[LA-SiGMA-LSU] Meeting Dr. Alex Zunger on Feb. 20

[Bety Rodriguez-Milla]

Dear All,

Dr. Alex Zunger from University of Colorado at Boulder will be visiting us on Tuesday Feb. 19 (evening) and Wednesday Feb. 20. If you want to meet Dr. Zunger on Wednesday before 2:45 p.m. please send me an e-mail with your availability.

We are also looking for people to join him for dinner on Tuesday, lunch at noon, or dinner on Wednesday. Let me know if you would like to attend any of these events.

Prof. Alex Zunger research field is “Theory of Real Materials”, and a pioneer in the field now called “First Principles Theory of Solids”. He has applied this technique in the past ~30 years to a broad range of materials classes (semiconductors, insulators, metals, molecular crystals), geometries (nanostructures, surfaces, interfaces, alloys), and properties (spectroscopic, thermodynamic, structural). This work has been recognized by some of the leading awards in physics including the year 2012 (inaugural) “Material Theory Award” of the MRS; the John Bardeen award of The TMS, the Rahman Award of the American Physical Society, the Gutenberg Award for science (Germany), as well as the upcoming  (year 2013) Hume-Rothery Award on theory of alloys. He mentored 77 postdoctoral fellows, published over 600 papers in refereed journals, including over 150 in Physical Review Letters and Rapid Communication. His papers have received over 50,000 citations, and his high “h-index” is over 100  (100 of his papers were cited each at least 100 times). He is the author of the fifth-most-cited paper in the 110-year history of Physical Review (out of over 350,000 articles published in that journal). He pioneered the science of materials by design now used in the “Materials Genome Initiative” (MGI) established the “Energy Frontier Research Center on Inverse Design” – a USA Office of Science Center involving more than 40 researchers. He is its Chief Scientist, working at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Thank you,

-Bety