Mauro del Ben

Dr. Mauro del Ben was awarded the IBM Research Forschungspreis for the development and implementation of a periodic Gaussian and Plane Wave based MP2 and RPA method for the computation of the energy and structure of condensed matter systems. The program code was tested in simulations of ice and water; the method presented is generally applicable and, given the treatment of electron correlation and the efficiency of the implementation, will open the door to a new category of problems.