Summer 2014 (Tulane)

Noa and co-PIs Volker Blum, Jean-Luc Brédas, Jeff Hammond, Thomas Körzdörfer, and Patrick Rinke receive an Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge  (ALCC) Award of 105,000,000 CPU hours at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) for the project “Interfaces in Organic and Hybrid Photovoltaics”. See also NERSC News

W e thank the Louisiana Board of Regents for funding the project “Toward Crystal Engineering from First Principles”

T his summer, catch Noa at:

• The European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2014 Spring Meeting in Lille, France
• International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS) in Austin, TX
• Hands-on Summer School: Electronic Structure Theory for Materials and (Bio)molecules at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA
• XXIII International Materials Research Congress (IMRC) in Cancun, Mexico
• CECAM workshop on Addressing Challenges for First-Principles Based Modeling of Molecular Materials in Lausanne, Switzerland

W e welcome new graduate students William Duhe and Noah Rahman and new undergraduate assistants Joe Knight and Francesca Vaccaro