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Jointly Organized by
Centre for Modeling and Simulation,
and
Department of Physics,
Savitribai Phule Pune University.
Abstract This colloquium is aimed at non-experts. It will explain the importance of the electronic structure of materials in understanding their properties.
The Speaker Professor Ole K. Anderson is highly respected for his work in the field of electronic structure calculations. His theory group attempts to improve the understanding of the properties of condensed matter by means of electronic structure calculations. This involves performing parameter-free density-functional (DF) calculations for specific systems of current interest, extending DF theory and going beyond, deriving electronically correlated model Hamiltonians, solving these Hamiltonians, and developing numerical tools for doing so. For most applications, it is crucial to use an intelligible, general, and numerically efficient single-electron representation, and this causes recurrent developments of the LMTO method. Professor Anderson is also the director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.
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