So Hirata, Lead Investigator for $3.5M DOE Collaborative Project

A team of U of I researchers (Hirata, Chemistry; Abbamonte, Ceperley, Ryu, and Wagner, Physics) in collaboration with chemists and physicists from Princeton and the College of William and Mary was one of seven chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy to lead a center-type collaborative research program for computational chemistry & physics for materials. The team's aim is to develop a suite of programs that can predict the properties of materials with unique and highly correlated electronic structure. Funding for this project, which officially started in October 2012, is $3.5 million for 5 years.

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