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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

• 2026-07-15 CSTCC Talk - Outlier Analysis on Thermochemical Benchmarks
• 2025-08-08 PhD Defence - Physics-guided Solutions to Dispersion in DFT
• 2025-06-24 WATOC Poster - The XCDM Model and Z-Damping
• 2024-10-22 Committee Meeting III
• 2024-08-05 UPEI Seminar - Climbing Down the Order of Purity
• 2024-07-22 CSTCC Talk - XCDM
• 2024-02-26 Sanibel Poster - Adding Correlation to the XDM Dispersion Model
• 2023-09-01 Committee Meeting II
• 2023-08-02 FHIaims Poster - Improved Forces for the Exchange-hole Dipole Moment Model
• 2023-06-21 CAP Talk - Many-Body Dispersion and the Sensitivity SCS
• 2023-06-20 CAP Poster - Many-Body Dispersion and the Sensitivity SCS
• 2023-03-30 ACS Talk - Many-Body Dispersion and the Sensitivity SCS
• 2023-03-29 ACS Poster - Many-Body Dispersion and the Sensitivity of SCS
• 2023-02-14 Phys6802 - Seminar 3: Many-Body Dispersion and the Sensitivity of SCS
• 2022-10-13 PHYC3640 - Tutorial 3: Delta Functions Matrix Eigenvalues
• 2022-10-04 PHYC3640 - Tutorial 2: Volume Integration
• 2022-09-15 PHYC3640 - Tutorial 1: Complex Numbers, Operators, and Eigenvalues
• 2022-08-03 CCAM Talk - Capturing Many-Body Dispersion with Exchange-Hole Dipoles
• 2022-04-07 Qual Slides - Improved Calculation of XDM Dispersion Forces
• 2022-02-01 Phys6802 - Seminar 2: The DeepMind 2021 Functional
• 2021-02-09 Phys6802 - Seminar 1: What the Flip are Stress Tensors
• 2020-10-13 Chem6353 Lecture - How are Forces Calculated in Density Functional Theory
• 2019-12-06 CMS Talk - Anharmonic Potentials with Variable Bumps and Depths

PhD Thesis