The GDR-REST (Research group on Theoretical Spectroscopy) is organizing its first general meeting from the 23rd to the 27th of May 2016, here the website for all details. The GDR-REST meeting aims to bring together different communities of theoretical spectroscopy which are/were historically separated, but unified under a very precise and important subject: the excited-states… Read More
Since October 2015 I’m in charge of the Theory Seminars at CINAM. If you are in Marseille and you are interested in Condensed Matter Physics, have a look to our seminar page. We organize a new seminar every two weeks, with internal or invited speakers. If you would like to present your research in our… Read More
ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) is the National French Agency for Research. It is an independent agency created in 2005 that funds scientific teams, both public and private, in the form of short-term research contracts. In general the idea to fund research on projects is not bad but at present ANR is not working … Read More
Here my new poster that I will present to the PSI-K conference on the GW renormalization of the electron-phonon interaction. In this poster I summarize results from different group that used GW approximation to correct the electron-phonon coupling obtained from the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. Thanks to these corrections it was possible to reproduce and predict different… Read More
I just attended a seminar on network theory. The speaker[1] presented some interesting results on the reconstruction of communities in static or temporal networks. The talk was clear and the results well presented, but the thing that impressed me more were the references. The results, he had shown, were produced from 2012 to 2015 and… Read More
When my friend Lorenzo suggested me this book I was a bit sceptic. I thought that a book on material science could be boring. It is not astrophysics, there are not black holes, stars or galaxies. But Mark Miodownik is able to make material science interesting and absorbing. The book starts with a picture of… Read More
My new poster for the GBB60 conference is online, FIESTA: French Initiative for Electronic Simulations with Thousands of Atoms. The poster is about a GW and Bethe-Salpeter code developed in Grenoble that uses Gaussian bases and resolution-of-the-identity techniques. For more info in the code see the Fiesta web page: http://perso.neel.cnrs.fr/xavier.blase/fiesta/ See you in Rome.
I participate to the research group GDR REST (REncontres de Spectroscopie Theorique). Our project aims to bring together different communities of theoretical spectroscopy in order to establish the state-of-the-art approaches on the market, share knowledge, identify important issues and unresolved problems, and indicate future directions.There are several approaches to the study of elementary excitations, the… Read More
Since I’m in France, I submitted different projects to the ANR and other funding agencies, and I must say, with little success. In this post I decided to publish and share some of these projects that have not been accepted. I hope they could serve as a model to other researchers, or perhaps as an… Read More
We pubblised a new paper1 on the optical properties of Cu-chalcogenide photovoltaic absorbers. In this manuscript we calculate the optical response of the less studied, but promising, Cu2ZnGe(S,Se)4 compounds, opening the way to predictive calculations of still unknown materials by means of self-consistent GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equations. Moreover in this paper we solved the problem… Read More