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Roberto Car is the Ralph W. Dornte *31 Professor in Chemistry at Princeton University. He is affiliated to the Department of Physics, the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM), and the Program in Computational and Applied Mathematics (PACM).
He received a doctorate in physics from the Milan Institute of Technology. Before joining Princeton University in 1999, he worked at the University of Milan, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, and the University of Geneva. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and was awarded the Raman Prize for Computational Physics from the American Physical Society in 1995 and the Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Physics from the European Physical Society in 1990.
His research has been focused on understanding the physical and chemical properties of matter in condensed and molecular phases using computational methods based on first-principles microscopic quantum theory.
Any questions may be directed to rcar@princeton.edu
Xifan Wu is currently developing the hybrid-functional method within the Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics (CPMD) scheme. Formulated by the localized orbitals (e.g. maximally localized Wannier functions) and combined with real space computational techniques, he is wokring towards the achievement of an order-N algorithm. He is also interested in applying this methodological framework to applications in physical and chemical properties of materials.
Zhaofeng Li is a graduate student in Physics department. He is likely to focus his research on transport properties of molecular wires and related systems. Further details will be available shorty. He earned his B.S. from University of Science and Technology of China in June 2006 and joined the Car Group in January, 2008.
Lin Lin is a graduate student in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM). He earned his B.S. degree from School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, and has been working in Car Group since 2008. He is currently also working with Professor E in Mathematics Department and PACM at Princeton University. His main research interests include fast algorithms, mathematical analysis and real applications in computational physics and computational chemistry. In particular, he is now focusing on the development of efficient algorithms for metallic system in the framework of Density Functional Theory (DFT), and the study of the nuclear quantum effects associated to non-Boltzmann momentum distribution of quantum particles. More information about his research activities may be found on his website.