Louie News

Felipe H. da Jornada will start his Group at Stanford University soon

Dr. Felipe H. da Jornada, who is a current C2SEPEM member, has accepted an offer from Stanford University. He will start his research group in January 2020. Congratulations!

Prof. Steven G. Louie is awarded as Fellow of Materials Research Society

Prof. Steven G. Louie is awarded as 2019 Fellow of Materials Research Society (MRS):

“For seminal contributions to materials theory as well as to the discovery and understanding of fundamental phenomena in solids and nanostructures.”

Congratulations!

https://www.mrs.org/spring2019/activities-events/awards/mrs-fellows

Prof. Steven G. Louie receives the 2020 Benjamin Lee Professorship Award of the Asian-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP)

Prof. Steven G. Louie receives the 2020 Benjamin Lee Professorship Award of the Asian-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP). Congratulations!

Benjamin Lee distinguished professorship is created in honor of Korea’s foremost theoretical physicist, late Benjamin Lee, who had a distinguished career in particle physics theory. The Visiting Professorship is intended to invite a theoretical physicist of international prominence to stay at the APCTP and Korea, and provide opportunities for the domestic scientists and graduate students to interact with a world-caliber theoretical...

GPU Acceleration of BerkeleyGW has been selected as a finalist for the 2020 Gordon Bell Prize

Our work “Accelerating large-scale excited-state GW calculations on leadership HPC systems” (authored by M. Del Ben, C. Yang, Z. Li, F. H. da Jornada, S. G. Louie, and J. Deslippe) has been selected as a finalist for the 2020 Gordon Bell Prize. In this work, the GPU-accelerated BerkeleyGW has been successfully running at full scale of the Summit machine at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, utilizing 27,648 GPUs, and reaching 105.9 petaFLOP/s in double precision, 52.7 of the machine peak. A silicon divacancy structure of over 2,700 atoms and over 10,000 electrons is solved with a...

Zhenglu Li receives 2021 APS Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics

Dr. Zhenglu Li receives 2021 APS Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics:

“For the development and highly-scalable implementation of novel first-principles GW perturbation theory methods to compute electron-phonon coupling with many-electron correlation effects included, and its applications to phonon-induced phenomena in oxide superconductors.“

Congratulations!

For more information, please refer to the Award link:...

BerkeleyGW software package version 3.0 release

3.0 version of the BerkeleyGW logo with donkey

We are happy to announce the release of the 3.0 version of the BerkeleyGW software package for excited states, using the GW method and the GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation (GW-BSE) method to solve, respectively, for quasiparticle excitations and optical properties of materials. BerkeleyGW is a general code based on quantum many-body perturbation theory that is...

Yang-Hao Chan started his group at IAMS, Academia Sinica

In January 2021, Dr. Yang-Hao Chan, a former member of C2SEPEM, started his research group at Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica. Congratulations!

https://sites.google.com/view/changroup/people?authuser=0

Prof. Steven G. Louie Elected a Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor Steven G. Louie has been elected a Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Louie shares this honor with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek of MIT, who is the only other foreign academician elected in Physics. The election occurs every two years, and Professor Louie is one of 25 foreign academicians to be elected this cycle. Congratulations!

Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences https://casad.cas.cn/yszx2017...

Zhenglu Li started his group at the University of Southern California

In January 2023, Dr. Zhenglu Li, a former member of Louie’s group, started his research group at Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California.

Congratulations!

For more information, please refer to the link: https://sites.usc.edu/ligroup/

Chen Hu started his group at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr. Chen HuIn December 2024, Dr. Chen Hu, a former member of Louie’s group, started his research group at the Department of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Congratulations!

For more information, please refer to the link: https://www.chen-hu.com/. He is now building his own group, students and postdocs who are interested are very welcome to contact...