DMP Prize Session

Presentations

• The electronic structure of materials: from high-throughput explorations to novel foundations.

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: [1] J. Qiao, G. Pizzi, and N. Marzari, Projectability disentanglement for accurate and automated electronic-structure Hamiltonians, npj Comput. Mater. 9, 208 (2023).
  [2] J. Qiao, G. Pizzi, and N. Marzari, Automated mixing of maximally localized Wannier functions into target manifolds, npj Comput. Mater. 9, 206 (2023).
  [3] J. Qiao, G. Pizzi, and N. Marzari, The electronic structure genome of inorganic crystals, in preparation (2025).
  [4] E. Linscott, N. Colonna, R. De Gennaro, N. L. Nguyen, G. Borghi, A. Ferretti, I. Dabo, and N. Marzari, koopmans: an open-source package for accurately and efficiently predicting spectral properties with Koopmans functionals, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 19, 7097 (2023).
  [5] T. Chiarotti, A. Ferretti, and N. Marzari, Energies and spectra of solids from the algorithmic inversion of dynamical Hubbard functionals, Physical Review Research 6, L032023 (2024).
  [6] A. Ferretti and N. Marzari, Functional theory of the occupied spectral density, arXiv:2508.17245 (2025).
  

  Presenters

  • Nicola Marzari

    • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

  Authors

  • Nicola Marzari

    • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

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• Ferroelectric Materials for Electron Devices: The Crucial Role of Material Compatibility with Highly Developed Fabrication Processes

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Thomas Mikolajick

    • TU Dresden and NaMLab

  Authors

  • Thomas Mikolajick

    • TU Dresden and NaMLab

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• McGroddy Prize: Ferroelectricity in ultrathin binary oxides

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Sayeef Salahuddin

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Sayeef Salahuddin

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Dresselhaus Prize: Discovering the Remarkable in the "Ordinary": The Promise of the Nanoscale

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Evelyn Hu

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Evelyn Hu

    • Harvard University

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