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.