Title: Electronic Structure: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Lecturer: Prof. Richard M. Martin Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Time: 2:00p.m., Friday, April 23, 2010
Place:Room 321, main building of Institute of Solid State Physics
Introduction:
RICHARD M. MARTIN received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1969, followed by post-doctoral research at Bell Laboratories. In 1971 he joined the Xerox Pallo Alto Research Center in California where he became Principal Scientist and a consulting professor at Stanford University. Since 1987 he has been Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has organized courses, workshops, and schools on electronic structure as well as founding the Materials Computation Center. He has made important contributions to many areas of modern electronic structure, with over 200 published papers. He is also the author of the book Electronic Structure: Basic Theory and Practical Methods. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. He has served on editorial boards of the American Physical Society, including Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and has recently been made associate editor for condensed matter theory for the Reviews of Modern Physics.
