9/14/2009 Colloquium - Andrew Canning

Andrew Canning Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory UC Davis

Event Info

Title:  First-principles calculations for lanthanides and actinides: applications to nuclear separations and new nuclear detection mate

Date: Sept 14, 2009
Location: 3105 Etcheverry Hall
Time: 4-5pm

Abstract

Speaker Biography

Andrew Canning is a staff scientist in the scientific computing group as well as a professor (adjunct) in the Department of Applied Science at UC Davis. He obtained his PhD in Computational Physics from Edinburgh University, United Kingdom. He worked as a postdoc with Roberto Car (developer of the Car-Parrinello method) in Switzerland before coming to LBNL. He has worked on first principles methods for electronic structure calculations in materials science and nano-science and one of the first people to develop parallel methods for first principles calculations. Co-developer of codes used by the materials science community such as PARATEC. Interests: Materials Science, nanoscience, gamma ray detector materials, Actinide systems, parallel computing and algorithms. Winner of the Gordon Bell prize in 1998, Computerworld Smithsonian Laureate 2000. Holder of two provisional patent filings IB-2426P (s-113,175) and U.S. Patent Application Ser. No: 61/176,454 for new detector materials