This resource by Tianshi Wang, Jaijeet Roychowdhury introduces the fundamentals of compact models along with ways on writing a compact model. It includes tips on writing a comprehensive compact model with Verilog A and to a certain extent SPICE. This is useful for my group since we are trying to publish a NEEDs certified compact model for the first time and since our model might require more supporting contents alongside it, this presentation fully covers what we are missing so far for publishing.

The tool allows geometry optimizations with or without constrains, normal modes analysis and automatic ionization energy calculation. This is an ideal tool for any field because visualizing hybridization of atoms can be really tricky, thus making this useful for physical applications. ORCA is a Quantum chemistry program. 

This tool allows the user to run DFT calculations using Quantum Espresso to calculate material properties. The tool can do band structure E-K diagrams, dielectric constants and optical properties, density of states, equations of state, and thermoelectric calculations.

This presentation by Martin Hunt (a senior software engineer for HUBzero) explains what Jupyter Notebook is and how it compares to other environments (i.e. Rappture). He walks the audience through the steps of various examples to highlight the different features and plug-ins that Jupyter Notebooks provides. (Thus, the presentation in itself is fairly short; walking through the steps make the video a little longer.) 

I found this presentation especially helpful because my group and I are updating a nanoHUB tool using Jupyter Notebook. I do not have any experience using Jupyter Notebook (or Python in general), so I found this video presentation really useful. Now, although I cannot yet code in Python, I have an idea of how it functions. Hopefully, others who need a little more information about Jupyter Notebooks will find this resource just as helpful.

This tool shows you some of the basic functions of MATLAB and has slides showing the common commands used in MATLAB.

This source was a video lesson taught by Dr. Koslowski. I determined this to be a valuable resource because Dr. Koslowski describes a very important phenomenon that occurs during compaction of plastic and elastoplastic materials. Upon looking at a stress-strain curve, the start of the curve is almost always linear, and Young’s modulus is derived from it’s slope. However, eventually the line curves and stops becoming linear. This is the result of plastic deformation, when the material or particle’s shape is being permanently altered as a result of the load. Dr. Koslowski explains that on a nano-scale, these permanent deformations occur as a result of dislocations of microscopic planes of the particle. The dislocations arise from the particle’s atoms shifting after reaching a yield point of pressure. This source helped me develop a deeper understanding of the mechanism that causes plastic deformation. 

    This online presentation describes process from the light energy as electronic excitation to the reaction center within picoseconds. They have found out that there is surprisingly long-lived electronic coherences in this process. In this presentation, the presenter also discusses the theoretical studies of the quantum dynamics of a prototypical photosynthetic light harvesting complex, the Fenna-Metthews-Olson (FMO) complex, which is helpful for me to understand the function of FMO. 

This resource is an online course on the topic of Bioinformatics, taught by Dr. Saurabh Sinha from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In my field, the study of bioinformatics and the development of data-analyzing tools are important to analyze large sets of data. This resource is very helpful to understand the basics of bioinformatics.

This is a nanoHUB online course for nanoelectronics, which is taught by Professor Datta. I recently start to watch this course which helps me understand many theories about electronics which is in nano scale. 

This is a neat calculator that allows you to get a quick calculation of the resistance, capacitance, or inductance of a circuit. You can actually add quite a few objects to the circuit. The tool provides a good hands-on application of Kirchhoff's Laws.

This is a link to a short presentation that discusses the use of Jupyter Notebooks and its role in the academic environment. It includes a *.pdf slide that is essentially a quick-start guide to writing (tools) code that can be quickly tested online via Jupyter Notebooks.

This tool is used to simulate the surface energies of different types of crystal systems. For each miller index, you can provide a bias that changes the overall ways the surface energies affect the end shape.