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Templates and Tutorials

Dalhousie LaTeX/Beamer Template

My Dalhousie University-themed LaTeX templates, showcases, and useful examples. My hope with this repo is that the showcases here will be interesting for experienced LaTeX users, and the examples will be pedagogically useful for newer LaTeX users and will help kick-start their first few presentations or thesis writing. This GitHub repo contains:

• thesis_template: A Dalhousie thesis template that adheres to the Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) thesis guidelines. It features a compact version of the List of Abbreviations and Symbols, a Biber-style bibliography complete with hyperlinks to papers and automatic backreferences, and an updated class file that works cleanly with TeXLive2025.

• beamer_slides_template: A Dalhousie beamer slide template and showcase with useful slide templates.

• beamer_poster_template: WIP

• ColourBlindSwatches.txt: A custom colourblind friendly palate, with swatches in various colours ordered from light to dark.

XDM Tutorial for FHI-aims

Theory, usage, and three tutorials showcasing the Exchange-hole Dipole Moment (XDM) dispersion correction in FHI-aims. The tutorials cover the use of XDM for modelling molecular dimers, periodic systems, and show how to fit and use XDM for any functional/basis combination not already included in the defaults.

Talks, Lectures, and Posters

All talks, lectures, and posters are posted to: github.com/KyleBryenton/slides-posters

• 2019-12-06 CMS Talk - Anharmonic Potentials with Variable Bumps and Depths
• 2020-10-13 Chem6353 Lecture - How are Forces Calculated in Density Functional Theory
• 2021-02-09 Phys6802 - Seminar 1: What the Flip are Stress Tensors
• 2022-02-01 Phys6802 - Seminar 2: The DeepMind 2021 Functional
• 2022-04-07 Qual Slides - Improved Calculation of XDM Dispersion Forces
• 2022-08-03 CCAM Talk - Capturing Many-Body Dispersion with Exchange-Hole Dipoles
• 2022-09-15 PHYC3640 - Tutorial 1: Complex Numbers, Operators, and Eigenvalues
• 2022-10-04 PHYC3640 - Tutorial 2: Volume Integration
• 2022-10-13 PHYC3640 - Tutorial 3: Delta Functions Matrix Eigenvalues
• 2023-02-14 Phys6802 - Seminar 3: Many-Body Dispersion and the Sensitivity of SCS
• 2023-03-29 ACS Poster - Many-Body Dispersion and the Sensitivity of SCS
• 2023-03-30 ACS Talk - Many-Body Dispersion and the Sensitivity SCS
• 2023-06-20 CAP Poster - Many-Body Dispersion and the Sensitivity SCS
• 2023-06-21 CAP Talk - Many-Body Dispersion and the Sensitivity SCS
• 2023-08-02 FHIaims Poster - Improved Forces for the Exchange-hole Dipole Moment Model
• 2023-09-01 Committee Meeting II
• 2024-02-26 Sanibel Poster - Adding Correlation to the XDM Dispersion Model
• 2024-07-22 CSTCC Talk - XCDM
• 2024-08-05 UPEI Seminar - Climbing Down the Order of Purity
• 2024-10-22 Committee Meeting III
• 2025-06-24 WATOC Poster - The XCDM Model and Z-Damping
• 2025-08-08 PhD Defence - Physics-guided Solutions to Dispersion in DFT

PhD Thesis