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Professor Emeritus in Physics and Chemistry, Univ. Florida. Former QTP Director and, prior to that, Executive Director, Information Technologies and Services for University of Florida.

Research Interests

Main research interests are density functional theory (especially orbital-free and finite-temperature), applications of DFT to matter under extreme conditions (e.g. warm dense matter, nanoscale systems), and methods of multi-scale simulations.

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Professor Emeritus in Physics at the University of Florida.

Research Interests

General area of research is non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of quantum and classical systems far from equilibrium.

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Visitor, Spring 2018; Ph.D. student, Química, CINVESTAV, Mexico City.

Research Interests

Density functional theory, with recent emphasis on testing and validation of functionals on a broad selection of systems and with multiple codes.

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Contact information: kluo at ufl dot edu

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, 2015, Hunter College of City University of New York
• B. Sc., 2010, Nanjing Univ, China

Post-doctoral Assoc., Chemistry, Cornell Univ. 2015-2016.

Post-doctoral Assoc., January 2017 -- present.

Research Interests

Time-dependent density functional theory, kinetic energy density functionals, relations of kinetic theory and tdDFT.

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Contact information: dmejiarodriguez at ufl dot edu

Education

• Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry, 2015, CINVESTAV, Mexico City
• B. Sc. in Pharmaceutical Chem., 2007, Inst. Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City.

Post-doctoral Assoc., Chemistry, CNRS Orsay France. 2015-2016.

Post-doctoral Assoc., Nov. 2016 -- present.

Research Interests

Auxiliary density functional theory, variational fitting, linear scaling algorithims, kinetic energy density functionals.

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Contact information: wrighton at ufl dot edu

Education

• Ph.D. Physics, 2004, Univ. of Florida
• B. Sc., Physics, 1997, Univ. of West Florida

Post-doctoral Assoc. and/or Adjunct, Physics, Univ. Florida; 2004 -- present.

Instructional Design Consultant (independent) Nov. 2004 -- present.

Research Interests

Computational plasma spectroscopy; quantum effects in clasical statistical mechanics; kinetic theory; relationship of classical and quantum density functional theory.

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Resident Adjunct member of QTP and Professor of Physics at Univ. of Utah.

Research Interests

Research is in the area of theoretical electronic methods to applications involving specific systems.

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krunge at bellsouth.net

Director of Research, Dept. of Mat. Science & Engr., Univ. Arizona

Research Interests

Path integral molecular dynamics, novel approaches to inter-scale interfaces in multi-scale simulations, and simulation of large aperiodic systems.

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lazarojcalderinh at ufl.edu

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Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, 2005, Queens's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Licenciatura in Physics, 1987, Univ. de la Habana, Cuba

Research Interests

Density functional theory fundamentals, kinetic energy density functionals, response functions, algorithms and software for large-scale high-performance computing on complex materials.

Now at:

Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Univ. Arizona

Email:

debajitc at gmail dot com

Education

• Ph.D. in Theoretical & Computational Chemistry, 2011, McMaster University, Canada
• M.Sc. in Chemistry, 2006, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Research Interests

Development of Kinetic energy Functionals in terms of density functions and pair density functions and associated hierarchies.

Now at:

Dept. of Physics, Wake Forest Univ.

Email:

"lastname" at qtp.ufl.edu

Selected Publications

1. Energy surface, chemical potentials, Kohn-Sham energies in spin-polarized density functional theory.
   T. Gal, P. Geerlings, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 144105 (2010)
2. Stability of equilibrium under constraints: role of second-order constrained derivatives.
   T. Gal, J. Phys. A 43, 425208 (2010)
3. The N-particle wave function as a homogeneous functional of the density.
   T. Gal, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 107, 2586 (2007)
4. Functional differentiation under conservation constraints.
   T. Gal, J. Phys. A 35, 5899 (2002)
5. First-degree homogeneous N-particle noninteracting kinetic-energy density functonals.
   T. Gal, Phys. Rev. A 64, 062503 (2001)

Now at:

Dept. Theoretical Physics, U. Pecs, Hungary.

Email:

vkapila at u.arizona.edu

Now at:

Boeing Commercial Aircraft, North Charleston SC

Email:

vkarasev at lle dot rochester dot edu

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics & Mathematics, 1993, St.Petersburg State University
• M.Sc. in Physics, 1990, St.Petersburg State University

Research Interests

1. Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (DFT): formalism, development of functionals and methods.
2. Orbital-Free DFT: development and implementation.
3. Finite Temperature DFT: development and warm dense matter applications.
4. Application of DFT methods to design of new Si/SiO2 materials for photovoltaic applications.
5. Relativistic Dirac-Kohn-Sham methods, QED and Electroweak Radiative Corrections for Heavy Atoms and Highly Charged Ions.

Awards:

IBM-Löwdin Fellowship, 41st Sanibel Symposium, 2001.

Contributions to Research:

More than 60 articles in international journals in the fields of quantum electrodynamical theory, quantum chemistry and density functional theory. Participant of about 40 international scientific events.

Now at:

Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Univ. Rochester (New York)

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sjostrom at lanl dot gov
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Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, 2008, University of Utah
• B.S. in Physics, 2002, University of Utah

Research Interests

Includes density functional theory development and application. Also electronic structure of nano-scale systems, e.g., quantum dots and nanowires.

Now at:

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Group T-5