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I agree with your analysis, I did notice that not many groups in the US were doing what looked like interesting new methods/theory, more 'cashing in' on existin
by tfgg 11y ago
I agree with your analysis, I did notice that not many groups in the US were doing what looked like interesting new methods/theory, more 'cashing in' on existing code in a fairly short term way. There are people like Louie and Vanderbilt, though. I did my DFT methods PhD in a materials department group, full of Italian/German/English physicists, anyway :)
- selimthegrim 11y agoVanderbilt and Louie are the real deal, but what they do is much closer to hard CMT. They have students who are real superstars. As an aside, Vanderbilt was at the same conference. He told me how the same trend chasing and flight to chemistry and materials science departments had taken place among DFT people with high-Tc in the eighties that was taking place with topological materials now, and that this was a symptom of "(long-time sociological) problems I can't fix"