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A new initiative aims to help scientists characterize and catalog material properties and develop computational tools to assess and predict them.

with additional partners from the Uni-

versity of Tennessee and Ames Lab-

oratory, and make use of computing

capabilities at three DOE Office of

Science User Facilities—the National

Energy Research Scientific Comput-

ing Center at DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley

National Laboratory, and the DOE Lead-

ership Computing Facilities at Argonne

and Oak Ridge National Laboratories.

The

Brookhaven

Center

for

Computational Design of Functional

Strongly Correlated Materials & The-

oretical Spectroscopy is one of three

new efforts funded by DOE for compu-

tational materials science. The others

are the Midwest Integrated Center for

Computational Materials, based at

Argonne, and the Computational Syn-

thesis of Materials Software Project

with Validation on Layered Low Dimen-

sional Functional Materials and Ultra-

Fast X-Ray Laser Experiments, led by

University of Southern California with

partners at Berkeley Lab, SLAC, and

other institutions.

The mission of the Brookhaven/

Rutgers team is to develop next-

generation methods and software to

accurately describe electronic prop-

erties in complex strongly correlated

materials—such as high-temperature

superconductors and high-performance

thermoelectrics—alongwithadatabase to

help scientists predict targeted properties

with energy-related applications.