Speaker:
Kieron Burke
Institution:
UCI Physics and Chemistry
Time:
Monday, June 3, 2013 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Host:
Location:
RH 306
Every year, more than 10,000 papers report solutions to electronic
structure problems using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). But
all such calculations are limited by the accuracy of our functional
approximations which rely on decades of human insight, intuition, and
trial-and-error. On the other hand, Machine Learning (ML) is a powerful
technology for discovering statistical structure in data. ML has
enabled both science and industry to accelerate scientific discovery and
generate novel products and services. I will report results from
an unholy alliance of DFT with ML.