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In January 2023, Dr. Zhenglu Li, a former member of Louie’s group, started his research group at Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California.

Congratulations!

For more information, please refer to the link: https://sites.usc.edu/ligroup/

Professor Steven G. Louie has been elected a Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Louie shares this honor with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek of MIT, who is the only other foreign academician elected in Physics. The election occurs every two years, and Professor Louie is one of 25 foreign academicians to be elected this cycle. Congratulations!

Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences https://casad.cas.cn/yszx2017/yszx2021/tzgg_2021zx/202111/t20211118_4814539.html

In January 2021, Dr. Yang-Hao Chan, a former member of C2SEPEM, started his research group at Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica. Congratulations!

https://sites.google.com/view/changroup/people?authuser=0

We are happy to announce the release of the 3.0 version of the BerkeleyGW software package for excited states, using the GW method and the GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation (GW-BSE) method to solve, respectively, for quasiparticle excitations and optical properties of materials.  BerkeleyGW is a general code based on quantum many-body perturbation theory that is applicable to a large variety of materials from bulk crystals to molecules and 2D/1D materials, and is applicable to insulating, metallic, and semi-metallic systems.

The source code is freely available at: https://berkeleygw.org/download/.

Below are some highlights of the new features in the 3.0 release.

BerkeleyGW-3.0 Release Notes

• Full, two-component spinor wavefunctions support — enabling investigation of strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects in GW and GW-BSE studies;
• Exciton states with finite center-of-mass momentum Q, i.e., the exciton band structure;
• Broader support for DFT starting points of different exchange-correlation functionals, including: LDA, GGA, hybrid, meta-GGA, DFT+U, etc.;
• New support for GPU acceleration, in addition to the standard many-core CPU implementation;
• Improved support to the latest Quantum Espresso (v6.x), in addition to existing support to other DFT codes (e.g., ABINIT, Octopus, PARATEC, PARSEC, RMGDFT, SIESTA, TBPW, …);
• I/O performance improvements;
• New tools for wavefunction self-consistent GW calculations;
• Improved performance, tools and documentation for new and existing features;
• Additional examples on public repository: https://github.com/BerkeleyGW/BerkeleyGW-examples;
• Several bug fixes and improved compilers/libraries support.

– The BerkeleyGW Development Team

Dr. Zhenglu Li receives 2021 APS Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics:

“For the development and highly-scalable implementation of novel first-principles GW perturbation theory methods to compute electron-phonon coupling with many-electron correlation effects included, and its applications to phonon-induced phenomena in oxide superconductors.“

Congratulations!

For more information, please refer to the Award link: https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Li&first_nm=Zhenglu&year=2021