News

  • Annabelle and Cian presented our research at the APS March meeting, Minneapolis - March, 2024

  • Congratulations to Vojtech for becoming this year's Sloan Research Fellow! - February 20th, 2024

  • Vojtech presented our research at a Total Energy and Force conference in Shanghai - January 9, 2024

  • Congratulations to Arsineh who successfully passed her candidacy exam! - November 20th, 2023

  • Vojtech gave a seminar at UPenn - November 14, 2023

  • Congratulations to Kelsey who successfully passed her candidacy exam! - July 19th, 2023

  • Congratulations to Annabelle who successfully passed her candidacy exam! - July 18th, 2023

  • Congratulations to Zihang who successfully passed his candidacy exam! - July 14th, 2023

  • Vojtech gave a talk at the TDDFT Workshop at Rutgers - July 5, 2023
  • Congratulations to Cian who successfully passed his candidacy exam! - June 26th, 2023

  • Vojtech gave a seminar at EPFL, Lausanne - May 25, 2023

  • Vojtech gave a seminar at King's College London - May 23, 2023

  • Congratulations to Sophia Wolczko for winning the Joaquin Luttinger Fellowship supporting her in her future graduate program at Columbia University!

  • Gwen defended his thesis - Congratulations Dr Weng! All the best in your next endeavors at UCLA!

  • Vojtech gave a seminar at UC San Diego - May 16, 2023

  • Vojtech gave a seminar at Virginia Tech - May 11, 2023

  • Vojtech gave a seminar at Duke University - May 9, 2023

  • Vojtech gave a seminar at UC Merced - May 5, 2023

  • Vojtech gave a seminar at UC Berkeley, - May 2, 2023

  • Vojtech gave a seminar at UC Irvine - April 18, 2023

  • Xiaohe and Gwen presented our research at the ACS Spring Meeting, Indianapolis - March, 2023

  • Annabelle, Arsineh, Cian, Gwen, and Mariya presented our research at the APS March meeting 2023, Las Vegas - March, 2023

  • Gwen presented our research to the Li group at UW - March 3, 2023
  • Gwen and Mariya presented our research at the American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, Palisades Tahoe - July 25 - 28, 2022

  • Gwen has received DeWolfe Distinguished Teaching Fellow Award - Congratulations! - June 14, 2022

  • Vojtech presented our research at the Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure hosted by Columbia University - June 3, 2022

  • Vojtech presented our research at the Materials Science Research Lecture at Caltech - May 25, 2022

  • Vojtech presented our research at the seminars at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University - May 10 and 12, 2022

  • Vojtech presented our research at a condensed matter physics-quantum chemistry seminar in Ann Arbor, U Mich - April 7, 2022

  • Gwen and Vojtech gave talks at the ACS meeting in San Diego - March 20–24, 2022

  • Mariya, Carlos, Gwen, and Vojtech gave talks at the APS March meeting in Chicago - March 14–18, 2022

  • Vojtech gave an invited talk about our recent work at the Molecular Science Software Institute (MolSSI) workshop “Molecular Chemistry Meets Materials Science” - March 9, 2022

  • Carlos has moved on to his new position at SISSA in Trieste - Good luck! - January 1, 2022

  • Mariya's paper on new many-body methods applied to twisted bilayer graphene at high pressure has been accepted to Nature Partner Journal - Computational Materials - December 23, 2021

  • Arsineh and Annabelle have been accepted as associate fellows of the Quantum Foundry at UCSB - Congrats! - December 15, 2021

  • Arman has succesfully defended his thesis "Topological Phases of Matter: A Mathematical approach" done in collaboration with Microsoft Station Q - December 8, 2021

  • Yuehan was accepted to at Purdue University - Congrats! -  November 20, 2021

  • Vojtech is leading a new DOE-funded research partnership seekeing the theoretical description of the real-time dynamics in quantum materials under driving - August 15, 2021

  • Vojtech gave an invited talk about our research at the CIQC Joint Meeting with Quantum Foundry at UC Berkeley - August 6, 2021

  • Gwen became the Chair’s Fellow! Congratulations! - June 14, 2021

  • Hanbin has been selected as a recipient of the Willard L. McRary Prize! Congratulations! - June 13, 2021

  • Vojtech gave an invited talk at the conference "New Frontiers in Electron Correlation" - June 14, 2021

  • Our group is awarded an allocation at XSEDE (NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) - June 14, 2021

  • Congratulations and thanks to our team members who are moving to new places: Hanbin (UC Berkeley), Anna Barth (Cornell), Rushil Mallarapu (Harvard). Good luck!

  • Carlos Mejuto-Zaera joined our group as a postdoc - Welcome! - June 1, 2021

  • Gwen and Yuehan have posted their codes (for orbital localization and sampling of phonons) on GitHub

  • Vojtech gave an invited talk at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science - May 18, 2021

  • Vojtech gave an invited talk at the national meeting of the Materials Research Society - April 22, 2021

  • Gwen and Maria gave a talk at the national meeting of the Materials Research Society - April 20 and 22, 2021

  • Vojtech gave a talk at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society - April 15, 2021

  • Gwen gave a talk at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society - April 13, 2021

  • Congratulations to Jacob who has received the NSF fellowship - March 26, 2021

  • Vojtech gave an invited talk at the national meeting of the American Physical Society - March 17, 2021

  • Gwen and Mariya gave a talk at the national meeting of the American Physical Society - March 16 and 17, 2021

  • Vojtech gave an invited seminar at Yale Quantum Institute - February 5, 2021

  • Vojtech coorganized the first Winter School on Quantum Science at UCSB - videos are available here - January 11-15, 2021

  • Vojtech was elected as a full member of Sigma Xi - November 17, 2020

  • Vojtech gave a talk at the virtual workshop on quantum materials between Quantum Foundry and Oak Ridge National Laboratory - October 28, 2020

  • Mariya's invited paper to JCP's special issue "Frontiers of Stochastic Electronic Structure Calculations" has been published! - October 1, 2020

  • We were grateful for the support provided by the Eddleman Center for Quantum Innovation - August 20, 2020
  • Gwen's paper on quasiparticle states in donor-acceptor copolymers has been published in J Phys Chem Lett! - August 7, 2020

  • Vojtech was selected to present our research at VCTC 2020 conference hosted by Martínez group at Stanford - July 28, 2020

  • Congratulations to Gwen for passing Candidacy Exams! - July 15, 2020 
  • Vojtech was invited to present our research at the CECAM (virtual) conference "GW goes large-scale" in Helsinki, Finland - June 8, 2020

  • Congratulations to Anthony Zheng from the BASIS Independent Silicon Valley school, who has succesfully finished his senior project on "Stochastic Sampling for Sumulation of Quantum Particles". Anthony worked together with Jacob and Vojtech and his presentation is available online. - May 27, 2020

  • Vojtech was named an "Emerging Leader" by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter - May 1, 2020

  • Our group is awarded an allocation at XSEDE (NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) - March 13, 2020

  • Vojtech received support through NSF CAREER Award for the development of a new generation of stochastic many-body methods. - December 31, 2019

  • Mariya Romanova joined our group as a postdoctoral researcher - Welcome! - November 20, 2019

  • Congratulations to Stephanie Taylor who moves to UCLA!

  • Vojtech became part of the Quantum Foundry - a new center at UCSB for materials with protected quantum coherence and scalable entanglement - September 16, 2019

  • Stephanie received the American Institute of Chemists Award and Gwen received the Phi Lambda Upsilon Award. Congratulations! - June 13, 2019

  • Vojtech was invited to present our research in two leactures: at the workshop New Frontiers in Electronic Correlation and at the workshop Stochastic Methods in Electronic Structure Theory in Telluride - June 11 & 14, 2019

  • Vojtech presented our research at the Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - May 20, 2019

  • Vojtech was invited to present our research at the SoCal Theoretical Chemistry Conference at USC - May 18, 2019

  • Jacob was awarded a summer research fellowship from Edison Summer Research Program. Congratulations! - May 10, 2019

  • Our group is awarded a seed grant from NSF MRSEC to study electron-phonon coupling in twisted bilayer graphene in collaboration with Young's group - March 12, 2019

  • Vojtech presented our research at APS March meeting in Boston - March 3, 2019

  • Vojtech joined the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids (CPOS)  - October 30, 2018

  • Our group is awarded an allocation at XSEDE (NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) - October 1, 2018