DOE award of 8 million dollars ($2M/yr for four years) to establish a “Center for Computational Study of Excited-State Phenomena in Energy Materials” (C2SEPEM) at LBNL/UC Berkeley. Prof. Steven G. Louie is the Founding Director and PI, with eight other co-PIs from UC Berkeley/LBNL and from two other partner institutions – U of Texas at Austin and UCLA.