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FAIRmat podcast now online!

On January 29, 2024, we launched the second FAIRmat podcast episode!

In this series, called Pioneers in electronic structure theory, the FAIRmat team talks with personalities who were instrumental in developing methods and codes that have come to be known as electronic structure theory. This work includes pioneering density-functional theory and methods beyond to treat many-body effects in ground-state and excitations. In the second episode, Miguel Marques talks with Ulf von Barth about his early contributions to the development of density-functional theory and many-body methods and about his work with Lars Hedin, Carl-Olof Almbladh, Robert van Leeuwen, and others. 

Ulf von Barth was a professor at Lund University in Sweden for many years. Among numerous other achievements, he developed the spin generalization of DFT, furthered our understanding of the Kohn-Sham eigenvalues, and developed variational Green’s function methods. 

Find the podcast on YouTube or enjoy the audio-only version on Spotify now!