Design workshop approved (Dec 2008) The long program proposal on "Navigating Chemical Compound Space for Materials and Bio Design" at IPAM, UCLA, in 2010/2011 was approved! Read the proposal.

Visitor Michel (Nov 2008) Michel Cuendet, visitor from Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, talks about steered Molecular Dynamics. View the talk .

Milind Misra joins (Oct 2008) As of October, Milind joined my efforts to develop better computational tools for Materials Design. Milind

Noll 1955 (Oct 2008) Now available: The translation of Walter Nolls seminal paper on deriving the fundamental equations of continuum thermodynamics from statistical mechanics. Read translation

DFT's 3-body error (Jul 2008) Fortuitous cancellations of 2- and many-body DFT errors occur when describing van der Waals crystals. Read the article

Research Report (Apr 2008) SNL's annual report on university research activities View report.

Gap vs structure (Mar 2008) Electronic properties, such as the band gap, strongly depend on computational and geometrical details. Read the article

Visitor Alexandre (Mar 2008) Alexandre Tkatchenko, visitor from Fritz Haber Institute Berlin, talks about dispersion corrected DFT. View the talk .

Visitor Denis (Mar 2008) Denis Andrienko, visitor from MPI for Polymer Research Mainz, talks about charge transport in discotic liquid crystals. View the talk .

World Record (Jan 2008) of 31.25 % solar-to-grid conversion efficiency at SNL. Read the article

Visitor Matteo (Jan 2008) Matteo Guglielmi, visitor from EPF Lausanne, delivers stunning talk at the CSRI on TDDFT based MD studies on the photo-stabilization of tryptophan. View the talk or Watch the movie