Meeting Notes - June 10, 2015 - NIST Microstructure Project

June 10, 2015 4-5 pm EST - NIST Microstructure project meeting

Current Tasks

Josh: Respond to reviewers for manuscript
Josh, David, AJ, Zhen: Identify new directions
- MKS for electronic structure
  - View Slides
  - A basic “derivation” of DFT from my thesis. The thesis is still a draft, so if you see any typos or have suggestions let me know.
  - More information on the math of DFT (especially lecture 5)
  - “Green’s functions” are often used in many-body quantum mechanics. This is not my expertise, but I would like to learn more. Some info (that I haven’t thoroughly read yet):
    - Wikipedia
    - Barbieri Notes
- MKS linkages for linking initial/final atomic structures (protein folding?)
AJ, Fred, Zhen: Learn n-point statistics, MKS
- Download, install, and test new pyMKS version
- Read existing manuscripts
Fred: Look into Slack for communication, integration with MatIN

Other Notes

For those trying to learn python, these resources might be helpful:
- Dive Into Python
- Software Carpentry