Jeff Kodosky received a BS degree in Physics from Rensselaer in 1970. He is Co‐founder, Director, and Fellow at National Instruments, a leading developer and manufacturer of integrated software and hardware for engineers and scientists. LabVIEW, cocreated by Kodosky, is the industry‐standard graphical programming environment for measurement and automation. Jeff is a Trustee of Rensselaer since 2002. Gail is a native of Troy, NY and is a retired administrative assistant. Gail and Jeff live in Austin, TX and have two daughters and four grandchildren.
:"Crystal Structure Predictions Using Adaptive Genetic Algorithm and Motif Search methods"
Kai-Ming Ho
from Iowa State University
"The Fascinating Quantum World of Two-dimensional Materials: Symmetry, Interaction and Topological Effects"
Steven G. Louie
from Physics Department, University of California at Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Symmetry, interaction and topological effects, as well as environmental screening, dominate many of the quantum properties of reduced-dimensional systems and nanostructures.
Density Functional Theory for Materials Discovery: Systematic Approximation and the SCAN Functional
John P. Perdew, Ph.D.
from Temple University
Discovery of useful or interesting new materials and molecules by computation requires an efficient, accurate, and reliable theoretical method, and the preferred method is still Kohn-Sham density functional theory[1].
“Topological boundary modes from quantum electronics to classical mechanics”
Charles Kane
from University of Pennsylvania
"Topological insulators and quantum anomalous Hall states"
David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University
“Condensed Matter Physics: The Goldilocks Science”
Marvin L. Cohen, University of California, Berkeley
“Why are there so many interpretations of Quantum Mechanics?”
Pierre Hohenberg, New York University
“Why Are We So Excited about Carbon Nanostructures?”
Mildred Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
