Thursday, December 12, 2013

'Orbital-free Bond Breaking via Machine Learning ' by group member Dr. John Snyder has appeared in J. Chem. Phys.!

Be the first to learn all about it here or on our Publications page.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013


'Potential functionals versus density functionals' by group alumna Attila Cangi and professor E. K. U. Gross has appeared in Phys. Rev. A!

Be the first to learn all about it here or on our Publications page.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

John just got the extremely prestigious Humbolt Fellowship and also useful Ph.D.!

Lucky guy! Congratulations!

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

John and co-authors Matthias, Katja, Leo, and Klaus-Robert just received word that their paper "Orbital-free Bond Breaking via Machine Learning" just was accepted to the J. Chem. Phys.!

See the paper at the Publications page!

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

'Potential functionals versus density functionals' by group alum Attila Cangi and professor E. K. U. Gross just got accepted to Phys. Rev. A!

Catch it early on our Publications page!

Friday, November 8, 2013

Word just came that Thomas received the Kennedy Reed Award for Best Theoretical Research by a Graduate Student at the regional American Physical Society meeting in Sonoma, CA!

Congratulations, Tom!

Friday, October 25, 2013

Zeng-hui's paper on "Nonexistence of a Taylor expansions in tie due to cusps" has appeared in Phys. Rev. A!

Be the first to learn all about it here or on our Publications page.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Zeng-hui has received word that his paper "Nonexistence of a Taylor expansion in time due to cusps" will appear in Phys. Rev. A!

Be the first to see it on our Publications page.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

The Burke Group had triplets!

Li passed his candidacy exam and both Justin and Thomas passed their qualification exam all in the physics department.  We welcome them to the group and thank them for not failing!  Check them out on the Members portion of the website.

Also, Thomas will now be the web manager.  Send any broken links, updated email addresses, etc. to him. Updates, including who is working on what, are coming soon!


Friday, September 13, 2013

Aurora and group alumnus Stefano have submitted, "Thermal Density Functional Theory in Context," to be included in an upcoming Springer title: Computational Challenges in Warm Dense Matter.  Sneak peaks on the arXiv and on our Publications page!

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Congratulations to Lucas, Miles, and Steve who just received word that their Phys. Rev. Lett. titled "Guaranteed Convergence of the Kohn-Sham Equations" appeared!  You can get a view of their work here or on our Publications page.

Their paper was named as an Editor's Suggestion, so be sure to check it out.

Monday, August 26, 2013

Zeng-hui has just submitted a paper, "Non-existence of Taylor expansion in time due to cusps" to Phys. Rev. A!




Get a sneak peak on our Publications page.

Friday, August 16, 2013

Min Cheol and Eunji Sim's paper on "Understanding and Reducing Errors in Density Functional Calculations" just appeared in Phys. Rev. Lett.!

Check it out through the links on our Publications page.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Lucas, Miles, and Steve just received word that their letter "Guaranteed convergence of the Kohn-Sham equations" was accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett.!

See the Publications page for a preprint.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

We're blogging!

See what the life of a new students looks like at Dear Diary (Burke Student Meets World).

Or if you're a current or former member, email the webmanager for access to Burke Blog Plus.

Monday, July 29, 2013

Min-Cheol Kim and group alumni Eunji Sim just received word that their letter "Understanding and reducing errors in density functional calculations" was accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett.!

Get more information on the Publications page.

Thursday, July 18, 2013


Group members Lucas and Justin just got back from a conference on DFT. Check out some neat pictures here.

Happy Birthday, Walter Kohn!
Group alumni Attila submitted a paper to Phys. Rev. A with E.K.U. Gross entitled "Potential functionals versus density functionals."



Check it out at:  http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4235 or on our Publications page.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Kevin wins a fellowship!

Congratulations to Kevin, an undergraduate researcher in our group, for receiving a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) fellowship at UCI for the 2013-2014 academic year. The title of his research project is "Investigation of Machine Learning Methods and Their Application to Density Functional Theory and Various Test Functionals."

Monday, June 24, 2013

Aikido master Li Li is no match for the power of DFT...

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Congratulations to Zhenfei Liu, Lucas Wagner (& John Snyder) for being hooded (hood-winked) by Prof. Burke into a life of eternal academic servitude to DFT.




Friday, June 7, 2013

John(nyboy) et al just submitted a communication to J. Chem. Phys. titled "Orbital-free Bond Breaking via Machine Learning". See more information on our publications page.

In related news, flying robots can now be controlled via the mind with machine learning.


Friday, May 17, 2013

Lucas just submitted his paper to Phys. Rev. Lett.:

"Guaranteed convergence of the Kohn-Sham equations", Lucas O. Wagner, E. M. Stoudenmire, Kieron Burke, Steven R. White.



Available on arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2967

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Kieron is organizing a conference at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA on Semiclassical Origins of Density Functional Approximations (Sept. 4-6, 2013).

For more information, please visit the website:

http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/dft2013/

Application/Registration

An application/registration form is available at:

http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/elements/choose.aspx?pc=dft2013

The application form is for those requesting financial support to attend the workshop. We urge you to apply as early as possible. Applications received by Wednesday, July 10, 2013 will receive fullest consideration. Letters of reference may be sent to the address or email address below. Successful applicants will be notified as soon as funding decisions are made. If you do not need or want to apply for funding, you may simply register. IPAM will close registration if we reach capacity; for this reason, we encourage you to register early.
We have funding especially to support the attendance of recent PhD's, graduate students, and researchers in the early stages of their career; however, mathematicians and scientists at all levels who are interested in this area are encouraged to apply for funding. Encouraging the careers of women and minority mathematicians and scientists is an important component of IPAM's mission and we welcome their applications.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

some late night research-inspired physics art, titled "cat contour" (by John Snyder).


Monday, March 4, 2013

We just updated our website. If you find any broken links, please send an angry email to jcsnyder@uci.edu.

Sincerely, Your Webmaster.


Thursday, February 14, 2013

An alumni of our group and current professor at Purdue university, Adam Wasserman is one of the recipients of the 2013 Sloan Research Fellowships:

http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/2013-sloan-research-fellows/

His group (aka "The Suspenders") website is located here. Adam can also be seen here (squatting next to Einstein) in the 1927 Solvay conference on quantum mechanics:

Sunday, January 27, 2013


Congratulations to Raphael, who was awarded the Miguel Velez Scholarship. The Miguel Velez Scholarship provides financial support to master's degree (except MBA) or Ph.D. students who demonstrate outstanding past academic achievement as well as future promise and are citizens of a Latin American country.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Congratulations to Kevin Vu, an undergraduate researcher in our group, for receiving a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) fellowship at UCI for the 2012-2013 academic year. The title of his research project is "Testing Machine Learning Methods on Density Functional Theory and Various Functionals."