STEVEN G. LOUIE Physics Department University of California at Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 3:55pm Physics Building Room 202 Prof. Steven G. Louie is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and a Senior faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He received his physics Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1976. He received his physics Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1976. After having worked at the IBM Watson Research Center, Bell Labs, and U of Penn, he joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1980. Louie is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Academia Sinica, as well as fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Materials Research Society (MRS). He is a recipient of the APS Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, APS Davisson-Germer Prize in Surface Physics, MRS Materials Theory Award, and Foresight Institute’s Feynman Prize, among others. His research is in theoretical and computational condensed matter physics. Louie has published over 680 papers. He is known for his pioneering development of the ab initio GW method and for his studies of novel materials and reduced-dimensional systems. Discovering Nature with Computation: the Fascinating Quantum World of One- and Two-dimensional
