News and Highlights

Friday, 31 October 2014

Chelikowsky awarded $1.2 million NSF grant to lead computational search for new magnetic materials

Source: https://www.ices.utexas.edu/about/news/332/ Magnets are essential to modern technology. They serve to drive electric motors, encode data on computer hard drives, and enable MRI machines to image the insides of bodies.   But the powerful, permanent magnetics in most high-tech products are not the same magnets stuck on your fridge....

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Chelikowsky wins the American Physical Society’s (APS) highest award in computational physics

ICES is pleased to announce Jim Chelikowsky, Professor of Physics, Chemical Engineering, and Chemistry and Director of the ICES Center for Computational Materials, has won the American Physical Society’s (APS) highest award in the field of computational physics, the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics.   Cited for his "computation...