Prize Talk: Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award for Studies of Matter at Extreme High Pressure Conditions: Progress and Prospects of Computational Methods for High Pressure Physics

Over the last twenty years high performance computing and widespread availability of efficient simulation methods have caused a paradigm shift in static and dynamic compression research. Due to the complexity of experimental endeavors at high pressure, computational methods have, and will continue to play key roles in interpreting and predicting outcomes of these efforts. In recent years, a heightened scrutiny on the accuracy of these models has stimulated numerous advances. This talk will provide a historical review and future prospects of where both increasing computing resources and theoretical advances provide new scientific insight in our field. In many cases resource utilization and model accuracy are strongly coupled, which will be reflected in the examples contained in this talk.