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

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.

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

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

Sincerely, Your Webmaster.

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:

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.

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."