
- Maija M. Kukla, Opportunities for International Cooperation in Mathematical and Physical Sciences: NSF perspective, Invited talk at the meeting of International advisory board for CMOS consortia, (UCL, London, UG, Glasgow, NASA), UCL, London, March 2005.
- M.M.Kukla, University of Maryland Energy Research Center: Looking Forward, Invited talk at College of Engineering, University of Maryland, June, 2011.
- M.M.Kukla, Ab initio Modeling of Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Invited talk at UMERC, University of Maryland, June, 2011.
- R.V. Tsyshevskiy, O. Sharia, M.M. Kuklja, Effect of impurities on optical properties of Pentaerythritol Teranitrate, APS Shock Compression of Condensed Matter meeting, Chicago, June, 2011.
- Onise Sharia and Maija M. Kuklja, Comparative analysis of decomposition reactions in gaseous and crystalline β-HMX, APS Shock Compression of Condensed Matter meeting, Chicago, June, 2011.
- M.M. Kuklja, Yu. Mastrikov, S.N. Rashkeev, and E.A. Kotomin, The Structural Disorder and Lattice Stability of (Ba,Sr)(Co,Fe)O3 Complex Perovskites, ECS meeting, Montreal, Canada, May, 2011.
- E. A. Kotomin, R. Merkle, Yu. A. Mastrikov, M.M. Kuklja, J. Maier, First Principles Modeling of Oxygen Incorporation into SOFC Cathode and Oxygen Permeation Membranes, ECS meeting, Montreal, Canada, May, 2011.
- E.A.Kotomin, Yu.Mastrikov, R.Merkle, M.M.Kuklja, J.Maier, First-principles calculations of oxygen vacancy formation and migration energies in mixed conducting BSCF perovskites, Invited talk at the 9th Int. Symposium on Systems with Fast Ionic Transport (ISSFIT-9), Riga, June 2010.
- Maija M. Kukla, Ab initio view on Mechanochemistry, Invited lecture at Guy Fawkes Soiree: Extreme Conditions, The Thomas Young Centre, London Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials, November, 2009. (http://www.thomasyoungcentre.org/events/archive/229/guy-fawkes-soiree-extreme-conditions/)
- Maija M.Kuklja, Compression and Shear-strain Induced Processes in Energetic Molecular Crystals, Invited lecture at “The Changing Face of Chemistry in the 21st Century,”
42nd Western Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, September 2008.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Mechanisms of Initiation of Detonation at Micro-scale, Invited Lecture at discussion section, Discussion Leader, New Models and Hydrocodes for Shock Wave Processes in Condensed Matter, Lisbon, Portugal, May, 2008.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Force Fields – ReaxFF, AIREBO, and nonreactive force fields, Discussion leader, ARO MURI Workshop Insensitive Munitions, UNLV, Las Vegas, February, 2008.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Modeling Energetic Materials: from molecules to complexity, Invited lecture at distinguished lecture series, Yeshiva University, NYC, NY, November, 2007.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Energetic materials by design: from molecules to complexity, Invited lecture Accelrys, Cambridge, UK, October, 2007.
- Sergey N. Rashkeev and Maija M. Kuklja, Shear-strain induced structural and electronic modifications of the energetic molecular crystal 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene, Session V23: High Pressure, APS March Meeting, Denver, CO, March 2007.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Ab initio study of shear-strain induced chemistry in energetic materials, Invited talk at Work In Progress seminar series, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, February, 2007.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Towards energetic materials by design: Ab initio study of organic molecular crystals, Invited lecture for Materials Science and Engineering Department Distinguished Speaker Colloquium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, January, 2007.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Ab initio study of organic molecular crystals: Structure-property relationship in energetic materials, Invited seminar, NSU, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, November 2006.
- Maija M. Kuklja, First-principles modeling of defect-induced decomposition in shocked energetic materials, Invited seminar within Materials Science and Engineering Distinguished Lecturer series, University of Maryland, College Park, MD October 2006.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Defect-induced phenomena in energetic molecular crystals, Invited seminar, University College London, London, UK, September, 2006.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Shear-triggered decomposition in energetic materials: ab initio study, Invited seminar within Physics Distinguished Speaker Colloquium, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, September 2006.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Defect-induced decomposition in energetic materials: ab initio study, Invited seminar CCNY, New York, September 2006.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Effect of Defects on Mechanisms of Initiation and Energy Release in Energetic Molecular Crystals, Invited seminar, HiPSEC, UNLV, Las Vegas, May 2006.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Defect-induced phenomena in energetic molecular crystals, Invited seminar, Materials Research Laboratory, UCSB, Santa Barbara, September 2005.
- Frank Zerilli and Maija M. Kuklja, Thermodynamic Properties of Organic Molecular Crystals from First Principles, Joint 20th AIRAPT--43th EHPRG, Karlsruhe, Germany, June-July 2005.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Frank Zerilli, and Sergey Rashkeev, The atomic and electronic structure of defects in 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene, APS SCCM, Baltimore, MD, July-August 2005.
- Yuri Skryl, Anna Belak, and Maija M. Kuklja, Shock Induced Polarization in Binary Electrolytes, APS SCCM, Baltimore, MD, July-August 2005.
- Maija M. Kuklja, An effect of defects on electronic structure and chemical reactivity of energetic crystals, Invited presentation at ARO MURI meeting, Caltech, Pasadena, CA-NSF, Arlington, VA, July 2005.
- Maija M. Kuklja, F.J.Zerilli, P.V.Sushko, and A.L.Shluger, Properties of Energetic Molecular Crystals Obtained from an Embedded Cluster Model. Invited talk for International Conference on New Models and Hydrocodes for Shock Wave Processes, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, May, 2004.
- F.J.Zerilli and Maija M. Kuklja, Quantum Mechanical Calculation of the Equation of State for Energetic Molecular Crystals, Invited talk for International Conference on New Models and Hydrocodes for Shock Wave Processes, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, May, 2004.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Electronic structure and chemical reactivity of energetic solids containing defects. Invited lecture for Gordon Research Conference on Energetic Materials, Tilton School, NH, June, 2004.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Modeling of Fundamental Properties of Organic Molecular Crystals using Hartree-Fock and Density Functional Theory Methods, Invited talk at International Workshop on Computational Physics, St-Petersburg, Russia, August, 2003.
- Frank J. Zerilli and Maija M. Kuklja, Ab-initio calculations of the equation of state for organic molecular crystals, Invited talk at MRS_Fall_2003 Meeting, Symposium AA: Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties of Energetic/Reactive Nanomaterials, Boston, MA, December 2003.
- Maija M. Kuklja, Frank J. Zerilli, Peter V. Sushko, Alexander L. Shluger, Embedded Cluster Model: Application to Molecular Crystals, Invited talk at MRS_Fall_2003 Meeting, Symposium AA: Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties of Energetic/Reactive Nanomaterials, Boston, MA, December 2003.
- M.M.Kuklja, Deformation of the Electronic Structure of Shocked Molecular Crystals. Invited within Special Seminar at the ASCI Center at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, February 27-28, 2001.
- M.M.Kuklja, Electronic Excitations in Initiation of Chemistry in Molecular Solids. Invited seminar at the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, UK, April, 23, 2001.
- M.M.Kuklja, How point and line defects affect detonation properties of energetic solids under shock. Invited talk at 12th Biennial International Conference on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, Atlanta, GA, June, 2001.
- M.M.Kuklja. Defect and Pressure Induced Effects on Properties of Energetic Crystals: New mechanism of Detonation Initiation. Invited talk at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Materials Research Institute Seminar Series, Livermore, CA, February 16-18, 2000.
- M.M.Kuklja and A.B.Kunz, The Electronic Structure of Shocked Energetic Crystals Containing Defects. An Excitonic Mechanism of Detonation Initiation, Gordon Research Conference: Energetic Materials, Tilton School, Tilton, NH. July 2-7, 2000.
- M.M.Kuklja, presentation of the invited talk of A.B.Kunz, Chemisorption on Insulating Oxide Surfaces: Ag on MgO, NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Defects and Surface-Induced Effects in Advanced Perovskites, Jurmala, Latvia, August, 1999.
- M.M.Kuklja, Defect Calculations for Yttrium – Aluminum Perovskite and Garnet Crystals, P-2, Invited presentation at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Defects and Surface-Induced Effects in Advanced Perovskites, Jurmala, Latvia, August, 1999.
- B.P. Aduev, E.D. Aluker, Yu.A. Zaharov, A.B. Kunz, M.M. Kuklja. Models of explosive decomposition of heavy metal azides, Invited talk, 10th International Conference on Radiation Physics and Chemistry of Inorganic Materials, RFH-10, Tomsk, Russia, September, 1999.
- M.M.Kuklja, Defects induced effects on properties of energetic materials: Ab initio study of RDX, Invited talk at the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, November 1, 1999.
- M.M.Kuklja, How properties of unstable solids can be changed by defects: Ab initio study of RDX and PETN, Invited talk at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, December 10, 1999.
